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⚡️Covering breaking politics news for The Washington Post 🗳️ Alum: NYTimes, PoliticoNY, Knight-Wallace Fellow 🤳🏼 DMs open 👋 He/Him 🇮🇷🇧🇪🇺🇸
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Robert Zimmerman (D) whom George Santos beat, tells me:
"This story is not a shock to me. We always knew he was running a scam against the voters & we raised many of these issues but were drowned out in the gov’s race where crime was the focus & the media had other priorities"
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Lewinsky, on Bill Clinton:
“If you want to know what power looks like, watch a man safely, even smugly, do interviews for decades, without ever worrying whether he will be asked the questions he doesn’t want to answer.”
Who Gets to Live in Victimville?
my latest for
@VanityFair
on apologies, grief + why i participated in
#TheClintonAffair
docuseries.
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Rudy Giuliani on his radio show a few minutes ago:
" ... as far as this election is concerned, it's over. Biden's the president, she's the vice president. "
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NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board -- which investigates accusations of police misconduct -- denounces Trump's rhetoric that encourages it
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Yesterday
Andrew Giuliani:
"Im the only candidate thats spent parts of 5 different decades of my life in politics or public service..."
Reporter:
How do you get 5 decades? You're only 35.
G:
"Let me clarify. I said parts of 5 decades…my father’s 1st campaign was 1989..."
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Politics, 2019 … in one tweet.
"Stephen Colbert starts ‘petition’ for Cardi B to speak after State of the Union”
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It appears Twitter has banned the accounts of Aaron Rupar (
@atrupar
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@drewharwell
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@Donie
Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight:
@Donie
O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's
@drewharwell
.
Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
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North Shore Leader reported in Nov.
"Santos disclosures also state that he earned 'nothing' - no income - over the past year."
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NBC cuts into Trump’s remarks because, an anchor says, he is making false statements.
#ElectionNight
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@MattBinder
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Anthony Weiner is asking George Santos questions on John Catsimatidis radio show.
This is peak New York
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"first Muslim woman in US history to serve on the bench, was found dead ...washed up ... the Hudson River"
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Oct.
" Huge sums are listed with the FEC for personal expenses - like Brooks Brothers, Florida beach resorts, lavish restaurants and limo services - but many hundreds of thousands more disappear into a black hole of dubious 'consulting fees.'"
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Zimmerman also tells me:
"An investigation is merited bc of the serious allegations of filing false information on his financial disclosure documents and ...questions about his finances [and] where his funds came from."
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@W7VOA
via
@gavinsblog
:
Update:
@W7VOA
has been suspended. He had posted a screenshot and *how* to link to the Facebook version of the Elon jet account.
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🧵 A few things I found when reporting on George Santos
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just one detail from this story:
"A simple statement of fact from Ye—'I was vaccinated'—was edited out of a part of the conversation about COVID"
Exclusive: we obtained unaired footage from Tucker Carlson's interview with Ye, in which the artist makes numerous inflammatory comments about Jews and describes a bizarre claim that "fake children" were planted in his home to manipulate his own kids.
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2008-NYT folds metro section into National section.
2008-NYSun closes.
2011-NYPress closes.
2016-WSJ’s “Greater NY” section closes.
2017-DNA/Gothamist are shut down.
2017-Reporters in NYC City Hall lose access to parts of the building that had been accessible for decades
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A fact-check from George Santos
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A1, with a jaw-dropping stat:
In just five weeks, 100,000 more people have died from Covid-19.
Flashback: May 24, 2020:
"U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS"
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Also, this blind quote from a "senior House GOP aide" in Cook Political Report suggests some real reservations about Santos's candidacy
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via
@MariannaReports
:
"When embattled Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) stood up, a Hispanic Democrat yelled 'mentiroso!' which translates to 'liar' in English."
Here's a clip of Santos casting that vote:
George Santos votes Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House.
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via
@ronaldjhansen
:
"One person familiar with the information shared with McConnell, said Masters’ favorability was lower than former Alabama US Senate candidate Roy Moore’s was after reports that he pursued romantic relations with teen girls when he was in his 30s."
"Senate postmortem: Here's the inside story on how Mark Kelly defeated Blake Masters."
#AZSEN
(via
@ronaldjhansen
)
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Here's a very inaccurate and offensive way to describe public transportation that millions of people rely on, via Tucker Carlson's show yesterday:
"Take the bus? Yeah, homeless schizophrenics have been doing it for generations. Why shouldn't you."
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“Mr. Trump’s aides have been concerned that they will make appearances on other tapes, of which Ms. Manigault Newman is believed to have as many as 200.” —
@maggieNYT
&
@kenvogel
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@MarkWeprin
has gone viral.
Good job
@BTS_twt
Tent City at Citi Field for tomorrow night’s Korean Boy Band BTS concert.
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I love New York...
A wild turkey has taken up residence on a Staten Island man's property and has laid 18 eggs. The homeowner wants the creature gone, but believe it or not the law is actually on its side right now.
@HSanchezTV
reports
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@MarkWarner
: "If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know. If you think you’ve seen wild stuff so far, buckle up. It’s going to be a wild couple of months.” via
@JakeSherman
&
@apalmerdc
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NYT’s big (& very good) story on Trump’s taxes, in 5 words: "He deducted somebody else’s losses”
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Santos spoke at a rally in D.C. on Jan. 5, 2021 and told the crowd: “Who here is ready to overturn the election for Donald Trump?”
Here's a screen shot from that speech
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—> “If the woman in the bathrobe had tipped zero, DoorDash would have paid me the whole $6.85. Because she tipped $3, DoorDash kicked in only $3.85. She was saving DoorDash $3, not tipping me.”
“You’re one step above an Amazon drone.” Really revealing story. Read it!
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MSNBC: “Do you think Hillary would want to do the job” of V.P. ?
@PhilippeReines
: “I do not.”
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NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. Damn it. Murders are not up in NYC. I just reported that TODAY.
#Debates2016
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“People say this was unprecedented,” Barr said Friday, “but it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay?”
Trump’s attorney general says no ‘legitimate reason’ for former president to have classified documents Via
@Azi
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Barr’s comments on Fox News — one of the outlets Trump is known to watch closely — represents an escalation of Barr’s condemnation of his former boss’s behavior.
Trump’s attorney general says no ‘legitimate reason’ for former president to have classified documents Via
@Azi
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one quote in this story:
"'The president got bored with it,' David Carney, an adviser to the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, a Republican, said of the pandemic."
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missed this earlier. retired Harvard psychiatrist, Columbia prof & others raise red flags re Trump's mental health:
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Brutal
"In early March, as Dow Constantine was asking Microsoft to close its offices and putting scientists in front of news cameras,
@billdeBlasio
&
@NYGovCuomo
, were giving speeches that deëmphasized the risks of the pandemic..."
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Victoria Gotti said Trump once told her:
"Your dad and I, we’ve been in each other’s company. We know a lot of the same people.”
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Trump’s false claims were echoed by Republican lawmakers, including some who — according to the newly released video — were literally in the room when Pelosi and others were calling in reinforcements.
Jan. 6 video undermines Trump’s repeated efforts to blame Pelosi for Capitol security Via
@Azi
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Some Republicans in PA and elsewhere resurfaced a 6-year-old Fetterman ad, apparently not knowing it was an homage to a famous Coke ad from the 70s featuring "Mean" Joe Greene of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Here they are, side-by-side.
Fetterman's is 90 seconds, Greene's is 30.
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"...anytime you see Ossoff and Warnock and Biden in Washington, you’re looking at the work of Stacey Abrams.” —
@TheRevAl
.
story by
@CleveWootson
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“Mr. Van Drew saw the results of a poll... a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, showed that the overwhelming majority of Democratic primary voters — 71 percent — would be less likely to support his re-election if he opposed the charges against Mr. Trump.”
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The moment Ron DeSantis lost Tucker Carlson, was, perhaps, at the Carlson dinner table.
via Michael Wolff:
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McConnell endorses bill to prevent efforts to subvert presidential election results
via
@amybwang
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"Mr. McFadden, who is Black, said the police did not believe his press credentials were real until another photographer vouched for him — a situation that has happened to him and other Black journalists many times, he said."
via
@kellen_browning
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A former friend told me:
“He hated that we called him George,”
"His whole family called him Anthony. He wanted to be called Anthony. He would use the name Anthony Devolder.”
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Scene at Inwood is more like block party than a neighborhood in the 2nd night of a curfew and 4th month of a pandemic.
Why?
Part of the reason is local residents worked w/ police, top priority being to avoid looting.
Locals are using armbands to identify who is from the area.
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"Ivanka Trump doesn’t plan to divest from her brand of clothing and accessories as part of her compliance with ethics standards"
Ivanka Trump is joining her father's administration as an official employee
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"Asked what made him vote against a measure that he had co-sponsored, Representative Vern Buchanan, Republican of Florida, was brief and blunt: 'I don’t know,' he said."
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If convicted, the two residents of Martinez, Calif., could face up to a year in jail for vandalizing a
#BlackLivesMatter
mural prosecutors say.
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That clip
“I get it. If you’re a woman, it stinks” that male-dominated legislatures make abortion laws, GOP Rep. John Curtis said. “I wish it were other than that. I wish as a man I didn’t have to make this decision. ***I wish women could make this decision***.”
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“The richest man in America, who’s a direct competitor, has just been handed $3 billion in subsidies. I’m not asking for money or a tax rebate,” Ms. Wyden said. “Just leave me alone.”
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2015: Pizza Rat.
2019: Egg roll Squirrel.
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"He first put a Bernie Sanders portrait on his desk, two former colleagues said. Then, he moved on to wearing MAGA hats..."
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Rep. George Santos, just now, on a Twitter Spaces:
"I never said my mom died on 9/11 … those words never came out of my mouth"
fwiw: here is how Santos changed this part of bio on his campaign website:
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A California police officer was charged on Wednesday with felony manslaughter for fatally shooting a Black man inside a Walmart in April in a swift confrontation that the district attorney said displayed an unreasonable use of deadly force.
#StevenTaylor
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He claimed he helped develop “carbon capture technology.”
He said in one interview " I’ve had a very extensive role in gas and oil in this country.”
He also said , “I’ve been to Moscow many times in my career.”
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Barr:
“If in fact he sort of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them, and said ‘I hereby declassify everything in here,’ that would be such an abuse and show such recklessness that it’s almost worst than taking the documents,”
Trump’s attorney general says no ‘legitimate reason’ for former president to have classified documents Via
@Azi
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Santos asked a former friend to make a Go Fund Me page to raise $ for funeral costs after his mother died in late Dec. 2016. A funeral was held later that month.
Then, on Jan. 7, 2017, this person said Santos reached out to & invited them on a ski trip to the Poconos.
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@MaxwellFrostFL
additional context:
in 2018, then-incoming Rep.
@AOC
told me how the cost of living in DC was a challenge for lawmakers.
here is one story that picked up that thread:
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Here is video of Santos talking traveling to Moscow, and his oil and gas experience
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He once told an interviewer, about the pl who work at FBI:
"I think we need to start vetting these people better and we really need to do a thorough background check on them before they get these jobs."
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