Department secretary, Ryan Zinke broke federal ethics rules by improperly participating in real estate negotiations and lying about it to investigators, according to IG.
Merrick Garland declined to prosecute, though the case was still open. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
Quiz: How many IG reports have implicated Trump cabinet members in possible crimes?
How many have been prosecuted?
Zinke is about to be elected to Congress, fyi.
And lest we forget, Trump fired 5 Inspector Generals in 6 weeks for the crimes they were in the process of investigating.
Of course, those Trump cabinet secretaries’ crimes have gone unprosecuted as well.
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TOMORROW we'll share new information and a link about our film #UNTRUTH: The Psychology of Trumpism. (AKA "The Cult") The film will make sense out of where we are, why we're here, and explain what we can do about it. It'll be released before the midterms. Here's some teaser info:
2 - TRUMPISM is a different issue than TRUMP himself. It's way bigger. It has already metastasized into a full-on apparatus. Trumpism operates an echo chamber. It has many powerful, far-reaching players -- enablers, amplifiers, grifters, opportunists.
3 - TRUMPISM has emotionalized our electorate. People, some of which we know, were coopted. Trump supporters weren't born more emotional; they were susceptible in some way, and they were manipulated.
Democrats cannot allow themselves to be put on the defensive for daring to investigate the worst attack on America since Pearl Harbor.
For the record, Trump should have been impeached thrice. Colluding with the enemy is literally the worst sin a president could commit.
The Durham “investigation” is part of the cover up.
To be clear - Trump WAS impeached twice. We obviously meant he ALSO should have been CONVICTED in the Senate. (7 GOP Senators DID vote to convict him along with all Dems, but 2/3 of the Senate is required for a conviction on an impeachment.)
1. New revelations from a less redacted Mueller report: Though Don Jr’s behavior met “each element of a misdemeanor,” the special counsel ultimately determined “that prosecution of this potential violation was not warranted.” buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Mueller sought to determine whether Pentagon spokesman JD Gordon “was acting at the direction of Russia” when he had the RNC platform amended.
If you have to ask, we can’t afford the risk.
An appeals court ruled there was a “significant public interest” in knowing how the “Special Counsel interpreted the relevant law and applied it to the facts in reaching his declination decisions.”
The Biden Justice Department argued against making redacted passages public.
While President Trump was in the White House, staff periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet — and believed the president had flushed records, Maggie Haberman reports in “Confidence Man."
Pun intended, you can’t make this shit up.
1-“You know the Rubicon has been crossed when the Supreme Court issues a conservative voting rights order so at odds with settled precedent and without any sense of the moment that Chief Justice John Roberts feels constrained to dissent.”—Linda Greenhouse nytimes.com/2022/02/09/opi…
2. “This is the same John Roberts who in 1982, as a young lawyer in the administration of President Ronald Reagan, fought a crucial amendment to the Voting Rights Act of 1965; whose majority opinion in 2013 gutted one-half of the Voting Rights Act”
3. “The Supreme Court will hear Alabama’s appeal in its next term, so it mean that the 2022 elections will take place with district lines that the lower court unanimously, with two of the three judges appointed by President Donald Trump, found to be illegal.”
(1/4) We're going to answer this question ONCE AND FOR ALL. We heard it asked yet again, after his latest screed. The question is: Does Trump really believe he won the election because it was stolen? Here is the actual answer, sorry if you don't find it satisfying, but it's true:
(2/4) The answer is - it doesn't matter! It's the same. To understand this, you have to know Trump's psychopathology and his aberrant relationship to the truth. In all ways, belief or not belief - it's the same. There is no concept of "belief." Only the narrative he puts forth.
(3/4) In his universe, there is only HIM. There is only HIS urgency and his needs. Actual belief NEVER seeps into conscious thought. It's not only the CHOICE of belief that doesn't enter thought, the very CONCEPT of belief doesn't either. Thus, it doesn't matter.