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.
In addition to making a solid case that Judge Chutkan should make Trump declare whether he’ll rely on an advice of counsel defense by December 18, DOJ’s filing making that request admits that attorney-client privilege claims continue to blind DOJ to some of the universe of related communications pertaining to January 6.
In 2016, far right trolls used Twitter’s to hijack rational discussions about the election, contributing to Trump’s win. In 2020, moderation and post-January 6 efforts thwarted a repeat performance, but only barely. Since then, Elon Musk attempted to restore the haven for far right trolls that Trump rode to the Presidency in 2016 and used to sow a coup in 2020.
Reality TV Show Actor Donald Trump showed up at his fraud trial today and manipulated the press to allow him to claim he “predicted” that he lost because The Corrupt Judge and The Black Woman Prosecutor ganged up on him. And in the process, Reality TV Actor Donald Trump will have once again led millions to believe in his fantasy self-worth.