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7 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Today's Senate Judiciary report has a remarkable inside look at the final weeks of DOJ during the Trump administration. ->
judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… Image
Can't think of another occasion where an outside lawyer is basically instructing DOJ to file a lawsuit in the Supreme Court, apparently acting at the president's behest. But that's what happened. Image
White House lawyers told Trump's his plan to fire the attorney general and install someone who would make pronouncements about (nonexistent) election fraud was a "murder-suicide pact."

DOJ leaders and the White House lawyers said they'd resign if Trump went through with it. Image
Acting AG Jeff Rosen asked the White House for official photos from the Dec. 31 meeting where the president threatened to fire him because he hadn't yet "found the fraud." ImageImage

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6 Oct
New from @reuters: One America News, the right-wing cable network that peddled 2020 election conspiracies, gets nearly all of its revenue from AT&T.

reuters.com/investigates/s…
OAN's chief executive, Robert Herring, helped AT&T lobby the government to approve its merger with DirecTV. Herring's lawyers said he "invited AT&T to utilize OAN’s news programs to cast a positive light on the acquisition."
On January 6, after Trump supporters broke into the U.S. Capitol, an OAN news director cautioned staff via email, “Please DO NOT say ‘Trump Supporters Storm Capitol …’ Simply call them demonstrators or protestors … DO NOT CALL IT A RIOT!!!”
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24 Sep
"In both counts, Biden wins."
A spokesman confirmed to @kjzzphoenix that the Arizona Senate's election audit basically matched the official results (Biden actually did slightly better.)

"Was there massive fraud or anything? It doesn’t look like it," he said.

kjzz.org/content/171931…

With 🔗to the reports.
The Cyber Ninjas now acknowledge that their claim that Arizona received 74,000 absentee ballots that were never sent out - a thing Trump and others repeated as evidence of fraud - was "unintentionally misleading."
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23 Sep
Trump's lawyers told a federal court tonight that Twitter's forum-selection agreement -- which requires that he sue the company in California (not Florida, where he sued) -- does not apply to him "as the 45th President of the United States."
Trump's argument seems to be that his Twitter account was actually operated on behalf of the government, inasmuch as he made announcements about policy. And Twitter's TOS don't apply to government entities that cannot accept venue limitations.
But if the court accepts the argument that Trump's Twitter account became a thing operated by and for the U.S. government, that would seem to open up the big question of why Trump, a private citizen, would have standing to sue over it.
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14 Sep
(@Reuters) - Three former U.S. intelligence operatives, who went to work as mercenary hackers for the United Arab Emirates, face federal charges by the U.S. Justice Department, according to a court docket created on Tuesday.
Background: American hackers used state-of-the-art cyber-espionage tools on behalf of a foreign intelligence service that spies on human rights activists, journalists and political rivals.

reuters.com/investigates/s…
Story from @Reuters: American hacker mercenaries face U.S. charges for work in UAE
reuters.com/world/us/ameri…
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1 Sep
The Arizona Senate released a big pile of records related to its election audit last night, in response to litigation by @weareoversight. If you have an appetite for a 4gb zip file, it's here: statecraftlaw.app.box.com/v/senateauditp…
Looks like the chair of the Arizona GOP had pretty extensive interactions with the gov't liaison for what the Senate claimed was a non-partisan audit, including arranging Newsmax and OANN hits for him.
Meanwhile, the president of the Ariz. Senate, @FannKfann, had some observations about the chamber's liaison to the Cyber Ninjas.
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29 Jul
The America Project put in more than half of the money for Arizona's audit. Its website leads with a video from Mike Flynn saying our nation is "under a new type of attack."

Another $550k came from Sidney Powell's group she's facing possible sanctions for her election suits.
The America Project, Inc. is a Delaware corporation formed in late April, whose registration appears to list no officers. Its contact address is a UPS Store in Tampa.
Trying to think of another situation in which the government hires somebody to do a job and anonymous private donors pick up more than 97% of the cost.
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