Originally published at: New Purges Continue to Hollow Out the Trump DOJ - TPM – Talking Points Memo
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Removing the Few Remaining Guardrails While the Trump DOJ has been hijacked to target Donald Trump’s perceived foes with criminal investigation and prosecution, it continues to undergo a slow-motion purge of career professionals…
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Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
ETA: just back from vacation, did I miss anything besides killer escalators and Tylenol causes autism?
Does brainworm guy also have a new theory on the brontosaurus?
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Kirk was a martyr in the manner of Horst Wessel: something for totalitarians to get sentimental over:
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company lobbying him on medicinal weed.
And he posted that he would order troops to Portland because of something he saw on TV, five year old video of Portland during the BLM protests.
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What didn’t you miss? New tariff on furniture to Make North Carolina Great Again. Vance unhappy. New DA in the EDVa delivered two indictments, one of which no-billed all three charges and the other two. She signed both but claimed she didn’t know where the erroneous document that she signed came from.
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It’s like falling off a very high cliff in slow motion, watching the country tumble over and over.
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Trump is finally going down!
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From the Morning Memo: “Acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, with no prior experience as a prosecutor, stumbled through securing the Comey indictment, the NYT reports: “At one point, she entered the wrong courtroom. When she found the right one, she stood on the wrong side of the judge,”
When the regular news sounds more like The Onion with every passing day.
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“You’ll recall that Justice Brett Kavanaugh in one of the Supreme Court’s recent emergency docket rulings earlier this month condoned using apparent ethnicity and race as a factor in deciding which people to stop.“
Atrios has termed these “Kavanaugh Stops”. Seems about right.
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A question we ask here regularly.
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It appears to me that no one in the Eastern District was hand-holding Miss Halligan through the indictment presentation process.
And I have NEVER learned what the grand jury vote was – both counts in this joke of an indictment got 14 votes (12 are needed). It would be nice if this indictment got thrown out at arraignment.
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And he’s putting a 100% tariff on movies made overseas (which is most big budget Hollywood movies).
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Still can’t get over the Klein/Coates conversation. Coates observing that the long history of the United States contains centuries of repression, and Klein arguing that all of that should be set aside in the name of political expediency is the crux of the issue for the Democratic Party. The establishment wants to abandon its support for minority groups. Many of us believe that a party that abandons its values doesn’t deserve to win. I’m pretty sure not standing for anything isn’t a winning position.
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TFG telling a reporter they are “obnoxious” for asking a question should tell you all you need to know of their race and gender.
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Meidas Touch News
**MTG is getting death threats but SHE STILL WANTS THE EPSTEIN FILES RELEASED**
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Oh come on, we all know he’s “weaving”.
/s
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