Saturday, August 27, 2022

Five takeaways from the Mar-a-Lago search affidavit

 https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3617301-five-takeaways-from-the-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit/

Despite numerous redactions necessary to protect “a broad range of civilian witnesses,” according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the document does shed some light on the search.

In particular, it indicates Trump had a much larger collection of classified documents than previously known, including some of the most sensitive secrets careful storage of records is designed to protect.

Trump’s narrative takes big hit with affidavit’s release

 https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3617635-the-memo-trumps-narrative-takes-big-hit-with-affidavits-release/

Trump has pushed the narrative that he and his lawyers were cooperating with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) inquiries about documents from his time in the White House. This, he claims, means that the Aug. 8 raid on his Florida estate was gratuitous.

But the affidavit that persuaded a judge to grant the search warrant tells a different story.

Even in heavily redacted form, the affidavit points out that there was a prolonged process lasting around seven months in 2021 before Trump’s team coughed up any documents at all.

Trump affidavit drops clues on scale of FBI investigation

 Trump affidavit drops clues on scale of FBI investigation

This is a serious criminal investigation. It's not just about who gets to keep some presidential mementoes and souvenirs, it concerns the security of closely guarded US government secrets - ones involving human intelligence gathering, foreign surveillance and perhaps even court-authorised surveillance of US citizens.

Friday, August 26, 2022

Palestinian brutality funded by Britain

 https://www.thejc.com/news/world/palestinian-brutality-funded-by-britain-4wfpYD7gPZcu3RdmjubQSf

Palestinian thugs who beat a leading critic of Mahmoud Abbas’s regime to death were members of a security force trained by the British Army at taxpayer’s expense, a JC investigation has revealed.

Dr. Oz shifts strategy as campaign ails

 https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/26/dr-oz-campaign-fetterman-00053810

On Tuesday, the campaign took it to another level, with spokesperson Rachel Tripp saying, “If John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn’t have had a major stroke.”


Bill Barr says he's 'pretty tired of' the Right's 'constant pandering to outrage' while discussing FBI raid

 https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-barr-pretty-tired-rights-constant-pandering-outrage-while-discussing-fbi-raid

"Well, what's the alternative?" Barr shot back. "You know, something I'm pretty tired of from- from the Right is the constant pandering to outrage and people's frustrations. And picking and picking and picking at that sore without trying to channel those feelings in a constructive direction. In my opinion, Ronald Reagan was a great populist not because he followed, you know, the frustrated instincts and the outrage of the people that many people who supported him but because he channeled it and was constructive about it." 


Thursday, August 25, 2022

Alert: '2020 Loser' Donald Trump Pushing Authoritarians In 2022 Races

Tapper: Republicans take credit for bills they opposed

‘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.