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Luke Broadwater's Attempt at Fact-Checking Covers Up Fabrications and IRS Sloppiness

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emptywheel
In a pose of fact-checking a claim about a WhatsApp text that Hunter Biden allegedly sent in 2017, Luke Broadwater instead covers up basic provenance problems with the impeachment stunt.
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Bankrupt!

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emptywheel
Rudy declared bankruptcy so he can avoid paying Ruby Freeman while he appeals.
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Rudy's Seized Devices Were More Useful for Investigating January 6 than Marie Yovanovitch's Firing

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emptywheel
When the FBI searched Rudy's home in April 2021, the phones he used when getting Marie Yovanovitch fired were not found. But they did find three devices that Rudy used to plan January 6.
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Perjury Trapped: Rudy Giuliani's Sync Sink

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emptywheel
In the Ruby Freeman case, Rudy avoided searching his messaging accounts by claiming that his phones were synced to his iCloud. But when SDNY searched Rudy's iCloud for known texts and other messaging in 2019, much of it wasn't there.
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Preliminary Comments on Rudy and Lev Warrants

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emptywheel
The unsealed warrants targeting Lev Parnas and Rudy Giuliani hint at how Bill Barr constrained the investigation and how DOJ used it to expand the investigation into Rudy.
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Colorado Accelerates Timeline and Scope of SCOTUS Review of Trump's January 6 Conduct

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emptywheel
Colorado's decision that Trump is not eligible to be President will accelerate the Supreme Court's review of his January 6 conduct.
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"Struck By Lightning:" The Deliberate Trump Politicization of the Hunter Biden Investigation

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emptywheel
In a second Trump term, his efforts to politicize justice will be worse. But Hunter Biden is demonstrably among the handful of people who have experienced the kind of wholesale politicization of criminal investigations journalists imagine will only come in a second Trump term.
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11th Circuit Adopts DC Logic that Mark Meadows and Trump's Campaigning Is Not an Official Act

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emptywheel
The 11th Circuit just rejected Mark Meadows' effort to remove his Georgia prosecution to federal court. Along the way, conservative judge William Pryor adopted the logic that DC judges have also used in considering Trump's role in attempting to steal the 2020 election.
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Hearing Footsteps: The Paper Trail of Political Interference David Weiss Is Trying to Bury

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emptywheel
In seven different footnotes across three filings, Abbe Lowell adopted an unusual approach to making an argument to dismiss the gun charges against Hunter Biden.
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Advent Week 3: Ordinary Riches Can Be Stollen

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Rayne
We're in the deep end of Advent season. What fruited cakes have you run across this past week? Have you baked? This is an open thread.
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John Paul Mac Isaac's Serial Inaccuracies and the Ablow Laptop

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emptywheel
None of the MacBooks described in John Paul Mac Isaac's book resembles the one shared with the FBI. Plus, there's a fourth laptop.
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Say Her Name: The Story of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss' Vindication

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emptywheel
In her statement after an enormous jury verdict yesterday, Shaye Moss described the stakes: "We hope no one ever has to fight so hard just to get your name back." Yet the heroism of that fight: of two Black women, Ruby Freeman and Moss, refusing to be bullied, wasn't the focus of the coverage.
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Lol, Rudy Tudy Is Moldy Fruity

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bmaz
Rudy had his lawyer promise to the jury that Rudy would testify and explain the truth. Nope, he not only failed to personally testify, he put on no defense at all. Mothers, don't let your babies to ever grow up to be this stupid. $148…
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Alex Cannon and the Missing Russian Binder

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emptywheel
All of Trump's stolen classified documents aren't accounted for. And the Russian binder may be only part of what's missing. 
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Google Kills the Geofence Capability that Will Show ~30,000 Trump Supporters Swarmed the Capitol on Trump's Orders

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emptywheel
The day after prosecutors announced they'll use a geofence warrant to show how many MAGAts followed Trump's order to march to the Capitol, Google announced it's changing how it stores Location data.
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Hunter Biden Twice Alleges that "Laptop" Data was "Stolen" from Him

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emptywheel
Twice this week, Hunter Biden has alleged that data associated with "the laptop" "was stolen" from him.
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Garanimals in a SCIF: David Weiss' Attempt to Sheep Dip Bill Barr's Hunter Biden Prosecution

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emptywheel
Hunter Biden's argument that he couldn't be charged with gun crimes because the diversion agreement remains, or remained, binding is his best shot for avoiding that prosecution. It also provides reason to believe that David Weiss used Bill Barr's laundered Russian dirt to reopen the Hunter Biden investigation.
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Donald Trump Says He Can Only Work Over Christmas If He's Planning a Coup

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emptywheel
Donald Trump's lawyers say they shouldn't have to argue that Trump is above the law in expedited fasion -- in part, because it would require everyone to work through Christmas. Of course, in 2020, Trump was happy to work through Christmas ... when he was planning a coup.
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SCOTUS Takes Up January 6 Obstruction Challenge -- But with Unknown Scope

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emptywheel
The Supreme Court is reviewing the Fischer decision upholding the use of obstruction to prosecute Jan6ers. But the scope of their review -- and the potential impact for rioters or for Trump -- will be unclear for some time.
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What Might Happen If Hunter Biden Refuses to Testify (Behind Closed Doors)

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emptywheel
If Hunter Biden blows off Congress today, James Comer will perform precisely the separation of powers violation that Hunter alleged in a motion to dismiss.
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