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Category Archives: chicanery
“Justice Dept. Is Said to Discuss Dropping Case Against Eric Adams”
NYT:
Senior Justice Department officials under President Trump have held discussions with federal prosecutors in Manhattan about the possibility of dropping their corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, according to five people with knowledge of the matter.… Continue reading
“Former US Sen. Bob Menendez gets 11 years in prison for taking bribes and acting as agent of Egypt” (and Appears to Be Angling for a Trump Pardon)
AP:
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for accepting bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt — crimes his lawyer said he’s been mocked for as “Gold Bar… Continue reading
“DOJ moves to drop charges against former GOP lawmaker in case criticized by Trump”
Politico:
The Justice Department has moved to drop its criminal prosecution of former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, a Nebraska Republican who resigned last year after a conviction on charges that he lied to the FBI.
Fortenberry’s conviction by a federal jury … Continue reading
“Trump Signs Agreement Calling for Meta to Pay $25 Million to Settle Suit”
WSJ:
President Trump has signed settlement papers that are expected to require Meta Platforms to pay roughly $25 million to resolve a 2021 lawsuit Trump brought after the company suspended his accounts following the attacks on the U.S. Capitol that year, according… Continue reading
“Trudeau Government Left Canada Vulnerable to Foreign Interference, Report Finds”
NYT:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government was “insufficiently transparent” about foreign interference in Canadian politics and sometimes took “too long to act” against attempts to meddle in the country’s past two general elections by foreign powers including China and India,… Continue reading
“Justice Dept. Fires Prosecutors Who Worked on Trump Investigations”
NYT:
The acting attorney general on Monday fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on the two criminal investigations into Donald J. Trump for the special counsel Jack Smith, saying they could not be trusted to “faithfully implement” the… Continue reading
“They Followed North Carolina Election Rules When They Cast Their Ballots. Now Their Votes Could Be Tossed Anyway.”
ProPublica:
A Republican judge has spent more than two months trying to overturn his narrow defeat for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat by arguing that around 60,000 ballots should be tossed out. But many residents have only recently learned… Continue reading
Trump Floats Disgusting Idea of Tying Disaster Aid for Los Angeles Wild Fires to California Adopting a Strict Form of Voter Identification
This one really hits home. I have friends and family who have lost their homes or otherwise been displaced by the awful recent wildfires. The tradition has been to give disaster aid where it is needed —whether that is Florida,… Continue reading
“Texas State Bar seeks to dismiss its lawsuit against Ken Paxton for challenging 2020 presidential election”
Texas Tribune:
The State Bar of Texas on Wednesday moved to drop its lawsuit against Attorney General Ken Paxton for his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, extending a cascade of legal and political wins… Continue reading
“Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office taking over voter registration fraud investigation in Lancaster County”
WGAL:
The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office provided the following breakdown of ballots that were reviewed.
Detectives from the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office reviewed 1,203 applications.
Applications were provided by the Lancaster County Voter Registration Office.
367 applications were… Continue reading
Time Magazine: Musk Threatens Super PAC Spending Against Senators Who Don’t Vote to Confirm Trump Cabinet Nominees
Time:
Another source familiar with the matter tells TIME that a Trump ally informed Ernst that the President would support a primary challenge against her in Iowa—where Trump won the caucuses last year by roughly 30 points—if she blocked Hegseth. At… Continue reading
“Trump Grants Sweeping Clemency to All Jan. 6 Rioters”
It is hard to know what to even say about this affront to the rule of law and a reversing of the convictions of those who sought to overturn the results of a fair and legitimate election in 2020. Trump’s… Continue reading
Quote of the Day
“He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers . . .And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide.”
–Donald Trump, speaking about Elon Musk, at a pre-inauguration rally, as quoted by Newsweek.