Ronna McDaniel seems to be the earliest case in this group we know about, right?
With Trump Friday 9/25 (day before ACB event).
Then went home to Michigan and stayed there starting 9/26, notably skipping the debate (where there was a seat reserved for her). Tested positive Wed
McDaniel is significant because the other known cases tied to Trump were with him during the ACB event or in the days after it. But her last contact with Trump was 9/25, before the ACB event.
(Also, skipping the debate Tuesday suggests she was aware she could be sick by then)
The Post now reports Ronna McDaniel called the White House Monday 9/28 (day before debate) to tell them she wasn't feeling well.
As @pbump pointed out, on the afternoon of 9/28 Trump unusually used a separate podium from other speakers at a WH event.
Source close to McDaniel tells the Post that she got her positive result Wednesday 9/30 (day after the debate). Claims she wanted to tell the president but she (the RNC chair) couldn't reach him until... Friday. Hm.
Adam Fox (to be charged with conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer) posted a video this June complaining about COVID-19 restrictions on gyms in the state, feds say
Feds: Group met secretly in a basement, entrance was through a trap door covered by a rug. Phones had to be left upstairs. But one attendee wore a wire.
Firearms training, attempt to construct an IED, talk of shooting up Gov. Whitmer's vacation home
Judge Emmet Sullivan’s hearing about whether he should let DOJ dismiss the Flynn case is about to start. Expect some grilling.
The odd situation here is that both DOJ and Flynn’s lawyers want the case thrown out. But Judge Sullivan was suspicious of DOJ’s motives, and appointed John Gleeson, a retired judge, to argue against them.
Gleeson filed a scathing brief arguing that DOJ's reasons for seeking dismissal were "pretextual," "riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact," and that "the government has engaged in highly irregular conduct to benefit a political ally of the President."
The gist of the incorrect date, @emptywheel argued, is that Flynn’s team used it to argue that it was *Biden’s idea* to investigate Flynn re: Logan Act.
But it wasn’t. The meeting w/Biden was on Jan 5. And the FBI was looking into the Logan Act on Jan 4.
Andrew Weissmann writes that he’s legally not allowed to say whether Don Jr. said he’d invoke the Fifth rather than testify to Mueller’s grand jury, but he mentions that as one possibility for what happened
Per Weissmann, when Mueller was appointed, there were already four investigations into Manafort. Mentions MLARS (money laundering), FARA, and the loans from Stephen Calk.
Mueller, "playing a hunch," put Weissmann in charge of going after Manafort, with the goal of flipping him.
Weissmann writes that the Russian trolls investigation was born when Facebook lawyers came in to volunteer info in Aug 2017.
Cohen investigation was born when a lawyer for a bank tipped them off about a suspicious activity report re: Essential Consultants in June 2017.
I largely agree with this thread. Having said that I do think McConnell did his best to make it *feel* like something new and unprecedented was happening in 2016 and that has played no small part in fueling liberal fury over this.
In my view the 2016 situation should really be understood as the modern partisan polarized Senate’s first reckoning with a problem: what happens when a Supreme Court vacancy opens up, and the president and Senate majority are different parties?
That problem hadn't arisen since the 1990s, in a very different political era.
McConnell had to decide how to respond. He did so by making up some BS about how a SCOTUS nominee shouldn't be confirmed in an election year.
(He's since qualified that "rule," but didn't initially)
People, before quote-tweeting a blue-check account with a big scoop on a senator's plans, maybe check if that account is a reporter working for a reputable news outlet.
(The McConnell statement is very real. There's other stuff floating around about other senators that's more dubious.)