Entries by emptywheel

Trump Will Have to Defend His Attempt to Assassinate Mike Pence Before the Election

Judge Chutkan has issued her scheduling order for the next developments in Trump’s January 6 trial. Rather than scheduling Trump’s frivolous attempt to challenge Jack Smith’s Special Counsel appointment first, Chutkan will instead deal with immunity first, with all briefing due a week before the election. September 19, 2024: Defendant’s Reply briefs in support of […]

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Don Jr’s Online Buddies Allegedly Demand $5 Million from Russian Shell Companies to Say Nice Things about His Daddy

Don Jr wailed when he learned DOJ was announcing more legal actions against Russian foreign influence operations. Did he know that the indictment against two RT personnel for using Tenet Media as a front would reveal Don Jr’s far right buddies demand $5 million to say nothing things about his Daddy?

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Trump Wants to Hide His Attempt to Assassinate Mike Pence from Voters

In 2016, Donald Trump bragged he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and he wouldn’t lose any voters. In 2024, he’s inventing legal delays in hopes of preventing voters from learning the true horrors of his claim to have authority to get Mike Pence killed on January 6.

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Michael Shear and Reid Epstein Feign Stupidity about Trump’s Decade-Long Pitch for Authoritarianism

In 2020, Joe Biden, a member of the Silent Generation, offered a defense of democracy as democracy, which was enough for people who remember fascism and actual communism. In an era when many have forgotten that history and lost faith in democracy, GenX Kamala Harris has to do something more: She has to sell democracy, which Trump has been discrediting for a decade, itself.

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