Holy shit!🔥
Dmitry Firtash is still indicted and *wanted in the Boeing bribery case, and here is Lev Parnas testifying Toesing & diGenova told Bill Barr to be lenient on Firtash, because he had fake dirt on Joe Biden
How has John Solomon not been indicted? He violated #FARA! https://t.co/JEnUUVvTtZ pic.twitter.com/GeMD0kvxL7
— WaterBluSky.bsky.social. 🇺🇸 🌻 🇺🇦 (@MsMariaT) March 20, 2024
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2) After SDNY seized Rudy's phones on Lisa Monaco's first day on the job, they discovered the Ukraine-related phones were corrupted (they ended up getting good Jan6 evidence, though!).
3) GOING FORWARD, Weiss needs to be taken off this case. Weiss is a direct witness.— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 20, 2024
Impeachment hearing, Part 2
former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas: "From shortly after my arrest on October 9, 2019, to now, I have been trying to share the irrefutable truth with you: The American people have been lied to by Trump, Giuliani, & various cohorts of individuals in govt and media positions." pic.twitter.com/q5aHzAk0HL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 20, 2024
."..RG & DT tasked me to travel the globe finding dirt on the Bidens … in… a year traveling the world… I found… zero evidence of the Biden's corruption in Ukraine. The only information ever pushed on Biden & Ukraine has… come from one source & Russia & Russian agents."
— Idyll (@idyllchatter) March 20, 2024
For those asking why those involved in this Parnas op were not indicted.
1) Barr did WILDLY corrupt things to shield Rudy, and it's SUPER HARD to indict the AG acting as AG. It's probably the reason he wrote his book, to create a cover story. https://t.co/Q1xdz6DxZQ
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 20, 2024
So if you want to know how this hearing is going, the Republicans star witness is testifying from prison, the Democrats are openly laughing at their Republican colleagues, and the Republicans voted to keep their own evidence out of the official record.
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) March 20, 2024
Impeachment hearing a bust
The testimony is so explosive that Fox cut away from the hearing and has refrained from showing most of it live pic.twitter.com/9AWnTjxcn9
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 20, 2024
I'm not watching the hearing on Fox News but this is an amazing moment https://t.co/ZfqGIZWiCC
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 20, 2024
Lev Parnas paid his dues & is now an ally of the highest caliber. He knows the real deal on so much of Trumpworld & here is my own summary from 2019 of his Ukraine Hunter Biden/Burisma mission Comer, Jordan, Trump, & most of GOP still gaslighting us on!!! https://t.co/wYPkAbbmtG
— Brian E. Frydenborg SLAVA UKRAINI! No to Trump/GOP (@bfry1981) March 20, 2024
Ro Khanna: Did Bill Barr know that you were involved in getting this dirt?
Parnas: Absolutely. Bill Barr was notified of our investigation from the day he took office. @atrupar
pic.twitter.com/xGC8KipL2J— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) March 20, 2024
Anything that absolves him is true
BREAKING — Trump argues to Supreme Court that his coup attempt is immune prosecution because it was part of his official duties as president.https://t.co/8aO8JvhIIz
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) March 19, 2024
Damn straight
Joe Biden should deny Trump classified candidate briefings, via Brian Beutler.
When Donald Trump secured enough delegate commitments last week to become the Republican Party’s de facto nominee, it gave rise to a national-security question: Should Trump receive the same intelligence briefings afforded by custom to all presidential candidates (including himself in 2016) when they become major-party nominees?
Yep. The Biden Admin should say that they won't be giving Trump classified briefings until his criminal case for mishandling classified material is settled
It is just the smart security thing to do, and it would put a spotlight on Cannon's continuing delays of the case https://t.co/30fAinKXkE
— XLProfessor (@XLProfessor) March 18, 2024
Voters should, too
In the spirit of suggestions offered by @drvolts and @jayrosen_nyu, I wonder if it would be useful if journalists assigned themselves the task of watching a full Trump rally. https://t.co/PcmpriWpTJ
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) March 18, 2024
They still can’t come out and say it
That Trump is setting up another insurrection. Nope. Too timid, I guess:
Former president Donald Trump ratcheted up his dehumanizing rhetoric against immigrants Saturday by saying that some who are accused of crimes are “not people.” https://t.co/zwU1QwphFw
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 17, 2024
Waiting for Jack Smith
The "Waiting for Mueller" Mistake and the Right Wing Bubble
[Me, piggybacking on @GregTSargent's interview w/@SimonWDC]https://t.co/lQAmBzfYPI
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 14, 2024
Tangled web
Smirnov was paid $600,000 by a US company tied to a UK firm owned by Trump associates in 2020 – the same year he allegedly began lying to FBI about Bidens’ role in Ukraine business, reports @JSweetLI https://t.co/37wX43FS0l
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) March 14, 2024