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Per Kevin Moris, the payments for a Porsche that David Weiss used to claim that Hunter was living a fancy lifestyle were, instead, an attempt to get out from underwater on the loan so he could get rid of it.

documentcloud.org/documents/2437…
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Here's how Weiss described it in the indictment:
documentcloud.org/documents/2437…
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Also, Morris clarifies that most of the $1M payments that Weiss cited to suggest Hunter was sitting on a wad of cash he should have paid to IRS was payments to third parties (as I suspected). Image
Morris described how Hunter ended in a house quickly: Bc a mob ginned up by Murdoch kept knocking on Hunter's door. Image
Morris: I'm not answering Qs abt indictment [he doesn't say, "bc this is going to trial"]
GOP: But you didn't give us a list!
Morris Atty: You didn't ask for docs.
GOP: Wah wah wah!! Image
Halfway thru the Morris deposition he breaks to tell @JasmineForUS he's a fan. Image
Morris: I researched ethics of loaning money to a client.
Biggs: So have I and I don't want to get into it right now.
Morris: Yeah, because I'm right. Image
Andy Biggs confesses to having loaned family members and/or friends money, which I understand is an impeachable offense. Image
Spartz makes what counts among MAGAts as a funny. @AdamKinzinger Image
If you think there's no drama in MAGAt depositions, I can't wait to find out whether Morris tells these people they're being assholes. Image
Finally!!! A reason to impeach!!

Kevin Morris' opinions about the Iggles! (He's talking about the absolutely scandalous conversations he has had with James Biden.) Image
In which a poor GOP staffer asks plaintively if Joseph Ziegler lied as if he hasn't already been debunked repeatedly. Image
Things go a bit haywire when the Republicans who believe as an article of faith that there's a secret first draft of the Mike Flynn 302 now see no problem with taking 34 days, DURING a blow up of the investigative team, to write up an interview memo.
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"We're finishing a film about Adam Kinzinger. You're in it." Image
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Jul 24
Jeff Van Drew mouthpiecing Donald Trump's disavowal of Project 2025.

A bad day for that JVD, given that Vance's name is all over it.
JVD also says it's not Trump's fault if he is a cheapskate and chooses to have rallies in places he hasn't already stiffed.

Now launching into lying about Cheadle's pursuit of diversity.
Note: JVD says he's very involved in Project 2025.

Apparently not involved enough to know that Vance is writing the intro.
Read 7 tweets
Jul 24
Chris Wray tells Matt Gaetz that he's seen no sign of Biden decline.

Republicans are sad.
Gaetz' staffer is behind him, thinking Gaetz getting corrected is funny. Image
More. Image
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Jul 24
This is gonna be a long thread abt the IG Report on the Roger Stone sentencing, which shows that in extraordinary but not illegal move, Barr's DOJ intervened to override the sentencing recommendations from the prosecutors.

oig.justice.gov/sites/default/…
DOJ IG only got jurisdiction bc Aaron Zelinsky alleged political pressure in Congressional testimony, and others accused him of lying about that. Image
A bunch of people refused to cooperate with this investigation:

Bill Barr
Jeffrey Rosen
[probably] Kerri Kupec
Barr's incoming CoS
One of the AUSAs Image
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Jul 15
Also, she claims there has been little judicial scrutiny of this, ignoring the 4 precedents and Hunter Biden's similar challenge rejected by 2 Trump appointees.
Oh also: If she's right, statutes of limitation on Trump's alleged crimes go until 2027.

Hunter Biden's started expiring last year.
The hubris of someone with the confidence that these services rendered will be rewarded with a gratuity in a year's time. Image
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Jul 7
Some amusing bits about the media frenzy.

1) We've talked about little but Biden's age since January. Yet certain hacks with a gripe claim they were the only one telling that secret that led all the news.
2) CREDIBLE stories -- that is, the ones that quote people on the record and/or very specifically described people anon, rather than just inventing a conspiracy retroactively based on feels -- all describe a decline since January, and more in recent months.
3) MANY of the people posing as journalists appear not to understand there are two questions: Does he drop from the race, does he drop from the presidency.

Given that the more detailed reports are about STAMINA and speaking (not dementia), those are different things.
Read 7 tweets
Jun 25
Journalists (who should be smarter than right wing propagandists) all seem to be missing something about the MAL filing.

This blue leatherbound box is where these classified files were taken from -- the source of the famous pic released last August.

If you don't understand that, you understand almost nothing abt the filing.Image
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How do we know the blue leatherbound box = the classified docs in the August box?

Warrant returns are your friend!!

So are item numbers, in which this box is IDed as item 2 and its contents 2A. Image
Why does it matter that that blue leatherbound box = the August picture = Item 2?

Because that's one of the central things they're fighting over, and certain right wing propagandists are lying about.

Q pertains to treatment of cover sheets.
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