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Trump's Retribution Promises and Media Complicity

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emptywheel
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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emptywheel
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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emptywheel
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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emptywheel
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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emptywheel
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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emptywheel
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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emptywheel
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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emptywheel
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.
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NYT Keeps Downplaying Trump's Past Retribution Tour

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emptywheel
The NYT keeps warning about how bad a second Trump term would be. But they are white-washing how bad the first one was.
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Hours After Aileen Cannon Suggests She'll Stall Florida Prosecution, Trump Moves to Stall DC One

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emptywheel
Only after Aileen Cannon signaled she would bow to Trump's requests to delay his stolen document case did Trump move to stay his DC case until his absolute immunity claim is decided.
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Chuck Grassley and James Comer Brag that 40 Informants Couldn't Substantiate a Crime against Biden

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emptywheel
In an attempt to recycle false claims that the House investigation already debunked, James Comer has adopted Chuck Grassley's claim that the FBI sicced forty informants on Donald Trump's rival.
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After Hounding Hunter Biden about Taxes for Months, Mike Johnson Coddles Rich Tax Cheats

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emptywheel
It turns out that Mike Johnson is the one giving tax cheats special treatment, not Merrick Garland or David Weiss.
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After Trump Issued Threats, Abigail Jo Shry "Came after" Judge Tanya Chutkan

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emptywheel
Since Judge Tanya Chutkan lifted the stay on her gag limiting Donald Trump's attacks on others, he has made two attacks on her that are perfectly permissible under the gag.
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The "Piles" of Chris Kise Bullshit Devlin Barrett Claims to Believe

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emptywheel
Devlin Barrett claims to have gotten totally snookered by transparent bullshit that Trump's lawyers were spreading about classified discovery in the stolen documents case.
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Gary Shapley's Handlers Revisit Past Leak Investigations into Chuck Grassley's Staff

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emptywheel
Gary Shapley's handlers just submitted a FOIA seeking to learn, among other things, whether the FBI was investigating leaks by Chuck Grassley staffers during the period when Shapley proved more worried about Congressional inquiries than protecting the Hunter Biden investigation.
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Mike Pence Simplifies the Gag Order Dispute

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emptywheel
By dropping out of the Presidential race, Mike Pence resolved the biggest problem with the gag order Tanya Chutkan imposed in the January 6 case against Donald Trump.
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Lurid Realities: Trump Implies That Selling Nuclear Secrets Is Treason

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emptywheel
In Trump's reply arguing he has absolute immunity for things he did as President, Trump's lawyers seem to argue that if Trump sold nuclear secrets to America's adversaries -- rather than just giving them away to allied businessmen who bought access -- it would be treason.
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Trump Is Going Through the Motions to Dismiss until He Resumes the Presidency

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emptywheel
There are big gaps in the Motions to Dismiss that Trump submitted this week. They may suggest where his lawyers think his defense is weakest.
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Rights Without Reason

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Ed Walker
Introducing a new series with some preliminary thoughts and a new book.
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Hunter Biden['s "Laptop"] Goes to SCOTUS: How Judge Doughty Helped China and Iran Attack the US

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emptywheel
The right wing wants to limit how the FBI can work to keep the United States safe from Iranian and Chinese hacks because they believe conspiracy theories about the "Hunter Biden" "laptop."
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