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Jack Smith Takes Another Swing at Trump - The Wednesday AM Quickie 8/28/24

By Corey Pein —

An entire generation has only heard Wonderwall performed live by scruffy young men with acoustic guitars faking British accents at open mic night. Now they have the chance to hear it performed by two scruffy old men with real British accents who hate each other. That's entertainment in my book! - Corey

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THE BIG NEWS

Immunity Be Damned: Justice Department Files Revised Trump Indictment in Jan. 6 Case

The right-wing majority on the Supreme Court dealt democracy a blow this summer with their brazenly unconstitutional ruling that presidents – especially the deranged felon who appointed three of them – are immune from prosecution for "official" acts, whatever that means. They also threw a monkey wrench into the Justice Department's twin criminal cases against Donald Trump, one filed in Florida for stealing and mishandling classified documents on his way out of the White House, and the other filed in Washington, DC, for trying to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 victory at the polls using fraudulent state electors and a large violent mob aimed at the Capitol. Special counsel Jack Smith has led both of those prosecutions, and he has not been deterred by the corrupt Supreme Court's campaign of interference on behalf of a convicted criminal and wannabe dictator.

Yesterday Smith's team filed a superseding indictment against Trump in the DC case revolving around his Jan. 6, 2021 coup attempt. The revised charges were presented to a new grand jury that was hearing the evidence for the first time. "Perhaps the most significant change" in the new indictment, the New York Times reports, "was that Mr. Smith's deputies removed all allegations concerning Mr. Trump's attempts to strong-arm the Justice Department into supporting his false claims that the election had been rigged against him. ...

The revised indictment also removed references to Mr. Trump's conversations with his White House aides and lawyer.
But it retained extensive accounts of his interactions with Vice President Mike Pence and his staff — repeatedly emphasizing that Mr. Pence was also Mr. Trump's running mate and that Mr. Trump wanted him to act in his ceremonial capacity as president of the Senate, a role that arguably placed him beyond the reach of core executive branch powers and responsibilities.

This is how Smith hopes to work around the immunity the Supreme Court invented for "official" presidential acts. Inshallah it will be enough to secure an eventual conviction before that hideous ruling can be overturned.

Meanwhile in another federal courtroom in DC, a judge sentenced the first MAGA foot soldier to breach the Capitol on Jan. 6, 47-year-old Michael Sparks of Cecilia, Kentucky, to four years and five months in prison. "We're getting in that building," he said on video during the insurrection, to which he wore a tactical vest. "All it's going to take is one person to go [inside.] The rest is following." After his conviction, Sparks told the judge he still believes Trump's lies about that election. What can you say about a person who throws their life away for a crooked politician who calls his supporters "basement dwellers" behind their backs? He isn't beating the loser charges.

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  • Trump Aides Pushed and 'Verbally Abused' Arlington National Cemetery Official While Violating Federal Law By Recording Images There for His Campaign Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, who visited the military cemetery with Trump yesterday, shared a [prohibited] photo on social media, showing Trump giving a thumbs up while standing over the grave of Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover. via NPR News and the New York Times.
  • Harris and Walz to Sit for Their First Joint Interview Tomorrow "The interview, conducted by CNN's chief political correspondent and anchor Dana Bash, will air at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday." via CNN.
  • Waffling Trump Says Sept. 10 ABC News Debate with 'Comrade Kamala Harris' Is On; Campaigns Are Still Arguing Over Rules "Both candidates have publicly made clear their willingness to debate with unmuted mics for the duration of the debate to fully allow for substantive exchanges between the candidates — but it appears Donald Trump is letting his handlers overrule him," taunts Harris spokesman Ammar Moussa. "Sad!" via the Washington Post and HuffPost.
  • Harris's Economic Message Is Resonating with Voters The newest ads from the labor-friendly Democratic campaign link Harris to "working- and middle-class" struggles and Trump to corporate greed; the Republicans, meanwhile, are ranting about "the Chinese Communist Party." via Reuters, the New York Times, and Politico.
  • RFK Jr. Will Stay on the Ballot in Michigan and Wisconsin Meanwhile, Trump named the whale-butchering Kennedy and another former Democrat, Tulsi Gabbard, as "honorary co-chairs" of his transition team, serving alongside his sons Don Jr. and Eric; "it's unclear what exactly" they will do. via NBC News and the New York Times.
  • Texas Civil Rights Leaders Call for DOJ Investigation Into Ken Paxton's Raids on Latino Elected Officials, Candidates and Volunteers "It was horrible, gestapo-style," 87-year-old retired educator Lidia Martinez says of the three-hour search of her home by armed state investigators following orders from Paxton, the crooked Republican Attorney General. "I thought we lived in a free country, not Russia." via the Washington Post and the Texas Tribune.
  • Elon Musk's Half-Baked AI Chatbot That Spread False Ballot Deadlines Now Directs X Users to Vote.Gov The secretaries of state of Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington say election misinformation from the Grok chatbot reached millions of people, and went uncorrected for 10 days. via the Associated Press.
  • Democrats' New 'Democracy Defenders' PAC Prepares to Fight GOP Election Denial in Courts The PAC, chaired by former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, is launching with a $10 million budget, and promising to provide "resources directly to state parties and allies on the ground to make sure every American can cast their vote with confidence and without interference." via NBC News.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

  • Mexico's AMLO Hits 'Pause' on Diplomatic Relations with the US and Canada The yanqui governments have expressed concern over President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's plan to overhaul the court system and elect federal judges, including Supreme Court members, by popular vote; "'Pause' means that we are going to take a break," he says. via the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.
  • French Left Furious With Macron After He Blocks Popular Front Candidate for Prime Minister Liberal President "Emmanuel Macron talks about stability, but he's the one who pulls the pin," Patrick Kanner, president of Socialist bloc in the Sénat, said in response to Macron's stubborn rejection of 37-year-old civil servant Lucie Castets as prime minister. via Al Jazeera and Le Monde.
  • Wildfires Are Killing Millions of Animals in Brazil's Pantanal, the World's Largest Tropical Wetland "Usually flooded for much of the year, the Pantanal in recent years has been parched by a string of severe droughts that scientists have linked to deforestation and climate change." via the New York Times.
  • Iran's Supreme Leader Signals He Is Open to Renewed Nuclear Talks with US Analysts say talks would likely begin in a future Harris administration "as the Israel-Hamas war winds down," although Iran is likely to offer fewer concessions considering that Trump canceled the previous deal struck by Obama. via the Associated Press and the New York Times.

SOME NUMBER

$12,000

That's the sale price of the long-range model of the Seagull electric vehicle by Chinese automaker BYD, one-third of the cost of US-made EVs. Canada this week announced it would impose a 100 percent tariff on Chinese EVs, matching the US, slowing the transition away from fossil fuels in an attempt to protect domestic manufacturers from competition.

ON THE SHOW TODAY

8/28: It’s Hump Day! Emma speaks with Cole Stangler, France-based journalist covering politics, housing, and labor, author of the book Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Hypergentrification In The City Of Light, to discuss the recent developments after the French elections, and the government's efforts to form a coalition. Then, she speaks with Michael Brenes, historian at Yale, author of the Warfare and Welfare newsletter on SubStack, author of the upcoming book The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace And Weakens Democracy, co-authored with Van Jackson, to discuss his recent piece in the Boston Review entitled "The Harris Doctrine."

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PARTING WORDS

"Luckily they didn't shoot him."

-- Israel Defense Forces Brig. Gen. Amir Avivi, speaking to the Washington Post about the Israeli naval commandos who rescued Hamas hostage Qaid Farhan al-Qadi this week after stumbling across him alone and frail in a tunnel; the commandos were initially unsure "whether it was a terrorist or somebody else." Al-Qadi, a 52-year-old father of 11, was 1 of 6 Bedouins taken hostage on Oct. 7.

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