{"id":4426,"date":"2023-07-19T12:51:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4426"},"modified":"2023-07-19T12:51:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:51:01","slug":"federal-investigators-seize-trump-advisors-phones-as-part-of-jan-6-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=4426","title":{"rendered":"Federal Investigators Seize Trump Advisors\u2019 Phones As Part Of Jan 6 Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-88.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-4427\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-88.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-88.png 788w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-88-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-88-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-88-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-88-390x219.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/trump-expects-to-be-arrested-indicted-following-doj-letter-from-special-council-jack-smith-part-of-jan-6-probe\/\">shared<\/a>&nbsp;on Truth Social that he expects to be arrested&nbsp;<strong>a third time<\/strong>&nbsp;as part of the DOJ\u2019s January 6th investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Trump, he was only given four days to respond to a Sunday night letter from special counsel Jack Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the Truth Social post, federal investigators reportedly seized the phones of Trump advisors&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2023\/07\/18\/us\/trump-jan-6-letter?smid=url-share#d0cddc94-b40e-5fb2-a00c-21f47ee8157e\">including<\/a>&nbsp;Boris Epshteyn, Mike Roman, and John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-feds-seize-trump-advisors-phones-in-jan-6-investigation\">The Post Millennial<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2026the phones of Boris Epshteyn, described as \u201can in-house counsel who helps coordinate Mr. Trump\u2019s legal efforts,\u201d and campaign strategist Mike Roman, who was director of Election Day operations for Trump\u2019s campaign in 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The phones of John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark were also seized. Clark\u2019s phone was seized as part of an investigation into alternate electors.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tucker Carlson to Jeff Clark (former Trump DOJ official) on the FBI raid of Clark&#39;s house: &quot;This is Soviet&quot; <br><br>Clark: &quot;I don&#39;t recognize the country anymore with these kinds of Stasi-like things happening.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gXIksK8frL\">pic.twitter.com\/gXIksK8frL<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1540142771054399488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the news, Trump supporters, in addition to big name voices like GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, have voiced their frustrations and concerns for Joe Biden\u2019s corrupt DOJ.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf Jack Smith has evidence of criminality, should Donald Trump be held accountable?\u201d CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper asked DeSantis during an interview Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo, here\u2019s the problem. This country is going down the road of criminalizing political differences,\u201d DeSantis responded. \u201cI think that\u2019s wrong. Alvin Bragg stretched the statute in Manhattan to be able to try to target Donald Trump. Most people, even people on the Left, acknowledge if that wasn\u2019t Trump, that case would not have likely been brought against a normal civilian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later, DeSantis shared that if he were president, \u201cwe\u2019re going to have a new FBI director on day one.\u201d He also told Tapper \u201cwe\u2019re going to have big changes at the Department of Justice.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DeSantis on possible Jan 6 Trump indictment: &quot;I hope he doesn&#39;t get charged.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N6mamIJbGc\">pic.twitter.com\/N6mamIJbGc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1681398893769273346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">On the flip side of all this controversy, CNN has already begun propping up special counsel Jack Smith.\u00a0<br>Here\u2019s the outlet praising him for buying a Subway sandwich:<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN: Jack Smith can\u2019t resist a $5 foot long! Isn\u2019t he dreamy?!? \ud83d\ude0d<br><br>So pathetic. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p6PnsDi8Aq\">pic.twitter.com\/p6PnsDi8Aq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1681365652286627841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cnn-obsesses-imagery-special-counsel-getting-subway-sandwich-message-donald-trump?intcmp=tw_fnc\">Fox News<\/a>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>CNN hosts appeared fixated on Special Counsel Jack Smith exiting a local Subway shop in the wake of sending a letter telling the former President Donald Trump he is the target of a grand jury investigation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>While reporting on the news, \u201cInside Politics\u201d host Dana Bash drew attention to CNN correspondent Evan Perez\u2019s \u201cexclusive\u201d footage of Smith exiting a Subway for lunch while refusing reporter questions. Speaking with Perez, Bash highlighted the \u201cimagery\u201d of the scene to contrast himself with Trump.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWhat is important is the imagery here. They clearly wanted us to see him and that image to be very different from what we saw in the former president\u2019s post, which is that he\u2019s a deranged individual,\u201d Bash said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeSantis is right when he says Americans must have confidence in the rule of law regardless of political tribe, because this garbage investigation would not be happening if the person in question was anyone other than Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN\u2019s promotion of Smith already shows all the biases we need to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These people really don\u2019t want Trump re-elected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/federal-investigators-seize-trump-advisors-phones-as-part-of-jan-6-probe\/\">https:\/\/bigleaguepolitics.com\/federal-investigators-seize-trump-advisors-phones-as-part-of-jan-6-probe\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gcjdjhs3e.com\/32NN4QZ\/FGXLG\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump&nbsp;shared&nbsp;on Truth Social that he expects to be arrested&nbsp;a third time&nbsp;as part of the DOJ\u2019s January 6th investigation. According to Trump, he was only given four days to respond to a Sunday night letter from special counsel Jack Smith. Since the Truth Social post, federal investigators reportedly seized the phones of Trump advisors&nbsp;including&nbsp;Boris Epshteyn, Mike Roman, and John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark. The Post Millennial: \u2026the phones of Boris Epshteyn, described as \u201can in-house counsel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4428,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4426\/revisions\/4428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}