The Manafort Statement of the Offense & Exhibits

October 12, 2020

[View here as a Twitter thread] What I learned about Manafort from these docs: justice.gov/file/1094156/d… justice.gov/file/1094146/d… Spoiler: He has no scruples & he’s a brilliant strategist. And of course, and his guilty plea poses a real danger for Trump. 1/ We already knew that Manafort worked directly for Viktor Yanukovych, the Putin-backed puppet-President of Ukraine. (Yanukovych was ousted …

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The Nature of the Criminal Enterprise

October 11, 2020

[View here as a Twitter thread] Trump and Manafort are not the top of the international criminal enterprise. In a 1-27-2011 lecture—given while Mueller was FBI director—he talked about a new kind of organized crime threatening the US. https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/speeches/the-evolving-organized-crime-threat 1/ Today’s mobsters have gone international. Their organizations are fluid, with global reach. They are the …

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A few observations about Bob Woodward’s book, FEAR

October 12, 2020

[View here as a Twitter thread] Priebus “came around on Bannon’s Breitbart operation. After getting killed for about two years by Breitbart as part of the Republican elite, he’d developed a new strategy: It was a lot easier to work with Brietbart, and get less killed.” 1/ IOW, Reince Priebus—a “traditional conservative” came around to …

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No, it’s not a Witch Hunt

December 22, 2018

[View here as a Twitter thread]  I’m still hearing Witch Hunt I’m not sure facts matter when someone says “witch hunt” but here are a few taken from the Mueller docs* & public statements. russia-investigation-summary.com*meaning Mueller believes he has evidence to prove them beyond a reasonable doubt. 1/ Michael Cohen’s guilty plea. Pleaded guilty to 8 federal …

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Fascists weaponize liberal democratic values to destroy liberal democracy.

October 12, 2020

[View here as a Twitter thread] For example, fascists seek to undermine the legitimacy of mainstream media and universities by demanding equal time for absurd ideas. (Info from @jasonintrator ’s book unless otherwise noted.) All ideas from Jason Stanley’s book, How Fascism Works, unless otherwise noted. [By liberal democracy I mean representative government in which …

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How can Trump be incompetent if he’s brought us to the brink of a regime change?

December 22, 2018

[View here as a Twitter thread] Two theories are floating around: (1) Trump is so immature and mentally incompetent that he can’t fulfill the office of the president; and (2) We’re tilting toward a regime change. Question: Can both be true? 1/ Let’s consider where the US is right now. An opinion piece in today’s …

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The Slow-Motion Constitutional Crisis

October 12, 2020

[View here as a Twitter thread] (Thread) The Slow-Motion Constitutional Crisis The current crisis is not (entirely) because of Trump. It’s (mostly) because of Congress. The drafters of the Constitution considered the possibility that a president might be elected who was beholden to foreign interests. 1/ That’s why the drafters included a remedy in the …

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“Collusion” doesn’t begin to describe it

October 12, 2020

[View here as a Twitter thread] Ideas from Yale Prof. Snyder’s book & 5-12 lecture available here: youtube.com/watch?v=ZJe4Nl… Spoiler: Collusion doesn’t describe how “the Russians elevated Trump to the office of the presidency.” (Snyder’s words) 1/ Trump’s repeated use of the word “collusion” is a deliberate ploy to draw us away from what actually happened and create …

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