"That is, this post considers the likelihood that someone - Jack Eckenrode would be part of that team, possibly Deputy FBI Director Andrew Bailey, who was installed in September but has been unseen aside from comments on public corruption a few days ago - has a plan to pull together the investigative work done in various places, to present it to a grand jury in Trump's current residence, under a theory that some group of meanies have been conspiring against Trump for a decade."
"For a number of reasons, I'm not as convinced as others that right wing blowhard Mike Davis' insinuation that a grand jury scheduled to be seated in Fort Pierce, FL, in January would serve the purpose of stitching together all his feverish conspiracy theories into a conspiracy against Trump's rights case. What if Mike Davis is telling the truth, for once?"
"Witnesses in the case were questioned by a combination of civil lawyers - not criminal prosecutors - from the Western District of Virginia, as well as criminal prosecutors from the neighboring Eastern District of Virginia and F.B.I. agents. To reassure witnesses that they were not targets of the investigation, witnesses were allowed to be interviewed at their lawyers' offices, rather than at government buildings."
"The specious referral of John Brennan for lying? Sent to Florida as part of a claim it was a conspiracy to harm poor Donald Trump. Tulsi Gabbard's inability to distinguish the DNC server from voting machines? Off to Florida, as if it were credible. And, importantly, whatever material prosecutors obtained by using the frivolous EDVA Jim Comey prosecution as a pretext? Sent to Florida to be present"
A hypothetical plan envisions Jack Eckenrode and possibly Deputy FBI Director Andrew Bailey coordinating to compile investigative work from multiple jurisdictions and present it to a Fort Pierce grand jury in January. Investigative materials could include 302 interview reports tied to a Western District of Virginia inquiry and interview transcripts obtained from witnesses questioned at lawyers' offices by civil and criminal prosecutors and FBI agents. Material gathered through other prosecutions, including the EDVA Comey matter, could be repurposed and sent to Florida. Political referrals and fringe claims, such as the Brennan referral and Tulsi Gabbard's DNC server confusion, could be folded into a broader conspiracy theory alleging years-long targeting of Trump.
#fort-pierce-grand-jury #cross-jurisdictional-investigation #fbi-interviews-302s #conspiracy-allegations-against-trump
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