I am listening to Parlatore, Trump's former lawyer during the MAL raid, on the @seanspicer show.
He dropped something new.
The MAL raid was a setup from the beginning.
For every other POTUS, NARA sets up an office near the departed POTUS to go through the docs with a SKIF attached to take out the classified docs.
NARA didn't do that with Trump and sent all docs to MAL knowing classified docs would be there.
He said Bratt wanted a search warrant from the beginning.
Parlatore also said he hired a scrub team to go through the documents to pull classified information out
And Bratt was mad about that because he used contractors and not government workers.
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Thursday night, Kash appeared on Hannity to discuss transparency and gave hints of what is to come.
Sunday morning, Ed Martin appeared on Maria to let us know weaponization cases are ongoing
Today, in my TL, within minutes of one another I saw two articles.
One from @SenEricSchmitt that laid out the case for prosecutions of Russiagate co-conspirators
And a few minutes later, an article from @BrookeSingman announcing the appointment of Andrew Bailey as co-deputy director of the FBI
Bailey is a prosecutor who has experience with government corruption and weaponization cases.
The case is big. They need all hands on deck.
And more importantly, they need people they trust to see it through.
And BTW. The Atlantic dropped a story this morning that outlined the problems the Trump administration faces to prosecute criminals.
Grand juries in blue state areas will not indict or convict criminals.
Everyone knows that. And that is why we need creative legal minds to work together to find a way to move the cases out of blue state jurisdictions
A couple of thoughts since Ratcliffe HRC's name twice today.
He reminded everyone that the entire conspiracy began as a distraction from her email scandal and she worked WITH Russians to do it.
He also said her testimony to Durham 'didn't line up with the intel'
IOW she lied.
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Next.
One of the 1st items in the latest declass was the OIG MYE annex that Grassley had wanted for years.
It showed the FBI did NOT investigate her server fully.
We learned they ignored tranches of emails on those USBs bc of where they originated.
Obama, SOS and Congress.
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It begs the question.
Did the FBI ever look at the full data on the server?
We know about the quick scan of Wiener's laptop- now that makes sense.
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This morning, @glennbeck did a fascinating breakdown on @POTUS Old School power moves.
He began with what he did with Powell yesterday and compared it to what he did with Little Rocket Man.
The visuals are similar.
Then, he moved onto what he has done to the Oval Office
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Glenn visited recently and Trump took him on a tour.
Glenn was uncomfortable with all the gold because we don't have palaces in America.
Trump is using 24k gold leaf, which he is paying for, to make the Oval more opulent.
And then Trump told him why he is doing it.
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He said the world leaders he brings to the Oval all have palaces of some sort.
He wants them to understand that America is the strongest, most powerful nation on Earth.
He is projecting power to them in every language they can understand.
Visual, verbal and actions.
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When I read @MZHemingway piece yesterday about the CIA analysts being overruled by Brennan, it reminded me of something.
In Oct 2019, just after we learned that Durham's inv had turned criminal.
Marg Brennan interviewed Brennan, McCabe, McGloughlin and Morell to discuss it.
The entire panel discussion was them spinning what they did during the investigation. Lie after lie after lie.
Morell was asked what he thought about Durham questioning CIA analysts. He was pretty upset about it.
He has no business talking to those analysts and questioning them
Unfortunately, for whatever reason, Durham folded without doing anything significant.
Fun fact for the day.
Did you know that GenZ was predicted to be the most Conservative Generation since the Greatest Generation in 2017?
Their early voting trends are proving that out.
And did you know that more babies were born in 2007 than at the height of the Baby Boom?
There was a mini boom that happened from 2005-2008 b4 the financial collapse.
And guess what?
The kids born in 2007 haven't been able to vote yet.
Let's talk about the Midterms.
They are 474 days away.
There will be 100s of news cycles that bubble up between now and then that could have an effect on the Midterms.
We are dealing with Trump who has a long history of changing the news cycle.
Lets break it down. 🧵
To break it down, I went through a brainstorm process of
Known Knowns
Known Unknowns
And
Possible Unknown Unknowns.
Grab your favorite beverage, check out my list, and let me know what I may have missed.
Known/Known #1
Trump has a war chest that sits at $1.5 Billion and we are almost a year and a half out from the election to help keep the Majority in the House.
Known/Known #2
House GOP is raising significantly more $ than the Dems. Last Q, Johnson raised the most.