The pardon "rewarded Manafort for keeping his lips sealed and lying to the Special Counsel .... Reimposing appropriate punishment...is thus not only fair in a system wedded to the rule of law, but may increase the chance of finally learning the truth."
4. Reminder of Senator @RonWyden's appendix to Senate Intelligence Committee Report, Aug 2020.
On redactions of intelligence information indicating Manafort-Kilimnik's involvement in Russian hack and leak operation.
2. Other analysts (eg @danielsgoldman) have noted those 43 Republican Senators include several essentially saying they would convict but for the issue of jurisdiction over a former official.
The strongest on this include: McConnell, Portman, Thune. But others too.
3. Many of 43 GOP Senators didn't reach the merits. They rested purely on jurisdiction.
As we write: "It is technically inaccurate to call many of these 43 senators’ decisions a vote to 'acquit,' at least not on the question of guilt or innocence."
House impeachment managers should enter this Wall Street Journal report into the record.
“The Journal’s review, which included now-deleted posts that have been archived ... suggests the Proud Boys viewed Mr. Trump’s messages as a call to action.”
“The messages show the group repeatedly invoking President Trump’s rhetoric in the weeks leading to the Jan. 6 protest as they built momentum toward what became a violent showdown.”
On Jan. 3, the group’s leader shared a cryptic post: “What if we invade it?”
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December 19: ,Trump tweets about the Jan. 6 rally and says, “be there, will be wild!”
Proud Boys’ Long Island chapter posted that Trump supporters have been “waiting for the green light from the President.”
“Everyone who said ‘Mr. President, just say when?’ He just did.”
"The presence of so many watch-listed individuals in one place — without more robust security measures ... — is another example of the intelligence failures preceding last week’s fatal assault that sent lawmakers running for their lives."
@AshaRangappa_: "Perhaps the most notable part of the update was who wasn't giving it. The top officials from Justice and the FBI -- Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and Director Christopher Wray -- weren't there."