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July 12, 2022
Late Morning Update:
The New York Times' liveblog of Tuesday's January 6 committee is here.
The New York Times' liveblog of NASA's release of images from the James Webb space telescope is here. It includes a livefeed of commentary by NASA engineers.
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Billions and Billions. Dennis Overbye, et al., of the New York Times: "In a brief event at the White House on Monday evening, President Biden unveiled an image that NASA and astronomers hailed as the deepest view yet into our universe's past. The image, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope -- the largest space telescope ever built -- showed a distant patch of sky in which fledgling galaxies were burning their way into visibility just 600 million years after the Big Bang. 'This is the oldest documented light in the history of the universe from 13 billion -- let me say that again, 13 billion -- years ago,' Mr. Biden said. The president ... praised NASA for its work that enabled the telescope and the imagery it will produce. Mr. Biden's announcement served as a teaser for the telescope's big cosmic slide show coming on Tuesday morning, when scientists reveal what the Webb has been looking at for the past six months. You can sign up here for a reminder on your personal digital calendar to catch the first glimpse of them." ~~~
~~~ BTW, here's where the phrase "billions and billions" really comes from. Fuzzy picture and sexism, but that's how TV was in 1980.
Jim Tankersley of the New York Times: "President Biden welcomed hundreds of survivors and family members of victims of mass shootings to the White House on Monday to promote newly enacted bipartisan gun legislation, an event that showcased both the president's desire to push for even more restrictive gun control measures and the political limitations that have held him back. In a sign of the fraught nature of the debate, Mr. Biden's remarks were interrupted early on by a protester, whose words were inaudible to the White House camera feed and to reporters covering the event in person, but who appeared to be arguing that the president and Congress should take more forceful action on the issue.... 'Sit down and hear what I have to say,' Mr. Biden said. The man continued for a moment, then was led away by an administration official." The protester was Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin was killed by the Parkland shooter. Mr. Oliver had previously met with President Biden. The Guardian's story is here.
Will Weissert of the AP: "President Joe Biden is meeting with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Tuesday for discussions the White House says will showcase the underlying strength of a relationship that of late has been more notable for the leaders' disagreements on issues including energy and Ukraine policy."
Zeke Miller of the AP: "The Biden administration on Monday told hospitals that they 'must' provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions following the Supreme Court's decision to end a constitutional right to abortion. The Department of Health and Human Services cited requirements on medical facilities in the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA. The law requires medical facilities to determine whether a person seeking treatment may be in labor or whether they face an emergency health situation -- or one that could develop into an emergency -- and to provide treatment."
Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times argues that Joe Biden is too old to be president again. She makes some good points. Near the end of her column, Goldberg writes, "If Vice President Kamala Harris's approval ratings remain underwater, Democrats have a number of charismatic governors and senators they can turn to." I'd like to know who those charismatic leaders might be. No one jumps out at me as being very presidenty.
Jacqueline Alemany & Hannah Allam of the Washington Post: "The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection plans to hold its seventh public hearing on Tuesday, with an expected focus on the ways in which ... Donald Trump and his allies summoned far-right militant groups to Washington as he grew increasingly desperate to hold on to power. The hearing is likely to drill down on the period after states cast their electoral college votes on Dec. 14, 2020, action that confirmed Joe Biden's victory. Trump, the committee is expected to argue, then shifted his focus to using the date of the congressional counting of the votes, Jan. 6, 2021, to block a peaceful transfer of power.... The committee will also highlight the ties between violent extremist groups and Trump associates -- connections lawmakers on the committee have already hinted at during previous hearings.... One of the live witnesses scheduled to appear on Tuesday is Jason Van Tatenhove, who served as national spokesman for the Oath Keepers and as a close aide to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from around 2014 to 2018...." ~~~
~~~ Scott Wong of NBC News: "Another witness expected to testify ... is Stephen Ayres of Ohio, who posted the former president's tweet encouraging supporters to go to Washington on Jan. 6 before he stormed the Capitol. Ayres pleaded guilty last month to disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building, but he has not been sentenced. ABC News has more on Ayres here. ~~~
~~~ ** Marie: The hearing, originally scheduled for Tuesday morning, has been moved back to begin at 1:00 pm ET.
Ryan Reilly of NBC News: "In the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes tried to get the organization's general counsel, Kellye SoRelle, to put him in touch with the White House, she told NBC News.In addition to her work with the Oath Keepers, SoRelle was a volunteer for Lawyers for Trump during the 2020 election and was in contact with many of the people fighting a doomed legal battle to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election.... As SoRelle tells it..., she never put [Rhodes] in touch with key figures, putting a firewall between her work with the Oath Keepers and her work to overturn the election results. Nonetheless, she was on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol (although didn't enter the building) on Jan. 6. And on the night before the attack, she was present in a parking garage as Rhodes met with Enrique Tarrio, the head of the Proud Boys.... SoRelle has already spoken extensively with the Jan. 6 committee, and given her overlapping roles, it's likely that testimony will come up at the panel's next public hearing Tuesday...."
** Andrew Weissmann in a New York Times op-ed: "Before the [January 6 committee] hearings, federal agents and prosecutors were performing a classic 'bottom up' criminal investigation of the Jan. 6 rioters.... But that ... approach sees the attack on the Capitol as a single event -- an isolated riot, separate from other efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the election.... The evidence gathered in the hearings describes a multiprong conspiracy -- what prosecutors term a hub and spoke conspiracy -- in which the Ellipse speech by President Trump and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol were just one 'spoke' of a grander scheme.... [That] 'spoke' ... should be seen and investigated simultaneously with the other 'spokes': orchestrating fake electors in key states, pressuring state officials like those in Georgia to find new votes, plotting to behead the leadership of the Justice Department to promote a lackey who would further the conspiracy by announcing a spurious investigation into election fraud, and pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to violate the law." ~~~
~~~ Marie: It's troubling that Weissmann has to point out the obvious to the DOJ, but he cites some evidence that suggests he's right to worry DOJ lawyers can't see the forest for the trees. For instance, "Department prosecutors were reportedly surprised by the testimony of [Cassidy] Hutchinson." If DOJ were doing its job, the department should know way more, not less, than a Congressional committee.
Judge Laughs Bannon Out of Court. Spencer Hsu of the Washington Post: "A federal judge on Monday refused to delay Stephen K. Bannon's trial next week after the Justice Department called an offer by the former Trump aide to testify before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection a 'last-ditch attempt to avoid accountability' on charges of criminal contempt of Congress. 'I see no reason for extending this case any longer,' U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols said after a hearing in which he rejected a host of Bannon's defenses -- including claims that Bannon thought his appearance was covered by executive privilege. The judge narrowed Bannon's defenses at trial mainly to whether he understood the deadlines for answering the House's demands to appear and to produce documents.... In an overnight filing, U.S. prosecutors urged Nichols to keep Bannon's trial on track for July 18 and to withhold from jurors Bannon's 'sudden wish to testify,' which they called an 11th-hour ploy to airbrush away the conduct that spurred his prosecution.... When Bannon attorney David I. Schoen ... [asked], 'What's the point of going to trial if there are no defenses?' Nichols simply answered, 'Agreed.'" (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) Politico's story is here. ~~~
~~~ Marie: This is pretty hilarious. Nichols is a Trump appointee. He left Bannon with pretty much no defense except, "I don't know how to read a calendar." Or maybe with that Steve Martin chestnut, "I forgot." Good luck with that, Steve-o. I guess you could throw yourself on the mercy of the court, but this judge seems short on mercy. For you, anyhow.
WSB-TV Atlanta: “A Fulton County judge ordered U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to testify before a special grand jury in Fulton County next month.... Graham said he would fight the subpoena. On Monday, the judge declared Graham a 'necessary witness' to the investigation. This is another step in a long legal process of getting Graham down from Washington to testify." I wonder if Lindsey has noticed that South Carolina & Georgia are contiguous. Lindsey could visit his constituents in the lovely city of Aiken, S.C., say, & drive to Atlanta in less than 3 hours. Even faster, I'll bet, if he hopped a plane.
Bad News. Oriana Gonzalez of Axios: "Former President Trump and his adult children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., are scheduled to testify under oath on July 15 as part of a probe by the New York attorney general into his finances, a court filing revealed Wednesday.... The former president and his children are slated to appear for testimony starting July 15 until the next week, unless a New York appeals court intervenes, according to the court documents." ~~~
~~~ Badder News. Bob Brigham of the Raw Story: "Trump was scheduled to be in Greensboro[, North Carolina for a scheduled event] the same day.... Tickets for the event were being sold for up to $3,955." Trump had to cancel the Carolina event.
Tony Romm of the Washington Post: "Top lawmakers are preparing to question IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig privately in the coming days over reports that the tax agency may have targeted two of ... Donald Trump's political enemies with extensive and rare audits. The moves by the Capitol's key tax-focused panels -- the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee -- come amid growing concerns that the IRS improperly subjected James B. Comey, the former director of the FBI, and Andrew McCabe, his top deputy, to unusual scrutiny after they led investigations into Trump and his 2016 campaign." (Also linked yesterday afternoon.)
Speaking of Showing No Mercy, Good for the Buttigiegs. María Paúl of the Washington Post: "Two days after Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh fled abortion rights protesters at a Morton's steakhouse in D.C., Chasten Buttigieg -- husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg -- tweeted..., 'Sounds like he just wanted some privacy to make his own dining decisions.'... The tweet drew criticism from some conservatives, including former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, who decried what he called an endorsement of 'the use of mob intimidation tactics' as 'wildly irresponsible.' But Pete Buttigieg defended his husband's remarks.... 'Any public figure should always, always be free from violence, intimidation and harassment but should never be free from criticism or people exercising their First Amendment rights,' Buttigieg said in a 'Fox News Sunday' appearance. He added that officials 'should expect' public protests -- especially after 'an important right that the majority of Americans support was taken away.'" (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ~~~
~~~ Marie: That's a rich criticism coming from Stephen Miller, who developed cruel anti-immigration policies (like separating immigrant children from their parents) -- the purpose of which was to intimidate potential immigrants -- and whose degenerate boss suggested officers could just shoot protesters in the legs.
Michael Kazin, an historian, argues in a New York Times op-ed that Americans will rebel against the Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling and against states than adopt abortion bans: "Today, if the history of Prohibition is any guide, the public will quickly turn hostile when activists with decent motives elect officials (or appoint judges) who carry out indecent and unenforceable assaults on individual freedom. In the end, most Americans will rebel against authorities who decree what they can do with their own bodies."
Rafael Baer of the Guardian: "The success of liberal democracy -- the best model yet devised for organising people into prosperous and free societies -- depends on a balance between the wealth-generating impetus of the market and the obligations politics must impose on business for the greater good.... The Marxist project to eliminate capitalism entirely degenerated into tyranny and bankruptcy wherever it was tried in the 20th century.... The post-cold war triumphalist moment for the west coincided with the digital revolution, producing a culture of arrogance and political complacency around the new-tech economy.... The result was a cultish veneration of the internet startup as a new kind of business to which old rules did not apply, and whose purpose was improving humanity as well as making money. The Uber files are a snapshot of a particular moment -- the peak of political credulity and negligence around the growing power of tech companies. But the basic rules of the new digital economy turned out to be not so different from the old analogue ones."
Annals of "Journalism," Ha Ha Ha. David Kurtz of TPM: "[Monday]'s little Fox News gem was a segment on what a huge bummer it is to visit Thomas Jefferson's Monticello these days, what with all the focus on slavery and what not at what was built as a slave plantation. A bow-tied, bespectacled guest for the segment was billed hilariously in one chyron as a 'recent Monticello visitor.' Turns out there's a little more to the story." Tucker claims to be a founding member of the League of the South, "a racist and secessionist forerunner of the current brand of white nationalism.... Tucker's star turn on today's Fox segment came just a few days after he served as a named source for a New York Post story headlined 'Monticello is going woke -- and trashing Thomas Jefferson's legacy in the process.'"
Kaitlan Collins, et al., of CNN: "US health officials are urgently working on a plan to allow second Covid-19 boosters for all adults, a senior White House official confirmed to CNN on Monday. The US Food and Drug Administration is making it a high priority, the official said. Second boosters have been authorized for adults 50 and older, as well as some people with weakened immune systems, since late March. But younger adults are eligible for only one booster shot, which was authorized in November. Federal agencies are looking to move quickly on authorizing a second booster for all adults, the source said."
The New York Times' live updates of Covid-19 developments Monday are here. (Also linked yesterday afternoon.)
Beyond the Beltway
We don't control the air. Our good air decided to float over to China's bad air. So when China gets our good air, their bad air has got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then, now, we've got we to clean that back up. -- Hershel Walker, explaining climate change to Georgia Republicans ~~~
Georgia Senate Race. Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post: "It's not yet clear who will be the weirdest and most unfit Republican Senate candidate in November. But my early pick is Herschel Walker in Georgia.... The flashing red lights and blaring sirens are not just about the former football star's myriad lies and stunning hypocrisy. That kind of stuff doesn't necessarily trouble GOP voters in the least, given their continued devotion to Donald Trump, who counts Walker as a longtime friend. It's Walker's combination of utter ignorance and total confidence, which challenges even that of the former president.... While Walker wanders along the campaign trail, Walker's Democratic rival, incumbent Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, has concentrated on emphasizing what he has accomplished for Georgians in his brief time in office. Despite the choice between crazed and competent, polls show Walker and Warnock in a statistical tie." ~~~
~~~ Marie: A very helpful read if you need to exercise your neck, because you'll be shaking your head from side to side. That said, I continue to believe that Walker must be suffering from head injuries from his days playing football, so if he weren't running for the Senate, I would be feeling truly sorry for him.
Pennsylvania. James Bikales of the Washington Post: "The small Pennsylvania town that hired the former police officer who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 did not conduct a background check required by law before making last week's hire, according to the state attorney general's office. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) wrote to Tioga, Pa., Borough President Steve Hazlett on Friday to inform him that the town had violated the state's Act 57 in hiring Timothy Loehmann without running his name through a database that flags past disciplinary action.... Shapiro wrote ... that state records show Tioga ... never ran Loehmann's name through the database.... Hazlett and his wife, MaryBess Hazlett, who also served on the borough council, submitted their resignation letters Friday, according to the Williamsport Sun-Gazette.... Amid protests against the hiring, residents have also pointed out that Hazlett appears to have made a post on Facebook in 2015 mocking Rice's death."
Way Beyond
Ukraine, et al. The New York Times' live updates of developments Tuesday in Russia's war on Ukraine are here. The Guardian's live updates for Tuesday are here. The Guardian's summary report is here. ~~~
~~~ The Washington Post's live updates for Tuesday are here: "Iran plans to provide Russia with 'up to several hundred' drones to be used in the war in Ukraine, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday. The move indicates Moscow is running out of precision weapons.... The death toll continues to rise after Russian strikes in eastern and northern Ukraine. At least 34 people were killed in Chasiv Yar, a city in the eastern Donetsk region, after a Russian missile hit a residential complex over the weekend. Three others were also killed Monday in Kharkiv after Russian airstrikes damaged a shopping center and residences."
Italy. Idiots Abroad. Angela Giaffrida of the Guardian: "An American tourist sustained minor injuries after he fell into the crater of Mount Vesuvius as he scrambled to retrieve his phone. The 23-year-old and his family reached the 1,281m-high (4,202ft) summit of the volcano towering over the southern Italian city of Naples after bypassing a visitor turnstile and proceeding along an out-of-bounds path. The man was taking a selfie, according to local press reports, when his phone slipped out of his hand and into the mouth of the volcano. He then descended into the crater in an attempt to get his phone back, only to fall several metres after losing his balance.... The tourist and his three relatives face charges after being reported by police for the invasion of public land. The group, which reportedly ventured to the volcano without any tickets, took a path that was clearly signposted as being forbidden due to being extremely dangerous." ~~~
~~~ Marie: Oh yeah? The sign was probably in Italian. You think Americans can read Italian or even understand international signs?... And you wonder why American tourists are not beloved around the world.
Sri Lanka. Hannah Ellis-Petersen of the Guardian: "The Sri Lankan president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has made a failed attempt to flee the country after airport staff stood in his way and forced him to beat a humiliating retreat. Rajapaksa, who is due to officially resign on Wednesday after months of demonstrations calling for him to step down, was reportedly trying to escape to Dubai on Monday night. However, officials said immigration staff refused to let the president come to the VIP area of the airport to stamp his passport and he would not go through the ordinary queues for fear of being mobbed by the public. As a result, Rajapaksa reportedly missed four flights to the United Arab Emirates, and he and his wife had to return to a nearby military base."
U.K. Aubrey Allegretti of the Guardian: "Britain's new prime minister will be announced on 5 September, it has been announced, as the starting gun was fired on a Tory leadership race that will see the hopefuls whittled down to two by Thursday." MB: It would seem they could get rid of Boris sooner than that.
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Hershel Walker's explanation for climate change reminds me of my explanation, when in fourth grade, to one of my friends who wondered how people "make babies." Well, I told her, the man and woman go to the doctor and the doctor gives them shots that put them to sleep and then he takes fluid from the man and puts it into the woman and soon it becomes a baby. I remember feeling very savvy having that information and being able to give it to others.
Reading that Walker is neck to neck with Warnock knocks my socks off––-but then––-it's "Georgia on my mind" kind of folks who obviously cotton to jocks whose mindset doesn't match their on field abilities.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/11/biden-saudi-trip-post-publisher-fred-ryan/
This one caught my eye.
I understand why the WAPO would be particularly sensitive to Biden's Saudi trip, but really, when has the U.S. possessed any great degree of moral authority since the end of WWII?
Even then there was that question of dropping The Bomb and a few other niggling details about that war's conduct that are hard to parse...
I think the Post could have and maybe should have made another argument against the trip, but it would seem (to me) that waving the morality flag is particularly silly considering our behavior over the last seventy or so years.
This morality thing is one of the stories we like to tell ourselves, not entirely unrelated to the feel-good lies we tell ourselves about climate change and other pressing issues.
The R party has a plethora of underqualified presidential potentials
for 2024.
Just to name a few: Don Jr., Princess Ivanka, Tucker Carlson,
Stephen Bannon.
There are hundreds of them, including 45, if he's not in prison by
then.
Bill-ee-yuns and bill-ee-yuns…
I remember it well. It became a popular catch phrase back in the day, and even though Carl Sagan was often criticized for what some pompous pedants referred to as over simplification of various scientific theories, he was a beloved figure who no doubt exposed many Americans to wonders that had previously been the filigreed domain of academics.
And while he may have simplified ideas that might have been fairly complex (too much so to retain the interest of most viewers or readers), he never strayed from largely accurate renderings of those ideas. For instance, he never, to my recollection, just made shit up like today’s ignoramuses on the right, such as drinking Clorox to cure a viral infection or spinning wild-ass tales of China stealing our “good air” and sending us their “bad air” for us to “clean”. Jesus.
Even his speculative narratives, such as the very real possibility of other sentient species somewhere among those bill-ee-yuns of star systems, were thrilling, educational, and memorable (“Contact” is still a fun read).
And PD, I’m with you in jaw dropping, stunned silence reading that an addled whacko like Herschel Walker is neck and neck with a smart, competent, hard-working senator, whose feet are planted firmly in the real world. But most of those willing to send this idiot to the Senate also sent another dangerous moron to the White House, so…
Betcha Carl, at his most wildly speculative, could never have predicted that. Aliens visiting from Alpha Centauri were a greater possibility back in the 80’s than the ascension of a self-promoting, “small-fingered vulgarian” to the White House. Those were the days…
I would argue that Senators Sherrod Brown, Sheldon Whitehouse and John Tester are presidenty. Governor Pritzker has the right stuff, as does Newsom. In the House, Katie Porter is a fierce advocate for truth and justice, as is Jamie Raskin. These folks are probably too smart to run, but the Dems have a bench that includes some good choices that are not Biden-Harris. Hoping Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar sit this one out.
Ak: And I'm wondering––-re: those "Bill-ee-yuns. wouldn't one wonder after "creating" the universe, with an incomprehensively huge number of uninhabited galaxies, why God took about 14,999,900,000 years to create humans. From that thing called history we learned that
we lived a very harsh existence on Earth for at least 97,000 years
without any divine intervention... (short lifespan; inter-tribal fighting;
turf wars; death during childbirth or surviving but killing their mothers; dying of bad dentition and other horrible diseases; extreme weather and earthquakes, sitting in the cold and the dark and being terrified of anything and everything that they didn't understand before we became'civilized'. Then God decided that he would speak to his beloved creation by revealing himself to a tiny group of people in the Middle East, giving them some ambiguous messages in Hebrew, of which would take hundreds of years to reach other parts of the world–-with of course many translations.
Just asking.
NJC: Nice group you gathered although Tester would not be on my list. I have always wanted Whitehouse to sit in that seat but me thinks he's perfectly satisfied in the Senate. My boy Beto will always be someone I want to see as governor or president. And wouldn't it be a kick to see Katie Porter front and center but I'm afraid she wouldn't appeal to many males cuz she's wicked smart and she's a WOMAN!
Good list, NJC.
And I would toss into the mix the persistently low Biden poll numbers and this one on the Repugnant side that can't have them dancing in Mara-Lago.
As usual, seems the nation is flailing about, still demanding instant answers without bothering to ask the relevant questions.
https://politicalwire.com/2022/07/11/mcconnell-warns-he-will-
paralyze-the-senate/
If democrats don't stop pushing their agenda of social spending and
climate change legislation.
WTF. Hasn't he been paralyzing everything for years?
I believe that Warnock's and Walker's poll numbers are so close because Georgia is a southern red state with a relatively high percentage of demonstrative R's (as opposed to shy and retiring R's). For committed R's, the important thing is to vote R, despite the particulars of the candidate. The two prime objectives are (1) to vote against D's, no matter the qualities of the candidates; and (2) restore the Senate majority to the Rs.
They expect that even if Walker is really brain-damaged, he is capable of voting the way the R Majority Leader tells him to. And that is all they require of ANY R senator. They like senators who aren't too smart.
https://www.facebook.com/tcmtv/videos/kathleen-turner-and-william-hurt-in-body-heat/188689019888256/
@Patrick: The one thin Walker has that all politicians crave is Name Recognition. You would be hard put to go and find anyone in the state who doesn't know his name.
I have to wonder who is the bomb at the end of the fuse that Liz Cheney lit that;s going to go off in the next session.
They can't be a minor player if the opposition is trying to silence or influence their testimony.
Listening to the NPR commentary after today’s Trump Treason hearing, I was not at all surprised to hear that, “Well yeah, all these treason planners talked to Trump, and Trump called a witness, but we can’t assume they were taking about insurrection or that he was calling—the day before a witness was scheduled to talk to the committee—to try to influence testimony; he could have been calling to ask whether the witness thinks Kyrie Irving should go to the Lakers after sucking with the Brooklyn Nets.
We have no hard evidence that Trump wanted to overthrow the government. It could have been a bunch of other guys. Maybe Trump wasn’t really aware this was going on.
Right.
This is like saying that Hitler had no idea about the Final Solution. It was all Himmler’s fault. Hitler had nothing to do with it.
This gives Creampuff Casper Milquetoast Merrick Garland a perfect out. “Who knows?”
Nothing will happen to Trump.
Nothing. Or maybe Garland will, sometime in the next year or two, start looking into this. Just in time for the Traitors to steal back the White House, at which point every page of the Jan. 6 committee findings will be shredded and the scraps torched at a Ginni Thomas right wing extremist bonfire party.
I have zero faith that the DoJ will do anything about this. Zero. No matter how much evidence is presented. And it’s been a mountain so far. Guess we need an Everest. Don’t worry, Merrick. Go back to sleep.