What Price Would Trump Demand to Sell Out Ukraine?

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emptywheel
And all we're waiting to see on Trump's Friday meeting with Putin is what kind of deceit Trump adopts to pretend that his coming betrayal of not just Ukraine -- but the US itself -- is instead the peace deal Russia floated nine years ago.
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Trump Confesses He Will Bankrupt the Country Unless SCOTUS Lets Him Break the Law

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emptywheel
Scott Bessent confessed to Larry Kudlow how the Trump Administration is trying to sustain their illegal tariffs: by collecting enough revenue from them (and lying about how much they're really collecting) that SCOTUS won't dare uphold the law.
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Kash Patel and John Solomon Declare Their Own Sources and Methods Illegal

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emptywheel
Kash Patel and John Solomon are engaged in a great deal of projection when they suggest that Adam Schiff -- and only Adam Schiff -- leaked material from HPSCI's Russian investigation.
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Don't Be Distracted from Trump's Filth

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emptywheel
Donald Trump just moved the woman who "stole" his spa girls and turned one into a sex slave into comfier prison digs to prevent her from revealing the dirt she has on him, and yet he has the gall to suggest DC's brown residents are "filth."
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In Rejecting Bid to Unseal Grand Jury Testimony, Judge Paul Engelmeyer Accuses Todd Blanche of "Diversion"

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emptywheel
In rejecting Trump defense attorney Todd Blanche's bid to unseal the Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcript, he called out the degree to which this request was an attempt at diversion.
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"Strap Up, Cowboy:" Will Donald Trump Oust Cory Mills?

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emptywheel
Today, Trump will claim to care about people who commit assaults in DC, like the hundreds of his supporters he pardoned after they assaulted cops. But Trump means teenagers from DC, not people like Cory Mills, who has been implicated this year in misconduct involving two girlfriends.
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John Durham's Show Trials: A Preview of Coming Attractions

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emptywheel
One of the ways John Durham tried to salvage his case against Hillary Clinton after obtaining evidence he was chasing Russian spy fabrications was by championing the cause of Russians claiming to be aggrieved.
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How John Durham Buried Evidence He Had Been Doing the Work of Russian Spies ... and then Tulsi Gabbard Buried More

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emptywheel
There are a lot of pieces of evidence that Durham not only chased a Russian conspiracy theory to frame Hillary Clinton, but did so knowingly. Most telling is the way Durham obscured the timeline showing that the draft report he claimed to be chasing was created at least a day after a Russian discussion about creating a Deep State conspiracy theory.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
We spoke a lot about the classified Durham annex.
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Hold My Beer No More

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Quinn Norton
The America We're Losing I have a fond memory of dropping my barely school-aged child off with a friend for babysitting. My friend, Simone, took my daughter's hand and said "You're going to learn the right way to misuse a roman candle!" I held…
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The SVR Fabrication Necessitates Reconceiving the 2016 Russian Influence Operation

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emptywheel
The answer is that the "Russia hoax" is a ploy Russian spies seeded all those years ago to leverage Trump's narcissism to polarize the US on competing sides of a grievance that would have the effect of destroying the US Deep State.
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The Russia Russia Russia Grievance Was Built Into Russian Attack from the Start

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emptywheel
The SVR attempt to frame Hillary dating to July 26, 2016 was built into the 2016 Russian operation from the start.
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Tick-Tock: Redirecting Attention from Epstein Coverup Conspiracy

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Rayne
How conveniently the story about Vance's canoe trip popped up just about the time the Epstein conspiracy meeting was making too much trouble for Trump and his conspirators.
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John Durham's Guccifer Gaps

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emptywheel
When SVR first plotted to frame Hillary Clinton, that plan was tied to Guccifer 2.0, the persona adopted to hide Russia's role in the hack-and-leak campaign.
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How Chuck Grassley's Politicized Redactions Gave Putin Leverage over Trump

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emptywheel
Days before Trump sent his golfing buddy Steve Witkoff to pretend he's going to get stern with Vladimir Putin, all Trump's top spies renewed a secret they share with Putin's own spies. And that likely dooms any effort to get tough with Vladimir Putin.
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Planning for a Cover-Up in a House with Small Children and Other Stories of How Todd Blanche Is Helping a Sex Trafficker

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emptywheel
Todd Blanche will conduct his next effort to make Trump's sex trafficking problem go away in a home where JD Vance is raising three young children.
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Old Man Transparency Chuck Grassley Confesses He Covered Up the ICA Annex for Five Years

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emptywheel
Chuck Grassley bragged of transparency yesterday when he released a document -- the ICA annex summarizing the Steele dossier -- he's been sitting on for over five years.
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Russia's Useful Idiom, John Ratcliffe: Lost in Two Translations

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emptywheel
The July 26 SVR email that discusses framing Hillary Clinton is almost certainly the first of the emails about a plan cited in John Durham's classified annex. And John Ratcliffe may not know this, but there are at least two translations.
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The Growth of the Nazi Bar lndustry [UPDATE-2]

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Rayne
If it walks like a Nazi bar, talks like a Nazi bar, swims like a Nazi bar...
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By "Vilifying" SVR Victim Julianne Smith, Kash Patel Establishes Precedent to Share the Epstein Files

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emptywheel
Kash Patel and Pam Bondi said they wouldn't release details about what Trump knew about Ghislaine Maxwell stealing girls from his spa, recruiting one into a sex slavery, because such disclosure would not be "appropriate or warranted." But Kash adopted radically different rules last week when he smeared SVR victim Julianne Smith with his release of the Durham classified annex.
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