Posts by Bill Palmer

When the DOJ had the FBI carry out a search and seizure warrant at Mar-a-Lago as part of its investigation into the classified documents that Donald Trump stole, the question was whether the Feds would continue to keep pounding away now that they’d kicked over an ant hill. Then the FBI seized House Republican Scott…

With the way the Feds were hounding him over it, Donald Trump had to know they were going to end up taking the classified documents by force. So why not just give them back voluntarily? It would have allowed him to argue at his trial that it was a misunderstanding and he was innocent. There…

The FBI has a confidential source within Donald Trump’s ranks with detailed knowledge of Mar-a-Lago, per Newsweek. It’s becoming more clear to everyone why these DOJ probes take this long, right? It’s that complex of a process. But while the big story is that the Feds have managed to obtain a confidential source against Trump…

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When the DOJ had the FBI carry out a search and seizure warrant at Donald Trump’s home on Monday, no one would have expected Trump’s political allies to have been pleased about it. But House Republicans, instead of accepting the reality that Trump is going down and they’d be better off moving on and pretending…

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This weekend, Lauren Boebert appeared on television and insisted that Hunter Biden is “comprised.” She was supposed to say “compromised,” and everyone on social media promptly piled on, under the presumption that Boebert is so dumb, she doesn’t actually know the difference between the two words. But here’s the thing. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor…

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When you see the likes of Marco Rubio and Chuck Grassley trying to peg Senate Democrats as being devious, and instead they just come off as lazy whiners, it’s a reminder that Republicans are really bad at messaging in general. Like, astoundingly bad at messaging. This isn’t anything new. The Republicans are consistently bad at…

When Liz Cheney likely loses her primary race in nine days, we’re going to see a ton of ratings-thirsty media narratives about how she “sacrificed her career” and that her loss is somehow proof that Trump is more omnipotently powerful than ever. It’ll all be complete bullshit. You can praise Cheney all you like for…

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On Thursday a major media outlet reported that Donald Trump’s criminal defense attorneys were in talks with the Department of Justice about its criminal investigating into Trump. At the time, we pointed out that Trump’s lawyers were surely the ones who leaked this story, because the DOJ wouldn’t leak such a thing, and no one…