In this article STILL rehashing the hearing-that-was-a-fiasco-for-the-ages (I'll stop writing about it soon!), there is a tweet cataloging the complaints of a nameless GOP operative about said hearing. I won't quote it, I'll just paraphrase:
1) Comer didn't control the hearing, allowing Democrats to attack (not sure how that works, actually, unless the majority is supposed to silence the minority under parliamentary House rules?)
2) Comer's own witnesses disputed the House arguments on impeachment (interesting the problem is with disputation of the House arguments; not with any evidence...)
3) Comer "failed to attract mainstream media attention RE more damning evidence."
Ah, there it is! The sasquatch, the yeti, the Loch Ness Monster of MAGA! "More damning evidence," which they insist they have, but no one has ever seen. It's the Canadian girlfriend of evidence: you wouldn't know it, but it's much better than any evidence you've ever had!
Who are these jamokes? More to the point, since the xweet is from a reporter for WaPo, why are WaPo reporters trading in this shit? It's absolutely no better than anonymous gossip from some mook in a parking garage. Yes, I'm referring to "Deep Throat," but Bernstein never quoted "Deep Throat" in his news articles. That character didn't who up until the book he and Woodward wrote, where they filled in the background on how they got the story that toppled Nixon. And even then it turned out "Deep Throat" was a real person giving Bernstein real information. (Or was it Woodward who go the information? I think maybe it was. Shit, I gotta watch that movie again, 'cause I think now it was Redford in the parking garage talking to Hal Holbrook in the shadows. Oh, what the fuck ever!)
The morons in the House are literally quoting shit fresh off the internet as if it were vetted and examined intelligence, rather than "raw intelligence" of the type they still complain about was in the Steele dossier (Trump is suing Steele over that dossier. I doubt he has the money to pursue it, now.) I mean, these people are as dumb as posts.
And the reporters who take stenography for them aren't much better. I mean, against that anonymous quote, the Bulwark article has this:
Live on Fox News, Steve Doocy has repeatedly questioned Chairman Comer’s inability to point to “any evidence” that shows President Biden is compromised, that any policy was ever influenced, or that any crime was committed, even stating: “You don't actually have any facts to that point. You've got some circumstantial evidence . . . And the other thing is, of all those names, the one person who didn’t profit is—there's no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally.”
Former Trump official Sebastian Gorka tweeted that “Comer is failing in his efforts to investigate” President Biden, called Chairman Comer’s supposed findings “crap—he’s reporting stuff that we knew 2 years ago,” and said that Chairman Comer’s Biden probe is “pathetic.”
Breitbart editor Emma Jo-Morris criticized Chairman Comer for promoting bribery allegations against President Biden even though he has “not shown [proof] to the public,” while Steve Bannon also lambasted Chairman Comer for failing to provide evidence to support his bribery allegations, saying of Chairman Comer, “You’re not serious. It’s all performative.”
Kris Kolesnik, former senior counselor and director of investigations for Sen. Grassley, wrote that Chairman Comer and Chairman Jim Jordan “struggle mightily with the concept of credibility.” (emphasis added)
So where the actual goddamned fuck is this "damning evidence," except lodged in the mind of this anonymous GOP "senior aide" alongside the UFO/sasquatch/Nessie/Jersey Devil sightings?
Speaking of Trump and money, his legal fund is running low:
Save America paid more than 30 law firms and additional legal consultants before it began to pull back in recent months.
The PAC had more than $100 million on hand in early 2022 but transferred $60 million to MAGA Inc., the super PAC supporting Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. It made a refund request for that donation.
MAGA Inc. has been sending back money, according to a person briefed on the matter, and the PAC could continue to pay legal bills for Trump and possibly others if that money is routed back to Save America.
And trials haven't even started yet. The one on Monday is guaranteed to eat up a lot of cash (one more reason Chris Kise wondered if the judge would just pass on it). Watch the donut, not the hole. There's nothing conclusive yet; it's just an argument. But I expect the evidence to surface soon that Trump is hurting for money as the monitors begin to take over activities at several of his entities subject to the NY court order (and get their hands on the books, and....lots of layers to that onion.) I wouldn't start a hearing on it in Congress; but I think if you pay attention, you may see Trump pulling back on some of his extreme legal positions as they don't pay off (governments won't get tired of delays and just go away) in court, and just cost him money he finds he can't afford to spend (because he needs it for trials).
Just a suggestion....
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