Another day, another leak.
Special Counsel Jack Smith is quietly ramping up his January 6 case against Trump in Washington DC.
President Trump was recently indicted by a grand jury in Florida hearing evidence in Jack Smith’s classified documents case.
In a separate grand jury in DC, Jack Smith is quietly continuing his investigation into January 6 and Trump’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election.
Jack Smith is investigating the ‘dueling electors’ after the 2020 election, Trump’s role in January 6, and Trump’s 2020 fundraising efforts.
According to a leak to CNN, Jack Smith traded limited immunity for testimony from at least two dueling electors.
Last week, ABC News reported that Nevada GOP Chairman Michael McDonald and Nevada GOP committee member Jim DeGraffenreid were spotted walking into the federal courthouse where Jack Smith’s DC grand jury meets.
Jack Smith’s prosecutors are turning the screws on witnesses.
According to CNN, prosecutors are ‘playing hardball’ with some of the witnesses, refusing to grant them extensions to grand jury subpoenas, and demanding testimony before the end of the month.
In contrast, Special Counsel John Durham didn’t even subpoena James Comey, McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and others.
CNN reported:
Special counsel Jack Smith has compelled at least two Republican fake electors to testify to a federal grand jury in Washington in recent weeks by giving them limited immunity, part of a current push by federal prosecutors to swiftly nail down evidence in the sprawling criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The testimony, described to CNN by people familiar with the situation, comes after a year of relative dormancy around the fake electors portion of the investigation and as a parade of related witnesses are being told to appear before the grand jury with no chance for delay.
Prosecutors have played hardball with some of the witnesses in recent weeks, refusing to grant extensions to grand jury subpoenas for testimony and demanding they comply before the end of this month, sources said. In the situations where prosecutors have given witnesses immunity, the special counsel’s office arrived at the courthouse in Washington ready to compel their testimony after the witnesses indicated they would decline to answer questions under the Fifth Amendment, the sources added.
