Lawyer, legal commentator, fighter for democracy. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. Commentator @ MSNBC, CNN. Author of the new book TAKING DOWN TRUMP.
So the guy who flirted with buying this site to 'defend free speech' just fired a bunch of his spaceship employees for speaking out to criticize his behavior and failing leadership? Got it.
After Adidas dropped Kanye West, he showed up today at the LA office of another shoe company, unannounced and uninvited, with a film crew. He was escorted out.
The company was Skechers.
Yes, this really happened.
BREAKING: Trump is representing HIMSELF, with no lawyer at all, in his case against the United States regarding the search of Mar-a-Lago and recovery of government records.
The legal term is “pro se” - for himself.
He could not find anyone to represent him.
BREAKING - After threats that 10,000 NYPD officers could quit the force over the NYC vaccine mandate, the actual number going on unpaid leave today was 34.
UPDATE: the Uvalde killer was engaged by law enforcement outside the school *BEFORE* he went inside.
More cops at schools: not the answer.
Arming teachers: not the answer.
Who still wants to know who paid Brett Kavanaugh’s $92,000 country club balance, $200,000 in credit card debt, and $1,200,000 mortgage, buying themselves a Supreme Court justice — and the 5th vote to overturn Roe v. Wade?
BREAKING: Patagonia founder gives away the $3 billion company to a pair of trusts, with a mandate to give all profits (~$100 million/year) to fight the climate crisis.
This is a real game-changer, raising the bar on what a socially conscious business can look like.
BREAKING: Herschel Walker names Texas home as his primary residence on his tax forms to get a tax break, per new CNN story.
Legally, Walker lives in Dallas — not Georgia.
Metal detector at Mar-a-Lago — to make sure Trump event is gun-free.
Whenever the gun extremists throw fancy events for themselves, they make sure they’re gun-free. But they leave the rest of us to die in mass shootings.
BREAKING: Clarence Thomas quits his teaching post at George Washington University in DC after student protests, even after the university said it supported Thomas still coming to teach.
Apparently Thomas couldn’t handle any dissenting opinions.
POTENTIALLY MASSIVE in light of what we know now:
In Oct 2021, CIA Counterintelligence sent a top secret cable warning an unusually number of confidential informants were being killed, captured, or compromised.
In Jan 2021, Trump stole documents on these kind of informants.
BREAKING: Uvalde killer did not act alone.
He was helped by 1 governor, dozens of state legislators, hundreds of federal legislators, and various federal judges, who are still at large — and in office.
Who still wants to know who paid Brett Kavanaugh’s $92,000 country club balance, $200,000 in credit card debt, and $1,200,000 mortgage, buying themselves a Supreme Court justice — and the 5th vote to overturn Roe v. Wade?
Republicans now warning that releasing Trump’s tax returns could mean releasing Supreme Court justices’ tax returns.
Exactly. For example, Americans deserve to know who paid off Brett Kavanaugh’s $92,000 country club balance, $200,000 in credit card debt, and $1,200,000 mortgage
BREAKING: Senior FBI official who led 2016 investigation finding no link between Trump and Russia, Charles McGonigal, has now been arrested for taking and laundering money for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
The Kremlin infiltration of America goes VERY deep.
BREAKING: Trump took nuclear weapons documents to Mar-a-Lago.
This was not a drill. He did not take a few innocent items for memorabilia. He took the Crown Jewels of classified government documents to his home in Florida.
BREAKING: January 6 committee has video proof of Capitol tours on January 5, 2021.
They were casing the joint — it was an inside job, just as we’ve suspected.
BREAKING: Yes, Trump stole nuclear secrets. And US defense intel so sensitive that the president was one of the only people to know about it.
Indict him. Try him. Convict him. Lock him up.
BREAKING: House passes bill to fight price gouging on gas.
Every single Republican voted no.
Remember that in November. They had a chance to help us with gas prices — and they ALL voted no.
BREAKING: Amy Coney Barrett did not disclose her husband’s legal work on a court ethics form.
This is after we learned that Clarence Thomas failed to disclose $700k of Ginni Thomas’s pay from the far-right Heritage Foundation.
SCOTUS needs a REAL code of ethics. Now.
You know what Ketanji Brown Jackson lacks?
A $92,000 country club balance, $200,000 in credit card debt, and $1,200,000 mortgage — all of which were mysteriously paid off for Brett Kavanaugh by an anonymous benefactor who’s never been identified.
BREAKING: Federal Appeals Court rules against Madison Cawthorn, holds that 14th Amendment can be used to disqualify insurrectionists from office.
Bad news for Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, Mo Brooks — and Donald Trump.
In Alabama, a roofing company illegally hired a 15-year-old.
On his first day, he fell 50 feet down, fractured his skull, and died.
All per US Department of Labor proceedings — fining the company $117,175.
It should be 10 times that.
THIS is why we need child labor laws.
Stop saying the documents were "seized." That implies they belonged to Trump.
They were RECOVERED -- they were and are the property of the United States of America.
BREAKING: Russia funneled over $300 million into political parties and candidates around the world — including the US — since 2014, according to a new US intelligence review.
Brexit, Trump, Bolsonaro, Orban, Le Pen — there’s a reason for the rising tide of fascism: the Kremlin.
BREAKING: Donald Trump will be ARRESTED in NYC, as early as next week, per reports that Manhattan DA has meeting next week with law enforcement (including Secret Service) on logistics of the arrest.
Trump will be "fingerprinted and processed just like any other defendant."
The Buffalo shooter's manifesto focuses on "White birth rates."
The Supreme Court's opinion overturning Roe cites the "domestic supply of infants."
This is not a coincidence.
BREAKING: 2,319 texts from Mark Meadows now public, showing 34 Republican members of Congress texting with him about January 6, the fake electors, and declaring martial law (or "Marshall Law," sic), per Talking Points Memo.
Every single one of them must be held accountable.
2 unarmed men took down the Club Q shooter in Colorado Springs.
376 armed officers could not stop the Uvalde shooter.
By Republican logic, we should now put 2 club goers in every school in America.
In the last year, Greg Abbott and Texas Republicans passed a law eliminating ANY permit requirement for guns — and then slashed $211 MILLION from Texas’s mental health budget.
BREAKING: Multiple people shot in Uvalde, Texas, at a memorial for the 21 lost to the last mass shooting there.
America’s laws and leaders are broken.
Enough. Start with Texas. Remove Greg Abbott and every single politician who loosened Texas’s gun laws.
In 2013, Ron DeSantis voted against federal aid for the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
In 2022, Ron DeSantis asked President Biden for federal help with Hurricane Ian -- and Biden delivered.
So if a bakery refuses to do business with a gay couple, that’s free speech, but if a large consumer brand refuses to do business with a social media platform, that’s censorship? Got it.
In late 2018, Trump released Abdul Ghani Baradar, one of the top leaders of the Taliban, along with 5000 other Taliban fighters, in exchange for... *checks notes*... nobody.
BREAKING: Herschel Walker has NEVER lived at the home he claims in Georgia. He has owned it for 17 years. He has rented it out for 17 years.
Again, Walker doesn’t live in Georgia. He lives in Texas.
The FBI received 4500 tips on Brett Kavanaugh.
A FOIA request for the tips reveals that hundreds of pages had been deleted -- and over 1000 of the tips had been redacted COMPLETELY.
What is everyone hiding about Kavanaugh?
Colin Kaepernick took a knee — and got blackballed from football for life.
Brett Favre took $5 million from needy kids and families — and is ANYTHING going to happen to him?
Rittenhouse crossed states lines — there is federal jurisdiction. Get this out of Kenosha. Bring charges in federal court with a federal judge in Milwaukee, with the US Attorneys Office and the FBI.
BREAKING: Trump’s stolen documents may have included records showing the identities and methods of agents spying for the US.
Such intelligence records — and nuclear records — CANNOT be declassified by the President alone. So there is no way it was legal for Trump to have them.
BREAKING: Steve Bannon LOSES motion for new trial, failing to overturn his guilty jury verdict for contempt of Congress.
Bannon now heads toward sentencing.
I’m not a journalist, so I can’t say whether Maggie Haberman is doing her job appropriately.
I am a lawyer, though, so I can say her failure to report Trump’s felonies upon discovering them — saving them for her book instead — appears to be misprision, which is itself a felony.
One year later:
- Who planted the pipe bombs?
- Who disabled Pence’s key card?
- Who removed the panic buttons?
- Who shared the location of the non-reinforced windows?
Who still wants to know who paid Brett Kavanaugh’s $92,000 country club balance, $200,000 in credit card debt, and $1,200,000 mortgage, buying themselves a Supreme Court justice — and the 5th vote to overturn Roe v. Wade?
1776-1933 - major bank crisis every 10 years
1930s - FDR bank rules enacted
1930s-1980s - no major crisis
1980s - rules rolled back
1980s-2010 - major crisis every 10 years
2010 - Dodd-Frank rules enacted
2010-2018 - no major crisis
2018 - rules rolled back
2023 - crisis?
BREAKING: Greg Abbott refuses to allow an audience at tonight's debate with Beto O'Rourke in the Texas governor's race.
Families of the Uvalde victims arrived at the venue and are not being allowed in.
Abbott is too much of a coward to face Texas voters.
Brett Kavanaugh voted against student loan relief.
Yet someone paid off ALL of Kavanaugh’s loans and debts before he joined the Supreme Court — $92,000 country club balance, $200,000 credit card debt, and a $1,200,000 mortgage.
BREAKING: Trump now claims he’s lost FOUR of the cell phones subpoenaed by the NY AG. Trump is still being fined $10,000 per day for defying the AG’s subpoenas - $100,000 and counting.
I’m bored with Elon Musk.
I’m bored with Jeff Bezos.
I’m bored with Mark Zuckerberg.
I’m bored hearing nonstop about a few lucky billionaires, who invented nothing, freed no one, and saved no lives, being treated as superhuman celebrities. They’re just rich dudes. Yawn.
Looks like George Santos's $700,000 donation to his own campaign may've been laundered money from a Ponzi scheme called "Harbor City Capital," which defrauded investors, selling them fake stocks, totaling over $17 million.
BREAKING: Ron DeSantis will be federally investigated by the Treasury Department for using Covid relief funds to trick Venezuelan refugees into getting on a flight from Texas to Martha's Vineyard for a political stunt -- falsely claiming they'd be given jobs and housing.
BREAKING: Republican National Committee refuses to pay for Trump’s legal fees for Mar-a-Lago search and federal investigation into stolen government records.
RNC rejection means Trump just hired a bunch of new expensive lawyers whom he will almost certainly refuse to pay.
The Supreme Court heard and decided Bush v. Gore in THREE DAYS.
THAT was expediting a case of national importance.
The Supreme Court apparently now thinks expediting means THREE MONTHS.
Clearest evidence yet that SCOTUS is corrupt and broken.
Again, stop saying the documents were "seized." That implies they belonged to Trump.
They were RECOVERED -- they were and are the property of the United States of America.
BREAKING: George Floyd's family sues Kanye West for $250 million for saying that Floyd died from fentanyl overdose rather than being murdered when Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd's throat.
West is in a bad position, as the murder of Floyd has been legally established.
BREAKING: Judge Dearie makes clear he is taking government’s position that the classified Mar-a-Lago documents are in fact classified.
“What business is it of the court? … As far as I’m concerned that’s the end of it.”
Trump’s insistence on a special master is NOT going well.
We still don’t know:
- Who planted the pipe bombs?
- Who disabled Pence’s key card?
- Who removed the panic buttons?
- Who shared the location of the non-reinforced windows?
2 children died from contaminated formula earlier this year, and we shut down the factory until they fixed the problem and made sure kids would be safe again.
19 children died from assault weapons on Tuesday. Will we do ANYTHING?