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Hello, and welcome back to Tomorrow Will Be Worse! Today, you get a little bonus edition, a conversation with our own Tara Palmeri. As you may have noticed, I'm super thrilled that Tara, whom I've been reading religiously for years, is now part of our Puck team. Since Tara joined, we've found ourselves picking each other’s brains—often over cocktails—and we thought this conversation is something you'd like to eavesdrop on. Today, we talked about Biden, DeSantis, Trump, January 6, 2024—all of it. I hope you find it as interesting as we did.
(Oh, and don't forget to subscribe to Tara’s private email, The Washington Mall. It's a must-read.)
Enjoy your summer weekend, and I'll see back here on Tuesday,
Julia
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Tara Palmeri: Julia, this may have been the most explosive week of January 6th testimony. We now know what many have long suspected—that Trump planned to have his supporters march toward the Capitol. Does this disclosure, following Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony, move the needle forward on an indictment? I’ve previously reported that people close to Attorney General Merrick Garland think an indictment is a long shot, as he will have an adverse reaction to political committees demanding action from the D.O.J. But maybe the calculus is shifting.
Julia Ioffe: You know, I heard this last summer, too, that Garland was worried about balancing the need to punish such unprecedented acts and setting a precedent in which an incoming administration prosecutes its predecessors. But that was last summer, before Hutchinson, before these hearings, when we didn’t know nearly as much as we do now. It seems a much harder line to walk now that it’s increasingly clear just how unprecedented—and dangerous—Trump’s actions were, and how close we came to losing the entire system that Garland is trying to uphold.
Despite this classic Washington syndrome of focusing intently on your one little tree so you don’t have to think about the forest fire that’s coming for it, it does seem like the pressure on Garland is growing. Between the mind-boggling Hutchinson testimony and this week’s revelations that this was all planned in the White House, the Jan. 6th committee has presented a very compelling case that what we saw on January 6, 2021 was not a spontaneous riot but a planned coup that, thankfully, failed. The hearings are, to me, a really good reminder of the fact that so many people who come to D.C. to make a career of politics—either as the elected official or her staff—have law degrees. That’s why this looks so much like the work of a prosecutor... |
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