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NEW: Sources familiar confirm to
@ABC
the authenticity of this letter from current AUSA James Herbert publicly speaking out against AG Barr. "The current attorney general has brought shame on the department he purports to lead." w/
@AaronKatersky
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Wow. The Office of Special Counsel finds that
@KellyannePolls
repeatedly violated the Hatch Act and **is recommending her removal from federal service.**
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Wow. AG Barr says "greatest danger to our free system" is the Obama admin used "the law enforcement agencies and the intelligence agencies, both to spy on political opponents, but also to use them in a way that could affect the outcome of the election."
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BREAKING: Jury finds DC lawyer Michael Sussmann NOT GUILTY on charge of lying to the FBI - big loss for special counsel John Durham in 1st trial of his more than three-year investigation.
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@senatemajldr
asked a key question - if someone were to tell your own wife [Sec. of Transportation Elaine Chao] to "go back to her country," would you consider that racist?
McConnell declines to answer yes or no.
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There it is -- RNC's resolution makes a cameo during 1/6 rioter sentencing. Judge ABJ: "It is not 'legitimate political discourse,' and it is not justified to descend on the nation's Capitol at the direction of a disappointed candidate and disrupt the electoral process."
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Here’s the draft letter Jeffrey Clark wanted acting AG Rosen and Richard Donoghue to sign off on to send to officials in Georgia urging them to halt certification of Joe Biden’s election win. Rosen and Donoghue refused.
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New: Georgia voter Mark Andrews is suing Dinesh D'Souza over his 2000 Mules documentary, alleging it falsely accuses him of illegally depositing ballots into drop boxes. Andrews says video showed him legally dropping off ballots for himself and his family.
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NEW: D.C. judge grants DOJ's emergency motion to keep Capitol rioter Doug Jensen in government custody, overruling a judge in Iowa who would have released him with restrictions. Jensen, who was seen chasing Officer Eugene Goodman through the Capitol, will be transported to D.C.
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BREAKING: Judge Lisa Wood says she will REJECT the terms in DOJ's plea agreement reached with Gregory and Travis McMichael that would have allowed them to serve out 30 years of their sentence in a federal prison rather than their full life sentence in state prison.
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Fun fact: This turkey has spent more time at the podium in the White House briefing room than
@PressSec
for the entire month of November!
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NEW: It's not just Australia. A DOJ official tells
@ABC
that AG Barr asked President Trump to initiate introductions between him and the leaders of Australia **and Italy.** Official confirmed Barr's trip last week to Italy was related to his review of the Russia investigation.
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NEW: A senior DOJ official said AG Barr made final call on decision not to move forward in prosecuting Officer Pantaleo in
#EricGarner
's death, siding with EDNY recommendation over DOJ's own Civil Rights division, which *recommended prosecution.*
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Wow -- Garland chokes up as he talks about his motivation for taking on job as AG: "I come from a family where my grandfather fled anti-semitic persecution. This country took us in, protected us, and I feel an obligation to the country to pay back..."
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Fairly striking image -- all of the flags surrounding the Washington Monument are at half-staff, though the flag atop the White House was raised to full staff just after midnight.
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Stunning moment at DOJ just moments ago, at event marking 10th anniversary of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
Shepard's family sent a rep to read off a letter that took aim directly at AG Barr.
Key portion here:
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NEW: The VFW has issued a statement saying it is "disappointed" with audience members who booed and heckled members of the press during the president's speech today -->
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NEW - Trump's pick for intelligence director misrepresented his role in a major anti-terrorism financing case, which he has repeatedly described as among his key national security credentials via
@ABC
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Solid timing on this DOJ release...
'Honolulu Woman Receives Three Months in Prison for Removal and Retention of Classified Material'
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NEW - A senior DOJ official has now provided this statement to reporters further distancing the department from Mulvaney’s comments: “If the White House was withholding aid in regards to the cooperation of any investigation at the Department of Justice, that is news to us.”
Mulvaney said the holdup in military aid was partly tied to Ukraine committing to cooperate with the ongoing review of the Russia investigation being led by U.S. Attorney John Durham.
A DOJ official just told reporters here, "we have no idea what he's talking about."
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Here's the copy of the original bedbugs complaint filed by Eric Linder in 2016 against Trump's Doral resort. The resort eventually reached a confidential settlement with Linder.
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NEW: In newly disclosed text messages shared with Congress, the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine wrote to a group of other American diplomats, "I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.”
via
@KFaulders
@cjf39
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New: Former Lt. Col.
@AVindman
just filed suit in D.C. district court against Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, Julia Hahn and Dan Scavino alleging they engaged in a witness intimidation conspiracy against him ahead of his testimony in Trump's 1st impeachment trial.
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A DOJ official this evening says "the department was not consulted" on the Flynn pardon but they "were given a heads-up today."
"We would have preferred to see if Judge Sullivan would act and for the matter to be resolved in court," the official said. 1/2
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NEW: An SDNY judge has just rejected the Justice Department's attempt to substitute the United States for President Trump as the defendant in
@ejeancarroll
's defamation lawsuit. Judge says POTUS "not an employee" and his comments about Carroll were not in scope of his employment.
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NEW: AG Barr at a news conference says he sees no reason to appoint special counsels into either Hunter Biden or President Trump's baseless claims of widespread fraud tainting the 2020 election.
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New: AG Garland has sent a letter to Texas Gov.
@GregAbbott_TX
threatening to sue over a newly-signed executive order that aims to restrict the transportation of recently-arrived migrants in the state. Garland calls the order "dangerous and unlawful."
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AG Barr appears to pour cold water on
#ObamaGate
- “As to President Obama and Vice President Biden... based on the information I have today I don’t believe Mr. Durham’s work will lead to a criminal investigation of either man.”
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Reporters forgot to turn off Star Wars: Rogue One before
@POTUS
came back to visit the press cabin.
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@PressSec
hasn’t briefed on camera in 9 days. During all of June, July and August she briefed on cam just 13 times for a combined 3 hrs and 58 mins.
Obama WH in same period in 2016: 35 on-cam briefings for approximately 39 hrs combined.
Our story:
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@realDonaldTrump
-- I'ma let you finish, but GWB had one of the best APEC outfits of all time.
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NEW: DOJ arrests and charges Michael Joseph Foy of Michigan after IDing him as man seen attacking MPD officer with a hockey stick during the insurrection. The attack lasted for 16 seconds, per FBI affidavit.
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From Hope Hicks' testimony to House Judiciary last month:
@JacksonLeeTX18
- "Were you ever present when Trump and Cohen
discussed Stormy Daniels?"
Hicks: "No, ma'am."
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@realDonaldTrump
is slamming the
@nytimes
for citing a senior White House official “who doesn’t exist,” but the portion of the article he appears to be referring to directly cites comments made at a background briefing the White House held for the whole press corps Thursday.
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New: DOJ is suing Peter Navarro (separate from criminal contempt case) to turn over records from a private ProtonMail account that he allegedly used to send/receive messages while in the Trump White House.
Lawsuit here:
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Breaking: DOJ announces three GA men charged w/ federal hate crimes and attempted kidnapping in connection with Ahmaud Arbery's death
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Confirmed: Retired firefighter Robert Sanford of Chester, Pa. was arrested this morning after he was identified as the man seen on video allegedly throwing a fire extinguisher at three Capitol police officers at the riot last week. First reported by
@WSJ
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@POTUS
now attacking a "so-called" judge appointed by Pres. George W. Bush and confirmed 99-0 in the U.S. Senate.
The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!
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The FBI field office in San Antonio has just released an on-record statement confirming it is investigating this incident —>
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Acting USA Sherwin: 275 open investigations into subjects related to violence at the Capitol -- both inside and outside the Capitol. Expect 300 by the end of today.
As of 8 a.m. this morning, DOJ has opened 98 criminal cases -- a majority of which are federal felony cases.
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Here's more from Judge Amy Berman Jackson in her sentencing today of disabled Marine vet Mark Leffingwell -- worth reading in full.
She sentenced Leffingwell, who punched officers after entering the Capitol, to six months in prison.
There it is -- RNC's resolution makes a cameo during 1/6 rioter sentencing. Judge ABJ: "It is not 'legitimate political discourse,' and it is not justified to descend on the nation's Capitol at the direction of a disappointed candidate and disrupt the electoral process."
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Some fun action shots of
@realDonaldTrump
with that birthday cake from the lunch with Singapore's prime minister. And of course there's gold all over the cake -- including the candle! (Via Singapore's Comms Ministry)
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On a call this afternoon with reporters, Assistant AG Kenneth Polite of DOJ's Criminal Division said the elections threat task force has reviewed more than 850 reports of threats to election officials and has "dozens" of open criminal investigations out of those referrals.
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Just two weeks ago Jenner said she had the ear of Trump admin officials on trans issues.
Now -->
There are 15,000 patriotic transgender Americans in the US military fighting for all of us. What happened to your promise to fight for them?
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NEW: Attorney General Barr personally told President Trump about the department's investigation into discarded ballots in Pennsylvania before Trump first revealed it in his interview with Fox News Radio, a DOJ official tells
@ABC
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BREAKING: In a statement tonight, FBI says a Missouri man they tried to arrest yesterday who was planning to car bomb a health care facility amid the COVID-19 crisis has died after injuries inflicted during the arrest. Target of long-running domestic terror investigation.
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Bannon on June 15: "The J6 Committee is totally irrelevant... Their ratings stink."
Bannon's attorneys today: So many people are watching the Jan. 6 committee's hearings that we need to delay his trial.
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In their memorandum today seeking Jensen's continued detention, prosecutors said Jensen was found to have been carrying a knife and that he put his hands in his pocket several times as he stalked Officer Goodman through the halls.
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Michael Flynn was the president's national security adviser...
BREAKING NEWS!
FINALLY!
WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL INDICTED in connection with MUELLER investigation!
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@IvankaTrump
after
@DebRobertsABC
asks what missteps she would say she has made: "I actually have experienced on a personal level this tremendous growth in my own sense of self, in seeing more brightly my own compass and signal..."
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Andrews says he and his family "have faced threats of violence and live in fear" after release of 2000 Mules. "They feel intimidated to vote and have changed how they vote because of that fear... that believers in the “mules” theory may recognize and seek
reprisal against them.."
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For those keeping track, it has been 13 days since a White House official took questions from reporters on camera in the briefing room.
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Something to keep an eye on - overnight DOJ cleared the way for the release of surveillance/body cam videos showing attack on USCP Officer Sicknick and two other officers guarding a barricade on Jan. 6.
@ABC
joined with 13 other media outlets in a request for the videos.
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NEW: A senior DOJ official this evening said "it does appear" the withdrawals of the prosecutors in the Stone case were in protest to DOJ's reversal. The official continued to insist the president's tweet played no role in the reversal, calling it an "inconvenient coincidence."
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AG Barr in Kenosha says that prior to the rioting in the city last week, federal agents stationed in Chicago picked up information that "violent instigators" from California, Washington state and Chicago were traveling to Kenosha to carry out attacks against law enforcement.
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@KFaulders
reports on ABC News special report per sources: Trump faces at least seven counts ranging from obstruction, willful retention of NDI, conspiracy, scheme to conceal, false statements.
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UPDATE: A senior DOJ official tells
@ABC
"we do not intend to release the [unmasking] list" that Grenell brought over to the building last week.
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Mulvaney said the holdup in military aid was partly tied to Ukraine committing to cooperate with the ongoing review of the Russia investigation being led by U.S. Attorney John Durham.
A DOJ official just told reporters here, "we have no idea what he's talking about."
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A Tennessee resident who formerly served as a concentration camp guard in Nazi Germany has been ordered to be removed from the U.S. following a two-day trial in Memphis.
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Sandra Weyer was arrested in Mechanicsburg, PA this morning.
She allegedly filmed a group of 1/6 rioters who assaulted a female
@nytimes
reporter and stole her camera.
Weyer in the video is heard yelling: “GET HER OUT, MACE
HER” as the photog tried to get her camera back.
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A big deal. Fred and Cindy Warmbier were in the First Lady's guest box in the 2018 SOTU.
Trump's message to them at the time?
"You are powerful witnesses to a menace that threatens our world... Tonight, we pledge to honor Otto's memory with total American resolve."
Otto Warmbier’s parents speak out following Trump comments — “no excuses or lavish praise” can change the fact that KJU regime responsible for their sons death
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BREAKING: Law enforcement sources tell
@ABC
News a suspect is dead after an encounter with Capitol Police. via
@JackDate
and
@MLevineReports
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Worth reading these quotes from federal judge Charles Weigle in Georgia today explaining his decision to deny bail to one of the Capitol rioters, an attorney (!) who bragged about kicking down Speaker Pelosi's door and spoke about her being "torn into little pieces."
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Interesting timing - AG Barr is actually on a visit to the SDNY US atty's office today.
@PierreTABC
reports Barr was informed of the Fruman/Parnas investigation last Feb. shortly after being confirmed and he was told last night they were being arrested.
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@POTUS
was just asked on the South Lawn about special counsel obtaining transition emails. "Not looking good, not looking good."
I asked if he is considering firing Robert Mueller, he answered: "No, I'm not."
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New: Prosecutors just alerted a DC judge that Edward Vallejo, an Oath Keeper charged in the 1/6 seditious conspiracy case who is seeking release from pre-trial detention, may have tried to obstruct justice days after his arrest ***over the jail's recorded phone line.***
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Judge Wood is now giving the McMichaels a chance to deliberate with their attorneys to determine whether they still wish to plead guilty today.
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Now
@RepCummings
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Terrible. Virginia Beach police say at least 11 killed in municipal building shooting. Virginia Beach Mayor: "This is the most devastating day in the history of Virginia Beach."
@ABC
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In Crosby, TX,
@realDonaldTrump
invites
@georgepbush
on stage to shake his hand. "This is the only Bush that likes me, this is the only one! ... Truly, this is the Bush that got it right!"
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President Trump has spent more than 1/3 of his days in office either visiting or staying at one of his properties.
Per pool, Trump has arrived at Trump Nat'l Golf Club in VA.
This is his 69th day at a golf course, 89th day at a Trump property as POTUS.
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Reporters on the North Lawn driveway waiting for
@PressSec
to finish a pre-taped interview with Fox News.
Her last on-camera briefing was a month ago, Dec. 18 — the longest period yet of Trump’s presidency with no briefings.
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Reporters gathered outside
@PressSec
's office just asked why Trump sent the letter: "We want to keep her in Washington. If she leaves she guarantees that the second round of paychecks to workers won’t go out.”
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DOJ’s Election Threats Task Force makes its 2nd arrest in a week.
Gjergi Juncaj charged with making four threatening phone calls to an elections worker in Nevada the morning after the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol.
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"Ladies and gentlemen... we got him."
Jesse James Runson, aka
#SeditionPanda
, was arrested today in Florida per newly unsealed court records.
Docs here:
cc
@ryanjreilly
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Last night John Kelly put the blame squarely on AG Sessions for the child separation policy, and said the admin was caught "flat footed."
But a reminder of when Kelly in an NPR interview vouched for the policy, and said separations "would be a tough deterrent."
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There's a Reddit photoshop challenge for the
@POTUS
/Clinton hug and this one takes the cake.
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NEW: FBI Pittsburgh field office tells
@ABC
agents are currently "conducting court authorized law enforcement activity" at Sandy Lakes, Pa. residence of Rachel Powell -- identified by
@RonanFarrow
this week at the 'Bullhorn Lady' at the Capitol riot.
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New: Here's the unsealed arrest affidavit for Nicholas Roske -- the man arrested near Justice Kavanaugh's home. He had a Glock 17 pistol w/ two magazines, tactical chest rig and knife, a pistol light, pepper spray, zip ties and other tools.
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NEW: Trump's disclosure endangered spy placed inside ISIS by Israel, officials say
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New: It appears Trump's legal team has filed in SDFL, cause listed as 'motion for judicial review' -- no documents available yet though.
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@SebGorka
on
@BBCr4today
provided context the WH has so far been unwilling to provide behind the ban on transgender servicemembers.
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AG Barr says of a DOJ 'pattern or practice' investigation of the Minneapolis PD: "We stand ready to act if we think it's necessary... I don't think one at this stage is warranted" with other ongoing state investigations.
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FBI director Jim Comey is at the White House,
@ABC
confirms. No answer from WH or FBI on why he is here yet.
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Full list here w/ max sentences that each of the charges carries if Trump is convicted - unclear whether he faces just one or more counts on any of the named charges.
NEW-Trump faces at least 7 charges. List w/
@Santucci
&
@alex_mallin
Willful Retention of NDI
Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice
Withholding a Doc or Record
Corruptly Concealing a Doc or Record
Concealing a Doc in a Fed Investigation
Scheme to Conceal
False stmts&Representations
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Secret Service officers currently blocking pro-marijuana protesters from carrying "51-ft joint" in front of WH.
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Diamond (of Diamond and Silk) just claimed repeatedly in front of the House Judiciary Committee that the two have "never" been paid by the Trump campaign.
But per this FEC report they received $1274.94 from the campaign in 11/2016 for "field consulting."
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Asst US Atty who served in DOJ for 36 yrs pens op-ed saying he’s resigning because of AG Barr. Phillip Halpern says he stayed on the past year partly because he feared Barr might interfere in the case against fmr Rep. Duncan Hunter, which he prosecuted.
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FBI issues statement responding to the FISA court’s order —>
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Because this news day will never end - Jeffrey Clark is appearing now on Tucker Carlson… 👀👀👀
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AG Barr at the WH briefing said enhancing counternarcotics ops in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean will “radically improve” DOJ’s efforts to interdict drugs from coming into the U.S. “We are talking about hundreds of tons of cocaine that we are now in a position to seize.”
A DOJ official says AG Barr will be participating in the coronavirus daily briefing at the White House at 5:30.
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Wow. The Trump-appointed DNI IG Michael Atkinson said in a letter that the President's alleged conduct could have exposed him, along with others supporting him, "to serious national security and counterintelligence risks" if foreign intelligence services became aware of it.
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@EricTrump
on Fox and Friends responds to racism allegations against
@realDonaldTrump
- "My father sees one color -- green."
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AG Barr tells those close to
@realDonaldTrump
he is considering resigning over Trump's tweets: Sources confirming
@washingtonpost
report w/
@PierreTABC
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This was a great question from
@mkraju
, who repeatedly pressed McConnell when he didn’t answer directly.
.
@senatemajldr
asked a key question - if someone were to tell your own wife [Sec. of Transportation Elaine Chao] to "go back to her country," would you consider that racist?
McConnell declines to answer yes or no.
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