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Let’s Give ‘Em Something To Talk About: Cooked, Hooked, Mooked

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Rayne
Trump liable and on the hook for $5 million; Santos' goose may be cooked by the feds; McCarthy's mooked us by threatening the economy. What else should we talk about?
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Derby Day Trash Talk 2023

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bmaz
It is Derby Day, the weekend of the Miami Grand Prix (on the most hideous circuit in recent memory) and NBA Playoffs. Time to Trash talk!
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DOJ Subpoenaed Over Five Months of Mar-a-Lago Surveillance Video

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emptywheel
The gaps that CNN and NYT report that Jack Smith is attempting to understand might pertain to something other than Walt Nauta moving boxes in and out of the storage room. They might show someone else walking into it.
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How the Proud Boy Conspiracy Might Network Out in the Wake of the Seditious Conspiracy Verdict

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emptywheel
The verdict in the Proud Boy Leaders case not only provides accountability for the men who led the mob on January 6. it provides prosecutors with a way to network in the remaining Proud Boy "tools" used by those Leaders.
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Stand Back and Stand By: Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio, Joe Biggs, Ethan Nordean, and Zach Rehl Guilty of Sedition

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emptywheel
The guys who stood back and stood by for Donald Trump were just convicted of seditious conspiracy.
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The Better Story

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Ed Walker
Our history as a nation is inspiring, just not in the way we were taught.
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The "Diligent" Proud Boys Jury: "Can we also get a stapler, please?"

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emptywheel
The jury in the Proud Boys sedition trial asked a question yesterday that might make or break the sedition count against the defendants.
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Joe Tacopina Complains about Woke Jonathan Swift

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emptywheel
Given Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina's complaint that he's not in on the shared joke of Swift's A Modest Proposal, I hope some nice mother in Florida with a sense of humor will make the Modest Proposal that Swift be banned under Ron DeSantis' anti-woke censorship laws for being -- as a canonical work of English culture -- too woke.
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Where the Trump Investigations Stand: The January 6 Conspiracies

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emptywheel
Jack Smith seems largely done with two of three prongs to his January 6 investigation: the fake electors and the obstruction of the vote certification. But the third -- the wire fraud -- may be important to proving corrupt purpose of the obstruction.
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Where the Trump Investigations Stand: Stolen Documents

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emptywheel
If Jack Smith decides to charge Trump in the stolen documents investigation, where to charge him may be one of the most difficult decisions.
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Where the Trump Investigations Stand: Georgia

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emptywheel
In the investigation into Trump's efforts overturn the 2020 Georgia election, Fani Willis has signalled she'll ask the grand jury to consider charges between July 11 and September 1.
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The Tax Aspects Of The Massive Fox Settlement With Dominion

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bmaz
Yes, Fox will get a write off for their massive settlement with Dominion. That is okay, but maybe the structure of our tax code should be rethought.
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How Did Intended Victim Mike Pence Testify?

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emptywheel
As a million outlets have reported, 21 months after Merrick Garland set up a framework that could obtain a for waiver executive privilege for January 6 without violating DOJ contact guidelines, 15 months after all January 6 investigations had…
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"Lock Him Up!" Trump Calls on Congress to Halt the Criminal Investigation into Joe Biden

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emptywheel
After winning the 2016 election by calling, non-stop, to Lock her up!, Donald J Trump has asked Congress to intervene to end the criminal investigation into his opponent for mishandling classified information.
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The Conspiracy Beliefs Leading People to Leak

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emptywheel
In a conversation explaining to an undercover FBI Agent why he wanted to share information with Russia, a doctor alleged to have leaked medical records from Fort Bragg claimed that the Biden Administration hates Russia because Obama is was intimidated by Putin.
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States Rights

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Ed Walker
SCOTUS enforces the ideas of the Founders, and ignores the Reconstruction Amendments.
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Jack Teixeira's February 2022 Logs

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emptywheel
The logs from searches Jack Teixeira did of government files start two days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine ... but he asked one of the Discord kids to delete everything from that same month.
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THE BIG FINISH: The Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial goes to the jury

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Brandi Buchman
A contentious trial comes to an end and a jury now deliberates the fate of five Proud Boys facing multiple charges including seditious conspiracy in what has been the Justice Department's longest Jan. 6 trial to date.
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