1. Thanks. I don’t think Sept. 8 is real. More likely just a diversion. Several possibilities.
I’m concerned people in his administration are so openly committing chargeable violations of federal law. That is a national security red flag. @FBIWFO
2. Pence is steering clear more than others so that might support a conclusion he’s being teed up to be ditched or more likely to be 46 when Trump bids aloha. Another fact that may be consistant with the Pence 46 gambit is Trump’s campaign is sitting on a lot of cash.
3. I don’t see evidence the #Koch ecosystem is heavily invested. They dread the thought of loss of the Senate. He will have a monthly attorneys fees burn for some years. He can’t keep up the charade of a campaign and have cash to survive. But going full #HelterSkelter is cheap.
4. I expect Trump to try to burn the country to the ground. His own family is warning us he’s a sociopath and capable of anything. Every move towards violence by Trump or his mob must bring litigation threatening his financial interests.
I try to make sense out of otherwise bizarre facts. Trump has always been careful about Epstein and there's sworn court evidence that he was involved in his crimes. But his sudden decision to diss the MAGA cult's biggest obsession, with the predicable blowback is puzzling.
What if it isn't just about Trump? What if it's about the Mossad and the long-reported Epstein connection to shadowy Mossad operations that used American and foreign Israel supporters to perform intelligence operations?
There’s historical and investigative reporting around the concept of “Sayanim" (Hebrew: סייענים, meaning “helpers” or “assistants”), which refers to unpaid Jewish civilians who assist Mossad operations out of loyalty to Israel.
I woke up today with a plan to read Justice Coney-Barret's opinion on nationwide injunctions. I got about 5 minutes into it and put it down. It was wrong and demonstratively so right out of the gate. It proceeds from a false proposition: That history shows that single
federal courts lack the power to enforce nationwide injunctions against non-parties. That's wrong and I say that after practicing over thirty-years in an area of law with a well-known nationwide injunction that also applies, in circumstances, world-wide.
It's triggered by the filing of a small petition before an Art. 1 federal court with the power referred to it by the Art 3 court and binds all persons immediately. If they act without knowledge of this injunction they'll likely be ordered
Most of the world is making a very big and dangerous mistake about Julani and the HTS regime controlling Syria. He is a Jihadist. An ideologue who has apparently convinced several intelligence services that he will play ball. Perhaps the time he was in Iraq
involved some attempt to recruit him. It just doesn't work that way. He's al-Qaeda and he will never change.
I have for decades believed Hamas was victimizing Palestinians to advance Iran's and other malign actors' goals of maintaining constant conflict with Israel and the US.
I also believe that the manner in which Netanyahu has conducted the war in Gaza constitutes aggressive war and genocide both chargeable under the UN Genocide Convention. The criminal mishandling of the war in Gaza notwithstanding, Israel has a right to eliminate HTS from Syria.
If Trump abandons our Ukrainian allies and instead takes the side of a monster charged with crimes against humanity he risks being charged. His break with our allies means he can't rely on Rome Statute signatories violating their obligation to honor an ICC warrant if he travels.
If Trump finally woke up to the risks that he faces that John Robert's absurd immunity decision can't remedy, he will wisely leave Putin to his fate. With Trump hemorrhaging support within his base, he can't afford to look like a traitor, especially while he allows a drunken
popinjay to destroy our DOD and leak our secrets. Xi is calling out Trump's lies about talks demanding Trump face humiliation by terminating his China tariffs as a condition to talks. Ship sailings from China are down 60% meaning in just weeks US store shelves will be empty.
El Salvadore is a signatory of the Rome Treaty. Is Bukele conspiring with a non-member to violate Rome Statute? Could that be jurisdictional hook to permit @ICC to charge, Bukele, Trump, Vance, Noem, Steven Miller, Pam Bondi, @PressSec, Musk and creepy ICE guy?
SCOTUS 9-0 says Trump is breaking the law and the Constitution. But they don't have the power to force him to stop. If Trump and every Cabinet head involved gets an international arrest warrant if they don't resign, that might shut Trump down. Rome Statute:
The Kremlin continues to push a false narrative about Ukrainian forces remaining in the Kursk region when Ukraine fully withdrew over two weeks ago. It's possible a few reconisance units remain but even that is unlikely. So why the big lie?
My initial thought was Putin was trying to keep the Russian population engaged in his patriotic war to defend the Motherland, but I'm moving away from this propaganda motive to one of greater concern.
If the Project Owl data is accurate (and I believe it is) Putin may be preparing a spring offensive and the objective is Kyiv. Here is the current map showing all Ukrainian forces have withdrawn and have also left the border thinly defended