Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | January 26, 2023 On Tuesday, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis indicated that a special grand jury has recommended multiple indictments as a result of its investigation of the efforts of former President Donald Trump and his collaborators to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. Willis said that her decision […]
“The insurrectionist attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 was not the start of former President Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the presidency from Joe Biden, it was the culmination of Trump’s Big Lie and the seditious scheme hatched by Trump and his associates to overturn the 2020 election results. The historic […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | December 22, 2022 On November 4, 2020 — one day after Election Day 2020 — Rick Perry, Trump’s Energy Secretary, contacted White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows with a proposal. Perry proposed an “AGRESSIVE [sic] STRATEGY” to have Republican-controlled state legislatures in key battleground states override the voters and […]
Given the facts that were revealed by the House January 6th Committee through its 18-month investigation, “these hearings had to end with criminal referrals against Donald Trump and his minions,” Amb. Norman Eisen (ret.), E. Danya Perry, and Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer write in an essay published by The New York Times. “The House committee […]
“This is deadly serious. This is American democracy. This story deserves more attention. It’s a primetime story, but it’s not a one-and-done special movie. This is real life. This is democracy under the microscope.” – Robert Costa, Investigative Reporter, CBS News NEXT HEARING: Monday, December 19, at 1 p.m. Eastern The House January 6th Committee, at […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | December 8, 2022 The House Jan. 6th Committee is scheduled to release its final report on December 21. The report is expected to include criminal referrals to the Justice Department, including a referral for former President Donald Trump. The Committee did a superb job in educating the American people and […]
Last night, in a unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, ruled against former President Donald Trump and halted the special master’s review of the documents seized from Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago. “In considering these arguments,” the Appeals Court panel wrote, “we are faced with a choice: […]
A group of former federal prosecutors and state and federal government officials who served in Republican Administrations, including former top Justice Department officials who served as Assistant, Deputy, and Acting Attorneys General, and U.S. Attorneys, filed amicus briefs in the three stages of the Mar-a-Lago documents case, at the district court and 11th Circuit Court […]
“Some people have argued against the need for, or timing of, the appointment of a special counsel in the federal investigations of former President Donald Trump. We welcome the announcement of veteran federal prosecutor Jack Smith in that role,” according to a new op-ed on Just Security, by the authors of an extensively researched report that assesses the potential […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | November 17, 2022 President Joe Biden said before last week’s election that democracy was on the ballot. It was and democracy won. The clearest and most important example of this involved the Republican election deniers running for Secretary of State. As the officials responsible for state elections, they would have been […]
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