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IRS First Received Hunter Biden's iCloud Data on Same Day White House Released the Perfect Phone Call

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emptywheel
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

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emptywheel
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

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emptywheel
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

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Rayne
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?

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Ed Walker
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…
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New WaPo Boss, Will Lewis, Brags about Dick Pic Sniffing that Fails to Correct Past Errors

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emptywheel
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

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emptywheel
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

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emptywheel
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

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emptywheel
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

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emptywheel
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

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emptywheel
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

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Peterr
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

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emptywheel
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

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Rayne
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

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emptywheel
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

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Rayne
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

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emptywheel
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

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emptywheel
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

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Rayne
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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