The big news this week was that Merrick Garland appointed veteran prosecutor Jack Smith as Special Prosecutor overseeing the January 6 probe and the investigation into the Mar-a-Lago documents. Garland skeptics celebrated because they understood this was a clear sign that this investigation is leading toward major indictments. If you’ve been reading this blog, you’ve […]
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I. Reflections on the 2022 Midterms Before the election, we were hit with a barrage of warnings that we were in for a red wave. This was from 538: In fact, as of this writing, the Democrats: Are holding the Senate and may pick up an extra Senate seat, As of tonight, it looks like
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First, some business. Sometimes I think, “Elon Musk would not drive Twitter into a brick wall.” Other times I think, “OMG Elon Musk is driving Twitter into a brick wall.” I have therefore opened accounts at Mastodon and Counter Social: Counter Social = @Teri_Kanefield Mastodon= @Teri_Kanefield@mstdn.social If you’re trying to decide which to join, it seems
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Politico reported that when Trump announced a rally in Florida with Rubio — but not DeSantis— the “apparent snub” angered some people within DeSantis’ orbit, who complained that it mean fewer people would pay attention to DeSantis. This tells us that even with everything we know about Trump’s lawbreaking and attempted coup, he is still
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When Trump is gone—and one day he will be—another would-be Trump will arise to take his place. We will have a DeSantis or Hawley or Stefanik. If a major political party and half of the American voters want leaders who will defy the laws, you can’t solve the problem by putting all of their leaders
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On Wednesday, I appeared on the Lincoln Project show We’re Speaking. Shortly after the interview, I thought of ways I could have given much crisper answers, which annoys me to no end. Anyway, most of the answers I gave came from recent blog posts and my FAQ page, with one exception: The first question Lisa and Maya asked
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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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TV and Internet lawyers often qualify the word “consequences” with 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 I call a “rage-inducing simplification.” Rage-inducing simplifications take a complex situation
Trump’s stealing, mishandling, and concealing of United States defense secrets is on the Republican Party for refusing to remove Donald Trump from office when it was clear he was not fit to be president. They had the chance to remove him (twice) but instead shielded him. This is on them. New Information about the Search
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Timeline [My commentary in red] Overview: The government is conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper removal and storage of classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful concealment or removal of government records. We know from the Search Warrant that the following crimes are being investigated: 18 USC 2071 — Concealment, removal
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Last weekend I had an entirely different topic planned for this week. Then, we had perhaps the weirdest week in American presidential history. Let’s start with a chronology. Trump, through a series of bizarre actions, makes public that he is under investigation for violating the Espionage Act August 8, Monday: The FBI, pursuant to a warrant,
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I initially wrote this in March of 2022 and I have been periodically updating it since. The March 2022 version is here. For some reason, not all the links are showing up as a contrasting color. I stopped updating this after indictments were brought. No skipping ahead! This page is meant to be read in
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