We talked about the Trump dick-wagging of late that could backfire. The post Fridays with Nicole Sandler appeared first on emptywheel.| emptywheel
Reversing past pledges not to intervene in his son’s legal troubles, US President Joe Biden on Sunday pardoned Hunter Biden, who was facing sentencing for gun and tax convictions. The outgoing president…| France 24
A year after Joe Biden abandoned his re-election bid, his son Hunter blamed actor George Clooney for spearheading public pressure urging the elderly US president to step aside, in interviews published…| France 24
Already, in Trump's first term, crony US Attorneys managed to claim evidence was the opposite of what reality said it was. But in a Matt Gaetz DOJ, a willingness to sustain Trump's myth would be the price of admission. Trump's myth cannot fail, it can only be failed.| emptywheel
In motions in limine in advance of the Alexander Smirnov trial, Leo Wise and Derek Hines made a superb case they're treating Alexander Smirnov differently than the gun shop owner who doctored the Hunter Biden gun purchase form after the fact.| emptywheel
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has pleaded guilty to all nine counts against him in a sprawling, $1.4 million tax evasion case highlighting his history of indulgence in drugs and hookers.| Sputnik International
If you let Trump lie about his own crimes without fact check every day, as ABC does, then you're engaged in a more egregious act of misrepresenting the truth than Kamala Harris did by misstating whether she prosecuted or was involved in criminal cases over two decades ago.| emptywheel
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump pitched to undecided voters Thursday night during the first debate of the presidential campaign.| Louisiana Illuminator
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced that he’s directing three House committees to start investigating whether President Biden benefited from his son Hunter’s business dealings overseas. McCarthy accused the Biden family of “a culture of corruption,” saying that the Biden administration […]| Features – FiveThirtyEight
David Weiss appears to have submitted a photo of a photo of sawdust taken by a Keith Ablow client and claimed it is a photo of "apparent cocaine" taken by Hunter Biden. That's going to make the forensic challenges of prosecuting Hunter Biden using the laptop far more difficult.| emptywheel