Jan 6 boosters are arguing that Jacob Chansley, the Q-Shaman, is the kind of guy who should get a payout from Trump's Terrorist Slush Fund. There are several problems with that. Most importantly, Donald Trump's DOJ charged and first jailed Jacob Chansley.
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Find a way to exacerbate GOP discomfort over Trump's Terrorist Slush Fund. It may be the only way to fight this corrupt gambit.
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One thing Trump's "Human Printer," Natalie Harp does late at night, as she feeds his narcissistic meltdowns, is to stoke distrust of rule of law.
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The biggest reason Joe DiGenova is a wildly inappropriate person to lead an attempt to criminalize the Russian investigation is his past efforts to get paid by Russian-backed Ukrainians to do the same thing.
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By handing Jamie Raskin details of the stolen documents investigation covered by grand jury secrecy, DOJ not just broke the law, but they made it more likely that Knight First Amendment Institute and American Oversight will be able to liberate Volume Two of the Jack Smith report.
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While Kash Patel continues to cover up his grand jury transcripts that he claimed under oath last September had already been released, his spox generates faux outrage over mere toll record subpoenas targeting a key subject of the Trump criminal investigations.
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Jared Kushner's client, Mohammed bin Salman, is clamoring for the US to risk American lives on an escalation in Iran.
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DOJ's improper seizure of Fulton County's 2020 ballots may be a test of the new powers John Roberts gave Donald Trump in his 2024 opinion in Trump v. US.
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