With all of the insanity taking place in the House of Representatives with the Republicans,
it's easy to forget that Donald Trump is under criminal investigation by special prosecutor
Jack Smith with the US Department of Justice.
And this week there were some very big developments in Jack Smith's investigation, particularly
subpoenas that were finally answered from the state of Wisconsin and the state of Nevada.
Those subpoenas sent to local election officials in certain counties in both of those states
were seeking any communications that these election workers may have had with Donald
Trump, his lawyers, or anyone else associated with the Trump campaign or the Trump administration.
Those records were turned over to Jack Smith.
It was announced this week.
So here is what we have in, uh, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
They were able to obtain reports or, or information via the subpoena on employees who most frequently
communicated with attorneys and surrogates for the Trump campaign leading up to the election
and after, including during the pendency of the recount.
So they've got communication between election officials in Milwaukee County with members
of the Trump campaign, with Trump lawyers.
It says, so that's probably not good, especially during the recount part.
That's the, that's the part that really sticks out.
Like sure, it's not totally uncommon for campaigns to reach out to election officials, you know,
before an election, uh, during a recount.
Eh, that's, that's where things get a little shady, right.
Especially given what we know Trump and his people were trying to do, which was convince
these individuals that there was massive fraud.
And you've gotta throw out these ballots.
That of course, is what the communications as far as we know were about.
Same thing happened in Clark County, Nevada.
Um, officials did not include any communications with Trump directly, but did show lawyers
working for the former president, raising concerns about potential election fraud that
were fraud, that were later found to be baseless soap.
Trump himself didn't reach out to officials in Clark County, but his lawyers did, and
they were specifically trying to push their baseless fraud claims.
So we don't know specifically other than what I just read you, what is in those documents.
We don't know what the exact communications were.
We do know the topics that were discussed.
We do not know who was involved, uh,
At either the state level or with the Trump lawyer, uh, uh, group.
But we do know the communications happened.
But more importantly, we do know that special prosecutor, Jack Smith, now has his hands
on these things.
That investigation is still moving full steam ahead.
So even if you're distracted by what's happening in DC right now, understand bad things are
happening for Donald Trump.
He actually suffered a couple major court losses this week as well, and, uh, his lawyers
are now possibly facing sanctions in New York.
So bad week for Trump.
Yeah, it's pretty bad for Kevin McCarthy too.
But Trump's weak may have been even worse because of the future implications of what
we learned.