The Hall of Fire

She's not even pretending anymore.

Words of wisdom that I fear many in the coming election will ignore.

Excellent thread from the one and only Roger Parloff explaining why the moment on Thursday when Cohen was shown to have misremembered one phone call probably isn't as much of a big deal as many in the media have made it out to be. https://twitter.com/rparloff/status/1792174175773212909 https://twitt...

And perhaps the most bizarre thing about the Alito story is the fact that we are just learning about now, almost 3 and half years after it happened. How is that even possible?

Where in the world is Rudy Giuliani? " Arizona grand jury has indicted Trump allies for 2020 election interference " ( Politico ). Donald Trump is "Unindicted Co-Conspirator 1." (Ken Chesebro is "Unindicted Co-Conspirator 4.") Only some of the eighteen people who have ...

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The flip side of the Alito news is that perhaps it will help spark CJ Roberts to a more favorable decision.

An intruder broke into the home of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and attacked her 82 year old husband Paul Pelosi with a hammer, injuring him significantly. While no motive has been established, it is reported that the intruder was yelling "where is Nancy" before attacking her husband...

I thought that would happen. I've had to do that change on posts that I copied on my phone. Perhaps when and if we upgrade the phpBB version that will change, but I wouldn't count on it.

And yet the polls will still say that Biden can't be trusted to run the economy as much as businessman Trump.

Two interesting notes from the transcript of the sidebar that began Tuesday's session, which I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else. First, the witness that the prosecution had originally planned to call after Cohen was not, as I and others have speculated, their election law expert, but instead ano...

And just to be complete, Silmarillion?

I figured not, since it would be too obvious. I'm glad I was right!

as far as I have heard, we haven't seen a copy of the agreement signed by Donald Trump himself That is correct. Here is the copy of the agreement that was entered into evidence, with a signature line for "DD" (aka Trump) but no signature. https://pdfs.nycourts.gov/PeopleVs.DTrump-71543/Ev...

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Barrowdowns?

Ah, thanks for that correction. I thought the defense argument was, in part, that Michael Cohen did this on his own (and as far as I have heard, we haven't seen a copy of the agreement signed by Donald Trump himself) out of the goodness of his heart rather than at the direction of Trump and then Tr...

To the best of my recollection, the defense has not argued that Trump had no knowledge of the agreement, just that he didn't reimburse Cohen (which is equally untrue). I went back and looked at Blanche's opening statement. He says: You'll hear that Ms. Clifford/Ms. Daniels, did, in fact, sign an NDA...

Good idea. Should I move the other posts to this thread?

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