Why does former House lead impeachment counsel @danielsgoldman believe we won't hear from witnesses at the upcoming impeachment trial?
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THREAD: Do the people on Reddit's #WallStreetBets who are buying Gamestop, AMC, and other stocks have any legal liability to do so?
1/ Although the facts are still evolving, it appears that many users on #WallStreetBets (a "sub-reddit" on Reddit, a social media site) and others starting buying Gamestop, AMC, and other stocks that they believed were being "shorted" by certain Wall Street firms.
2/ You "short" a stock when you sell a stock that you don't own, betting that the price will go down. The goal is to sell high and buy low. If you "short" a stock and the price goes up, you can lose a lot of money by buying shares at a higher price than you sold them at.
2/ A person under investigation in this scheme is an attorney and is acting as an "attorney-advocate," but that is distinct from the person's attempt to obtain a political pardon (see e.g. page 14)
1/ During his press conference, Cameron suggested the grand jury made the legal determination: "My job is to present the facts to the grand jury and the grand jury then applies those facts to the law."
Today he concedes that his team recommended the charges to the grand jury.
2/ During the press conference, Cameron was specifically asked whether his team made a recommendation to the grand jury, and he refused to answer the question because grand jury proceedings are secret.
That's true. But what he said next was highly misleading.
3/ The next sentence out of his mouth was: "What I will say is that we presented all of the information and they ultimately made a determination about whether to charge."
His words suggest that his team neutrally laid out the evidence and that the jury decided on its own.
THREAD: What can we learn from today's revelation from former Mueller lieutenant Andrew Weissmann that Mueller's team failed to take investigative steps because they feared that Trump would fire Mueller?
1/ Today the Atlantic published an article by George Packer in which Packer explores the forthcoming book from Andrew Weissman, who was one of Mueller's top deputies.