Part of today’s House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol hearing on Trump’s attempts to corrupt the Department of Justice to enlist it in his Coup Plot involved testimony about the GQP members of Congress who sought preemptive pardons for their own misconduct. NBC News reports, Gaetz, Gohmert, Biggs, Brooks, … Read more
New Russian sanctions announced today by the Treasury Department reveal a direct line between Trump’s 2016 campaign chief Paul Manafort and Russian intelligence agencies. This intelligence was always in the possession of the Trump administration, but appears to have been withheld from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. New scandal: was it withheld? Today’s Russian sanctions … Read more
Roger Stone, a former campaign adviser to Trump, who’s often described as a political “ratfucker,” was charged and convicted on a seven-count indictment of obstructing justice, witness tampering and multiple counts of lying to Congress in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election in November of 2019. On December 23, … Read more
In a CNN report on Donald Trump’s eleventh-hour pardons for his cronies and corrupt Republican politicians like former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi of Arizona was this remarkable revelation: So, too, was Trump warned that pardons for Republican lawmakers who had sought them for their role in the Capitol insurrection would anger the very Senate Republicans … Read more
Harvard Constitutional Law professor Laurence Tribe was a guest on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell last night, argued that Trump’s pardons to absolve the crimes of his friends might be crimes themselves if they’re issued to obstruct justice. Tribe explained to Lawrence O’Donnell why it’s important for the next administration to investigate and prosecute those … Read more