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Here's a post so emptywheel community members can discuss the canceled second of three presidential debates — I mean, town hall on ABC with Biden and interview with Trump on NBC.

Rather than telling us what the Mueller team learned about Roger Stone's influence on the timing of the John Podesta release on October 7, 2016, the Mueller Report provided a comedy routine featuring Jerome Corsi's shifting claims about that day. It may have done so to hide that Stone timed the Podesta release to cover-up the US government's attribution of the DNC hack to Russia.

The Mueller Report laid out the case that Trump was obstructing an investigation into his own role in cheating to win in 2016 by trading a pardon for Roger Stone's silence. The SSCI Report lays out just how much Trump was obstructing.

Thus far, four different stories have been told about what Roger Stone did in 2016. None of those stories tells all the truth. But reading them together gets us closer to the truth.

At two key moments in Trump's first election campaign, a guy with no known foreign policy chops sure seemed to have an acute interest in dictating the candidate's foreign policy views. 

The Mueller Report describes how, in June 2017, Trump tried to get Jeff Sessions to shut down any investigation into Russian interference in the election. A passage of Andrew Weissmann's book describes that, when he and Jeannie Rhee checked into what DOJ was doing at about the same time, DOJ wasn't actually investigating it.

Even if John Durham wanted to prosecute someone, the desperate way Jeffrey Jensen has conducted a parallel investigation using the same evidence has undermined any chance that will happen.

Timing of the seditious terror plot against Michigan's Gov. Whitmer and events which may have inspired this idiocy don't seem to correlate well. This wasn't about emergency orders related to COVID-19.

DOJ's explanation for their addition of a probably incorrect date to Andrew McCabe's notes doesn't make sense. Nor do their excuses for added dates explain the third instance of an added date, which was added to a redaction.

In her never-ending pursuit of proving her client lied to protect Donald Trump, Sidney Powell just proved that the first question the FBI needed to answer after discovering Mike Flynn's lies was whether he had consulted with Mar-a-Lago before telling them.