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KILL X? Musk Says He’s Not Anti-Semitic While Blaming Jews For X’s Woes

KILL X? Musk Says He’s Not Anti-Semitic While Blaming Jews For X’s Woes

Over the long weekend, Elon Musk attacked a Jewish organization, the Anti Defamation League (ADL), for “destroying half the value of [X/Twitter]…roughly $22 billion” in a bizarre claim that ADL pressured advertisers to leave the platform. It’s a monumentally dumb move. Let me be clear about a couple of things before I explain why. First, …

GOP DEBATE: Stop Listening to a CBS Hallucination | Steve Berman

GOP DEBATE: Stop Listening to a CBS Hallucination | Steve Berman

Thursday, the spectacle of Donald J. Trump turning himself in at the Fulton County Jail will consume the media, even eclipsing the search for a thousand missing souls in Maui and California digging out of mud and floods. And the network of “it may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS” put out …

INDICTMENT: Why We Must Not Stop Georgia’s Trump Racketeering Trial | Steve Berman

INDICTMENT: Why We Must Not Stop Georgia’s Trump Racketeering Trial | Steve Berman

Even Donald Trump knew that his greatest legal threat would come from Atlanta. “Billion Dollar Lawyer” Drew Findling leads the Trump legal team in Fulton County, which will be fighting the indictments handed down by District Attorney Fani Willis late last night. All in all, 19 alleged conspirators were charged as part of a wide-ranging case that …

GEORGIA: Trump Fracture Will Erupt After Charges Drop | Steve Berman

GEORGIA: Trump Fracture Will Erupt After Charges Drop | Steve Berman

In 2022, Gov. Brian Kemp, who former President Donald Trump despised, beat Trump’s candidate, former Sen. David Perdue, by 51.9 points. (You saw that right: the margin between the two candidates was over 50 points. The actual percentages were 73.7% for Kemp, 21.8% for Perdue.) Perdue previously lost his 2020 Senate race in a runoff …

BELIEVE: The NYT Confirms a Conspiracy to Hide Hunter Stories? | Steve Berman

BELIEVE: The NYT Confirms a Conspiracy to Hide Hunter Stories? | Steve Berman

You can find out a whole lot more about what is real and what is Twitter/X trolling by seeing what’s living rent-free in the heads that populate 620 Eighth Avenue: that is, the newsroom of the New York Times. To wit: Andrew Clark, a GOP strategist, put together a timeline of Trump indictments against breaking stories …

CRIMEWASHING: Indictments Galore for Trump | Steve Berman

CRIMEWASHING: Indictments Galore for Trump | Steve Berman

The “presumed innocent” chorus has begun with the latest set of indictments against former President Donald Trump. Sure, it goes, the guy lies, steals, cheats, and members of his former senior appointees have called him everything from a “f**king moron” to “racist, misogynist and bigot;” BUT, that’s doesn’t make it illegal. Puh-leeeze! Stop with the crimewashing. In fact, …

INDICTMENTS: You Can’t Outsmart Justice | Steve Berman

INDICTMENTS: You Can’t Outsmart Justice | Steve Berman

Former President Donald Trump’s valet texted that he had a “family emergency 🤫” (he really texted the emoji) come up when he changed plans in late June 2022—the weekend after Trump’s legal team received a subpoena from Department of Justice investigators asking for surveillance footage. Following that, a series of texts that even Inspector Jacques …

REBUNKED? The Debunked Stories Keep Coming Home to Roost | Steve Berman

REBUNKED? The Debunked Stories Keep Coming Home to Roost | Steve Berman

As recently as late May—2023, this year—polls show that six in ten Republicans believe the 2020 election was illegitimate, which is about the same as it was in the fall of 2022. That has fallen from over 70 percent back in 2021, so at least some Republicans have grown tired of believing in empty fantasies …