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NonilexOther elite <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> firms have been hit w/similar sanctions, leaving them to choose whether to fight the orders or cut a *deal* w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> to remove the restrictions, even as a judge has already blocked one of the orders because it is likely to be unlawful.The order said Trump was in part punishing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WilmerHale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WilmerHale</a> for the firm’s connections to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Mueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mueller</a>, who led an inquiry that the order described as “one of the most partisan investigations in American history.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tyranny</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MafiaState</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Targets <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WilmerHale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WilmerHale</a>, Citing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LawFirm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LawFirm</a>’s Connection to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RobertMueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RobertMueller</a><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Mueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mueller</a>, who worked at WilmerHale before retiring in 2021, had investigated the Trump campaign’s ties to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> during Trump’s first term.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevengePolitics</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tyranny</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MafiaState</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/trump-wilmerhale-law-firm-mueller.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=EB968B02-59E6-44C9-B0A7-4057762D4A42" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/trump-wilmerhale-law-firm-mueller.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=EB968B02-59E6-44C9-B0A7-4057762D4A42</a>

NonilexBut even the facts <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Mueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mueller</a> was able to produce, despite noncooperation from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s top lieutenants, were astonishing. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a> dangled a Moscow building deal in front of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpOrganization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpOrganization</a> worth hundreds of millions of dollars, & Trump lied about it, giving Putin leverage over him. Trump’s campaign chair, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PaulManafort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulManafort</a>, was in business w/a Russian <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intelligence</a> officer.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geopolitics</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Zelensky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zelensky</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NewWorldOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewWorldOrder</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/allies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#allies</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ForeignPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ForeignPolicy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevengePolitics</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> was not explaining why a deal w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> would advance <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#America</a>’s interests, or why honoring it would advance Russia’s. He was defending Russia’s integrity by vouching for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Putin</a>’s character.In recent yrs, the kinship between Trump & Putin has become somewhat unfashionable to point out. After <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Mueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mueller</a> disappointed liberals by failing to prove a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conspiracy</a> btwn the Trump campaign & Russia, conventional wisdom on much of the center & left…came to treat the scandal as overblown.

Ramesh #NotGoingBack⬆️ [<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Garland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Garland</a> also let <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mueller</a> evidence rot and expire instead of prosecuting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> for crimes that Mueller had not "exonerated" him for.]>> Did Bill Barr kill the obstruction case that is mentioned in the lawfare story I linked to?…And, here is <a href="https://threads.net/@aaron.rupar/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@aaron.rupar</a> weighing in on this in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicNotice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicNotice</a>.<a href="https://mastodon.social/@emptywheel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@emptywheel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@tobie1" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tobie1</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/@KathyLK" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@KathyLK</a> <a href="https://toad.social/@davetroy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@davetroy</a> <a href="https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/DCHREU9JkwH" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/DCHREU9JkwH</a>

janhoglundIn 2008, Epstein received a mere eighteen-month sentence for soliciting, molesting, and raping underage girls. The sentence was the result of a strange and disturbing plea deal between Mueller’s FBI…and Alexander Acosta, who was then the US Attorney for South Florida and who became Trump’s secretary of labor. —Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/epstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#epstein</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/mueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mueller</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/acosta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#acosta</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a>

Ramesh #NotGoingBack⬆️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/@emptywheel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@emptywheel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@tobie1" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tobie1</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/@KathyLK" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@KathyLK</a> <a href="https://toad.social/@davetroy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@davetroy</a>>> By "Garland" you mean, "holy hell I couldn't figure out how to spell Jeffrey Rosen."No, I really meant <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Garland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Garland</a>, as in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MerrickGarland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MerrickGarland</a> (R), appointed by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JoeBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JoeBiden</a> (D) as US Attorney General in 2021 after <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> was evicted by the People, and per OLC memo, became eligible for prosecution of potential crimes that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mueller</a> was neither able to exonerate Trump of nor prosecute him for when Bill Barr & Jeffrey Rosen were in charge<a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/where-justice-department-trump-obstruction-offenses" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/where-justice-department-trump-obstruction-offenses</a>

Ramesh #NotGoingBack⬆️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/@tobie1" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tobie1</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/@KathyLK" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@KathyLK</a> <a href="https://toad.social/@davetroy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@davetroy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@emptywheel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@emptywheel</a>>> …start from the bottom and work your way up. And that is what's apparently happened in the Jan 6 investigation, which is why there's a case pending in Judge Chutkan's court. The case in Judge <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chutkan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chutkan</a>'s court is for the TOP.In a bottoms-up, collaborators in Congress would come before <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>.>> Do you really believe Jack Smith started from scratch rather than inherited an investigation?He only inherited <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mueller</a> investigation & let evidence rot

Ramesh #NotGoingBack⬆️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/@tobie1" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tobie1</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/@KathyLK" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@KathyLK</a> <a href="https://toad.social/@davetroy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@davetroy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@emptywheel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@emptywheel</a>>> Garland even let SS texts re Trump/Pence get Epsteined instead of impounding the exec dept property 😡<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Garland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Garland</a> also let <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mueller</a> evidence rot and expire instead of prosecuting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> for crimes that Mueller had not "exonerated" him for.Not sure when Garland started J6 investigation but it seems like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/J6Committee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#J6Committee</a> "jolted" him into action.Least he could've done is immediately impound SS texts which as Exec branch property didn't require subpoenas.

Chuck DarwinLeo’s status as the world’s third most powerful figure soon made him a rich man. During his time at the Federalist Society, he had hardly been a pauper, bringing in around $400,000 a year. But with six children attending The Heights and Oakcrest, the two Opus Dei schools that charged up to $30,000 tuition annually per student, and a burgeoning taste for good food and expensive wines, it didn’t take long to burn through his salary. But his life had taken a lavish turn after Trump’s victory and his appointment as an unpaid advisor to the president on judicial appointments. The dramatic uptick in his personal fortune dovetailed with his joining a for-profit entity called "CRC Advisors", alongside another CIC board member <a href="https://c.im/tags/Greg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greg</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mueller</a>. Mueller had spearheaded the "National Organization for Marriage" vitriolic public relations strategy, and <a href="https://c.im/tags/CRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CRC</a> quickly established itself as the go-to advisory firm for the dark-money network of nonprofit entities that Leo had helped set up over the years. Once again, the Corkery name was all over the money flow. The majority of CRC’s income came from "The 85 Fund", a dark money non-profit that Leo repurposed to fund conservative causes nationwide, and that fund paid $34 million in fees to his new advisory firm over a single two-year period. As the money rolled in, Leo began to enjoy some of the same luxuries as the billionaires he had spent years courting. For most of his three decades in Washington, Leo had led a modest home life, living for years in a small apartment in the Randolph Towers complex in downtown Arlington, before moving to a single-story five-bedroom family home in suburban McLean in 2010. But in the years since 2016, he had spent millions of dollars on two new mansions in Maine, bought four new cars, and hired a wine buyer and locker at Morton’s, an upscale steakhouse three blocks from the Catholic Information Center. It was only a foretaste of what was to come. In 2020, Leo stepped back from his duties at the Federalist Society to focus on the dark-money network he had fostered as a side hustle during his time there. With him, he took one of the Federalist Society’s biggest donors: a manufacturing billionaire from Chicago called <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Barre</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Seid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Seid</a>, who was Jewish by heritage but who shared many of Leo’s conservative views. Over two decades, Seid had pumped at least $775 million into campaigns for libertarian and conservative causes, quietly transforming himself into one of the most important donors on the political right. Almost ninety, Seid had decided to leave his money continuing that work — and concluded that Leo was the man to oversee that largesse. Leo had betrayed his bosses, who had tasked him with wooing the billionaire as a potential donor for the Federalist Society. Instead, Leo had cultivated him for his own network. Seid signed his business over to Leo, giving him control over a 🔥$1.6 billion war chest and transforming him from a proxy for dark-money donors into a donor himself.

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