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"Influencer" Rogan O'Handley aka DC Draino wants more Capitol footage from Jan 6. We want it too - we want to know where he goes after this fist-bump on the E. Plaza, 5 mins before the doors were violently breached. The night before, he'd said he was at a White House meeting...1/
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Gaetz: Republicans will release “14,000 hours of [J6] tapes that have been hidden” BAM! Looks like truth about Pelosi’s Fed-Op is going to be exposed even further!
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Deleting for now to address date discrepancies. THere IS a problem with Mac Isaac's story, on top of all the other problems with Mac Isaac's story.
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I'm too tired to do it right now, but some of these assholes MUST have been making the argument in 2007 that the VP had authority to declassify -- I just can't remember who is that old right now.
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For some reason CNN decides to quotes Trump's lawyers at length, without pointing out that 3 arguments they made about TRUMP, which were not true, apply to the known fact set about Biden. For example, Trump says POTUS (and VP) cannot be charged with 1924.
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Biden's legal team found another batch of classified documents in search of second location cnn.com/2023/01/11/pol
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For Gerasimov (who were were being assured was out of favour and about to be sacked... or who was Putin's right hand man...) it is a kind of demotion, or at least the most poisoned of chalices. It's now on him, and I suspect Putin has unrealistic expectations again 5/
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Actually a BFD.
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NEW: Federal appeals court seems likely to rule that part of 2018 federal law aimed at online sex trafficking violates First Amendment. DC Circuit panel sees overbreadth in attempt to ban use of internet/computers to 'promote' prostitution #fosta #sesta politico.com/news/2023/01/1
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Note: The only time I ever met Dick DeVos (Betsy's spouse) was when I was waiting to get on a puddle jumper from National to Grand Rapids. Thought it might be him but was like, "no, this dude flies his own plan." He was interviewing for an FAA job with Trump (which he got).
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I know this presents security concerns, but I like it anyway.
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A) GOP SC Rep Mace on Fox: I'm going to file a bill that would require Pete Buttigieg to judge to fly commercial until these issues are figured out, both with Southwest Airlines, with the FAA, and until the FAA reauthorization happens later this year.
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Elise Stefanik, who has served on HPSCI, confesses that she 1) has missed EVERY public detail about the Trump investigation and 2) hasn't read the EO on classification.
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FACT: Unlike President Trump who had the power to declassify documents, then Vice President Biden had NO such power. House Republicans will fight to expose Biden’s corruption!
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Someone with an ownership interest in multiple properties suspected of harboring classified docs advocates searches of such properties without probable cause, which, buckle up, Chris Wray, we're going to Bedminster!
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Holy hell. Since August 2021, I've said the success of the case against Biggs--and Biggs himself--is critical to prosecution of others. And here were are on the eve of trial and it's not clear he has a lawyer, in part bc J6C didn't share transcripts.
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Judge Kelly just got into a shouting match with Biggs' other lawyer, Dan Hull, who insisted on being recognized to say something about Pattis — who said their relationship had broken down. Kelly refused to recognize him and had to repeatedly shout him down.
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Roger Roots, who works with John Pierce, now explaining in court that Pierce and co-counsel on many Jan. 6 cases, William Shipley, have had a "falling out" — which seemed fairly obvious from Pierce's absence in those cases. He says Shipley was doing all the work on Pepe's case.
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Trump didn't tell the public he had blown off a subpoena until THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME, and only then did bc a blogger revealed an FBI search. And that ignores Trump's silence for the previous 4 months. For fucksake, less stupid both-sidesing here, people.
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Two things can be true: 1) The Biden classified documents situation is vastly different from the Trump case. 2) The Biden WH has a lot of questions to answer, including what happened here and why they didn’t tell the public until it leaked.
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Federal judge rules prosecutors can use video of then-President Donald Trump telling the far-right group the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” in the trial against several of the group’s leaders charged with seditious conspiracy
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I love people who try to defend #MattyDickPics' false claims by claiming he's intelligent and proficient. It's a false claim. That's ... not proficient.
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I respect your work, Emptywheel. But I also respect Matt Taibbi. I believe this is a bit hyperbolic. Taibbi is a very intelligent and proficient journalist. He is well-respected in my book, even if his takes often ruffle a lot of feathers.
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This is what I believe too--it explains another thing: Why Trump didn't get a permit for march. Park Service said they needed to secure the route. Trump's solution was 10,000 Guards. That may EVEN by why Cipollone told Hutchinson they'd be charged w/obstruction if it happened.
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This essay from @amandacarpenter puts various pieces together in a compelling way... and raises important questions that the Committee somewhat punted on. I think it helps explain outstanding questions around the use of the Guard. twitter.com/amandacarpente…
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A well-deserved victory lap and the reason why this kind of weedy reporting is necessary to defending democracy.
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Two days before Chesebro's memo, I wrote about how that Jan. 3 resolution could be extraordinarily consequential. politico.com/news/2020/12/3
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Shorter GOP: Let him stay JUST long enough for McCarthy to secure the Speakership, but not long enough for the legitimacy of that Speakership to be called into question with a potentially illegal vote.
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GOP NY state senator Jack Martins on Santos: The longer he remains in office, the longer the residents of the Third Congressional District will suffer. Mr. Santos, haven't you done enough harm? I call on Mr. Santos to immediately resign.
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Again, It is a FACT that given the way James Comer wrote his letter to ex-Twitter, the hearing includes Hunter Biden's dick pics. How are you suppressing that detail?
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