Mario Nicolais
marionicolais.bsky.social
Mario Nicolais
@marionicolais.bsky.social
The Lincoln Project General Counsel; Attorney; Inky-thumbed columnist at The Colorado Sun; defender of constitutional rights; soccer nut and American Outlaw
Pinned
I have never had so much fun shredding bogus claims in a response letter.

IF they proceed, we will look forward to discovery. As will millions of Americans.
Trump is threatening to sue Lincoln Project, again – this time because we’re telling the world about Trump’s close & personal relationship w/ the pedophile & convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Find LP's response here: https://lincolnproject.us/lincoln-project-not-afraid-of-trump-threats/
Lincoln Project Not Afraid Of Trump Threats
Threat proves Trump’s scared his MAGA base will bail on him
lincolnproject.us
Even FOX is getting into the holiday spirit!

Their ticker in Midtown NYC announcing the appointment of Halligan was illegal and all charges against James Comey and Letitia James were dismissed!
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Putting data behind the cruelty.
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.

For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Americans Blame Trump As Prices Surge
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
My column in the @coloradosun.com this week.

Another example of Trump’s Pageant Principle for choosing legal counsel:

Lindsey Hanson goes from Miss Colorado to Miss Conduct.

coloradosun.com/2025/11/23/h...
Nicolais: Lindsey Halligan becomes the latest Colorado lawyer embarrassing herself in service to Donald Trump
The Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsy Halligan has made a fool of herself and our state during her short tenure
coloradosun.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This makes me physically ill.

It also makes me glad I’ve been able to keep my client, a man from Venezuela, from being sent out of the country.
Earlier this year, the United States deported 252 Venezuelans to El Salvador and paid its government to imprison them. Now two human-rights organizations have found that all of those men were physically abused, Conor Friedersdorf writes:
What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador
Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America paid to imprison them.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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X's new location transparency feature shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., and also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was created.
X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts
The function, which shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was created.
nbcnews.to
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Let’s call it what it is:

The Chickenshit Chamberlain Prize
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The world is an upside down.
So, let me get this straight...

We can give ICE terrorists sign-on bonuses, but we can't give future educators and nurses LOANS to support their future careers?

Make it make sense.
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Great visual representation.
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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And an excellenet @jamellebouie.net column on the consequences of Trump's public opinion quagmire. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Mired in a War of Attrition
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Kristi and Kash’s taxpayer-funded travel adventures continue.
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Hopefully the state revoked his medical license.

At a minimum this is insurance fraud.
This is fu*king outrageous!

The federal government on Saturday dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines, giving children saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards.

apnews.com/article/utah...
Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses
The federal government has dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines worth thousands of dollars during the pandemic.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Yeah, you got that right.
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is sad news. I still remember a game Rodgers played for the @nuggets.bsky.social scoring 9 pts in 9 seconds during the last minute of the game.

One of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen.

www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
Ex-Wake Forest, NBA'er Rodney Rogers dies at 54
Former Wake Forest star and 12-year NBA player Rodney Rogers has died. He was 54.
www.espn.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I can’t tell you how important it is to see people standing up for others.

This is the only thing differentiating us from 1930’s Germany.
Since ICE invaded Raleigh, NC, walkouts and protests have broken out, and more than 600 volunteers have signed up to help keep residents safe in the city.
November 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This whole prosecution is such a shitshow.
Former FBI Director James Comey is seeking to dismiss the criminal case against him because of what he claims were "fundamental errors" in the grand-jury process and interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan's handling of the indictment

www.cbsnews.com/news/comey-s...
Comey seeks to dismiss charges, alleging "fundamental errors" before grand jury
Comey's lawyers said in a filing that errors in the grand jury process "reflect the reckless and ill-conceived nature of this prosecution."
www.cbsnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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BREAKING:

Sen. Elissa Slotkin says police responded to her home tonight in response to a bomb threat. Slotkin wasn't at home at the time.

This is two days after Trump said Slotkin and other Democrats committed "seditious conspiracy, punishable by death."
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Who needs cameras in the courtroom when you’ve got THIS
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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These two are like bullshit pickleball.
BARTIROMO: All of this is part of an overall conspiracy the DOJ is trying to put together, starting with Russia collusion, the Mar-a-Lago raid. Was January 6 part of that?

COMER: I wonder who knew. Did Jamie Raskin, who's the most dishonest member of Congress, know & then go along with the coverup?
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Plus all the infighting for who is next.
NEW: Donald Trump’s grip on his party appears to be faltering in ways unseen since the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack.

He may yet reassert himself, but the gathering clouds signal a GOP reckoning with its post-Trump future.

The 7 signs:

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
7 signs Trump is losing his groove
The president has faced a series of brush-offs and brushbacks that threaten his aura of invincibility.
www.politico.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🤬
In order to distract from stories that he associated with a known sex offender, Donald Trump met with Cristiano Ronaldo
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Oh. My. Gawd.

I pretty sure I can see the mushroom cloud from the judge’s head exploding.
BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Loving this for him!
WATCH: Speaker Johnson says he’s “deeply disappointed” the senate passed a bill he voted for 🤔

@rokhanna.bsky.social : “Johnson looks frazzled. He’s lost it, attacking a bill the survivors wanted without talking to them… that he voted for. He has lost the confidence of half his caucus.”
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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New in PN: CNN shows that when media orgs fight Trump, they win

"Paying the blackmailer makes you look like a cowardly mark — both to your audience and to the guy grabbing you by the wallet. And with courts announcing they won’t be part of Trump's extortion racket, media outlets need to toughen up"
CNN shows that when media orgs fight Trump, they win
Take this grift and shove it.
www.publicnotice.co
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM