A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas seeking information about Save America PAC, which was formed by Donald J. Trump to promote his baseless “Big Lie” about election fraud after election day in 2020. The New York Times reports, Trump’s Post-Election Fund-Raising Comes Under Scrutiny by Justice Dept.: A federal grand jury in Washington is … Read more
One of the things about Senator John McCain that you could always rely on was that he would deny saying something that he said for which there was video, and then reporters would play “let’s go to the video!,” and only then would Johnny sheepishly admit, “OK, you caught me,” with a “what’s the big … Read more
“This is how cons work: The stakes keep getting increased until the whole thing collapses.” Philip Bump at the Washington Post reports, Another year, another high-profile voter-fraud summit goes bust: It was just over a year ago that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell convened supporters and data experts in South Dakota for a multiday summit at … Read more
The second day of the January 6 Committee hearings clearly established, from Trump campaign officials to Republican campaign lawyers to DOJ attorneys – Republicans all – that there there was no fraud in the 2020 election and that they all told Donald Trump this. He knew that he lost. He knew that his claims of … Read more
The investor class aka the predator class in the casino capitalism of Wall Street drove the stock market to unprecedented levels, despite a global pandemic and the recession it created. They bought into the irrational exuberance that the stock market always goes up. There were those experts who have been warning that Wall Street was … Read more