A word about each of them to begin my campaign: @BryceKlehm does an incredible Donald Trump impersonation, which we featured on the “After Trump” podcast.
@jacob_r_schulz has turned himself into an expert on French counterterrorism and knows a shocking amount about this history of prosecutions under the seditious conspiracy law.
And @rohini_kurup has built @lawfareblog’s new 1/6 resource page—which will be launching in the coming days.
Follow them today. You’ll be working for them tomorrow.
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The terms of the McCabe settlement seem, in first glance, highly favorable to McCabe. He got everything—even the cuff links—except the apology. Will have more to say on this after I’ve had a chance to study the settlement. nytimes.com/2021/10/14/us/…
One very clear take-away is that the department did not want David Bowdich or Rod Rosenstein or Candace Will or Jeff Sessions deposed.
Also note that DOJ is paying McCabe’s legal fees….
The former Director of National Intelligence and ambassador to Germany thinks my promotion of a young woman law student in public is "getting creepier by the day."
.@Liz_Wheeler is accusing me lying about her position on smallpox vaccination mandates in our recent @Newsweek debate. All I can do is lay out the record clearly, and let readers decide whether I am mischaracterizing what she said—or whether she is.
At timestamp 20:44 of the podcast, I posed Ms. Wheeler the question of a vaccine mandate for smallpox. Smallpox killed about 30 percent of people it infected. It was wiped out through a worldwide program of vaccine mandates. I asked her: Was that wrong? art19.com/shows/the-deba…
And if it wasn't wrong, then aren't we really arguing not about whether mandates are ever appropriate, just about when they are—ie, whether COVID is more like flu (where we don't require vaccination) or more like smallpox (where we did)?
The decision to abandon Afghanistan will be a forever stain on the Biden Presidency. I was horrified by it the day it was announced, as I expressed in this podcast. I remain horrified by it today. Don’t @ me with your defenses and excuses. There are none. aca.st/61ecc1
When Biden says phrases like “foreign policy for the middle class,” understand that he means slavery for millions of Afghan women and girls so that the United States can avoid continuing a modest troop presence in a country where that troop presence was keeping barbarism at bay.
If your response to this thread begins with “But Trump…” just stop. Yes, Trump would have done it too. Yes, he wanted to host the Taliban at Camp David. Yes, he signed an agreement that helped make this happen. But if you’re keen to point that out, you’re hiding your shame.