Could This Week’s Developments Change the Race?
A series of events in the last ten days may finally have stripped the disinformation that would otherwise leave 8 to 13% of voters believing Trump’s disinformation about himself and Kamala Harris.
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About emptywheel
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
Entries by emptywheel
Hen in the Fox House: Jorge Velázquez and Ramiro González Better Served Democracy than Bret Baier
/137 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelBret Baier’s interview of Kamala Harris was probably only the third most important TV yesterday. On Univision, before a viewing audience that includes far more undecided swing voters, Trump refused to answer three questions few journalists have ever asked him, including why he did nothing as his rioters attacked the Capitol and how mass deportation will lead food prices to rise.
Jack Smith Takes Up the Aid and Abet Theory Endorsed by Judge Amit Mehta in 2022
/72 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelBack in February 2022, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that it was at least plausible to hold Trump liable for the assaults of cops on January 6 via an aid and abet theory of liability. In Jack Smith’s response to Trump’s attempt to get his indictment thrown out based on the Fischer decision Smith adopts that theory of liability.
325,000 People Vote in First Day of Early Voting in Georgia
/63 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelIn the first day of early voting yesterday, over 325,000 people voted.
Searching for Jared Wise
/78 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelFormer FBI Supervisory Special Agent and current January 6 defendant Jared Wise believed that a CHP officer was out to get him on April 2, 2023. And actions he took as a result — getting out of his car to film the cop — ended up in a suppression motion.
We Are All Don Bacon’s Wife: The Threats Trump Elicits for Personal Gain
/75 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelThe list of people against whom Trump has elicited threats is perhaps the best indication of what a second Trump term would look like.
JD Vance Asserts that He and Trump Cannot Win Legitimately
/75 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelJD Vance, by claiming that the decision by Twitter and Facebook to censor Hunter Biden’s dick pics in 2020 would justify the Vice President not certifying Joe Biden’s win, asserts that according to his own standarda, he and Trump cannot legitimately win this election, because they in fact asked tech companies to “censor” the stolen JD dossier.
Machine for Fascism: The Two Stephens
/56 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelBack in June, Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon argued that Trump had to be permitted to make false claims that stoke political violence as part of his campaign. That strategy has become painfully clear in recent days.
Fridays with Nicole Sandler
/16 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelNicole and I talked about Trump’s Chinese Bible.
Ball of Thread: Barr’s Butchery
/11 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelThe latest installment of Ball of Thread focuses on Bill Barr’s hatchet job on the Mueller investigation.