John Durham “Distances Himself” From False Right Wing Claims That Clinton Spied On Trump
Durham distanced himself from the Right Wing’s histrionics and the motion’s political importance.
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Durham distanced himself from the Right Wing’s histrionics and the motion’s political importance.
The fact that Trump has turned his politics into a profitable business venture is now increasing tensions within the GOP.
As Trump circles the drain and the pressure increases from all sides, we will see increasingly wild accusations which will lump everything under one grand conspiracy.
Scarborough’s questions are the common sense ones that seem to have very common sense answers, the violence was part of the plan.
Within a short period of time, perhaps a month at most, the House Select Committee will know who was in and around the White House and Trump in the time leading up to the riot until the hours afterward.
Novak Djokovic and LeBron James can fight it out as to which is the world’s greatest athlete right now or even which one has more international influence. But without regard as to which of the two might come out on top, Djokovic’s negative stance toward vaccinations matters on several levels, the first being – quite…
The Trumps may even get that criminal charge, but at least this writer/lawyer doesn’t see this ever going to trial.
Trump committed a crime that was at least as obvious, one that was much more serious, one that could have already caused considerable damage, and one that makes him look like a foreign asset more than a patriotic American.
Former White House Communications Director Stephanie Grisham discussed Trump’s paranoia when she was asked about his tearing up of documents.
Cheney penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed that reads almost as a warning, a promise, and an invitation, to join the right side of history. The truth is about to come out.
On November 20, 2020, Rudy Giuliani and “others around him,” contacted the Antrim County, Michigan, prosecutor James Rossiter and asked him to seize the county’s voting machines.
We are approaching a situation where perhaps 1,000 people on the planet set the global agenda for over nine billion.
Michael Steele, former RNC Chairman laid out reality on Morning Joe today and it sure sounds like he is aware of impending developments.
The Democrats better continue to say we’re pushing toward normalcy and throw in a few minor policies that demonstrate it, or they will get shellacked in November.
The politicians can and should criticize McDaniel, but she is primarily being used as a proxy and no one is fooled. McDaniel will play a minor role in the GOP’s 2022 fate. Ultimately, it will come down to how Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Mike Pence address the next four months that will really set the tone for November.
Consider the possibility that the biggest bomb of all is not testimony about Trump’s criminality behind the scenes, no – consider the possibility that the easiest and quickest way for Pence to win his battle with Trump is to just say that the election wasn’t rigged and anyone saying it was is just deranged.
The Republicans have already gerrymandered Texas, North Carolina, Alabama, Ohio, and many others out of recognition. And yet the message going forth is that they need to “match” Democrats’ toughness on the issue.
Circuit Judge Ariana Fajardo Orshan declined to dismiss the battery charges. These four men were not just “standing their ground.
It certainly feels as though the Republican Party is only beginning to wrestle with the problems it created for itself by attaching itself wholly to one man.
A new Alabama bill, “The Parent’s Choice Act” has made it out of committee and threatens to upend all of it and we’re not just talking about “charter schools,” we are talking about another run at segregation, which is bad enough with white flight.
Trump finally said the quiet part out loud. That’s what he wanted, he simply wanted the election overturned at any cost and he wanted it done that day. Today, reports are that Pence will address the matter,
U.S. Special Forces conducted an operation that led to the killing of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, the leader of the Islamic State terrorist group
Some of us have dream jobs that unfortunately involve the nightmare of having the television on MSNBC or CNN all day, every day,. One takes the good with the bad. And just like a teacher picks up the rhythms of the student body (tired, excited, stressed), and doctors pick up trends in health in…
Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) of the Select Committee, told CNN that Trump was absolutely tampering with witnesses by dangling pardons for Jan. 6 defendants.
Last week, unbeknownst to anyone, surely just as planned, Short testified to the Select Committee and gave the Committee perhaps the closest direct testimony they have received to date.
It appears clear that if DOJ wanted to prosecute Trump for doing “something” in flagrant violation of federal law, beyond attempting to overthrow the election, it has a ready-made case.
This weekend was different because it’s different Trump. It is exposed Trump. And if they come for him, he’s telling his movement to come for him. Fascism.
Cheney is telling us all now, promising us, based on what she knows – and she’s been right all along and known more than us – that Trump will absolutely do it all over again if we give him the chance.
People in the usual “anti-vax” community, namely the strong MAGA-types, have started inaccurately talking about professional athletes dying on the field, the court.
Trump can’t afford his legal bills. The former president only has $93 million in cash and debts that are exponentially higher.
If Tucker Carlson was asked to prove that he was a Russian asset – openly, perhaps if Russia had run a commercial on Fox News requesting that Tucker Carlson act as Russia’s spokesperson to the American people, he could hardly have been more efficient.
The Republicans will limit themselves to the most MAGA of the MAGAs and lose governorships, senate seats, even some House districts they might have otherwise won if the primaries come out as party leaders fear.
A group is using a Civil War provision of the 14th Amendment in an attempt to keep Cawthorn off the ballot from serving again as an “insurrectionist,”Â
As deeply disturbing as that phone call may be, and it is chilling, it may not represent the most “obvious” case with which to prosecute Trump.
If Barr testified to the Select Committee live on television – as we’ve been told to expect this spring – it would be utterly devastating to Trump.
The most outrageous and horrifying aspect of all of this is that I believe that some of the most powerful Republicans know exactly what’s happening and believe that a more “Russian-type” of government in the U.S., where minority rule would be consolidated around money and entrenched power is the best long term plan and are convinced a more “Putin-like” government is best for the United States.
It sounds to me like Rick Scott had some time to spend on Fox and really wasn’t prepared to talk about an actual problem.
For now, the media and everyone else, for that matter, are merely absorbing the horrific revelations from last week. But the real damage will come if and when they begin to be linked and reinforce each other.
If Biden is strong, or if the Democrats are strong and Biden chooses – on his own – to step aside to allow someone with a possible two more terms have a go at it, why would Trump risk a second injury from which he would never recover?
Despite the horrific year that the Democrats just endured, much of it can be blamed upon messaging alone
When Roger Stone is out viciously slamming DeSantis – a man considered to be one of the top MAGA leaders, it is almost impossible to not notice that the power in the GOP continues to slowly back away from Trump.
Trump’s real point seemed to be to attack the most prominent black woman in cable media, the only black woman to host her own primetime weeknight cable news show, one that often focuses on the type of racial justice for which King fought.
The floodgates are necessarily opened now. Trump’s pre-January 6th crimes, the pressure on states, the conspiracies, the phone calls, they are now in Garland’s lap whether he wanted to deal with them or not.
This morning, on Morning Joe, Conway had a lot to say about the stories we’re hearing about those 187 minutes.
When that many crimes, beginning with fraud against the United States and conspiracy to overthrow a government (sedition) exist on paper, and we have contemporaneous video of Kayleigh McEnany telling the world that these alternative electors were coming in “for Congress to make a determination.”
Jim Jordan’s letter explaining why he doesn’t have to cooperate with the 1/6 Committee falls apart during a fact check.
Manchin was open to changing Senate rules to make the Senate work better, but he said changing the filibuster won’t make the Senate work better
The keyword is conspiracy and when it comes to Trump conspiring in this crime one looks directly in two places, the people around him at the speech at the Ellipse (and its overriding purpose) and the people in the War Rooms at the Willard Hotel,
Flipowski, a former member of the Judicial Nominating Commission (a more important job than it sounds), says that Florida, right now, is an autocratic state.
If he’s dangerous, it’s because he will make a mistake that makes everything collapse, not do it purposefully, as the others intend.
The Trump administration forged documents for Michigan and Arizona declaring him the winner of the 2020 election.
Avlon discussed a crime that few people consider;Â Conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Joe Scarborough pointed out that Graham had so little to work with in attacking Biden because Graham was being such an obvious hypocrite.
It appears to some of us that Vice President Harris’s strong and needed message regarding the strength needed to remain committed to the rule of law might be seen as entirely inconsistent with the actions of their own Justice Department.
The regular voting MAGA and the media MAGAs, are going to be celebrating today as representative of one of their ultimate triumphs.
D’Souza is so busy creating a distraction from the fact that January 6th was an attempted coup and government takeover that he doesn’t seem to realize that he’s on national television admitting that January 6th was an attempted coup and government takeover.
So, while we’re still well aware of the fact that we’re amidst a Cold Civil War, it is not at all apparent to us that the situation must end in a fascist state where the Constitution exists but is ignored
Greg Pence might be able to testify as to whether his brother feared a plot to clear him from the building, a conspiracy, one in which the Secret Service would be taking orders from Trump, not Pence.
Very few Americans appreciate the danger that lies ahead in just the next month. The fact that President Biden spent a great deal of time on the phone with Putin on December 30th demonstrates that the President is most certainly does understand. No doubt, Putin misses Trump.
According to U.S. Army Major General Paul Eaton, with 39% of the population (essentially the entire Republican party) rejecting the last election, the military must fully prepare itself beforehand.
Perhaps a new space race would lead to technology that dramatically improves our ability to use renewable energy over fossil fuels, as just one example.
Vaccinations won’t keep a person from testing positive for the virus. But it’s far more likely to keep one’s symptoms down to a runny nose, and cough for three days, rather than a 30 day stay in the ICU.
Jared Schmeck, the Let’s Go, Brandon, Biden Christmas Eve phone call guy is considering running for office.
There is a new leak out that the much-discussed “War Room” in the Willard Hotel has been misreported. There was no “War Room,” there were “war rooms,” plural.
We hear a story about how Cawthorn met the young woman with whom he had a whirlwind relationship, married, and now a divorce announcement put out in a press release late in the day on Dec. 23rd.
It is still difficult to determine how one will handle the anniversary, but covering January 6th likely should involve a mix of the proceedings happening at the Capitol.
Trump demonstrated once again that everything with him is transactional and Trump’s feelings and beliefs about a person depend almost wholly upon the last thing the person did or said to him.
There is nothing Trump could do right now to redeem himself with respect to COVID. His refusal to take the disease seriously, despite knowing better (overestimating, according to Woodward), the half-baked “shutdown” that lasted a little over two weeks (“I want the beautiful churches open for Easter…”), and the vanity that prevented him from wearing…
It is now very apparent that Rep. Scott Perry is squarely in the middle of the Select Committee’s investigation and that the Committee already has significant evidence that concerns him.
In simple language, the statements regarding the texts and messages seemed designed to fit the elements of certain crimes.
He still has to face a president that has been his friend for twenty years and a Democratic Party that has the ability to make Manchin’s life miserable.
But the single most infuriating aspect of the article is that in the last two weeks we have seen more and more evidence emerge regarding a widespread conspiracy to steal the presidency.
Substitute Trump every time he says Israel and one has a much closer approximation of what passes for thought going through Trump’s mind.
As everyone knows, one can get away with anything in the House, including avoiding reality altogether. Districts are gerrymandered to the point where one would have to work at getting voted out of office. But the Senate is an entirely different animal. Having to win statewide means having to be accountable to the middle…
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is saying that Trump could face criminal liability based on the evidence emerging now.
Instead of hearing from a humbled and introspective Bill O’Reilly, we hear that he’s the exact same guy he has been all along.
Trump’s power over the GOP as his to control does seem to be in decline, very much to his detriment.
The most damning evidence remains just out of our grasp, the stuff Meadows retains as either still “privileged” or has on his personal devices or encrypted, is the evidence that most directly ties Trump to the entire conspiracy in the attempted coup.
Time did what modern media does. It played it safe. It didn’t offend anyone. It focused on the sexiness of stardom, of money, of power, and not the boring mechanics of government.
As with everything else, neither Kushner, nor Trump, were equipped with the tools to hold two thoughts, or one mature one, in their head at any given point. It eventually led to frayed Israeli-U.S. relations.
Whatever was before the appellate court, the court had no trouble drawing a straight line between the Trump administration and the attack.
Short of an arrest, it is almost impossible to imagine a politician having a worse week than Mark Meadows has had this week.
The nation might be seeing some of the first obvious signs of a McConnell versus Trump fight for control of the Republican Party.
The crew on Fox and Friends is fuming that the Christmas tree arsonist is out free.
Meadows must be very scared of those third-party phone records because Scarborough is right, that is the most obvious request for evidence in any administration.
If voters continue to hear that their vote for the moderate GOP candidate will result in handing the House to the nuttiest of the nuts, they might ruin their plan altogether.
Donald Trump had and now still has a problem with both Mike Pence and Marc Short.
The interview just sheds further light on how Trump’s vanity and self-obsessed nature could have put the country and the world into increased danger.
A D.C. National Guard official has written a report alleging that two high-ranking Army Generals lied to Congress in “rewriting” the Pentagon’s response to the January 6th riot.
 For the second time, Donald Trump unequivocally admitted to obstruction of justice by firing James Comey on television.
When a former federal prosecutor “guarantees” a victory on the basis of the evidence against someone, one should probably take him or her at their word. Because they don’t lose, which is exactly Glenn Kirschner’s point.
The average political news consumer is finding far more negative coverage of Joe Biden than that for Donald Trump,
Even some of the most cynical political observers could be surprised that the GOP would manage such a u-turn, one made not even a full year after the most pro-Russian president in history.
Gone are the days when Dr. Anthony Fauci would smile at the camera and wave away any question about the criticism he was getting.
The fact that Senators made supportive comments while silent regarding Brooks is a clear sign that, at least as of now, they are unafraid of Trump’s anger.
New Day dedicated a segment to the topic, in which they interviewed Trump’s Communication’s Director at the time, Alysa Farah-Griffin.
Bannon is threatening to release that information: Bannon has also likely talked to several other witnesses and knows what they’ve been asked and how they’ve answered, even though that, too, would violate an order.
There have been reports of friction in the Vice President’s office, but that certainly doesn’t mean Doocy is going to learn anything from Psaki with his question.
There is some beautiful symmetry in the fact that the Trump presidency began with him complaining about the official count in the crowd size at the inauguration and adamantly asserting that his crowd was the biggest ever and certainly bigger than Obama’s, and he left the presidency, in some ways, talking about crowd sizes…
It is almost as if Trump and Kushner paid $5,000 a month (or more) to live in a mansion owned by a guy that wanted a big favor from Trump.