An embattled Matt Gaetz has vowed to keep his job as he faces possible human trafficking charges, but the legal connection to Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump caught us all by surprise. 

That was one of the big topics on Friday’s After Show.   The other was the death of the Queen’s husband Prince Philip just shy of his 100th birthday. Watch for Greg Olear’s unbridled take on the Royals in Part 1.

Annus Horribilis

Legal Ties

In part 2, Zev Shalev ties Gaetz to Epstein and, Lincoln’s Bible talks about Putin’s crackdown on democracy.

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Donald Trump was first spotted as a potential KGB asset in 1980 by the owner of Joy Lud Electronics, Sam Kislin, and cultivated as a Russian intelligence asset over the next 40 years.

For the first time, a former KGB officer has gone on the record to confirm that Donald Trump was an asset for Russian intelligence. The detailed claim is laid bare in Craig Unger’s new book, American Kompromat. Unger and the former KGB officer Yuri Shvets join L.B. and Zev Shalev on the latest Narativ and described the cultivation process in breathtaking detail.  

The Cultivation Of Donald Trump 1

From Joy Lud Electronics to the White House, the grooming of a Russian asset.

THE CULTIVATION OF DONALD TRUMP 2

Trump’s puppet presidency was a money making operation, just like his business was a money laundering vehicle for Russian intelligence.

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The Supreme Court finally puts a definitive end to Trump’s hopes of a second term but not before exposing a massive corruption scheme in Texas. Eric Garland, Greg Olear, Nina Burleigh and Lincoln’s Bible. 

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Can the people fire Brett Kavanaugh? Greg Olear thinks the answer is yes, and explains why on the latest Narativ Podcast.

Greg Olear wears many hats. He is the publisher of the great Prevail newsletter and a regular contributor to Friday night’s “After Show’ on Narativ. On the latest episode, Greg introduced us to one of the most thought-provoking pieces about taking back power I’ve read in years.

Written under the pseudonym of Moscow Never Sleeps, the author lays out a very specific case for ejecting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh from SCOTUS, without a single impeachment vote being cast in the house or senate.

Maybe, as the Republican talking points go, it is mere anecdotal supposition that Kavanaugh the man is a functional alcoholic, a compulsive gambler, and an abuser of women. Nevertheless, it is objective truth from the signed financial disclosures of Kavanaugh the public servant that he and his wife are a solidly middle-class suburban couple living significantly beyond their means. In 2006, when he was a federal judge, Brett and the Missus put an unexplained down payment on a jumbo-mortgaged $1,225,000 house; at the time, he was making $63k a year, and she was mostly a SAHM. The family went heavily into unsecured credit card debt every year thereafter.

MOSCOW NEVERS SLEEPS IN PREVAIL

I recommend the entire piece, along with the accompanying piece about Clarence Thomas. The posts are well-written and convincingly argued but what really strikes the reader is something we need to get used to: doing – striking preemptively and with precision.

Rules and order are great when everyone adheres to them, but what is happening now is one side is wantonly ignoring the rules while simultaneously using the rules to break the system. In nature, as in some case law, the rules don’t matter when you’re facing an imminent threat.

The Republic remains in grave danger. We have chased the invaders from our House but they have left their emissaries planted all across government, our institutions and in every court circuit of the land.

Democrats are entitled to take whatever precautionary measures they deem necessary to avert a complete breakdown of everything being attempted by the GOP.

And I don’t mean only House Representatives. House Dems have a slim majority and a long agenda. They should focus on policy. But there’s plenty of room for citizens to keep watch over our democracy on every level and strike with precision to save the Republic.

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Ronald Reagan’s inauguration in 1981 coincided with the release of 52 American hostages from Iran. It was an artfully choreographed moment of diplomatic showmanship which elated a country and elevated a presidency, even as it exposed important questions about how Reagan pulled off such a deal. 

Watch: Civil Rights Attorney Andrew Laufer (@LauferLaw) joins @LincolnsBIble, @EricGarland and @ZevShalev on the show this week (above).  

Lincoln’s Bible recently uncovered a classified document which raises new questions about one of the most contentious chapters in American presidential history, and whom was behind that inauguration surprise.

The previously unseen classified document – a memo penned by Rudy Giuliani – not only places Giuliani inside the Reagan Administration in the weeks following the inauguration, but also reveals that the the newly minted associate attorney was making direct inquiries about foreign interference in the 1980 U.S. election.

LB first told us about the document on her can’t miss morning live “Flyerside Chat”

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