"The release is definitely serving his purposes. One after another far right wing propagandist is screaming, Worse than Watergate!!! But the may also be an absolute gold mine for people trying to reconstruct what Trump did in 2020, to say nothing of political oppo researchers and foreign hackers. The subpoenas provide a map of all the political organizations that were close to Trump in 2020 to 2021, organized by person; not all of these are public and certainly not in such a readily usable form."
"They list where people - including some people who are exceedingly important in Trump's current administration - banked during the 2020 election (and if China hacks DOJ servers, it provides them a roadmap to find the actual bank account numbers). Yet much of the general thrust of the subpoenas are not new. Indeed, many of them were reported in real time and laid out in an appendix of the J6C Report, which I wrote about here."
"As J6C laid out, Trump's team decided to keep fundraising after he lost the election, purportedly in the guise of a recount and/or election integrity. The claims made in the fundraising materials made knowably false claims - so much so that the RNC stopped running them. J6C did a number of interviews and served a number of subpoenas to find out more."
A release of 179 subpoenas and a summary covers materials sent between September 2022 and June 2023. The subpoenas map political organizations and individuals close to Trump between 2020 and 2021 and include banking links for key figures. The information can aid reconstruction of actions taken in 2020 and is attractive to opposition researchers and foreign hackers. Much of the subpoenas' substance aligns with previous J6C findings and earlier reporting. Trump’s team continued fundraising after the election under recount or election-integrity claims, and those materials contained knowably false statements that led the RNC to stop running them. The J6C pursued interviews and subpoenas but encountered resistance, including successful legal resistance to a Salesforce-related subpoena.
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