Where Things Stand: Reminder Of Ornato’s Role In Pushing Pence To Leave Capitol On Jan 6

Posted on by Nicole LaFond

As my colleague Kaila Philo reported earlier today, Secret Service Assistant Director Tony Ornato retired from the agency this week, leaving plenty of unanswered questions in his wake. The DHS inspector general’s office had reportedly been trying to get him to sit for an interview about matters related to the missing texts scandal; it’s unclear, now, whether that will happen.

There are two layers to recent intrigue surrounding Ornato. His role in whatever tf was going on with the missing Secret Service texts is, of course, one. But secondly, Ornato’s standing as a character of interest to the Jan. 6 committee increased 10-fold after Cassidy Hutchinson gave astonishing public testimony earlier this summer.

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Still Waiting

Posted on by Josh Marshall

TPM Reader LS from Georgia …

Just to let you know I called Jon Ossoff’s office (Atlanta and DC), and got through. I guess nothing has changed. They said he supports The Women’s Health Protection Act, but won’t say what he would do regarding the filibuster. I explained I had 2 daughters with essentially no rights in Georgia. That we are unlikely to ever have 60 votes. But you know they are just taking the message.

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Top Secret Service Official At Center Of Hutchinson’s Testimony Leaves Agency

Posted on by Kaila Philo

U.S. Secret Service Assistant Director Anthony “Tony” Ornato left the Secret Service on Monday.

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The Trump/Mar-a-Lago Story Comes into Focus

Posted on by Josh Marshall

Yesterday Rolling Stone published an article about President Trump and French President Macron. The ex-President has reportedly bragged that he had “intelligence” on Macron’s sex life. And these brags seems to coincide with documents seized from the ex-President’s estate which, according to the search inventory, contained a dossier of information about the French President. I’ve been particularly interested in this because a French expat fellow reader of ours has been focusing my attention recently on how the French far-right rumor mill went to town on this subject in 2017 when Macron was first elected. The French far-right and Trumpworld are all part of the same far-right, authoritarian, revisionist world, often more or less openly allied to Russia. People immersed in the world of French politics and the French far-right perked up immediately when they saw that item on the search inventory.

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Five Points On How Republicans May Still Blow A Winnable Seat In New Hampshire

Posted on by Kate Riga

It’s hard to put a positive spin on the Republican Senate candidate class when the party’s Senate leader can’t even muster the energy to pretend. 

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Greenland Ice Sheet Is Shrinking Faster Than Forecast, Locking In Sea Level Rise: Study

Posted on by John Light

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was first published at The Conversation.

I am standing at the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, mesmerized by a mind-blowing scene of natural destruction. A milewide section of glacier front has fractured and is collapsing into the ocean, calving an immense iceberg.

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