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Trump embarks on expansive

artappraiser — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 12:23:38 +0000

In reply to Hot Revenge on The Menu at the White House

Trump embarks on expansive search for disloyalty as administration-wide purge escalates, with a 29-year old former personal aide at the helm. W/⁦@AshleyRParker⁩ and ⁦@ToluseO⁩ on a president determined to root out those not totally loyal. https://t.co/fj8xAOCI5G
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 22, 2020

Johnny McEntee called in White House liaisons from cabinet agencies for an introductory meeting Thursday, in which he asked them to identify political appointees who are believed to be anti-Trump, three sources familiar with the meeting tell Axios.https://t.co/li3S3MLjG8
— Axios (@axios) February 22, 2020

Marcy points out the Flynn

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 05:54:10 +0000

In reply to Turns out Rick is right, as

Marcy points out the Flynn offer may be designed to show that the government wasn't overreaching in it's sentencing suggestion, avoiding one big grounds for appeal or pardon). So since probation was laid out as an almost tingue-in-cheek recommendation, the filinfg does parenthetically highlight subtly some factoids that will likely piss Judge Sullivan off, such as Flynn being in a high trusted position and still pulling his shit. Total time sentenced for non-disclosure was never going to be great, so a 6 month is maybe max to expect. But Mike put a crazy woman in charge of his renewed defense and withdrawn guilty plea/cooperation, so there's little chance if just probation, unless they have Judge Sullivan's grandkid in an undisclosed location, which is distinctly possible (who's got the keys to Lindsey Graham's balls?)

https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/01/29/flynn-seizes-the-rope-to-hang-hims...

Listen to Carrie https://t.co

artappraiser — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 02:53:47 +0000

In reply to F you all. GOTTA SAVE BUDDY

Listen to Carrie https://t.co/9NsOsdbRW4
— Manuel Roig-Franzia (@RoigFranzia) February 12, 2020

Liu had been personally

artappraiser — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 02:43:21 +0000

In reply to SCOOP: Trump suddenly pulls

Liu had been personally vetted by prior Trump WH counsel which appointed her to US attorney for DC, after she served on the Trump presidential transition and as a senior Treasury appointee.. This move is remarkable, especially as sources say Liu had no role in Stone's sentencing https://t.co/DQtTZYL69f
— Spencer Hsu (@hsu_spencer) February 12, 2020

SCOOP: Trump suddenly pulls

artappraiser — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 02:33:34 +0000

In reply to Hot Revenge on The Menu at the White House

SCOOP: Trump suddenly pulls former U.S. attorney for D.C.'s nomination to Treasury post ... https://t.co/ikeGefjpmh
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) February 11, 2020

He's now attacking her

artappraiser — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 01:59:38 +0000

In reply to Judge Amy Berman Jackson

He's now attacking her directly with 9 days to go:

Trump now attacking Judge Amy Berman Jackson who is still 9 days away from making a sentencing recommendation. https://t.co/JLFM1FrrmO
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 12, 2020

Turns out Rick is right, as

artappraiser — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 01:24:03 +0000

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Turns out Rick is right, as it's been done before:

“Senior officials at the Justice Department also intervened last month to help change the government's sentencing recommendation for Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn” https://t.co/s5hKS082SB
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) February 12, 2020

Judge Amy Berman Jackson

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 23:41:26 +0000

In reply to 3 Stone case mousketeers now:

Judge Amy Berman Jackson seems unlikely to deviate from her sentencing -
especially with Stone's clever trick of putting her in crosshairs -
so is the strategy to blame her for being an Obama appointee and overstepping
the revised low sentencing recommendation, and then giving Stone a pardon?

I guess I shouldn't say that won't fly, since these days anything will...

ah, finally: D'Artagnan!

artappraiser — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 22:30:19 +0000

In reply to 3 Stone case mousketeers now:

ah, finally: D'Artagnan!

Fourth and final Roger Stone prosecutor -- Michael Marando -- has withdrawn. DOJ's new sentencing memo was signed only by John Crabb Jr., acting head of the criminal division at the US attorney's office in DC. Crabb is a longtime career prosecutor. pic.twitter.com/Ff8aust91x
— Mike Scarcella (@MikeScarcella) February 11, 2020

ok Philip Bump tries to

artappraiser — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 22:10:42 +0000

In reply to Hot Revenge on The Menu at the White House

ok Philip Bump tries to summarize the whole thing:

I walked through everything that's unfolded in the aftermath of Trump's impeachment acquittal.

From the firings to the rants to the tweets to the Stone debacle — and that's just part of it. https://t.co/XrKB5Nqp4X
— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 11, 2020