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Mind the Gap: It Was the Musician, in the Storage Closet, with the Five Eyes Secrets

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emptywheel
The Trump indictment reveals why investigators were asking most of the questions that made the press coverage. But it doesn't reveal when the surveillance gaps are, who put them there, and why.
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James Boasberg Likens Trump's Demands on Pence to a Bribe

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emptywheel
James Boasberg's logic for rejecting most of Mike Pence's Speech and Debate claims to avoid testifying in the January 6 grand jury suggests he believes Trump met one of the elements of the offense for obstructing the vote certification.
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Jack Smith Knows his Justice Robert Jackson

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Peterr
As a former prosecutor at The Hague, Jack Smith learned from Justice Robert Jackson at Nuremberg how to prosecute the crimes of national leaders, and the indictment of Trump reflects those lessons well.
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Hillary's Revenge: Trump Promised Voters He Would Protect Classified Information

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emptywheel
Wrapped up inside Jack Smith's Espionage Act indictment is a public integrity indictment, a claim Trump falsely got elected on a promise he would guard classified information.
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The Mar-a-Lago Indictment Is a Tactical Nuke

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emptywheel
The Mar-a-Lago indictment is, in very significant part, a renewed invitation to Walt Nauta to cooperate in an ongoing grand jury investigation into what happens to documents when they go to Bedminster and disappear forever. 
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The Flavors of Trump's Obstruction

Jack Smith charged Trump and Walt Nauta with seven different kinds of obstruction, before charging Nauta alone for false statements.

Defendant-1's 38 Count Indictment

Here's a link. I'll update in a bit. There are 31 counts for withholding documents, each holding a 10 year sentencing, on top of the obstruction charges. I'll summarize them: May 3, 2018 White House intelligence briefing (TS/NOFORN/SPECIALHANDLING) …
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John Durham's Blind Man's Bluff on DNS Visibility

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emptywheel
When John Durham made claims in a filing that led Donald Trump to issue death threats against Michael Sussmann, he had evidence in hand his claims were wrong.
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Prosecutors Interviewing Witnesses Who Knew Trump Was Hoarding Documents

The WaPo story reporting that most stolen documents charges will be filed in Florida is more reliable than the report promising an indictment today.
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This Indictment Will Likely Come Too Early for Trump to Consolidate the Party

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emptywheel
I a Trump indictment comes in the next few weeks, it could provide Republicans an opportunity to distance themselves from Trump.
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The Thirteenth Amendment

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Ed Walker
What political rights do we have as citizens of the United States?
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Dry Run: The Filing Room Came to Trump

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emptywheel
After it became public that Trump had returned hundreds of classified records in January 2022, Trump denied he had been in the filing room sorting classified documents. DOJ likely now has abundant evidence that the filing room came to him.
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NYT's Pre-DOJ Meeting Attempted Rebuttal

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emptywheel
Days before Trump's lawyers complained to Jack Smith about how Trump's attorney-witnesses were treated the NYT attempted to rebut a report that Evan Corcoran was "waved off" searching locations besides the storage closet.
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Now Fully Normalized: Sportswashing the Bonesaw with Golf

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Rayne
Golf as a professional sport now has completely lost its way with the merger of PGA with LIV. Apparently blood money makes the greens greener.
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The Dog Drained My Pool to Try to Destroy Surveillance Video

Jack Smith reportedly wants to know whether Trump's long-time maintenance guy drained the swimming pool in an attempt to destroy surveillance footage.
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The Dishonest and Incompetent FBI Work John Durham Learned to Love

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emptywheel
The evidence submitted in the Michael Sussmann trial showed that those in the Cyber Division who first assessed the anomalies made clear errors and unconvincing claims about their awareness of the DNC's involvement. And yet, John Durham covered that up.
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FBI Cyber Division's Enduring Blue Pill Mystery

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emptywheel
There may be a blank Blue Thumb Drive in the FBI's evidence lockers where Rodney Joffe's Alfa Bank data should be.
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ONLY TIME WILL TELL: Seditionist Oath Keepers sentenced amid tears and promises of redemption

Light sentences were doled out to several crying Oath Keeper seditionists over two days of high drama in a federal courtroom.
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Tim Parlatore Quit After Trump Lawyers Couldn't Find the Iran Document

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emptywheel
Tim Parlatore's decision to quit because of Boris Epshteyn's role as a gatekeeper looks very different given the news that he and other Trump lawyers haven't been able to find the Iran document Trump claimed to have in 2021.
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