Donald Trump Didn’t Do the Homework Assignment
Because Trump didn’t engage with the redactions in the way Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered him to, it looks more likely we’ll get to see Smith’s substantive brief sooner rather than later.
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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
Bill Barr Didn’t Hear When Trump Asked, “Russia Are You Listening?”
/8 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelOne of the last things Mueller’s prosecutors added to the report was language explaining why Trump’s successful solicitation of a hacking attempt wasn’t a crime. They need not have bothered. Bill Barr was deliberately ignorant to that episode.
As Kamala Harris Passes the Two-Thirds Mark, Trump Adopts Apocalyptic Language
/118 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelAs we enter the last third of Kamala Harris’ race to be President, Donald Trump looks weak and Donald Trump looks violent, but that is not yet a persistent news coverage theme.
My Sixth Amendment Sense about Jack Smith’s Proposed Book Report
/65 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelI predict that Trump’s attorneys will balk at the way Jack Smith wants to present his immunity case, by including quotes from sensitive materials, without identifying the witness who said it.
Iranian Hackers Compromised Roger Stone’s Email Eight Years After Russian Hackers Exfiltrated DNC Emails
/18 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelIranian hackers first compromised Donald Trump’s rat-fucker eight years, almost to the day, after Russian hackers stole the emails from the DNC that Roger Stone used to help get Trump elected.
Fridays with Nicole Sandler
/5 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelWe talked about Jack Smith’s still-sealed 180-page brief in the Trump January 6 case.
VP Harris’ Haley Play
/36 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelIf Kamala Harris’ concerted efforts to convert Nikki Haley voters works, it could make the difference in a close election.
Bill Barr, “So Far as We Knew”
/33 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelIn their book, Aaron Zebley et al describe that Bill Barr had no insight onto Mueller’s work before he wrote his memo attacking Mueller’s approach to the obstruction issue, “so far as we knew.” That claim looks somewhat different when you consider Lev Parnas’ recent claim that Victoria Toensing had a role in Barr’s hiring.
Eric Adams Indicted
/89 Comments/in Foreign Influence/by emptywheelAlthough the indictment of Eric Adams is 50-pages long, it only lays out one of the schemes known to be under investigation and does not (yet) include a FARA component.
Reid Epstein’s Economic Polling Anxiety
/77 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelReid Epstein is so upset that Kamala Harris didn’t address a question about how to change her polling on the economy that he missed that she is changing her polling on the economy.