Posts by Bill Palmer

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Earlier today it was revealed that much-reviled Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg have reached a plea deal on the criminal charges that Bragg’s predecessor brought last year. Notably, Weisselberg will plead guilty and do prison time without a cooperation deal. When the news first broke, we noted the timing…

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After the DOJ had the FBI carry out a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago to retrieve the classified documents that Donald Trump stole, and the unsealed search warrant revealed that Trump was under criminal investigation for espionage, it raised questions about whether he might hypothetically try to flee the country. Looks like we won’t have to…

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Donald Trump, who at various points this week has either claimed directly or through his legal team that he had declassified the classified documents before the stole them, and that the Feds planted the documents in his home. It’s not clear why we’re supposed to believe that the Feds would plant documents in his house…

“I knew things that nobody else knew.” That’s that Donald Trump said back in April of 2018, while bragging about how he’d convinced Rand Paul to flip from a “no” vote to a “yes” vote on a troubled nominee. It almost felt as if Trump were bragging that he’d used some kind of blackmail material…

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At this point Donald Trump’s position appears to be that he declassified these documents and then… the FBI planted declassified documents in his home? Wow, this guy is so totally screwed. Trump, whose previous lawyers have included Lin Wood and Rudy Giuliani, appears to have said to himself, “I need to find some even worse…

When the DOJ/FBI search warrant for Donald Trump’s home was publicly released on Friday, it contained a number of entries. One of them was about Roger Stone. Specifically, Trump stole the document he’d previously signed granting Stone clemency. This has led to all kinds of public speculation as to why such a document was classified…

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With all the focus on the House and Senate races in the midterms, it’s easy to forget that three Democratic Governors – two of them in swing states, one of them in a red state – are running for reelection in what will turn out to be highly competitive races. Because these races haven’t been…

There is a deeply sarcastic rock band named Local H, who once had an album named “Pack up the cats.” I’m not sure if they came up with that phrase or if it predates them, but in any case, it’s the phrase that comes to mind in the wake of the bombshell reporting that the…

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After Donald Trump spent three days making every false accusation against the FBI and DOJ that he could think of, even while refusing to produce his copy of the Mar-a-Lago search and seizure warrant, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced today that he was moving to have the warrant publicly unsealed. Even as we wait for…

After the DOJ had the FBI carry out a fully proper search and seizure warrant at Donald Trump’s home this week, Trump and a number of his Republican and right wing media allies began dishonestly attacking the FBI over it. Some of them even called for political retaliation. When an individual entered an FBI field…

It’s been three days since the DOJ had the FBI carry out a search and seizure warrant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, which resulted in the seizure of dozens of boxes of highly classified documents that Trump had stolen. Trump keeps claiming he’s a victim, but he’s refused to publicly release his copy of the…

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