In his correspondence with DOJ Inspector General Don Berthiaume, Davey Hearn attorney (and former Inspector General himself) Michael Bromwich lays out a series of crimes Jeanine Pirro and her team may have committed.

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Todd Blanche's DOJ is doing the election fraud that Bill Barr's would not.

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The criminal complaint charging Nikki Floris and Brad Benavides with lying to Jim Jordan's committee about the Hunter Biden laptop treats the laptop and all its derivatives as the same, as an article of faith.

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In a trollish demand for the recusal of Judge John Tunheim in an immigration case, Stan Woodward eschews basic rules of physics.

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Some of the claims in an excerpt about Jared Kushner's scandalous relationship with the Saudis, Emirates, and Israel may be unsubstantiated. But there is a real scandalous relationship that may come to light via any ensuing lawsuit.

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Thank goodness someone else wrote the piece I haven't had time to write about that useless old wretch James Carville. This is an open thread.

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Donald Trump continues to want his private standing cake along with unitary executive authority to eat too.

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Will Scharf is so freaked out about an article claiming the White House is freaked out about reports on the attempt to take out Susie Wiles that Scharf demanded Politico delete the story reporting the freak out.

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Trump did release someone in exchange for Stephen Hubbard today. On the same day Trump betrayed Ukraine on a call with Putin, he ensured Mikhail Zvinchuk would go free.

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The fight to the death between Ric Grenell and Alina Habba AKA Mildon keeps revealing unprecedented levels of corruption.

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If we don't impeach the Roberts Majority they'll wreck any attempt at reform.

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This last Sunday saw another installment of continuing youth protests across France. French kids are furious, and they’re taking their fury to the place France can’t ever afford to ignore for long: The Streets. This weekend there were more protests around France, including in Bordeaux where your correspondent currently lives. We went down to cover […]

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Trump continues to weaponize DOJ against his adversaries.

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Amid Trump's transparent excuses and lies, one thing is clear: Donald Trump is betraying Ukraine and the western order because he's afraid Putin will deal him even bigger losses in Iran.

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Ten years ago, Hillary Clinton correctly predicted Trump would be Putin's puppet.

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Trent McCotter, the unethical lawyer that Todd Blanche has made Acting Deputy Attorney General, seems to be attempting to set a trap for key FBI witnesses in the Grand Conspiracy case, guaranteeing they'll be held in contempt one way or another.

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No person claiming to be President of the United States is a king, whose diktats shall be obeyed. Trump cannot declare law shall be disregarded. This is an open thread.

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Buried inside the employment lawsuit filed by nine FBI Special Agents fired because they investigated Trump's stolen documents is everything Congress would need to impeach Kash Patel for lying to them about why he fired them.

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Even as DOJ sets out to frame Democrats in DC and CA, DOJ is still refusing to turn over evidence they did just that on May 9, 2025, when they orchestrated the arrest of first one (Mayor Ras Baraka) and then another (LaMonica McIver) Black Democrat.

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Between Trump's corrupt flunkies trying to take out rival vultures and other corrupt flunkies trying to get ahead of the midterms scapegoating, we're getting an unprecedented flood of infighting among a lot of contemptible people.

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Many of the 4,782 checks Chuck Grassley released, purporting to show abuse from Jack Smith, instead tell poignant stories about the trust Trump's supporters put into a billionaire con man telling lies so he could take their money.

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A Zeteo profile of Stephen Miller suggests he's panicked that Democrats will come after him. If his gulag leads to Republicans losing Texas, Democrats may not have that chance.

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The alleged snooping by a Saudi national on a key conference room at OpenAI started during the period when Trump was blowing off Mohammed bin Salman's requests for help with the Houthi strikes on the Kingdom.

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One of Harmeet Dhillon's prosecutors decided to make stupid, false claims about where the media campaign regarding the Cities Church case came from. That should shift the focus to the egregious things she said while prosecutors reporting her were presenting this case to the grand jury.

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At least 7 people have accused Elon Musk -- the African immigrant who donated a quarter of a billion dollars to keep Republicans in power -- of letting Grok disseminate child sexual abuse material of them.

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There are at least 36 affidavits signed by HSI Agents -- like the goons who just searched Ilhan Omar's house -- who have made false claims to frame Democrats or other Trump opponents.

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It appears that Stephen Miller was pushing a smear attack on James Talarico before an unlawful phone call happened.

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Kash Patel has spent almost a decade using Russian disinformation to try to frame Trump's adversaries -- first Hillary Clinton, then Jim Comey. That means, when Kash goes to Russia this week, they will have enormous leverage over the FBI Director. Because they know his secret.

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The far right is very frothy because, rather than answering questions about how to help struggling Americans, Scott Bessent instead trolled Elizabeth Warren.

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If you read Putin's statement about the capitulation he wrangled from Trump yesterday, rather than Trump, it becomes clear that Putin has finally finished fully recruiting Donald Trump.

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