The Trump Republican playbook is clear: provoke with immigration, scare with crime, distract with Elon Musk or Kanye West acting out — and then get into office, do nothing about crime or immigration, and eliminate Social Security and Medicare.
And raise our taxes. And ban abortion. And sue to ban contraception. And loosen gun laws more so that gun makers earn more money. And generally sell off government to the highest bidder wherever possible — until they’ve eliminated the post office, public schools, even the army.
Oh and don’t forget — make it harder and harder to vote. Or just declare themselves the winners and dispense with the voting altogether.
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I’m not a journalist, so I can’t say whether Maggie Haberman is doing her job appropriately.
I am a lawyer, though, so I can say her failure to report Trump’s felonies upon discovering them — saving them for her book instead — appears to be misprision, which is itself a felony.
Now, Haberman is far from alone in this. In fact it’s been endemic to those close to the Trump White House — they saw some shit, and they saved the good shit for their books.
I understand the impulse. I’m just not sure that it falls outside the definition of misprision.
I also get that there are potential First Amendment implications, etc., and I am not a First Amendment lawyer.
However, I believe it is now LONG past time for lawyers and journalists to determine where the line should be drawn — because the current situation appears untenable.
BREAKING: DeSantis is running more human trafficking flights.
One may be in the air right now. Another is slated for tomorrow — heading from San Antonio to Delaware with a stop in Florida.
He’s treating people like props. He must be investigated — and defeated in November.
It looks like a plane will be at Kelly Field at Lackland AFB in San Antonio from 6:49 to 8:00 am CT tomorrow — when victims lured under false pretenses may be loaded onto the plane.
The NY AG is likely going to sue Trump, but the mainstream media keeps getting it wrong on the legal details.
It’s statutory civil fraud — NOT a criminal case, and not a common law fraud case between private parties.
Much easier for the AG to win — lower burdens of proof. 1/
The law in question is Executive Law 63(12). It codified the AG’s authority to fight fraud and deceptive and illegal business practices. It’s a sibling statute to the better known Martin Act, which allows the AG to fight securities fraud. 2/
63(12) has been around for ~70 years; there is a lot of established precedent around it.
The law does NOT require proof of intent, and it does NOT require that the defrauded parties were reasonable in relying on the misrepresentations, as common law fraud requires.
Cannon’s decision does NOT halt or even really slow DOJ’s investigation.
She ruled DOJ can’t review the documents or use them.
They can easily work around that.
Instead DOJ is investigating who accessed the documents and when — which doesn’t require “using” the documents.
What is DOJ likely doing right now?
Questioning witnesses and working up various informants and other sources.
Reviewing security camera footage both from Mar-a-Lago and from the White House complex and other federal buildings where the docs were originally kept.
Also: subpoenaing and reviewing emails and texts and other communications regarding the documents.
In other words, they’re concerned with everything else about the documents, rather than the documents themselves.