He had very publicly said that he would NOT touch the East Wing. Apparently whoever is involved in this had decided demo’ing the whole East Wing would be better but not sure that was public as Treasury employees in bldg right next to demo were forbidden from taking pics. Only 1 reason you do that.
Heck, everyone who’s been indicted in Fed Ct & had their cases dismissed should sue at the newly established Trump going rate! I mean, usually defendants are grateful about the not-going-to-jail thing, but that’s small ball thinking, right, Sen. Fetterman? SCOTUS, any regrets you want to share? No?
They’d have be able to throw Trump in there too since he personally & publicly directed that DOJ go after them out of easily proven personal animus despite weakness of prosecutable case. That can go to SCOTUS & they can talk amongst themselves about that whole official act thing again. 2/
If James Comey and/or Letitia James’ cases get dismissed, I think they should use this newly introduced Trump Precedent and sue DOJ for $230 million since apparently that’s the going rate for the damage one experienced when one is indicted then has one’s case dismissed. 1/
Even if Dems can’t do anything to stop it, I’m glad Raskin is on this and is holding Repubs feet to the fire as much as he can. Out of all the corrupt things Trump has done - and it’s quite the list - this about bowled me over.
So that’s where Sheldon Whitehouse’s question to Bondi last week came from. As many pointed out at the time, she was rude to Whitehouse, made unfounded allegations herself, but never denied that the photos existed.
We might get the Epstein files after all - from a very unlikely source. Epstein himself, talking about Trump in discovery in this case. Trump might have to decide which files are worse for him: the ones Johnson is fighting so hard to protect, WSJ defamation discovery, discovery in this case…
I had to look that one up. And I’m sure Trump’s lawyers were frantically doing the same. And it is perfect for MAGATs. Literary and alliterative too. The kind of thing you learn at those high-falutin’ universities MAGA hates so much. Which, I imagine, was part of the point. Wolff had fun with this.
Oh, hell yeah. Melania, Michael Wolff is the one person your husband has only half-heartedly sued, or not at all. Ever wonder why? Discovery, hon. Discovery from you, your husband, and he’s got those hours & hours of Epstein interviews. And who knows what else he has.
I hope they did tell him something, just to help him process situation after they drew guns on him & cuffed him. But yes, I assume someone ran his plates, didn’t look carefully enough & that wrong plate number came back to someone wanted for something serious enough for escalated stop.
Maybe some of these cops will learn something by how close their mistake came to potentially taking a life; maybe they won’t. I’m glad that at least this didn’t end in tragedy. And I hope this man who was treated inhumanely is able to sue the pants off these guys if he can. 4/4
innocents have not. It looked like there may have been a bystander filming too. NO ONE should need these things to be on video to protect their lives, but decades of violence against POC might’ve looked a lot different if such capability had existed much earlier. 3/
one officer who noticed the mistake, told the others, and the one who’d started being so awful gave the closest thing to an apology cops give. Without body cams, this could’ve gone down much differently. I hope if there is any action this man can take he does. But he went home alive when so many 2/
This is horrible and I’m so sorry this happened to this man. They treated him as a threat from the beginning. They don’t say why he was stopped so I don’t if the offense was DWB or if they were pursuing someone they honestly thought mighg have been violent. But THANK goodness for body cams & that 1/
That is the perfect description of Trump if he was a building. Except you’d have to throw in “fake, gold-covered, with an orangish tinge” in front of Taj Mahal so as not to insult the actual Taj Majal.
They‘ve also pulled back on cybersecurity for elections too. Meaning that if we even have 2026 and 2028 elections, the accusations of cheating and rigging they made in 2020 I think will unfortunately turn out to be true next time around. 2/2
Am I crazy or does this - in addition to things like carelessly uploading the SSA database to a unsecured cloud server - seem like either extreme carelessness or exactly what you’d do if you wanted a foreign adversary to mess with our cyber infrastructure? 1/
I know right? One of the many hypocritical things about Riley is she talks about protecting women in sports & if she was actually doing that we’d hear more about the 4 cis women who beat both her and Lia. But somehow their achievements have been swallowed up by Riley’s me, me, me attitude.
And why do I suspect, based on videos, that some of the least physically fit ICE agents are some of the cruelest? Trying to compensate for not being able to do push-ups so they pull immigrants out of cars? 4/4
they remain subject to medical, fitness, and background requirements,” McLaughlin wrote. So is there just a direct pipeline from any other type of LE to DHS? B/c I’d think for actual good officers, the skill sets would be different & you‘d want training to reflect that. 3/
She said DHS expects to fill 85 percent of new deportation-officer positions with experienced law-enforcement officials whom they can fast-track. Although they will not be required to pass a fitness test at the ICE academy, “they remain subject to medical, fitness, and background requirements, 2/
I swear every time this woman opens her mouth she makes me feel less safe. She has lying & doublespeak down to art forms. DHS Spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin; the one-third failure rate reflected only “a subset of candidates in initial basic academy classes,” and not all new hires. 1/
