Emily Kohrs, the Georgia special grand jury foreperson in the Trump investigation who made the media rounds this week “won’t win any prizes for grand jury foreperson etiquette. Her display has been unseemly, to say the least. It has violated good taste – but not the law,” Ambassador Norm Eisen (ret.) and Democracy 21 President […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | February 23, 2023 The Trump-led insurrection that culminated in the January 6 attack on the Capitol did not end with the certification of Joe Biden as President. Welcome to The Insurrection: Part II. The goal is the same – ensure that former President Donald Trump or a Trump-like candidate becomes […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | February 16, 2023 The legal walls are closing in on former President Donald Trump as a multitude of legal threats have moved to a new, dangerous stage for Trump. Here’s where things stand: Fulton County, Georgia Today, Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney released five pages of a special grand jury’s report on […]
Fred’s Weekly Note returns next week. In the meantime, catch up on these recent op-eds: ✔️ Trump’s Hush Money Is News Again. Here’s Why We Should Care. A criminal investigation of former President Donald Trump being restarted by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg raises vital issues of both election integrity and accountability, Ambassador Norman Eisen (ret.), E. […]
A criminal investigation of former President Donald Trump being restarted by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, and discussed in a new book by one of his former prosecutors, Mark Pomerantz, raises vital issues of both election integrity and accountability, Ambassador Norman Eisen (ret.), E. Danya Perry, and Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer write in a deep dive published […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | February 2, 2023 Children are often told the story of George Washington telling his father, “I cannot tell a lie. I chopped down the cherry tree.” That story is, ironically, untrue. But this next presidential story is true. By the time he left office in January 2021, The Washington Post […]
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 […]
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