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NORMAN â Despite having just come to national attention in the past week for her involvement with President Donald Trump, Cleta Mitchell once had a heavy hand in progressive Oklahoma politics.
Mitchell is now known as the estranged lawyer who was advising Trump during a phone call, first reported by The Washington Post, in which Trump and Mitchell attempted to coerce Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger into overturning the election results in Trumpâs favor.
Mitchell can be heard numerous times throughout the phone call making baseless claims of voter fraud while being continuously cut off by Trump. But Mitchell wasnât always peddling claims of fraud and fighting to overturn elections.
I think that’s a perfect description of Judis. I’ve no idea what he’s doing on TPM which I’ve followed from the beginning and I find Josh Marshall’s take on politics consistently interesting and often ahead of the curve. (Like everyone else he has his stumbles, but he takes you through his thinking very transparently so I always feel he’s honest with his readers.) John Judis’ pieces always come as a shock – my sense is that every time he appears he diverges even further from the basic ethic, mood, point of view of the website so now he’s like a visitor from another planet. His latest piece enraged me. He explains that no, he’s not equating a bunch of teenage vandals who have no connection with the Democratic Party with the attempt of Republican elected officials to steal an election – but that’s after he’s spent several paragraphs equating them. My take is Marshall was once allied with him or may be friends with him and can’t quite bring himself to sto