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Journalist @ViceNews. Previously: Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Seeker, The Moscow Times.
Aug 28, 2023 48 tweets 6 min read
Hello from the DC courthouse, where Judge Chutkan is expected to set a trial date for Trump's DC federal criminal case Prosecutor Jack Smith wanted a trial in January 2024. Trump wanted a trial in April 2026.

Chutkan opens up by saying: “these proposals are obviously very far apart.... Neither of them is acceptable.”
Aug 1, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Trump indicted in Washington DC on four counts Image Prosecutors say Trump knew his statements about fraud in the 2020 election were false

"The defendant spread lies" Image
Feb 16, 2023 18 tweets 7 min read
I went to a hip-hop show with Drew Findling, Atlanta's #BillionDollarLawyer, and got to talk to him about his decision to take on a new client: Donald Trump.

Findling is known for representing hip-hop royalty like Cardi B, Migos, Gucci Mane, and more.

vice.com/en/article/n7z… The #BillionDollarLawyer is representing Trump in what many legal experts call Trump’s most pressing legal drama: The Fulton County GA probe into possible election meddling. The case could soon yield the first indictment of a former U.S. president in history.
Nov 9, 2022 10 tweets 3 min read
Meet Chase Oliver — the 37-year-old libertarian who just scored 2% of Georgia’s Senate vote. That margin helped ensure that neither Herschel Walker nor Raphael Warnock got more than 50% necessary to avoid a runoff. Oliver managed this with an astonishingly cheap, DIY campaign, run out of his basement in the Atlanta suburbs.

His mainstream opponents spent a quarter-billion dollars swamping Georgia with attack ads.

Oliver spent about $10k, a bit more than a dime per vote.
Oct 31, 2022 67 tweets 10 min read
Hello from the Manhattan courthouse where the criminal trial of Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, is about to kick off with opening arguments This criminal trial is part of a "double-barrel shotgun to the financial infrastructure of Trump’s businesses," said @rossi4va

If New York gets its way, Trump will never run a business here again and his company will be branded a criminal enterprise

vice.com/en/article/n7z…
Sep 15, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
NEW: Judge Cannon denies DOJ request for a partial stay (to carve out the docs marked classified) and appoints Raymond Dearie as special master. Cannon basically says she's not willing to take DOJ's word for it that these are classified documents, and wants the special master to weigh in.

"The court does not find it appropriate to accept the government's conclusions on these important and disputed issues...."