Former Trump AG Bill Barr on Trump's federal indictment: "If even half of it is true, then he's toast. I mean, it's a very detailed indictment, and it's very, very damning. This idea of presenting Trump as a victim here -- a victim of a witch hunt -- is ridiculous."
Bill Barr: "We can't forget here that this entire thing came about because of reckless conduct of the president. If he had just turned over the documents, which I think every other person in the country would have done ... "
Barr debunks GOP spin: "There are 2 bigs lies that are out there right now. One is that, 'oh, these other presidents took all these documents' ... and the second thing is this idea that the president has complete authority to declare any document personal is facially ridiculous"
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I'm going to do a video thread on Trump's speech to the Georgia GOP convention -- his first after his federal indictment. Follow along if interested.
ok this is kinda funny
Trump gets an extended round of applause after he frames his indictment as election interference and says, "you have to defeat 'em ... they're coming after you, and I'm just standing in their way"
"We can depend on each other with absolute conviction" -- Rishi Sunak on the US-UK alliance
Biden, with one word, indicates his belief that McCarthy will ultimately come around on additional aid to Ukraine
Biden: "It's wrong that a person can be married in the morning in the US and fired in the afternoon by their employer because they're gay ... these are our kids. These are our neighbors ... it matters a great deal how we treat everyone in this country."
Pence says during his CNN town hall that he has no interest in pardoning people convicted of crimes in connection with January 6, saying he stands by "due process"
Pence refuses to ruling out pardoning Trump if he's elected POTUS
this is a lie, but Dana Bash made no attempt to fact check
House Republicans are holding yet another hearing today to beat up on the DC city government. They're obsessed.
the House hearing room erupts in laughter when Ken Cuccinelli hems and haws instead of just affirming that Joe Biden won the 2020 election
Raskin: "We just went through the unprecedented agony of a POTUS trying to overthrow a presidential election... and now instead of dealing with that reality... our colleagues come forward with legislation to try to impose a photo ID on local elections in the District of Columbia"