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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.
An open thread post which includes a cocktail recipe and a hortatory kick in the ass to start this new year.
Bret Baier interrupted a sober conversation with Leon Panetta about the Israeli terrorist attack to make a false claim about Hunter Biden’s “laptop.”
Reality TV Show Actor Donald Trump showed up at his fraud trial today and manipulated the press to allow him to claim he “predicted” that he lost because The Corrupt Judge and The Black Woman Prosecutor ganged up on him. And in the process, Reality TV Actor Donald Trump will have once again led millions to believe in his fantasy self-worth.
Another thread for more discussion about Trump’s indictment as well as the possible underlying crime.
Trump wailed last night that his “indication” was a matter of free and fair elections. He’s right. It’s about one of at least six efforts he and his agents have made to cover-up that he cheated to win in 2016.
Buried 22 paragraphs below some flashy quotes from Steve Bannon, NYT reveals that he — along with the subject of a profile, Boris Epsheyn — is under legal scrutiny for the crypto currency scam they used to bilk a lot of Trump loyalists.
As they did in 2020, voters gave democracy another lifeline. They voted, affirmatively, for democracy. But it’s not clear the press view protecting democracy, as opposed to protecting access, with anywhere near the same urgency.
There will be a lot said about the Michael Sussmann trial, no matter the verdict. But the serial defiance Durham prosecutors showed towards Judge Christopher Cooper’s orders makes the overall project clear. In spite of being prohibited from doing so, Durham attempted to criminalize, under a conspiracy theory, perfectly legal behavior.
In a DC hearing on February 9 regarding Alfa Bank’s attempt to obtain documents from Michael Sussmann before his trial, DC Superior Judge Shana Frost Matini observed that the Alfa Bank allegations and the John Durham indictment seemed like they could be written by the same people. [R]ight now, given the — if the closeness […]
