One of the unanswered questions from the historic indictment on charges Donald Trump attempted to criminally steal the 2020 election, issued earlier today by the grand jury, is, Who are the six as-yet unindicted co-conspirators? Well, the Washington Post and NBC News had their ideas, and their in agreement:
- Rudy Giuliani: Co-Conspirator 1, an attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that the Defendant’s 2020 re-election campaign attorneys would not. NBC identifies as Rudy Giuliani.
- John Eastman (confirmed by Eastman’s lawyer): Co-Conspirator 2, an attorney who devised and attempted to implement a strategy to leverage the Vice President’s ceremonial role overseeing the certification proceeding to obstruct the certification of the presidential election.
- Sidney “The Kraken” Powell: Co-Conspirator 3, an attorney whose unfounded claims of election fraud the Defendant privately acknowledged to others sounded “crazy.” Nonetheless, the Defendant embraced and publicly amplified Co-Conspirator 3’s
- Jeffrey Clark: Co-Conspirator 4, a Justice Department official who worked on civil matters and who, with the Defendant, attempted to use the Justice Department to open sham election crime investigations and influence state legislatures with knowingly false claims of election fraud.
- Kenneth Chesebro: Co-Conspirator 5, an attorney who assisted in devising and attempting to implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding.
- UNKNOWN: Co-Conspirator 6, a political consultant who helped implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification. [Speculation: This could be Roger Stone, Tom Fitton, Steve Bannon or a number of others. Some have speculated that it is Boris Epshteyn, however, Epshteyn is an attorney, having served as legal counsel to Trump at one point, and the format of the other co-conspirators notes explicitly their connection to law.]