A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1461740
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1461740
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Sometimes you just gotta believe that the fuckers you elected into this representative democracy know what they’re doing.
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Wonder how things would be different if every questionable statement I ever blurted out had been “off the record.” Fortunately, most of us have a lifetime of acts and deeds to provide context for our statements. TDFG does too, fortunately or unfortunately.
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I prefer to pour Sambuca directly into my coffee. I’m awake. I’m tipsy. Plus, the aroma…oh, the aroma!
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Special Counsel Charging Decisions Near?
Special Counsel Jack Smith is nearing charging decisions involving the efforts to overturn the 2020 election and related fraudulent MAGAt grifting, according to multiple sources. From CNN:
Former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has been interviewed by federal investigators as part of the special counsel’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, multiple sources familiar with the meeting told CNN.
The meeting between Giuliani, his attorney Robert Costello, and investigators took place in recent weeks. The sources declined to say what investigators’ questions focused on during the meeting, which has not been previously reported.
Special counsel Jack Smith has not announced any charges stemming from his investigation into efforts to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election, but prosecutors appear to be nearing charging decisions, sources familiar with the case have said.
The interview with Giuliani comes amid a flurry of activity in the probe, which is examining a plan from Trump and his allies to put forth fake electors as well as potential financial crimes related to post-election fundraising. Investigators have called a steady stream of witnesses before a federal grand jury in recent weeks and have pressed attorneys to quickly bring in other witnesses for interviews, sources told CNN .
Sources say that some of the grand jury questioning has centered on the actions of top lawyers around Trump, including Giuliani, with investigators seeking information about their baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. [snip]
The special counsel’s office has long shown interest in several members of Trump’s post-election legal team, including Giuliani, Sidney Powell and John Eastman, as well as former Justice Department appointee Jeffrey Clark, who tried to help Trump’s push to use the department to overturn the election .
Several rounds of federal subpoenas have sought the communications of more than a dozen attorneys – including Giuliani, Powell, Eastman and Clark – because of how central some lawyers were to Trump’s post-election response. [snip]
CNN previously reported that Giuliani was subpoenaed late last year to turn over records to a federal grand jury as part of an investigation into the former president’s fundraising following the 2020 election .
The subpoena requested documents from Giuliani about payments he received around the 2020 election, when Giuliani filed numerous lawsuits on Trump’s behalf contesting the election results, a source told CNN… (our emphasis)
Today, the Special Counsel will be interviewing Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger , who’s also been interviewed by Fulton County DA Fani Willis over the Malignant Loser’s attempt to get Raffensperger to “find” him 11,780 votes and related efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.
It goes without saying that everyone involved in this seditious conspiracy needs to be held accountable, all the way up to the Malignant Loser. Given the impressive granularity of the Special Counsel’s classified documents indictment, we’re looking forward to a broad net of indictments being cast with similarly impressive evidence backing them up. They, unlike the classified documents case, will be filed in a less- Malignant- Loser- friendly venue than Florida.
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Tracy THorn Seems to have an Underbite. she IS also NOT a Cat or a wooden A fraME chalkBoard Sign, libtARd comrades…
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Donald Trump’s effort to remove the Manhattan criminal case over his hush money payments to Stormy Daniels from state court to federal court looks like it’s going nowhere. The dilatory tactic did arguably buy Trump some additional time, but it seems to have hit a dead end after a hearing in federal court Tuesday.
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Funny how someone keeps claiming that they’re being persecuted keeps trying out these “cute” defenses.
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He is a very fucked up person.
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TFG’s new legal counsel, Nathan Thurm:
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Ex-staffer describes Trump fantasizing about sex with Ivanka - Alternet.org
Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led (former Chief of Staff) John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter," Taylor writes.
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“The upshot is the hush money case looks likely to stay in state court, and little time has been lost with this Trump sideshow.”
I’m sure this case will get resolved eventually. Maybe in 2031.
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I thought this was rich.
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