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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Steve Bannon?

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emptywheel
Steve Bannon may be the most complex pardon candidate, because he knows where lots of bodies are buried, but he also told the truth, once.
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Poor Donald Trump Got Dumped

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Peterr
Donald Trump has been having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for the last 6 weeks. The worst was Sunday, when he got dumped by Vladimir Putin.
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Billy Barr Makes Excuses for His C- Durham Investigation Report Card

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emptywheel
Bill Barr must have known his excuses for John Durham finding nothing are flimsy. Why else would he have fed them to Kim Strassel?
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The Price of "Freedom": What Mike Flynn Squandered in the Two Years He Would Have Served Probation

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emptywheel
Two years ago today, Mike Flynn blew up his plea. It has been two years of losing ever since.
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Ron Johnson Grasping at Chum

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emptywheel
FBI keeps throwing random documents at Ron Johnson on past FBI investigations. He and the frothy right keep trying to make them into something they're not.
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Tom Bossert Gives Trump the Advice Trump Refused Four Years Ago

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emptywheel
Tom Bossert never managed to get Donald Trump to rebuke Russia for attacks on the US in 2016 or 2017. He tries again in the face of the SolarWinds compromise.
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A Modest Proposal: Include Lindsey Graham's Threats against Brad Raffensperger in any Special Counsel Mandate

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emptywheel
Lindsey Graham supports Donald Trump's calls for more Special Counsels. A great idea! Joe Biden's Attorney General can ask the Special Counsel Trump asks to investigate the election to review whether, when Graham pressured Brad Raffensperger to throw out legal votes, that constituted a crime.
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Missing the National Security Crises for the Trump Temper Tantrums

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emptywheel
The press continues to be focused on Trump's temper tantrums, rather than the damage that running a government on personal pique corrupts and paralyzes the country.
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The Claim that Billy Barr Didn't Release Any Investigative Information During the Election Is False

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emptywheel
Bill Barr is duping journalists into reporting that he prevented any investigative information from coming out during the election. That claim is false.
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After Trump Spent Four Years Inviting Russia to Hack the US, Russia Allegedly Did Just That

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emptywheel
Since before he was sworn in as President, Donald Trump has pursued many ways of making it easier for Russia to hack the United States.
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A Most Ordinary Passing of A Most Extraordinary Writer

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Peterr
Everyone has a list of writers who have shaped their lives. John Le Carré sits on mine, and this extraordinary writer died yesterday.
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The Forgotten Coffee Boy Errands

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emptywheel
Both Steve Bannon and George Papadopoulos seem to have made concerted efforts to forget details of the Coffee Boy's role in brokering relations with Egypt.
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Trump Prepares to Pardon Massive Tax Cheat Paul Manafort While Claiming that Suspected Midscale Tax Cheat Hunter Biden Disqualifies Joe

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emptywheel
Trump will almost certainly pardon Paul Manafort in the weeks ahead. Meanwhile, he says that the suspected tax crimes of Hunter Biden, at least an order of magnitude smaller than what Manafort was convicted of, disqualifies the entire Joe Biden Administration.
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The Mistaken Presumptions of Virtually All Discussions of a Future Trump Prosecution

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emptywheel
Virtually every consideration of whether Joe Biden's DOJ should prosecute Trump gets a key detail wrong: If you want to imagine whether Biden would prosecute Trump, you have to consider the possibility that he would prosecute Trump for crimes Bill Barr investigated. 
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Republicans Push to Punish Eric Swalwell because He Didn't Sell Out the Country Like They Did

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emptywheel
The GOP is claiming that Eric Swalwell should be removed from the House Intelligence Committee because he cooperated with the FBI and cut off all further contact when he was warned he was being cultivated by a Chinese spy. I can only assume they're angry he didn't obstruct their investigation.
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Steve Bannon Hires a Pardon Broker (and Rudy Giuliani Lawyer) to Replace His Competent Lawyer

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emptywheel
Steve Bannon just hired a guy who was already investigated for brokering Trump pardons to represent him in his fraud prosecution in Southern District of New York. Which may not work out how he'd like it to.
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Joshua Schulte Undermines the WikiLeaks Claim to Publish "Whistleblowers"

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emptywheel
WikiLeaks boosters like to claim that the organization serves whistleblowers. In the case of Joshua Schulte, it instead provided an easy way for a disgruntled spook to burn the CIA down and excuse his actions by claiming to be a whistleblower.
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