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Ben Jacobs

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@Bencjacobs
Ben Jacobs
4 years
Kamala Harris's selection means that the Democratic ticket will not have someone with an Ivy League degree for the first time since 1984
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
Of Kanye West's 18 electors in Ohio, six appear to live at the same address in Cleveland
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Ben Jacobs
7 years
Hannity just called Hillary Clinton "President Clinton"
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Ben Jacobs
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Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
And Kanye has just been removed from the ballot in Ohio as well
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
Blackburn is currently a co-sponsor of three different proposed constitutional amendments in the Senate
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn
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We will never rewrite the Constitution of the United States.
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
Have spent five minutes staring at this trying to be sure that it's not The Onion
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CNN Politics
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Former Disney Channel star Caroline Sunshine joins the White House press team
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Ben Jacobs
10 months
It’s amazing how much all Twitter users want is just Twitter circa 2021 and how unwilling anyone, especially including Twitter, is willing to provide that product
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Ben Jacobs
3 years
Trump's Nevada electors, including the chair of the Nevada Republican Party, are suing to either have Trump declared the winner of Nevada or to have the presidential election in the state annulled entirely.
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Ben Jacobs
7 years
Just want to thank everyone for all your kind messages, texts, emails & tweets. My apologies if I haven't responded yet. Will try to do so.
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
People need to STOP GOING TO BARS right now. Deliberately going to crowded enclosed spaces (let alone for the sole purpose of consuming a substance that weakens your immune system) is dangerous for everyone. Your social life will survive. Others might not.
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Ben Jacobs
7 years
Greg Gianforte is refusing to sit down with me. This is what I sent to his spokesman after two months of going back and forth
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
Cory Booker is calling for Trump to follow Al Franken and resign over allegations of sexual harassment on interview with @ajjaffe
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Ben Jacobs
2 years
The real question is how the Gazpacho police interacted with the Vichyssoise government
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Ben Jacobs
3 years
This is a truly unfathomable public statement for a sitting member of Congress to make
@laurenboebert
Lauren Boebert
3 years
David, please. We all saw how tough you were when questioned face to face. Give your keyboard a rest, child.
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
Worth noting that the only Republican female senator with a law degree is Lisa Murkowski
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Alex Bolton
6 years
Mitch McConnell tells reporters at presser that he will try to recruit women Republican senators to the Judiciary Committee next year.
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Ben Jacobs
7 years
Pro tip: If your take on John McCain is anything besides "I hope an American hero makes a quick and full recovery" you should never tweet
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
A small cluster of Democrats including Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Mark Pocan don't stand for Charles McGee, the former Tuskegee Airman introduced by Trump
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Ben Jacobs
7 years
This is like if the Watergate burglars were Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern
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Ben Jacobs
3 years
It appears the image that Kristi Noem used as an example of the Fourth of July in "Trump's America" was taken during the Obama Administration
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
CC: The Central Park Five
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
6 years
Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused - life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
Doug Jones says "when you see me with a gun, I'll be climbing in and out of a deer blind . . . not prancing around on a stage in a cowboy suit"
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Ben Jacobs
7 years
Fox News right now
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5 years
Rather than spend the night in Dublin, Pence will stay at a Trump owned resort on the other side of Ireland and commute for the day on Air Force Two
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Alex Marquardt
5 years
VP Pence arrived in Ireland, he's staying 2 nights at Trump's Doonbeg golf resort, a 3hr drive from Dublin where his meetings are (he'll fly). Due to have dinner tomorrow, @rtenews reports, at a distant cousin's restaurant
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
There's someone sitting on their bed who weighs 400 pounds who is breathing a sigh of relief right now
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Ben Jacobs
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Kevin McCarthy says the only reason that he is not Speaker is because "one person wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17 year old"
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
I called up all of the electors Kanye West submitted in Virginia today. Of the 13 electors on the ballot, 7 were surprised to either be electors, to have signed anything connected with Kanye or both
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Ben Jacobs
7 years
There was a local TV crew there when Gianforte body slammed me. Audio is posting soon at @GuardianUS
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Ben Jacobs
2 years
For 2024, there's a proven Democratic vote winner who is younger than both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden (not to mention Donald Trump) and is tanned, ready and rested
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Ben Jacobs
3 years
INBOX: Leahy, Murkowski, Durbin And Manchin Announce Bipartisan Compromise On The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
It’s unfortunate John Lewis won’t honor the sacrifice made by people like John Lewis?
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Elizabeth Landers
6 years
NEW from @PressSec on Lewis, Thompson missing the Civil Rights Museum opening: “We think it’s unfortunate that these members of Congress wouldn’t join the President in honoring the incredible sacrifice civil rights leaders made to right the injustices in our history." (1/2)
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
So I called up a Kanye elector and he was cagey about why he had signed up for it. After, I googled him and saw there was an RNC delegate by the same name. I called him up again to ask and he said "Yup, that would be me." The call then quickly ended
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Ben Jacobs
5 years
God I hope Beto O'Rourke doesn't need a colonoscopy anytime soon
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
Speaking of facts and data, the CDC has been legally prohibited from studying gun violence since 1996
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Alex Moe
6 years
Speaker Ryan in radio intv on Parkland, FL shooting: "it’s just a horrific, horrific, horrible shooting. I think we need to pray, and our hearts go out to these victims. And I think, as public policymakers, we don’t just knee-jerk before we even have all the facts and the data"
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
This Luis Gutierrez statement on Trump's speech is something
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
Worth noting that the White House's official position is that every woman who has accused Trump of sexual harassment is lying
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The Associated Press
6 years
BREAKING: White House says Trump believes Moore 'will do the right thing and step aside' if sexual misconduct allegations are true.
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Ben Jacobs
5 years
A spokesman for former President Clinton tells me that Clinton has never said any such thing to Trump and that the two have not spoken since the inauguration.
@DavidNakamura
David Nakamura
5 years
In Rose Garden, Trump casually says former presidents have privately told him they should have built the wall.
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
INBOX: Ben Sasse's statement on Manafort/Cohen “Paul Manafort is a founding member of the DC swamp and Michael Cohen is the Gotham version of the same. Neither one of these felons should have been anywhere near the presidency.”
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
There is always a tweet
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
11 years
Honest Omarosa: she won't backstab-she'll come at you from the front.
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Ben Jacobs
3 years
Life comes at you fast . . .
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
Trump starts his rally by saying liberals don't want Thanksgiving to be called Thanksgiving
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Twitter just removed a tweet from Kanye West. He joins Donald Trump as the second US presidential candidate to have a post removed for violating the social media platform’s rules.
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Ben Jacobs
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I always thought @JenniferJJacobs was a great reporter but truly impressed with how she's balanced her day job with her side gig as the official contact tracer of the Executive Branch
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
The five no votes were Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, Clay Higgins, Steve King and Tom Massie.
@ChadPergram
Chad Pergram
4 years
The House of Representatives tonight approved a non-binding resolution committing to an orderly and peaceful transfer of power. The vote was 397-5.
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Ben Jacobs
3 years
This from @PunchbowlNews today is really unsettling
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5 years
"We support the right of the United States citizens of Puerto Rico to be admitted to the Union as a fully sovereign state." --- the 2016 Republican Party platform
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McConnell calls granting statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico, “full bore socialism.”
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Ben Jacobs
7 years
Stephen Miller is a Duke graduate from Santa Monica
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
Pete Buttigieg starts off his Fox News town hall being asked about Kobe Bryant and talking about people being inspired by what Kobe did "on the field and off the field"
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
Twitter is good
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
Trump just claimed Biden confuses his wife with his sister
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2 years
After hosting Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nick Fuentes condemns the media for comparing Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler, "as if that isn't a good thing."
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Ben Jacobs
3 years
INBOX: Trump campaign announces Rep. Doug Collins to lead Georgia recount effort
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4 years
Yovanavich gets a standing ovation from spectators as she leaves the hearing room
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Audible noises of gasps inside the room as Cheney relates Trump's words about the Hang Mike Pence chant: "And maybe our supporters have the right idea, Mike Pence deserves it"
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
Worth noting that Friday will be the one year anniversary of Trump's first, last and only formal White House press conference
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Ben Jacobs
2 years
Gazpacho police are an important mechanism to keep space lasers from warming up people's soup without their consent
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Ben Jacobs
3 years
Trump just revoked the executive order that banned administration officials from becoming lobbyists within five years of leaving government
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Trump's campaign website said Mexico would "make a one-time payment of $5-10 billion"
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Ben Jacobs
8 years
Trump has seven issues on his website. One of the seven is making Mexico pay for the wall.
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Ben Jacobs
2 years
Texas GOP Platform also calls for full repeal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as well as for the state to hold a referendum on whether Texas should secede
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Ben Jacobs
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I saw Sonia Sotomayor drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's
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Ben Jacobs
3 years
Just to sum this up, Powell says Brian Kemp, the GOP governor of GA and major Trump ally, has been bribed by a voting machine company that she has said is a front for Hugo Chavez and Venezuela to rig the election on behalf of Joe Biden.
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Ben Jacobs
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Per John McCain's office, the Senator passed away at 4:28 this afternoon
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Susan Collins, who has a smile on her face, just walked over to Murkowski and McCain and the three are laughing
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Ben Jacobs
3 years
The economics of this are mindboggling. A real vaccine card (which has the advantage of preventing you from dying!) is free. A fake one, which exposes you to potential legal liability and doesn't prevent you from dying, costs $400.
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The Associated Press
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With more than 600 U.S. colleges and universities now requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination, an industry has sprung up offering fake vaccine cards. Sellers on the dark web are offering vaccine cards, certificates and passports — some for as much as $400.
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Ben Jacobs
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In an on-brand move, Kanye West does not vote in any down ballot races and only votes for himself as a write-in candidate.
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Ben Jacobs
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And the local Alabama paper just came out with a story with local residents backing up all the allegations against Moore
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Ben Jacobs
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Trump also pardoned all four Blackwater contractors convicted of killing Iraqi civilians in the Nisour Square Massacre
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Ben Jacobs
3 years
Watching Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama wish Joe Biden well, it's remarkable to realize that they are all younger than him
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Madison Cawthorn, who erroneously praised James Madison as a signer of the Declaration of Independence at the RNC, doesn't seem to have a good grasp on 19th century history either
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This is perhaps the most bizarre statement I’ve ever seen a candidate for federal office make and I covered Kanye 2020
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Sy Snyder
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz said today that he would forego certain security clearances that are provided to all U.S. Senators to keep his dual citizenship with Turkey.
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Ben Jacobs
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There is always a tweet
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Donald J. Trump
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I commend Roger Ailes for publicly supporting @FoxNews ’ employees against the Obama administration's intimidation of its reporters.
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. @AOC just pulled Jamaal Bowman away from debating Marjorie Taylor Greene outside the Capitol saying “she ain’t worth it bro”
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Ben Jacobs
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Newt just called Mueller "a out of control prosecutor" on Hannity
@newtgingrich
Newt Gingrich
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Robert Mueller is superb choice to be special counsel. His reputation is impeccable for honesty and integrity. Media should now calm down
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
This is already a classic
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
Another 4 appear to be at the same address in Lakewood Ohio
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Congratulations to David Cameron on his new job as a political analyst for CNN
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A Republican House candidate who will lose 75-25 is now falsely claiming massive voter fraud cost her the election
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In which Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar advocates for the execution of Mark Milley in his weekly taxpayer funded newsletter
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The former president of the United States is now urging a boycott of our national pastime.
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Suddenly realizing the great expense account opportunities that reporters lost under Obama by not going to Hawaii to see if his base still supported him
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Ben Jacobs
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Per source, Cenk Uygur, host of the Young Turks will announce a Democratic primary bid against Joe Biden tonight. One major obstacle to Uygur's longshot presidential bid is that he is a naturalized citizen and thus ineligible under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.
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Ben Jacobs
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Liz Truss starts her speech at CPAC by proclaiming "the reality is that the west is being run by the left for too long" as the Tories approach their 14th straight year in office in the UK
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These tweets are three days apart
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Fun fact: If elected, Kid Rock would be the first U.S. senator to appear in a sex tape with the lead singer of Creed
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
This is what articles of impeachment look like
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For everyone complaining about the Iowa Democratic Party doing "quality control," this is a process almost entirely put on by volunteers that is reporting numbers in unprecedented detail and dealing with security procedures to avoid foreign interference for the first time
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Ben Jacobs
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Trump just said that he fired Comey on Rosenstein's recommendation. Rosenstein told senators today that Trump had already made up his mind.
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
Just got off the phone with the Park County, Wyoming elections office. @kanyewest is not just a registered voter there. He is a registered Republican.
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
So we're about to reach a point where the President is involved in litigation with both the former #2 at the FBI and the best supporting actress winner at the Adult Video Awards for Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre
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Ben Jacobs
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Just imagining going back in time 20 years ago to explain to someone that Rudy Giuliani got indicted for attempting to overturn a presidential election on behalf of incumbent Donald Trump and Kanye West's publicist was a co-conspirator
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Ben Jacobs
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Cory Booker: We are the party that believes that someone who is nice to you but is not nice to the waiter is not a nice person
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Ben Jacobs
7 years
Fox News just now
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Lane Ruhland, the Wisconsin lawyer who dropped off Kanye West's presidential filing at the Wisconsin Board of Elections represented Donald Trump's presidential campaign exactly one week before in federal court
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
Actually, reporters can attend if they text ↑↑↓↓←→←→BA to Sarah Sanders
@willsommer
Will Sommer
6 years
Bad news: The Trump video game summit is closed to the press.
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Ben Jacobs
6 years
At 7PM, millions of Americans will turn on CBS in hopes of seeing the downfall of one of the most disliked and divisive people in the country . . . Grayson Allen
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Ben Jacobs
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Bernie's new national press secretary on her 2016 presidential vote
@briebriejoy
Briahna Joy Gray
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@tommiesunshine right. Why I'm voting for @DrJillStein
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