richard donoghue

6 min read 2022-06-24 19:55:37

Bill Barr’s Attempt to Corrupt EDNY May Have Saved the Republic

Almost all of the witnesses the January 6 Committee has relied on are deeply conflicted people. The same Trump attorney, Justin Clark, who allegedly

6 min read 2022-06-24 08:03:37

Jeffrey Rosen (L), former Acting Attorney General, listens as Richard Donoghue, former Acting Deputy Attorney General, testifies before the House

3 min read 2022-06-24 03:09:51

Eric Herschmann Donald Trump’s former White House lawyer testified that he told the man the 45th president wanted to install as his

1 min read 2022-06-24 01:30:11

This post and comment thread are dedicated to the House January 6 Committee hearings scheduled to begin Thursday June 23, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.

6 min read 2022-06-14 23:32:26

Looks like we'll have to wait a little bit longer to hear testimony about the attempted coup at Trump's Justice Department, since the House January 6

4 min read 2022-05-05 03:20:00

Italygate is back, baby! And it's taking Kansas by storm! If none of those words mean anything to you, congratulations, your brain has unfucked

5 min read 2022-04-10 16:09:36

In case you missed it on Twitter, I am currently reading the former Attorney General’s fictional autobiography, which is predictably awful. I’ll

5 min read 2022-01-11 17:49:22

Between yesterday’s hearing in the January 6 lawsuits — where Judge Amit Mehta noted that,”The conspiracy to sow distrust in the election is

6 min read 2021-12-03 03:55:09

Turns out former Justice Department lawyer Jeffrey B. Clark is just as good at lawyering as he is at staging coups. By which we mean he is

8 min read 2021-01-28 20:26:34

Yesterday, the FBI arrested Douglass Mackey, a far right activist who used the pseudonym Ricky Vaughn, for his efforts in 2016 to suppress Clinton

4 min read 2021-01-23 18:13:27

Since the attempted coup, both Jeffrey Rosen and Chris Wray (and Wray’s then-Deputy David Bowdich) were almost silent about the attack. A week

3 min read 2020-12-15 20:59:07

Well, it's finally happened! First we heard that Attorney General Bill Barr was definitely probably going to quit before the end of Donald Trump's

5 min read 2020-12-15 13:00:48

Attorney General William Barr has submitted his resignation. …Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen, an outstanding person, will become Acting

7 min read 2020-07-11 20:46:11

I made at least one error in this post. I surmised, based on the exemptions DOJ had claimed in a reprocessed version of the Mueller Report released