Springfield story is an almost-perfect distillation of the vile Trump era. It combines hateful and inciting speech www.niskanencenter.org/the-weight-o...www.niskanencenter.org/authoritaria... 1/
So Bill Clinton's 50 million to 1 million jobs added claim? It is correct. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Reading a story about the election that casually referred to "Biden's slide in the polls" and it just remains remarkable to me that narrative reporters can just drop stuff like that into copy and never think twice about whether it has any basis in fact.
"Swept Up!" The Russian Payments that Led to Trump's Felony Conviction www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/02/s...
Michael Cohen was investigated because he lied to his bank and then, even as he was making public comments about entertaining a "peace deal" with Russian involvement, used the bank account associated ...
Reup: Hunter Biden Prosecutor Leo Wise Aspires to Be the James Comer of John Durhams www.emptywheel.net/2024/05/22/l... Leo Wise says he'll need more witnesses to prove what he calls a "straightforward tax case" than @AWeissmann_ used to present Manafort's tax, FBAR, & bank fraud case.
Leo Wise aspires to make the Hunter Biden tax case -- what Wise claims is just a "straightforward tax case" -- into the largest Special Counsel trial in recent history. He aims to do that by airing a ...
David Weiss Maintains He Can Use Hunter Biden's Diversion Statements at Failed Plea Hearing www.emptywheel.net/2024/05/22/d...
David Weiss is trying to claim to agree not to use Hunter Biden's statement as his plea colloquy against in his gun trial, while doing the exact opposite.
Hunter Biden Prosecutor Leo Wise Aspires to the Be the James Comer of John Durhams www.emptywheel.net/2024/05/22/l...
Leo Wise aspires to make the Hunter Biden tax case -- what Wise claims is just a "straightforward tax case" -- into the largest Special Counsel trial in recent history. He aims to do that by airing a ...
Jim Risch Demands that Avril Haines Formally Tell Us He Is Lying www.emptywheel.net/2024/05/17/j...
Jim Risch thinks Avril Haines should come forward and formally debunk false claims that those with privileged intelligence access make, which must include the false claims he made about 51 private ind...
It's based on a series of posts called "Ball of Thread" that @emptywheel.bsky.social l put together to explain how Trump has trained the GOP to hate rule of law. It's the kind of clarifying journalism I think every publication and journalist should be doing right now, given the threat we face.
With the 2016 attack, Russia didn't need cooperation from Trump's people (though they got it from at least Manafort and Stone and idiot who proved useful Don Jr). They just needed to make any already ...