As to the politics / optics of all this. . . EmptyWheel is ever spot on. Go read it all.

And here on a quiet Saturday morning, we want to point out how little Tangerine actually… cares. This is always and forever… only about him. There is no other star in the sky.

That his continuously-ridiculous demands on the proposed special master process certainly guarantee that all the oxygen in all mid-term races will go toward defending or villifying Trumpism… and Trump… is all he wants.

It doesn’t matter to him at all that he (and his acolytes) will lose, and lose bigly — on all fronts, thus:

…[I]f new specifics about Trump’s negligence and efforts to obstruct the investigation are made public, then November’s election will be precisely what Republicans are trying to avoid it being: not just a response to the Dobbs ruling overturning protection for abortion access, but a referendum on the way Republicans have sacrificed American security in their fealty to Donald Trump….

That from Dr. Wheeler… is absolutely… dead bang perfect. Take it to the bank. Smiling — off, to a warm bike-ride by the clear blue-green lake waters now….

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