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Donald Trump is spending a good deal of his campaign fundraising -- over $50 million -- paying for lawyers for loyal employees. But taxpayers are loaning two of the most important laptops to review surveillance footage.

Once you understand that the spying skills WaPo describes in a Mike Roman profile have traditionally been targeted at Republicans, a lot else begins to make sense.

The Devlin Barrett story in October 2022 designed to pressure David Weiss to charge gun and tax crimes against, Hunter Biden claimed that investigators had sufficient evidence to charge the gun crimes. WaPo hasn't reported on the three months of investigative work done since actually charging to try to obtain sufficient evidence to prosecute the charges.

Hunter Biden's replies to his motions to dismiss.

The warrant Derek Hines obtained for Hunter Biden's content in December 2023 included the laptop itself.

I screwed up thinking this was about bi-coastal championships with Baltimore on the east coast and San Francisco on the west coast, forgetting about Detroit on the northern fresh water coast. This is an open thread.

In testimony before Congress, Hunter Biden's former gallerist George Bergès debunked a key premise of the manufactured scandal about payments from art collectors that Matt Viser started back in 2021, that the paintings were being sold for up to $500,000. Yet Viser didn't tell his readers that in his report on Bergès' testimony.

Enjoy!

In a sentencing memorandum for Joshua Schulte, DOJ asked for a life sentence.

The question of how a second Trump would be worse than his first must weigh how the incompetent corrupt people he'd install rather than experienced corrupt hands like Bill Barr would more and less effective.