On Social Hugo Lowell The Guardian: As DOJ moves to question Trump team that found more docs marked classified at a storage unit late last year, the pattern of prosecutors seeking judicial intervention at every turn suggests an aggressive posture from the new special counsel Jack Smith. 10 January
On Social Hugo Lowell NEW: Justice Dept intensifies investigation of Trump’s retention of national security material as it prepares to question the team that searched his properties at the end of last year and found more docs marked classified at a storage unit. @GuardianUS https://t.co/rLN4dFWgNJ 10 January
On Social Hugo Lowell NEW: Former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson turned over to the Jan. 6 committee texts with former Trump deputy chief and ex-USSS agent Tony Ornato showing they discussed (im)possibility of Trump going to the Capitol https://t.co/nKWZFY5oMr https://t.co/0zn7cOllEN 02 January
On Social Hugo Lowell New: Trump deputy chief Tony Ornato testified to Jan. 6 committee that he still had his USSS phone and email even after he crossed over from the agency to work in the admin — but says he wasn’t on any USSS listservs (p35) https://t.co/U3jLr6Ihxg 30 December 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell New: Former Trump aide Hope Hicks that she and White House counsel Eric Herschmann had asked Trump repeatedly to tweet on Jan. 6 telling rioters not to be violent but he refused, per texts and testimony obtained by the Jan. 6 committee 20 December 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell Just in: Federal prosecutors got access to House Republican Scott Perry’s email accounts, materials concerning 2020 election with Trump lawyer John Eastman and ex DOJ officials Jeff Clark and Ken Klukowski, per newly unsealed docs https://t.co/jPXlR7MpgU 17 December 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell New: Federal judge orders that Docket Entries 88, 92, 96, 97, 98 and 98-1 be unsealed — redacted DOJ affidavit imminent 26 August 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell New via NYT: At least one Trump lawyer signed a statement to DOJ that all classified docs were returned after June 3 — corroborating @Guardian reporting Tuesday that the Mar-a-Lago raid came amid concerns Trump lawyers weren’t telling the truth. 13 August 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell New: Trump is claiming tonight that he had a “standing order” that declassified any documents he took them into the White House residence — though none of the 3 statutes in the Mar-a-Lago warrant depend on the classification. 13 August 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell The Guardian: The classified materials at Mar-a-Lago raised the additional prospect that the FBI might have basis to open a counterintelligence investigation, amid concerns that the records could have been accessed by unauthorized individuals. 10 August 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell New: Jan. 6 committee member Adam Kinzinger who made case at Thursday’s hearing that Trump unlawfully obstructed an official proceeding on ABC: “I certainly think there’s evidence of crimes and I think it goes all the way up to Donald Trump.” 24 July 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell New: Jan. 6 committee vice chair Liz Cheney on CNN says of Ginni Thomas in something of an escalation: “The committee hopes she will agree to come in voluntarily but the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she is not.” 24 July 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell NEW: Jan. 6 committee shows Sen. Josh Hawley running for his life from the Capitol rioters that he personally riled up hours earlier by raising a fist for them in solidarity https://t.co/NrOCMTjUu4 22 July 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell My response to @JoyAnnReid on MSNBC’s @TheReidout if connection hadn’t dropped: Jan. 6 committee is examining closely any involvement by Tony Ornato — who went from Secret Service agent to Trump’s deputy chief — in decision by around 24 agents not to back up their texts. 21 July 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell Just in: Jan. 6 committee says the hearing on Tuesday will now take place at 1p ET 11 July 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell Just in: Jan. 6 committee confirms next hearing to take place on July 12 at 10a ET 06 July 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell NEW: Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann told Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark about his plan to help Trump overturn 2020 election, per testimony — “Congratulations. You just admitted your first act as Attorney General would be committing a felony.” 23 June 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell NEW: Jan. 6 committee chair Bennie Thompson tells reporters just now that the Thursday hearing focusing on Trump’s pressure on DOJ will be the last for this month — any further hearing will come in July. 22 June 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell JUST IN: Jan. 6 committee says hearing on June 15 at 10a ET — Wednesday’s hearing — has been postponed. No explanation at the moment. 14 June 2022
On Social Hugo Lowell NEW: AG Merrick Garland says he’s watching the Jan. 6 committee hearings, adding “I can assure you the January 6 prosecutors are watching the hearings as well” 13 June 2022
Ask yourself something: are you willing to pay higher taxes and have less affordable health care so you can “own the libs” because that’s the price you’ll have to pay if the GOP agenda is enacted … you pay more, their cronies pay less.
I’m excited to join @ProChoiceCaucus as Freshman Leader! With Roe protections gone and Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida legislature passing one of the harshest abortion bans in the nation, my home state has been on the frontlines of the battle for reproductive freedom.
Eric Trump tourmate claims Jewish people are frauds and “Hitler was actually fighting the same people that we're trying to take down today” https://t.co/4Fp6BFm7Pw
Neo-Nazi Brandon Russell, partner charged in Maryland power grid plot - The Washington Post https://t.co/e9oX9K4r8u
