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New WaPo Boss, Will Lewis, Brags about Dick Pic Sniffing that Fails to Correct Past Errors
In testimony before Congress, Hunter Biden's former gallerist George Bergès debunked a key premise of the manufactured scandal about payments from art collectors that Matt Viser started back in 2021, that the paintings were being sold for up to $500,000. Yet Viser didn't tell his readers that in his report on Bergès' testimony.
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Parallel Poisons: Derek Hines' (Mis)Representations about His Post-Indictment Investigation
Prosecutor Derek Hines will likely get away with obtaining a warrant on Hunter Biden 81 days after he indicted the President's son. His efforts to obscure that fact, however, that might get him in trouble.
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Confirmed: David Weiss Only Got a Gun Crime iCloud Warrant 81 Days after Indicting Hunter Biden
David Weiss didn't obtain a warrant to search iCloud content seized from Hunter Biden for evidence of gun crimes until 81 days after he indicted Hunter for those gun crimes.
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Claiming Josh Schulte's Leaks Cost CIA 100s of Millions, DOJ Asks for Life Sentence
In a sentencing memorandum for Joshua Schulte, DOJ asked for a life sentence.
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In Peter Navarro Sentencing, No Mention of Competing Claims about Official Acts
Peter Navarro was sentenced to four months for defying a subpoena from the January 6 Committee.
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A Second Trump Term Would Replace Competent Corrupt People with Incompetent Ones
The question of how a second Trump would be worse than his first must weigh how the incompetent corrupt people he'd install rather than experienced corrupt hands like Bill Barr would more and less effective.
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On the Skewering of Self-Promoters Who are Filled with Misplaced Self-Importance
Through and through th' inspir'd leaves,
Ye maggots, make your windings;
But O respect his lordship's taste,
And spare his golden bindings.
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"What it gets at is just facts:" MAGAts Learn to Love Long-Delayed Interview Reports
After chasing conspiracy theories about the delay in writing up the January 24, 2017 Mike Flynn interview reports, Republicans now believe even longer delays do nothing to undercut a report's credibility.
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Boeing 737 MAX 9: The Comment Heard Around The World
A comment posted in Leeham News on January 16 convinced me the topic of Boeing 737 quality and safety needs a post here at emptywheel.
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Abbe Lowell's Eight Chessboards
Abbe Lowell has at least eight Hunter Biden cases all coming to a head in the months ahead. That may mean he'll have big reveals that are even more dramatic than Hunter's twin surprise appearances in DC.
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2024 Presidential Election: New Hampshire Primary Results
Others have done a better job with an economy of words explaining situations. The New Hampshire primary held yesterday is such an occasion. This is an open thread.
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How One New Hampshire Voter and One Politico Journalist Refused to Hold "a Pig ... a Womanizer ... [an] Arrogant Asshole" Accountable
Journalists' reflexive equation of Hunter Biden with the President who targeted him for over five years is a false belief every bit as cultivated by Donald Trump as Ted Johnson's pathetic belief that Trump brings accountability rather than the opposite.
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Peter Navarro and the Office-Seeker Using ProtonMail Challenge
The twin litigations involving Peter Navarro suggest that he's continuing to withhold almost 600 records sent on ProtonMail pertaining to the coup attempt. He's withholding them under conflicting claims about whether plotting a coup was part of his official duties in the Trump White House.
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Trash Talk: Hot January in the D
Though 25F and cloudy in the D, it’s hot today where Detroit Lions’ fans are stoked out of their gourds for this next divisional playoff game. This is an open thread.
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Hunter Biden Lost His Phone(s) in the Same Days He Bought a Gun
Within a day before Hunter Biden bought a gun in October 2018, he lost at least one phone. That's going to add some complexities to proving a case against him.
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Friday Podcast with Nicole Sandler
Nicole Sandler podcast.
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David Weiss' Indict First, Seek Warrants Later Ethic
David Weiss appears to have indicted the President's son without first getting a warrant to use some of the key evidence he'll use at trial.
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Scott Brady Admitted He "Was in the Room" for One Partisan Errand; Was There for a Second?
Scott Brady twice signed his name to indictments describing Russian hackers attacking others like they are accused of attacking Hillary Clinton. Yet he refused to back the work of his own investigators
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Donald Trump Has Chosen to Pay Millions to Trash Rule of Law
Regarding Trump's behavior in the E Jean Carroll trial: It's not that he can't control himself. It's that he's a very good Reality TV Show actor.