1. I need to dig into the post-election timeline but I have a distinct recollection that TFG was coming to terms with losing and then a few days after the election was called with enough to spare so that there was no way it would change the outcome, he changed. I have thought
2. early in his administration that he had a way to communicate with the Kremlin outside of the normal channels. Even if not that extreme, someone likely got to him in those days. As much as the focus is on Jan 6 and the days immediately before it, some of the indictments
3. allege early November as within the relevant time period. I think the criminal case that I am confident is under investigation is focused on those early days right after it was clear that Biden won. And if whoever got to TFG and convinced him to overthrow the election
4. included people connected to a foreign adversary, the charges that are coming are going to be earthshattering. If it's Putin, then all his aggression and threats against world peace make perfect sense and serve to highlight the damage that has been done and may yet be done.
5. If they ever release the White House logs, I think the proof will be in them. The good news is that I'm pretty sure the DOJ already has them.
6. A few accounts reminded of someone who may have been part of the effort to trigger TFG to attempt an overthrow. Has anyone seen Rudy recently?
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1. Remember Carter Page? He was found in four #FISA applications to be an "Agent of a Foreign Power." Irregularities in the applications gave John Durham something to justify his existence as a special prosecutor, but that key finding has not, to my knowledge, been challenged.
2. Four FISA orders of 90 days each are permitted under FISA 50 U.S. Code § 1805(d)(2). One year. After that, the statute says it shuts down as to a US person. FISA applies to surveillance of "agents of a foreign power" and applies separate rules for persons other than US persons
3. and, like Carter Page, US persons. For a US person like Carter Page, the statute defines them as an agent of a foreign power as follows:
(2)any person who—
(A)knowingly engages in clandestine intelligence gathering activities for or on behalf of a foreign power,
1. From the perspective of #Taliban propaganda what this type of media may evidence about the status of
Taliban control, is they need these martyr videos to attempt to keep the faithful willing to be sacrificed for the cause. Because Afghan Taliban is objectively supporting
2. a foreign invader Pakistan, this form of propaganda is less likely to create the kind of fervor required to continue a movement built on a lie of Afghan sovereignty. If I were creating counter-propaganda I would focus on the fraud of the Pak controlled Taliban. As the forces
3. continue to die and go hungry their blind loyalty to the fat-cat Taliban leaders who were living in style in Qatar will likely begin to wane. If they are given an escape plan of returning to Pashtun areas to establish an autonomous region free of a corrupt central government
1. My advice to the MSM. Before you put some talking head legal expert on, ask them point blank if they read today's SCOTUS opinion or just skimmed it. I just heard someone on @CBSNews say it would likely be going nowhere in the district court despite the fact that the distict
2. court already essentially ruled the Texas Act is unconstitutional. This is just media trying to put their face out for their network and/or personal gain while not giving accurate reasoned legal analysis. It's contributing to the erosion of confidence in our legal system and
3. responsible journalists should not help make matters worse. The fact that the Court ruled to send it back for a ruling on the merits that is not what a denial of an injunction generally is, is hardly reason for us to endure another week of hair being set on fire on @MSNBC.
1. One key to understanding this Texas Abortion case ruling. From the syllabus:
In this preliminary posture, the ultimate merits question, whether S. B. 8 is consistent with the Federal Constitution, is not before the Court.
2. After a quick speed read of the opinion, other than for Thomas who would have blocked any public official enforcement under Ex Parte Young, CJ Roberts joined by the three liberals sends a message IMO that the District Court may move swiftly to strike down the entire act:
3. "CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS, with whom JUSTICE BREYER, JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, and JUSTICE KAGAN join, concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part.
Texas has passed a law banning abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. See S. B. 8, 87th Leg., Reg. Sess. (2021).
1. On #Ukraine: Presidents #Biden & #Zelensky's readouts had no specific mention of #Crimea. IMO Putin is unlikely to accept a result that loses #Sevastopol that Russia had a lease to before the invasion. The fact that it is not mentioned specifically could be a positive sign.
3. On temporary Order of Local Self-Governance in Particular Districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, implementation of these rules will give #Moscow what will be akin to Al Capone's duchy of Joliet Illinois where #Putin's mob will control the police and prosecutors but adding a
1. When an opinion starts like this, you know TFG is in deep Kimchee.
"MILLETT, Circuit Judge: On January 6, 2021, a mob professing support for then-President Trump violently attacked the United States Capitol in an effort to prevent a Joint Session of Congress from certifying
2. the electoral college votes designating Joseph R. Biden the 46th President of the United States. The rampage left multiple people dead, injured more than 140 people, and inflicted millions of dollars in damage to the Capitol."
3. "The central question in this case is whether, despite the exceptional and imperative circumstances underlying the Committee’s request and President Biden’s decision, a federal court can, at the former President’s behest, override President Biden’s decision not to invoke