Thread by @SimonWDC

1/Barr has done a lot of very heavy lifting for Trump, but keeping Rudy out of jail may be his most significant achievement.

Perhaps why he couldn't also save Bannon, Cohen, Flynn, Fruman, Gates, Manafort, Parnas, Parscale and Stone - had to prioritize.

2/Every attack against Biden has failed over the past two years. IC's been warning that all this Ukraine stuff was coming fr Russia. Senate report, unmasking, Durham all duds.

This new thing is crude, implausible and proves nothing.....it's pathetic.

https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman/status/1316357178018738177

3/Can we also marvel at how derivative it is of 2016 - mystery laptop appears w/damaging emails! Trumpworld, Fox, r/w ecosystem go crazy. Media bite. It turns out to be nothing in the end.

Helps explain Trump's bizarre attacks on Hunter at debate - he knew it was coming.

4/Good thread on how absurd this all is, and how much more likely this is that this was stuff hacked and stolen by a foreign govt and potentially forged.

IC been shouting that Russia was back, doing this kind of stuff. Here we are, w/Rudy laundering it.

https://twitter.com/Devilstower/status/1316374559080304641

5/All of this feels crude, desperate, second rate - as if they had to throw something together last minute because all of their other treachery had failed.

https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1316386242691510272

6/Finally, Rudy works for the President and his campaign. He is a partisan campaign operative who also has direct, identified ties to Russian intelligence.

Why would anyone believe this is real? It's been produced by the Trump campaign itself w/help from others.