Der Spiegel, Wired ... seems like everyone is doing OSINT on the participants of the chat now. 🫠

6/ is meaningless.

5/ threats about money. Those threats are plainly illegal. But that's where you need courts to stop him if he says to Pennsylvania: change your election law or all the money for roads and all your social security and medicare checks stop tomorrow. That's what this is about. The EO itself ...

4/ threatened numerous times: do what I want or I'll cut off federal in your state: money for roads, money for your hospitals, Social Security checks for people who live in your state. There's not even a place to start for Trump to do the things he demands in this EO. It's all about his ...

3/ ability to review state election laws for compliance with federal law and the federal constitution. President's don't have any role in that other than filing lawsuits to enforce federal law or constitutional protections. Look at the actual EO and Trump is trying again to do what he's ...

2/ They're more or less like tweets. They have no legal standing in courts beyond being statements of the Presidents goals and directives to members of the executive branch. States run elections. The Congress has a limited ability to make rules for the conduct of federal elections. Courts have ...