Contents Part I: The Republican Travelogue to Hell Part II: Trump’s Special Master Lawsuit Backfires Part I: The Republican Travelogue to Hell Tim Miller’s Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell opens with a splash. America never would have gotten into this mess if it weren’t for me and my friends. […]
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I. The Lawsuit (This section was written Saturday, September 17. For the stuff that happened since yesterday, skip to Section II: The Backfire) To recap, two weeks after the FBI executed a search on Mar-a-Lago, Trump filed a lawsuit demanding a special master to review the seized documents. He put forward the outlandish claim that
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Last week I wrote about Trump’s lawsuit requesting a special master to screen the Mar-a-Lago documents. To recap, his lawsuit was based on the outlandish claim that he had the right to possess the documents, a mindboggling claim given that most of the documents seized by the FBI were government documents, which, by law, must
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The word “consequences” is often qualified by words like “actual” or “real” or “meaningful,” like this: “Trump has never suffered any actual consequences” or the common corollary, “Trump keeps breaking laws because the legal system is corrupt or failing” are what Yale professor Timothy Snyder calls an “Internet Trigger,” and I’ve called a “rage-inducing simplification.” Simplifications