, ,

How the Steele Dossier Broke MAGAts' Brains

66 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
The story of how the Steele dossier broke MAGAts' brains involves a brutal double game from Oleg Deripaska, injection of disinformation into the dossier, and use of the dossier to discredit totally unrelated parts of the Russian investigation.
Read more →
,

Chris Kise Asks Aileen Cannon to Sanction Jack Smith because Chris Kise Doctored a Filing

74 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
Rather than responding to Jay Bratt's request to modify Trump's release conditions, Trump's lawyers have instead demanded that the request be stricken because prosecutors didn't wait three days before filing the request.
Read more →
, ,

There are Heroes, and Then There are Heroes

77 Comments
/
/
Peterr
Memorial Day often lifts up heroes like Medal of Honor recipients, but there are others whose service was even more heroic, like Hugh Thompson, Jr., Glenn Andreotta, and Lawrence Colburn.
Read more →
, ,

Jack Smith Invites Aileen Cannon to Protect the Country Rather than Just Donald Trump

123 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
It's not just that Jack Smith asked Aileen Cannon to order Trump to stop lying about being targeted for assassination, it's that he asked in a way that makes her bias clear.
Read more →
, ,

Fridays with Nicole Sandler, with Updates

17 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
This time, with updated links about everything that happened in the five short hours since we taped.
Read more →
, ,

Derek Hines' Disappearing [Three Colors of] Ink

51 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
Derek Hines has twice tried to hide the fact that the guy who sold Hunter Biden a gun used three different color inks on the form on which Hunter Biden is accused of lying.
Read more →
, , ,

Natalie Harp: Gatekeeper to the Reich

120 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
Marc Caputo describes the woman who posted the Reich meme to Trump's Truth Social account as his digital gatekeeper.
Read more →
,

David Weiss Maintains He Can Use Hunter Biden's Diversion Statements at Failed Plea Hearing

13 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
David Weiss is trying to claim to agree not to use Hunter Biden's statement as his plea colloquy against in his gun trial, while doing the exact opposite.
Read more →
, , , ,

Hunter Biden Prosecutor Leo Wise Aspires to Be the James Comer of John Durhams

26 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
Leo Wise aspires to make the Hunter Biden tax case -- what Wise claims is just a "straightforward tax case" -- into the largest Special Counsel trial in recent history. He aims to do that by airing a bunch of irrelevant influence peddling allegations.
Read more →
, , ,

How David Weiss Plans to Prove the Gun Case against Hunter Biden

33 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
Fully half the communications that David Weiss wants to use to prove Hunter Biden was an addict when he owned a gun in 2018 are sourced to the laptop. The success of his case may rely, then, on conflating summarization of evidence with technical admissibility.
Read more →
,

Trials of Insurrectionists are Not Simply an American Thing

42 Comments
/
/
Peterr
While we in the US are focused on Trump's trials and other Jan 6-related cases, take a look at the Reichsbürger trials unfolding in Germany.
Read more →
, ,

Hunter Biden Prosecutor Derek Hines Confesses He Failed To Do Basic Due Diligence, Again

67 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
Hunter Biden's prosecutors confess they only this month discovered that the gun shop from which he bought a gun altered the form on which he allegedly lied after the fact.
Read more →
,

Aileen Cannon Blames Jack Smith That She Fucked Over Stan Woodward

80 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
Aileen Cannon's complaint that Jack Smith is selectively acceding to the release of grand jury materials actually arises from her own decision to intervene in grand jury proceedings before Trump or Stan Woodward asked her to.
Read more →
, ,

Jim Risch Demands that Avril Haines Formally Tell Us He Is Lying

25 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
Jim Risch thinks Avril Haines should come forward and formally debunk false claims that those with privileged intelligence access make, which must include the false claims he made about 51 private individuals who expressed an expert opinion.
Read more →
,

David Weiss' Exhibit List Looks Like One Matt Gaetz or James Comer Would Assemble

9 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
In addition to a bunch of tax-related documents, David Weiss wants to use some of the right wing frothers' favorite Hunter Biden documents -- documents that have no obvious relation to the tax charges -- in his tax trial.
Read more →
, ,

Hunter Biden Moves to Enjoin David Weiss Under an Appropriations Argument Trump Adopted

26 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
Before Trump made his frivolous challenge to Jack Smith's Special Counsel appointment on appropriations grounds, Hunter Biden challenged David Weiss' appointment with more merit. That could make the parallel track of these prosecutions -- with Hunter Biden's prosecutions rushing towards conclusion next month and Trump's stalled past the election -- more interesting.
Read more →
,

David Weiss Continues to Misrepresent the Damage Keith Ablow Did to Hunter Biden's Addiction

23 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
David Weiss repeated in one of his motions in limine what might have just been stupid error when he made it earlier this year: He is portraying Hunter Biden's addiction after Keith Ablow made it worse as the state of Hunter's addiction in fall 2018, when he bought a gun.
Read more →
,

The Cultivation of Don Jr: A Framework to Think of the Russian Attack

22 Comments
/
/
emptywheel
With the 2016 attack, Russia didn't need cooperation from Trump's people (though they got it from at least Manafort and Stone and idiot who proved useful Don Jr). They just needed to make any already improbable conciliation impossible, impossible politically and impossible for a Narcissist like Trump to do. That would practically guarantee that Trump would attack the country to defend himself, his son, his ego.
Read more →