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Aug 13 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Republicans whine.
Democrats win.

"He promised a new social safety net. He pledged to develop a robust plan to fight global warming. He vowed to reduce the gap between rich and poor by making the wealthy 'pay their fair share.'” nytimes.com/2022/08/12/us/…
"And along the way, Joseph R. Biden Jr. often said as he battled Donald J. Trump for the White House in 2020, he would prove that democracy still works in America.
"With final House passage of the Inflation Reduction Act on Friday, President Biden is poised to deliver the latest in a series of legislative victories that will ripple across the country for decades —
"lowering the cost of prescription drugs, extending subsidies to help people pay for health insurance, reducing the deficit and investing more than $370 billion into climate and energy programs."

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Aug 15
"We don’t know what, if anything, Trump did with the materials at Mar-a-Lago. But DOJ appears to be interested in that question. For one thing, they’ve obtained video surveillance tapes of MAL.
"There’s been speculation that the large and seemingly unwarranted investment of $2 billion by the Saudis in Jared Kushner’s new business venture along with the large sums of money paid to Trump to host a Saudi-backed golf tournament could be payoffs.
"But for now, that is just speculation and I’d encourage you to be careful about buying into conjecture unless and until it’s backed up by evidence—even when the speculation makes a certain amount of intuitive sense.
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Aug 15
"Is DOJ seriously considering prosecution? We don’t know the answer."
"But investigators will be hesitant to give the former president the benefit of the doubt a second time for mishandling high level information.
"Whether Trump declassified it or not, top secret information receives that classification because unauthorized release could do grave damage to national security.
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Aug 15
"But we don’t need to explore the nuances of declassification. Whether the materials found in Trump’s possession at MAL are classified or not is irrelevant to DOJ’s investigation.
"We know now, because it was in the search warrant that were unsealed Friday afternoon, that DOJ is investigating three potential crimes. None of them require proof that the documents involved were classified" joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahe…
" ... So, now we know DOJ believed, and a federal magistrate agreed, there is probable cause to believe three laws have been violated. The unsealed materials don’t identify the subjects/targets of the investigation, but it would defy belief if Trump isn’t somehow in that mix.
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Aug 15
Intelligent & civil discourse from former prosecutor @JoyceWhiteVance

"Lots of information came out this past week after DOJ executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago (MAL) and classified information was recovered." joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahe…
"As we head into the new week, let’s sort out some of the confusing pieces:
"Did Trump have an excuse for the FBI finding Top Secret information at MAL? Of course, he did. After trying out a few things along the caliber of 'the FBI planted it', ...
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Aug 15
More on Dominion's suit against Fox and its broader implications for truth and history. nytimes.com/2022/08/13/bus…
"The case threatens a huge financial and reputational blow to Fox, by far the most powerful conservative media company in the country.
"But legal scholars say it also has the potential to deliver a powerful verdict on the kind of pervasive and pernicious falsehoods — and the people who spread them — that are undermining the country’s faith in democracy.
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Aug 15
I'm revisiting this article from a few days ago. The defamation cases against Fox, trump's attorneys, etc. are one of our best hopes for reforming the right wing chamber of lies.

nytimes.com/2022/08/13/bus…
"First Amendment scholars say the case is a rarity in libel law. Defamation claims typically involve a single disputed statement. But Dominion’s complaint is replete with example after example of false statements, many of them made after the facts were widely known.
"And such suits are often quickly dismissed, because of the First Amendment’s broad free speech protections and the high-powered lawyers available to a major media company like Fox.
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