Jeff Wall: It Would Cause Attorney General Barr Irreparable Harm If He Had to Reveal His Secret Reason He Moved to Dismiss Flynn's Prosecution.https://t.co/6z2v4B7zLo— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 11, 2020
I'm kind of hoping the entire court directs Sullivan to hold an in camera hearing to find out WTF the DOJ lawyer was talking about.
Because we don't prosecute people on secret evidence in this country; and we don't exonerate them on it, either.
Just now @Realdonaldtrump made the insane claim that Russia, China & Iran - dictatorships who oppress their citizens & fake elections - aren't as bad as his political opponents.— Stand Up Republic (@StandUpRepublic) August 12, 2020
He disdains Americans and excuses our adversaries in his maniacal quest to keep power at all costs.
Unless that is the "secret reason." Or this:
Kamala sounds like Marge Simpson.— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) August 12, 2020
Ms. Ellis is the Senior Legal Adviser to the Trump campaign, and an attorney for Donald Trump. At least that's what she says.
Also, even apart from Kanye’s mental state, if this meeting was for political purposes—specifically, influencing the election—it was blatantly illegal. https://t.co/n9fSqSOcvl— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 12, 2020
Because: of course it is.
I'm not much for prosecuting people, period. But can we get a DOJ in 2021 that investigates these activities and prosecutes the crimes, up and including every illegal damned thing Trump did as POTUS? Because the rule of law has to mean something, or it means nothing at all.
The president, who called the election he won “rigged” even after the fact bc he lost the popular vote, and who has called any institution at odds with him rigged/corrupt, is saying it about a vote that hasn’t started and a postal service he’s shown little interest in expanding. https://t.co/J1nImMzMVB— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 12, 2020
Trump doesn't really know what he's talking about, but a lot of people take him seriously and ape his remarks with their concerns, making his remarks seem serious. The Post Office is being run by an idiot who has interests in private companies that compete with the Post Office: that's the beginning and end of that "conspiracy." Trump is trying to excuse his loss, not foul up the election (he doesn't know how, and it's harder than that anyway). As I've said before, if he fouls vote counts with law suits (which will slow down the count, and then it will be his fault the count is delayed) and we reach the deadline for the Electoral college to meet (12th Amendment) and we can't settle things, that throws it into the House, which will be Democratic again. That's a slim possibility, though. The likelier possibility is he gets voted out overwhelmingly and screams about a "rigged" election as he leaves the White House in a snit (he won't attend Biden's inaugural. Count on it.). He's not going to get any states to refuse to offer a slate of electors, because if they don't, they throw it to the House, not to Trump. There is no default "can't decide give it to the incumbent" provision in the Constitution.
As for Trump blocking the funding of the Post Office, he'll do what he always does: fold like a cheap (and empty) suit and declare he won a great victory. If he blocks that stimulus fund he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning in November, and even Trump knows that. He's barking about it now because McConnell is blocking it. If it ever reaches his desk he'll sign it instanter.
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