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How We Got to a Place Where Right Wingers Cheer Stealing Nuclear Documents
Trump's propaganda machine has drowned out facts and replaced it with grievance.
And until something starts cutting through that grievance, mere trials aren't going to fix this.
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Aileen Cannon Bows to Donald Trump
Judge Cannon just admitted she has no intention of setting a trial date in Trump's stolen documents case.
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Stan Woodward's Manufactured Scandal about Box A-15
Stan Woodward has revealed, that like the central box in the Joe Biden investigation, the FBI failed to preserve the order of the documents in some of the boxes found at Mar-a-Lago.
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400 Rich People Pay $40K to Hear Trump Glorify Cop Assailants
If 400 rich people paid $40,000 to watch Trump glorify political violence and the NYT and WaPo omitted all mention to that violence, did it really happen?
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The Cuellar Indictment: DOJ Moves to Make 219 FARA a Thing
Like Robert Menendez, DOJ is prosecuting Henry Cuellar under a part of the FARA statute that has not been used before.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler
Nicole and I discuss the Trump trial and Henry Cuellar's indictment.
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Open Thread: Cuellar, Collared
This is an open thread, kicked off with news of Rep. Henry Cuellar's indictment by DOJ today.
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The DOJ IG Backlog on Bill Barr's Behavior
Amid discussions of delayed accountability, the DOJ IG investigations of Bill Barr's DOJ plod along even as the Presidential election approaches.
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Background For A New Book
Some ideas about rights in preparation for reading How Rights Went Wrong by Jamal Greene
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Aileen Cannon Liberates Details of Trump and Melania's Mar-a-Lago Bedrooms
Among the things Aileen Cannon ordered to be unsealed in the August 2022 search warrant affidavit for Mar-a-Lago is a description of Trump and Melania's private suites at the resort.
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The Evolving Media Strategy of Lev Parnas
By focusing his story more closely on Dmitry Firtash's role in a claimed quid pro quo, Lev Parnas' recent telling of his story puts Bill Barr more centrally in the plot.
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Joseph Ziegler Allegedly Chased Doctored Laptop Evidence
A lawsuit from a Secret Service agent framed in fabrications on some versions of the Hunter Biden laptop is suing -- and releasing details about an interview Joseph Ziegler did about the fabrications.
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Fox News and the Joint Tortfeasors
Hunter Biden is suing Fox News and other tortfeasors.
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Kaitlan Collins Ignores Bill Barr's Role in the Effort that Framed Joe Biden
Under Bill Barr's close watch, Joe Biden was framed. Not only didn't Kaitlan Collins ask him about his role in that process, but she let Barr lie to her face about being pressured on Hunter Biden.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler
We talk a lot about the SCOTUS immunity hearing.
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Brett Kavanaugh Thinks that Jack Smith Is as Crazy as Ken Starr Was
Brett Kavanaugh tried to spin his concerns about Donald Trump being investigated, at all, yesterday as a concern about Special Counsels. Ironically, Hunter Biden may give Kavanaugh opportunity to back his stated concern with Special Counsels before Donald Trump does.
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King John Would Like a Word with Justice Alito
There's originalism, and then there's original originalism. Justice Alito, let me introduce you to John, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou.
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Sam Alito Says that Donald Trump Is a Maligned Ham Sandwich
Sam Alito appears to believe everything Trump has claimed about the unfairness of his prosecutions.
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The Phone Contacts between the "Total Moron" and the PAC Head
Jack Smith focused close attention on contacts between Person 5 -- who may be Boris Ephsteyn -- and Person 49 -- who may be Susie Wiles.
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Mark Meadows' Proffer
Mark Meadows December 2022 proffer is pretty boring. But it shows the baseline story that Meadows was willing to tell, before iterative interviews led that testimony to evolve to follow the evidence.