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Zelenskyy meeting with a bunch of people who thought extorting him wasn't worth impeaching a President over.
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Mike Flynn pled the Fifth to a question about whether he believes in the peaceful transfer of power and he's still getting a military pension.
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Q: Why did Sunday bookers invite a bunch of people lying about the election on to lie more about the election?
Why not invite experts on right wing terrorism? Or constitutional lawyers to talk about abuse of power? Or COVID experts?
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It's interesting SarahHuckSanders went after ESPN anchor Jemele Hill but not Miss Texas.
I wonder what the difference is?
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If the press doesn't make this a story about Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz paling around with Josh Duggar, or Jim Jordan coddling sex crimes, or Matt Gaetz's suspected sex trafficking, or Brett Kavanaugh's alleged sex assault on a teenager, they might as well turn in their badges.
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Let's try this, NYT:
BREAKING: Republicans tried to use a crisis to loot America again and Democrats stopped them.
Breaking News: Senate Democrats blocked action on a sweeping economic rescue plan, saying it failed to adequately protect workers amid the coronavirus crisis
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I hope someone who has interns is pulling the quotes of all the Republicans, starting with MItch McConnell, who said they voted against impeachment bc the proper remedy was prosecution.
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There were so many moments where, if just a handful of Republicans had shown some moral courage, we could have prevented much of the damage Trump did and continues to do.
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Joe Biden should answer all "court-packing" questions by saying that the first priority is to investigate the judges who withheld critical information during their confirmation hearings.
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Again: Every single word of Trump's rebuttal tomorrow is something he refused to say under oath.
Every single word.
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Hey
@PhilipRucker
? Will you be assiging 6 journalists to write about how a judge found Trump and TWO SONS engaged in a decade of fraud, like you assigned 6 journalists, several conflicted, to report that Biden's son unlawfully owned a gun for 11 days 5 years ago?
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I think Biden should just say "no tax returns, no debate." He doesn't need the debate at this point, and it'll highlight Trump's corruption.
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Predictably, Trump RELEASED the warrant with the names of the FBI agents unredacted. The one that will be released will redact those names.
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No one knew the pandemic was coming, the President says, except the most junior Senator managed to cash in on her position even without the more sensitive briefings Richard Burr got.
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Dear the press: If you repeat outrageous claims made at CPAC without clearly identifying it as a lie, you're helping magnify disinformation.
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Dear Democrats saying Whittaker must recuse:
Try it this way: "If Whittaker doesn't recuse--as required by DOJ guidelines--it will confirm he was appointed to obstruct justice."
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Congratulations to Donald J Trump for finally getting the second vote in GA he was demanding.
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The press seems too distracted to notice that Trump is not just threatening, but planning, to burn the country to the ground to make sure Biden can't succeed.
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Boiling Frog Journalism:
The President entertains his recently pardoned General's pitch for a coup and it's not 5-alarm fire coverage.
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Dear the press:
Maybe don't film live from Trump rallies.
The man calls you an enemy of the people. Do not be the enabling tools of his spectacle.
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I apologize that I cannot contain my disgust with which the DOJ press corps protected Bill Barr from criticism. But holy shit did that man roll a whole bunch of people playing journalists on the TV.
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At what point is it fair to insinuate that Mitch McConnell's disinterest in protecting voting security has to do w/Oleg Deripaska-related investments in KY or his wife's already unethical business ties to China?
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So am I mistaken that the entire GOP, with the exception of GA's SoS, has decided that Democratic votes should be illegal?
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The man about to be second in line to the Presidency violated his oath to the Constitution and tried to disenfranchise four states.
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Musk is throwing this tantrum bc Twitter told him he needed to undergo a background check and act in the interest of stockholders.
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In July, I observed that anyone w/o a warrant who accessed the content of Hunter Biden's iPhone had likely violated CFAA.
Hunter Biden just sued Garrett Ziegler for doing just that.
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Remind me which of the original 13 states Ohio was again?
The founders never intended for Washington DC to become a state.
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Particularly as Trump tries to focus on Hunter Biden, this article (complete with glam photo) is irresponsible.
She's not a diplomat. She's an incompetent child playing dress up and violating a slew of ethics rules.
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Not sure if Trump flunkies are noticing but Schiff is holding transcripts that implicate them until they refuse to testify, as happened with Mulvaney today.
By letting Trump withhold their testimony, they're losing their shot to speak for themselves.
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You can have as much time to grieve as the country got to honor the legacy of RBG.
Rick Santorum on CNN literally saying "Democrats need to give Republicans, including Trump, time and space to work through their feelings about losing."
#ElectionResults2020
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I'm wondering if Khashoggi's estate can sue Jared Kushner for $2B?
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Breitbart reveals that the Former President is under investigation for violating the Espionage Act. 18 USC 793.
10 year penalties for each document.
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Gonna start a thread of Republicans who love Trump more than their country who are also pretending that Trump didn't get elected by insisting that Presidential candidates could be investigated and arrested.
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This letter from Bragg to Jordan is really a work of art. Others have noted the strong pushback. Note, too, the suggestion that Jordan et al were "collaborating" in threats of violence with the unlawful attempt to interfere.
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Duncan Hunter has affairs with staffers on the taxpayer dime and doesn't resign even after indictment.
Katie Hill, by contrast...
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Again, I don't know how to make it more clear for credulous journalists parroting GOP bullshit. This is the foreign policy approach of the leader of the Republican Party. Republicans want the guy who literally GAVE AWAY Israeli intelligence back in office.
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Why haven't
@TomSteyer
and
@MikeBloomberg
bought up all the quarantine ad time to run 15 second ads showing Trump saying "I don’t take responsibility at all" over and over?
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For a guy who once tried to unseat a President for a totally inappropriate consensual blowjob, Ken Starr sure does like to cover up sexual assault.
24/ 11/30/07, Acosta writes to Epstein atty Ken Starr: “I am directing our prosecutors not to issue victim notification letters until this Friday at 5 p.m., to provide you with time to review these options with your client.”
Ultimately NO letters to victims were sent in Dec 07
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Folks: Trump was not "The President" when he kept stolen NDI and refused to give it back. He was a fired former government worker w/o clearance.
At least Martin and Winner had clearance when they were busted for 793.
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Reminder: The White House had a pandemic staff.
John Bolton fired them all.
Now, Pence is trying to replace them with ... people who aren't qualified.
Huh. Pence adds Larry Kudlow to the coronavirus task force.
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Folks: If your article doesn't mention that Trump could release the warrant return detailing the 10+ boxes of documents FBI seized, you're not reporting the full picture.
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Reminder: Obama warned Trump not to hire Mike Flynn as his NSA.
Trump responded to that warning by hiring Mike Flynn as NSA.
So President Obama knew about Russia before the Election. Why didn’t he do something about it? Why didn’t he tell our campaign? Because it is all a big hoax, that’s why, and he thought Crooked Hillary was going to win!!!
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This woman is 26. She's about to provide really damaging testimony about one of the most dangerous men in America.
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I just unfollowed the President.
Wonder what would happen if 2 million people did that at once (aside from we'd be more sane)?
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BREAKING: SCOTUS won't let Congress get Trump's tax records but it will let Trump get Biden's son's tax records.
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For people catching up, let's talk the significance of Alex Smirnov's RU Spook allegations.
1) This matters bc Bill Barr set up a back channel via which Rudy Giuliani could share dirt, including from known RU spies, to be channeled to Hunter Biden investigation
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What's crazy abt Peter denying he's this angry racist is classmates from UNR are telling stories abt how he's an angry racist in classes.
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Again, to the press.
You can go chase that Barron faux outrage like puppies.
Or you can talk about the Constitution that protects your First Amendment rights.
Or if you like nasty, just talk about how Jonathan Turley contradicted Jonathan Turley.
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Turns out James Comer was looking in the wrong place for corrupt $200K loans that may be tax crimes.
Senate Finance Committee finds "Justice Thomas Did Not Repay Substantial Portion of $267,230 Loan" from wealthy friend for RV that NYT first reported
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Anyone besides me notice that the coverage of Pompeo treats him as an otherwise honorable man (maybe bc he did well in school?) that has just been tainted by Trump, and not as a corrupt arrogant asshole in his own right?
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This is the same Admin that couldn’t get resources to Puerto Rico after Maria.
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Why does Trump keep recommending his supporters commit a felony in NC, specifically?
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Marco Rubio when 4 Americans die versus Marco Rubio when 250,000 die.
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TFW Speaker Mike confesses to tampering with evidence. Seems obstructiony.
Johnson: We have to blur some of the faces of persons who participated in the events of that day because we don’t want them to be retaliated against and to be charged by the DOJ
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Again, let me make this more plain. DOJ is investigating whether the former President claimed to have a doc his Saudi backers would pay billions for, that he had in July 2021, but was not turned up in 3 searches.
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Reminder: Trump is expected to be indicted for something TRUMP'S OWN ADMINISTRATION prosecuted Michael Cohen for.
These people are insanely stupid.
A Trump indictment would be a national disaster. It is un-American for the ruling party to use police power to arrest its political rivals. If a Republican prosecutor in 2004 had used a campaign finance technicality to arrest then-candidate John Kerry while Bush & Cheney were in…
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Do Republicans claiming to care abt Hunter Biden realize that Ivanka has gotten far clearer, serial benefits from her father’s job AND did official business on personal email?
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To recap: Alex Jones' lawyers accidentally sent the Sandy Hook plaintiffs' lawyers his phone.
Oops.
It had evidence that he perjured himself in his deposition in this case.
Double oops.
But ... they just raised possibility of sharing it with law enforcement.
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
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Thinking out loud: Garland said there several recent developments, plural, that led him to appoint a Special Counsel, one of which was Trump announcing.
What if the other one is that several members of the very narrow majority in Congress are subjects of the investigation?
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"We're BEING INVADED!!!!!!!" Republicans say, "But we think we can hold on until January 2025."
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Gonna post the Keith Ablow picture of a picture of a table saw and sawdust that Hunter Biden Special Counsel David Weiss claimed was cocaine bc I think everyone should be laughing at it.
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Not actually watching the KBJ hearing, but can someone explain why the news is reporting anything other than at least three white men have utterly melted down when faced with a Black woman who is smarter and more accomplished than they are?
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Prince Bonesaw says he'll start jailing executives if they give American voters details about the terms of GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump's employment with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia has threatened to imprison the bankers and consultants it works with if they cooperate with a probe by US lawmakers into the planned merger of the PGA Tour with LIV Golf
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Honestly would love if a media outlet sent out a poll to Republicans, asking which Trump trial was their favorite:
1) Rape
2) Corporate tax cheat
3) Bank fraud
4) Stolen documents
5) Stolen election
6) Hush payment cover-up
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The thing about all these GOP Senators boasting about Zoom Meeting with Zelenskyy -- they all voted to protect Trump after Trump extorted Zelenskyy.
Joined a zoom mtg w President Zelenskyy. we don’t hv a minute to waste in helping Ukraine fight off Putin who is killing innocent ppl to benefit his own ego
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Apparently the former President who cavalierly gave away Israeli intelligence to his friends the Russians and stashed a bunch of other intelligence in his gaudy shower wants to attack Biden on a day when Israel had an enormous intelligence failure.
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Bill Barr is an unbelievably corrupt man. At each turn, I'm amazed anew by how corrupt he was as AG.
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Again, I really beg of journalists covering Stone to stop soft-peddling Stone's 4 decades of attacks on democracy and racism as if that's quaint.
He's a character. But that doesn't make him any less a toxin to democracy.
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One reason Donald Trump did not tell his rioters to stop until they had succeeded in delaying the vote was to prove he could wield that power.
It's not JUST the power to primary people. It's the power to get complete strangers to try to assassinate you.
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One detail about the Stormy payment that has been largely forgotten but that may be significant, is that Trump Org reimbursed Cohen $420,000 for the $130,000 payment.
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Dear the Press: The REASON Trump launches these tirades, is bc he knows you're all INCAPABLE of reporting on the evidence that came before it. Simply absolute incapable of reporting on anything but his tirade, allowing him to drown out facts.
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This is the woman whose job Amy Coney Barrett stole.
If you haven't heard Myra Selby's name before, she is a former Indiana Supreme Court Justice and Obama's nominee to fill the 7th Circuit seat that Amy Coney Barrett eventually took. Obama nominated her in January 2016 and McConnell's Republican Senate never acted on it.
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Congratulations to Tom Cotton, who finally pulled off regime change.
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Area man who broke campaign finance law to pay 6 figures to silence a woman he fucked w/o protection while his wife was recovering from childbirth thinks he can lecture others about dishonoring family.
Trump on Rep. Tlaib: "I think she dishonored herself, and I think she dishonored her family"
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Mueller has been special counsel for less time than Scalia's seat was held open until Gorsuch was confirmed.
McConnell complains that Mueller probe has gone on "forever," says he "ought to wrap it up"
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Congratulations to
@TomCottonAR
to be the first Republican Senator to demand that DOJ throw the book at Donald Trump for stealing our nation's secrets. A brave stand, but principled.
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Judge Carter finds that Trump lied in GA lawsuit, releases related emails under crime-fraud exception..
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3 executions this week.
.
@VP
@Mike_Pence
: "I couldn't be more proud to be Vice President for a President who has stood without apology for the sanctity of human life."
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Shorter local CO press:
Lauren Boebert remarkably paid off an almost $20K lien in October....
During a campaign where she reimbursed herself a remarkable amount -- just over $20K -- for campaign miles.
Just a coinkydink, I'm sure.
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The good news is that SCOTUS will probably rule on whether Biden as absolute immunity in time for him to order SEAL Team 6 to take him out, as Trump's lawyer said Biden could do.
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Three of the last details we learned abt Christopher Steele:
1) McCain referred the dossier to Jim Comey.
2) With the advise of Lindsey Graham.
3) Steele once liked Ivanka.
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As Xitter's Lawyer Stalled DOJ, Elon Musk Met with Jim Jordan (Twice!) and Kevin McCarthy
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This won't get the attention it deserves, but Becca Balint described how witnesses before the House Judiciary Committee are facing death threats because of actions Jim Jordan is taking.
.
@RepBeccaB
: Witnesses that have appeared before this committee have testified that House Republicans have spread dangerous conspiracy theories about them, and it has led to threats against their families and against them. Regular people, regular Americans.
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My thread on the Durham Report.
Durham took well over twice as long as Mueller and found, literally, bupkis.
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Here's the tl;dr Trump has been hiding all week:
A week ago, the FBI got a warrant to see whether he was keeping classified information and refusing to give it back in violation of the Espionage act.
On Monday, FBI took 11 sets of proof that he was violating the Espionage Act.
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People are, universally, misunderstanding why Trump refuses to tell Dearie what docs he declassified.
If they provided a list of, say, 3 docs he declassified, it would be a confession that he willfully retained 100 classified docs.
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I still can't believe the Attorney General of the United States publicly excused clear obstruction because the guy who did it was "frustrated."
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BREAKING:
Bill Barr and Chris Wray had a press conference devoted to admitting that the Trump Administration let an Al Qaeda affiliate onto our military bases to be trained by us, but forgot to mention the vetting failure.
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I wish Democrats would note that the gerrymander decision is admission, from the top of the Republican party on down, that they can only win by cheating.
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I see Trump's meltdown came because a woman (one of maybe 3 in the room) scolded him in front of a bunch of men who've never had the courage to do so.
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Putin: I need someone close to Trump who's as stupid as Don Jr, who was an easy mark. Who is there?
Peskov: Rand Paul?
Putin: Stupider.
Peskov: There's that Rick Perry guy...
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Fani Willis to Mark Meadows' lawyers: "Your client is no different than any other criminal defendant in this jurisdiction."
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I'm so old I remember when a cabinet member going on a Sunday show and giving a contradictory story about intelligence was enough to merit 7 congressional investigations, one led by a guy named Mike Pompeo.
Mark Esper on CBS: I didn't see the intelligence about Iran posing an imminent threat to 4 US embassies, but I believe President Trump when he says there was one
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Good.
Former FBI Director James Comey revealed that he's kept awake at night by the possibility that he helped Trump secure the 2016 election.
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The news that Jack Smith got a warrant for Trump's Twitter account is a good reason to repost this list of leading disinformation spreaders in 2020. This kind of data is why Xitter has cut off the API.
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