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Sep 23, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
SPOILER ALERT: Sen. Ron Johnson's much-hyped report on Joe Biden and Burisma is an 87-page rehash of previously known allegations (with minimal, if any, evidence), news articles and impeachment testimony.

Story w @AndrewDesiderio shortly
@AndrewDesiderio The report leads with Geoge Kent, a State Department official, saying Hunter BIden's role at Burisma was "awkward." Kent testified twice during impeachment to the same "perception" issue.
@AndrewDesiderio Ten of the interim report's 87 pages are dedicated to countering Democratic attacks and pushing back on reporting that Johnson and Grassley were fueling narratives that dovetailed with a Russian disinformation effort.
@AndrewDesiderio Also congrats @adamentous, your story on the Bidens is cited more frequently in the report than the live testimony the committee got from Amos Hochstein or Victoria Nuland. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
@AndrewDesiderio @adamentous NEW: The GOP senators' BIDEN report is a rehash of old conflict-of-interest claims, with few new details, about Hunter Biden. It provides no evidence of any impact on U.S. policy.

politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
@AndrewDesiderio @adamentous IMPORTANT: Many of the claims about Hunter Biden's financial connections are attributed to "confidential documents," which the report cites about 100 times.

Makes it impossible to know if these are business records, government filings, or something else. politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
@AndrewDesiderio @adamentous MORE: Democrats emphasize that the report's most salacious claims about Hunter Biden are built on Treasury "suspicious activity reports" — unverified filings that they say have never been used publicly this way by a congressional committee.

politico.com/news/2020/09/2…

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Apr 15
NEW: How do you seat a jury capable of judging Donald Trump, one of the most famous and polarizing people alive?

Here’s what the former president’s prosecutors and defense lawyers think they need to ask to root out secret biases among jurors.

politico.com/news/2024/04/1…
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Forget the experts: Prosecutors and Trump defense lawyers have already told us what they think is necessary in four different Trump cases. And the questions they want(ed) to ask range from pointed and political to philosophical and a bit odd.

politico.com/news/2024/04/1…


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At bottom there are five clear categories aimed at delving into jurors’ minds:

-Opinions about Trump, the man and his presidency
-Views about Trump’s criminal cases
-Political views/activity
-News consumption
-Wildcards aimed at unearthing hidden biases

politico.com/news/2024/04/1…
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Apr 12
Some interesting tidbits in Walt Nauta’s May 2022 interview with the FBI. They clearly had some doubts about his veracity and whether he had been coached in his answers.

They repeatedly emphasized that he had apparently misled Trump to meet w the FBI. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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At one point, the agents appealed to him to make sure he’d be “on the Govrnment’s side with this” because people risk/lose their lives to collect classified intel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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This is where the FBI agents seem to indicate Nauta’s story doesn’t check out, and it’s where the interview gets a little tenser. Image
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Apr 8
JUST IN: Jack Smith files his opening brief at the Supreme Court re: presidential immunity. The crux: Criminal law includes a million safeguards and due process protections that render Trump's claims about politically motivated prosecutions meritless. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/2…
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👀 Smith argues that even if the Supreme Court sharply narrows the obstruction statute in Fischer, Trump's two obstruction counts are still valid because it would apply to the "creation" of false documents (a.k.a. elector certificates. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/2…
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NEW: Jack Smith argues that Trump's involvement in the false electors plot will salvage the obstruction charges against him no matter what the Supreme Court does in United States v. Fischer.

w/ @joshgerstein

politico.com/news/2024/04/0…
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Apr 5
NEW: The rising tension between Jack Smith’s team and Judge Cannon over her recent series of bizarre decisions — and non-decisions — has overshadowed one of the most important cases in American history.

w/ @joshgerstein

politico.com/news/2024/04/0…
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Trump has been eager to exploit the clear frustrations between Cannon and Smith, taking to Truth Social to praise his judicial appointee and accuse Smith of seeking to “play the ref” — which of course Trump was doing with that very comment. politico.com/news/2024/04/0…
Cannon flummoxed Smith with her request for competing jury instructions based on premises they view as totally meritless.

She has yet to set a trial date, a month after a hearing to discuss it.

And she’s allowed a backlog of sealed filings to build up, shrouding the public’s view of the case.

politico.com/news/2024/04/0…Image
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Apr 4
NEWS: Bar discipline authorities say Jeff Clark violated his professional duties in his bid to help Trump derail the transfer of power in 2020.

Bar investigators say they intend to seek his disbarment. politico.com/news/2024/04/0…
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Bar investigators in D.C. say Clark attempted to coerce his superiors at DOJ to send a false letter claiming they had unearthed significant problems with the 2020 election results — a letter that if sent would have created chaos across the country. politico.com/news/2024/04/0…
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Bar discipline investigators said Trump turned to Clark — and considred placing him atop DOJ — when he grew frustated that its leaders wouldn't use their power to help him sow doubt about the election reuslts.

He viewed Clark as the solution, they say.
politico.com/news/2024/04/0…
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Apr 4
JUST IN: John EASTMAN is asking the judge who ordered his disbarment to stay her order so that he can continue to work as a lawyer and fund his criminal defense.

He has affidavits from clients — including MTG and Matt Gaetz — supporting his request.

documentcloud.org/documents/2453…

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Eastman says he has already spent more than $1 million in legal fees related to his representation of Trump in 2020 and expects to face $3 million total before it's over.

documentcloud.org/documents/2453…
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UPDATE: California bar investigators say the judge who ordered John Eastman's disbarment should *not* stay her ruling, arguing that his willingness to distort the law and facts for his clients remains a danger to the legal system and public. documentcloud.org/documents/2453…
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