Nick Akerman
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New York lawyer, former Watergate prosecutor and Assistant US Attorney in the SDNY, complex litigation for Fortune 100, cycling daily around Central Park.
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The Supreme Court's overturning of restrictions on religious services designed to protect the public in a deadly pandemic underscores our systemic problem of appointing politically deaf and inexperienced Justices like Barrett so they can serve for 40 years.
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Today’s indictment may take up to a year to be tried before a jury, but in 3 weeks Trump will have to testify before a Manhattan jury who are likely to find he is a rapist. Will Republicans rally around a rapist?
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NYT reports that $20M from Trump's Las Vegas hotel was paid to "Trump Las Vegas Sales & Marketing" with "no clear business purpose" or employees," deducted as a business expense and funneled to Trump's 2016 campaign - an obvious criminal scheme to defraud the government of taxes.
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The indictment of the Trump Organization, while not guaranteeing Trump will ultimately be wearing an orange jump suit, could lead to his financial demise and public release of his tax returns, not a good political position for 2024.
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The sure fire way to hold Trump accountable for his crimes leading up to and including the January 6th insurrection is for the Fulton County DA to indict him for violating the Georgia Racketeering (RICO) statute.
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The press has failed to explain how/why specific suspicious entries on Trump's tax returns could amount to criminal tax evasion, leaving the incorrect impression that what he reported was legitimate. The proof of tax evasion is always independent of the numbers on the returns.
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Trump recorded on Georgia tapes trying to fix the presidential vote plus evidence from January 6th House Committee showing his overall plan = conviction for soliciting election fraud and 3 years in prison.
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This video will blow you away. Spooky Old TV Show Features A Wall-Building Con Artist Named Trump.
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Nixon pulled same stunt in 1969 when he fired SDNY US Attorney Robert Morgenthau but stayed in office until he was assured of an independent replacement. AG Mitchell who fired Morgenthau was later convicted of obstruction of justice in Watergate.
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Bragg's case is Trump's Watergate
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The next big development in the Georgia RICO case will be that Trump’s co-defendants will cop pleas and testify against Trump because they cannot afford the massive funds to hire a decent criminal lawyer
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Has Trump’s coziness to Putin made the United States less safe because our traditional allies are not providing us with intelligence for fear it will be given to the Russians? This is a question Congress must answer.
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Yesterday on the Ari Melber show I stated that the forelady of the special grand jury investigating Trump has not acted improperly in her statements to the press. Today's interview of the judge who oversaw that special grand jury confirmed I was spot on.
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The phrase "Tax Avoidance" in the NYT headline should read Trump's "Tax Evasion." Payments of sham consulting fees to Ivanka to evade income taxes is like what Trump's father did in paying bogus expenses to a phony company to evade estate taxes.
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NBC hired Rona McDaniel, despite knowing that Jack Smith is likely to name her as an unindicted co-conspirator in the DC election interference prosecution against Trump for her role in assisting Trump lawyer John Eastman in the fake elector scheme.
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Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman told Newsweek that Trump's requests for an investigation, despite being done in public, were "still illegal and still amount to a crime."
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Trump is threatening television stations with a bogus lawsuit to keep the public from being reminded of his utter lack of leadership on the corona virus. Trump apparently has never heard of the First Amendment.
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Trump’s efforts to throw out the black vote in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia should be hammered home in Georgia as a defining civil rights issue to propel a massive wave of black voters for Senate candidates Ossoff and Warnock.
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Good news -- Bloomberg's infusion of enormous cash into Florida means Florida will be an early election night win for Biden in a critical Trump state undermining Roger Stone's plan for Trump to declare marshal law and himself the winner of the election.
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I investigated Nixon's taxes. Compared to Trump, Nixon was a rookie amateur. Despite back dating a deed to deduct a gift of papers to the government, Nixon at least paid taxes. Trump never paid any income tax for 10 years and only $750 in 2016 and 2017.
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Mueller will uncover whether Trump is a Russian Agent. Read the indictment of the Russian lawyer who was at the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016. They have her emails going back to 2014. Rest assured the FBI has many other Russian communications.
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The one way to avoid the extreme injustice of the court ruling that Florida felons pay their outstanding fines before being permitted to vote in November -- Michael Bloomberg or some organization should now pay all of those fines to the state of Florida.
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Trump’s win on the special master is in actuality a big loss for him and the GOP — it will achieve nothing tangible for him, since the investigation will continue, and it will keep his theft of classified documents in the press right up through the mid-term elections.
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The DC Circuit’s refusal to enforce the subpoena against former WH Counsel Don McGahn, if not reversed, leaves the Judiciary Committee with no choice but to hold him in contempt and direct the House Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest and imprison him until he agrees to testify.
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Impeachment investigators for Trump’s Senate trial should subpoena Trump’s phone records. Given his calls to election officials, I would be looking for records showing calls with some of the Capitol seditionists who stormed the Capitol.
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For someone who refused to read intelligence briefings, what was Trump doing with boxes of classified documents and why didn’t he return them in the normal course and when asked? Does this have anything to do with his buddy, Vladimir Putin?
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Comrade Trump continues the Putin playbook from the 2016 election designed to exploit cultural divisions within the American electorate and sow disunity in a health crisis. The public deserves to know who actually wrote the speech he read last night.
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Trump is told the Russians are offering payments to the Taliban for killing Americans in Afghanistan. Yet, he did nothing. Time for congress to dig into the conversation between Trump and Putin at the meeting in which the translator's notes were destroyed.
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I prosecuted the first RICO indictments in the US. The Fulton County Georgia RICO indictment against Trump and his 18 co-conspirators is a blockbuster that will bring to justice all the miscreants who tried to steal the Georgia vote from Joe Biden.
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With Steve Bannon's arrest, we know at least one of the reasons why Trump had AG Barr fire former SDNY US Attorney Geoffrey Berman.
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Avenatti, Stormy Daniel’s prior lawyer, is an irrelevant convicted felon.
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@nickakerman
rebuts Michael Avenatti's remarks on Donald Trump's hush money trial.
Watch Avenatti's extended interview with Melber from prison:
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Whenever Trump says he's a law and order president, the press should ask him how that squares with commuting Roger Stone's sentence for witness tampering and obstructing congress perpetrated to cover up Trump's role with the Russians in the 2016 election.
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Trump-Russia Isn’t About the Cover-Up. It’s About the Crime.;
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The father daughter duo -- Trump and Ivanka -- could be spending time in public housing, not the White House, for tax fraud.
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The Southern District US Attorney is absolutely right in not resigning. This is just another transparent Trump/Barr endeavor to obstruct justice by removing US Attorney Berman and replacing him with a Trump sycophant who has never prosecuted a single case.
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Trump's efforts to overturn the vote is fueled by a banana republic mentality that having appointed the judges, you control the judiciary. That anti-democratic premise did not work for Nixon in his efforts to conceal his tapes and is not working for Trump.
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Berman should hang tough. He was appointed by the judges of the Southern District, not Trump. I would love to see Trump take him to court in the Southern District. The coverup continues.
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The Second Circuit's ruling today that Trump must produce his tax returns and financial information puts him one step closer to being indicted by the NY DA for income tax evasion.
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Trump has successfully stoked the violence in Portland with a caravan of hundreds of trucks with his gun toting supporters descending on BLM protesters. We have a president who believes his only path to reelection is by inciting fear through mayhem.
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All the seditionists and traitors who participated, encouraged and enabled the insurrection at the Capitol should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law including Trump, his family members and his lawyer -- time for them to wear orange jumpsuits.
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Trump’s vicious attacks on the New York judge (and his family) presiding over his criminal prosecution, the NY DA, and the Atlanta DA could land him in the slammer before he is even convicted.
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How can anyone be concerned about President Biden calling for Putin's removal, when Putin was instrumental in choosing our last president who slobbered all over Putin at every opportunity?
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This week we learned Trump is more interested in protecting the statues of dead confederate traitors than the lives of American servicemen in Afghanistan The obvious question -- what does Putin have over Trump?
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If Nixon had been held accountable for his crimes arising out of the Watergate Investigation, no one would now be saying an indictment of Trump is "unprecedented."
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Trump and Barr both deserve to be impeached for ordering the use of rubber bullets and tear gas against peaceful demonstrators in Lafayette Park so Trump can have a photo op in front of a church
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What Alan Dershowitz does not acknowledge is that Trump did in fact commit two serious federal felonies in attempting to shake down the Ukrainian government— bribery and extortion.
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Trump's claim that Michael Flynn was framed by the FBI flies in the face of the FBI Agents providing him multiple opportunities to tell Agents the truth, instead he chose to lie, later twice pleaded guilty to lying and Trump fired him for lying to Pence.
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How much do you want to bet that Trump absconded with the 15 White House boxes so he could sell the papers and mementos for big money? -- not unlike Nixon's greedy backdating of his "gift" of official papers to the Archives so he could evade taxes.
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Good summary of Trump’s obstruction of justice from the Mueller Report.
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Alan Dershowitz is wrong that the House must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. This is a civil case, not a criminal case. The standard for removal of the president is not in the Constitution and is whatever the Senate decides.
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the evidence thus far suggests that Trump’s order to take out Suleimani was designed solely to detract attention away from impeachment
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DONALD TRUMP MUST BE CROSS-EXAMINED AT HIS IMPEACHMENT TRIAL WHERE HE CAN'T RUN FROM FACTS
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The President, the Vice President and the Secretary of State all participated in the bribery/extortion scheme directed at Ukraine. It is time for the Trump government to resign and for Nancy Pelosi to ascend to the presidency for the remainder of Trump’s term.
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The ghost of Herbert Hoover looms over Trump when the GOP was crushed at the polls in 1932. Just like Hoover refused to create a national policy to address the Great Depression, Trump has refused to mobilize a nationally coordinated response to the pandemic.
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Trump's attempted extortion to change votes in Georgia combined with his bribery and extortion to force Ukraine to investigate Biden and his obstruction of justice culminating in pardons to Stone and Manafort is a violation of the criminal racketeering law.
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As documents from Mark Meadows continue to show a direct line between the January 6th violence and Donald Trump, why is DOJ not subpoenaing Meadows, Roger Stone and Steve Bannon to testify before a federal grand jury and demanding presidential documents?
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Trump will be indicted in Georgia.
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The defamation/libel scorecard to date on Trump and his lackeys: $88.8M against Trump; $148M against Giuliani; $787.5M against Fox News; and $1.5B against Alex Jones. Hands down -- fake news is an expensive political hobby.
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Now that the GOP is holding the country hostage to the debt ceiling and threatening to blow up the economy, it is time for the Senate Democrats to take control — abolish the filibuster, approve the debt ceiling and pass the election protection bill.
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Some how, some way the Senate Democratic leadership has to figure how it can pass HR 1, the voting rights act, with its 50 votes + VP Harris. Otherwise, our democracy is in big trouble with GOP state law makers trying to institutionalize minority rule.
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The Supreme Court’s nine-zip rejection of Trump’s bogus election fraud lawsuit mirrors the Court’s 1974 unanimous rejection of Nixon’s appeal to conceal his tapes. Both times Justices appointed by the president upheld the rule of law over partisan loyalty.
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The Trump tax prosecution is not based on a novel theory of taxing fringe benefits. It is a classic tax evasion scheme designed to make taxable income look like fringe benefits, as proven by the secret second set of books maintained to track actual income.
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Donald Trump is between a rock and hard place - to save his company he must shift blame to Weisselberg as a rogue employee for the 15 year tax fraud scheme, yet risk antagonizing Weisselberg into becoming a song bird for the government.
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Donald Trump — the new Jim Jones. Instead of drinking the koolaid, it’s now Lysol.
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Trump's efforts to minimize Roger Stone's prison time is part of his corrupt effort to keep Stone from pulling a Michael Cohen and testifying against him about in his role in the Russian interference. Facing 9 years in prison, Stone will fold like an accordion.
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Time for congress to exert its constitutional muscle --subpoena Trump to testify, if he refuses to show, hold him in contempt, send the Sergeant of Arms to arrest him and bring him into the Senate. So be it if Trump has to spend the night in the DC jail.
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Trump’s pardoning of Bannon for defrauding Trump supporters on the construction of the wall on the southern border is unassailable proof that Trump’s real motive in pursuing the building of the wall was unquestionably a blatant fraud on the American public.
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Between the Supreme Court's outright rejection of Trump's efforts to cover up his White House records and the indictment last week of the Oath Keepers for sedition, Trump is inching closer to facing a major criminal indictment.
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NY Judge rejected motions to dismiss by FOX News, Giuliani, and Sidney Powell in Smartmatic's defamation lawsuit for $2.7 billion for promoting Trump's Election lie that Smartmatic provided software to Dominion Voting Systems to steal millions of votes for Biden
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Donald Trump allowed his conversations to be repeatedly taped by Bob Woodward for the same reason Nixon never destroyed his Oval Office tapes -- Hubris right out of a classic Greek tragedy.
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My New Year prediction: Trump will lose his presidential immunity appeal in short order before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court will refuse to hear Trump's appeal from the DC Circuit. Trump's DC criminal trial will start in March.
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Southern District US Attorney may be hard for Trump to remove. He was appointed by the SDNY judges. Woe unto any Republican Senator up for re-election who votes for Trump’s hand picked incompetent.
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AG Barr's attempt to assume DOJ representation of the Jean Carroll defamation suit against Trump is just another blatant example of Barr illegally using DOJ resources to act as Trump's personal attorney.
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Given the Secret Service’s deleting of emails, Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony that Trump grabbed the steering wheel of the Secret Service, and the Secret Service’s effort to whisk Pence out of the Capitol, the Jan. 6th Committee must depose SS agents and VP Pence.
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On MSNBC at 7 pm tonight, August 10, with Maya Wiley talking about the extreme right's reaction to the search warrant executed on Mar-a-Lago
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The same president who used his office to extort Ukraine to announce a bogus investigation into his chief political rival is now delaying the stimulus checks for 3 days at taxpayer expense to turn them into re-election brochures displaying his name.
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The impeachment clause is not a criminal statute, regardless of what Alan Dershowitz says. It is a civil process. If convicted, Trump does not go to jail, he is removed from office.
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Maybe the reason Barr is defending Trump in the Jean Carroll defamation case and why Trump lied about the rape is the same reason Trump lied about Covid19. They want to "downplay" the rape so the public won't "panic" about their president being a rapist.
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Trump’s refusal to present a defense and hide under a rock are not the actions of a person innocent of a bribery extortion scheme.
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The Coronavirus is the first real crisis of the Trump Administration not created by Donald Trump, and his disassembling leadership has flunked with flying colors. He has not only eliminated the CDC experts ,but he says it’s okay to go to work with the virus.
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New documents show that former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross lied to congress when he flatly denied that the new question on the census about citizenship status was designed to undermine Democrats in the reapportionment of House members. Is DOJ investigating Ross for perjury?
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Watergate prosecutor expects Trump to face federal, state charges
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Trump's shameless call for law and order ignores his personal role in fostering the poisonous atmosphere in which the Kenosha police felt comfortable murdering Jacob Blake and the self-proclaimed armed militia man murdered two peaceful protestors.
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Trump's failed Hunter Biden debate attack not only repeated Russian intelligence misinformation but also has the indicia of a Roger Stone dirty tricks stunt, whose sentence Trump commuted because Stone cannot work on the campaign from federal prison.
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When Trump threatened the Georgia Secretary of State telling him that it will be costly if he doesn’t falsify the vote to favor him over Biden, he practiced what is a known as standard mob style extortion.
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With the election coming up, Trump and the Senate GOP have prioritized installing their right wing ideologue on the supreme court to destroy health care and a woman's right to choose while refusing to enact badly needed pandemic relief. Throw the bums out!
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Trump's pardoning of Flynn continues the Russian coverup that began in 2016. Trump now buys the silence of Flynn after having already silenced Roger Stone with a commutation of his prison sentence. Paul Manafort is next.
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John Heilemann did an excellent job with this calendar showing Trump's ineptitude responding to the corona virus day by day in his own words. The only entries missing in the calendar are the days Trump was playing golf while the virus spread and people died.
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John Bolton's testimony before the Senate could be the "smoking gun" that forces Trump to resign, as Nixon was forced to resign after the release of his taped conversation directing the CIA to have the FBI stop the Watergate break-in investigation.
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By moving the Court to make public the sealed search warrant and inventory of what was seized at Mar-a-Logo, subject to Trump’s opposition, AG Garland has called Trump’s bluff that the warrant is a “witch hunt.” You watch — Trump will oppose the motion.
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Trump is using the excuse of the virtual debate to avoid having to answer further questions about his botching of the coronavirus response and his cheating on his tax returns. Kennedy and Nixon had no issues with doing one virtual debate.
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Is it just a coincidence that Trump‘s European travel ban excludes the only European countries in which he owns financially strapped golf resorts?
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Attorney General Barr is up to his eyeballs in Trump's corruption
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Justice Thomas wants the Supreme Court “to reconsider all”“substantive due process” rights not listed in the Constitution, including “same-sex marriage,” but curiously does not include reconsidering the case permitting interracial marriage. A true hypocrite?
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Typical Trump — No Postal Service, No Voting by Mail, increases his chances to be re-elected, just another corrupt effort by Trump to Wisconsin the vote
Retweet if you agree this could be among this madman’s motives for trying to suffocate the US postal service — and that he must be stopped from achieving that perverse goal
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Trump's unprecedented pattern of disparaging and threatening judges, prosecutors and witnesses is self-destructive and makes it more likely he will end up in the slammer.
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Trump’s threats to adjourn congress so he can appoint all of his well-qualified buddies to government positions is just another transparent diversion to take the spot light off his incompetence in responding to the coronavirus.
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Jim Jordan's parade of deplorables behind closed doors makes a mockery of legitimate congressional investigations and is a complete waste of taxpayer funds.
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