Does telling a narcissist what they want to hear make Meadows a co-conspirator?
#2 | POSTED BY AUGUSTINE

In psychological terms, such a person is known as an enabler. Does that equate to a co-conspirator in legal terms? Don't know. Seems like it could/should.

CNN Is Tanking After Its Unforgivable Trump Town Hall

Chris Licht's master plan has already run aground"as have the news channel's ratings.

In the weeks after the former president appeared on CNN, the network's ratings have plummeted. In fact, its ratings last week were the worst the network has posted since June 2015.

Liz Cheney
@Liz_Cheney

Any candidate who says they will pardon Jan. 6 defendants is not qualified to be President.
5:33 PM May 25, 2023

Normal people believed a Trump pee tape existed, this is less far fetched than that.
#20 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

So is this:

The sources say Mr Shapley's use of Mr Leavitt as an attorney and the nature of the allegations " which they described as appearing to be a run-of-the-mill dispute between criminal investigators and prosecutors over whether the former has collected enough evidence for the latter to justify bringing charges against a target " give them reason to believe the IRS special agent is part of a coordinated effort to browbeat prosecutors into charging Hunter Biden and weaponise dispute between investigators and prosecutors against both the Biden administration and President Biden's family.

One person with knowledge of Mr Shapley's efforts told The Independent that members of Congress and staff have also been troubled by the way legally protected taxpayer information " information which House and Senate committees take great pains to keep secret " has made it into the right-wing press at the same time it has been provided to the House and Senate panels with jurisdiction over the IRS.

They noted that he was previously represented by a prominent Washington, DC attorney with extensive experience in representing law enforcement and intelligence whistleblowers and said Mr Shapley appeared to change attorneys because his first attorney appeared more concerned with following the law than getting his allegations into the press.

This whistleblower took over the Hunter Biden case in January 2020 ...
Thats not what this says ...
"He was assigned to a "sensitive" investigation in January 2020, and within months, he said he grew concerned about how the Justice Department was handling the investigation. CBS News has learned that was the Hunter Biden probe. Shapley says he began documenting his concerns around June 2020."
#20 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

No, but it is what the WB himself has said, so really there was no need for me to rewrite anything:

"When I took control of this particular investigation, I immediately saw deviations from the normal process. It was way outside the norm of what I've experienced in the past," he said.

Sounds like he may not want to testify under oath before a bipartisan committee:

"Democratic and Republican Finance Committee staff previously met for several hours with counsel representing an IRS whistleblower, and counsel were made aware of the committee's investigative procedures. Committee staff on both sides agreed with counsel to meet directly with the whistleblower next week, however the whistleblower has since backed out of that agreement and declined an attempt to reschedule," they said.

"Rewrite it and try again."

Sure, why not?"

This whistleblower was assigned to the Hunter Biden case in January 2020 and by June 2020 felt the investigation was being slow walked:

"He was assigned to a "sensitive" investigation in January 2020, and within months, he said he grew concerned about how the Justice Department was handling the investigation. CBS News has learned that was the Hunter Biden probe. Shapley says he began documenting his concerns around June 2020."

What's weird about this to me is that Biden didn't become president until January 20, 2021, so this IRS investigator is claiming that the Trump/ Barr DOJ was slow walking the Hunter Biden case from the get-to--and during an election year no less--which seems highly unlikely to me.

IRS 'whistleblower' who claimed Hunter Biden case was mishandled won't cooperate with Senate probe

EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower has cut off communication with the Senate Finance Committee even as he prepares to testify before a GOP-led House panel.

Are we heading back to the days of the Wild, Wild West? Shoot out tomorrow at Target over rainbow t-shirts and tuckable bathing suits! I'm waiting for the MSM to interview some of these yahoos about their family values and economic anxiety.

All this using of the strawman of hysterical, mensurating teenage girls seems to conveniently ignore the emotional stability of testosterone-ridden teenage boys. Just sayin'.

This whistleblower took over the Hunter Biden case in January 2020 and by June 2020 felt the investigation was being slow walked:

"He was assigned to a "sensitive" investigation in January 2020, and within months, he said he grew concerned about how the Justice Department was handling the investigation. CBS News has learned that was the Hunter Biden probe. Shapley says he began documenting his concerns around June 2020."

What's weird about this to me is that Biden didn't become president until January 20, 2021, so this IRS investigator is claiming that the Trump/ Barr DOJ was slow walking the Hunter Biden case from the get-to, which seems highly unlikely to me.

Excellent take by Josh Marshall, who gives Ron credit where it is do:

Meatball Ron's Sad Discord Chat

One way to summarize the conversation was that about 50% of it was various guests saying Elon Musk is totally awesome; the other 40% was DeSantis saying DeSantis is totally awesome. I'm budgeting 10% for times the connection crashed.

As seen on the internet:

A House Karen is a Marjorie.

"@#5 ... "Great American Comeback" ..."

It's his way of saying Make America Great Again without using those words. Folks are calling tonight's screw up the Ron & Elon Clown (or ------) show. BTW, it's starting to look like Everything Musk Touches Dies (EMTD).

DeSantis is promoting what he calls our "Great American Comeback" aka GAC. Will GAC Republicans replace MAGA Republicans? Ack, beware the GAC! It sounds like something a cat does to get rid of a nasty hairball.

The God ordained fighter & Republican savior Ron DeSantis interviewed live by the billionaire & self-declared genius Elon Musk, what could possibly go wrong? Oh, wait. . . #DeSaster

2016 was a big year for Putin, who backed both Brexit and Trump, and both of our countries are still paying the price.

He didn't use the word but retweeted someone who said Tiny D had been "grooming" high school girls when he was a teacher:

Donald Trump suggests Ron DeSantis was 'grooming high school girls with alcohol'

"But sure, Trump is the victim."

emptywheel
@emptywheel
One of THREE Clinton Foundation investigations was predicated off oppo research funded by Trump's ultimate campaign manager, biased agents ran informants, the investigation was leaked just before election, and it lasted until 2021.

But sure, Trump is the victim.

Also, has any Trump man ever been able to say this about a legal investigation?:

Mr. Durham also compared the handling of the Clinton Foundation investigation to the F.B.I.'s treatment of the Russia investigation. As part of his inquiry, Mr. Durham questioned Mrs. Clinton last spring. "Secretary Clinton was voluntarily interviewed by Special Counsel Durham on May 11, 2022," said David E. Kendall, her lawyer. "No topics were off limits. She answered every question."

"The pint-sized groomer lies as much as the demented orange pedo."

Hmm, it's starting to look like DeSantis is Trump's Mini Me and that Tiny D stands for Tiny Donald.

Oh, there are going to be multiple lawsuits coming out of this little stunt:

Assemblyman Brian Maher (R-Montgomery) spent the last week claiming that 20 veterans were kicked out of a hotel to make way for an influx of migrants being brought up from NYC. On Thursday afternoon, he admitted that the whole situation was a series of lies.

Last Friday Maher teamed up with Sharon Toney-Finch of the YIT Foundation who told him that a number of veterans were being displaced as a result of arriving migrants. Together, the two began a campaign of denouncing the Crossroads Hotel in the Town of Newburgh where the veterans were allegedly staying. Toney-Finch, the director of the YIT Foundation, said she had housed 20 veterans at the Crossroads but the homeless veterans were told last Thursday night that they needed to check out on Friday. That has been denied by hotel management. Maher was steadfast in supporting Finch. Last Friday he denounced the hotel by name and used the incident, debunked by Mid-Hudson News, to attack the federal government's management of the migrant/asylum-seeker crisis. He also used the false situation to introduce legislation to prohibit the displacement of homeless veterans to make way for migrants.

If this story is true, She sounds like a petty control freak to me:

She also, it seems, got her husband to change the way he says his family name.

"Dee-Santis," he would say up until around that point. It's how he always said it. She, on the other hand, would soften that first syllable. "Deh-Santis."

People noticed the discrepancy and asked about it. "Yes," campaign spokesperson Stephen Lawson confirmed that September to a reporter from the Tampa Bay Times. "He prefers Dee-Santis."

Or did.

Some call her Lady MacBeth. I see her as a Jackie O wannabe when it comes to image with shades of Nancy Reagan behind the scenes, who can't wait to be First Lady of more than just of Florida.

PS It's probably not necessary for anyone to put it on a t-shirt. :-)

The irony of Durham's dud is that his report is basically an ode to his own confirmational bias:

Nicholas Grossman
@NGrossman81
If someone goes "a lot of bad things happened here"criminal things"and I'm gonna prove it" and then after years of intent searching goes "okay, I didn't prove anything, but it's still my opinion that it's bad," that means they found it wasn't bad but still want to believe it was.

Asha Rangappa
@AshaRangappa_
It sounds almost like ... confirmation bias