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The newly-released memos show Thibault had emailed redacted FBI agents in late February 2022, telling them to “please review this” as he shared an article titled “United States v. Donald Trump” from the left-leaning and anti-Trump Just Security outlet, a project based out of the Just Security is based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law.
Barbara McQuade, the author of the article, is a former Obama DOJ veteran and prominent anti-Trump voice who has written numerous books and articles attacking the president.
“The following memorandum is a model ‘prosecution memo’ analyzing potential charges against former President Donald Trump for his efforts to pressure Mike Pence to abuse his authority as vice president in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election on Jan. 6, 2021,” McQuade wrote in the article shared by Thibault, with McQuade comparing her article to the 2019 report produced by special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation.
Hints that he had arrangements with NPR, other media
Thibault again sought to push left-leaning media coverage to multiple FBI officials in early March 2022, sending an email saying that there “may be a good reporting [sic] on the electors tonight on NPR.”
It is not clear which specific NPR story Thibault may have been referring to, but earlier in 2022, NPR had published multiple stories on the January 6 saga with titles such as “The Jan. 6 panel subpoenas 14 people in fake electors scheme tied to Trump,” “GOP candidates and leaders subpoenaed as Jan. 6 panel dives into fake electors scheme,” and “How Trump sought to use fake electors, conspiracy theories to remain in power.”
Thibault sent another early March 2022 email to multiple members of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, saying, FYSA [for your self-awareness] …a couple podcasts you may find informational.”
Another podcast he circulated inside the FBI was a late February 2022 episode of The New Abnormal podcast produced by The Daily Beast, while the second podcast was a March 2022 feature produced by The Washington Post.
The first podcast said that McQuade was joining “to explain how Trump’s big lie is a provable crime” and added, “Did Donald Trump commit a crime on and before Jan. 6? Barbara McQuade, former national security prosecutor for the Eastern District of Michigan, says yes.”
The Washington Post's podcast said that “a team of Danish filmmakers spent more than two years following Trump confidant and adviser Roger Stone” and that “their footage — and an investigation from The Washington Post — shed new light on Stone’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.”