Overlooked by a lot of people in Jack Smith's filing: Trump used burner phone to pressure election officials

[kpete]

G) Trump called the Michigan speaker, on an unofficial line marked "Spam Risk Egypt" to discuss fraud allegations. Proving he tried to cover his tracks, and these were not protected "official acts"

-Trump used a burner phone, routed through a foreign country to contact Michigan house speaker.

-He tried to pressure the speaker in this off book call.

-Speaker McCarthy knew about the burner phone line.

-The phone showed up as “Spam Risk Egypt” on caller ID.

If the President thought his attempt to overturn the election and forge elector documents were legitimate “official acts” why was he using an insecure, foreign routed burner phone for these calls?

How many other sensitive calls did the former President have on this unencrypted line with coconspirators, that could now be used as blackmail against him, by any foreign nation which may have tapped that line?

(And before the reply bots get here, let me remind them: Trump’s own legal team did not dispute the authenticity of *anything* unsealed from the Smith filing)

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[BoRaGard]

1. Treasonous G.O.P. slimeballs attacking American democracy

Using a fugging thuggy burner phone to try and overthrow the lawful government of the USA.

Republicons will rot in political Hell for their betrayal of our great nation.

[BoRaGard]

6. WWJD?

What Would Jesus Do?

Would Jesus use a burner phone to try and deceive people about who he is conspiring with?

(Asking for all the Republicans who consider themselves to be Christians)

[erronis]

11. Or "What Would Justice Do" - Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Coney-Barret, Gorsuch, BeerBongBoy

When this wends its way to the final arbiters of 'justice'. They know best.

[onecaliberal]

13. Posers. My daughter is one.

[MaryMagdaline]

2. Because honest dealings are always done by burner phones.

Excellent evidence BTW that these actions were personal, not in the course and scope of presidential activity.

[msfiddlestix]

3. THAT is a very interesting question and a very damning reveal.

[bullimiami]

4. Wasn't the reporting that he had a bag of burner phones labeled for use??

Criminal behavior much?

[Wiz Imp]

5. Kinda ruins any chance he may have had of trying to argue these were "official acts", doesn't it?

[dalton99a]

7. Low life criminal coward

[DJ Porkchop]

8. When it absolutely, positively needs to be there and then disappeared, burner phone.

Trump's whole life plays out like an 80's mob movie.

[yardwork]

9. So the call was routed through Egypt?

And it was a fishy line, so fishy even the burner phone showed it as a spam risk?

The president of the United States used a burner phone and an insecure line routed through a foreign nation to pressure state officials to commit fraud in order to steal an election.

And half the country is voting for him again.

Jesus wept.

[Paper Roses]

27. Was this the same Egypt that gave trump 10 million dollars? n/t

[yardwork]

33. Interesting, huh?

[Native]

36. Cochran thinks it's VERY interesting. Did you see his other post?...

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[SupportSanity]

43. That was $10 million in real cash

[rubbersole]

29. Jesus moved to Canada.

[NotHardly]

10. Trump and his ilk are reprehensible trash.

[William Seger]

12. Which reminds me of 2 unanswered "Russia, Russia, Russia" questions

1. Why were they trying to set up an unmonitored private communication channel to the Kremlin?

2. Why was a Trump business computer communicating with a Russian bank computer?

[Orrex]

14. That's how all non-criminals conduct their non-criminal business, of course.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

15. I just bought a whole bunch from this guy

He was having a sale

[surfered]

17. Not sure "official Presidential duties " are done using a burner phone

[Botany]

18. Just like the burner phones that Trump's Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, and others used before ..

…. and during Jan. 6th. They knew they were breaking the law in an attempted
violent coup to overthrow the government. Trump is a life long career criminal.

Why is this election even close?

Btw in 2016 long before the election McCarthy was well aware of the Trump/Russia connections.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-ryan-keeps-it-family-kevin-mccarthy-russia-trump

[LessAspin]

19. Spam Risk Egypt ▶️ Threat Level Midnight

Seems Trump used a burner phone with a coded number to make his calls leaning on state officials to change election results.

fmr Michigan state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey says he was given a heads up by the state house speaker that Trump might call him and that it would show up on his phone as "Spam risk Egypt."

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Spam Risk Egypt = Threat Level Midnight https://www.democraticunderground.com/10588883

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217510149

[LessAspin]

24. Egypt

Interesting side note to this is that since it was first reported a few years ago we have learned that Egypt gave the Trump campaign $10 million in 2016 to keep afloat..

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[yardwork]

34. I bet that $10M came from Putin, via Egypt.

[Texin]

20. Criminal Law 101: the act "betrays a consciousness of guilt".

He knew he was acting outside the bounds of his "official" executive privileges and suborning unlawful acts on behalf of election officials, some of whom were elected state officials in executive seats.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

37. But will the Royal Subversive Court issue an edict that the phones became official by his touch?

Robber Baron Roberts, Slimey Sammy, Corrupt Thomas, Gorey Sucker, Coathanger Barret, and Beer Bong Weenie Waver may be looking for yet another way to protect their favorite Heritage Foundation stooge.

We need a blue Congress and blue Executive to excise some cancer in our Judiciary.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. Really! And did the President go to Best Buy in disguise to pick it up?

No? So his IT and political minions arranged this for him? Because he can hardly dial let alone understand tech?

I see. A lot of people involved on this one.

[Mme. Defarge]

22. Thank God for Jack Smith!

[not a texan]

23. I wonder if there is any connection to Egypt and ten million dollars

I remember not too long ago there was an issue of $10,000,000 coming from Egypt. It is just so difficult to even try and track all his failures and crimes. I don't know if there is any connection, but why would you route calls through Egypt of all places?

[HagathaCrispy]

25. It doesnt matter

Donald Trump could rape and torture someone's toddler in front of them, and bust it's head on a rail road track and the mother and father would mortgage their house for his Trumps legal defense fund.

[Kid Berwyn]

26. Everyone knows only honest people use burner phones.

Them, and frauds. Frauds use burner phones, too. And crooks. Crooks use burner phones, too. And traitors! Traitors especially use burner phones.

[LiberalArkie]

28. I think this has been forgotten but during Trumps time there were a lot of spy cell sites in DC (called Stingers)

Here is just one article. Unless a person was very careful, more than likely every organization and government in the world knew what was been said and who was banging who.


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/dhs-to-senator-malicious-use-of-stingrays-is-a-real-and-growing-risk/

[moniss]

30. Also remember how they wanted a "back door"

communication network during the Years of Darkness, aka 2016-2021, and we kind of thought because it became public knowledge that they didn't do it? I'm willing to bet they did establish one with the help of Putin. Despite him being brazen about making calls to Putin using his personal phone it does not mean that was the only line of communication. Putin was not about to get into details etc. over someone's personal phone.

There's no way that someone as ignorant of matters as the Orange Ruski knew on his own which documents to grab as he left. Someone was working on the "list" and there is no way the "job" was discussed in a manner open to US Intel detection.

[jmowreader]

41. The thing about the documents is,

We will NEVER know the full extent of what he took. If you think what the FBI pulled out of Mar-a-Lago is all of it...think the fuck again.

[moniss]

42. Possibly and we are not

being made privy to any kind of tracking/sign-out system that any of the agencies were using if any. We do know there are folders that were now empty. We are not privy to how specific the folder codes are to the document beyond level of classification. In other words does part of the code indicate missile defense etc.? With the extremely lax SS presence at Mar-Ugh-Ghastly we have no idea who all came and went and when or if they came with nothing but left with boxes or big packages. Remember the woman they found wandering around the place and nobody had track of her although she had been spotted roaming around for hours?

[OAITW r.2.0]

31. I bet the emtire Organized Crime Party had burner phones to communicate and conspire with fellow OCP members.

[Joinfortmill]

32. He's a traitor, but we can't get him for treason...

He's committed espionage, but we can't get him for that. Eventually we will bring this m*fucker down, but it won't be for his worst acts. I suspect we won't ever learn what his worst acts actually were.

[Blue Owl]

35. Remember how he claimed that he didn't know about "burner phones"?

Just another lie — everything he says is a fucking lie

[LiberalFighter]

38. Who all knew about the Spam Risk Egypt burner phone?

Who helped him get and set up the burner phone(s)?

When were burner phones set up?

Did anyone else have burner phones under direction of Trump?

[mdbl]

39. Of course he did. That's what crooks do.

Magats love their crooks.

[uponit7771]

40. TFG uses a burner phone ... But Harris has to be Flawless