Nakasone: “Exposure of this information could also cause considerable difficulties in U.S. and allied relations with specific nations.” He adds disclosure “reasonably could be expected to result in exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States."— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) June 18, 2020
First question Judge Lamberth is gonna ask: then why isn't Simon & Schuster a party to this lawsuit? Because either DOJ is serious about this risk, or this motion is bullshit.
Federal judges don't like bullshit.
“He is a liar,” Mr. Trump told The Wall Street Journal, adding that “everybody in the White House hated John Bolton.” https://t.co/XV4j3MumnX— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) June 18, 2020
Lies cannot be classified. So which is it? Lies, or classified material? And how does the court sort that out in a TRO hearing? (Narrator: "Answer: It doesn't." Which means the only "cure" the DOJ can seek is the constructive trust (yes, I keep repeating myself). I can't get over how badly managed this lawsuit is. I haven't practiced law in 30 years, and I could do better than this tomorrow morning.
Wow this motion is a trash fire.— FinlandOrMaybeRussiaHat (@Popehat) June 18, 2020
No shit?
Jesus. Being a DoJ lawyer used to be seen as prestigious. Imagine agreeing to lower yourself to this shit and being associated with it forever.— FinlandOrMaybeRussiaHat (@Popehat) June 18, 2020
Eh, people may forget.
I mean, unless anyone took steps to make sure their names are always connected to it.....
Times must be hard in the post-DOJ legal market. ETTD, and all. I'm serious, first-year associates would quit rather than stain their careers with this kind of incompetence in a federal court (where, as I say, the judge can tell you not to come back, and it sticks).
Well, I guess it's true, that the fish rots from the head down:
This is exactly how I imagined it:— Greg Jaffe (@GregJaffe) June 17, 2020
Kelly: “Why is Jared calling Mexicans?”
Trump: “Because I asked him to. How else are we going to stop the caravans?”https://t.co/g8wlxbqR2y
Does that sound too absurd to be true? Well, this should, too:
The question refutes Trump's answer but he just pushes forward anyway https://t.co/PNo3b6kjBc— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 18, 2020
Trump is full-blown delusional now. He's completely lost whatever sweaty, small-handed grip he ever had on reality. Since the 25th Amendment is as useless as Pence, we just have to hang on until next January. All Trump has left is delusions and the most painfully transparent projections:
119,000 Americans and counting are dead from the coronavirus and the unemployment rate is over 13 percent https://t.co/xtDl5ej8fE— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 18, 2020
It's like he's shouting at the guy in the mirror.
Going to enjoy watching Trump’s toadies try to thread the “he never said that and it was classified when he did” needle.— FinlandOrMaybeRussiaHat (@Popehat) June 18, 2020
Gotta have something to look forward to, huh?
You're just getting my hopes up. I wonder if it will turn out that things had to get this bad to force the country to address the awful things that got us here. First the Bush II regime, now the Trump regime with the self-imposed impotence of Obama as the fondly remembered "normal" that was no normal anyone should hope for. The Republicans started going from the merely bad to the pathologically terrible after Eisenhower kept a lid on that, a bit. They have to be defeated and the media machine and legal apparatus that enabled them broken up and neutered. I don't want to get my hopes up, I don't want to die a cynic.
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