A year’s work showed us the pipeline of #SeditionVIPs who streamed from rallies to Capitol grounds. Collecting a year’s notes into one timeline (and adding a 1500-page FOIA) makes the path to Jan 6 more clear. Read thread for a walkthrough - it’s a lot. 2/https://t.co/REZjvNQQLspic.twitter.com/68xGaVnFUD
EXCLUSIVE: While Trump was in office, staff in the White House residence periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet — and believed the president had flushed pieces of paper, @maggieNYT scoops in her forthcoming book, "Confidence Man." https://t.co/SMXWUuc1i1
Note: will be published Oct. 4 by Penguin Press, so this is awful early to leak parts to try to sell it. Maybe originally timed to coincide with the midterm elections? But let out now to coincide with news of the National Archives complaining to the DOJ about Trump? To let the DOJ know there is someone out there who confirmed the same thing to her confidentially?
I see there is a lot of bitching on Twitter about Haberman "withholding" the info. from the NYTimes and the public to sell a book. But it's not really time to sell the book yet with an Oct. release date, I just wanted to point that out. She may still be writing, still be getting info. from ex-White House sources. Whether or not such things should go to the NYTimes rather than to Axios to help sell her book down the line is another question. And then there's also the question of who told Axios this...
The other related leak added for enticing detail:
Haberman reports Trump has told people that since leaving office, he has remained in contact with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un — whose "love letters," as Trump once called them, were among documents the National Archives retrieved from Mar-a-Lago.
To me that is a suggestion of what activities he might be delusionally pondering to do if the U.S. presidential thing doesn't work out. He's keeping in mind that Kim loves him, and therefore here is someone he could do something with! In the grand tradition of a confidence man his whole life. Trump Amusement Park or Trump Wrestling Federation in Pyongyang, etc., that type of thing, with resulting crowing about how he opened North Korea to the world...would not be surprised if there is no confrontation with the reality that he could end up in prison....
""to probe Trump's handling of White House records" - tattered torn up papers clogging the toilet bowl...
I'm not sure where an anal probe fits in with the Inspector General's duties, but i can see why the janitor kept it on the QT. Did someone get a swirly out if this?
smart attorney, hoping to drag his client's case out forever (and gain other right-wing defendants to boot?)
Jan. 6 defendant Christopher Alberts, charged with bringing a handgun onto Capitol grounds (among other offenses), is arguing some of the counts should be dismissed because the law barring firearms at the Capitol violates the 2nd Amend. https://t.co/0kTbSxBEyapic.twitter.com/eJJdIRwtsz
Sparse call records are the latest obstacle facing the House panel, which is trying to document what President Trump was doing during the attack on Congress.
WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has discovered gaps in official White House telephone logs from the day of the riot, finding few records of calls by President Donald J. Trump from critical hours when investigators know that he was making them.
Investigators have not uncovered evidence that any official records were tampered with or deleted, and it is well known that Mr. Trump routinely used his personal cellphone, and those of his aides, to talk with other aides, congressional allies and outside confidants, bypassing the normal channels of presidential communication.
But the sparse call records present a major obstacle to a central element of the panel’s work: recreating what Mr. Trump was doing behind closed doors during the assault on Congress by a mob of his supporters.
The gaps in the call logs were the latest in a string of revelations this week about the extent of Mr. Trump’s flouting of the rules and norms of presidential conduct, and how his penchant for doing so has left an incomplete record of how he operated while in office [....]
Top Secret documents taken to a golf club in Florida. Would be awesome if our law enforcement folks actually enforced the law. Petraeus was charged and convicted of a crime for taking home his personal notebooks from Afghanistan and Iraq.
They've been accessing the GJ material in issuing withholdings with BuzzFeed. Among other areas. Including on Bannon which pertains to more interesting conduct for Trump than obstruction.
Elsewhere Marcy notes how Barr damaged these other Mueller referrals, so basically there are a lot better/more serious recent offenses to go after than trying to desperately revive these expiring events - the crimers did keep criming, after all. Jan 5 and Dec 18 won't expire for years, and you can't send Trump to jail twice.
Eric Trump, and Donald Trump’s long-time chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, both sat for depositions with the New York Attorney General’s office and asserted their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination over 500 times.https://t.co/6FPOW98DHa via @newrepublic
“‘There’s no Team America for Trump,’ Hill recalled. ‘Not once did I see him do anything to put America first. Not once. Not for a single second.’” https://t.co/QrSm68L9p6
Desperately seeking Antifa-infiltrated FBI from a secluded location (with the lights dimmed) and wearing his NYPD sweatshirt (with "America's mayor" chyron a nice extra touch) :
In a new interview, Rudy says he was walking to his hotel the night of J6 with two “Antifa experts,” claims that one person they saw that was arrested is Antifa and was working for the FBI, and “most of the damage looks like it was done by people that were working for the govt.” pic.twitter.com/UfxDVUvjl3
Breaking News: The prosecutors leading the Manhattan district attorney’s inquiry into Donald Trump have resigned. The D.A. is said to have doubts about the case. https://t.co/n6W30FopJw
This guy Lawyer, founder http://MainStreet.law repping small/mid-size businesses, entrepreneurs, creators. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. Commentator @CNN@MSNBCsays this:
The resignations from the Manhattan DA's office are troubling, to be sure.
Clearly they felt that Bragg can't be swayed. Maybe he cannot be. But it also just may take time for him to come around. He's had a difficult start to his term. He may not want to rock the boat right now.
To be clear: I am NOT trying to make excuses for Bragg. I feel he is showing a distinct lack of courage, and I wonder why he even wanted this job. He may wonder that himself right now.
But I'm trying to give my best guesses as to what's going on.
The Manhattan DA case against Trump is SEPARATE from the NY AG case against Trump.
The NY AG case is alive & well, as we've seen the last few weeks. The AG's office has a strong track record against Trump -- and Tish James has shown a fearlessness that is lacking elsewhere.
History Break. Note the subheadline "Unparalleled Obstinancy of the Obstructors."
The front page #OTD in 1877. In the Compromise of 1877, the Presidential election of 1876 is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner, even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote. #nytimespic.twitter.com/7dG6Ohel1R
Jan. 6 committee concludes Trump violated multiple laws in effort to overturn election; The findings were filed in federal court.
New: “The Select Committee also has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.”https://t.co/dglYZdH7An
This is big. 1/6 committee just said they have a good-faith belief that Trump committed crimes.
"The Select Committee also has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President & members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the US in violation of § 371" https://t.co/i6RngpZ0Nt
Leader of Alabama Chapter of Oath Keepers Pleads Guilty to Seditious Conspiracy and Obstruction of Congress for Efforts to Stop Transfer of Power Following 2020 Presidential Election https://t.co/if4gpsFi8g
George Papadapoulos still with the big lying mouth - spreading Zelensky disinfo with ANSA news forgery, back to Hillary conspiracy theory, and fluffing up Durham's creaky "investigation" without end.
This is what's left with Trump gone - more detritus and one scum.
Floundering in his attempts to wield political power while lacking a political office, Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation’s sleeve. His residual power, which he must use or lose, is to influence his party’s selection of candidates for state and federal offices. This is, however, perilous because he has the power of influence only if he is perceived to have it. That perception will dissipate if his interventions in Republican primaries continue to be unimpressive [....]
he goes on to elaborate, with examples. Was actually pretty interesting to me. He sums up a lot of Dem failings that GOP could attack more easily without Trump's meddling. And this point that war in Europe may change the trajectory away from Trump for this reason:
A European war is unhelpful for Trump because it reminds voters that Longfellow was right: Life is real, life is earnest. Trump’s strut through presidential politics was made possible by an American reverie; war in Europe has reminded people that politics is serious.
When the Supreme Court paved the way for the Jan. 6 Committee to access Trump White House documents, the vote was 8-1 with Justice Clarence Thomas dissenting. https://t.co/ohbN7EwxeO
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Note: will be published Oct. 4 by Penguin Press, so this is awful early to leak parts to try to sell it. Maybe originally timed to coincide with the midterm elections? But let out now to coincide with news of the National Archives complaining to the DOJ about Trump? To let the DOJ know there is someone out there who confirmed the same thing to her confidentially?
I see there is a lot of bitching on Twitter about Haberman "withholding" the info. from the NYTimes and the public to sell a book. But it's not really time to sell the book yet with an Oct. release date, I just wanted to point that out. She may still be writing, still be getting info. from ex-White House sources. Whether or not such things should go to the NYTimes rather than to Axios to help sell her book down the line is another question. And then there's also the question of who told Axios this...
The other related leak added for enticing detail:
To me that is a suggestion of what activities he might be delusionally pondering to do if the U.S. presidential thing doesn't work out. He's keeping in mind that Kim loves him, and therefore here is someone he could do something with! In the grand tradition of a confidence man his whole life. Trump Amusement Park or Trump Wrestling Federation in Pyongyang, etc., that type of thing, with resulting crowing about how he opened North Korea to the world...would not be surprised if there is no confrontation with the reality that he could end up in prison....
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/10/2022 - 1:04pm
p.s. staff in the White House residence could really be White House maintenance/cleaning staff person who told no one else? cause nobody asked them?
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/10/2022 - 1:07pm
p.p.s. The National Archives news came only 24 hours ago, I checked:
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/10/2022 - 1:09pm
""to probe Trump's handling of White House records" - tattered torn up papers clogging the toilet bowl...
I'm not sure where an anal probe fits in with the Inspector General's duties, but i can see why the janitor kept it on the QT. Did someone get a swirly out if this?
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/10/2022 - 2:31pm
smart attorney, hoping to drag his client's case out forever (and gain other right-wing defendants to boot?)
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/10/2022 - 1:26pm
also flushed down the toilet in the Oval Office? current NYTimes headline story, 4 reporters on it -
Trump’s Missing Call Logs Present a Challenge for Jan. 6 Investigators
Sparse call records are the latest obstacle facing the House panel, which is trying to document what President Trump was doing during the attack on Congress.
By Luke Broadwater, Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt @ NYTimes.com, Feb. 10, 2022, Updated 7:13 p.m. ET
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/10/2022 - 7:16pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/10/2022 - 8:58pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/11/2022 - 3:04am
Judge rebukes RNC's 'legitimate political discourse' language at Jan. 6 sentencing
She called the Capitol assault an effort to cancel out votes by a show of force.
By Gabe Stern @ ABC News, February 10, 2022, 6:45 PM
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/11/2022 - 3:27am
good statute of limitations chart:
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/13/2022 - 4:54pm
Elsewhere Marcy notes how Barr damaged these other Mueller referrals, so basically there are a lot better/more serious recent offenses to go after than trying to desperately revive these expiring events - the crimers did keep criming, after all. Jan 5 and Dec 18 won't expire for years, and you can't send Trump to jail twice.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 02/14/2022 - 1:29am
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/14/2022 - 5:44pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/14/2022 - 6:10pm
Weisselberg & Letitia James might bring that to a close
https://sports.yahoo.com/allen-weisselberg-couldnt-explain-gaps-15313483...
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 02/14/2022 - 9:02pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/14/2022 - 10:28pm
& AOC came prepared
https://digbysblog.net/2022/02/16/yes-she-went-to-washington-and-she-is-...
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/16/2022 - 3:47pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/18/2022 - 2:20am
Fiona Hill:
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/20/2022 - 8:11am
Desperately seeking Antifa-infiltrated FBI from a secluded location (with the lights dimmed) and wearing his NYPD sweatshirt (with "America's mayor" chyron a nice extra touch) :
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/20/2022 - 9:17pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/23/2022 - 9:04pm
This guy Lawyer, founder http://MainStreet.law repping small/mid-size businesses, entrepreneurs, creators. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. Commentator @CNN @MSNBC says this:
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by artappraiser on Wed, 02/23/2022 - 9:25pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/24/2022 - 4:29pm
Asset, dammit.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/24/2022 - 6:03pm
History Break. Note the subheadline "Unparalleled Obstinancy of the Obstructors."
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/02/2022 - 8:46am
Jan. 6 committee concludes Trump violated multiple laws in effort to overturn election; The findings were filed in federal court.
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/02/2022 - 9:19pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/02/2022 - 9:28pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/02/2022 - 9:32pm
Laurence Tribe to Merrick Garland: it's time now to get your ass in gear -
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/03/2022 - 2:46pm
Trump response (found retweeted by Haberman):
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/03/2022 - 3:37pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/03/2022 - 3:45pm
Roger Stone trending on Twitter because:
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/04/2022 - 12:39pm
George Papadapoulos still with the big lying mouth - spreading Zelensky disinfo with ANSA news forgery, back to Hillary conspiracy theory, and fluffing up Durham's creaky "investigation" without end.
This is what's left with Trump gone - more detritus and one scum.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/05/2022 - 5:19am
George Will: Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation’s sleeve
@ WashingtonPost.com, March 4
he goes on to elaborate, with examples. Was actually pretty interesting to me. He sums up a lot of Dem failings that GOP could attack more easily without Trump's meddling. And this point that war in Europe may change the trajectory away from Trump for this reason:
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/05/2022 - 1:25am
Just for the record:
Game show question of the future: what star of The Apprentice hired lots of staff that was weak and ineffective?
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/05/2022 - 11:33am
How the Manhattan D.A.’s Investigation Into Donald Trump Unraveled
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/05/2022 - 12:07pm
just a useful reminder:
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/15/2022 - 12:05am
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/15/2022 - 10:20pm