Justice Dept. Subpoenas Pat Cipollone, Trump White House Counsel

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Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel under former President Donald J. Trump who tried to stop some of his more extreme efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating activities in the lead-up to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, a person familiar with the subpoena said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/us/politics/pat-cipollone-subpoena.html

 

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Trump faces new danger in DOJ’s surprise subpoena of Pat Cipollone

“Cipollone obviously thought many of Trump’s schemes were illegal or risked criminal liability,” Goodman told me. “The Justice Department can get from Cipollone what he told Trump directly and how Trump responded. That is likely to be damning evidence.”

This could further establish the degree to which Trump acted with corrupt intent. That’s essential to showing Trump broke laws, such as obstruction of an official proceeding (the electoral count) or conspiracy to defraud the U.S. (by conspiring to subvert that count).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...er-pat-cipollone-justice-department-subpoena/