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David Weiss' FBI FARA Headfake to Create a Hunter Biden Tax Mulligan

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emptywheel
A potential FARA investigation into Hunter Biden was the reason why he refused to plead guilty in July, giving David Weiss and Leo Wise a chance to ratchet up charges against the President's son. But CNN reports that any such investigation is now done.
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In Memoriam: Rosalynn Carter

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Eleanor Rosalynn Carter, wife of former president Jimmy Carter, passed away today at age 96.
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What Matt Viser Won't Tell You about Hunter Biden, His Dad, and Burisma

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emptywheel
Phil Rucker's WaPo continues to ignore details about the corruption of the investigation into Hunter Biden, corruption that implicates WaPo's obsession with Hunter Biden's dick pics directly.
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Judge Rules Trump Had the Purpose of Inciting Insurrection on January 6

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emptywheel
In Judge Sarah Wallace's opinion finding that Trump incited insurrection, she mapped out how Trump intended to sic a violent mob on Mike Pence and Congress.
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Colorado

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In a now formal, but not unexpected, decision in Colorado yet another local county judge has issued a somewhat convoluted, but yet clear, decision that the 14th Amendment, specifically section 3, cannot be used by a handful of common citizens…
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Judge Chutkan Denies Trump's Bid to Disavow His Mob

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emptywheel
Trump is trying to have a protected privilege to make inflammatory threats, while gagging others about the effect of them. 
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Election Interference: Aileen Cannon Denies Republicans Speedy Trial in Stolen Document Case

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emptywheel
Aileen Cannon has all but ensured that Republican voters won't learn whether Donald Trump sold out America's security before they choose to make him their party's nominee.
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The Suspected 2019 Exposure of Johnathan Buma's Source

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emptywheel
The reasons I'm cautious about Jonathan Buma's whistleblower complaint go beyond the fact that he thought Chuck Johnson would make a good informant.
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Trump Continues to Disavow the Mob that Sacrificed Their Lives for Him

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emptywheel
Trump has -- must have!! -- seen the evidence about his mob that DOJ intends to use at trial. And his response is a blubbering effort to wish his mob away. 
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In Bid for a Trump Subpoena, Abbe Lowell Cites Trump's Complaints about Politicization

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emptywheel
Abbe Lowell just asked for subpoenas so he can show that Donald Trump has intervened in Hunter Biden's case personally.
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The Two Impeachment Treason Trip: Ukraine Charges Rudy Giuliani's Sources

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emptywheel
The reason Rudy Giuliani was not charged for soliciting election disinformation from a known Russian agent is that the Attorney General of the United States set up a system that separated the investigation of that Russian agent from the investigation of Rudy, all while channeling whatever disinformation Rudy obtained from Derkach (or Zlochevsky) into the investigation of Joe Biden's son.
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DOJ Accuses Donald Trump of Asking for Special Treatment Even His Seditionists Didn't Get

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emptywheel
In citing the precedents against filming a trial, DOJ happened to cite the precedents pertaining to terrorists and his own seditionists.
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In His House Judiciary Committee Testimony, John Durham Confessed that Michael Horowitz Was Right

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emptywheel
In his June testimony about his report, John Durham admitted that the reason he said Michael Horowitz was wrong to say Crossfire Hurricane was properly predicated was that he thought Horowitz should consider his own conspiracy theory based on Russian intelligence that defied physics.
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The Kinds of Laptop Documents the Hunter Biden Investigation Used

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emptywheel
Of around 150 documents Joseph Ziegler included in a spreadsheet of foreign influence documents used in the Hunter Biden investigation, almost 10% were from the laptop.
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Scott Brady Checked In on Investigations into All of Rudy Giuliani's Ukrainian Oligarchs

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emptywheel
Rudy Giuliani solicited Hunter Biden dirt from three corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs: Ihor Kolomoyskyi, Dmitry Firtash, and Mykola Zlochevsky. Scott Brady's efforts to "vet" dirt on Hunter Biden checked in with all three investigations.
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John Lauro's DC Delay Tactics Backfire in Florida

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emptywheel
After Trump's lawyers tried to stall both his federal trials simultaneously, Judge Aileen Cannon declined to delay the stolen document trial in Florida.
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James Comer Subpoenas Dick Picks While Rome Burns

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emptywheel
House Republicans continue to sniff and subpoena dick pics even as a government shut down grows closer.
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Donald Trump's DOJ Shut Down a Burisma Corruption Investigation Opened while Joe Biden Was VP

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emptywheel
Bill Barr's DOJ shut down a bribery investigation into Mykola Zlochevsky in December 2019. And then days later, on January 3, 2020, he set up a way to get a claim that Mykola Zlochevsky had bribed Joe Biden injected into the investigation of Hunter Biden.
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How Ryan Nichols Responded to Trump's Mike Pence Tweet

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emptywheel
"Pence did the wrong thing ... So we stormed the Capitol, and they stopped the vote," Ryan Nichols explained how he responded to Trump's tweet targeting Mike Pence. That's the kind of evidence we should expect to see at Trump's trial.
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