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4 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I just spent five minutes guffawing at Trump apologists posing here as legal analysts and claiming the #TrumpTapes are a "settlement conference." Yes—that's why a freaked-out lawyer burst in 50 minutes into the call exclaiming, "This whole call is for 'compromise or settlement'!"
If only Trump's Adult Supervision could've apparated 50 minutes *earlier* on the #TrumpTapes—before Trump, on a call that didn't involve all the parties to the litigation, threatened to use his DOJ to prosecute Raffensperger if Georgia's SoS didn't rig the election results.

Sad!
In my years practicing law I participated in 2,000+ negotiations. I don't care if—on the front end—Trump's lawyers thought of what they were doing as a settlement conference. When Trump started committing crimes, they needed to get themselves and their client off the phone. ASAP.
"I couldn't tell my client 'no' because he's the POTUS" isn't a defense to criminal liability for conspiracy to commit election fraud (or to a disbarment). If you're an attorney for a client over whom you can't exert basic professional control, you need to withdraw from the case.

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6 Jan
(UPDATE) NPR contradicts THE INDEPENDENT (UK) and AL JAZEERA and says a "red notice" has not been issued for Trump, just "requested." The latter two outlets report it as "issued." Stay tuned to the "Interpol" trending topic as this dispute between 3 reliable outlets is resolved.
(PS) What we know for certain—which all 3 credible media outlets agree on—is that Iran's first request for a "red notice" on Trump was rejected by Interpol. It's possible Interpol delivered a muddled response to this second request—misleadingly signaling a change in its position.
(PS2) A "red notice" is "a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person." What this means is that Iran can "issue" a red notice with the intent of it acting as an arrest warrant. But it's still a "request," meaning Interpol needn't "accept" it.
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5 Jan
(LIVE THREAD) I'm going to live-tweet the Trump rally so you don't have to watch it. I hope you'll retweet this thread for anyone you think may be interested. The brief thread below contains play-by-play of the early parts of the Trump rally in Dalton, GA.
1/ Don Jr. is now frisbeeing cheap Chinese MAGA hats into the crowd as he prepares to speak.
2/ Don starts by implying Biden is senile and "doesn't know where he is." He then moves to Hunter Biden. He indicates Biden is so senile there's no way he could've won. Moves on to "Russia hoax," Hunter "taking money from the Chinese communist party." Just all the greatest hits.
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5 Jan
I don't know why I'm continually surprised at how whackadoodle these Trump rallies are. There's a man on stage right now whose name is "Bubba" and he's explaining that if the Green New Deal becomes legislation in the future many or even most Americans will be without electricity.
Now Vernon Jones is explaining to the crowd how he was always told to "think of a woman's skirt" when speaking in public. I just—I don't even know what the hell any of this is supposed to be. Is it good politics? Good television? No one knows. No one knows what the hell this is.
Vernon Jones then moved on to explaining that Kelly Loeffler meant *so much to him* because only she (and Perdue) could preserve American freedom and protect America from communism.

Seconds earlier he'd mispronounced Loeffler's name.
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4 Jan
I'm trying to understand why the networks are airing a statement by Republican elections officials in Georgia urging people to vote tomorrow, when the clear focus of the statement is to reach GOP voters and get out the vote for Trump? This seems like a partisan political presser.
Only the members of *one political party* are telling Georgia's Republican elections officials that they believe their votes don't count, and that the elections in Georgia are "rigged," so any presser aimed at "getting out the vote" and contradicting that argument is *partisan*.
In any case, ultimately it's fine, but it seems to me that when one political party shoots themselves in the foot prior to the most important runoff election in decades, it is not the place of supposedly neutral elections officials to remedy that grave, historic political error.
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4 Jan
BREAKING NEWS: Trump May Be Planning to Leave Country 24 Hours Before He Loses Immunity From Prosecution

"Prestwick Airport has been told to expect the arrival of a US military Boeing 757 aircraft which has been occasionally used by Trump, on January 19." heraldscotland.com/news/18984381.…
(PS) With Scotland going into lockdown, I don't know if this is a realistic option for Trump. But every major media report we've gotten for the last 2 months has said that Trump is almost *preternaturally* obsessed with losing his immunity from criminal prosecution on January 20.
(PS2) I've repeatedly said that—based upon my experience with 2,000+ criminal defendants—I don't believe that Trump would flee the country unless he believed he was facing imminent arrest (which, to be very clear, I don't think he believes). But this story is real and intriguing.
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4 Jan
Trump legal advisor Lin Wood is tweeting absolute lunacy about videotaped child rape and murder, blackmail, "The Lizard Squad," and a secret cabal controlling Earth. Trump's defenders say as long as he says he believes this insanity, he can commit any crime based on his "belief."
In a functioning democracy, either Trump would need to disavow his legal advisor or we'd be having a national conversation on the 25th Amendment.

At a time when Trump is stoking sedition and making insane claims about the election, he can't be within a million miles of Lin Wood.
I don't want to quote-tweet anything Lin Wood said—suffice to say this deranged Trump legal advisor is telling Trump and his team that the reason they lost before the Supreme Court is because Chief Justice John Roberts raped and murdered a child on video and is being blackmailed.
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