Donald Trump Will Become America’s Dictator on Day One
Fox News has called the presidential race for Donald Trump.
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.
Fox News has called the presidential race for Donald Trump.
Rather than ask about the precise nature of the business relationship between Saudi Arabia and Trump, the press spent some of the last days of the campaign season squabbling about how to punctuate a misstatement from the guy who is no longer a candidate.
This installment of Ball of Thread describes how Bill Barr criminalized Hillary Clinton for being a victim of a hack-and-leak.
This thing is not over. But holy hell, Kamala Harris and her entire team stepped up.
Merrick Garland might yet charge Trump with insurrection. He might need to, to sustain the tie between Trump and his mob. But we have a pretty clear understanding of why that didn’t happen, couldn’t have happened, before tomorrow’s election.
New York Times’ final sample of voters only captures a realistic percentage of those who’ve already voted in Pennsylvania.
This entire election has been disproportionately viewed through the lens of polling that has deliberately weighted to ensure that polling doesn’t miss Trump voters, but not (as far as we know) weighted to adjust for post-Dobbs polling misses.
And the Ann Selzer came along.
We talked a lot about the election, including the impact of the Madison Square Garden rally.
According to a filing from Alexander Smirnov, David Weiss attended, but did not record an interview with the FBI informant that forms a key part of the indictment against him.
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, one of Trump’s most gleeful supporters, has set up a one-stop shop: Joining false claims about the election with networks of fascists who’ll take to the streets.