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Clay T<p>Me thinking about the <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ACT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a>: the “it’s time factor” alone will probably swing the <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> out of power, but it’s okay, our <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberals</span></a> are sensible centrists and at least we don’t have that <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/insane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insane</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extremist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extremist</span></a> faction in our politics (like in the States) that attacks the <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> </p><p>The Leader of the ACT <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberal</span></a> Party:</p><p>Flipping out: ACT Liberal leader apologises for giving journalist middle finger on eve of election</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/17/act-liberal-leader-elizabeth-lee-gives-middle-finger-to-journalist" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2024/oct/17/act-liberal-leader-elizabeth-lee-gives-middle-finger-to-journalist</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/StaySane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StaySane</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/VoteLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoteLabor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ACTPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACTPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ACTElection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACTElection</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ACTVotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACTVotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Canberra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canberra</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CBR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CBR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a></p>
SLCW💥<p>"For <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a>, she felt there was a need to show that families with differing political opinions, as stark as they may be, can still get along."</p><p>First of all, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/RoseanneBarr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RoseanneBarr</span></a> is a truly sick and deranged person. She embodies all of the worst, most extreme characteristics of the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MAGAcult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGAcult</span></a>.</p><p>Second, countless families have been literally destroyed by the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MAGAvirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGAvirus</span></a>. Nobody is getting along. So her entire premise, like the rest of her beliefs, is utter bullshit.</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ItsACult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ItsACult</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/align/roseanne-barr-john-goodman-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theblaze.com/align/roseanne-ba</span><span class="invisible">rr-john-goodman-trump</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Father Arne set up another initiative called the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leonine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leonine</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Forum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Forum</span></a>, <br>a program for top graduates designed to provide them with “intellectual and spiritual seriousness.” </p><p>It, too, brought in generous donations from wealthy Catholics keen to steep the leaders of tomorrow in Church teachings. </p><p>As ever, the Opus Dei name was kept out of any promotional material <br>— but, even so, such events deepened the organization’s presence among America’s most influential Catholics. </p><p>For Father Arne, the ultimate goal of this outreach was transforming the political sphere, <br>almost every aspect of which had grown more and more secular over the years. </p><p>He believed that policy simply couldn’t be made by people who weren’t versed in the universal truths of the Church. </p><p>His mission was to reverse this creeping secularism <br>— and put Opus Dei at the heart of a spiritual awakening. </p><p>Around the same time, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Luis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Luis</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tellez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tellez</span></a>, a celibate member of Opus Dei at Princeton, organized a conference at the Vatican that was billed as <br>“an interreligious colloquium on the complementarity of man and woman.” </p><p>While the initiative was officially the idea of the Princeton academic <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Robby</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/George" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>George</span></a>, Tellez and his Opus Dei colleagues in Rome oversaw the organization of the conference. </p><p>The "Witherspoon Institute", an organization set up by Tellez and George, made a large donation to the Opus Dei university in Rome around the same time. </p><p>“Oftentimes, Robby will open the door, you know,” Tellez explained. <br>“I’m a nobody.” </p><p>The Humanum conference created some additional cachet for Opus Dei operatives in the United States, <br>who used this important gathering of religious leaders as an enticement to woo big-name Catholic conservatives. </p><p>Leonard Leo was one of those invited to participate. </p><p>The invitation dovetailed with a wider effort at the Catholic Information Center to entice Leo into the Opus Dei orbit. </p><p>At around the same time as the Humanum conference, Leo was invited onto the CIC board. </p><p>Their two worlds were already entwined. </p><p>Leo’s children went to the two Opus Dei schools <br>— The Heights for the boys and Oakcrest for the girls <br>— and he and his wife played an active part in school life, <br>donating thousands of dollars a year in addition to the many thousands they were paying in tuition for their various children. </p><p>The Leos were also regulars at a deeply conservative church in McLean, <br>not far from their home, <br>that was popular with many of the city’s Opus Dei members. </p><p>Both parties were also becoming ever more aggressive politically. </p><p>In 2011, Leo teamed up with Clarence Thomas’s wife <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ginni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ginni</span></a> to co-found another nonprofit that successfully opposed an Islamic center being built near the site of the 9 ⁄11 attacks in New York, <br>denigrated as the “Ground Zero Mosque.” </p><p>A year later, he joined the board of the Catholic Association, another non-profit linked to the Corkerys, that funded campaigns to oppose same-sex marriage. </p><p>For its part, the Catholic Information Center <br>— despite in theory being apolitical <br>— had also joined a suit against the Obama administration, <br>challenging the requirement that employers provide and pay for contraception, <br>sterilization, and abortion-causing drugs as part of employee health insurance plans. </p><p>The appointment of Leo came despite misgivings among the Opus Dei national leadership, <br>and illustrated a transactional attitude toward this increasingly influential figure with deep connections to dark money. </p><p>“He’s a figure in Washington, and he may have had kids in the school down there,” explained Father Tom Bohlin, <br>who headed Opus Dei in the United States at the time <br>— and who met Leo at the Humanum conference in Rome. </p><p>“I’m not sure he even understands Opus Dei, but at a certain level, he likes what we do <br>— certain things <br>— and wants to support that.” </p><p>The appointment of Leo marked a shift in the CIC board. </p><p>For years, it had been run by Father Arne, another priest, and a smattering of volunteers drawn from the congregation. </p><p>The makeup of the board was decidedly unpolitical <br>— a mix of academics, lawyers, and volunteers who helped run the bookshop. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Pat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pat</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cipollone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cipollone</span></a>, a lawyer who had been an assistant to Attorney General Bill Barr in the early nineties <br>but who had since returned to the private sector, <br>was the only board member who was remotely connected to the Washington political scene. </p><p>But in 2014, all that changed. </p><p>Alongside Leo, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bill</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a>, the former attorney general, was also appointed.</p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>"In early 2019, as <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Mueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mueller</span></a> was preparing to deliver his report on <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> interference... his team obtained records from <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Egyptian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Egyptian</span></a> banking officials... a cash withdrawal of nearly $10 million — an amount almost identical to what the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> indicated...</p><p>The case ground to a halt by the fall of 2019 as Trump’s then-attorney general, William P. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a>, raised doubts about whether there was sufficient evidence to continue the probe."<br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/09/03/trump-egypt-investigation-menendez/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/investigati</span><span class="invisible">ons/2024/09/03/trump-egypt-investigation-menendez/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crime</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>According to an August 2 report in The Washington Post, <br>the U.S. Department of Justice <a href="https://c.im/tags/previously" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>previously</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/investigated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>investigated</span></a> whether <br>💥Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi had illegally donated $10 million to then-candidate Trump prior to his 2016 election. 💥</p><p>The probe was eventually ♦️shut down by Trump’s political appointees, ♦️who “rejected efforts to search for additional evidence investigators believed might provide answers.” </p><p>The criminal investigation had begun after intelligence indicated that ⭐️Sisi “sought to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 presidential campaign,” <br>and ramped up when federal investigators learned of ⭐️a $10 million withdrawal from a Cairo bank that occurred just days prior to Trump’s inauguration. ⭐️</p><p>Ultimately, according to The Post, the case was <a href="https://c.im/tags/shut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shut</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/down" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>down</span></a> by then-acting U.S. attorney <a href="https://c.im/tags/Michael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Michael</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sherwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sherwin</span></a> (who had been appointed to the position by Trump Attorney General <a href="https://c.im/tags/William" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>William</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a>). <br>
👉Despite the seriousness of the allegations, ABC, NBC, and CBS all seemingly failed to cover the reporting on their evening, morning, and Sunday broadcast news shows.👈<br>
Among five of the top U.S. newspapers, the probe into potential bribery was referenced in just 3 online articles and 3 print articles, for a total of 4 unique articles <br>(2 print articles were also published online).<br>
Of the 5 papers we reviewed, it appears only The Washington Post and The New York Times published articles referencing the <a href="https://c.im/tags/potential" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>potential</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/bribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bribe</span></a>. <br>The Post published 2 print articles and 2 online articles that mentioned the probe (3 unique articles in total), including the original reporting that brought the investigation to light, <br>while The Times published 1 print article and 1 online article (1 unique article in total).<br>
The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal seemingly did not publish ANY articles referencing the probe into whether or not 🔥Trump illegally accepted money from Egypt.🔥<br>
⚠️This lack of coverage from broadcast and print outlets is just the latest example of national news outlets failing to cover Trump's suspicious ties to foreign countries.⚠️</p><p><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/broadcast-news-and-major-papers-failed-cover-report-possible-egyptian-bribery" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mediamatters.org/donald-trump/</span><span class="invisible">broadcast-news-and-major-papers-failed-cover-report-possible-egyptian-bribery</span></a></p>
Magpieblog<p>' Do not let the matter of Trump, Egypt and the $10 million disappear. Although it’s tragic that the criminal statute of limitations expired, any alleged bribe can still be pursued as a civil case. More importantly, Congress ... needs to open a full-blown investigation, with efforts to subpoena Barr and other Justice Department higher-ups to explain in public why the case was dropped.'</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/bribery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bribery</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Egypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Egypt</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/USElections2016" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USElections2016</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-sisi-egypt-10-million-bribe-20240804.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">inquirer.com/opinion/commentar</span><span class="invisible">y/trump-sisi-egypt-10-million-bribe-20240804.html</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>The Egyptian government may have given $10 million to Donald Trump in 2017, <br>♦️violating U.S. law<br>—but the investigation into the payment was <br>💥squashed by Attorney General William Barr. </p><p>The Washington Post reports, citing unnamed sources, that<br> an investigation began in 2017 that <a href="https://c.im/tags/Egyptian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Egyptian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/President" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>President</span></a> Abdel Fattah El Sisi ⭐️was seeking to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 election campaign. </p><p>Federal investigators discovered in 2019 that, only five days before Trump was sworn into office, <br>⭐️nearly $10 million in cash was withdrawn on behalf of an organization linked to Egyptian intelligence. </p><p>In the U.S., receiving funds from overseas is a federal crime. Federal investigators were trying to prove if any money actually moved from Egypt to Trump, <br>and 🔷if that had anything to do with Trump’s decision to boost his campaign in its final days with $10 million of his own money. </p><p>But the investigation was 🔥halted by Trump’s Justice Department, <br>which blocked FBI agents and prosecutors from accessing bank records that could provide the evidence. </p><p>In the fall of 2019, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a> questioned whether there were sufficient grounds for the investigation to continue. </p><p>Barr directed the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in D.C., Jessie <a href="https://c.im/tags/Liu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liu</span></a>, to examine the intelligence herself, <br>and instructed FBI Director Christopher <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wray</span></a> to provide “adult supervision” on FBI agents Barr said were “hell-bent” on pursuing Trump’s records. </p><p>Whether Wray (also appointed by Trump) did anything in response isn’t known, <br>but in June 2020, the prosecutor Barr chose to oversee the investigation, Michael <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sherwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sherwin</span></a>, closed it down, citing insufficient evidence. </p><p>👉 “Every American should be concerned about how this case ended,” said one of the Post’s sources. <br>“The Justice Department is supposed to follow evidence wherever it leads<br>—it does so all the time to determine if a crime occurred or not.”</p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/184514/bill-barr-investigation-trump-egypt-sisi-millions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/post/184514/bi</span><span class="invisible">ll-barr-investigation-trump-egypt-sisi-millions</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>"In June 2020, the prosecutor <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a> appointed to take over the office leading the case closed the probe, citing “a lack of sufficient evidence to prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt.”</p><p>That conclusion belied the months of internal disagreements over whether investigators had been allowed to go far enough in seeking that evidence.</p><p>“Every American should be concerned about how this case ended,”"<br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/08/02/trump-campaign-egypt-investigation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/investigati</span><span class="invisible">ons/2024/08/02/trump-campaign-egypt-investigation/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crime</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Egypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Egypt</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Money</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>In June of 2020, the prosecutor <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a> appointed to take over the office leading the case closed the probe, citing “a lack of sufficient evidence to prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt.”</p><p>That conclusion belied the months of internal disagreements over whether investigators had been allowed to go far enough in seeking that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/evidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evidence</span></a>.
<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bribery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bribery</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a> directed <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JessieLiu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JessieLiu</span></a>, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>-appointed US attorney in DC, to personally examine the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/classified" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classified</span></a> intelligence to evaluate if further investigation was warranted. Barr later instructed <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> Director <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChristopherWray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristopherWray</span></a> to impose “adult supervision” on FBI agents Barr described as “hell-bent” on pursuing Trump’s records, acc/to people familiar w/the exchange. It is unclear what if any actions Wray, who was also appointed by Trump, took in response.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harris2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harris2024</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…Within months of learning of the withdrawal, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/prosecutors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prosecutors</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> agents were blocked by top <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> officials from obtaining bank records they believed might hold critical evidence, according to interviews w/people familiar w/the case as well as documents & contemporaneous notes of the investigation. The case ground to a halt by the fall of 2019 as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s then-AG, William P. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a>, raised doubts about whether there was sufficient evidence to continue the probe of Trump.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
BronMason For Kamala 2024<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@tomiahonen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tomiahonen</span></a></span> </p><p>So Barr (ever the schemer) gets an “assist” for the scotus slimy six’ decision to immunize trump’s convos with DoJ (Barr) & exempt them from being evidence in any proceeding. <br>At this point I almost wish Barr would get his due more than already convicted felon trump. Barr has had his sticky fingers in Republican admins since Reagan tho on paper he skipped working for “W”. He probably learned his sneakiness working for CIA in the 1970s (OR CIA hired him for his duplicity).<br>I remember feeling sick at Barr’s cynical and smug assertion during a 2020 interview that “History is written by the winners.” I wondered what else he was scheming; here we are with scotus giving trump immunity.<br><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>barr</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scotus</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>An Egyptian bank said it couldn’t comply with a subpoena seeking information on a suspected ⭐️payment to Trump during the 2016 election ⭐️ in part, because China’s laws would prevent that.</p><p>Back on September 19, 2018, <br>then DC Chief Judge Beryl Howell denied a motion brought by an Egyptian bank to quash a subpoena for information <br>on a suspected $10 million payment made to then-candidate Trump in fall 2016. </p><p>That set off litigation that continued, at the District, Circuit, and Supreme Courts, for at least nine months.</p><p>As CNN described in 2020, not long after the🔹 investigation got shut down under <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bill</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a>, 🔹<br>investigators had been trying to see whether <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Egypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Egypt</span></a> (or some entity for which Egypt served as go-between) <br>provided the 🔸money that Trump spent on his campaign 🔸weeks before the election.</p><p><a href="https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/23/an-egyptian-bank-claimed-details-of-a-suspected-10-million-payment-to-trump-might-be-in-china/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">emptywheel.net/2024/06/23/an-e</span><span class="invisible">gyptian-bank-claimed-details-of-a-suspected-10-million-payment-to-trump-might-be-in-china/</span></a></p>
joe•iuculano :mastodon:<p>Via <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LindyLi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LindyLi</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AileenCannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AileenCannon</span></a> blew up Trump’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StolenDocs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StolenDocs</span></a> trial</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> undermined <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FaniWillis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FaniWillis</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GeorgiaElections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgiaElections</span></a> case</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> delayed Trump’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/insurrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insurrection</span></a> case</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a> detonated the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MuellerReport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MuellerReport</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hur</span></a> weaponized the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpecialCounsel</span></a>’s report</p><p>Why? Cuz the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> knows <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> is GUILTY AS HELL</p><p>All of these <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RightWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightWing</span></a> judges and Trump allies are abusing the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> system to protect a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/rapist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rapist</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/insurrectionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insurrectionist</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClassifiedDocuments</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RICO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RICO</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionInterference</span></a></p>
Georgiann Baldino<p>Bill "<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a>’s comments show ... Republicans will likely offer the excuse that <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s threats are temporary eruptions of his temper and not an indication of how he’d lead (or rule). But the Trump of 2024 is not the Trump of 2016. The restraints that at times shielded the country from his worst impulses last term won’t be there this time." </p><p>Story from MSNBC <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/bill-barr-trump-violent-statements-cnn-interview-rcna149792?cid" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio</span><span class="invisible">n/bill-barr-trump-violent-statements-cnn-interview-rcna149792?cid</span></a></p>
Spocko<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GreenFire" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GreenFire</span></a></span> Agreed. I'm going to clip Marcy's comments about how Bill <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a> set up Biden. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@emptywheel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>emptywheel</span></a></span> calls out the media who don't. <br>She also named some other players that the media don't mention on the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@nicolesandler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nicolesandler</span></a></span> show today. We need more people to hear about this.</p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p>Bill <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a>... who said it would be "unjust" NOT to prosecute <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheOrangeMenace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheOrangeMenace</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a>, and predicts <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MangoMussolini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MangoMussolini</span></a> would abuse his office if reelected, declared he was STILL going to vote for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MafiaDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaDon</span></a> in the next election b/c he thinks "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheProgressiveAgenda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheProgressiveAgenda</span></a>" would "destroy America" if <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> were reelected.</p><p>I *REALLY* want someone to ask this PoS for examples of what greater threat "The Progressive Agenda" poses than T****'s criminality & abuse of power? 🤨</p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>br00t4c</span></a></span> <br>So let me get this straight:</p><p>Despite saying "a second T**** term would mean <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a>" and would be "a horror show", <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a> still thinks Biden would be worse???</p><p>Their argument is: "It's okay [if this incompetent criminal man-child is reelected], b/c <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCotUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCotUS</span></a> would keep him in check."</p><p>So WHY then would reelecting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> be worse than putting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheOrangeMenace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheOrangeMenace</span></a> back in charge if who's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Potus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Potus</span></a> doesn't even matter??? 🤨 🤔 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExplainToMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExplainToMe</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p>THE JUSTICE DEPT UNDER T**** ORDERED STATE & LOCAL PROSECUTORS TO STAND DOWN "while *Federal investigations" into <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DarthTraitor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarthTraitor</span></a>'s crimes were given priority.</p><p>...Except that the DoJ under Bill <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Barr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barr</span></a> was NOT investigating T****. They just wanted to stop the state investigations.</p><p>They ordered DC's AG Geoff <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berman</span></a> to prosecute Obama's lawyer, but when he could find no evidence he had even committed a crime, the T**** <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DoJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoJ</span></a> announced his "resignation". TWICE.<br><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/watch-rachel-maddow-highlights-april-15-209058373761" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/watch-ra</span><span class="invisible">chel-maddow-highlights-april-15-209058373761</span></a></p>
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