Bingo. Boris Epshteyn Is Co-Conspirator 6 Per NYT

This is, I must say, a bit unexpected but it makes complete sense. I say it’s unexpected to hear that Boris Epshteyn is co-conspirator 6 because there are other people so much more competent than he that I thought would go down in flames long before the law got to him. Epshteyn is considered a moron by other lawyers. When Donald Trump’s then-lawyer Tim Parlatore resigned, he mentioned how impossible Epshteyn was. But the New York Times thinks it’s him and their argument is compelling.

Co-conspirator 6 was more of a mystery. Identified by the indictment as “a political consultant who helped implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding,” the person could have been a number of figures in Mr. Trump’s orbit.

But a close look at the indictment and a review of messages among people working with Mr. Trump’s team provides a strong clue. An email from December 2020 from Boris Epshteyn, a strategic adviser to the Trump campaign in 2020, to Mr. Giuliani matches a description in the indictment of an interaction between co-conspirator 6 and Mr. Giuliani, whose lawyer has confirmed that he is co-conspirator 1.

The email, sent on Dec. 7, 2020, and reviewed by The New York Times, was from Mr. Epshteyn to Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Giuliani’s son, Andrew, and had the subject line, “Attorneys for Electors Memo.” It says, “Dear Mayor, As discussed, below are the attorneys I would recommend for the memo on choosing electors,” and it goes on to identify lawyers in seven states.

Paragraph 57 of the indictment says that co-conspirator 1, Mr. Giuliani, “spoke with co-conspirator 6 regarding attorneys who could assist in the fraudulent elector effort in the targeted states” and received an email from co-conspirator 6 “identifying attorneys in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.”

Those are the seven states in the email that Mr. Epshteyn sent to Mr. Giuliani and that was reviewed by The Times. The existence of the email from Mr. Epshteyn does not eliminate the possibility that someone else sent Mr. Giuliani a similar note.

Epshteyn is likely it, because he has one stellar qualification that puts him at the top of Trump world: he is a fluffer par excellence. He is world class at kissing Donald Trump’s ass and telling him what he wants to hear. That’s what it takes. He’s Stephen Miller with a law degree.

Let’s see if Boris ends up going to the House of Many Doors, along with Rudy, and Sidney and John and the others. This is going to be an amazing show.