@emptywheel.bsky.social
Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland. Legendary potty mouth!
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@emptywheel.bsky.socialNote which states are not on this list: WI, where he was just referred for prosecution for bribing voters, GA, where he broke election law in 2024, and AZ, where there are several lawsuits against him pending. He's an election criminal, and this should be hung around the GOP.
@emptywheel.bsky.socialAs you read all the explanations for Kevin Warsh's faceplant the other day (this is from @pkrugman.bsky.social), remember that Warsh is the one person--aside from JD--that Trump would have a really hard time firing. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-bond-m...
@emptywheel.bsky.socialWhy did, all of a sudden when it came down to YOUR agency, did you shift the focus of politics? The reason their TV ads don't work is the same reason you bear some responsibility here, bc TV is not where you do politics.
@emptywheel.bsky.socialAnyway, I'm going to sleep. Perhaps you could reflect on how you've invented a narrative in which politics failed but you, who does politics, did not. 🤡
@emptywheel.bsky.socialGreat. Doesn't change that you failed and are making shit up to blame other people. blah blah blah blah
@emptywheel.bsky.socialI'm not. You got multiple facts wrong. Maybe you're just happy to mouth off about shit you don't know about. But yet AGAIN, you confess the battle was political. Your job. Not DOJ's. And you failed.
@emptywheel.bsky.socialOne can be and often is both. I do now know whether Maggie and Swan do this intentionally. I suspect they come to it from different places. I do know they are exceptionally talented narrativists in a way that helps Trump in many ways.
@emptywheel.bsky.socialI'm not being angry. I'm pointing out that you are admitting your own failures. Objective fact. In YOUR view, which is based on fantasy misunderstandings, a special counsel should have been selected right away. Doesn't change your confession the big fight was about politics, not law.
@emptywheel.bsky.socialWhy am I grinding an ax instead of pointing out the narrative frame, at which I'm an accredited expert, which seems to have helped you see the book differently?
@emptywheel.bsky.socialWOWOWO. Thank you for acknowledging WHY DOJ added a person who replicated existing work at DOJ, and made it far harder to approve certain things. But how does that absolve you for your admitted failures?
@emptywheel.bsky.socialAgain, thank you for confessing your own failures. So why did you lie about the investigation?
@emptywheel.bsky.socialThank you for confessing your shortcomings. What does that have to do with your abject lies about the investigation?
@emptywheel.bsky.socialLet me make VERY clear for those following this and related threads. Maggie Haberman works her ass off and gets info we would not otherwise get. She is also an exquisitely talented author of narratives, just like any novelist. That's my training: Narrative. Who do you see. Who don't you see.
@emptywheel.bsky.socialAnd yet I did. I can't drop my training as a scholar of fiction and Maggie's biggest failing is her narrativizing, which even exceedingly smart people refuse to see.
@emptywheel.bsky.socialWOWOWOW. That is, not true. So yes. Absurd. So thanks for doing propaganda for John Roberts.
@emptywheel.bsky.socialThis would have been an obvious point to point out that they were all convicted, and most were detained bc they assaulted cops. Ah well.
@emptywheel.bsky.socialHere's one of the first moments of grotesque dishonesty. Bill Barr CONTINUED the object of impeachment, framing Hunter and Joe Biden, while it was going on. Trump turned on Barr, but not for another year. And hiding that hides his first term abuse.
@emptywheel.bsky.socialWhich is a great way to pawn off your own complicity if you're Maggie Haberman.
@emptywheel.bsky.socialWell, let's see. Bc rule of law takes time. Rich people have good lawyers. This is all very adjacent to the First Amendment, which we'd like to preserve. Should I continue? Please don't be naive and instead focus on what YOU can do about it.
@emptywheel.bsky.socialThis is the first passage of Maggie and Swan's book. Consider the agency it sets up. Democrats. Partisanship. Why not focus on the "irony" that Maggie had done propaganda for the man for years? Why make this about Democrats, rather than her complicity?
