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The Two Impeachment Treason Trip: Ukraine Charges Rudy Giuliani's Sources

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The reason Rudy Giuliani was not charged for soliciting election disinformation from a known Russian agent is that the Attorney General of the United States set up a system that separated the investigation of that Russian agent from the investigation of Rudy, all while channeling whatever disinformation Rudy obtained from Derkach (or Zlochevsky) into the investigation of Joe Biden's son.
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DOJ Accuses Donald Trump of Asking for Special Treatment Even His Seditionists Didn't Get

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In citing the precedents against filming a trial, DOJ happened to cite the precedents pertaining to terrorists and his own seditionists.
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In His House Judiciary Committee Testimony, John Durham Confessed that Michael Horowitz Was Right

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In his June testimony about his report, John Durham admitted that the reason he said Michael Horowitz was wrong to say Crossfire Hurricane was properly predicated was that he thought Horowitz should consider his own conspiracy theory based on Russian intelligence that defied physics.
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The Kinds of Laptop Documents the Hunter Biden Investigation Used

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Of around 150 documents Joseph Ziegler included in a spreadsheet of foreign influence documents used in the Hunter Biden investigation, almost 10% were from the laptop.

Scott Brady Checked In on Investigations into All of Rudy Giuliani's Ukrainian Oligarchs

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Rudy Giuliani solicited Hunter Biden dirt from three corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs: Ihor Kolomoyskyi, Dmitry Firtash, and Mykola Zlochevsky. Scott Brady's efforts to "vet" dirt on Hunter Biden checked in with all three investigations.
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John Lauro's DC Delay Tactics Backfire in Florida

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After Trump's lawyers tried to stall both his federal trials simultaneously, Judge Aileen Cannon declined to delay the stolen document trial in Florida.
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James Comer Subpoenas Dick Picks While Rome Burns

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House Republicans continue to sniff and subpoena dick pics even as a government shut down grows closer.
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Donald Trump's DOJ Shut Down a Burisma Corruption Investigation Opened while Joe Biden Was VP

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Bill Barr's DOJ shut down a bribery investigation into Mykola Zlochevsky in December 2019. And then days later, on January 3, 2020, he set up a way to get a claim that Mykola Zlochevsky had bribed Joe Biden injected into the investigation of Hunter Biden.
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How Ryan Nichols Responded to Trump's Mike Pence Tweet

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"Pence did the wrong thing ... So we stormed the Capitol, and they stopped the vote," Ryan Nichols explained how he responded to Trump's tweet targeting Mike Pence. That's the kind of evidence we should expect to see at Trump's trial.
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Jim Jordan Sniffs Dick Pics While Rome Burns

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Even as Republicans continue to struggle to do their most basic job -- fund government -- Jim Jordan continues to chase conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden's dick pics.
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DOJ Refuses to Let Trump Disavow His Mob

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DOJ intends to prove that Trump was very much a part of the mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6 and almost got his Vice President killed. 
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Trump's Retribution Promises and Media Complicity

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Jonathan Karl's description of the far right retribution metaphors Trump is deploying is far more useful than NYT and WaPo forgetful predictions of retribution in the future.
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Jack Smith Attempts to Prevent Trump from Delaying DC Trial with Interlocutory Appeals

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Lots of political pundits are assuming that Trump's January 6 trial date of March 4 will take place as scheduled. Jack Smith's team seems worried that it may not.
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DOJ's Responses on Trump's Motions to Dismiss

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Links to the government responses to Trump's attempt to dismiss his prosecution.
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Scott Brady's "D-I-S-C-R-E-E-T" Vetting : A Marginally More Credible Witness than Gal Luft

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By asking former Pittsburgh US Attorney Scott Brady to provide testimony in the GOP impeachment inquiry, Jim Jordan elicited evidence more relevant to Trump's corruption than Joe Biden's.
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Stan Woodward Claims He Doesn't Know Where the Missing Beautiful Mind Boxes Went

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Walt Nauta attorney Stan Woodard claims he needs to review ten years of Mar-a-Lago surveillance video to try to learn where the boxes of classified documents are Mar-a-Lago disappeared to.
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James Comer Finally Finds Evidence Supporting Impeachment -- of Donald Trump

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A letter Hunter Biden attorney, Abbe Lowell, sent to Matthew Graves lays out how, thanks to Joseph Ziegler's disclosures, James Comer has more evidence to support an impeachment of Donald Trump than of Joe Biden.
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Trump's New Appellate Argument about His 100 Million Imaginary Friends

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Trump is appealing to the First Amendment rights of his 100 million imaginary friends to get the DC Circuit or SCOTUS to overturn Judge Tanya Chutkan's gag.
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Jim Jordan Dragged Martin Estrada Away from Fighting Fentanyl To Chase Hunter Biden's Dick Pics

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Republicans claim to care about the fentanyl crisis. But in reality, they keep dragging top law enforcement officials away from fighting the fentanyl crisis to ask why they don't care more about Hunter Biden's dick pics.