Eli Lake
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Reporter for @theFP Host of the Re-Education podcast @nebulouspods . Contributing editor at @commentary
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I’ve been going through the interview transcripts that ODNI forced
@AdamSchiff
to release. It’s now clear why every Republican on his committee in 2019 called for his resignation. He knew the closed door witnesses didn’t support his innuendo and fakery on Russia collusion.
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According to Bolton, Trump privately told China’s tyrant that he should keep building concentration camps for Uighurs. That is an obscenity. He deserves to lose every state in November.
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Regardless of what Judge Sullivan does in regard to Flynn, honest observers have to reckon with what we now know about the investigation & prosecution. Exculpatory evidence was kept from Flynn, his lawyers & the public. The FBI, and later Mueller, stoked a false narrative.
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If DoJ has the goods on Trump, then charge him. But raiding his home for a violation of the presidential records act on the anniversary of Nixon’s resignation smells like partisan bullshit and an abuse of power.
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For most of my life I thought free speech was really good. But now that Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter, I realize free speech is actually what Nazis like. The founding fathers started the revolution because King George wasn’t moderating enough content.
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Does anyone besides Adam Schiff think Trump’s mean, crude and stupid tweets today constitute “witness intimidation?”
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I just read Osama bin Laden’s letter. After reflecting on American history, the US role in the Middle East and really trying to see the world from al Qaeda’s perspective, I had a breakthrough. May 2, the day Navy SEALs smoked that dirtbag, should be a national holiday.
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The FBI didn't persecute Hillary. It protected her.
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Schiff says on
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“there were serious abuses of FISA” but then says it wasn’t apparent two years ago. He had the same information as Nunes. Nunes called out those abuses. Schiff chose to attack Nunes instead of performing his oversight duties.
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If Democrats want to avoid a mid-term wipe out, they need to stop talking about inflation, crime and the economy. Voters care about 3 things right now: Trump’s collusion with Russia in 2016; abolishing the gender binary and protecting public school students from their parents
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Erdogan cannot still be invited to Washington after his army deliberately attacked a US outpost. Sanction his assets. Arm the Kurds.
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I think it’s safe to say at this point that
@andrewcuomo
conned the national media on his COVID leadership. He made a horrendous decision on nursing homes and then covered it up on the death counts. Shame on him. But also shame on the journalists who couldn’t stop swooning.
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GOP insiders tell me internal polling suggests Republican voters have really soured on the mainstream media.
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This ends with these morons pulling down a Harriet Tubman statue because she was silent on trans equality
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The best way to view Sullivan’s unprecedented actions today in the Flynn case is as a last gasp of the “resistance.” In the last year the collusion conspiracy theory has collapsed. It’s discredited. Sullivan’s actions are deeply unfair to Flynn, but the truth is coming out.
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Hello
@TwitterSupport
This account is spreading disinformation aimed at undermining public faith in elections.
Jim Crow 2.0 is about two insidious things: voter suppression and election subversion. It’s about making it harder to vote, who gets to count the vote, and whether your vote counts at all.
We have to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
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It’s heartbreaking that journalists, of all people, would be leading the charge to deplatform outlets they don’t like. Besides undermining the basic principals of our profession, this will come back to bite us. Cancel Snitch Journalism.
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This is a good account to follow for insider nat sec stuff.
The United States of America was not involved in the catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir SLV Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran. I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at Site One.
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If you're a DoJ lawyer who was ok with what they did to
@MikeFlynn
please resign.
DOJ lawyers of integrity will be tempted to resign over today’s motion to dismiss the Flynn case. My advice is to please stay. We need you instead of those who might replace you.
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On mid-term day remember that we are a nation of immigrants and refugees. America is an idea, not a blood line. That’s one of the reasons we are so exceptional.
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This is horrendous. Wearing a Hijab does not make you disloyal to the constitution.
Fox host Jeanine Pirro says that Ilhan Omar's hijab may mean that she's against the Constitution.
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.
@CBS_Herridge
is doing her job and following a story that her media and partisan attackers once hyped, to their discredit. To attack her is partisan gets it backwards. Not reporting on the new documents on the Flynn case betrays partisanship.
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Anyone who would still defend the FISA warrants of Carter Page after the Horowitz report is deceiving themselves or you. There’s no defending it. Nunes was right about that. Schiff was wrong.
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Looks like CPAC did Romney a favor by barring him from their conference.
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If you hear someone utter the phrase “literally a Nazi,” there is a very good chance they are literally a moron.
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This is going to really hurt
@Sen_JoeManchin
with the several dozen Biden supporters in West Virginia.
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Counterpoint: Stop setting fires and smashing windows
Antifa and BLM are begging people to stop posting videos and pictures of riots because they're getting arrested 😂 🤣
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A lot of commies are in my timeline claiming the shortages at grocery stores is evidence that capitalism has failed. A better thesis is that we’re in the middle of a pandemic.
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If you witness a Logan Act violation, please call MSNBC’s crime buster hotline and ask for Lisa.
JUST ANNOUNCED:
@MSNBC
welcomes Former FBI Lawyer
@NatSecLisa
as an NBC News & MSNBC National Security & Legal Analyst.
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A few thoughts on the transcript. First off, it's important to remember that what's at stake is whether the calls indicated that Flynn was a Russian agent. That's what the FBI was investigating. The bureau was prepared to close that probe on Jan. 4, 2017.
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I wrote a lengthy essay on the Flynn ordeal. The FBI railroaded him.
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The FBI never tried to place informants inside the Trump campaign. They only ran informants to solicit information from people who worked for the campaign. Is it just me, or does this seem like a distinction without a difference.
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You’re the president of the United States. What are you doing?
Really bad news! The Baltimore house of Elijah Cummings was robbed. Too bad!
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The party that in 2016 passed disinformation to the FBI to gin up investigations into their political opponent has now established a disinformation board at the Department of Homeland Security.
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Lindsey Graham just won the hearing. Compelling, heartfelt and real.
#KavanaughConfirmation
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Before twitter, I never knew that so many Kremlinologists were also experts on pandemic diseases.
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I don’t buy the special counsel’s line that they had to do a pre-dawn SWAT team raid to arrest Roger Stone because they feared he would erase files. He’s been saying he would be indicted for months.
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I’m not a fan of
@mattgaetz
But the national press corps and the Justice Department owe him an apology. For more than a year, resistance types have slandered him based on a leak of an ongoing investigation.
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Congratulations Democrats. Your Kavanaugh circus has united the right behind Trump.
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BTW it should go without saying. This is not the Berlin airlift. It’s chaotic surrender. It was a dumb talking point 48 hours ago. It’s a shameful one now.
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As protests intensify in Iranian cities, remember that the collapse of this regime is not only good for Iranians but for the whole world. The leaders of Iran have terrorized their neighbors and their people for too long. Their time is coming.
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How is the fact check coming? You guys need more time?
While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook's third-party fact checking partners. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.
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Children who say they want to be another gender should not be given hormones or puberty blockers. And doctors who say this treatment is safe and reversible should have their licenses revoked. This position is not an expression of transphobia, it’s common sense.
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In related news Hasbro, the maker of Mr. Potato Head, will be changing its name to Hasperson
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This is such a smear of
@benshapiro
. Osama bin Laden read Noam Chomsky, Bob Woodward and Michael O’Hanlon. It means nothing. To connect the author to the deeds of the sociopath who reads him is moronic.
Cesar Sayoc has
@benshapiro
content on his Twitter feed. Several months ago, prosecutors discovered the Quebec City mosque shooter studied Shapiro's work obsessively before killing six people.
This is a dangerous trend. The facts suggest Ben is inciting terrorists.
#MAGABomber
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It doesn’t matter whose phone records Schiff subpoenaed. It matters that he published them in his report. Why would Democrats publish a selective log of John Solomon’s phone calls? The issue is the president’s abuse of power, not bad stories about Joe Biden.
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Remember this
Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel
#coronavirus
(2019-nCoV) identified in
#Wuhan
,
#China
🇨🇳.
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Just cancelled my subscription to
@washingtonpost
It’s declined so much since 2017, but it’s failure to cover the IRS whistleblowers seriously choosing to run DNC press release spin on MTG has sealed my decision. It was once a great paper. Not anymore.
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This headline is passive voice nonsense. Anarchists dragged a man from his truck and beat him senseless.
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Anyone else troubled that this guy is being fired for the instagram posts of his wife?
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Hey
@SallyQYates
is this a Logan Act violation?
He’s met privately with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, spoken (in English and French) with Emmanuel Macron, and talked with Paul Ryan. My look at how John Kerry is quietly seeking to salvage Iran deal he helped craft:
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Twitter is a rake this guy keeps stepping on
Tick tock. “Those are coming.” Well, you’re no longer director and the Flynn tapes never came. All you have to show for your work is the dirt on your boots from shoveling and burying evidence for
@realDonaldTrump
.
#ShowUsTheTape
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Both Obama and W at the McCain funeral remind me of why so many Americans voted for them.
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Durham is building the case that Democrats manipulated the FBI and the public during Russiagate.
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If you’re angry about student debt, don’t blame the Supreme Court. Don’t blame Republicans in Congress. Blame university administrators who keep raising the price of tuition to support bloated and pointless academic bureaucracy. Most “associate deans” should be baristas.
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Why aren’t more Democrats outraged and ashamed by a member who uses his position to advocate the censorship and shadowbanning of his political opponents? It’s unAmerican. Adam Schiff disgraces his party. No one in Hollywood who believes in free speech should support this guy.
1.TWITTER FILES: Supplemental
More Adam Schiff Ban Requests,
and "Deamplification"
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Many people talk about Hamas as if it’s a monolith. This is too simplistic. Yes, there are Hamas hardliners who support beheading Jewish babies. But there are also Hamas moderates who oppose the beheadings and only want to shoot Jewish babies in front of their parents.
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This Chris Wallace interview on
@FoxNewsSunday
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This video from Ann Dorn is the most effective moment of the convention. Enraging and heartbreaking.
#RNCConvention
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I had a lot problems in 2017 with how Trump fired James Comey. And the way he did it was horrendous. But the decision itself was correct. America is very fortunate that James Comey is no longer in charge of the FBI. What a disgraceful legacy.
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The idea that the horror of October 7 should result in a new diplomatic push for a Palestinian state is so moronic. The message has to be that spectacular terror makes statehood impossible. The precondition for any two state diplomacy now has to be new Palestinian leadership.
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It would be nice if we could get back to undermining the Kremlin, instead of the Kremlin undermining America.
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Have a little decency and apologize to Flynn. You helped, in a small way, the campaign to defame him and ruin his life. You have a chance to repair your reputation. Don’t waste it.
Your friend betrayed the country. Then he became a blackmail target by lying about it. Then he told those same lies to FBI agents who protect the country from blackmail targets. Now you and the Trumps seek to gaslight the world so they can get back to betraying the country again.
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Democrats like Swalwell and Feinstein got the benefit of defensive briefings when it came to Chinese espionage against them. Trump did not get this kind of defensive briefing on Russia.
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Does anyone still think moving the embassy to Jerusalem was a huge mistake that set back the cause of peace? Cause the Israeli PM apparently just met with the Saudi crown prince. I am guessing the US embassy didn’t come up.
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Paul Ryan is right. Trump is humiliating himself, his party, his fans and his country.
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I’ve gotten some pushback for an earlier tweet that said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked. After reflecting on this feedback from our community, I’d like to amend my earlier tweet: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was entirely and self evidently unprovoked.
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Guys. Just because we want to eradicate the world’s only Jewish state and we march in solidarity with the organization responsible for October 7, doesn’t mean we’re antisemitic. We have a whole tent of Jews hosting a river to the sea Seder.
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We need an enhanced Magnitsky approach on Russia. Freeze assets of Russian oligarchs; deny oligarchs and their families access to western territory and markets; and ban the children of these oligarchs from universities. Give those spots to the children of Russian dissidents.
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No cease fire. End Hamas. Kill their operatives. Seize their money. Destroy their communications. Tell Turkey and Qatar if they don’t expel Hamas leaders, Israel will take them out. Work with the PA and others to create an interim govt in Gaza until new elections.
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A point on the
@IlhanMN
exchange with Elliott Abrams. She takes Maduro’s side in Venezuela, calling
@jguaido
a “far right” coup plotter. And she then turns around and lectures Abrams (or is it Adams?) about human rights and genocide. What a farce
A US backed coup in Venezuela is not a solution to the dire issues they face. Trump's efforts to install a far right opposition will only incite violence and further destabilize the region. We must support Mexico, Uruguay & the Vatican's efforts to facilitate a peaceful dialogue.
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Putin has aided and abetted the Syrian genocide, invaded two of Russia's neighbors, irradiated his political opponent in London, lied about cheating in the Olympics and interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. World peace requires the countering and containment of Russia.
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Speaking of disinformation. We now know the main subsource for Steele was a target of an FBI CI probe. Steele himself was paid by Deripaska as he was compiling dossier. FBI uses dossier as main evidence to spy on US citizen & fights to include it in assessment of 2016 election.
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Are Democrats really denying that Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016 had a plan to frame Donald Trump for colluding with Russia’s election interference? Because I didn’t need Durham’s report to know that’s true. My source on this is Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016.
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If only there was a clause in the constitution that would make these kinds of international agreements more durable.
Trump is about to do something opposed by the American people and our closest allies for no reason other than the fact that Barack Obama was involved in negotiating the Iran Deal.
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The latest spin from the deadenders is that Jensen and Shea’s correction of prosecutorial and investigative abuse is making us a third world country. This is backwards. What the FBI did to an incoming national security adviser eroded our democratic norms.
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From February 14, 2017. My first column on how Mike Flynn was railroaded. This is a good day.
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The new Horowitz report on the FBI’s handling of FISA is damning. There is a systemic problem of FBI agents submitting false or inaccurate information to the surveillance court. Here’s a thought, prosecute those who defraud the court. My latest
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675,000 Americans were killed during the Spanish flu pandemic. Some of those deaths may have been avoided if Woodrow Wilson bothered to say anything about it. But no one serious says President Wilson killed 675,000 Americans because it’s moronic.
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Postscript. Read this for a more in depth look at the collapse of the resistance narrative on Michael Flynn.
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Turns out the Schiff memo was ‘a joke and a sham’
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That’s half the story. The other half is that her campaign spread disinformation to the press and FBI that stoked a moral panic that Trump was a Russian agent, that consumed Washington for nearly 3 years. It started with a dossier. Maybe you’ve heard of it.
Hillary Clinton conceded. Maybe you forgot. And bonus points: she didn’t try to overturn a fair and legitimate election or incite violence. But yeah, both sides, cool, man.
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I apologize for the times I defended Obama to my pro-Israel friends. I was wrong.
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I predict we will be reading future memoirs by Biden advisers explaining how they pleaded with him not to do this in Afghanistan. Too late. The time to go public was four months ago.
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I have some sympathy for resistance types flailing to save their narrative about Michael Flynn. It’s hard to let go of deeply held convictions. But don’t attack the journalists following the facts. Direct that anger to the officials who conned you.
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