The Hall of Fire

Here's another important admission in a text from Tucker Carlson that's only come to light because of the Dominion lawsuit. In response to someone complaining that Democrats have competent lawyers while Republicans only have Syndey Powell and Lin Wood, Carlson wrote this about Trump's presidency: &...

I'm guessing this isn't meant to indicate the former director of the FBI is a fan of Gwyneth Paltrow:

I'm seeing reports that Donald Trump will be arraigned in New York on Tuesday, that Alvin Bragg has obtained documents and testimony with information not previously known to the public, and that there are 34 counts in the indictment. We'll see.

An FBI source in the Proud Boys testified today that the FBI never actually asked him for information about the Proud Boys. They wanted information about Antifa instead.

This makes it official:

If Alvin Bragg's team indeed is struggling with the need to prove Donald Trump's intent to defraud -- and I agree (as a layman) that Randall Eliason raises some reasonable concerns on that subject -- then they must have been struggling with that issue for many months: there's no way they'd been over...

And of course, that revelation led to a flood of right-wing commentators emphasizing that the killer was transgender as if that was the most important issue.

I don't know what the defense intended when they called a Capitol Police officer, Sgt. Blane Endale, as a witness. Endale oversees the office that issues permits for demonstrations at or near the Capitol. In cross-examination, the government was able to get Endale to testify that: (1) there were onl...

Netanyahu Expected to Drop Judicial Overhaul After Mass Protest Chaos: Reports I found these comments by Josh Marshall helpful in understanding the changes that Netanyahu had been pushing. Marshall builds on an explanation by Eli Cook, a professor at the University of Haifa, about why the "thr...

Here's another important admission in a text from Tucker Carlson that's only come to light because of the Dominion lawsuit. In response to someone complaining that Democrats have competent lawyers while Republicans only have Syndey Powell and Lin Wood, Carlson wrote this about Trump's presidency: &...

Roger Parloff of Lawfare is one of the reporters covering the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial. This morning a defense witness named George Meza was being cross-examined by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason McCullough. Meza has since left the Proud Boys and become a rabbi. He was called by the defe...

This might just be U.S. intelligence paranoia during the final years of the Cold War, but Bloomberg reports that the heavily redacted first 190 pages of the 900-page FBI file on Donald Trump's first wife, the late Ivana Trump, which is apparently being released in tranches in response to FOIA reques...

Here's another important admission in a text from Tucker Carlson that's only come to light because of the Dominion lawsuit. In response to someone complaining that Democrats have competent lawyers while Republicans only have Syndey Powell and Lin Wood, Carlson wrote this (my emphhasis) about Trump'...

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...