WEDNESDAY 5 JULY 2023 THURSDAY 6 JULY
News Notes:
- Lindsey Graham: It does my heart good to hear Lindsey Graham booed in his own state. He is pathetic. He has aged 30 years in the past 7. I can’t think of anybody who deserves it more. I cannot wait to find out what he really did to make all this humiliation worth it.
- “You have to hold wanna-be dictators to account.” Chai Komanduri (MSNBC) (Note: While saying this, Komanduri then followed up claiming Nancy Pelosi was one of the people who realized that Trump had to be stopped? What? Pelosi didn’t even want to impeach him. She had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the hearings.)
Articles:
Prigozhin
- Prigozhin has reportedly won back more than $100 million in cash and gold bars seized by Russian authorities during his coup attempt. He continues to negotiate with the Kremlin about the stripping of his assets and the terms of his residence in Belarus.
- It has been reported by a Russian news outlet that the assets were seized in raids on Prigozhin’s properties on June 24, the day after the coup.
- The assets were reportedly returned to Prigozhin’s driver who had been granted power of attorney on July 2. It was reported that criminal investigators did not want to give up the funds but “judging by yet another reversal, a higher power intervened.”
Reuters
- Reuters is reporting this morning that Prigozhin no longer in Belarus and it is not clear whether his fighters will move there. (Note: I read that there were already Wagner troops in Belarus and that Lukashenko had given them land. Lukashenko stressed that this land was just land, not a military base. It’s like somebody who prefaces his statement with “Honestly.”
Law, Power, and Justice 
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