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Special counsel Jack Smith's final report into the criminal cases against almost-president Yambo has been blocked from release after the yam's lawyers launched a last-ditch effort to prevent its publication. But they already know what's in it, and they're desperate to keep it from the public. Via The Daily Beast: In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland sent Monday, Trump’s lawyers said they were allowed to review Smith’s report in the criminal case in which Trump was charged with conspiring to keep classified documents after he left office. They threatened legal action if it is released, noting Smith’s findings include strongly worded allegations that Trump “engaged in an unprecedented criminal effort” and describe him as “the head of the criminal conspiracies.” Trump’s lawyers argued Smith’s report amounts to little more than a “politically-motivated attack” and that making public his findings in the classified documents case or an election interference case Smith also pursue would illegally interfere with Trump’s presidential transition. Is that even a thing?

Yambo opened a bizarre news conference yesterday by introducing Hussain Sajwani, the founder and chairman of DAMAC Properties, a Dubai-based real estate firm that partnered with the Trump family a decade ago to build the first Trump-branded golf course in the Middle East. Via the New York Times: Now, Mr. Trump said, DAMAC is planning to invest billions of dollars in the United States to build data centers, with the help of Mr.

Tommy Tuberville retains his title as one of the dumbest members of the United States Senate. Here's Tuberville on Fox Business Network this Tuesday trying to justify Trump's nonsense about the Panama Canal, and lying that Panama's President José Raúl Mulino is all-in with Trump (He's not.) TUBERVILLE: I can remember my dad was very upset.

Above, John Mellencamp performs, Small Town. It's all performative with Republicans. Those heartland values they profess? Yeah, lies. Stop The Presses asks us to beware of Republican bearing false witness. Left Jabs goes to the Ur-text of Republicans bearing false witness. Adventus has a lot of problems with you people. Cassandra's Grandson reports on the end of the Old World Order. Bonus Track: Colossal goes to the heart of the heartland. Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors.

MAGA racists are nothing if not consistent. Senator Deb Fischer's been a banal right-wing Republican since arriving in the U. S. Senate. If it makes sense, helps regular ppl & scientists are for it, *she's against it.* But Fischer was low profile until her cretinous caricature of a husband marched into the Capitol with his enormous pupils and Mitch McConnell energy for her swearing-in ceremony January 3rd.

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