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It's Not So Much that Manafort Lied and Lied and Lied, It's that His Truth Evolved

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emptywheel
Paul Manafort's explanations for his alleged lies to Mueller appear to be that his truth evolved.
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How Trump "Directed" Don Jr's June 9 "No Follow-Up" False Statement to Congress

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emptywheel
We can see, with documentary evidence, what BuzzFeed claimed happened with the Trump Tower deal: Donald Trump dictated a lie, and his staff and family repeated it, including before Congress.
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Jerome Corsi's Gazillion Dollar Lawsuit Against the Same Media Targets that Individual-1 Is Targeting

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emptywheel
In amending his already frivolous lawsuit against Mueller yesterday, Jerome Corsi wove in several of the same media targets that Trump is also targeting.
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Day 32+11H: Trump's Other Wall

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Rayne
This post is about a wall. Nope, not about Trump's narcissistic pipe dream made of steel slats and Fox News-borne ego fluffing.
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A Primer On Ideology

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Ed Walker
A few basic concepts from the theory of ideology.
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Rudy Is Relying on Tapes to Claim Buzzfeed Is Phony: But There Aren't Tapes of Everything

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emptywheel
Rudy was relying on tapes -- presumably, those that Trump and Trump Organization got to review as part of the Special Master process reviewing privilege claims of the stuff seized in Michael Cohen's raid -- to claim that Thursday's Buzzfeed story is phony. But not everything would be taped.
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Trump's Lawyers Raised Concerns with Mueller's Office about Testimony They Shouldn't Know Whether Is Phony or Not

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emptywheel
Rudy said yesterday he doesn't know whether Trump and Michael Cohen spoken before the latter lied to Congress. Yet somehow, he was so sure the story that Trump told Cohen to lie was phony he wrote a letter bitching about it.
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Open Thread: Don't Shoot the Freezer

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Rayne
Looks like the regulars may have cabin fever. Pour some boat drinks and bring your off-topic content here to air it out.
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Rudy Claims Credit for Peter Carr's Correction of BuzzFeed, Which Had the Goal of Tamping Down Impeachment Talk

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emptywheel
On Jake Tapper's show, Rudy Giuliani appeared to take credit for Peter Carr's statement Friday pushing back on the Buzzfeed story about Michael Cohen. If that's right, it suggests DOJ's request for a statement may be even more inappropriate under Special Counsel regulations.
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Championship Sunday 2019 Laissez Le Bon Temps Rouler

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bmaz
There are notable football weekends in the year, both for the Pros and the Joes. But nothing matches the conference championship games weekend nor the Super Bowl.
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The House Intelligence Committee Can and Should Subpoena the 18-Minute Gap on the Trump Tower Deal

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emptywheel
Over the last few days the following happened: Buzzfeed published a story stating what the evidence already shows: Trump suborned perjury Mueller's spox Peter Carr issued an unprecedented rebuttal to a specific story WaPo, in a story…
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DAG Rod Rosenstein Involves Himself in Mueller's Press Response to Buzzfeed Story

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emptywheel
According the WaPo story presenting the official version of what happened with the Buzzfeed story the other day, Rod Rosenstein's office called Mueller's to see if he was releasing a statement. That seems to violate SCO regulations.
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The SCO Statement and Why Cohen Should Not Testify Feb. 7

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bmaz
Marcy wrote a great post this morning titled "Peter Carr Speaks". I agree with almost all of it, if not all of it, but feel compelled to add a couple of things. As to what the motivation of Carr and Mueller was, it is, at this date, unclear,…
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Shutdown Day 28+15H: When Negotiations Fail, Add More Hostages

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Rayne
Is it really too much to ask for a president and Senate Majority Leader to simply do the right thing by the country and reopen the government without fueling more political conflict?
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Peter Carr Speaks

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emptywheel
Robert Mueller has the unenviable task of needing to sustain as much credibility for a bunch of serial liars as possible, starting with Michael Cohen. Buzzfeed's story -- whether generally true or erroneous on details about Trump Organization witnesses or totally wrong -- threatened that effort.  And that's why, I strongly suspect, Peter Carr finally publicly spoke. 
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Into Shutdown Day 28: Is the GOP Senate Obstructing Justice?

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Rayne
Why is the GOP Senate, at the direction of Mitch McConnell (and possibly Trump), aiding and abetting the obstruction of justice at scale?
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Compromise: Before Trump Won His First Primary, Putin Collected His First Receipt

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emptywheel
I've long argued that the kompromat Putin has over Trump is proof of Trump's willingness to enter into a conspiracy with Russia. Michael Cohen's plea deal makes clear that Putin pocketed his first receipt on Trump even before the first votes were cast.
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About the BuzzFeed Scoop: It's Important, But It Oversells the Lying Part

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emptywheel
Buzzfeed has a story that provides concrete details to what we already knew of Michael Cohen's negotiations for a Trump Tower in Moscow. But its hyping of Trump's lies may be counterproductive.
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How to Talk about Impeachment: Preventing Harm to the Country

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emptywheel
As we enter the fourth week of a shutdown serving only Donald Trump's ego, impeachment needs to be talked of not as a political question, but a question of how to protect what we all share -- this country.
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