He’s going to need his legal defense fund intact before too much longer and Rudi G don’t work for free. Better to keep his powder dry for now.
She would make a great Chief of Staff in this admin.
Chang does not cite any undergraduate degree in her biography, but her LinkedIn account mentions the University of the Nations, an unaccredited Christian school with volunteer teachers that says it has 600 locations “on all continents.”
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This thread makes me feel like some music. So, with deep apologies to The Who (Pete Townsend might not approve, but somewhere up there Keith Moon is loving every minute…) get up and dance!
Every day I call Ukraine (too much, Donald Trump)
To get the dirt on the Democrats (too much, Donald Trump)
I’m so compromised, I just perjure myself (too much, Donald Trump)
I’m only here another year (too much, Donald Trump)
Fuck you, Rudy, for getting me here (too much, Donald Trump)
You’ll be in the slammer, have much fear (too much, Donald Trump)
I don’t want to cause no fuss (too much, Donald Trump)
But will I testify against Donald Trump? (too much, Donald Trump)
(No)
I don’t care if I’m a treasonous scum (too much, Donald Trump)
I want to re-elect Trump on election day (too much, Magic Bus)
I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it (you can’t have it)
Thruppence of Russian loans every day (1)
Just to pay for the failed real estate
Thruppence of Russian loans every day
'Cause I cheat my partners every way
(1) “Thruppence” is slang in the British Midlands for “uncountable” or “who knows how much” or slang for threepence.
Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump
Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump
Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump
Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump
I’ve been thrown under the Magic Bus (too much, Magic Bus)
I said, I’ve been thrown under the Magic Bus (too much, Magic Bus)
Donald Trump lies every day (too much, Magic Bus)
Each time he does it a different way (too much, Magic Bus)
Impeach him, impeach him
Impeach him, impeach him
Impeach him, impeach him
Impeach him, impeach him
my head is shaped like Pirelli treads (too much, Donald Trump)
but I’ve got a date with Adam Schiff (too much, Magic Bus)
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Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly described Mulvaney as a former White House chief of staff. He is the acting chief of staff.
Keep watching this space for further updates.
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“Leon canceled the hearing after Mulvaney said that he was not going to file his own lawsuit.”
So I suppose this means Mulvaney is not going to testify unless he is somehow threatened with jail. So the House will have to sue and, if they win, the DOJ can decide to ignore a federal court - deepening an already festering Constitutional crisis - or they can order Mulvaney’s incarceration for contempt - and then, and then…
my crystal ball becomes cloudy at this point…
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That anyone takes his absolute immunity claim seriously is a testament to just how far America has sunk. Our parents would have been marching on Washington if anyone in or around government took such a claim seriously. The American president is not supposed to be a fucking King. That has been known since the revolution.
That any licensed member of the bar is actually advancing such an argument is an insult to all the lawyers who came before Trump.
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I don’t understand this whole “briefing schedule speed” thing. I remember Ellis had the “rocket docket”. Now Leon apparently runs some courtroom that offically does business at light speed.
If the purpose of the court is to find the truth, why would any such a court entertain a rule or procedure that threatens to force over-hasty decisions?
Why does Leon insist on breakneck speed for this case? What right does he have to impose an arbitrary burden like this on the parties in any case? Couldn’t someone file an appeal based on the fact that the judge refused to make reasonable accommodation, “under any circumstances”? How is this not exactly like a judge who swears they won’t wear their glasses during presentation of evidence?
His explanation: The question of whether Kupperman must testify is …
… “a matter of great public interest and a matter of great urgency for the country.”
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Correction : A previous version of this story incorrectly described Mulvaney as a former White House chief of staff. He is the acting chief of staff.
This is also fairly Schrödinger.
But what if you really, really don’t want to?
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Yeah… I recall that, and I can’t disagree. Perhaps I’m just worried that he’s an unrevealed villain who hopes to use the legitimately unparalleled urgency of the crisis to justify removing the safeguards that are essential to ensuring the integrity of the process.
I worry that he’s constructing a disguise beneath which he can pervert justice.
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Correction: the phrase “pervert justice” was not intended as a veiled reference to any sexual predators who may be sitting justices of the Supreme Court. We have nothing but the highest regard for the members of Leonard Leo’s august judgment mill.
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