7) PA officials have now confirmed this was an administrative error, not any kind of Matthew Broderick-in-Election type tampering. (Voters sent in ballots using the wrong envelope, meant for ballot *requests*, which led officials to open them).

8) Mark it down. DOJ will never bring criminal charges here, or even a civil case. (And if they do force it, they'll never prevail). That press release (and the "Revised Statement") is all we'll ever see, barring further potential releases.

9) But guess what? It did the trick. Because before (and after) DOJ could fix this and get its act together, Trump, McEnaney, and Meadows all waved the false and misleading announcement around as proof of their bogus mass-fraud theories. Hard to un-ring that bell.

10) If you can't see that Trump will contest this election if he loses, I don't know what to tell you. And if you can't tell Barr will weaponize DOJ to enable that, then I also don't know what to tell you. They've both shown us who they are and what they will do.

The end.