Politico reports: "Inside the Off-the-Record Calls Held by Anti-Trump Legal Pundits." As the Jan. 6 committee was working on its bombshell investigation into the Capitol riot and President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the last election, committee staffers took some time out of their seemingly 24-hour jobs one day in 2022 to brief a group of lawyers and legal pundits on a Zoom call.
Every Friday, they meet on Zoom to hash out the latest twists and turns in the Trump legal saga - and intellectually stress-test the arguments facing Trump on his journey through the American legal system.
The repellent reality comes through: The meetings are off the record - a chance for the group's members, many of whom are formally or loosely affiliated with different media outlets, to grapple with a seemingly endless array of novel legal issues before they hit the airwaves or take to print or digital outlets to weigh in with their thoughts.
The participants are a left-wing rogues' gallery: The group's host is Norman Eisen, a senior Obama administration official, longtime Trump critic and CNN legal analyst, who has been convening the group since 2022 as Trump's legal woes ramped up.
Rew Weissmann, a longtime federal prosecutor who served as one of the senior prosecutors on Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia investigation and is now a legal analyst for MSNBC, is another regular on the calls.
Jeffrey Toobin, a pioneer in the field of cable news legal analysis, is also a member of the crew.
Trump has claimed that there is a legal conspiracy against him, and there is a risk that news of a group such as this could give Trump and his allies an attractive target.
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