Trump's GOP Is Running on a Platform of Freeing Seditionists and Cop Assailants
The Republican Party's candidate for President is running on a platform of freeing cop assailants and seditionists.
Fridays with Nicole Sandler
We spoke a lot about the Univision town halls and the Bret Baier interview.
Jack Smith's Appendix
The four volume appendix to the Jack Smith immunity filing.
Could This Week's Developments Change the Race?
A series of events in the last ten days may finally have stripped the disinformation that would otherwise leave 8 to 13% of voters believing Trump's disinformation about himself and Kamala Harris.
Hen in the Fox House: Jorge Velázquez and Ramiro González Better Served Democracy than Bret Baier
Bret Baier's interview of Kamala Harris was probably only the third most important TV yesterday. On Univision, before a viewing audience that includes far more undecided swing voters, Trump refused to answer three questions few journalists have ever asked him, including why he did nothing as his rioters attacked the Capitol and how mass deportation will lead food prices to rise.
Jack Smith Takes Up the Aid and Abet Theory Endorsed by Judge Amit Mehta in 2022
Back in February 2022, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that it was at least plausible to hold Trump liable for the assaults of cops on January 6 via an aid and abet theory of liability. In Jack Smith's response to Trump's attempt to get his indictment thrown out based on the Fischer decision Smith adopts that theory of liability.
325,000 People Vote in First Day of Early Voting in Georgia
In the first day of early voting yesterday, over 325,000 people voted.
Searching for Jared Wise
Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent and current January 6 defendant Jared Wise believed that a CHP officer was out to get him on April 2, 2023. And actions he took as a result -- getting out of his car to film the cop -- ended up in a suppression motion.
We Are All Don Bacon's Wife: The Threats Trump Elicits for Personal Gain
The list of people against whom Trump has elicited threats is perhaps the best indication of what a second Trump term would look like.
JD Vance Asserts that He and Trump Cannot Win Legitimately
JD Vance, by claiming that the decision by Twitter and Facebook to censor Hunter Biden's dick pics in 2020 would justify the Vice President not certifying Joe Biden's win, asserts that according to his own standarda, he and Trump cannot legitimately win this election, because they in fact asked tech companies to "censor" the stolen JD dossier.
Machine for Fascism: The Two Stephens
Back in June, Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon argued that Trump had to be permitted to make false claims that stoke political violence as part of his campaign. That strategy has become painfully clear in recent days.
The Individual In Contemporary Society
What am I doing here?
Fridays with Nicole Sandler
Nicole and I talked about Trump's Chinese Bible.
Ball of Thread: Barr's Butchery
The latest installment of Ball of Thread focuses on Bill Barr's hatchet job on the Mueller investigation.
NYT "Censors" Elon Musk's Jokes about Assassinating the Vice President and His "Censorship" of JD Vance Dossier
In a piece purporting to explain Elon Musk's role in helping Trump get elected, NYT leaves out Musk's jokes about assassination attempts against Kamala Harris and Trump's hypocritical involvement in getting the JD Vance dossier suppressed.
Trump Demands Emergency Appendix Surgery
Trump's latest efforts to keep details of how he almost got his Vice President assassinated under wraps may well draw more attention to them.
More on Jack Smith's Immunity Filing
My discussion with Harry Litman about Jack Smith's immunity filing.
Putin Has Convinced Trump He's Keeping Trump's Weakness Secret
Russia's 2016 intelligence operation and its aftermath may be the most successful intelligence operation in recent history, because Vladimir Putin has gotten Trump to believe that his KGB handler is hiding the proof he's got of how weak Trump is.
Bombshell "New[s]:" Jack Smith DID Consult about Timing before Adopting Post-SCOTUS Path
Jack Goldsmith joins Elie Honig complaining about new disclosures from Jack Smith that are not new. Chalk this up to yet another instance where the people complaining about what Jack Smith did end up revealing they don't know what Jack Smith did.
As Russia Overtly Helps Trump Get Elected, Trump Continues to Check in with Vladimir Putin
Because Trump has so successfully bullied journalists not to cover the Russia Russia Russia story, Vladimir Putin's clear outreach to Trump this election has gone largely ignored. Now that Bob Woodward has revealed that Trump has spoken with Putin around seven times in since he left office, that needs to change.