Asha Rangappa @AshaRangappa_ Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

16 days

Your Manhattan case refresher (note that Bragg does not have to prove the underlying predicates)

183

1K

3K

Last Seen Profiles

@Ankolgunaktifim

@__imsococky

@GailGazelleMD

@PeterMelnick

@FlawdTV

@ConcernedApe

@UnwaveringHope_

@vootmoot

@Ankolgunaktifim

@LeratoLagaKhoza

@uncle_fury

@the_redbird7

@PortlandCaviar

@SUTHAR0051

@Cimorelliband

@RonStoop1

@BrunswickCC_MBB

@joaoetc

@SuperCycling

@networking

@LoniSitt24738

@ChoiceNFTs

@Bexboxall

@Mandysegundo

@FCCPV

@IDteumezen

@JGQuintel

@valverde_kassia

@javniskupovi

@zenwaya

@CDFNewYork

@KinolMella

@foundation_sf

@ProfiletreeBN

@baabyy_bee

@PhysicsToday

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 months

For real, can we recap: Sitting members of Congress initiated IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS against a U.S. President based on information passed to them by an agent of Russian intelligence. Same members refuse to pass aid to Ukraine. Same members defend Trump. ….

4K

26K

72K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 years

I see that the “BUT HER EMAILS!” crowd is going all in now on “They Were Only Documents.” They really have no shame

1K

6K

41K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 years

This wasn’t an “intelligence failure.” It was enabling of a coup through inaction by multiple agencies in the executive branch including *sworn law enforcement officials* who took an oath to uphold the Constitution. Sickening.

926

9K

35K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 years

Imagine if you told your 2002 self that in 20 years you were going to be REALLY sad that Dick Cheney’s daughter lost the Republican primary

1K

2K

34K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

9 months

Not sure who cares, but the wife of a current Supreme Court justice was totally convinced by a scheme to defraud the United States and deprive millions of people from their vote to be counted and she’s his best friend and he might end up ruling on a major legal issue in case. So.

829

8K

32K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

3 months

When Trump claims that he believes a U.S. President could order Seal Team Six to murder his political opponent and never be held criminally accountable, he’s saying that he wishes he could be like Putin. Believe him.

667

7K

27K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 years

If unauthorized possession of classified documents are “just documents” and not worthy of criminal investigation, why did Trump sign a law increasing the penalty for mishandling them from one to five years?

646

5K

25K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

3 months

Right now, CNN is debating Biden's "mental acuity"instead of discussing the legal distinction between Biden's handling of classified documents and Trump's. Such a disservice to the American public in terms of the relevant differences between the candidates they will be voting for

2K

5K

21K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

7 months

Just a reminder that Trump had multiple meetings with Putin with no other American officials present. I’m sure it was fine though 🙄

Kyle Griffin

@kylegriffin1

7 months

Breaking ABC: Months after leaving office, Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with a member of Mar-a-Lago — an Australian billionaire who then allegedly shared the information with scores of others.

3K

12K

30K

631

7K

21K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 years

I keep thinking about why Trump keeps bringing up declassification, since it’s not an element of 793(e) and is certainly not a defense for obstruction (since the subpoena asked for all docs “marked” classified). The thing with Trump is that it is ALWAYS worse than it looks 1/

480

3K

20K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

8 months

The irony with the Hunter Biden charge is that the firearm application only exists because he purchased it from a federally-licensed firearms dealer, which actually conducts a background check -- you know, the same background checks Rs don't think you should undergo to own a gun

2K

5K

19K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 years

This judge basically did Trump’s lawyers’ work for them, making arguments under the 4-part Richey test which Trump did not brief or argue, making executive privilege arguments that Trump did not press fully in the hearing, and granting an injunction when one wasn’t requested

Hugo Lowell

@hugolowell

2 years

BREAKING: Federal judge grants Trump’s request for a special master to review materials seized from Mar-a-Lago

277

404

1K

925

6K

17K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

1 year

Not sure who needs to hear this, but Crossfire Hurricane was not an investigation into Trump. It was an investigation into Russian intelligence activity, and whether that activity was targeting people in Trump’s campaign (it was)

1K

4K

15K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

10 months

Am I the only one with zero desire to 1) go to space; 2) go to the bottom of the ocean; or 3) climb Mt. Everest. Totes happy to just hang out at sea level for the rest of my life

1K

552

14K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

1 year

Is there really a silo where you can avoid listening to Trump?? If so, can someone please point me to it?

Acyn

@Acyn

1 year

Cooper: You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again. But do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away?

14K

3K

20K

2K

1K

13K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

11 months

Just catching up on the news: So “Joe Biden’s weaponized, politically motivated Justice Department” has charged…his own son?

2K

13K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 months

@JoJoFromJerz Same members tried to suggest it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 election. This is fun, let’s keep going

267

2K

13K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

5 days

The more time I have to think about how SCOTUS handled the immunity argument today, the more furious I get

733

2K

14K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 years

Folks, remember the Russian tactic of “reflexive control” – feeding you assumption that you accept in order to reach an outcome your adversary desires. The assumption being planted here is that if the docs were unclassified, it’s very legal and very cool. But it’s still stolen 1/

178

3K

12K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 months

“He’s been a fraud all his life. It just became official that he’s a fraud, today.” — Tony Schwartz, author of The Art of the Deal, on CNN

170

3K

12K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

1 month

Trump: The documents at Mar-a-Lago are covered by executive privilege! (I.e., by definition, presidential records) Cannon: I will entertain this argument Also Trump: These are all personal records! Also Cannon: I will entertain this argument 🤦🏽‍♀️ What is even going on

865

3K

12K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

8 months

There is some irony that the same people who were pushing the independent state legislature theory* — the idea that election admin belongs ONLY to state legislatures without interference — are now arguing that it was a part of their *federal* duty to intervene in a state election

284

3K

11K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

11 months

Hoping that ProPublica’s next follow-the-money story will uncover which right-wing sugar daddy paid off Kavanaugh’s credit card debt

287

2K

11K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

3 months

So Russia has space nukes that can incapacitate our civilian infrastructure and which we currently have no capability to counter, and GOP MAGA’s plan is to let Russia take Ukraine and…[checks notes] “let Putin do whatever the hell he wants” in Europe? That will work out great

817

3K

11K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

3 months

This is the “Russia, if you’re listening…” for 2024

Acyn

@Acyn

3 months

Trump: One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, Well, sir, if we don't pay and were attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said.. No I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.

4K

11K

461

3K

11K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

8 months

Do all defendants get to provide their height and weight ahead of time via their lawyers and not verified at booking JUST ASKING

738

1K

10K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

11 months

Just to clarify, Republicans are the ones who completely lost their minds over people not paying their loans back in full, right? Asking for...etc.

660

2K

10K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

1 year

Stand back and stand by… for sentencing 😏

182

859

10K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 months

The argument that the Court is obliged to take on matters of constitutional importance is belied by the fact that they did not take it up immediately, and apparently have no urgency in deciding it quickly. If it was something on which only it could have a final say, why wait?

376

2K

10K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

7 months

To recap: The guy who encouraged his followers to hang the former Vice President of the United States and now suggests that the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should be executed for treason and who faces 91 felony charges is the presumptive GOP presidential nominee

2K

3K

10K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

9 days

The fact that they never took it as a tax deduction is telling, not exculpatory: This guy deducted his son’s $5 Boy Scout dues as a charitable donation. More evidence of trying not to leave a paper trail

Acyn

@Acyn

9 days

Trump: It’s a case as to book-keeping, which is a very minor thing in terms of the law in terms… This is a case where you pay a lawyer, it's a lawyer and they call it a legal expense. That's the exact term they use. We never even deducted it as a tax deduction

576

171

1K

274

3K

10K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

11 months

I think Pat needs a little visit from his local @FBI

Oliya Scootercaster 🛴

@ScooterCasterNY

11 months

"January 6th is gonna look like a playground" - Trump supporter Pat speaks outside of Trump National Doral Miami where Former President expected to arrive for his second Indictment - "All we need is an order, we are ready"

8K

2K

5K

1K

2K

9K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

1 year

Just tell him he’s not your type

Don Winslow

@donwinslow

1 year

Dear @CNN , Cancel that town hall with Trump. Today. Don't wait.

887

6K

29K

180

1K

9K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 months

THIS is the story. Barr's DOJ knew this guy was lying he let his deputy quietly close the case instead of bringing consequences. The indictment shows he was not only lying, but was politically biased against Biden. More to come in my @cafedotcom piece tomorrow

Mueller, She Wrote

@MuellerSheWrote

2 months

NEW: The recently indicted top GOP witness’ lawyer argues that he should NOT be detained pending trial because Bill Barr’s DoJ didn’t find it necessary to indict him in 2020, so how dangerous can he be?

34

1K

4K

173

4K

9K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

3 months

Passing a border bill would convey to MAGA voters that 1) the government can work, and be bipartisan; and 2) the “existential threat” is being dealt with. Both of these are Kryptonite for a would-be authoritarian: Trump needs his supporters to be disillusioned and afraid

2K

3K

9K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

7 months

Smart thread, suggesting that the info Menendez provided to Egyptian intel was advance warning of the questions members of Congress intended to ask about the Khashoggi killing. Imagine a SENATOR helping a foreign intel service cover up a murder in exchange for some gold bars.

Amy W. Hawthorne

@awhawth

7 months

...Egypt's potential involvement in Jamal Khashoggi's murder. "Senate staffers said...a number of senators are preparing to ask Kamel" about reports that the jet carrying the Saudi assassins made a middle-of-the-night stopover in Cairo to pick up drugs used to kill Khashoggi. 5/x

19

365

1K

287

3K

9K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

11 months

I don’t understand the Republican argument that charging Trump when he is a candidate is “election interference.” They would have been totally fine with HRC being charged when she was a candidate (and are still ranting about it)…would that not have been “election interference”?

1K

2K

9K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 months

The entire purpose of life tenure for Art. III judges is to allow them to act independently, without feeling beholden to either the person who appointed them or particular policy preferences. The Supreme Court, like Congress, has become an extension of one man’s desires

298

2K

9K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

3 months

Garland’s failure to act will be one of the most consequential omissions in our history

612

2K

9K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

10 months

LITerally the Presidential Records Act was passed to *stop* the practice of presidents taking/disposing of their records however they wanted and to create a structure to transfer their ownership from private to public. Lit. Er. Al. Ly.

Acyn

@Acyn

10 months

Trump: Whatever documents a President decides to take with him, he has the absolute right to take them. He has the absolute right to keep them or he can give them back.. that’s the law

4K

1K

8K

575

2K

9K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

9 months

Happy Third Arraignment Day to all who celebrate!

469

890

9K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

1 year

Just watched the Frontline on Clarence and Ginny Thomas. So we have a vindictive, perjurious misfit and an ideological kookpot making the country's most important decisions. What could go wrong?

Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court

As controversy erupts around Clarence and Ginni Thomas, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of their path to power.

www.pbs.org

866

3K

8K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

11 months

Ah, so he’s admitting that he can’t use the Secret Telepathic Unilateral Preemptive Irrevocable Declassification (S.T.U.P.I.D.) defense

Hugo Lowell

@hugolowell

11 months

NEW: Trump suggested he should have declassified a military document about Iran he admitted retaining in the July 2021 audio recording obtained by the Special Counsel, per people familiar. Breaking on @guardian

190

1K

3K

283

2K

8K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

11 months

What's the over/under that Trump will get busted for witness tampering

761

688

8K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

6 months

Note that this conversation allegedly occurred on Dec. 19 — after the safe harbor deadline to resolve intrastate election disputes and certify their results (Dec. 8) and the date that electors had met to cast their votes (Dec. 14). They knew it was over, they just didn’t care

ABC News

@ABC

6 months

EXCLUSIVE: ABC News has obtained video from Georgia prosecutors' interview with ex-Trump attorney Jenna Ellis, in which Ellis tells them she was personally informed by a top Trump adviser that Trump was "not going to leave" the White House — despite losing the 2020 election.…

7K

8K

20K

216

3K

8K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 months

I’ve got MAGAs in my mentions vehemently denying that Trump *ever* made this claim. So much cognitive dissonance when his words don’t suit their narrative, even when they see it in print and video. It’s fascinating.

Brian Tyler Cohen

@briantylercohen

2 months

Worth the reminder today, on the day Putin had his political rival killed, that only weeks ago, Donald Trump endorsed the idea that he should have complete immunity to have his own political rivals assassinated.

113

2K

4K

176

3K

8K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

6 days

It's worth highlighting that Trump's lawyers are setting up another argument for a second Trump presidency: Criminal laws don't apply to the President unless they specifically say so...this lays the groundwork for saying (in the future) he can't be impeached for conduct he can't…

254

3K

8K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

8 months

Seeing lots of news reports highlighting that D.A. Fani Willis did not indict U.S. senators despite special grand jury recommendations. Doing so would have 1) potential constitutional hurdles and 2) would give folks like Jim Jordan a clear "hook" to do what he's doing now

522

1K

8K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

21 days

I don’t really expect average people to know or understand the differences between Title I and Section 702 of FISA…but I would think (hope?) a *former president* would? Section 702 literally had nothing to do with surveillance of his campaign. So incompetent.

438

2K

8K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

1 month

As @jenmercieca has explained, one of Trump’s rhetorical tricks is paralipsis. He gives himself enough plausible deniability to claim (or for his supporters to claim) he wasn’t saying what he was saying. I know what he meant. He knows what he meant. You know what he meant.

Tea Pain

@TeaPainUSA

1 month

MAGA: “I love Trump, because he says what he means!“ Trump: “Bloodbath!” MAGA: “That’s not what he meant!”

4K

3K

15K

300

2K

8K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

7 days

Question on MSNBC just now on why Trump hasn’t attacked Pecker. My guess is that from Trump’s vantage point, Pecker has a lot of power, bc he can create stories (including negative and even fake ones) about HIM! So he has power/leverage; not in Trump’s interest to antagonize him.…

431

1K

8K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

6 months

As a kid I dreamed that one day my people would be on the national stage…this is not what I had in mind

fooler initiative

@metroadlib

6 months

Nikki Haley hates Vivek Ramaswamy SO much. And it is 100% b/c he has somehow managed to be on the exact same national stage as her. This man who has *barely* voted for the majority of his adult life is standing feet away from her, vying for the exact same job. Lol. I'd throw up.

59

175

2K

256

692

8K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

6 days

To sum up Trump's argument: 1. POTUS can't be prosecuted for official acts, immunity is "absolute" 2. In determining whether something is an official act, you cannot examine the motive behind it, i.e., whether it was for personal gain 3. POTUS *can* be prosecuted for official…

415

2K

8K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

9 months

Trump literally tried to get Zelensky to investigate his political opponent when he was president. It’s always projection 🙄

Kelly O'Donnell

@KellyO

9 months

Donald Trump told reporters he believes the case against him is political, " So if you can't beat him, you persecute him or you prosecute him."

242

28

162

631

2K

7K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

4 months

Does he really want to suggest that someone who takes millions of dollars in foreign payments while president is "ripe for indictment"? Because right now there's only one person for whom there is extensive evidence of that. Actual receipts. I mean, I'm not against it, just asking

Ron Filipkowski

@RonFilipkowski

4 months

Trump threatens to indict Biden if he is elected.

2K

1K

6K

390

2K

7K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

12 days

In Colombia during the time of Pablo Escobar, courts had <jueces sin rostros> (judges without faces): Judges had to preside from behind one-way mirrors and use voice-distorting microphones to avoid being identified due to the risk of being targeted. We're headed the same way

216

2K

7K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

6 days

OMG Alito is using the internment of Japanese Americans as an example of a president being vulnerable to criminal liability -- THE *SUPREME COURT* ITSELF LITERALLY RUBBER STAMPED THAT AND DIDN"T DISAVOW IT UNTIL FIVE YEARS AGO

134

2K

7K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

4 months

I am going to predict that there will not be bomb threats and swatting attempts made on the judge overseeing Hunter Biden's case

124

954

7K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

6 months

The water is boiling and America is the frog

Karen Schwartz

@pithywidow

6 months

The normalization of this judge being in Trump's pocket seems not great

50

554

2K

151

1K

7K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 years

Trump did not have a security clearance as of 01/20/21 so there would be no reason for there to be an operational SCIF at MAL; the basement and other areas were not SCIFs in any case; and if they existed Trump would be barred from entering them. Next.

RealClearInvestigations

@RCInvestigates

2 years

NEW from Paul Sperry:

511

211

405

180

2K

7K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

3 months

The fact that Congress believes that addressing the border can wait ten months also undercuts any argument that Abbot is acting with Congress’ consent or responding to some kind of imminent threat that “will not admit of delay”

Steve Vladeck

@steve_vladeck

3 months

Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution prevents states from doing exactly what Abbott is proposing (responding to claimed invasions on their own) “without the consent of Congress.” If only Speaker Johnson had a position in which he could provide that consent…

200

1K

4K

170

2K

7K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

10 months

THREAD. Admissions officer here 🙋🏾‍♀️ IMO Harvard/UNC opinion is much narrower than I expected it to be and impact will be much less than I see a lot of people suggesting -- and possibly give institutions MORE ability to curate classes based on diversity interests 1/

504

2K

7K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

10 months

You didn��t seem this concerned when the presidential candidate was Hillary

Rep. Jim Jordan

@Jim_Jordan

10 months

Remember, if the FBI can do it to a presidential candidate, they can do it to you too.

18K

3K

15K

218

756

7K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

5 months

The implicit argument (concession) Trump’s lawyer is making is that threats and inciting violence is the core of Trump’s political strategy (which is why he considers it “political speech”). Another consequence of a major political party embracing domestic terrorism

231

2K

7K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

1 year

“We don’t have to be embarrassed by our senator. We can get a new one.” 😂

Colin Allred

@ColinAllredTX

1 year

I’m running for U.S. Senate because Texans deserve a Senator whose team is Texas. Ted Cruz only cares about himself. Join our campaign today:

4K

19K

71K

195

920

7K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

28 days

Judge Cannon appears to be in the “find out” phase of the Mar-a-Lago trial

Ryan Goodman

@rgoodlaw

28 days

Things just got very real in the classified documents prosecution. DOJ calls out Judge Cannon's outlandish jury instructions as destructive to a genuine trial. Asks court to rule now to give government opportunity to appeal and seek mandamus. With strong precedents in hand.⬇️

349

3K

9K

162

1K

7K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

5 months

I have never seen a lawyer avoid answering a hypothetical for THIS long. It's a pretty simple question. He doesn't want to answer it because he can't do so truthfully in accordance with his position AND please his audience of one.

93

940

6K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

4 months

Interesting that for purpose of presidential immunity, Trump argues that running as a candidate and holding office are one and the same. But when it comes to application Sec. 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, Trump wants to split hairs on "running" and "holding" office. No principle

122

1K

6K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

8 months

Hoo boy

Republican Voters Against Trump

@AccountableGOP

8 months

Trump on taking classified documents: “I’m allowed to have these documents. I’m allowed to take these documents…When I have them, they become unclassified. People think you have to go through a ritual. You don’t, at least in my opinion.”

5K

2K

9K

632

748

6K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

3 months

Don’t forget the John Eastman, the legal architect of the coup who has been indicted in Georgia, is Thomas’ former law clerk (and was in communication w Ginni leading up to the insurrection)

Rachel Bitecofer 🗽💡🔭🦆

@RachelBitecofer

3 months

It’s literal insanity that Justice Thomas gets to determine if the very same plot his own wife is caught up in is insurrection.

190

2K

8K

90

2K

6K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

6 days

LOL is Kavanaugh saying he is worrying about “hampering” future Presidents, looking at the history of Independent Counsels and citing Clinton???!? He was Kenneth Starr’s right-hand lawyer.

167

1K

6K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 months

My question is this: Are there really no MAGA supporters with any kind of disabilities, speech or otherwise? If there are, he's talking about them too. How do they go along with this kind of awfulness? Honestly asking what the rationalization looks like

Molly Jong-Fast

@MollyJongFast

2 months

Trump making fun of Biden’s stutter

2K

1K

4K

940

1K

6K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 years

I don’t get this. So the claim is that the FBI is unfairly targeting Trump and the response is… “ha! we’ll do this back!”? Just spitballing here but it seems like maybe they aren’t actually interested in the rule of law

Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

2 years

Trump reposts an op-ed describing the likelihood of payback — such as raiding homes of Biden, Clinton, Comey etc — if he retakes the White House.

1K

2K

4K

336

1K

6K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

1 month

Sometimes you just have to take one for the team, right Ronna? 🤷🏽‍♀️

125

532

6K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

9 months

This made me lol

91

731

6K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

10 months

For those of you still playing here is your coup bingo card in case you lost it

234

1K

6K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 months

TFW when your entire impeachment effort turns out to be a Russian info op

104

1K

6K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

1 month

Trump not being able to post bond is smoking out all the corporate losers 😂

Acyn

@Acyn

1 month

Lol wow

693

500

4K

291

843

6K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

11 months

Does DeSantis’ wife get styling tips from Leave it to Beaver

Ron Filipkowski

@RonFilipkowski

11 months

The guy really knows how to strike a pose.

3K

501

6K

1K

392

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

10 months

To the conservatives celebrating today's SCOTUS decision, Harvard's process shows that there is geographical "affirmative action." I.e., applications are divided by region -- it's easier to get into Harvard from Arkansas than from New York. I assume they think that's fine tho 1/

152

773

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

7 months

There has to be. Menendez was effectively recruited by Egyptian gov/intelligence and they were running a covert influence op through him

Frank Figliuzzi

@FrankFigliuzzi1

7 months

⁦⁦ @NBCNYDigital ⁩ sources say there’s also an FBI counterintelligence case into Senator Menendez. Here’s the reporting, including my commentary. ⁦ @jonathan4ny ⁩

213

1K

5K

103

1K

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 months

This was quite literally the argument Trump made in his argument to the D.C. Circuit Court, to substantiate his claim of “absolute immunity.” It’s public record. It’s astonishing how much your right-wing propaganda bubbles keep hidden from you folks.

Rick Hinshaw

@RickHinshaw

2 months

@AshaRangappa_ Can you show us where Trump claimed he could use Seal Team 6 to take out an opponent without being held criminally accountable? I think you’re lying right now. I’m calling you out. 🫡🇺🇸

234

5

84

104

962

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

11 months

Yep. We haven’t paid enough attention to the top of the coup chart

Garance Franke-Ruta

@thegarance

11 months

Logs show 10 House Republicans attended White House meeting on pressuring Pence to overturn election

263

2K

7K

219

1K

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

9 months

The fact that the “stop the steal” campaign began months before the election even happened (as per Jan. 6 committee testimony) kind of puts a dent in the claim that he “really” believed the election was stolen 🙄

Ryan Goodman

@rgoodlaw

9 months

2. There is a ton of pressure in this indictment for co-conspirators to flip (if that haven't already). Some very strong evidence they knew Trump lost election, the litigation was a "pretext," that their means were unlawful.

22

204

1K

96

1K

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

11 months

Today's SCOTUS opinion in the AL redistricting case illustrates consequences of what @steve_vladeck calls the "shadow docket." Ct upheld lower court, which itself applied clear precedent...but it STAYED the lower court pending decision, allowing illegal map to be used in 2022! 1/

44

1K

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

10 months

It’s a Prosecco & fries kind of afternoon

241

89

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

3 months

Remember that practically, POTUS alone commands the armed forces. If a NATO ally is attacked, and a future President Trump refuses to send troops to defend them, there’s nothing Congress can do to force him to do so. The only thing it could do is impeach him, which it won’t

188

2K

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

1 year

There are laws against sexual assault that can result in significant monetary penalties, fortunately or unfortunately

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

1 year

here's a clip from Trump's deposition where he comments on the Access Hollywood tape

2K

8K

176

666

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

11 days

Empty G vs. Yale history professor and expert on Ukraine

Republicans against Trump

@RpsAgainstTrump

12 days

Watch Professor Timothy Snyder completely destroy Marjorie Taylor Greene for lying about “Nazis in Ukraine.”

1K

6K

27K

189

1K

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

8 months

Exactly. Imagine how many people addicted to drugs may be buying guns through private sales at gun shows. Now that we know stopping this is a priority, everyone should be on board with universal background checks, right? ...right?

255

1K

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

1 year

This might also be a good time to remind everyone that Mueller brought charges against 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian companies for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. (aka election interference) as a result of the Russia probe. (which Bill Barr dropped)

Justice Dept. Moves to Drop Charges Against Russian Firms Filed by Mueller (Published 2020)

The companies funded Russia’s social media-fueled interference in the 2016 election, prosecutors said. But they tried to weaponize the case instead of fight it.

www.nytimes.com

159

2K

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

11 months

Happy Second Arraignment Day, to all who celebrate!

183

458

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

6 days

This morning the Supreme Court actually debated whether Congress needs to specify whether crimes that prevent the peaceful transfer of power apply to the one person responsible for peacefully vacating the office for that to happen

185

1K

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 months

Keep in mind that Trump’s team has argued that his taking classified documents was an “official act” which is nod nod wink wink to Judge Cannon that she can hit pause on the Mar-a-Lago case if SCOTUS takes his immunity case. Which it has. And which I’ll bet $1m she will do

211

1K

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

2 years

5. It’s basically a psyop to give credence to the Big Lie: that Trump is somehow still POTUS. And it needs to stop. Trump is an ordinary citizen. He had lots of awesome powers as president, but those ended at 11:59am on 1/20/21. Then Biden assumed those very same powers. The end

79

718

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

6 days

FINALLY. Dreeben explaining that Trump is not being prosecuted for official acts. Anything that could plausibly be characterized as an official act would be used for its evidentiary value re motive and intent for an illegal conspiracy in his capacity as a candidate for office,…

47

859

5K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

1 year

hoooooo boy

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

1 year

here's a clip from Trump's deposition where he comments on the Access Hollywood tape

2K

8K

444

533

4K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

10 months

Landed in Edinburgh an hour ago. Luggage hasn’t come out. We’re the only flight, only about 30 passengers. No airport worker in sight. Feels like the beginning of a Stephen King story

272

138

4K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

1 year

I know this is a throwback to Season 1, but the (first) investigation into *Trump* was opened when he fired James Comey. The results of that investigation are contained in Vol. 2 of Mueller’s Report. Nothing from Durham’s investigation “exonerates” him from those conclusions

78

809

4K

Asha Rangappa

@AshaRangappa_

1 year

THANK YOU @FrankFigliuzzi1 for highlighting that Timothy McVeigh was a white supremacist. Also as @JeffreyToobin lays out in his book, Homegrown, McVeigh was also a gun nut and addicted to right-wing talk shows, including Rush Limbaugh (to whom Trump awarded the PMOF)

63

978

4K