By Larry Klayman March 23, 2019 Last Friday as I was about to board a plane, the news broke that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had issued his long awaited report. In so doing, it also leaked that the Special Counsel did not intend to bring any indictments. This was good news for my client, Dr. Jerome Corsi, who had refused to take a sweet heart plea deal if he would testify against the president. After doing so, Jerry, a longtime friend and colleague and, according to the leftist media, a proud “co-conspiracy theorist,” asked me to defend him in…
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WND March 18, 2019 A federal appeals court has put a roadblock in front of the government’s attempt to appeal a district judge’s decision to throw out its case against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct. Bundy and other family members were charged after an armed standoff at their ranch over grazing fees the government claimed they had not paid. The government confiscated some of the family’s cattle, supporters from across the nation gathered and the standoff ensued. The feds eventually backed down. But when the government put Bundy and others on trial for their…
By Jacob Weisberg Slate Magazine March 15, 2019 I wrote the story about Roger Stone reprinted below in 1985, when I was a college student, taking a year off to work as a reporter-researcher at the New Republic. This was Reagan-era Washington, where the old ideal of public service had given way to the service business of exploiting political connections for profit. What made Stone stand out in that tawdry scene was his utter shamelessness. He bragged about being a 19-year-old bit player in the Watergate scandal and about his friendship with Roy Cohn, Joe McCarthy’s notorious henchman. Along…
Showtime Reveals Emmy Plans for Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘Who Is America?’ (EXCLUSIVE) By Michael Schneider Variety March 11, 2019 The series, which mixed elements of comedy, satire, sketch, reality, talk and variety — making it the kind of hybrid that could be entered in several categories. And that’s Showtime’s plan. Although there are unscripted elements to “Who Is America?” (such as the time Baron Cohen got Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio to address the infamous alleged Donald Trump “pee pee tape”), the network is following the precedent set by “Saturday Night Live” in splitting its major submissions in both…
MSNBC.com March 10, 2019 Former Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone is testing the limits of a court-imposed gag order. MSNBC’s David Gura explains how. Continue Reading…..
al.com March 8, 2019 Roy Moore may be back on a ballot soon. Moore, the 2017 Republican U.S. Senate nominee whose campaign crashed after allegations of sexual misconduct, said Friday he is “seriously considering” another run for office. Appearing on Focal Point radio show with Bryan Fischer on American Family Radio, Moore was first asked about a potential Senate run in 2020 for Jones’ seat. “I’m seriously considering it,” Moore said. “I think the (2017 race) was stolen. I think that’s been pronounced in the national newspapers — The New York Times, The Washington Post even has recognized there…
al.com March 8, 2019 Salacious claims levied at one of Roy Moore’s accusers became public Thursday in court filings of the lawsuit brought by Leigh Corfman. The claims, which include allegations that Corfman was sexually promiscuous, were included in a motion by Moore’s defense team seeking a subpoena of a recording made by Breitbart News reporters in November 2017. Matt Boyle, a Breitbart reporter, has admitted recording the Nov. 13, 2017 meeting that included former Corfman attorney Eddie Sexton, Sexton’s friend Gary Lantrip, Lantrip business partner Bert Davi and Breitbart reporter Aaron Klein, according to a document filed by…
cleveland.com March 7, 2019 CLEVELAND, Ohio — With his now deleted Sunday Instagram post, “Who Framed Roger Stone?” Roger Stone appears to be testing federal judge Amy Berman Jackson’s February warning: “I gave you a second chance. This is not baseball, you don’t get a third chance.” Jackson had issued that warning on Feb. 21, when putting Stone under a gag order after a picture of Jackson, next to a rifle’s crosshairs, was posted on Stone’s Instagram account. Stone had posted the parody of the “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” movie after Jackson had ordered Stone and his lawyers to…
By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post March 5, 2019 Attorneys for Roger Stone withheld and misrepresented plans for his new book criticizing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in violation of a gag order in his case, a federal judge found Tuesday, warning that any “costs or consequences” that result are solely his responsibility. The new order by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of Washington does not spell out consequences but bodes ill for the longtime friend of President Trump and Republican operative, who asked the court for leeway late Friday regarding the “imminent release” of a new…
By Dan Mangan, Kevin Breuninger CNBC March 5, 2019 A federal judge on Tuesday blasted Roger Stone over his new book that criticizes special counsel Robert Mueller, and she demanded Stone explain his efforts to comply with a gag order strictly barring him from bad-mouthing Mueller. Judge Amy Berman Jackson, in a court filing, wrote that there “is no question that the order prohibited and continues to prohibit the defendant from making any public statements, using any medium, concerning the investigation.” “It does not matter when the defendant may have first formulated the opinions expressed, or when he first…