#markpaoletta — Public Fediverse posts
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#Trump’s team has zeroed in on some candidates for other roles after vetting thousands of names & seeking to ensure they are #loyal to Trump.
#MarkPaoletta, who served as general counsel in the OMB in Trump’s first term, is a contender to become #US #AttorneyGeneral…. #Paoletta was responsible for some of the Trump admin’s most controversial moves, including a delay in security assistance to #Ukraine that triggered Trump’s first #impeachment.
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#MarkPaoletta penned other pieces defending #ClarenceThomas including one in which he called #AnitaHill a liar.
WaPo revealed that #LeonardLeo steered at least $1.8M into a PR & online astroturf campaign to attack a 2016 HBO film about the Clarence Thomas’ nomination. #Paoletta was the face of the campaign & was paid $300k by Leo’s Judicial Education Project….
When asked, Paoletta confirmed, “my good friend Leonard Leo’s group provided funding for this work,” including the Thomas film.
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In 2022, for example, the Federalist, a far right-wing blog site funded by Dick Uihlein, published a piece by #MarkPaoletta attacking an investigation by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker about #GinniThomas’ close ties to right-wing groups, including some that file briefs with the #SCOTUS.
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One of the most aggressive defenders of #SCOTUS Justice #ClarenceThomas is #MarkPaoletta. He has assailed Senators & reporters who raise concerns about the serious #ethical issues raised by the actions of Thomas & his wife, #GinniThomas.
#law #DOJ #Trump #corruption
https://truenorthresearch.org/2023/11/who-is-mark-paoletta-he-is-one-of-the-biggest-defenders-of-clarence-and-ginni-thomas-in-the-scandals-their-actions-have-created/ -
#MarkPaoletta is also a friend of #ClarenceThomas & was #GinniThomas’ lawyer when she was supposed to testify to the #Jan6 panel.
#law #DOJ #Trump #corruption
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ginni-thomas-lawyer-wants-better-justification-giving-testimony-jan-6-rcna35901 -
Possible #Trump US #AttorneyGeneral pick: #MarkPaoletta
Paoletta is spreader of #ConspiracyTheories: he claimed the legal cases against Trump were fabricated. The world witnessed #Jan6, the #ClassifiedDocuments case is undeniable, Trump was convicted of 34 #felonies in NY by a jury, was found liable for #defamation & #SexualAbuse & the judge minced no words in his opinion about the fact that Trump #raped #EJeanCarroll, & Trump & TrumpOrg were found liable for committing decades of #fraud.
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The think tank’s employees or fellows include #JeffreyClark, the fmr snr #DOJ *lawyer* who aided Trump’s attempts to overturn the #2020election result; #KenCuccinelli, a fmr acting deputy secretary in the #DHS under #Trump; & #MarkPaoletta, a fmr snr budget ofcl in the Trump admin. Other Trump allies such as fmr WH adviser #SteveBannon & US #House Reps #ChipRoy & #ScottPerry either spoke at the conferences or appeared on promotional materials for the events.
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Pictured: Four wealthy, powerful White guys, collectively at least one Supreme Court justice, maybe more, engaged by their magical Negro — who represents them on the Court.
#ClarenceThomas #MagicalNegro #HarlanCrow #LeonardLeo #PeterRutledge #MarkPaoletta #SupremeCourt #FederalistSociety #ChristianNationalism #WhiteNationalism #WhitePatriarchy #SCOTUS #JudicialEthics #corruption -
Tiger Woods has withdrawn. For the moment, it’s no more Masters for him. Meanwhile, Clarence Thomas still has at least four.
#ClarenceThomas #SCOTUS #HarlanCrow #PeterRutledge #LeonardLeo #MarkPaoletta #TigerWoods #MastersTournament #golf -
The legal term for gaining influence over the Supreme Court by “buying” a Black jurist and having him do your bidding:
QUID PRO BRO.
#QuidProBro #ClarenceThomas #QuidProQuo #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #HarlanCrow #PeterRutledge #LeonardLeo #MarkPaoletta #corruption #bribery -
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In its reporting, Propublica points out that Thomas got to hang out on Crow's superyacht with #MarkPaoletta, who was then general counsel for Trump's OMB, and who has opposed any tightening of ethics rules for Supreme Court judges: "there is nothing wrong with ethics or recusals at the Supreme Court."
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