[View as a Twitter thread] So Roger Stone had a bit of a tantrum yesterday. He’s angry because he was assigned to a judge he doesn’t want. What’s really happening is that Rule of Law is colliding with Cult of Leadership. 1/ The court rules require the prosecutor, when filing an indictment, to notify the …
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[View here as a Twitter thread] @daveh8300 wonders if the rumors are true that the Mueller report will “never see the light of day” This is a non-worry. Spoiler: All the information is in the court documents and transcripts. 1/ Prosecutors have a duty to foster “public understanding of the problems of controlling crimes. . . …
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[View here as a Twitter thread] DiDi wants to know if our democracy is strong enough to withstand Trump’s lawbreaking. It’s the lying (which is directly related to lawbreaking) which is the real problem. The answer is yes. I think Democracy will win. 1/ Yesterday Senator. Burr said the Senate Intelligence Committee found no “direct …
[View here as a Twitter thread] The transcript is here. The issue at the hearing was whether Manafort reneged on his plea deal by lying to the Office of the Special Counsel (OSC). 1/ I am going to assume that what OSC says is true. Of all info sources available to us now, it seems …
[View as a Twitter thread] The Bezos-AMI debacle is part of a larger pattern of silencing witnesses and burying evidence, which in turn is part of a movement to undermine rule of law. First, the Bezos-AMI story in a nutshell 1/ AMI (National Inquirer) published highly embarrassing texts stolen from Bezos. Trump inserted himself into …
[View here as a Twitter thread] Tamara asks: I wouldn’t say we already had oligarchy before Trump. Timothy Snyder more accurately said that we’re “tipping toward a regime change.” It hasn’t happened (yet). For perspective: if successful, this will be our 3rd oligarchy. 1/ (Oligarchy=a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes). Our …
[View here as a Twitter thread] Hi, Craigsuperstar. Well, okay. Maybe it isn’t obvious that a gun rights, and a desire to sweep away regulations “entitlements” is authoritarian. So I’ll explain. Let’s start with regulations. 1/ Regulations are anti-authoritarian, because regulations say that everyone lives under the same rules. This is also known as rule …
[View here as a Twitter thread] Katrina Pierson is a “senior advisor to Donald Trump” with more than 440K followers on Twitter. She said about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Hi, Katrina, The history of the two major parties is a little more complicated than that. I can suggest a few good books. If you’re not really into …
[View here as a Twitter thread] Spoiler 1: Probably not. Spoiler 2: The solution to the GOP shielding Trump (most likely) won’t come through criminal justice. We have a political problem. 1/ Helping someone cover up a crime can be a crime. “Accessory after the fact” means you know a crime happened and you shield …
[View as a Twitter thread] I updated the main page to include the Roger Stone indictment, and a brief summary. If you like everything in one place, here it is. 1/The Roger Stone indictment establishes that senior Trump officials engaged in criminal activity in the 2016. Senior Trump officials knew emails were stolen. They had …
