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tblue37

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August 14, 2022

Middle Age Riot tweet of the evening:

https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/1558473858889531393
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Lauren Boebert is the Squeaky Fromme of Sarah Palins.



August 13, 2022

Don't forget:

https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1558180026507460608
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Ian Millhiser
@imillhiser

A third of the Supreme Court was appointed by a man who is being investigated by the FBI for violating the Espionage Act.


August 13, 2022

Josh Marshall on the legal advice Trump is getting:

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1558317210002669569
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Josh Marshall
@joshtpm
People aren’t figuring in the full implications of the last 48 hrs. The ex president is making a false claim of authority (in pectore declassification) and packaging it in a demonstrable lie (the standing order). He appears not to be getting any legal advice at all.

Josh Marshall
@joshtpm

2/ Not bad legal advice. Any legal advice. His current lawyers are an unknown lawyer from New Jersey and a former OAN host. But it seems unlikely even they’re advising him on this. It all suggests a complete implosion and panic in Trumpworld.
August 13, 2022

NYT: Trump "told close associates that he regarded some presidential documents as his own personal

property:

https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1558445598071824386

NYT: Trump "told close associates that he regarded some presidential documents as his own personal property."

WaPo:
"Trump resisted handing over some of the boxes ... He eventually agreed to hand over SOME...'giving them what HE believed they were entitled to,'" said an adviser.




August 13, 2022

This is the advice one of Trump's current attorneys is giving him:


Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦
@RonFilipkowski
Trump’s attorney says she has advised him that if he just says he won’t run for president, all these investigations and charges will go away and be dropped.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1558227491537436672

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