A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) must turn over to federal prosecutors 1,659 communications related to attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
From Politico:
The records in question could help fill crucial gaps in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation. An inadvertently disclosed court document obtained last month by POLITICO revealed key aspects of the messages Perry had sought to shield from Smith’s team, including exchanges with Trump’s alleged co-conspirators in the effort to disrupt the transfer of power. The messages showed Perry as a crucial go-between for Trump and his allies on key aspects of their effort in the final frantic weeks of Trump’s presidency.
Perry’s phone was seized in August, 2022, in connection with the FBI investigation into Jeffrey Clark, a Department of Justice official during the Trump administration. “Perry introduced Trump to Clark in the final weeks of his presidency and pressed Trump to elevate Clark to the top of the Justice Department. Trump came close to appointing Clark acting attorney general — part of a last-ditch plan to use the Justice Department to raise doubts about the outcome of the election — before a mass resignation threat by DOJ and White House officials led Trump to back down,” Politico noted.
Perry had tried to shield the communications by claiming they were part of his legislative work but Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has ruled otherwise.
We already knew that Perry was quite the busy beaver on behalf of overturning the election. Some of the bizarre details include texts with “cybersecurity individuals” working with Sidney Powell and an email to a Trump National Security Council staffer about an “incredibly spooky” allegation that the U.S. Army had helped cover up election fraud.
We also know Perry was one of Mark Meadows’ most frequent correspondents.
I’m going to go out on a limb and predict the messages include some interesting exchanges with some top Fox News personalities, too.
Perry’s attorney said he has not yet determined whether he will appeal the ruling, Politico reported.
It probably depends on how much money Perry wants to spend delaying in the hope that Donald Trump will win back the White House in 2024 and make the whole thing go away in 2025.
