США против Трампа

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Новое обвинительное заключение специального прокурора Смита по делу "Соединенные Штаты Америки против Дональда Трампа" написано простым и понятным языком.

1. The Defendant, DONALD J. TRUMP, was the forty-fifth President of the United States and a candidate for re-election in 2020. The Defendant lost the 2020 presidential election.
2. Despite having lost, the Defendant was determined to remain in power. So for more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020, the Defendant spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won. These claims were false, and the Defendant knew that they were false. But the Defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway-to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate, create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and erode public faith in the administration of the election.
3. The Defendant had a right, like every American, to speak publicly about the election and even to claim, falsely, that there had been outcome-determinative fraud during the election and that he had won. He was also entitled to formally challenge the results of the election through lawful and appropriate means, such as by seeking recounts or audits of the popular vote in states or filing lawsuits challenging ballots and procedures. Indeed, in many cases, the Defendant did pursue these methods of contesting the election results. His efforts to change the outcome in any state through recounts, audits, or legal challenges were uniformly unsuccessful.
4. Shortly after election day, the Defendant also pursued unlawful means of discounting legitimate votes and subverting the election results…
https://www.justice.gov/storage/US_v_Trump_23_cr_257.pdf

Вменяются три преступления - все из категории заговора: заговор с целью обмана Соединенных Штатов, заговор с целью воспрепятствования заседанию Конгресса 6 января 2021 и заговор против права на голосование.



Обвинение в отношение Трампа отделено от обвинения в отношении других заговорщиков - вероятно для того, чтобы не задерживать судебный процесс и чтобы дать этим заговорщикам возможность пойти на сделку со следствием и выступить свидетелями обвинения.

Таких заговорщиков в обвинительном заключении упоминается шесть. Пять из них были легко идентифицированы прессой на основе приведенных фактов и публично известной информации:

1. Руди Джулиани.
2. Джон Истман, помимо всего прочего участник Всемирного Конгресса Семей.
3. Сидни Пауэлл, помимо всего прочего адвокат Флинна.
4. Джеффри Кларк.
5. Кеннет Чесебро.

Свидетельство против Джеффри Кларка содержит примечательную деталь. Кларк, которого Трамп позже хвалил за « храбрость», призывал не бояться применить армию для подавления массовых протестов в том случае, если удастся осуществить заговор по незаконному удержанию власти.

The Deputy White House Counsel reiterated to Co-Conspirator 4 that there had not been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that if the Defendant remained in office nonetheless, there would be "riots in every major city in the United States." Co-Conspirator 4 responded, "Well, [Deputy White House Counsel], that's why there's an Insurrection Act."


But why consult the documentary record rather than Twitter? https://t.co/G7XeO5ZMNX
- emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 2, 2023

Остается некоторая загадка в отношении личности шестого упомянутого заговорщика. Некоторые указывают на Майка Романа, о котором я писал в ноябре 2020 в посте Ползучий путч.

Другие свидетельства указывают на старого знакомого Бориса Эпштейна.



An email from December 2020 from Boris Epshteyn, a strategic adviser to the Trump campaign in 2020, to Mr. Giuliani matches a description in the indictment of an interaction between Co-Conspirator 6 and Mr. Giuliani, whose lawyer has confirmed that he is Co-Conspirator 1.
The email, sent on Dec. 7, 2020, and reviewed by The New York Times, was from Mr. Epshteyn to Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Giuliani’s son, Andrew, and had the subject line, “Attorneys for Electors Memo.” It says, “Dear Mayor, as discussed, below are the attorneys I would recommend for the memo on choosing electors,” and it goes on to identify lawyers in seven states.
Paragraph 57 of the indictment says that Co-Conspirator 1, Mr. Giuliani, “spoke with Co-Conspirator 6 regarding attorneys who could assist in the fraudulent elector effort in the targeted states” and received an email from Co-Conspirator 6 “identifying attorneys in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.”
Those are the seven states in the email that Mr. Epshteyn sent to Mr. Giuliani and that was reviewed by The Times. The existence of the email from Mr. Epshteyn does not eliminate the possibility that someone else sent Mr. Giuliani a similar note.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/us/politics/boris-epshteyn-co-conspirator-6.html



Судья Таня Чуткан, которая будет вести дело, родилась на Ямайке. В 2014 она была назначена на свой пост Обамой и утверждена единогласным голосованием Сената.

В 2019 Чуткан посадила Марию Бутину. В 2021 она не дала Трампу заблокировать передачу свидетельств из Белого дома в Конгресс для расследования событий 6 января, написав в своем решении, что президенты - не короли, особенно бывшие.

In November 2021, Chutkan wrote in a ruling that Congressional interest in seizing illuminating presidential correspondence on Jan. 6 evidence was strong. She also acknowledged that President Joe Biden had waived executive privilege.
"Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President," Chutkan wrote in her ruling. "At bottom, this is a dispute between a former and incumbent President. And the Supreme Court has already made clear that in such circumstances, the incumbent's view is accorded greater weight," she concluded.
"Presidents are not kings and plaintiff is not president": Judge rules Trump can't block Jan. 6 docs
The House committee, Chutkan concluded, was within its right to request White House communications as they pertained to a matter of "unsurpassed public importance because such information relates to our core democratic institutions and the public's confidence in them." Obtaining such records, she wrote, could "prevent such events from ever occurring again."
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/02/draws-gave-harshest-jan-6-sentences-and-warned-him-presidents-are-not-kings/

Судье улыбается с небес Гарри Беллафонте, выросший на Ямайке и сыгравший важную роль в американской истории.