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emptywheel (mr. blue sky) Profile picture
@emptywheel
Mar 5, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
The way to cover Trump's CPAC speech is NOT to cover his promise to stay in the race if he's indicted, it's to point out how similar THIS SPEECH is for things he may be indicted for.

Emphasizing its inflammatory nature makes you part of the coup attempt.
Trump's play is not about the next election, per se. Reporting it as such is malpractice.

Trump's play is to make prosecuting him an existential challenge for democracy, where his partisans will take out law enforcement to undermine the case.
Trump's play is to ALWAYS reinforce division in society, to ratchet it up, so that his supporters will continue to piss away their lives by attacking democracy to save him.

His play is to keep his supporters distracted from the enormous fraud he commits against them.
Want to report on Trump's outrageousness?

Report on how his people are paying FBI Agents to spy on the investigation into him and his followers.

Blasting CPAC to audiences who would otherwise have ignored it just distracts from all that.
And I agree that @svdate's coverage of the speech--including its emphasis on how poorly attended it is--is far better than most.

huffpost.com/entry/trump-cp…
@svdate You can tell two stories:

Trump went to a failing conference and ratcheted up a partly empty room with the same incitement.

OR

WOW, Trump is so powerful even a "witchhunt" indictment can't stop him from being President.

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Oct 29
Note that, contrary to common myths about the investigation into Trump, this subpoena PRECEDED Cassidy Hutchison's public testimony (and even Greg Jacob's, by a day).

The precedents were all set before Jack Smith was appointed.
Here's an interesting, almost entirely argument that bears on the immunity case. Trump was invoking Executive Privilege but (as Howell laid out) he was having such convos w/people outside of Exec, like Rudy.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
Howell ordered second batch of witnesses to testify on November 19. Trump asked for a stay on December 7. In the interim, witnesses testified. That almost certainly means they are 2 Pats & likely Eric Herschmann (which is consistent w/public timeline).

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
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emptywheel (mr. blue sky) Profile picture
Oct 21
Liz Cheney, Maria Shriver, and Kamala Harris sitting on a stage talking about bipartisanship. Image
One dynamic of this I've been tracking is this: Harris SHOULD NOT be talking nitty gritty abt Jan6 bc of the prosecution. Well, Cheney is the expert. And she speaks it well.

As she did, guy in back was nodding over and over. Image
Cheney: In this election, we need to elect the responsible adult.
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Oct 18
It's definitely true that none of the files Jack Smith released are new.

But seeing all Trump's tweets in one place are useful as we attempt to prevent him from trying it again.

documentcloud.org/documents/2523…Image
Here's what the legal return of a "fired-by-tweet" tweet looks like. @C_C_Krebs

documentcloud.org/documents/2523…Image
Trump started on attacking 60 Minutes early this year. Image
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Oct 15
We're three weeks away from the election, and we have literally no idea what the business relationship with Trump Org and the Saudis/Emiratis is.

No one has asked if either of the failsons (or Lara) will get a job in the White House to cash out for $2B in 4 years.
Back during the Joe Biden Old month, I was begging journalists to focus on just 3 Qs:

1) Is Trump an agent of the Saudis?
2) What deals has Trump made w/Orbán/Putin?
3) Where are the missing classified docs?

emptywheel.net/2024/07/17/boi…
We learned last week (from the NYT, among others!) that Trump is bypassing transition laws, meaning he--and his sons, the Saudi business partners and transition team members--could just get payments from the Saudis all the way until inauguration.

nytimes.com/2024/10/09/us/…
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Oct 12
This is a legit question. First, gap arises from delays that were inevitable w/president and first attempt to prosecute one. That took 21 months at least.

Also, it's POSSIBLE Smith is avoiding indicting anyone else until he's sure Trump can't pardon them.
There are VERY subtle suggestions in the immunity filing that several people started cooperating after being exposed in state cases. But Mueller investigation is testament to why you can't cooperate your way up to Trump.
Or let me sum up delay better:
1) Trump conspired through lawyers. Each lawyer's phone/email took 9 months of privilege review.
2) Trump hid behind exec privilege: That took 10 months.
3) Immunity Q had to be decided. That has taken a year, so far.
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Oct 10
Judge Chutkan has given Trump 7 days to take legal action to prevent the redactions she approved from being publicly filed. Image
Here's the link to Chutkan's order.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
The smart lawyers will weigh in on the posture of this.

But Chutkan ORDERED Trump to weigh in on redactions.

He made no complaints about redactions. So Chutkan was left with, basically, an unopposed proposal on redactions.

I'm not sure that's the strongest appeal posture.
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