The MofoUSM @MofoUSM

It’s clear that Cannon cannot grasp the gravity of the contents of the docs or what’s at stake in this case. Recall that in the special master debacle, she was willing to include the classified documents in the “executive privilege” claim (meaning they would not be turned over to…

Brandon Van Grack @BVanGrack

23 hours ago

Really worth noting that the Court has actually seen all of the highly classified docs at issue that were not returned to Archives and DOJ—and still appears to be struggling with the merits of the case.

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The richest man in the world attempts to promote eugenics by abusing calculus. It never ceases to amaze me that this dipshit larped his way to so much money. He genuinely does not understand anything.

@NateSilver538 Or…hear me out…Republicans and their propaganda machine decided that attacking academia was a good target to undermine public perception in education. You know…2017 when Betsy DeVos was Education Secretary. But sure…wokeness or whatever. Also…what the hell are you even…

1/ I’ve been covering Donald Trump more or less full-time since the day he announced his presidential candidacy in 2015, so there are things I remember as part of my job that many who follow politics more casually don’t and wouldn’t. One is that Trump believed he’d lose in 2016.

28/ Would you believe we haven’t gotten to the good part of the story yet? That’s what comes next.

21/ When Hicks describes a crisis situation in Trump’s camp in early-/mid-October 2016, that was the crisis. They believed they would lose the election, but *also* believed Trump was going to lose what he really cared about, and his actual reason for entering politics: his brand.

19/ Trump’s money is based on his brand, full stop. If his brand is destroyed, he is. One of many things the dossier got *right* was that after the Access Hollywood tape the Kremlin decided Trump was going to lose the 2016 election and it began preparing for a Clinton presidency.

17/ People forget how close that came to happening. And it would have been the most embarrassing event ever to occur to a U.S. politician in U.S. political history—the literal *concession* of the presidency to the opposing party. It would’ve destroyed Trump in *multiple* ways.

14/ What people miss about the dossier—largely because no one really read it—is that it was actually all about Trump using Cohen and Manafort to maintain good relations with the Kremlin and to advance his interest in real estate deals the Kremlin was dangling. All that was true.

9/ Trump believed his only chance of willing—but it was a two-fer, as it’d bring him closer to those he wanted to do business with if he lost—was gaining aid from future business partners (Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt, primarily) to ruin Clinton with a scandal.

8/ That’s why his top natsec adviser, Flynn, kept meeting with Putin and Putin agents like Kislyak; that’s why Kushner and Trump’s National Security Advisory Committee held so many pre-election meetings with Kremlin agents. Trump believed he’d lose, but wanted a lucrative loss.

7/ That’s why his top adviser on Russia was a friend of Putin, Dimitri Simes (who fled the US, and now works for the Kremlin); that was why his top advisers on the UAE were Emirati agents: Erik Prince, George Nader (a convicted pedophile) and Yousef al-Otaiba (UAE’s ambassador).

6/ That’s why Trump hired Paul Manafort, a man he well understood had been working for the Kremlin since 2006, as his campaign manager: he was led to understand that it’d please the Kremlin, and Tom Barrack helped him understand it would please Russian allies like the Emiratis.

5/ That’s also why, as the NYT reports, the Trump family responded approvingly to an offer by the Saudi and Emirati governments—made at Trump Tower in August 2016—to illegally aid Trump’s campaign with the aid of Israeli intel experts. Those were nations Trump did business with.

4/ Because he didn’t believe he’d win in 2016, Trump crafted a foreign policy agenda that had nothing to do with American interests; it was focused on his business interests. That’s why he had Cohen *negotiating a real estate deal with the Kremlin* throughout the election season.

“So less here is more. The shorter and simpler the court’s immunity decision, the more commonsensical and norm-preserving it will be. Send the case back to the District Court with terse direction to determine at trial whether Trump’s conduct, as proven, entailed electioneering to…

A thread of recommendations from 800 days ago, at the start of Russia's all-out attack on Ukraine.

Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63

2 years ago

Ok, after years of warnings were ignored and hearing "Garry, you were right!" all damn day today, I'll repeat what I said in 2014: Stop telling me I was right and listen to what I'm saying now. My recommendations follow: 1/5

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This is news but it's hardly unexpected. Judge Cannon seems desperate to avoid trying this case. This isn't justice. defendants aren't the only ones with speedy trial act rights, we the people have them too.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney

a day ago

BREAKING: Judge CANNON has indefinitely postponed Donald Trump's trial date in Florida. It may be months before we know the new schedule. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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Our big ol dunk on living under the dead hand of originalism. Slate magazine launch is today. slate.com/news-and-polit…

All joking aside, it’s sort of hard to see how RFK Jr can sustain the “dead worm that ate part of his brain” news cycle. That’s tough to come back from; makes him damaged goods for almost any purpose he might be otherwise put to use. Good news, all around really. Go worms! 🐛 🪱