Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Indictment(s) watch continues

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The superseding indictment is a BFD, but the one to come is an even bigger deal. The Grand Jury usually doesn’t meet again until Tuesday but we shall see.

Charles P Pierce/Esquire:

The Trump Indictments Look More Gravely Serious Than I Anticipated

Don't play chess with Jack Smith under any circumstances—he's 10 moves ahead.

Trump Employee No. 4 is going to be a helluva witness, I'm thinking. And he's at least half-a-hero.

Consider how Smith has played this. First of all, he runs a grand jury in Florida on the Pool Shed Papers completely on the down low while the rest of us were wondering what he was up to in Washington. Then, on the day he has the Trump legal team in Washington in for a chat, his Florida grand jury drops the mother of all superseding indictments. Next he will saw Rudy Giuliani in half and make the 15th at Bedminster disappear.

I no longer have any doubt that the indictments coming out of Washington are going to be more gravely serious even than I had anticipated. After all, I'm the guy who didn't think the whole Pool Shed Papers thing ever would amount to much of anything. I was guessing with Jack Smith, who already was 10 moves ahead of where I thought I was and vanishing over a suddenly brighter horizon.

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