Chris McClinch

Husband, Father, Christian, Athlete, Horse dad, Eisenhower Republican means I'm now somehow a liberal Democrat without changing positions, Never Trump

[Chris McClinch @CMcclinch]

@BizarreLazar @JDCocchiarella I can get behind this.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Two dozen Republicans, including 7 Senators, pledge to oppose additional Ukraine funding.

They support the eradication of Ukraine and Kiev becoming a Russian city. This is the consequence of a cut off of aid. It just is.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Are you sure yours isn't 🇷🇺?

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

This has been the GOP's plan all along:

1) Pass massive tax cuts for the rich.

2) Claim the cuts will pay for themselves, dismissing concerns about the deficit.

3) Use the massive hole they've blown in the budget to justify deep cuts to programs that millions rely on.

[Chris McClinch @CMcclinch]

@nathaliejacoby1 Anybody else would be in prison already.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Every cable channel should be talking about the fact that Wisconsin Republicans just OUSTED the duly-appointed top election administration official in the state without any justification for doing so. This is how our democracy dies & everyone should be alarmed by this fascism.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

Wow, Hunter Biden has been indicted on 3 gun charges. That must mean there’s probable cause he committed those 3 gun crimes!

And if you agree, then you’d also agree that there’s probable cause that Trump committed 91 crimes.

Right?

[I Smoked Lindsey Graham @BlackKnight10k]

Apparently, the media has discovered Trump's mob-like practice of paying lawyers to represent his co-conspirators only to have the lawyers tell them to lie to investigators to obstruct the investigation.

This is, in fact, how he got off the hook in Mueller's investigation.

He used his cronies to obstruct the investigation long enough to find someone like Bill Barr who would come in shut down Mueller's investigation and write up a bogus OLC opionion saying obstruction couldn't be charged as a crime if there weren't also any underlying crimes being charged.

That basically made obstruction of justice illegal ONLY WHEN IT DOESN'T WORK. Just in case you were wondering where those Mueller obstruction counts disappeared to. Barr killed them.

Anyway, it worked for Trump the first time so you can't blame him for trying it again, right? There are couple of problems though.

For one, ALL of your co-conspirators have to stick together and stay with your mob lawyers or else, they're likely to flip in hopes of getting a light sentence by cooperating. We'll get back to that in a bit.

Second, it's a great strategy *if you can afford it*. Legal fees get to be extraordinarily expensive in a complex criminal case. It becomes multiples of that number once you're adding your own co-conspirators.

Trump's PAC has over $100M in the bank at the beginning of 2022. After spending $56M+ on legal fees the last 18 months combined with other expenses, his PAC currently has:

$3.5M on hand.

His PAC is broke.

So if you're wondering why he's not paying the legal fees for Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, and others who helped commit his crimes, that's why. Of course, he's supposedly a billionaire, so you'd think he could pay with his own money. Why he won't (or can't) is a discussion for another day.

He has 18 indicted co-conspirators in Georgia, with 30 or more unindicted co-conspirators there and a number of them in D.C. as well.

So what happens when these people aren't represented by Trump paid lawyers?

Well, let's take Cassidy Hutchinson, for example. She told the J6 committee she had 0 recollection of anything. Once she dropped her Trump lawyer, she told them everything.

The fake electors in GA? Once they dropped their Trump lawyer, they took an immunity agreement and cooperated with Fani Willis.

Yuscil Taveras, the Mar-a-Lago IT guy? He agreed to cooperate the second he got a new lawyer and reversed his grand jury testimony, instead telling Jack Smith's team all about Trump's plot to obstruct the classified documents investigation.

Sensing a pattern? The question now becomes what happens to the rest of the co-conspirators and witnesses with independent lawyers?

What happens when Trump and his co-conspirators get indicted in other states where he can't afford to defend them and can't offer them a pardon even if he somehow manages to win in 2024?

What will it do to his campaign if guilty pleas start lining up.

[Chris McClinch @CMcclinch]

@joncoopertweets No

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Guys I am PISSED at the absolute slander our First Family is going through for the sake of political gain and scoring clicks.

President Biden has been in public life for 50+ years and prior to running for president, he was regarded as nothing but a good and decent family man, by Democrats and Republicans alike. Now he is supposedly some soulless head of a crime family? I don't think so.

The truth is, he is a good man and the Biden family is a good family who has endured more pain than most of us can even imagine.

@POTUS and @FLOTUS have had our backs. Let's make sure we have theirs as these vicious attacks ramp up! 🇺🇸

[Chris McClinch @CMcclinch]

@seamonkey10 @RBReich Funny how "the center" is a bunch of talking points the neo Nazis wouldn't disagree with. Fuck off out of here.

[Don Lewis @DonLew87]

4/ ... But bottom line, Trump is far more dyed in the wool racist than he is a champion for Black people. /END

[Chris McClinch @CMcclinch]

@SenTuberville So why did you vote against it?

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

1/n Here's why I think Ross Douthat got it wrong, actually dead wrong, today. And BTW I like a lot of his stuff. He talks about antivaccine activism and activists as though it's just one side of yet another woke issue or another small piece in America's culture wars. But...

[Chris McClinch @CMcclinch]

@writesloud Alien. In space, no one can hear you scream.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

The Hotez-Rogan-Musk silliness in a nutshell:

1. Experts of whatever political stripe should always be willing to debate other experts of whatever political stripe.
2. Experts should never debate abject fools posing as experts—because they haven’t earned experts’ time/attention.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

@davidaxelrod I disagree completely as a 22-year Army veteran. He made this choice and knew exactly what he was doing. He stumbled on to Five Eyes TS documents dumped out on the floor of a closet. What did he do? Helped Trump cover it up. His story isn't sad. It's disgusting.

[Chris McClinch @CMcclinch]

Must read, especially for Christians.