Do I have this right? The trump campaign bussed the rally attendees from the parking lot to the rally, but didn’t give them a ride back to their cars afterwards and now people are freezing and stranded? Can anyone help them?
Headed to bed. Seems they’ve cleared the lot. Over 30 people went to the hospital. I hope no one died. What a perfect metaphor for the Trump administration. They use you for cheers and take your money, then literally leave you in the cold to fend for yourself.
WHOA: Former Mueller team member JOINS the Vance/Manhattan DA/Mazars case. We learned this week that there was a SECRET fourth team on the Mueller probe looking into trump's finances (Egypt +). I wonder if he was on that team. Dude has argued over 100 cases in front of SCOTUS.
“But there was a fourth team, CNN has learned: partly dedicated to investigating the Egypt matter.” PARTLY? What else was that fourth team investigating? OR is Vance now looking into Egypt since The Barr-appointed Sherwin took over at the DC US Attorneys office...
And closed the case this past June? We know Vance took over the hush money campaign violation case after Barr shut it down in the SDNY. Maybe Vance picked up multiple campaign finance violation investigations related to the trump organization including Egypt.
BREAKING: THREAD: the secret company from country A is REVEALED. It's a bank in Egypt according to new information received by Buzzfeed and CNN in their FOIA case. 1/ cnn.com/2020/10/14/pol…
We have learned in a recent story from the @nytimes that trump was OUT of money in the month ahead of the 2016 election and not even Deutsche Bank would give him a loan, but he engineered a mystery payment of $21M 2/ nytimes.com/interactive/20…
We now know from the newly released documents that trump wrote himself a check for $10M & the DC US Attorney, then Mueller, then the DC US Attorney again have been trying to trace the origin of that money for nearly four years. The feds believe that money moved through Egypt 3/
THREAD: I'm sorry to have to share this bad news (again), but dems on the Senate Judiciary can't block the advancement of Amy Coney Barrett for confirmation in the full senate. Yes, senate rules say they must have a quorum in committee, and the rules go on to say... 1/
...it must be 9 members with 2 in the minority. HOWEVER, Lindsey can simply gavel past this rule and move to advance. Graham has done it in the past, and DiFi even wrote him a letter in 2019 imploring him not to. NOW, if Graham does ignore the minority member requirement 2/
Dems COULD challenge this by going to the senate parliamentarian and arguing that the rule change is out of order. BUT, Mitch could simply call a quorum in the full senate to overturn the parliamentarian. He's done this before with the SCOTUS filibuster rule... 3/
WELL, that was a hell of a hearing. I'll be putting this all together for the @dailybeanspod and will drop the episode first thing tomorrow morning (tonight for patrons). Overall? That didn't go well for Powell. And she's an idiot. Topline takeaways:
1. Neither the court OR the DoJ seem to want to prevent future prosecutors from bringing charges against Flynn for FARA violations and the multitude of other lies he told the FBI.
2. Flynn's lawyers and the DoJ seem to think the court always has to do what the executive branch wants and Gleeson says that's stupid because it is.
3. Sydney Powell wrote a LETTER to Barr trying to get him to appoint new prosecutors that would be sympathetic to Flynn
Kohl from the DoJ: Gleeson suggests we're just giving opaque reasons, but we are giving very specific reasons that any prosecutor would find troubling and be unwilling to proceed. if three different IG's have found your only witnesses were lying under oath, misleading
or misleading the court, how can you go forward. Then when Comey was asked if flynn was lying, he said "it's close, you can make an argument". That's not definitive. Finally, with these sorts of facts where the agents themselves aren't convinced he's guilty...
career prosecutors wouldn't bring charges, and it's interesting because when the agents were done interviewing him, it came over to DoJ and there were discussions whether or not to do another interview. The DAG asked the agents if his recollection was accurate
DOJ: let me five you two facts. On the question about whether this is a witch hunt. what if trump was right? in the new notes, the notes from the FBI chief of CI, he wrote down "what is the goal of this interview. To get truth, or to get him to lie so he can prosecute him...
or get him fired". How can DoJ plow ahead and prosecute when the only point of the interview is to get flynn fired. Second is whether flynn knowingly lied. From the new evidence, the agents contemporaneous notes say
that either flynn was not lying or didn't think he was lying. That shouldn't be surprising to anyone because flynn, before the interview, told McCabe he assumed that the FBI knew every word of his communications. it would be astonishing for him to know that and then...