The Hall of Fire

Yesterday the Nation published this article about an "elaborate covert operation personally directed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that aimed to use secret intelligence to clandestinely intervene at the highest levels in the [2016 U.S.] presidential election on behalf of Trump." The...

On Saturday, Israel's defense minister, Yoav Gallant, called for a pause to the proposed judicial reforms being advanced by the nation's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Today Netanyahu fired him. Later today, Israel's consul in New York, Asaf Zamir, resigned in protest. (Netanyahu himself has be...

Some Republican members of Congress have been describing January 6th defendants as political prisoners being held in deplorable conditions. Today a contingent from Congress, including two Democrats (one a former defense attorney), visited the jail where many of these insurrectionists are being held.

Also: Russian Emails Behind DA Bomb Hoax Amid Trump Probe.

ABC reports that last week in a sealed order, Judge Beryl Howell, in her final days as Chief Judge of the D.C. district court, "rejected former President Donald Trump's claims of executive privilege and has ordered Mark Meadows and other former top aides to testify before a federal grand jury i...

Rep. George Santos claims that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema told him "Hang in there, buddy" on Tuesday, but her office denies that . In the 2020 election thread, I linked to today's news about the arrest of Steve Bannon's billionaire backer, Guo Wengui, on charges of "leading a complex conspi...

It now looks like it won't happen until next week (if at all). Wait, are you saying that Donald Trump was wrong about something? Meanwhile, Trump today posted two pictures side by side. One shows him holding a baseball bat. The other shows Alvin Bragg. The impression of the two photos juxtaposed is...

Next week, a man named Douglass Mackey will go on trial for his efforts to undermine the U.S. presidential election in *2016.* He was charged in January 2021. Mackey was apparently a prominent troll on social media using the nickname "Ricky Vaughan"; his true identity became public in 201...

Following up on V's posts from Friday and Saturday: it seems that one of Beryl Howell's last acts as Chief Judge of the D.C. district court was to find in a sealed (but leaking) filing on Friday that Special Counsel Jack Smith's office, as ABC reports, has "presented compelling preliminary evid...

Donald Trump's undeclared presidential primary opponent, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, tried to have it both ways today. He began by repeatedly describing Alvin Bragg as a "Soros-funded prosecutor" -- a statement that Donald Trump himself has made many times and which is generally underst...

In other Georgia news, Fani Willis has asked (but not subpoenaed) sometime Trump attorney and OANN anchor Christina Bobb to testify to the regular grand jury convened in the 2020 elections investigation. It's not expected that Bobb will agree to this. Bobb's attorney says he can't imagine why his cl...

Thanks, V. I agree that whatever the merits of Alvin Bragg's case, an appearance by Robert Costello is unlikely to help Donald Trump's position. And Trump seems to think so, as well, to judge from the several angry rants he posted today on his social network, including one in which he seems to be hi...

So Trump's team requested that Costello testify to the grand jury? How does that work? If Costello is meant to provide information favorable to Trump or derogatory about Cohen, who's asking the questions to which he's responding with that testimony?

I've been wondering what leaks he is referring to regarding any imminent indictment and arrest. The most detail I've heard on either is coming from him. Perhaps one of his attorneys got a courtesy call? If he gets perp-walked will his SS detail be in attendance? That's the theory I've seen floated:...

The Times story notes that they have no corroborating evidence for Barnes's story, but also that there seems to be no reason for Barnes to make it up: it doesn't reflect well on him or his party. Even so, David Frum throws some cold water at this story, noting that the only specific leader Barnes na...

Elaine Shannon, who was then a reporter with Newsweek and flew with then-former President Jimmy Carter to meet the 52 American hostages upon their release to West Germany (an assignment which some had seen at the time as an indication of the decency of brand-new President Reagan), says that the host...

The Wikipedia entry on the "October Surprise Conspiracy Theory" doesn't even mention the name Ben Barnes. The conspiracy theory, which my mom explained to me when I was eight years old in January 1981, held that Ronald Reagan had secretly asked the Iranian government not to release U.S. ho...

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 3:56 pm Holy conflict of interest, Batman!

It's pretty funny that this has been public knowledge because it was revealed (five years ago yesterday) in a TV interview.

CNN reports that one of Donald Trump's attorneys, Evan Corcoran, has been ordered to testify to a grand jury in the documents investigation after a judge determined that the Dept. of Justice had presented sufficiently convincing evidence that some communications between Trump and Corcoran met the cr...

Jacqueline Alemany of the Washington Post writes : "Two gifts to the Trump family from foreign nations are missing -- golf clubs from Shinzo Abe and a life-sized portrait of Trump. Over 100 gifts worth approximately $300,000 were not properly reported to the government, as required by federal l...