
Trump Might Pardon the Sex Trafficker Who "Stole" His Spa Girls and Other Details of the Cover-Up
Trump is so mad that Ghislaine Maxwell "stole" his girls and turned at least one of them into a sex slave that he's saying the same thing about pardoning her that he did about pardoning Paul Manafort and Roger Stone before he rewarded them for lying to protect him.

Ten Years Ago I Warned Republicans Had Few Means of Limiting the Damage Trump Would Do
Ten years ago today, I observed that Republicans had "few means of controlling [Donald Trump] and even fewer to limit any damage he might do if provoked." In those ten years he set out to -- and made significant progress on -- destroying the country, all to punish people he now calls "the Enemy from within."

With Emil Bove's Confirmation, Trump Hones His Criminal Protection Racket
Emil Bove's confirmation to a lifetime appointment on the Third Circuit hones Trump's criminal protection racket in a bunch of ways, both by rewarding those who engage in abuse for him and by punishing those who don't.

A Dossier Steal: HPSCI Expertly Discloses Their Own Shoddy Cover-Up
Most of the HPSCI Report complaints about the Steele dossier object that the Intelligence Community Assessment did not include details the committee itself discovered much later. But as with the main part of the report, their OWN silences -- about Paul Manafort, about Oleg Deripaska -- are the real story.

Did Trump Just Confess He Learned about Virginia Giuffre before Jeffrey Epstein Recruited Someone Else at Mar-a-Lago?
Trump's latest explanation for why he cut off Jeffrey Epstein some time after 2004 -- that Epstein stole an employee, Trump told him to stop, and then Epstein did it again -- would be a damning confession if that first employee was Virginia Giuffre.

Trump to Rupert: If You Show Me Yours, I Won't Show You Mine
Donald Trump says he needs to depose Rupert Murdoch in his lawsuit right away in case the WSJ owner kicks the bucket before this case actually gets around to discovery.

The EU Trade Deal: Playing for Time
The purported trade agreement between the EU and US doesn't address how much VOS Selections -- the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Trump's tariffs -- will have to pay to import wine from at least eight EU countries, over a hundred days after they challenged Trump's tariffs for being capricious.

Think of the HPSCI Report as a Time Machine to Launder Donald Trump's Russia Russia Russia Claims
Right wingers on the House Intelligence Committee used a 2018 indictment from Robert Mueller as part of their "proof" that authors of the Intelligence Community Assessment report finalized in January 2017 ignored evidence that Putin wanted Hillary to win. The entire HPSCI Report attempts to create a time machine to make Trump's Russia Russia Russia problem go away.

If Dems Successfully Message on News Outlets Lefty Pundits No Longer Read, Did It Ever Happen?
A day after RTing an Axios ragebait post seeming to suggest that Hakeem Jeffries was opposed to messaging on Jeffrey Epstein but instead laying out the many ways Jeffries is encouraging it, David Atkins falsely claimed that Dem "leadership isnt backing [] up" laudable Democratic efforts to message on Jeffrey Epstein.

A Better Future
But the billionaires and their allies will burn money and the planet to control our future.

Trump Keeps Demanding that You Stop Talking about His Jeffrey Epstein Problem
It seems likely that Trump's defense attorney will pull of some kind of non-Trump Epstein distraction. What's not yet clear is how much backlash that will elicit. Or whether Trump will reclaim his ability to grab attention.

Todd Blanche's Unsealing Request in Florida Was Designed to Fail
Judge Robin Rosenberg made sure to get DOJ to put in writing that it knew it could not ask her to unseal grand jury transcripts.

Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe Reveal Putin "Was Counting on" a Trump Win
Thanks to Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe, we now know that according to a reliable but ambiguous intelligence fragment, CIA got intelligence that said Putin approved the DNC hack-and-leak campaign "because he was counting on" Trump's victory.

Open Thread: The Impossible Possible
Let's fight fascism together, and build a better future in the process.

Tulsi Gabbard Teams Up with Russian Spies to Wiretap and Unmask Hillary Clinton
In the guise of complaining about politicized spies exercising undue due diligence yesterday, Tulsi Gabbard just parroted Russian reports written by Russian spies -- reports that either rely on intercepts of an American citizen or just make shit up -- as if they reflected the American intelligence community's beliefs.

DOJ Denied Jeffrey Epstein Blackmail ... But Not Ghislaine Maxwell Blackmail
Back when DOJ tried to make the Jeffrey Epstein scandal go away, they claimed there was no credible evidence that Epstein had blackmailed anyone. They didn't address whether Ghislaine Maxwell had.

Judge Richard Berman Had to Remind Todd Blanche to Think of Jeffrey Epstein's Victims
In his order telling Todd Blanche to actually meet Second Circuit guidelines for grand jury unsealing requests, Judge Richard Berman reminded Todd Blanche that DOJ is supposed to be concerned about Jeffrey Epstein's victims.

Republicans Will Reward Emil Bove for Sending Innocent Men to a Concentration Camp
The Republican Party is preparing to reward Emil Bove with a lifetime seat on an appellate court because he sent hundreds of men to a concentration camp, many based on little more than their tattoos.

Trump's Defense Attorney Todd Blanche Will Meet with Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to Make a Deal for His Client
Todd Blanche has now made clear how he intends to help Donald Trump out of his pedophile problem. Having fired the prosecutor competent to discuss cooperation with Ghislaine Maxwell, Blanche has announced he will conduct such a discussion himself.

Mike Johnson Quit Work Early to Give Trump "Space" to Deal with His Jeffrey Epstein Problem
Because Trump is running scared, the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein has -- however temporarily -- deprived Trump of his majority in the House.