by emptywheel | Aug 22, 2018 | 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe
In the wake of yesterday’s twin guilty verdicts, the punditocracy has asserted, based on an assumption that Michael Cohen knows everything Trump did, that his guilty plea poses a bigger problem for Trump than Paul Manafort’s guilty verdict right now....
by emptywheel | Aug 18, 2018 | 2012 Presidential Election, 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe
It has become clear to me that today’s big puff piece in the NYT about Don McGahn was designed to hide that Mueller is challenging the White House Counsel, former FEC Commissioner, and Trump campaign finance advisor on past work he has done for Trump. One of...
by emptywheel | Jun 23, 2018 | 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe
CNN’s David Gelles has an instructive tweet this morning showing how the rate at which Trump tweets about the Mueller “witch hunt” is accelerating. Assuming this includes this morning’s two “witch hunt” tweets, Trump is on pace to...
by emptywheel | May 3, 2018 | 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe
Last March 4, as it became clear the FBI was investigating him, President Trump wrote a bunch of tweets that claimed, falsely, that he had been wiretapped. He even called for a “good lawyer” to make a case out of the “fact” that Obama was...
by emptywheel | Apr 16, 2018 | 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Financial Fraud, Mueller Probe
At 2PM today, in a court room in southern Manhattan, a lawyer someone hired last Wednesday to represent Donald Trump, Joanna Hendon, will push prosecutors from the Southern District of New York to explain that they have probable cause to believe crimes involving the...
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