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  • The Menendez Indictment: “how much is one kilo of gold worth” … “kilo of gold price”

    Two times, according the indictment charging Robert Menendez with accepting bribes, he Googled the price of gold right after doing something suspect.

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  • Nora Dannehy Confirms that Bill Barr Attempted to Sway 2020 Election with Dubious Interim Report

    In testimony related to a CT Supreme Court nomination, Nora Dannehy confirmed earlier NYT reporting that John Durham wrote a draft report making unsubstantiated allegations about Hillary Clinton that Barr threatened to release in time to influence the election.

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  • What If Journalists Actually Read Gary Shapley Rather Than Parroting His Testimony?

    If reporters who have championed Gary Shapley would simply report on the way his own notes answer the questions Republicans badgered Merrick Garland with yesterday, they might be forced to report on how cynical that stunt hearing was.

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  • Special Counsel Weiss Demanding that Hunter Biden Show Up for Initial Appearance

    In a fight over whether Hunter Biden will have to make his initial appearance in person, we'll get to see the degree to which David Weiss is overtly trying to make his prosecution of the President's son as a proxy fight with Trump's opponent.

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  • “My life’s on the line here:” Gary Shapley’s Direct Supervisor Believed His Claims Were Unsubstantiated

    During the period when Gary Shapley was writing documents misrepresenting David Weiss' words, his supervisor recommended he be removed from the Hunter Biden case.

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Financial Fraud, Foreign Influence

The Menendez Indictment: "how much is one kilo of gold worth" ... "kilo of gold price"

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September 22, 2023
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emptywheel
Two times, according the indictment charging Robert Menendez with accepting bribes, he Googled the price of gold right after doing something suspect.
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2016 Presidential Election, Mueller Probe

Nora Dannehy Confirms that Bill Barr Attempted to Sway 2020 Election with Dubious Interim Report

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September 22, 2023
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emptywheel
In testimony related to a CT Supreme Court nomination, Nora Dannehy confirmed earlier NYT reporting that John Durham wrote a draft report making unsubstantiated allegations about Hillary Clinton that Barr threatened to release in time to influence the election.
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2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden

What If Journalists Actually Read Gary Shapley Rather Than Parroting His Testimony?

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September 21, 2023
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emptywheel
If reporters who have championed Gary Shapley would simply report on the way his own notes answer the questions Republicans badgered Merrick Garland with yesterday, they might be forced to report on how cynical that stunt hearing was.
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2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden

Special Counsel Weiss Demanding that Hunter Biden Show Up for Initial Appearance

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September 19, 2023
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emptywheel
In a fight over whether Hunter Biden will have to make his initial appearance in person, we'll get to see the degree to which David Weiss is overtly trying to make his prosecution of the President's son as a proxy fight with Trump's opponent.
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2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden

"My life's on the line here:" Gary Shapley's Direct Supervisor Believed His Claims Were Unsubstantiated

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September 19, 2023
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emptywheel
During the period when Gary Shapley was writing documents misrepresenting David Weiss' words, his supervisor recommended he be removed from the Hunter Biden case.
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2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden

Hunter Biden Sues the IRS

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September 18, 2023
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emptywheel
For five years, the government has (apparently) chosen to relentlessly pursue pickayune charges against Hunter Biden while ignoring the crimes committed to try to force the government to file those charges. And Abbe Lowell may be preparing to make that case in the case of any trial.
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2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection

On Recusal, Give Trump the Evidentiary Hearing He Demands!

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September 18, 2023
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emptywheel
Trump claims that during the year and a half of January 6 cases she had presided over by October 28, 2022, Judge Tanya Chutkan had not seen any evidence from which she could form an opinion about Trump's role in the event. By all means, let's put the evidence she had seen in the record.
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Culture, Football, Republicans, Trash Talk

Trash Talk: Won't Somebody Think of the Children Edition

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September 16, 2023
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Rayne
Disgusting: how unprepared MSU was to handle a high-profile sexual harassment complaint, and how the GOP blows off revolting behavior by its own. Won't somebody think of the children?
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Culture, Football, Trash Talk

Sunset Musings III and Trash Talk

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September 16, 2023
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bmaz
A few of you may remember Sunset Musings II regarding the fall of Grandpa Pricky. Most were likely not here back then. So Casa de bmaz has today lost yet another noble centurion. Grandma Pricky.
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2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden, Leak Investigations

After Threats Elicited by Gary Shapley's Misleading Testimony, Hunter Biden Prosecutors Reneged on the Plea Deal

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September 15, 2023
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emptywheel
In a package to Congress, Abbe Lowell laid out all the evidence that Gary Shapley's political pressure led directly to David Weiss' decision to ratchet up the charges against Hunter Biden. But the package left something out: Shapley's media tour has also led to credible threats of violence targeting the prosecutor who first crafted the plea deal.
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2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection

By Asking for Tanya Chutkan's Recusal, Trump Invited a Lesson in His Centrality to January 6

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September 15, 2023
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emptywheel
Trump wants his January 6 trial to be messaging and fundraising vehicle. But by asking Tanya Chutkan to recuse, he invited DOJ to lay out just how deeply implicated he is in the entire assault on the Capitol. 
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2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden

Not Breaking News and Stop Lying to Your Followers It is: David Weiss Indicts Hunter Biden

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September 14, 2023
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emptywheel
David Weiss indicted Hunter Biden on the weapons charge and a false statements charge.
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2022 Mid-Term Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations

Gary Shapley's Notes Show That Gary Shapley Misrepresented David Weiss

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September 14, 2023
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emptywheel
Gary Shapley rewrote his own notes about what David Weiss said at a contested October 7, 2022 meeting, changing a statement originally recorded saying that Weiss "will" bring charges in Los Angeles to one about what he would have to do to obtain authority to do so.
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2022 Mid-Term Election, Hunter Biden

Gary Shapley's Notes Recorded Something He Claimed Not to Know before House Ways and Means

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September 13, 2023
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emptywheel
In his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, Gary Shapley claimed he didn't know what outlet had published a leak on October 6, 2022. It was a funny claim then. It's funnier still given that his handwritten notes recorded that the leak had been to the WaPo.
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2020 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden

Hunter Biden Sues Garrett Ziegler for Hacking His iPhone

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September 13, 2023
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emptywheel
Hunter Biden just sued Garrett Ziegler for hacking the encrypted compartment on the "Hunter Biden" "laptop" that included his backed up phone.
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2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Impeachment

By the Time Kevin McCarthy Rolled Out an Impeachment Inquiry, the FBI Had Already Debunked a Key Premise

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September 13, 2023
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emptywheel
By the time Kevin McCarthy empowered Jim Jordan and others to start an impeachment investigation yesterday, Jim Jordan knew one of the only claims pertaining to Joe BIden's Administration had been debunked.
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2024 Presidential Election, Impeachment

As Kevin McCarthy Embraces James Comer's Wet Dreams of Dick Pics, George Santos Discusses "Paths Forward"

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September 12, 2023
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emptywheel
Prosecutors in EDNY are explicitly discussing a plea agreement with George Santos' former fundraiser and implicitly discussing "resolutions" with Santos as well.
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2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection

Todd Blanche Confuses Aileen Cannon's Prior Trump Reversal with Tanya Chutkan's Individualized Guilt

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September 12, 2023
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emptywheel
To assess the seriousness of Trump's demand that Tanya Chutkan recuse herself because of bias, you need only know that Todd Blanche -- who has expressed no concern about Aileen Cannon's much more glaring biases -- signed onto the motion.
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2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection

The Federalism that Mark Meadows Wants the 11th Circuit to Reverse

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September 10, 2023
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emptywheel
In refusing to remove Mark Meadows' prosecution from Georgia state courts, Judge Steve Jones ruled that most of the things of which Meadows is accused had no valid federal purpose.
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2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden

David Weiss May Have More Bluster than Tactical Leverage

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September 9, 2023
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emptywheel
Speedy Trial filings in the Hunter Biden gun case last week seem to hint at an intense game of chicken between David Weiss and Abbe Lowell. And thus far at least, Weiss seems more afraid of indictment than Lowell is.
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