Natalie Harp: Gatekeeper to the Reich
Marc Caputo describes the woman who posted the Reich meme to Trump’s Truth Social account as his digital gatekeeper.
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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.
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David Weiss Maintains He Can Use Hunter Biden’s Diversion Statements at Failed Plea Hearing
/13 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelDavid Weiss is trying to claim to agree not to use Hunter Biden’s statement as his plea colloquy against in his gun trial, while doing the exact opposite.
Hunter Biden Prosecutor Leo Wise Aspires to Be the James Comer of John Durhams
/26 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden, Mueller Probe/by emptywheelLeo Wise aspires to make the Hunter Biden tax case — what Wise claims is just a “straightforward tax case” — into the largest Special Counsel trial in recent history. He aims to do that by airing a bunch of irrelevant influence peddling allegations.
How David Weiss Plans to Prove the Gun Case against Hunter Biden
/33 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelFully half the communications that David Weiss wants to use to prove Hunter Biden was an addict when he owned a gun in 2018 are sourced to the laptop. The success of his case may rely, then, on conflating summarization of evidence with technical admissibility.
Hunter Biden Prosecutor Derek Hines Confesses He Failed To Do Basic Due Diligence, Again
/67 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelHunter Biden’s prosecutors confess they only this month discovered that the gun shop from which he bought a gun altered the form on which he allegedly lied after the fact.
Aileen Cannon Blames Jack Smith That She Fucked Over Stan Woodward
/80 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelAileen Cannon’s complaint that Jack Smith is selectively acceding to the release of grand jury materials actually arises from her own decision to intervene in grand jury proceedings before Trump or Stan Woodward asked her to.
Fridays with Nicole Sandler
/31 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelWe spoke about Trump’s New York trial and Sam Alito’s betrayal of the country.
Jim Risch Demands that Avril Haines Formally Tell Us He Is Lying
/25 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelJim Risch thinks Avril Haines should come forward and formally debunk false claims that those with privileged intelligence access make, which must include the false claims he made about 51 private individuals who expressed an expert opinion.
David Weiss’ Exhibit List Looks Like One Matt Gaetz or James Comer Would Assemble
/9 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelIn addition to a bunch of tax-related documents, David Weiss wants to use some of the right wing frothers’ favorite Hunter Biden documents — documents that have no obvious relation to the tax charges — in his tax trial.
Hunter Biden Moves to Enjoin David Weiss Under an Appropriations Argument Trump Adopted
/26 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelBefore Trump made his frivolous challenge to Jack Smith’s Special Counsel appointment on appropriations grounds, Hunter Biden challenged David Weiss’ appointment with more merit. That could make the parallel track of these prosecutions — with Hunter Biden’s prosecutions rushing towards conclusion next month and Trump’s stalled past the election — more interesting.