A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
Yielding to a FOIA lawsuit by CREW, the Justice Department has released a key memo that gave Trump Attorney General Bill Barr Barr everything he needed to whitewash the Mueller Report.
If that’s the subject of your dreams, I recommend replacing your subconscious.
“You see, when the Attorney General does it, it’s not illegal”
As Josh wrote in his Editor’s Column, the criticism of the Mueller Report was never fair. The investigation was artificially hamstrung from the beginning and it’s conclusions were distored and presented in bad faith* by a totally corrupt AG.
Ron Johnson’s more involved with the contents of your uterus than the envelope full of fake electors the traitor would’ve passed along if the VP had also been a traitor.
The Barr whitewash memo basically concluded that acts normally considered obstruction of justice weren’t in this case because Trump didn’t agree and got angry and Bill Barr didn’t want to get fired.
This will be an Evergreen Tweet.
“2 words”
Bullshit is just one word.
Come on: give the guy a break. He got ‘something from somebody’ and someone in his staff just tried to pass it on to the VP’s office…
Call It What It Is: Corruption
So Barr did what he did. No surprise, we kind of knew this back in 2019. The question now is a combination of so what and what’re we gonna do about it? Because, honestly, I think the answer to both is nothing more than a shrug.
Police in Georgia are investigating a “swatting” at the home of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)
Figured this was going to something stupid. The person who did it should be prosecuted for the call and billed for the costs of the officers going to the house. What a stupid thing to do to call attention to a truly important topic. Way to negatively impact the issue.
I’m up against massive amounts of spending. I’m up against the media. They’re very good. They are very good at assassinating people’s character, playing class envy, distorting things beyond any reasonable recognition of things I say.
RoJo weeping about the massive amounts of spending the GQP party apparatus ISN’T spending on him anymore because his goose is cooked. It’s not possible to distort what he says because what he says is to outrageous for even the Onion to print - no one would believe it and he states things as facts (e.g., the recent statement on the electric vehicles for the post office and how Wisconsin doesn’t need any more jobs in the State). You can’t make this up.
Trump Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke lied to investigators, the department’s inspector general concluded in a new report.
See my first point above - so what and who’s going to do anything about it?
This is a pretty big one
Trump calls for McConnell to be ousted as GOP leader ‘immediately’ | The Hill
And Oh Yea
They are blaming the vaccine on Trump now. That’s an indicator of how The Science (TM) going in the real world. pic.twitter.com/cLCd9cXP3A
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 24, 2022
Trying to out dump Dump
DeSantis has seen enough of Dr. Fauci:
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) August 24, 2022
"Someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the Potomac!" pic.twitter.com/DiKeJkaWZo
Just a note
Busted: Proud Boy photographed working at Miami polling station (msn.com)
Bill Barr has been the bagman for the GOP since Iran/Contra and probably even longer, just behind the scenes. Just because in the waning days of Trump’s criminal enterprise, he bailed doesn’t mean he is a good guy or that he even saw the light, it means he was trying to save his own skin.
I still would love to know his connection to Jeff Epstein and his suicide.
Bill Barr could actually be worse than I thought? Oh, boy.
Not if you change it to bovine feculence.
Let’s Look At The People Criticizing Student Loan Forgiveness | Crooks and Liars
Huh. Looks like maybe they’ve had a little loan forgiveness themselves
Marjorie Taylor Greene says "it’s completely unfair" for the federal government to forgive loans.
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 24, 2022
This is Marjorie Taylor Greene's company.@RepMTG had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven.
Loan forgiveness for me, not for thee. pic.twitter.com/3szKpA9aTe
There are so many! pic.twitter.com/pUIfuPEtuJ
— Rebecca Lavoie (@reblavoie) August 23, 2022
In case you all missed this….
…… you’d be better then some already working at TPM.
It takes a particularly stupid criminal to call the police back and explain their crime. At the risk of sounding conspiratorial, this sounds like the sort of thing a person would do if they were trying to create a narrative that those who support transgender youth’s rights are violent extremists.
