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Three Things: Colonialist Carrotage
"What the heck is colonialist about carrots?" one might ask. An awful lot in the U.S.
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The Espionage Act Evidence WaPo Spins as Obstruction Evidence
In addition to showing that DOJ has developed additional evidence to substantiate suspicions they used to get a warrant to search Trump's beach resort, WaPo describes Jack Smith's team collecting the kind of evidence that might be used to charge individual documents as violations of the Espionage Act.
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Pride before the fall? Testimony from witnesses in seditious conspiracy trial leaves weaknesses in defense wide open
The soft underbelly of the Proud Boys defense at the seditious conspiracy trial was exposed day in, day out after a tough week in court
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Douglass Mackey's Criminal Twitter Trolling
A jury just declared that the kind of disinformation that Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk are welcoming back on Twitter can be a crime.
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Trump's People Have Attempted to Cover Up That He Cheated to Cover Up Cheating in 2016 at Least Six Times
Trump wailed last night that his "indication" was a matter of free and fair elections. He's right. It's about one of at least six efforts he and his agents have made to cover-up that he cheated to win in 2016.
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Donald Trump, Accused Criminal
NYT reports that Trump has been indicted. CNN has confirmed.
A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald J. Trump on Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to four people with knowledge of the matter, a historic…
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The Yahoos in Brazil Identified in Sergey Cherkasov's Complaint
Most of the complaint charging suspected Russian spy Sergey Cherkasov relies on evidence obtained after Cherkasov was arrested in Brazil. Where it doesn't, it nods to far more that the US Intelligence Community might know.
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Donald Trump's Dumbass Russia Binder
If you're going to expose yourself and your assistants to Espionage Act prosecution, the binder full of Crossfire Hurricane documents that Trump has obsessed about ever since is one dumbass document to do so over.
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The Intent Of The Declaration Of Independence
The Declaration Of Independence is about independence, not human rights.
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"That's How ... You End Up as a Defendant in a Court Room:" Some Days in the Life of a Named-and-Shamed Former GRU Hacker, Ivan Ermakov
By the measure of evidence submitted in the trial of his co-conspirator, alleged John Podesta hacker Ivan Ermakov has been enjoying life in the years after his indictment by Robert Mueller. But the record of those exploits helped to convict his Vladislav Klyushin in a hack-and-trade conspiracy.
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Breathing Room: What Are You Cooking?
What are you cooking, even if cooking for some of us is nothing more than preparing a Cup-O-Noodles. This is an open thread.
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When things turned to ‘Ash’: Henry Tarrio’s first witness appears; plus a fight over informants ensues at Proud Boys sedition trial
The first witness called by Proud Boy ringleader Henry Tarrio at Jan. 6 sedition trial trips over testimony
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Kash's Castles of Scatter and Evan Corcoran's BCC
John Solomon seems very concerned about sharing the correspondence he and Kash Patel had with NARA General Counsel Gary Stern last summer.
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Happy Crime-Fraud Exception Day, for Those Who Celebrate
As investigations relying on the witness testimony of Michael Cohen and Evan Corcoran converge this week, it's a reminder that for at least seven years, Trump's lawyers have exposed themselves legally in assistance of Trump's cover-ups.
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On Joshua Schulte's Alleged Substantial Amount of CSAM ... and Other Contraband
Something else is going on -- on top of the news that FBI claims 2,400 CSAM files were found on Josh Schulte's discovery laptop.
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Remember: DOJ May Still Suspect Trump Is Hoarding Classified Documents
Donald Trump demonstrably played a shell game in advance of Evan Corcoran's search for classified documents last summer. DOJ's effort to get his crime-fraud excepted testimony may help to understand all the other shell games Trump has played with subpoena responses.
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With Friends Like These: A rough start to testimony from defense witnesses at Proud Boys sedition trial
A new phase of the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial has started out rough with defense witnesses fumbling through testimony
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Lordy, There Are [Transcribed] Tapes
Among the things that then-Chief Judge Beryl Howell ordered Evan Corcoran to turn over on Friday were "transcriptions of personal audio recordings" involving his representation of Donald Trump. Lordy, there are [transcribed] tapes!
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Barbara Jones Rules Project Veritas Was Not Engaged in Journalism When Brokering Ashley Biden's Stolen Diary
In the investigation of the Ashley Biden diary theft, Barbara Jones has ruled against Project Veritas on most issues.
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Introduction And Index To Series On The Second Founding
Two new books, one new perspective.