DOJ 'Seriously Considering' Charges Against Donald Trump: Barb McQuade

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Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade Feb 13
Mike Pence subpoena suggests DOJ is getting close to completing its investigation. I’ll discuss with @juliemason at 6:45 am ET on @SIRIUSXM #POTUS Channel 124.

Barbara McQuade, a University of Michigan law professor and a former U.S. attorney said that subpoenaing Pence to testify under oath is a key step for prosecutors, while also setting up yet another showdown with regard to executive privilege.

"It signals that DOJ is seriously considering criminal charges against Trump for January 6," McQuade told Newsweek. "While it does not mean charges are a certainty, DOJ would not take such a significant step as subpoenaing a former VP if they thought the case was unlikely to result in charges.

"It also suggests that charges are close. Prosecutors typically question the top witnesses at the end of the investigation after they have learned as much as they can about the facts."

Pres. Biden has already declined to invoke executive privilege after a number of Trump allies, including former White House adviser Steve Bannon and ex-White House trade adviser Peter Navarro refused to comply with their subpoenas issued to them by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack.

"Biden will decline, I am sure, and if it goes to court, I think Trump will lose based on the court's earlier decision that Trump could not use executive privilege to block the National Archives from producing documents to the Jan 6 Committee," McQuade said.

read: https://www.newsweek.com/doj-considering-charges-against-donald-trump-mike-pence-1780795

[TheRealNorth]

1. I am getting to the point that these claims that charges are right around the corner....

Are about as credible as claims by MAGATS that TFG's reinstallation into power is imminent.

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5. I'd take issue with wherever you heard that

...and ask where the evidence is of those claims.

In this case Barb McQuade notes the subpoena of the VP at this stage in the investigation, of a high profile target or subject, signals the end game in this process.

Comparing this attorney's view about a progressing investigation, complete with two separate grand juries hearing testimony and viewing evidence, to MAGA is some really off the wall shit.

[Bobstandard]

2. How many times have I heard this?

I’m not holding my breath.

I think the issue Rachel raised re the attack that will come if an indictment is brought will cause Garland to pass.

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6. I don't know. Where did you hear the opinion that the VP subpoena would be one of the last moves

...the prosecutors would make in this case?

Supposing that Garland will 'pass' in the end, no matter what is a convenient way to dismiss actual progress. There's no evidence that Garland has ever been intimidated out of acting due to fears about supremacist violence.

See his prosecution and execution of the Oklahoma City bomber.

[Auggie]

3. Here's an idea: announce everything this Thursday!

Charges on January 6th, Georgia election, rape felonies, bank fraud, etc. ...

[malaise]

4. Can't wait

Rec

[claudette]

7. Where have I heard

that before?

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8. I don't know

...where have you heard that Pence's subpoena likely signals the end of the investigation?

[claudette]

10. I meant

Where have I heard DOJ seriously considering charging Dump? It’s an old song

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12. that's not actually a credible argument against the reasoning offered here

...some nebulous claim made somewhere.

Barb makes a good point. You don't come for the high profile witnesses until you cover all of their underlings. It just makes sense.

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15. We'll see

I’m not holding my breath

[Baitball Blogger]

9. We reelly, reelly, reelly mean it this time.

Just fucking do it!

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11. that's this legal pundit's opinion

...no one in the investigation has said anything like that.

The two grand juries are still assembled, hearing testimony and viewing evidence. Aside from the dubious value in leaping past the very bodies assembled to give legitimacy to their investigation, the entities which the federal justice system uses to make official determinations of probable cause, what other process is there to an indictment?

No prosecutor worth a damn runs investigations like a shoe slogan.

[gab13by13]

13. Barbara McQuade comes on when Joyce Vance isn't available.

Of course Smith is serious about indicting Trump. One of the reasons that Smith subpoenaed Pence is because he understands it will take time to litigate his appearance.

[Aristus]

14. Well, that's wonderful.

Be sure to send a strongly worded letter to that effect.

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16. what?

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