emptywheelCoverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
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emptywheelReupping, bc I just saw NYT's coverage on this, and I promise, mine is better.
Trump Confesses He Will Bankrupt the Country Unless SCOTUS Lets Him Break the Law
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emptywheelSomehow Trump's BLS nominee--the guy with the Nazi boat fetish--was seen leaving from BOTH sides of the Capitol during the terrorist attack.
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emptywheelWhat Price Would Trump Demand to Sell Out Ukraine?
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emptywheelNote this is STILL missing one of the most important data points (I tried to alert CNN).
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SEX CASE ‘VICTIMS’ LINING UP
emptywheelIn October 2007, at a point when Epstein's plea was not public, Page Six reported on everything going on, including the plan to smear the victims. "Mar-a-Lago" described THE SECOND of Trump's "spa girls" stolen by Epstein (the first known was Virginia Giuffre).
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emptywheelNote this is STILL missing one of the most important data points (I tried to alert CNN).
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RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z6rujpf4u56jfie7aqic2nfg/post/3lwbz6nirgs2h
SEX CASE ‘VICTIMS’ LINING UP
emptywheelVia @wendysiegelman.bsky.social@bsky.app, Trump has cleared the way for sanctioned people--possibly beyond just Putin--to attend his capitulation on Friday.
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emptywheelLiterally everyone is responding to this with such naivete.
It's not the pee tape (and never was). It's not Epstein.
Putin has used Trump to destroy every aspect of the United States that he loathed: rule of law, free market, human rights.
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emptywheelAnd I apologize: I've been struggling with conveying all this all week. I didn't get all the way there.
But this negotiation on Friday isn't about Ukraine. Ukraine is the dangle Putin used to get to Trump, and that's been true for a decade.
emptywheelLiterally everyone is responding to this with such naivete.
It's not the pee tape (and never was). It's not Epstein.
Putin has used Trump to destroy every aspect of the United States that he loathed: rule of law, free market, human rights.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3lwcey5mv722b
emptywheelWhat Price Would Trump Demand to Sell Out Ukraine?
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emptywheelAnd the outcome on Friday is not just about how much of UKRAINE Trump sells out -- it's about how many other nuisances of the Main Enemy, like rule of law and human rights, Putin can remove via his decade-long corruption of Donald Trump.
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emptywheelAssessing the Alaska meeting through a diplomatic lens is as ridiculous at this point as assessing Trump's tariff deals through an economic lens.
With Trump, it's all about the side-hustle.
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