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Something in the Water: GOP Rep. Mitchell Bows out in Michigan

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Rayne
GOP Rep. Paul Mitchell (MI-10) announced Wednesday he would not seek re-election, saying, "[r]hetoric and vitriol, it overwhelms policy." Are Trump's racist 'Go Back' remarks to blame?
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Failing to Damage Mueller, GOP Now Claiming Mueller Not Sufficiently Vigorous to Oversee Trump Investigation

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emptywheel
The Republican response to Mueller's testimony is to suggest he was not in adequate control of his investigation. Fine. Then let's ask whether his supervisors took advantage of that to prevent Mueller from subpoenaing Trump.
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HEARING THREAD: Special Counsel Robert Mueller

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Rayne
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies before two different House committees today. This post is dedicated to these hearings.

OPEN THREAD: Everything Else Not about Robert Mueller

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Rayne
Open thread for everything NOT directly related to the House Judiciary Committee hearing and Robert Mueller's testimony.
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Robert Mueller Asked To Be Instructed To Hew To the Report

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emptywheel
The frenzy over DOJ instructions to Mueller seems to be missing that he asked for those instructions.
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Congress Already Has Evidence Trump Lied Under Oath to Robert Mueller

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emptywheel
Congress already has evidence that Trump lied in his sworn answers about the Trump Tower Moscow deal to Mueller.

FaceApp and Its Targeted Audience

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Rayne
Naysayers pooh-pooh the risks posed as fearmongering, but the threat is real: the youngest voter age groups which are least likely to vote for Trump and the GOP are the likely target of questionable mobile application FaceApp.
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Three Things: Two USAs and a Bear

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Rayne
Three things not worth a full post but perhaps they're worth a brief look. This is an open thread.
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The Curious Treatment of Michael Cohen's Trump Organization Email

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emptywheel
A footnote in the SDNY warrants investigating campaign finance crimes reveals that that US Attorneys office treated Trump Organization email hosted at Microsoft differently than Mueller treated it.
[Photo: National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, MD via Wikimedia]
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Hal Martin Sentencing Leaves All Questions Unanswered

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emptywheel
Hal Martin's sentencing yesterday offers no further explanation for the Shadow Brokers releases.

Stormy, Pee Tapes, and Pussy-Grabbing: The Three Explanations for the Cohen-Hicks-Trump Call on October 8, 2016

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emptywheel
It's possible Hope Hicks is outright lying about knowing about the hush payments Michael Cohen made to protect earlier lies she told in 2017, before the whole hush payment story broke wide open. But it is certainly possible that if you work for Donald Trump all the sex scandals merge into one, either in fact, or in years old memories.
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The Steele Dossier and the Mueller Investigation: Michael Cohen

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emptywheel
The frothy right thinks it's really important to ask Robert Mueller about the role of the dossier in his investigation of Trump people like Michael Cohen. But the public record suggests it didn't predicate the investigation into Cohen, who was the villain of the Steele dossier.
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Democrats Are Setting Themselves Up to Fail on Mueller Hearings

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emptywheel
Democrats on HJC and HPSCI are reportedly assuming Mueller will successfully dodge pointed questions to which a truthful answer will be very illuminating and separating discussion of the cover up from the actions hidden by that cover up. I think that's a mistake.

The More Puzzling Inaction in SDNY: National Enquirer

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emptywheel
There's a redaction in SDNY's letter accompanying the release of the Michael Cohen materials that raises new questions for me about the disposition of AMI's crimes associated with Donald Trump's campaign finance crimes.
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The Cohen Material Just Released By The Court

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bmaz
Okay, as you may recall, the Judge William Pauley in the Southern District of New York had indicated he would release additional materials from the Cohen case there. As some background, here is our friend Adam Klasfeld of Courthouse News (if…
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Roger Stone Lawyer Bruce Rogow Concedes His CrowdStrike Ploy Was Just That

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emptywheel
Roger Stone's lawyers effectively admitted yesterday they didn't really need the CrowdStrike reports they've used to stoke conspiracy theories to defend Stone.
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Renewing My Obsession with Paul Manafort's iPods: Robert Mueller's 2,300 Media Devices

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emptywheel
DOJ just told Jason Leopold that Mueller obtained the contents of around 2,300 media devices.
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The Original Subpoenas in the Mike Flynn FARA Investigation

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emptywheel
Now that the government is trying Bijan Kian without Mike Flynn's cooperation, they're moving to compel production of documents that he had previous provided voluntarily.
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