A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
Not all election-denying Republican candidates are openly peddling the Big Lie on the campaign trail and letting everyone know how divorced from reality they are: Some are trying to sneak in disguised as a person still anchored in reality. For example:
Ahhh! The Morning Memo! My bright ray of sunshine to start the day!
This is cool
I commented on Howard Cosell’s love of the concept of momentum a few weeks ago. The GOP seemed to have all the momentum a few months ago, but they are now almost systematically throwing it away. Their principal missteps were: 1. Misreading the SC. As the current SC is now virtually and arm of the Republican Party, the GOP should have been able to steer them away from dismantling Roe before the midterms. 2. Selecting terrible candidates in swing state races. 3. Having no positive agenda. ‘Dems bad’ might have looked promising a few months ago, but with a string of legislative wins and rising approval for POTUS, it is a less powerful argument and the party has nothing affirmative to offer. 4. Total tone deafness. I have no idea what Lindsey Graham is doing…
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has handed over the materials federal investigators sought in their subpoena to him in the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 probe,
It’s like a slow motion train wreck.
Dun dun DUN!!!
That is YUGE!!!
They were reportedly the same materials Meadows had turned over to the House Jan. 6 Committee (before he stopped cooperating with it), which included thousands of texts and emails.
OK, so Meadows stopped cooperating with the Congressional J6 committee at some point. Which I assume means there remained evidence and information in his possession he did not provide them. He stopped. Mid-cooperation. For if he had given them everything a mention of him stopping cooperation would be moot, they had everything he had. He maintained cooperation until they’d bled him of everything. But they didn’t. So, if Meadows turned over the “same” materials to the DOJ that he turned over to the House that means the DOJ also does not have everything that Meadows has.
No cats eating but how about chickens?
I did suspect that once Trump was gone and out of power, people would slowly start poking their heads up out of their spider holes and most of the crazy stuff would start coming out and it would snowball. The GOP still acts, and for all we know actually is, crazy, but there’s a wider world you have to operate in, as exemplified by the guy in the first item who’s an election denialist but is now being “deliberate,” as he says, in his rhetoric now that the campaign for the general is under way. Nobody’s going to perjure themselves or commit obstruction of justice for the sake of an evil old fool who’s just a private citizen in Florida.
One point re Meadows.
He’s very likely negotiating for immunity.
Then the beans will be spilled, big time. Meadows’ political career is over anyway. With the beans spilled at a Jan. 6th Committee hearing, he’ll need a lot of security. But that will be affordable after his book comes out. Being ghost written now.
As a North Carolinian, I can say that the typical person from NC, including Meadows, does not see anything beyond their face until their nose is rubbed in it. Meadows truly is at that point. Fealty to Trump was once all he knew. But now he knows so much more.
Fantastic 20 minute Financial Times podcast interview about the war in Ukraine.
“So disloyal, so unfair. He’s gonna be a rat, that’s what they call it. Many people are saying they’ll be really angry when it happens, like with Mike Pence. MAGA believes, 2nd Amendment solutions. I’m not saying it, but can’t take off the table. People are angry…”
I’ve seen chickens eat watermelon clear down to the skin, they loves them some melon.
Weird, didn’t the DOJ just subpoena like 40 people?
Could this be related?
It would be irresponsible not to speculate…
It might be the rug that ties the room together.