Originally published at: Conceding Major Screwups, DOJ Pauses NYT Subpoenas
A Huge Clusterf*** The Trump administration’s Air Force One leak investigation targeting the NYT is encountering severe turbulence already. In an overnight filing, the Trump DOJ admitted to serious errors in how it has handled the case so far — and in a huge concession that it attempts to mask as reasonableness it has put…
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Heather & Paul
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Got to stop reading MM before I go to the comments, or I’ll never be frist again!
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You read the MM?
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Dinner before dessert.
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Not the best news
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/20/cornyn-tillis-blanche-confirmation-undecided-01005794
Even worse
BUT THEY PROMISED!!
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and in a huge concession that it attempts to mask as reasonableness it has put on hold for two weeks all of the subpoenas aimed at NYT reporters.
It’s been nothing but two week increments ever since he descended the escalator.
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If Cornyn actually sticks to his guns over TFG’s IRS deal, I will concede that he’s done something good. Honestly, it feels like the slush fund was the bright shiny object meant to deflect attention from the real goal, keeping Trump audit-free.
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no shiznit. Not particularly shocking all of the DOJ screw-ups. Appeasing Trump coupled with all of the good attorneys either fired or left on their own has rendered it impotent. Blanche is also begging a judge not to fine him $1K a day (suggested by Phang) for ignoring the Phang FOIA.
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Miller and CF-DJT trying to kill more people. In this case, retired Americans.
Free article.
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Translation: At least give me enough of a pretense to make it to the exit before you inevitably break your word and humiliate me, pretty please.
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Tillis and Cornyn auditioning for their honorary Collins medals.
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There’s an article attached to the daily open thread?
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The real goal is always something that benefits Donald Trump.
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Judge, we’re going to go do some more investigating to see if we can obtain elsewhere the information that we had hoped to obtain from the reporters because you’re going to ask us about whether we tried to get it elsewhere and we don’t have a good answer for you on
Better translation:
Judge we are going to go through the motions of pretending to investigate other possible sources hoping we can thus convince you to issue the subpoenas we illegally asked for without conducting the legally required actual investigations.
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Remember Casey Stengel who, while managing the NY Mets, asked, “Can’t anyone here play this game?” Well, Trump’s and Todd’s DOJ are the '62 Mets of legal organizations. Until the NYT subpoena screwups, they were merely the 2026 Mets.
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Blanche will be confirmed. Clayton will be confirmed. All the talk around Tillis and Cornyn is just a circle jerk. Like a pair of fetid, rotting thighs on a body that’s barely alive (How’s Mitch, anyway?), there is no sunshine between Trump and The Republican Party.
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So of course the Dotard’s DOJ fucked up big time, but 1A is of no concern here?
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