It is usual at this time of year for a raft of R Senators to fly to Moscow for marching orders. Let’s keep an eye on them.
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Live shot of Eastman’s legal defense following yesterday’s revelations:
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You’re right. It also got Hutchinson’s testimony out there. The crazies were descending on her and her safety was/is in question. It also served as a warning that the committee was onto the threats and attempted obstruction.
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Moreover, given that the Feds seized his devices…
and he’s a lawyer…
which means that the Feds have already convinced a Judge somewhere that Eastman was criming…
and surmounted all the procedural hurdles required to get permission to search a lawyer’s home, office, and personal electronics…yeah, the Committee is no longer Eastman’s biggest worry. I mean, they should not even show up on his radar, anymore.
As a practical matter, few people worry about, or even notice, mosquitos in the midst of an artillery barrage.
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In all fairness, today’s GOP doesn’t celebrate The Fourth.
They only celebrate The Fifth.
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I spent all day yesterday in an Apple store in a mall, where I learned this: Law enforcement can compel you to give them biometrics (fingerprints), but cannot compel you to give them passwords. Interesting distinction.
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The plea deal better be “tell us everything.”
In my previous job working for prosecutors, there was one instance I was called into a meeting with a defendant and their attorney. My boss pointed to me, said she’s our witness, and told him: look, we know your hiding assets. Tell us NOW where they are, and our initial plea agreement stands (this was a tax fraud case). If we find them before the sentencing date, you’re going to jail for a lot longer. He swore he was hiding nothing. IRS agents are nothing but diligent. They found the assets. I went to the sentencing – he broke down sobbing, how he had hurt his wife, children, employees, rabbi, yadda yadda yadda.
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My guess is that TFG was saving his grifted money for himself, cuz he sure doesn’t care about the underlings!
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Flipping would not be a bad idea for him. It’s easy, John, c’mon.
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Yeah, no shit. I’d pay money to help drag Flynn through the streets by the heels. I thought there was something about honor in being an officer. The Fifth of Flynn is one of the great outrages of our time.
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Evidence that there were phone calls with Flynn in these logs much? Eastman just decided that since the FBI had seized the device(s) in question that now his lawsuits to stop the committee from getting those call logs might look exactly like the obstruction of Congress (and justice) that those lawsuits basically are.
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This clown was a law professor and Dean of the Law School at Chapman University.
Ok, so their law school was rated 118th in the US by USNews. [I think it’s one slot above Whatsamatta U law school : ) ]. If he still has an adjunct appointment there, they should reclaim their self-respect by revoking his appointment and tenure, if any.
Jeez.
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OT:
It’s clear now, to everyone, is it not?, why the DOJ has declined to indict Mark Meadows for Obstruction of Congress, right? They indicted Bannon, earlier, and Steve Navarro raher more recently, but explicitly declined to charge Meadows. I believe it’s a fair guess that the DOJ has already figured out that Mark Meadows’s only logical answer to any question the committee asked him would be: “I’d like to assert my Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer that question.” So, having him show up would be pointless.
The bad news for Mark, of course, is that Seditious Conspiracy carries a maximum penalty of 20 years, and even just Conspiracy to Defraud the U.S. could net you 5 years.
Thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers. And unrestrained amusement.
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The indomitable, inimitable Stephen Colbert’s rendering of the National Anthem in terms of the Fifth. It was spectacularly clever, funny and moving at the same time. Go to the 11:24 mark.
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John Eastman and Lionel Hutz [who claimed to have graduated from Princeton school of law, although Princeton hasn’t had a law school since the mid-19th century] are birds of a feather 
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Maybe, but there’s probably not much value in continuing to fight on the mobile voice/text logs when DOJ has just taken custody of and unlocked your iPhone.
Eastman would, however, be very well advised to have his lawyer explore the possibility of a cooperation plea agreement.
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So PT Bluster McBlusterman was just blowing smoke up his own ass.
AND, he managed to out himself as one of the warrant recipients, in the process.
He’s definitely going down. Because they’re going to try to blame it all on him. And Trump has probably already offered him a pardon, come January, 2025.
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“I hardly knew that phone. Maybe it came in with coffee one time.”
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That doesn’t by any means explain why she testified LIVE, publicly. There is some other goal she and her new lawyer (Jody Hunt) are after. And if she witnessed crimes, then she was legally exposed.
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Appearing and pleading the Fifth would still purge him of contempt for the testimony. It wouldn’t work on the document obstruction, however.
I stand by my previous assessment that they didn’t pursue contempt charges is because doing so would give Meadows a bunch of discovery opportunities that are likely to interfere with the much bigger felony conspiracy investigations.
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