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https://twitter.com/PoliticusSarah/status/1562462162831912969Former Navy Pilot Rips 'Pathetic' Ron DeSantis Over 'Top Gun' Stunt
DeathSantis' latest ad may make Dukasis' tank ad to look like an effective ad
https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1562420853177872384
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-desantis-ken-harbaugh_n_6305cb1ae4b052615d76429e
“It’s not just cringey,” said Ken Harbaugh. “It’s literally Navy pilot cosplay.”
In the widely mocked ad, DeSantis donned aviator shades and a bomber jacket and plopped into what appeared to be the pilot’s seat of a fighter jet as he talked about taking on the “corporate media.”....
He added:
“This tough guy act is pathetic, especially from someone like Ron DeSantis. This campaign ad from Ron DeSantis is just one more example of a Republican politician appropriating the honor of others because he has none.”
Harbaugh concluded by giving DeSantis a new callsign: Wedge or “the simplest tool known to man.”
https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1562202504963637248
Trump appears to concede he illegally retained official documents
Legally, TFG has in effect just confessed to violations of the espionage act. TFG's amusing filing for a special master is based on the sad claim that these documents are protected by executive privilege. That claim is wrong but if these documents were protected by executive privilege, then such documents are clearly government property and TFG has no right to possess these documents. TFG has in effect confessed to a crime in this brief
https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1562495814038982656
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/23/trump-illegal-documents-fbi-mar-a-lago
But the argument from Trump that the documents are subject to executive privilege protections suggests those documents are official records – which he is not authorized to keep and should have turned over to the National Archives at the end of the administration.
But the argument from Trump that the documents are subject to executive privilege protections suggests those documents are official records – which he is not authorized to keep and should have turned over to the National Archives at the end of the administration....
The reasoning, former US attorneys say, is that there could be communications seized by the FBI that are privileged, but not used in furtherance of a crime, and even if the justice department wanted to use them in its investigation, it should be precluded from doing so.
Still, if Trump successfully argues the materials are protected by executive privilege, then he also successfully argues that he was in unlawful possession of official records. If he is unsuccessful, then executive privilege would not be a valid basis to seek a special master.
The motion for a special master was truly a crappy piece of legal work. TFG has clearly confessed to breaking the law if one accepts the premise of this motion
Oz is too much of a security risk to serve on the US Senate. We must #StopOz.
https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1562588944063430662Oz is too much of a security risk to serve on the US Senate. We must #StopOz.
https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1562588944063430662Oz is too much of a security risk to serve on the US Senate. We must #StopOz.
https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1562588944063430662Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo fired over botched response to shooting that killed 19 st
This asshole had to be fired
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1562594416661245952
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/uvalde-schools-police-chief-pete-arredondo-fired-botched-response-shoo-rcna39025?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
His removal caps off three months of outrage over the botched law enforcement response to a deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two teachers.
One hour, 14 minutes and 8 seconds passed from the time police entered the building May 24 until the gunman was killed, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw has said.
Arredondo did not attend the special school board meeting Wednesday that was called to address his employment. In a statement, his lawyer said Arredondo has faced death threats and did not believe the meeting was safe.....
A scathing report released last month by a Texas House committee faulted “systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making” by law enforcement and the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District.
It says that under the district's active shooter plan, Arredondo would have been the incident commander, but he "did not assume his preassigned responsibility of incident command." Arredondo has said he did not consider himself to be the officer in charge.
Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo fired over botched response to shooting that killed 19 st
This asshole had to be fired
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1562594416661245952
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/uvalde-schools-police-chief-pete-arredondo-fired-botched-response-shoo-rcna39025?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
His removal caps off three months of outrage over the botched law enforcement response to a deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two teachers.
One hour, 14 minutes and 8 seconds passed from the time police entered the building May 24 until the gunman was killed, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw has said.
Arredondo did not attend the special school board meeting Wednesday that was called to address his employment. In a statement, his lawyer said Arredondo has faced death threats and did not believe the meeting was safe.....
A scathing report released last month by a Texas House committee faulted “systemic failures and egregiously poor decision making” by law enforcement and the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District.
It says that under the district's active shooter plan, Arredondo would have been the incident commander, but he "did not assume his preassigned responsibility of incident command." Arredondo has said he did not consider himself to be the officer in charge.
Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo fired over botched response to shooting that killed 19 st
Source: NBC News
Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo was fired Wednesday by the Texas city’s school board.
His removal caps off three months of outrage over the botched law enforcement response to a deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two teachers.
One hour, 14 minutes and 8 seconds passed from the time police entered the building May 24 until the gunman was killed, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw has said.
Arredondo did not attend the special school board meeting Wednesday that was called to address his employment. In a statement, his lawyer said Arredondo has faced death threats and did not believe the meeting was safe.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/uvalde-schools-police-chief-pete-arredondo-fired-botched-response-shoo-rcna39025?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
Justice Department releases Mueller-era memo on Trump prosecution
Source: Politico
The Justice Department has released a long-sought legal memo arguing that then-President Donald Trump’s actions during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation did not warrant prosecution for obstruction of justice, even if a president was susceptible to criminal charges while in office.
In the nine-page memo disclosed Wednesday, two of the most senior officials in the Justice Department advised then-Attorney General William Barr that Trump’s threats to fire Mueller and his various public and private outbursts against witnesses he viewed as hostile or unhelpful to him didn’t amount to the sort of case prosecutors would bring under their established standards.
“Having reviewed the Report in light of the governing legal principles, and the Principles of Federal Prosecution, we conclude that none of those instances would warrant a prosecution for obstruction of justice, without regard to the constitutional constraint on bringing such an action against a sitting president,” the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, Steven Engel, and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Edward O’Callaghan wrote in the March 24, 2019, memo.
The Justice Department fought release of the memo for years, arguing that it was part of a deliberative process advising Barr on what to do in response to Mueller’s report. However, judges concluded that at the time the memo was written, Barr had already decided not to charge Trump, so the issues hashed out in the memo were theoretical and not linked to any pending decision.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/24/justice-department-mueller-memo-trump-prosecution-00053612
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