This is outrageous. Justice Engoron reads something in the New York Slimes - after the trial record has closed - and treats it as an opportunity to fish for possible additional evidence against Trump. Even Letitia James had to ask him to back off. Sheesh!
Judges routinely instruct jurors to focus solely on the matters introduced into evidence at trial, and to avoid and ignore all media accounts of matters not in the record. And here’s a judge doing the exact opposite when sitting in the place of a jury as the trier of fact. Nuts!
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This is a LIE. It’s not opinion. It is not debatable. The bill is a MINOR amendment to the anti-boycott statute that has been on the books since 2018, and which contains absolutely no language even remotely similar to what Charlie Kirk describes here. I couldn’t care less whether people support the amendment or the existing statute. It’s not the least bit important. If you READ THE BILL (attached) you’d say, who cares? But the DISHONEST anti-Israel engagement farming is motivated by something very, very dark. Something that might make you go to Hell when you die. Disgusting and evil. Vote against the bill if you want and repeal the 2018 Anti-Boycott Act if you don’t lime it. But don’t LIE just because engagement farming against the JOOS will yield you 15 dollars. Disgusting!!! 🤢
1/ I promised a thread, with receipts, on why I regard the Durham report and investigation as minimalist shams. I never got to it because of (i) life, and (ii) other more pressing and timely matters. But now that Trump is staffing up, and now that there may be an opportunity to expose more of the abuses that our government has strained to cover up, this subject has become more pressing and timely. I’m still busy, but can deal with that by drafting this thread in parts over time and trying to keep it brief and focused (and full of typos).
2/ I concede that Durham’s prosecutions and report did result in revealing a lot of important evidence. But, as with Robocop’s Secret Directive Four (Google it if you don’t know), there were lines he would not cross, at least not beyond the bare minimum. One of those Durham reveals in footnote 8 of his report and the (terse) accompanying text. Specifically, Durham was delegated certain authority by the AG to “use classified information” BUT Durham “has not used this authority.” 🤯
3/ I don’t have a copy of AG Order 4942-2020 in which the AG delegated this (UNUSED 🤯) authority to Durham. If anyone does, please share and I will update this post. I’ll wait a while before continuing this thread in the hope someone can provide a copy of Order 4942.
In the meantime, here is a copy of the underlying order showing what authority the AG had to delegate on the use of classified information.
See here: trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-a…
The FBI foia vault today released additional evidence of .@JakeSullivan46 using personal emails for top secret matters and his failure to help prevent Ambassador Stevens’s murder in Benghazi despite actual knowledge of the danger posed to him. vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-cli…
Jake may have sent but just in case. Benghazi/Stevens/Hillary.
The US State Dept’s foia website posted 1249 documents on Friday. Let’s take a quick look 👀. foia.state.gov/Search/Results…
One foia request (not mine) ending in 07153 yields some interesting stuff on Russia/Ukraine. Including Director of Policy planning David McKean’s wife apparently invested with Rosement (Seneca?!?), and Kathy Kavalec enjoying Atlantic Council anti-Russia emails just before the 2016 election. foia.state.gov/Search/Results…
A short thread on .@jaketapper moderating the first Trump/Biden debate. 1/ Tapper is a smart, aggressive reporter. Among CNN’s top talent. But he also was one of the main participants in the collusive (really, insurrectionist) nexus between Dem operatives, the partisan IC, and the press, in trying to undo the 2016 election or, at a minimum, hobble the incoming Trump administration. Specifically, Tapper was front and center in breaking the “dossier briefing” story on January 10, 2017.
2/ It’s obvious that the intent of the IC briefing Obama, Biden and Trump on the dossier allegations, adding a two page addendum to the ICA on that topic, and then massive IC leaks to the press, was to hurt Trump. Comey acknowledged to his buddies that CNN was looking for a “news hook” to turn the shaky, discreditable dossier into a story via FBI involvement. As in “Please don’t leak this. Wink wink, nudge nudge.” Then Strzok and pals eagerly awaited the story breaking specifically on CNN, which they undeniably knew was coming, right after Comey finished his Congressional testimony. This is all established in writing.
3/ Tapper, for his part, acknowledged in emails to Ben Smith that he was angered by Smith’s reporting, because it rendered CNN’s scoop less impactful. Tapper compared this to Smith stepping on Tapper’s d*ck. Again, this is all in writing.