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John Durham Feigns Totally Dumb about Russian "Collusion"
During John Durham's testimony to Congress, he played dumb about how willingly Trump pursued Russian help.
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DC Circuit: Go Big and [in a Footnote] Go Blassingame!
By producing a strong unanimous opinion in the Trump immunity claim,Judges Henderson, Pan, and Childs may have ended up producing the most expeditious result.
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DC Circuit Upholds Judge Chutkan's Immunity Decision
The DC Circuit upheld Judge Chutkan.
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Stop Treating Rule of Law Like a Magical Sparkle Pony and Get Busy
Far too many Democrats have turned themselves into balls of quivering impotence by investing all their hope in guilty verdicts that might make beating Trump easy. They won't, and they never would. So stop wasting your time panicking about Karen Henderson and find something you can do that's productive.
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Hunter Biden's Delayed Email Access on the JPMI Laptop
The laptop attributed to Hunter Biden deviated from the pattern established with his other replacement devices in one key way: He appears not to have logged into Google right away.
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Abbe Lowell Already Accused David Weiss of a Brady Violation
Another piece of evidence showing that David Weiss never intended to charge Hunter Biden with gun crimes before Jim Jordan demanded he do so is that Weiss never provided something that would be Brady material before the failed plea deal.
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The December Warrant Shows David Weiss Wasn't Going to Charge Gun Crimes Until Trump Elicited Threats
The mainstream news continues to ignore the evidence that David Weiss only decided to charge Hunter Biden with gun crimes after threats ginned up by Trump led him to fear for the safety of his family.
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Josh Schulte Sentenced to 40 Years
This week, at the age of 35, Josh Schulte got sentenced to 40 years in prison for stealing CIA's hacking tools and sharing them with WikiLeaks.
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Trump Spent $50 Million Paying Lawyers But Taxpayers Are Providing Loaner Laptops
Donald Trump is spending a good deal of his campaign fundraising -- over $50 million -- paying for lawyers for loyal employees. But taxpayers are loaning two of the most important laptops to review surveillance footage.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler
Fridays with Nicole.
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Mike Roman, Donald Trump's Spy and Vote Fraud Fraudster
Once you understand that the spying skills WaPo describes in a Mike Roman profile have traditionally been targeted at Republicans, a lot else begins to make sense.
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The Hunter Biden Laptop: Two CARTs before the Horse
According to the warrants associated with the laptop attributed to Hunter Biden, an FBI agent took possession of the laptop from John Paul Mac Isaac, then four days later, took possession of the laptop from one CART agent to hand off to another CART agent.
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Smoking Gun! FBI Didn't Have "Sufficient Evidence" to Prosecute Firearms Crimes against Hunter Biden
The Devlin Barrett story in October 2022 designed to pressure David Weiss to charge gun and tax crimes against, Hunter Biden claimed that investigators had sufficient evidence to charge the gun crimes. WaPo hasn't reported on the three months of investigative work done since actually charging to try to obtain sufficient evidence to prosecute the charges.
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Chessboard(s): Hunter Biden's Replies
Abbe Lowell is collecting a whole lot of information to increase his success at beating the odds on motions to dismiss the charges against Hunter Biden.
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Hunter Biden Reply Motions to Dismiss
Hunter Biden's replies to his motions to dismiss.
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IRS First Received Hunter Biden's iCloud Data on Same Day White House Released the Perfect Phone Call
The IRS first obtained content from Hunter Biden's iCloud on the same day -- September 25, 2019 -- that the Perfect Phone Call revealed that Donald Trump was demanding investigations just like they were conducting.
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The Post-Indictment Hunter Biden Warrant Included the Laptop
The warrant Derek Hines obtained for Hunter Biden's content in December 2023 included the laptop itself.
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Joe Biden Appointee Ana Reyes Imposes Maximum Sentence to Avenge Donald Trump's Privacy
A recent Joe Biden appointee just imposed the maximum possible sentence on the guy who stole Trump's tax returns to leak to the press.
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Trash Talk: Embracing Your Bi as in Coastal
I screwed up thinking this was about bi-coastal championships with Baltimore on the east coast and San Francisco on the west coast, forgetting about Detroit on the northern fresh water coast. This is an open thread.
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What Are We Reading?
We’ve been fogged in here in Chicago for the last five days, after a week of brutally cold weather: perfect for reading. And a good time, too. My family's go-to Christmas gifts are books, and I have a bunch of new ones, so here’s some of…