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The Other Problematic Subject Trump Hid

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Rayne
Did the Trump campaign act out at Arlington National Cemetery in order to change the subject through redirection? What were they trying to hide behind war dead?

My Sixth Amendment Sense about Jack Smith's Proposed Book Report

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emptywheel
I predict that Trump's attorneys will balk at the way Jack Smith wants to present his immunity case, by including quotes from sensitive materials, without identifying the witness who said it.
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Iranian Hackers Compromised Roger Stone's Email Eight Years After Russian Hackers Exfiltrated DNC Emails

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emptywheel
Iranian hackers first compromised Donald Trump's rat-fucker eight years, almost to the day, after Russian hackers stole the emails from the DNC that Roger Stone used to help get Trump elected.

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
We talked about Jack Smith's still-sealed 180-page brief in the Trump January 6 case.

VP Harris' Haley Play

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emptywheel
If Kamala Harris' concerted efforts to convert Nikki Haley voters works, it could make the difference in a close election.
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Bill Barr, "So Far as We Knew"

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emptywheel
In their book, Aaron Zebley et al describe that Bill Barr had no insight onto Mueller's work before he wrote his memo attacking Mueller's approach to the obstruction issue, "so far as we knew." That claim looks somewhat different when you consider Lev Parnas' recent claim that Victoria Toensing had a role in Barr's hiring.

Eric Adams Indicted

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emptywheel
Although the indictment of Eric Adams is 50-pages long, it only lays out one of the schemes known to be under investigation and does not (yet) include a FARA component.

Reid Epstein's Economic Polling Anxiety

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emptywheel
Reid Epstein is so upset that Kamala Harris didn't address a question about how to change her polling on the economy that he missed that she is changing her polling on the economy.
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Scott Schools Got the [Trump Subpoena] Memo -- Then Left DOJ

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emptywheel
When Robert Mueller first told DOJ officials he wanted to subpoena Donald Trump, the then senior-most career official at DOJ asked for a memo justifying it. Then he left DOJ three days later.
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Don't Make the Same Mistake with Iran that Denialists Made with Russia

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emptywheel
Lefties are doing with the Iranian targeting of Trump what MAGAts have done with the Russian investigation: doubt that a hostile country would target the US by targeting a US presidential candidate.

The Trained [Un]Seal that Performed for Trump's Lawyers

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emptywheel
The response Trump's lawyers filed to Jack Smith's request to file what they (rightly) call a mini Special Counsel report lays the groundwork for louder squealing as soon as anyone moves to unseal this.
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The Habitual Lies on Which Trump Has Built His Attack on Rule of Law

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emptywheel
Trump has used invented grievance to teach his followers to hate rule of law. To invent that grievance, Trump has created lie after lie, and built them together into a caricature of the Deep State.
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Trump Didn't Call the FBI Because He Refused to Meet the Standard to Which He Held Hillary Clinton

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emptywheel
Donald Trump's campaign delayed calling the FBI about Iran's hacking efforts because he refused to adhere to the standard he has demanded of Hillary Clinton for eight years.

Ryan Routh's Eleven Phones and Two Iran Mentions

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emptywheel
The detention memo for Ryan Routh includes two mentions of sympathy for Iran and eleven different phones, at least some using different carriers.
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Why No One Went to Prison for Rudy Giuliani's Hunter Biden Corruption

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emptywheel
Want to know how Rudy Giuliani was allowed to solicit dirt from Russian spies to help Trump get elected, without accountability? Want to know why Barr is considered a critic of Trump rather than his most corrupt enabler? Ask the journalists who lost interest in that story as soon as Rudy released a laptop full of Hunter Biden's dick pics.  From Russia with Lev begins to reverse all that. But as infuriating as it is, it barely scratches the surface.
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Trump Will Stage an Emergency to Ban Jack Smith's Book Report

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emptywheel
We will have a battle this week as Donald Trump's lawyers try to prevent Jack Smith from filing the brief that Tanya Chutkan ordered him to file.
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Pandora's Box Opened: Netanyahu's Double-Tap Fuck-You

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Rayne
Netanyahu's attacks by exploding electronic devices intended for Hezbollah is yet another series of fuck-yous — but this time Netanyahu blew open Pandora's box and then some.

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
Listen on Spotify (transcripts available) Listen on Apple (transcripts available)
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Permission Structures and Polling Puzzles

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emptywheel
Trump has 7% of his campaign left, and he's spending much of his time outside of swing states, attempting to create stunts to shift the media narrative. Harris has 44% of her campaign left, and she's spending it, partly, out of the limelight, working relentlessly to win over voters in the swing states that will decide the election.
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Useful Idiot Networks, Now Featuring Elon Musk and Don Jr.

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emptywheel
The thing about online networks of right wing influencers like Tim Pool or Don Jr is they offer a cascade effect. You pay off or persuade one or six key useful idiots and the entire network becomes your useful idiot.
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