E203 - It Was Russia, Not China? Or It Was China? Or Antifa?

The speech matters less for its facts than for its signal. Hawk reads it as telegraphing that this administration will not accept the results of the midterms, and he puts it alongside the rest of the week: Jay Clayton declining to say who won in 2020, Todd Blanche testifying the president may direct prosecutions of his enemies, and Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller announcing an expansion of groups designated as domestic terrorists under National Security Presidential Memorandum 7.

His practical warning is about conspiracy charges, using a Texas ICE protest case where one participant reportedly received 30 years, and how...