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'Prosecutors yearn for evidence like this': Expert Elie Honig shows how Trump damned himself with a single tweet

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--Donald Trump during a White House press briefing. (Naresh777 / Shutterstock.com)this week outlined what he said is the linchpin piece of evidence against .According to Honig, Trump's tweet at 6 p.m. on January 6th gives an important window into his state of mind in the aftermath of to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's electoral victory."These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously &amp; viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly &amp; unfairly treated for so long," Trump tweeted at the time. "Go home with love &amp; in peace. Remember this day forever!"In Honig's view, this tweet alone is enough evidence to damn Trump."Ask yourself: Are those the words of a person who was genuinely 'horrified' by what he saw, to quote Trump's attorneys?" he asked rhetorically. "To the contrary, in my view, the tweet establishes beyond any real doubt that Trump was pleased at what his supporters had done. He called them 'great patriots,' and urged them to '(r)emember this day forever!' Those are unequivocal words of empathy with the mob -- even exultation -- not regret."Honig then predicted that, if any prosecutors were to file criminal charges against Trump for his role in sparking the riots, this tweet would be put front and center before the jury."Prosecutors yearn for evidence like this," he wrote. "It is simply devastating and almost certainly would ensure a conviction if this case were a criminal trial."Report typos and corrections to: .NASA is now targeting September 27 as the earliest possible launch date for its uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, the agency said in a blog post Monday.The date would depend on engineering teams successfully carrying out a test to fuel up the Space Launch System rocket, and receive a waiver to avoid retesting batteries on an emergency flight system that is used to destroy the rocket if it strays from its designated range.If it does not receive the waiver, the rocket will have to be wheeled back to its assembly building, pushing the timeline back several weeks.For the September 27 date, a "70-minute launch window opens at 11:37 am EDT," while the mission would end with an ocean splashdown of the Orion capsule on November 5.A potential next date comes on October 2.The Artemis 1 space mission hopes to test the SLS as well as the unmanned Orion capsule that sits atop it, in preparation for future Moon-bound journeys with humans aboard.Once launched, it will take several days for the spacecraft to reach the Moon, flying around 60 miles (100 kilometers) at its closest approach.One of the trip's main objectives is to test the capsule's heat shield -- which at 16 feet (five meters) in diameter is the largest ever built -- when the ship re-enters the atmosphere.The next mission, Artemis 2, will take astronauts to the Moon without landing on its surface, while the third -- set for the mid-2020s -- would see the first woman and person of color on lunar soil.NASA wants to build a lunar space station called Gateway and keep a sustained presence on the Moon to gain insight into how to survive very long space missions, ahead of a mission to Mars in the 2030s.© Agence France-PresseRespected in cybersecurity circles, former Twitter security chief Peiter "Mudge" Zatko is a wild card in Elon Musk's legal gambit to break a $44 billion deal to buy the social network.Zatko's whistleblower complaint of "extreme, egregious deficiencies" in Twitter defenses against hackers and "meager efforts to fight spam" plays into Musk's quest to convince a judge that he was duped when he foisted his unsolicited offer on the company.Twitter has dismissed 51-year-old Zatko's complaint as being without merit, and vowed to show it did nothing wrong at an October trial in a Delaware court.If the court focuses on the fact that the world's richest man declined to do fact gathering typically associated with big-money mergers, Zatko's allegations could wind up being moot.He is to testify on Tuesday before a US Senate committee looking into whether security practices at Twitter were dangerously lax.Zatko first testified before Congress 24 years ago, when he was a long-haired hacker determined to warn about the perils of poorly protected government computer systems.This time, he will be called on to provide details about his accusations that Twitter hid flaws in its security as well as its fight against accounts run by spammers or software instead of genuine users.Musk has listed the number of inauthentic accounts on Twitter as among reasons to justify walking away from the buyout deal he made in April."Once both parties step into court its a high risk/high reward scenario for both parties with the major X variable now being the Zatko whistleblower claims," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a note to investors."We continue to view the Zatko situation as a Pandora's Box scenario for Twitter."If Twitter prevails at trial, the judge could order the Tesla chief to pay billions of dollars to the company, or even complete the purchase.Twitter shareholders are expected to endorse the buyout deal in a special vote Tuesday."If Mudge says Twitter has cybersecurity problems, Twitter has big problems," said Vectra cybersecurity firm chief technology officer Aaron Turner, who says he has known Zatko since the 1980s.A son of scientists, Zatko grew up in the US states of Alabama and Pennsylvania, his passions including music and software.In 1996, he joined a hacker collective called L0pht. He and other members of the group testified before Congress two years later."It was the first time the U.S. government publicly referenced 'hackers' in a positive context," Zatko said in a 2019 tweet marking an anniversary of the testimony.Zatko has done stints at Google and online payment services company Stripe, and also at Pentagon research arm DARPA.Twitter founder and former chief Jack Dorsey recruited Zatko in July 2020 after a spectacular hack of the accounts of celebrities and political figures including Barack Obama, Musk and Kim Kardashian.US President Joe Biden's team offered Zatko a position as White House security director early last year but he declined the job, believing he had work left to do at Twitter, his attorneys said.-House of cards? -Twitter fired Zatko in January, citing "ineffective leadership and poor performance."Zatko's lawyers rejected Twitter's claim, contending instead that he was terminated after a clash with top executives who refused to acknowledge his concerns about platform security."Mr Zatko put his career on the line because of his concerns about Twitter users, the public and the company's shareholders," his attorneys said.Andrew Hay, director of operations at the Lares cybersecurity consulting firm, said "those in the industry who know Mudge know that his intentions have historically been honorable, non-partisan, and designed to benefit the world."Zatko's whistleblower complaint, filed just days after Twitter agreed to give him a multi-million dollar severance package, is not necessarily evidence that the company misrepresented user numbers, according to analysts.Musk's lawyers will "try to prove that Twitter tried to sell him a house of cards," but security flaws would have to be "really serious," said University of California, Berkeley law school professor Adam Badawi.© Agence France-PresseReacting to an NBC report late Monday that the Department of Justice issued a wave of subpoenas last week and , former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade claimed that the law is closing in on the former president.Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the legal analyst speculated that data retrieved from the phones could be used to come after Trump as the possible center of a criminal conspiracy."Barbara, I would take it's not great news for you whenever the Department of Justice seizes cell phones from your aides," McQuade was asked by host Joe Scarborough. "What does that tell you about, first of all, where they're going, where this investigation, and how aggressive they are, how possibly close they are to charging the president?""Yeah, you know, Joe, you see that the circles are closing in on the highest levels of government here, close aides to the former president," she replied. "As I read these subpoenas, it seems we are seeing the fake elector scheme meets seditious conspiracy. So what they're really looking for is a commonality to connect these two threads together."RELATED: "If you can make the connection, you can put Donald Trump right at the center of a conspiracy," she elaborated. "Talked about seizing telephones. It says to me they have looked at phone records they have been able to get from the phone company but there may be encrypted phone messages they can only get from the phones themselves. These tend to be the ones that are done in secret, the ones that might be the most sensitive.""So getting the phones, it's where we are our most candid, our text messages, our list of people we have made phone calls to," she continued. "Those can be useful in tying the threads together and text messages can be a gold mine. As we saw in the January 6th hearings, people speak candidly, admissions come in. I think it can be a veritable gold mine."Watch the video below or .&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Copyright © 2022 Raw Story Media, Inc. PO Box 21050, Washington, D.C. 20009 | | | For corrections or concerns, please email corrections@rawstory.com. | {{ post.roar_specific_data.api_data.analytics }}

--Donald Trump during a White House press briefing. (Naresh777 / Shutterstock.com)this week outlined what he said is the linchpin piece of evidence against .According to Honig, Trump's tweet at 6 p.m. on January 6th gives an important window into his state of mind in the aftermath of to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's electoral victory."These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously &amp; viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly &amp; unfairly treated for so long," Trump tweeted at the time....

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