Defense lawyers for Trump as well as some members of Congress who served as impeachment managers told Just the News they were deeply concerned the derogatory evidence about Trump’s accuser was kept classified by then-Inspector General Michael Atkinson and Schiff, preventing it from being used to defend the president or conduct impartial proceedings in the House and Senate.
“Our adversarial system of justice requires the government to turn all exculpatory evidence over to the accused. That’s especially true when lawmakers seek to remove a duly elected president through impeachment and a Senate trial,” said famed Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, one of Trump’s defense lawyers in the case.
“The evidence about the bias and credibility of the whistleblower who started the scandal should have been front and center in the 2019 impeachment, but it was hidden by bureaucrats and that was a disservice to justice and to the American people,” Dershowitz said.
See link for the pdf of documents released by DNI Gabbard, as well as the full article detailing the story itself.
Miad Maleki, thread of 10 parts, first part:
The U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would cost Iran approximately $276M/day in lost exports and disrupt $159M/day in imports, a combined economic damage of ~$435M/day, or $13B/month.
Over 90% of Iran’s $109.7B in annual trade transits the Persian Gulf. Oil/gas accounts for 80% of government export earnings and 23.7% of GDP. Kharg Island alone generates ~$53B/year, or as I noted to @TIME, “$78 billion a year in energy revenue.
8th part:
Extremely important topic is the storage clock: Iran has ~50-55M barrels of total onshore oil storage, roughly 60% full. Spare capacity: ~20M barrels. With 1.5M bbl/day of surplus production that normally exports, storage fills in ~13 DAYS. After that, Iran must shut in wells.
Why is this very important: when mature oil wells shut down, bottom water rushes in, a process called water coning. Oil droplets get permanently trapped in rock pores. This oil can never be recovered. Iran’s fields already decline 5-8% annually. Forced shut-ins could permanently destroy 300,000-500,000 bbl/day of production capacity, that’s $9-15B/year in revenue, gone forever.
Spring is sprung, the grass is riz.
I wonder where the birdies is.
They say the birdies on the wing, but that’s absurd.
I always thought the wing was on the bird.
Catherine Herridge on the Atkinson transcripts:
NEW RECORDS VIA @DNIGabbard @RepRickCrawford ATKINSON TRANSCRIPTS
– First Trump Impeachment + Whistleblower Motive
Whistleblower met with Democrats on House Intelligence Committee (then led by Adam Schiff) BEFORE reporting his allegations to the Intelligence Community Inspector General.
October 2019: then Congressman now @CIADirector Ratcliffe nailed the timeline in a closed door briefing with Intelligence Community Watchdog Michael Atkinson.
– Trump/Zelensky call July 25th 2019
– Whistleblower complaint filed August 12th
– Ratcliffe questioned what happened during those 18 days.
Ratcliffe: The whistleblower did not disclose to you that he or she had contact with HPSCI (House Intelligence Committee)?
Atkinson: The answer to that is yes. The answer to that is yes.
Atkinson: On the urgent disclosure form, there’s a question that the complainant is asked about who they have reported the violation to…and one of the boxes is the congressional intelligence committees. The complainant did not check that box.
I commented below on the thread about the Artemis mission that Astronaut Charles Duke, now in his eighties, has recently started to reveal that both he and the other astronaut on the Apollo 16 mission, Commander John W. Young, came across a 100 meter long, obviously ancient, obviously constructed wall made of separate blocks sticking out of the regolith in the Descartes Highlands, reported it to NASA, got 30 seconds of silence, and were then told to just move on to their next scheduled task.
Duke says that both the astronauts took many pictures of what they found, but despite Duke’s pleas, those pictures have never been released.
Duke thinks that the real reason the Apollo program was cancelled so abruptly was that NASA did not want to have to reveal that wall’s existence, or to have to explain what that wall’s existence meant.*
In the linked video Duke goes into more detail about what happened.
All this coming out about the impeachment of Trump will not convince anyone on the left that Trump wasn’t set up. They still think he is Guilty as Charged.
SoP,
Interesting video except we never actually hear Duke give his account, just the narrator speaking in his place…..hmmmm….
Unicorns can build space walls! Who knew, and why would they bother? I trust Spaceballs over some other comedy documentary.
Re: Astronaut Duke sees “wall” on the Moon
No hard, citable quotes from Duke about artificial structures.
Just breathless YouTube clickbait.
Pluck those pistils!
huxley, crocuses are white, light or dark lavender, or yellow. Low to the ground, they open in the sunshine and close when the sun is gone.
We once had this mutant crocus that was half white and half purple. A crocus grower found out about it and bought it off of us.
Our winter and spring were so warm, my crocuses, daffodils, and hyacinths came and went before the middle of March. I had one tulip bloom, but the rest are just leaves. I wonder if the bulbs have a “lifespan” that has now been spent?
Will put new ones in the ground this fall at any rate.
Looking to see if my wildflower bed will bloom again this year.
Right now all I have are weeds.
Hoping to get out into the garden sometime this week, now that I have gotten so i can stand and walk without any problems.
NOTE: for anyone who has Bell’s palsy or something similar.
When I started therapy two weeks ago for that persistent side-effect of my brain tumor removal, we discovered that my left eyelid did not close, so I had been sleeping with my eye open for 2 months! Apparently, my eyeball would roll up under the lid whenever I thought I was closing it.
My PT doc said I should see my optometrist, and, as it happened, I already had my annual check-up on the calendar for the next week. He recognized the problem immediately, as he sees palsy patients quite often, so he checked my cornea and found it was starting to dry out, but was still salvageable (apparently some are not), so now I am putting a gel lubricant in the eye at night and whenever I go outside, which is essentially a very sterile vaseline, in a miniscule tube that costs $12.
The eye is worth it, of course. Seeing him again in a couple of weeks to check progress.
Once that clears up, I will be much more functional, as the restricted vision does make me a little unsteady on my feet.
The palsy is not making much progress yet.
End of this episode of “General Hospital.”
My neuro team didn’t mention this particular side-effect, so I wanted to pass it on.
PS One of the little pleasures of seeing this eye-doc is we generally talk politics, as he knows I spend an inordinate amount of time on the internet. He’s not a red-meat MAGA, but he is conservative, and we usually have a good discussion. Time was too short on the last visit.
I was also lucky, some years ago, to have a dentist with definite conservative views, and he talked politics while I mumbled around the tools in my mouth.
He retired, though, and my current dentist is very good but much younger, and we only discuss teeth and gums.
To AesopFan: What a lot to go through! Sorry about all that. I hope your eye has been saved, and the end is in sight. (No pun intended.)
AesopFan, I was going to say, on the NY Times thread, how nice it is to see you getting back to your previous news survey and reporting service here! I hope all these problems will work themselves out soon.
AesopFan:
Mind the drops! Hope you have a solution to the problem soon.
Lots of people don’t know that rocks crack along their crystal structures, forming what looks like stone bricks or pillars fitted together. They fit together because they crack along their crystal structure. Rectangular “bricks” and hexagonal columns are the most common. They can be very, very regular. But they are natural, as natural as crystals are.
I grew up in a area where such formations were common. Brick-looking one is here. Sometimes glaciers smooth the tops and make them look pavements.
When humans build a wall, they don’t just build them in the middle of nowhere out of nothing for no reason. First, they get the stone from somewhere, and they probably had to transport it some distance, and if it’s a big project they had to feed the people who were working on it and supply them with tools and whatnot. All those things leave traces. Stones where they ought not to be, a big hole out which the stones came, etc.
Given that such things form naturally on Earth I don’t know why we’d not expect to find them on the Moon or Mars or any rocky planet or moon.
Nick:
Don’t play geologist.
Rocks are not all the same.
The Earth hasn’t been like the Moon for an enormous amount of time.
Golly gee, columnar jointed basalt.
I took pictures of some natural rock formations in Wyoming along the highway south of Casper that look like the ruins of an old castle on top of a mesa.
Totally impossible, of course.
Although it’s nice to think there might have been feudal demesnes in the Old West.
Pratchett’s Discworld …
Turtles aaaaalllll the way down!
And some glorious elephants.
Loll
Duke thinks that the real reason the Apollo program was cancelled so abruptly was that NASA did not want to have to reveal that wall’s existence, or to have to explain what that wall’s existence meant.
— Snow on Pine
Apollo was not cancelled abruptly. The clock started ticking the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon. The chances of the full 20 missions happening were always slim to none.
Apollo happened because of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, more or less. In the aftermath of that disaster, Kennedy needed a big win, both from an agitprop POV in the Cold War, and from a personal POV in terms of his reelection chances. (It’s often forgotten now that Kennedy’s re-election in 1964 was very much in doubt, that was part of why he was in Dallas in the first place.)
A number of possibilities were debated in the Kennedy Administration’s inner circles, going to the Moon looked like something that would be impressive, that the USA might could do and the USSR probably could not in that time frame, and they went with it.
Apollo was fantastically expensive, and it’s likely that only the fact of Kennedy’s assassination, and the ‘glow’ around him because of that prevented it being cancelled once Kennedy was gone. Though Lyndon Johnson being from Texas helped too.
This was the 60s, remember, and the Great Society had not yet become a discredited project. Its supporters wanted money for it, and lots of it, and Apollo was a juicy pool of money. Once Neil Armstrong landed, Apollo had fulfilled its real functions as a publicity stunt and PR move. The scientific aspect of Apollo was always a side-issue.
After Apollo 11, the public rapidly lost interest, except for a burst with Apollo 13, and it was only a matter of time before Congress pulled the plug on the money.
Nick:
Don’t play geologist.
Rocks are not all the same.
The Earth hasn’t been like the Moon for an enormous amount of time.
Golly gee, columnar jointed basalt.
— om
It’s a reasonable hypothesis. Basalt does tend to cool that way.
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Just the News: Impeachment Bombshell: Secret memos expose Ukraine accuser’s bias, hearsay, and false claim
https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/ukraine-bombshell-long-secret-memos-expose-whistleblower-bias-hearsay
See link for the pdf of documents released by DNI Gabbard, as well as the full article detailing the story itself.
Miad Maleki, thread of 10 parts, first part:
8th part:
https://x.com/i/status/2043456536454836467
rtwt
Spring is sprung, the grass is riz.
I wonder where the birdies is.
They say the birdies on the wing, but that’s absurd.
I always thought the wing was on the bird.
Catherine Herridge on the Atkinson transcripts:
https://x.com/i/status/2043675622841421995
Bonus: Margot Cleveland in Federalist with background article — https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/13/breaking-transcript-from-2019-exposes-more-deep-state-machinations-against-trump/
I commented below on the thread about the Artemis mission that Astronaut Charles Duke, now in his eighties, has recently started to reveal that both he and the other astronaut on the Apollo 16 mission, Commander John W. Young, came across a 100 meter long, obviously ancient, obviously constructed wall made of separate blocks sticking out of the regolith in the Descartes Highlands, reported it to NASA, got 30 seconds of silence, and were then told to just move on to their next scheduled task.
Duke says that both the astronauts took many pictures of what they found, but despite Duke’s pleas, those pictures have never been released.
Duke thinks that the real reason the Apollo program was cancelled so abruptly was that NASA did not want to have to reveal that wall’s existence, or to have to explain what that wall’s existence meant.*
In the linked video Duke goes into more detail about what happened.
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy7LVB7SvQU
I never knew what crocuses looked like.
Kinda like soft-boiled eggs.
All this coming out about the impeachment of Trump will not convince anyone on the left that Trump wasn’t set up. They still think he is Guilty as Charged.
SoP,
Interesting video except we never actually hear Duke give his account, just the narrator speaking in his place…..hmmmm….
Unicorns can build space walls! Who knew, and why would they bother? I trust Spaceballs over some other comedy documentary.
Re: Astronaut Duke sees “wall” on the Moon
No hard, citable quotes from Duke about artificial structures.
Just breathless YouTube clickbait.
Pluck those pistils!
huxley, crocuses are white, light or dark lavender, or yellow. Low to the ground, they open in the sunshine and close when the sun is gone.
We once had this mutant crocus that was half white and half purple. A crocus grower found out about it and bought it off of us.
Our winter and spring were so warm, my crocuses, daffodils, and hyacinths came and went before the middle of March. I had one tulip bloom, but the rest are just leaves. I wonder if the bulbs have a “lifespan” that has now been spent?
Will put new ones in the ground this fall at any rate.
Looking to see if my wildflower bed will bloom again this year.
Right now all I have are weeds.
Hoping to get out into the garden sometime this week, now that I have gotten so i can stand and walk without any problems.
NOTE: for anyone who has Bell’s palsy or something similar.
When I started therapy two weeks ago for that persistent side-effect of my brain tumor removal, we discovered that my left eyelid did not close, so I had been sleeping with my eye open for 2 months! Apparently, my eyeball would roll up under the lid whenever I thought I was closing it.
My PT doc said I should see my optometrist, and, as it happened, I already had my annual check-up on the calendar for the next week. He recognized the problem immediately, as he sees palsy patients quite often, so he checked my cornea and found it was starting to dry out, but was still salvageable (apparently some are not), so now I am putting a gel lubricant in the eye at night and whenever I go outside, which is essentially a very sterile vaseline, in a miniscule tube that costs $12.
The eye is worth it, of course. Seeing him again in a couple of weeks to check progress.
Once that clears up, I will be much more functional, as the restricted vision does make me a little unsteady on my feet.
The palsy is not making much progress yet.
End of this episode of “General Hospital.”
My neuro team didn’t mention this particular side-effect, so I wanted to pass it on.
PS One of the little pleasures of seeing this eye-doc is we generally talk politics, as he knows I spend an inordinate amount of time on the internet. He’s not a red-meat MAGA, but he is conservative, and we usually have a good discussion. Time was too short on the last visit.
I was also lucky, some years ago, to have a dentist with definite conservative views, and he talked politics while I mumbled around the tools in my mouth.
He retired, though, and my current dentist is very good but much younger, and we only discuss teeth and gums.
To AesopFan: What a lot to go through! Sorry about all that. I hope your eye has been saved, and the end is in sight. (No pun intended.)
AesopFan, I was going to say, on the NY Times thread, how nice it is to see you getting back to your previous news survey and reporting service here! I hope all these problems will work themselves out soon.
AesopFan:
Mind the drops! Hope you have a solution to the problem soon.
Lots of people don’t know that rocks crack along their crystal structures, forming what looks like stone bricks or pillars fitted together. They fit together because they crack along their crystal structure. Rectangular “bricks” and hexagonal columns are the most common. They can be very, very regular. But they are natural, as natural as crystals are.
I grew up in a area where such formations were common. Brick-looking one is here. Sometimes glaciers smooth the tops and make them look pavements.
When humans build a wall, they don’t just build them in the middle of nowhere out of nothing for no reason. First, they get the stone from somewhere, and they probably had to transport it some distance, and if it’s a big project they had to feed the people who were working on it and supply them with tools and whatnot. All those things leave traces. Stones where they ought not to be, a big hole out which the stones came, etc.
Given that such things form naturally on Earth I don’t know why we’d not expect to find them on the Moon or Mars or any rocky planet or moon.
Nick:
Don’t play geologist.
Rocks are not all the same.
The Earth hasn’t been like the Moon for an enormous amount of time.
Golly gee, columnar jointed basalt.
I took pictures of some natural rock formations in Wyoming along the highway south of Casper that look like the ruins of an old castle on top of a mesa.
Totally impossible, of course.
Although it’s nice to think there might have been feudal demesnes in the Old West.
However, just for the fun of it, a few memes from Hot Air’s Sunday Smiles yesterday:
https://media.townhall.com/cdn/hodl/ha/images/2026/102/0b4a735e-fb21-4a25-b937-b09bfa14c2b2-650×0.png
https://media.townhall.com/cdn/hodl/ha/images/2026/102/d1e1b0fc-8cfb-4a50-8736-7cdb7d9f8b0f-650×0.png
My personal favorite (bonus points to the first person to identify the reference).
https://media.townhall.com/cdn/hodl/ha/images/2026/102/dcbf26e2-84f4-4580-b2b7-5a63c618cf4b-650×0.jpg
Pratchett’s Discworld …
Turtles aaaaalllll the way down!
And some glorious elephants.
Loll
— Snow on Pine
Apollo was not cancelled abruptly. The clock started ticking the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon. The chances of the full 20 missions happening were always slim to none.
Apollo happened because of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, more or less. In the aftermath of that disaster, Kennedy needed a big win, both from an agitprop POV in the Cold War, and from a personal POV in terms of his reelection chances. (It’s often forgotten now that Kennedy’s re-election in 1964 was very much in doubt, that was part of why he was in Dallas in the first place.)
A number of possibilities were debated in the Kennedy Administration’s inner circles, going to the Moon looked like something that would be impressive, that the USA might could do and the USSR probably could not in that time frame, and they went with it.
Apollo was fantastically expensive, and it’s likely that only the fact of Kennedy’s assassination, and the ‘glow’ around him because of that prevented it being cancelled once Kennedy was gone. Though Lyndon Johnson being from Texas helped too.
This was the 60s, remember, and the Great Society had not yet become a discredited project. Its supporters wanted money for it, and lots of it, and Apollo was a juicy pool of money. Once Neil Armstrong landed, Apollo had fulfilled its real functions as a publicity stunt and PR move. The scientific aspect of Apollo was always a side-issue.
After Apollo 11, the public rapidly lost interest, except for a burst with Apollo 13, and it was only a matter of time before Congress pulled the plug on the money.
— om
It’s a reasonable hypothesis. Basalt does tend to cool that way.