‘Mr. Trump Went Through The Boxes Himself’

Bill Barr Lied About Considering Charging Trump With Obstruction Of Mueller, Court Says

Andrew Weissman: New Unredacted Memo From Trump DOJ Officials Is ‘A Doozy’

Unredacted Barr memo details DOJ rationale for not charging Trump

 https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3614681-unredacted-barr-memo-details-doj-rationale-for-not-charging-trump/

CREW President Noah Bookbinder called the memo “a breathtakingly generous view of the law and facts for Donald Trump.”

“It twists the facts and the law to benefit Trump and does not comport with a serious reading of the law of obstruction of justice or the facts as found by Special Counsel Mueller,” Bookbinder wrote on Twitter.

“The memo is premised in large part on the argument that there was no underlying criminal conduct and that it’s hard to charge obstruction without an underlying crime. Of course that’s not what Mueller actually found. … Mueller found there was not sufficient evidence to charge Trump and others with conspiring with Russia. He didn’t find no crime, just not enough evidence for charges,” he added.

House oversight subcommittee report says Trump officials had pressure campaign on hydroxychloroquine, other FDA issues

 https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/24/health/hydroxychloroquine-trump-fda-pressure-committee-report/index.html

Trump administration officials had a "crusade against (the US Food and Drug Administration that) resulted in damaging consequences for the coronavirus response," the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, led by Democrats, said in a report released Wednesday.

The report revealed that Navarro, who is not a medical doctor, and Steven Hatfill, an adjunct assistant professor at George Washington University whom Navarro brought to the White House in January 2020 as a volunteer on Covid-19 research, were fighting with FDA officials including Hahn on the effects and effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine -- which has since been found to not work against Covid-19 and potentially cause heart problems and even a greater risk of death -- and other drugs throughout the height of the pandemic.

Jared Kushner: If Trump acted like a 'normal person' he probably wouldn't have been president

 https://www.foxnews.com/media/jared-kushner-trump-acted-normal-person-probably-president

JARED KUSHNER: I think that people are always speculating on what Trump is like, and I always say the truth is hiding in plain sight. But what I wanted people to say, and another criticism people give of him is they'll say: OK, I love his policies, but I wish he would act like a normal person. I always say if he acted like a normal person, he probably, A, wouldn't have been president. And I think that he probably wouldn't have been as successful as a president if he was.

JARED KUSHNER: DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU READ MY FATHER-IN-LAW HAD MORE THAN 300 CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS AT MAR-A-LAGO

 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/jared-kushner-donald-trump-classified-documents

 Do you a) tell anyone asking that this is an ongoing investigation and we should allow the FBI and Justice Department the space to do their jobs; b) urge your father-in-law’s supporters to cease any and all attacks on law enforcement immediately; or c) claim that the government and the media are a bunch of snakes whose lies will soon be revealed? If you’re Jared Kushner, you apparently gotta go with C.

Jared Kushner Squirms After ‘Fox & Friends’ Host Asks One Tough Question

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/jared-kushner-squirms-after-fox-and-friends-host-steve-doocy-asks-one-tough-question

Kushner seemed taken aback by Doocy’s simple, legitimate question: “Why would the former president have that many classified things at Mar-a-Lago?”

“So I’m not familiar with what exactly the contents were,” Kushner replied, distancing himself from his father-in-law before turning around to defend him. Then, continuing to dodge Doocy’s question, he embarked on an extended tangent about the “secret backchannel” he denies trying to set up with Russia during the transition period following the 2016 election and acknowledged that this is not the first time his family has been accused of committing “treason.”

COVID-19 Vaccination Doesn’t Increase Miscarriage Risk, Contrary to Naomi Wolf’s Spurious Stat

https://www.factcheck.org/2022/08/scicheck-covid-19-vaccination-doesnt-increase-miscarriage-risk-contrary-to-naomi-wolfs-spurious-stat/ 

And yet, social media has been abuzz with the false claim that during Pfizer’s main clinical trial, 44% of the pregnant women who were vaccinated miscarried.

“Massacre: Nearly Half of Pregnant Women in Pfizer Trial Miscarried,” reads an incorrect headline from an Aug. 16 story from the conservative website the Florida Standard. A screenshot of the article was shared on Instagram and received more than 12,000 likes in two days.

False accusations of election fraud prompt some election workers across the US to quit ahead of Election Day

 https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-false-accusations-election-fraud-prompt-election-workers/story?id=88739763

Since the 2020 election, states across the country have seen a slow exodus of election officials prompted by an unprecedented level of misinformation, harassment and threats, according to election experts and officials.

And now, with only three months until Election Day, election offices in at least nine states including Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Texas and New Jersey have seen a new wave of departures and early retirements, ABC News has learned.

Archives says documents were not returned even though White House lawyer said Trump should hand them over

 https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/24/politics/national-archives-email-cipollone-trump-documents/index.html

Trump-era records were not returned to the government during the waning days of Donald Trump's presidency despite a determination by one of his lawyers that they should be, an attorney at the National Archives said in an email reviewed by The Washington Post.

"It is also our understanding that roughly two dozen boxes of original presidential records were kept in the Residence of the White House over the course of President Trump's last year in office and have not been transferred to NARA, despite a determination by Pat Cipollone in the final days of the administration that they need to be," Gary Stern, the National Archives and Records Administration's chief counsel, wrote in an email to members of Trump's legal team in May 2021, according to the Post.

GOP's Midterm 'Red Wave' Risks Becoming Ripple, Post-Dobbs Voting Suggests

 https://www.newsweek.com/gop-midterm-red-wave-post-dobbs-voting-suggests-1736658

But the bigger story, the data suggests, is increasingly anemic turnout among the rural Republican base in a number of key races around the country, signaling potential a potential enthusiasm gap among Republicans entering the final months of the midterm elections.

Justice Department releases unredacted Barr memo detailing decision not to charge Trump with obstructing Russia probe

 https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/24/politics/barr-mueller-report/index.html

Mueller concluded that there were several incidents with strong evidence of obstruction by Trump. But Barr's deputies argued that Trump mostly "attempted to modify the process under with the Special Counsel investigation progressed," but didn't try to "intentionally alter evidence," which would be more serious and could be criminal.

Russia's Ex-Chief of Human Rights Says Ukraine War Provides World Security

 https://www.newsweek.com/russia-human-rights-ukraine-war-konstantin-dolgov-state-tv-world-security-1736381

"Security guarantees for the Ukrainians, the population of Ukraine, our soldiers are creating these security guarantees as well as our officers and the militia in Donbas. " Dolgov said, according to the video's English subtitles.

"These are the security guarantees for the people of Ukraine, I am absolutely certain of everything I just said.

"These are the security guarantees from Nazism, from provocateurs, big and small, the security guarantees from atomic radiation."