The Government approves the former president’s proposal for Judge Raymond Dearie, 78, to determine which top secret documents should be excluded from the investigations
The Department of Justice is willing to accept one of Donald Trump’s candidates to be appointed as a special magistrate and thus arbitrate on the secret documents seized by the FBI, the center of the legal dispute between the former president and federal prosecutors. This is Raymond Dearie, a 78-year-old former chief judge of the federal court of the Eastern District of New York, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1986. Dearie, currently active, has indicated to the Government his availability to take charge of the case of expedited manner.
As an independent third party, the role of the special magistrate will be to determine if any of the top secret documents seized in the search at Mar-a-Lago should be excluded from the investigation. Although we still have to wait for federal judge Aileen Cannon’s decision on Dearie’s appointment, the judge proposed by the Trump team is the only option that has the agreement of both parties, after the former president’s lawyers rejected the two judges proposed by the Department of Justice.
The appointment could unblock the document review case and eventually free up the investigation into the theft of classified material and violation of the Espionage Act that Trump’s legal litigation seeks to prevent.
The Justice Department’s pressure on the former president continues to mount with the advancement and expansion of another parallel investigation into his main fundraising vehicle, Save America PAC, which was recently the subject of a series of subpoenas to supply information about its practices. One of the focus points of what appears to be a new line of investigation would be the raising and spending of funds around the ‘Save America Rally’ that preceded the attack on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021.
Summons to testify
In another significant development that reveals the first concrete step in focusing the Jan. 6 investigation on the White House and the president, rather than just the riots themselves, the Justice Department last week sent dozens of subpoenas to aides Trump implicated in the plot to annul the elections. About 40 individuals have been called to testify or provide information, including Boris Epshteyn, an adviser to the former president, and Mike Roman, a campaign strategist, who also had their phones confiscated as evidence. Dan Scavino, Trump’s former social media director, as well as Bernard Kerik, former New York Police Commissioner, were also subpoenaed.
The subpoenas are part of the investigation into the plan to make false lists of pro-Trump delegates in the States in which Biden won, in secret substitution of the legitimate representatives of the electoral college of the 2020 elections. The objective was to justify the blockade of the certification of Biden’s electoral victory during the joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021.
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