Marc Elias: "I'm not panicking. I'm outraged."

[FakeNoose]

Quoted from Democracy Docket's emailed newsletter:

I have been the subject of many spurious accusations and politically motivated attacks, but this one is in a class by itself. According to Tulsi Gabbard — the nation’s top intelligence official — my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.

If that sounds preposterous, it is. If you don’t believe it’s true, neither do I.

The question is: why did she say it, and what does it mean for the Trump administration’s weaponization of government?

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In retrospect, I wish I had answered Tim Miller’s question differently. So, here’s my revised answer:

No, I am not panicking. I am outraged.

I am outraged that our government is run by people with no regard for the Constitution or the rule of law.

I am outraged that the sycophants who run this administration are loyal only to Trump.

I am outraged that so few people in positions of power are willing to speak up when they see abuses — people dragged off the street and put into foreign gulags, government agencies illegally dismantled and the military on our city streets.

I am outraged that the entire Republican Party is filled with cowards.

I am outraged that our institutions — major media companies, law firms and universities — would rather bend a knee than stand tall and fight.

And I am outraged that the price of standing up to Trump — of standing for democracy — is to be subjected to endless lies, attacks and false accusations by people who know better.

I enjoy Tim’s podcast — both as a guest and a regular listener. Perhaps next time he has me on, we can start here.

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[Septua]

1. More details

https://timothy48.substack.com/p/democracy-docket-379

I became aware of the latest conspiracy theory in an unusual way: as a question on a pro-democracy podcast. Within minutes of sitting down with Tim Miller for The Bulwark podcast last Thursday, he asked about the right wing’s latest attack on me: “I don't know if you've seen this. Glenn Beck says that ‘Marc Elias has stopped posting on X, John Kerry privated his account and Peter Strzok deleted his account. Is the deep state panicking?’”

Sadly, over the last several years, I’ve become accustomed to the attacks and laughing them off. As far back as 2018, Donald Trump described me on social media as the Democratic Party’s “best election-stealing lawyer.” Earlier this year, he told officials at the Department of Justice that another lawyer and I were “bad people, really bad people” and “radicals” trying “to turn America into a corrupt, communist, third-world country.”

Beck was interviewing Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence. His question about the “deep state” was posed to the very person who coordinates the most sensitive classified information for the U.S. government. If anyone runs the deep state, it’s Gabbard.

One might expect a person in her position to correct Beck — or at least resist fueling a false narrative. Instead, Gabbard agreed: “That’s the only way I can read this situation. Those who are truly innocent would not be taking those kinds of actions.” She went on to suggest that the Department of Justice is reviewing the matter “to bring about accountability to those involved.”

[erronis]

6. Their contortions make me think of indigestible pretzels - made from paper mache loop-de-loops.

[FakeNoose]

7. Thanks for including these details

Initially I was going to post the entire article, but it was a lot of text.
So I decided that his conclusion was the point of his story and I edited out the middle part.
It is important though, for those who care about what Marc Elias has been going through these past several years.

[Martin Eden]

2. Apparatchiks in the Trump cabal have no ethics, no integrity, no shame

And absolutely NO qualms about betraying the sworn oath they took to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

They will do anything to serve the orange tyrant and the grip on power of this authoritarian movement to destroy American democracy.

They should be treated as domestic enemies who must be defeated by any means necessary.

[AllaN01Bear]

4. dijng.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. i am irked . cant say no more than that.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Love Mr. Elias and the 'Democracy Docket' too.