What did she think it was about. She didnt know. She said that she was going to try and find out more but she had wanted to give me a heads up. In fact, i think she may even have been instructed to give me a heads up on that. And so i asked her kind of what is the next step here . So she said she would try to find out more and she would try to call me by midnight. What happened next . Around 1 00 in the morning she called me again and she said that there were great concerns, there were concerns up the street, and she said i needed to get come home immediately. Get on the next plane to the u. S. And i asked her why. And she said she wasnt sure but there were concerns about my security. I asked her, my physical security . Because sometimes washington knows more than we do about these things. And she said, no. She hadnt gotten that impression that it was a physical security issue but they were concerned about my security and i needed to come home right away. You know, i argued. This is ex
The democrats brawled literally with Michael Bloomberg. He took most of the blows and what is perhaps the most contentious 2020 debate so far. Good morning, i met henry. It got hot in there very quickly. It was like a bloodbath. So 2020 rivals taking bloomberg to task over stop and frisk, tax returns and a whole lot more. As each candidate tried to stand out as the best option to take on President Trump. Meanwhile, the president himself held a rally in arizona where he unleashed on democrats, focusing his fire on bloomberg. I dont think you take on donald trump and say you need someone richer in the white house. And its important that those workers are able to assure the benefits also. I cant think of ways for donald jumped to get reelected. He didnt get a whole lot done, he has stop and frisk, its not whether he apologized, its a policy. The policy was abhorrent. A no, im not talking about donald trump, im talking about mayor bloomberg. Now they have a new member of the crew, mini mik
Trump. Im talking about mayor bloomberg. Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, of harassing women, and of supporting racist policies like red lining and stop and frisk. Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another. I actually welcomed mayor bloomberg to the stage. I thought that he shouldnt be hiding behind his tv ads. The mayor says that he has a great record, that he has done these wonderful things. The fact of the matter is he has not managed his city very very well when he was there. He didnt get a whole lot done. He had stop and frisk throwing close to 5 million young black men up against the wall. We could wake up two weeks from today, day after super tuesday, and the only candidates left standing will be Bernie Sanders and Michael Bloomberg. The two most polarizing figures on this stage. Lets put forward somebody whos actually a democrat. We shouldnt have to choose between one can
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The former president’s lawyers were bad but that was all too typical.
February 13, 2021
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If future generations of law professors want to teach a class in what never to do, the belligerent and self-indulgent performance of Michael van der Veen, one of Donald Trump’s impeachment lawyers, could provide a lot of the video content. Deep into his defense of the former president today, van der Veen broke into a highly personal complaint. More than 140 law professors including President Ronald Reagan’s solicitor general and a co-founder of the conservative Federalist Society had signed a letter condemning the Trump team’s arguments as “frivolous.” This letter badly hurt van der Veen’s feelings. The letter, he said, represented, a “direct threat to my law license, my career, and my family’s financial well-being.”