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Bringing Receipts: Print Date: 10/22/20

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emptywheel
After growing to great lengths and making at least one false claim in a successful effort to ensure that none of Ronald Palimere's 2020 communications regarding an effort to politicize Hunter Biden's gun purchase could come in as evidence, it appears Derek Hines submitted one such piece of evidence himself.
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Gaps and Forms: Hunter Biden's Defense

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emptywheel
It's easy to prove Hunter Biden was an addict when he bought and owned a gun in 2018. But prosecutors have to do more than that: They have to prove he thought of himself as an addict at key times.
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Special Agent Erika Jensen: Watch the Summary Witness' Blind Spots

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emptywheel
As prosecutors' summary witness, Erika Jensen, continues to testify in the Hunter Biden case, keep an eye on her deliberate blind spots and negative space: because that's precisely what prosecutors are trying to hide.
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Judge Noreika Joins Derek Hines in Selective Adherence to the Laws of Physics

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emptywheel
After agreeing with prosecutors that nothing the gun shop employees did after Hunter filled out the gun form was material to this case, Judge Maryellen Noreika then permitted prosecutors to submit evidence from months after his possession of the gun: sort of a heads the government wins, tails the defendants loses rule of time-space continuum.
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On Eve of Opening Arguments, WSJ Launders David Weiss' Russian Disinformation Problem

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emptywheel
How, on the eve of opening arguments in the Hunter Biden case, do you launder the fact that David Weiss reneged on Hunter Biden's plea deal because he was chasing false claims from a guy with close ties to Russian intelligence?
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Washington Post’s Sunday Night Editorial Massacre

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Rayne
WaPo's priorities expose their ideology, as does their editorial management change. "Democracy Dies in Darkness" wasn't just a slogan but a business agenda.
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Big Media Ignoring the Who What When Why of GOP Apology for Trump's Crimes

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emptywheel
Trump paid $400,000 to cover up fucking a porn star. And yet reports on the way Republicans are debasing themselves to back Trump anyway aren't talking about precisely what Donald Trump did.
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Remaining Evidentiary Disputes in Hunter Biden Case

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emptywheel
Abbe Lowell wants to exclude virtually all laptop communications that won't be authenticated by Hallie Biden based on evidentiary grounds.
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On Eve of Hunter Biden Gun Trial, Judge Maryellen Noreika Covers Up Possible Gun Crime

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emptywheel
Judge Maryellen Noreika has prohibited Hunter Biden to tell the jury that the gun shop owner was willing to skip key administrative steps when selling him a gun because he wanted to get Joe Biden's son out of his shop.

Breathing Room: What Are You Growing?

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Rayne
We could use a little breathing room before the next big thing comes along and occupies our energy. This is a Trump-free open thread.
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"Swept Up!" The Russian Payments that Led to Trump's Felony Conviction

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emptywheel
Michael Cohen was investigated because he lied to his bank and then, even as he was making public comments about entertaining a "peace deal" with Russian involvement, used the bank account associated with the Stormy Daniels hush payment to accept big payments from a prominent Russian oligarch.
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Compelling Hallie Biden

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emptywheel
In Los Angeles, David Weiss has moved to compel Hallie Biden's testimony. That raises questions about whether, and if so how, he has compelled her testimony in Delaware.

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
Nicole and I talked, a lot, about the Trump verdict, but also Aileen Cannon, Hunter Biden, and more.
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Trump Undone by the Truth of His Pecker

Trump's success, his persona, has always been a careful creation built on fraud. And that fraud became criminal in significant part because David Pecker told the truth about the fictions that go into sustaining the fraud.
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"True:" Hunter Biden Prosecutor Derek Hines Claims 80-Plus Equals "A Couple"

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emptywheel
The same guy who claimed a Keith Ablow photo showing sawdust was proof of Hunter Biden's cocaine use now claims that he can use the content of digital communications to prove their authenticity.
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How the Steele Dossier Broke MAGAts' Brains

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

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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.
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