Rebuttals to Eric Trump’s Talking Points about His Daddy’s Corruption
Eric Trump’s excuses for his Daddy’s funding from foreign governments while he was President don’t really help him.
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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
In Rudy Giuliani Affidavit, SDNY Hung Up the Perfect Phone Call
/77 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Foreign Influence, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelA comparison of three warrants used in the influence peddling investigation of Lev Parnas and Rudy Giuliani leaves unanswered how much SDNY learned about the funding of the effort to fire Marie Yovanovitch in exchange for dirt on Hunter Biden.
What Joseph Ziegler Didn’t Find When He Looked for Hunter Biden’s Sex Workers
/47 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelIn the week that Hunter Biden paid a sex worker a Venmo payment that IRS Agent Joseph Ziegler turned into a felony tax case, Hunter’s identity had been potentially compromised no less than six times.
When Michael Dreeben Accepted John Sauer’s Invitation to Talk about Speech and Debate
/107 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelJohn Sauer added something to Donald Trump’s immunity claims: That he should be entitled to the same immunities members of Congress are. That led Michael Dreeben to invoke Karen Henderson’s past concurrence establishing that, “it is well settled that a Member is subject to criminal prosecution and process.”
What Jack Smith Didn’t Say in His Double Jeopardy Response
/63 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelJacK Smith repeated some language in his response to Trump’s double jeopardy claim that keeps options open regarding an incitement of insurrection charge.
Rudy Giuliani’s Scott Brady Interview Doesn’t Appear in His Warrant Affidavit
/57 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelThe warrant affidavit targeting Rudy from April 21, 2021 relied on articles, interviews, and Tweets to source Rudy’s own claims about what he was doing in Ukraine in 2019. It never once mentions the 4-hour interview about the topic Rudy did with Pittsburgh US Attorney Scott Brady on January 29, 2020.
Jim Jordan Says Trump’s Years of Blowing Off Subpoenas May Merit Impeachment
/41 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden, Impeachment, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelJim Jordan has now declared that all the years of Trump’s efforts to get people to blow off subpoenas might merit impeachment.
Jonathan Chait’s Rube-Con Lets SCOTUS Off Easy
/118 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelIf you believe Trump’s eligibility to run for President should not be decided by unelected judges, then the only defensible position — Republican or Democrat, literate or no — is to demand that Trump stands trial before general election ballots get printed.
“Whether Others … Said Untrue Things on the Internet Does Not Exonerate” Trump
/26 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelIn a motion in limine attempting to prevent Trump from turning his trial into a political circus, Molly Gaston argued that Trump shouldn’t be able to blame Russia for his lies, this time.
In Lev Parnas Investigation, SDNY Decided that Ivana Trump Is Not Political
/20 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, 2018 Mid-Term Election, 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelWhen SDNY obtained a warrant for Lev Parnas’ Instagram account in December 2019, they chose not to obtain a photo showing Ivana Trump at an event for Parnas’ fraudulent Fraud Guarantee business, months before Parnas first started buying access to Donald Trump.