A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
To hear Alina Habba, one of Trump’s defense lawyers, explain it: The FBI probably planted incriminating evidence when agents raided the ex-president’s Mar-a-Lago resort on Monday, but also the raid was a wild goose chase and Trump doesn’t have anything incriminating at Mar-a-Lago.
Re: MTG merch, it really is all just a big grift.
Did Trump’s lawyers get degrees at Trump University?
I can’t imagine wearing a “Defund the FBI” cap and “Proud Christian Nationalist” shirt, but if other people want to, it would probably be a lot of help for the orderlies whose job it is to return them to the psych ward.
I don’t know, but it’s pretty clear they do speak for their client.
OT: I just discovered the existence of this a couple of days ago. The more art-inclined among you might enjoy playing this as you sip/guzzle your morning cofveve.
The racisT DEEp staTE claSSifieD uncLassifIED DOcuments TO perSEcute the WiNNEr of the 2020 ElecTion.
whined in his announcement that he was being “attacked from all sides.”
Wait’ll they get your tax records, then you’ll get a proper rogering.
If the FBI planted evidence Trump and his buddies would be the last to know. It’s much more likely that the agents of Trumpland covered up evidence than planted it. This is the same FBI that for all intents and purposes was employed by the Trump campaign to conduct oppo research on Clinton. And went to town doing so. It is the same FBI still run by a Trump appointee.
But what do you expect from folks that can dish it out but not take it. “unfair”, “persecution”…the vocabulary of weak dainty souls too frail to stand up and take the heat. And cries of WAR!!! Just what kind of war is a cadre of draft dodgers going to wage?
Re Trump’s being deposed (heh!) today: I saw on Twitter this morning that one of the “I read Truth Social so you don’t have to” people said Trump had posted there that Letitia James is “a racist AG.”
I know it’s a deposition and not a trial, but still you’d think that Trump would have learned that talking out of school like Alex Jones did would not be the firmest of legal strategies.
Trumper Michels wins the WI republican gov primary over Kleefisch. The 3rd place finisher? He wants a recount…something something election fraud. Go Evers!
Likely possibilities from tfg’s deposition today
Co-sign.
(Completely OT: is your username an homage to the guitarist for The Clash?)
HoW aBout MAsterfuL reBUTTal frOM a STabLE Genius WHo’s beING attaCKEd by A RACIST AG.
Lady make up your mind, did the FBI plant something or is it a nothing burger because you can’t have it both ways?
The two whose eyes you can see have the same thousand-yard stare as Scientology’s lawyers.
I caught just a fragment on PBS yesterday of a trend in using blockchain in the artworld and it was very interesting.
It would protect the artist and his/her work and allow an artist to control sale of art after the initial purchase.
The grievance and false accusation machine is in full gear.
It’s the only thing they have - at this point - that runs really well.
Don’t give them the means to act on their whining threats.
GOTV for Democrats - local, state, federal.
Looking forward to waking up to some more search warrants and indictments in the weeks and months to come.
