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Commentators are misrepresenting a reference to Russia's tracking of 2,800 pro- and 1,900 anti-Russian influencers included in last week's Doppelgänger affidavit.

John Lauro worked hard to insist that everything involving Pence be excluded without closer review. But unless he invents a procedural reason to forestall DOJ's memo on September 26, DOJ will get one (or two, with the reply) chance to lay out how Trump tried to use his incumbency, and Mike Pence's role as President of the Senate, to steal an election against from Joe Biden and the woman who currently is the President of the Senate.

A discussion of Trump's many legal issues.

Hunter Biden just pled guilty to all charges against him.

A description of the Russian propaganda plans, largely designed to help Trump, included in a takedown affidavit.

Kamala Harris has not gotten the polling bumps where pundits are trained to look for them. But even as they watch for those signs closely, they're not contemplating how other nearly unprecedented movement might shape the race. 

In an editorial, WaPo made yet another demand that Kamala Harris provide more details of the policies she is promising. Yet in the process, WaPo confesses that they have made no such demands in the 21 months that Trump has been running.

In 2016, Donald Trump bragged he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and he wouldn't lose any voters. In 2024, he's inventing legal delays in hopes of preventing voters from learning the true horrors of his claim to have authority to get Mike Pence killed on January 6.

In 2020, Joe Biden, a member of the Silent Generation, offered a defense of democracy as democracy, which was enough for people who remember fascism and actual communism. In an era when many have forgotten that history and lost faith in democracy, GenX Kamala Harris has to do something more: She has to sell democracy, which Trump has been discrediting for a decade, itself.

The two encryption related crimes charged against Telegram founder Pavel Durov pertain to an affirmative requirement to register encryption Telegram provided. That's a distinction that hasn't been incorporated in most American reporting.