A few items of note this morning.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s highly anticipated report on his charging decisions in Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, election subversion case will be made public, federal prosecutors said Wednesday, but the same cannot be said of information underpinning Trump’s classified documents case.
Details from that now-dismissed classified documents case should be held back from public view, federal prosecutors said Wednesday, because litigation is still underway in Florida against Trump’s valet and his Mar-a-Lago estate property manager.
The disclosure was made in federal appellate court by Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton in response to a recent request from Waltine Nauta, Trump’s valet, and Carlos De Oliveira, his property manager, to stop the publication entirely. Boynton said this was unnecessary.
Smith, he wrote, already recommended to Attorney General Merrick Garland that to “avoid any risk of prejudice” to Nauta and De Oliveira, it would be best to release only information about the Jan. 6 charging decisions so long as criminal proceedings are pending against Nauta and De Oliveria.
The report will, however, be available for private review by members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees... (our emphasis)
Getting the January 6 insurrection part of the report out in public is the big score, and one of the reasons why the MF most likely has been kicking up all kinds of bonkers distractions (the other reason being imminent decisions on his sentencing on 34 fraud counts by the State of New York; update on that here). He knows it will be a powerful rebuttal to his and MAGA world's ongoing efforts to whitewash the insurrection and the MF's key role in it.
Walls of fire devoured neighborhoods, forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee for their lives. But as a cataclysm fueled by windstorms charred swathes of Los Angeles, Donald Trump spotted an opportunity.
The president-elect responded to six massive blazes by reopening his long-term feud with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, landing an early jab on a Democratic governor and a state likely to emerge as a major opponent to his second term plans.
Trump and Newsom have clashed bitterly in the past, including over fire prevention, environmental policies, climate change, green vehicles and immigration.
And the incoming president wasted no time in laying the blame for simultaneous wildfires raging in the Los Angeles area that have so far killed at least five people...
Of course, the MF would be lying and playing crude politics with the tragedy. He's an irresponsible, narcissistic sociopath, after all, who has taken every opportunity in the past to play politics with tragedies when there's a Democratic officeholder involved. (Here's a fact check on the MF's claims, if it matters to you.) Meanwhile, a real President is responding with FEMA aid and surging U.S. Navy resources to help contain the fires.
Greenland, fires, January 6
Some satiric relief from Desi Lydic, because we need it.
And, as always, the RWNJs (right-wing nut jobs) are claiming that LAFD can't fight fires because it only cares about DEI and not citizen lives and homes! 🤬 Of course, Jesse Watters can be counted on to take the lead by showing that there are women "trying" to lead...the horror!!
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I went to a lab with a giant wall of giant fans to simulate hurricanes and wild fires. The experts at the lab said there is literally nothing that can.be done to stop burning embers spread by 100 mph winds with drought conditions. It will continue to spread until it
Deleteruns out of fuel, or the wind dies down. I get so tired of the shit disturbers spreading hate and lies instead of the simple truth.