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[Tim Hogan 浩勤 @TimInHonolulu]

That could make out both state and federal crimes.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Jack Smith spent two years building the most serious federal cases against a president in American history. He indicted on classified documents and January 6. Both were dismissed when Trump took office. A federal judge has since permanently blocked the release of his classified documents report.

He said Thursday that the United States is facing an attack on the rule of law different in kind and scope from anything he has seen in his lifetime. He said judges can no longer trust the Justice Department as currently constituted. He said prosecutors in Minnesota refused retribution orders against families of people ICE shot earlier this year. And he said the pardons for January 6 participants send one message to those pardoned and a second, equally troubling message to every federal law enforcement officer watching.

Smith doesn't have political ambitions. He has no book to sell. He resigned, saw his work buried, and is doing press on the eve of the 250th to say what he believes the record requires.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Burgum is a disgusting liar

[Debbie N. @BeatlesFanDeb]

@RepMikeLevin @AzSomebody

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

The situation with the Kennedy Center has gone off the rails. It has officially reached levels of pettiness I didn’t think were possible, but Trump is once again defying the odds.   

A court ordered his name removed from the building. He lost, fair and square. So, what does he do? He throws a tarp over the sign that says “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” and just leaves it there.   

Not for a day, not for a week, but for WEEKS. 

A federal judge is demanding answers, because apparently we live in a country where a sitting president has to be hauled into court to explain why he’s hiding a building from the American public. 

A president with a real legacy doesn’t need to paste his name onto someone else’s. And he definitely doesn’t need to hide a sign because a court told him no. 

A weak man with a bruised ego would. And that’s exactly what’s happening here. 

It’s petty, it’s absurd, and frankly, it’s embarrassing.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Wow.

[MAGAts_Exposed @MAGAts_Exposed]

Meet MAGAt and pro-Russian grifter Gunther Eagleman (David Freeman).

In late 2024, the U.S. DOJ indicted Tenet Media, revealing it was a covert $10 million Russian influence operation funded by the state-controlled network RT.

Following the indictment, online researchers and critics exposed ties between Freeman's "Gunther Eagleman" account and the network's ecosystem. Freeman defended himself by stating he only received "tens of thousands" of dollars in standard "ad revenue" through X and content distribution networks rather than direct Russian payroll. Critics, however, pointed out that he aggressively deleted dozens of his pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine posts immediately after the DOJ indictment went public.

Even if the money trail was indirect, NATO-affiliated researchers and independent watchdogs have documented that Freeman heavily amplified Kremlin talking points to his over 600,000 followers. This included writing a viral post publicly apologizing to Vladimir Putin for U.S. funding of Ukraine and spreading debunked claims that there was "no video content from the war in Ukraine" to undermine public support for the war effort.

Freeman has worked closely with X Strategies, a right-wing digital consulting firm. These firms frequently act as middlemen—taking money from massive PACs, corporate entities, or foreign-adjacent media networks—and then paying individual influencers micro-fees (like his documented $300 repost fee) to blast out specific narratives, giving the influencers plausible deniability about where the original funding originated.

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

"This is Putin-esque type of corruption and self enrichment" -- Chris Christie on Trump and his family enriching themselves:

"He and his family believe they are entitled to this. They believe that the American people gave them license to go and take whatever they can take. This is Putin-esque type of corruption and self enrichment."

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

DOGE was a complete failure.

[Hard Times Boxing @HardTimesBoxing]

@gtconway3d @atrupar @realDonaldTrump Burgum was selected by Trump precisely because he was/is 💯 all onboard with repeating any and all Trump lies

…no matter how preposterous or delusional.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Wouldn't it just be easier and more dignified not to repeat @realDonaldTrump's preposterous, delusional lies?

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Phang: Blanche maintains that FOIA was my only and remains my only option. And then he has the balls to say the following. He says that my lawsuit "threatens the interdependence and the reciprocity between Congress and the executive branch." You know, folks, last I checked, I don't see a lot of interdependence or reciprocity between Congress and the executive branch.

What I have seen, I've seen people like Todd Blanche, Pammy Jo with the bad hair, Kash Patel, Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and others, assembling repeatedly in the Situation Room at the White House with Todd Blanche quarterbacking strategy on how to avoid turning over the Epstein files to the American people.

Does that sound like interdependence or reciprocity?

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Ten years ago, the vice president wrote that one day, voters would realize the truth about Donald Trump. That day has now arrived.
https://t.co/H34aCZjuqC

[Kyle Whitmire @WarOnDumb]

1/ A lot has been said about the Great American State Failure. Here's what's been missed: The National Mall was everything the fair aspires to be. It was free. It was fun. It was accessible. The fair is a phony copy that gets in the original's way. 🧵

[Mimi Rocah @Mimirocah1]

Thank you Jack Smith for speaking up and showing other lawyers what it looks like to have courage, and showing the world what it looks like to have integrity. ⚖️

[The Democratic Voice @TheDemVoiceNow]

Every journalist in America should be following this account 👇

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Any other FBI Director would have resigned before this story broke. The real news here is that Trump is willing to tolerate this.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

This preposterous application should have a probability of success of less than zero

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is absolutely vile. Amy Coney Barrett's children are every bit as American as Jeremy Carl, and I'd bet real money they'll end up with a better understanding of what this country is and supposed to be than Carl demonstrates with this tweet.