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In various trial news:
OUCH!
Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass asks David Pecker if he had any intention of printing Karen McDougal's Trump story.
Pecker says his company did not. Asked if his main purpose was to suppress her story so that it wouldn't influence the election, Pecker says, "Yes, it was."
NEW: Everyone's favorite tabloid grandpa, David Pecker, testified that once Cohen notified Trump that McDougal had come forward, Trump told Pecker McDougal was a "nice girl." Pecker not only believed Trump knew her, but that her story was true and should be "taken off the market."
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Love this from Kagan: She refers to the OLC opinion says the president can be tried and convicted of bribery. Why is that true? And do you think the premise of that OLC opinion is that the bribery isn't official, or is it more that the bribery WAS official but that the president could still be prosecuted for it?
Dreeban says that the idea of bribery requiring an official act but still being prosecutable is paradigmatic of the trump case because its the abuse of public office for private gain and it should not be immune. A public official can't extract a bribe without doing something in return that's an official act.
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This is a really good, but long thread from Judge Luutig, with his take on how SCOTUS missed the boat in oral arguments today. I've just included the opening paragraphs. I would try to summarize, bit don't think I could do it justice. Click the link to read the whole unspooled thread. threadreaderapp.com/...
The Court and the parties discussed everything but the specific question presented.
That question is simply whether a former President of the United States may be prosecuted for attempting to remain in power notwithstanding the election of his successor by the American People.
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I'm thinking that On The Job Training is not going well
Hi @laraleatrump Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum here! I watched your video, and it’s riveting stuff. But if you think you’ll be touching ballots in my state, you’ve got another thing coming.
Mike Sington@MikeSington·Apr 24
Lara Trump says the RNC will have their own operatives working at polling stations who can “physically handle ballots”, and somehow this is allowed because a judge died last year. The DNC attorneys better be all over this. (Video: Newsmax 2024
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Somehow, this kinda makes sense in a FIDJT kind of way
RNC’s ‘election integrity’ lawyer charged with election crimes www.msnbc.com/…
Christina Bobb, in case you were wondering which attorney.
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The Republican lawyer’s name might not be immediately familiar to national audiences, but Bobb made headlines last month after Trump took over the Republican National Committee and hired Bobb to serve as senior counsel for election integrity.
In other words, a grand jury in Arizona has indicted the RNC’s election integrity chief on election-related crimes. Specifically, the indictment includes charges of conspiracy, fraud and forgery.
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She has a robust pedigree, at least as far as Trump is concerned. Soon after the 2020 election, she began working with Giuliani and others to elevate baseless or later-debunked claims about the results in various states having been tainted by fraud. She was involved in the “audit” of votes in Arizona, working with Trump campaign official (and Georgia co-defendant) Mike Roman. She wrote a book, published in January 2023, cataloguing familiar (and baseless or debunked) criticisms of the results. It’s all there, from Antrim County to State Farm Arena to True the Vote. (The book’s forward was written by Stephen K. Bannon; Jim Hoft of the conspiracy-promoting site Gateway Pundit wrote a blurb.)
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Mic dropped. Worth clicking the xit to watch.
This entire ad by the North America Building Trade Unions (@NABTU) endorsing President Biden and exposing Trump’s lies is worth a watch
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I like presidents with a sense of humor.
Biden: Remember when Trump was trying to deal with COVID, he suggested injecting a little bleach in your veins… he missed, it all went to his hair
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This is a BFD!
In Historic Vote, the FCC Reasserts Its Authority to Protect the Open Internet and Safeguard Online Users www.commondreams.org/…
WASHINGTON - On Thursday, in a 3–2 vote, the Federal Communications Commission voted to restore Net Neutrality protections and reclassify high-speed-internet access services as telecom services subject to Title II of the Communications Act.
The decision is a major victory for the public interest: Title II authority empowers the FCC to hold companies like AT&T, Comcast, Spectrum and Verizon accountable for a wide range of harms to internet users across the United States. Prior to the historic vote, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said: “[We] take this action today to help ensure that broadband is fast, open and fair for all of us.”
Since the Trump FCC repealed open-internet protections in 2017, people from across the political spectrum have called on the agency to reinstate Net Neutrality and assert the agency’s authority to prevent broadband providers from harming online users.
Evening Shade Seekers! Happy National Hug a Plumber Day!