Attainable ‘Co-Conspirator 6’ in Trump indictment Mike Roman trolls Twitter as thriller lingers on

WASHINGTON — The identification of “Co-Conspirator 6” within the latest criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump has develop into the brand new favourite parlor recreation amongst former White Home and marketing campaign aides — with one former top operative, Mike Roman, showing to troll social media customers by hinting that he’s the person.

Hours after the indictment from special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors was handed up Tuesday evening, Roman, a Philadelphia native, posted an image of a Philadelphia Eagles jersey with the nameplate “Smith” and the quantity “6.”

“Kelly Inexperienced. #Eagles,” Roman captioned the submit on X, previously generally known as Twitter — in what some interpreted as a confession and others noticed as mockery of the fevered hypothesis over the individual’s identification.

It’s unclear whether or not Roman, Trump 2020’s director of Election Day operations, really is the sixth unindicted alleged co-conspirator listed in the 45-page indictment, which charged Trump with 4 federal offenses associated to his makes an attempt to reverse his defeat to Joe Biden.

Roman and an lawyer stated to be representing him didn’t reply to The Submit’s requests for clarification.

Sources instructed The Submit that Roman was a low-key, behind-the-scene determine regardless of engaged on each Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns and dealing within the West Wing in 2017 and 2018.

Some sources speculated that clues within the indictment trace he might not really be the sixth individual.

A number of different names have been floated — with some insiders speculating that there might even be a typo within the charging doc that’s inflicting confusion and making it troublesome to nail down an ID with certainty.

One former official who overlapped with Roman on the Trump 2016 marketing campaign and within the West Wing stated they recalled fleeting plans to make him a authorized consultant on the communications group, however stated he wasn’t a very well-known fixture.

Throughout Roman’s time working within the Trump White Home, his title was “director of particular tasks and analysis.”

“Title doesn’t even ring a bell,” stated a senior Trump West Wing official of Roman, who added, “The Trump authorized group wasn’t precisely a bunch of A-listers.”