Strong hint here in a new Mueller filing that the Special Counsel’s office is still working with Rick Gates on the collusion front.
Nice catch here by Friend of TPM Rick Hasen. In that bundle of emails from Trump’s defunct ‘election integrity’ commission released to Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap, we find this email from Commissioner Christy McCormick. In the email to then Pence Counsel Mark Paoletta, McCormick recommends DOJ lawyer Benjamin Overholt because their “numerous discussions” made her “pretty confident that he is a conservative (and Christian, too).” Read More
Voter Suppression Kingpin Kris Kobach’s primary lead just got cut to 91 votes.
Donald Trump is fundraising off creating a new branch of the US Armed Forces, his “Space Force.” He even lets you vote on (what he suggests) will be the official logo for Space Force gear the campaign will sell. Read More
On the Chris Collins story, most of the attention has focused (quite understandably) on the fact that Collins allegedly gave family members a heads up on the news that would lead to the stocks collapse a few days later. That makes perfect sense. But there’s another quite interesting part of the story, which is how and when those other members of Congress bought in. Read More
In the on-going conversation about whether fringe speech, conspiracy-sites and hate groups should be booted off Facebook, Twitter, etc., here are a few thoughts.
I don’t want to be mean. But Dana Bash just said Donald Trump got elected because of outrage over sleazy Reps like Chris Collins, the first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump.
Good Lord. Just Minutes in and We Already Have the Worst Take on Chris Collins. Trump is a Reaction to People Like Chris Collins! pic.twitter.com/7VrszoAR15
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 8, 2018
Hang dog Ted Cruz, who once called Donald Trump a “sniveling coward”, is now begging him to come to Texas and campaign for him.
Okay, lot of big news today. Read our colleagues Sneed and MacNeal’s final wrap on today’s dramatic Gates’ testimony. We also released a new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast with my interview with Marcy Wheeler. Fascinating stuff in there about the Trump/Russia big picture. But now we’ve got a pretty consequential election night ahead of us. So stay tuned for our coverage of results in the big races.
This is an amazing story, showing Republicans finding increasingly baroque and convoluted ways to engage in election fraud.