[View here as a Twitter thread] Ideas come mostly from Yale Prof. Snyder’s 6-26-18 lecture. m.youtube.com/watch?v=4eydzJ… Punchline: Most Americans in 2016 didn’t know they were under attack. Many still don’t understand that the Russians went to war, won, and selected the US President. 1/ Americans still don’t fully understand what hit them. So how the heck …
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[View here as a Twitter thread] Why the Manafort trial matters. Spoiler: Because it will illustrate the depth of the GOP-Russia connection. And because it will highlight the connection between what Manafort did in Ukraine and what the Manafort-Trump team did in the US in 2016. “But,” you say, “The prosecutors said they won’t …
[View here as a Twitter thread] (thread) OK, what’s the big deal about the “Catch and Kill” arrangements Trump & Cohen had going with the National Inquirer (AMI)? Spoiler: The behavior is criminal and/or meets the elements of civil fraud. Plus it shows a pattern and practice tying the behavior to TrumpRussia. “Catch and …
[View here as a Twitter thread] What are the implications of Trump “waiving privilege” to the tape? Spoiler: None. Trump didn’t “waive” privilege because the tape isn’t privileged under the crime-fraud exception. 1/ Attorney-Client privilege is a rule that protects client confidentiality. For material to be privileged, it must be an actual client communicating …
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[View here as a Twitter thread] Carter Page and Fox News Seems clear by now that the FISA warrant was based on ample evidence that Carter Page was an agent of a foreign power. @HoarseWisperer makes a good point: The warrant ONLY allows surveil of Page. What, then, do we make of the Nunes meltdown? 1/ …
[View here as a Twitter thread] Fox News is reportedly pushing Russia as our ally If that shocks you, have a seat. Spoiler: If forced to choose between living under Putin and or in a society with whites in the minority, many MAGA people will chose Putin. In a heartbeat. (Sources pictured) [Sources for …
[View here as a Twitter thread] Accessory after the fact is a theory of liability that basically means you found out about a crime after it happened, and then helped out. More here: 1/ We start with the elements: An accessory after the fact is a person who: (1) knowing that an offense against the …
[View here as a Twitter thread] I woke up on Nov. 9, 2016 to discover it was 1828—the year Andrew Jackson (white supremacist, dangerous demagogue, defender of slavery)—won the presidency against a brainy super-qualified policy wonk & former secretary of state. 2/ Plenty of people despised Jackson’s racism. Given the all white male electorate, …
[View here as a Twitter thread] Trump’s Cultural War: Part III: What’s next? Part I begins here: twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield… Trump’s response to the indictment of the Russian military officials who hacked the US and his private meeting with Putin tells us everything we need to know. So what’s next? 1/ Trump responded to the indictment by blaming …
[View here as a Twitter thread] Summary of 7-13 indictment. I’ve updated the main page of my website with a summary and short analysis of the new indictment, complete with links: russia-investigation-summary.com For easy retweeting and argument settling, I’ll put the summary here. 1/ Summary: Russian military officials conspired with persons “known and unknown to the grand …
