Josh Rogin
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Washington Post Columnist, Author of CHAOS UNDER HEAVEN. General Secretary and President 4 Life @watchtheramen on IG.
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New: If Ukraine falls to Russia, Moldova knows it’s next
Read my interview with Foreign Minister
@MihaiPopsoi
for
@PostOpinions
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Turkey almost killed the US soldiers in Syria that Trump said don’t even exist. Trump has betrayed the US military just as he has betrayed their Kurdish partners.
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Biden is wrong, the Trump administration did press the Chinese government to allow U.S. CDC representatives into Wuhan. Beijing refused.
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The President of the United States telling minority AMERICAN Congresswomen to go back to the countries they came from? This is a new, terrible, racist, sad low, even for Trump.
....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how....
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That the first female Muslim-American refugee elected to Congress has to endure racist attacks from the U.S. president is a stain on all Americans and a disgrace of historical proportions.
....and the many terrible things they say about the United States must not be allowed to go unchallenged. If the Democrat Party wants to continue to condone such disgraceful behavior, then we look even more forward to seeing you at the ballot box in 2020!
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By the way, Rudy is admitting to manufacturing White House logos and sticking them on non-White House documents and pushing the real government to act on them.
Rudy admits to CNN he passed the packet of Ukraine conspiracy theories and attacks on a U.S. ambassador to Pompeo. "They (the State Department) told me they would investigate it."
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I wish
@Twitter
would just give everybody an easy way to verify their identity and then give us an easy way to filter out those who won't. The whole platform would be a nicer, safer, better place to hang out.
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Mattis shoots down the Erik Prince contractor plan for Afghanistan: “When Americans put their country’s reputation on the line, privatizing it is probably not a good idea.”
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@elonmusk
is now urging Americans to contact members of Congress to urge them not to support Ukraine funding:
“This spending does not help Ukraine… Having all these boys die for nothing is wrong. And it needs to stop.”
Shameful stuff. Imagine telling Ukrainians fighting to…
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Wuhan reported only about 2,500
#coronavirus
deaths, but 5,000 urns were delivered to one mortuary over just 2 days. “Wuhan has seven other mortuaries.”
@shanghaiist
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Hey guys,
@RandPaul
was right and Fauci was wrong. The NIH was funding gain of function research in Wuhan but NIH pretended it didn't meet their "gain of function" definition to avoid their own oversight mechanism. SorryNotSorry if that doesn't fit your favorite narrative.
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President Trump's aides said he lied about calls from China in order to manipulate the markets, according to CNN. Wow.
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Hey guys, looks like we just killed another senior Iranian military commander. Sorry to interrupt.
#BREAKING
NEWS:
General Siamand Mashhadani, one of the
#Iranian
Revolutionary Guards Top Commander , was killed by the
#American
airstrike in
#Iraq
.
مقتل الجنرال سيامند مشهداني أحد قادة الحرس الثوري الإيراني بالقصف الأميركي
#BreakingNews
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This is not an actual foreign policy accomplishment. Also, Twitter is banned in Iran.
President Trump’s message in Farsi supporting Iranian protesters is the most liked Persian tweet in history of Twitter.
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This is what an American president should be saying right now.
The people of Hong Kong are making clear that they will not tolerate repression, and their movement affirms: The power is with the people. They deserve our support and the support of the world.
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The only country where Vladimir Putin WON'T let Russians interfere in politics is Russia
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Dear
@SecPompeo
, please stop saying we have to ignore human rights to protect our national security interests. Promoting human rights is in our national security interest.
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Hillary to
@maddow
: "I don't know whether Trump is a witting or unwitting tool of Putin. I don't know that. But it's clear he's playing checkers & Putin is playing 3 dimensional chess."
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As the guy who broke that story, I must say there is zero overlap between the Obama NSC staffer (who secretly leaked and lied) and Vindman (who testified under oath). It’s a ridiculous comparison.
In 2013, the Obama Administration fired a National Security Council staffer who was anonymously tweeting criticism of the administration
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John Kelly slavishly lied for Trump, praised Trump and defended Trump for years. The least he can do now is tell the truth about what Trump said, one way or the other. His silence is not honorable.
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DIA analysts say North Korea may have produced 12 nuclear weapons since the first Trump-Kim summit. Wow.
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Why does everyone say Manafort’s crimes had nothing to with the campaign. He was working corruptly for pro-Putin interests. He was indebted to them and communicated with them during the campaign. It’s directly related.
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Trump is wrong, Hunter Biden was not "dishonorably discharged" from the Navy. He was administratively separated after failing a drug test.
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This
@nytimes
exposé on Elaine Chao and her family's business ties to the Chinese government and its companies is shocking and cries out for Congressional oversight and investigation. by
@PekingMike
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What’s so clear is that Trump has no idea what’s he talking about and doesn’t care enough to learn - and that is the scariest part of all of this.
Do you remember two years ago when Iraq was going to fight the Kurds in a different part of Syria. Many people wanted us to fight with the Kurds against Iraq, who we just fought for. I said no, and the Kurds left the fight, twice. Now the same thing is happening with Turkey......
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Republican
@RepTomGarrett
says he was told in a closed briefing that Russian meddling contributed to last year's conflict and violence in Charlottesville. Wow.
@CNN
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Pence is right. Clinton & Obama tried to negotiate an Iraq troop extension but failed. Bush admin always anticipated such an extension.
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Rudy admits to CNN he passed the packet of Ukraine conspiracy theories and attacks on a U.S. ambassador to Pompeo. "They (the State Department) told me they would investigate it."
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Trump told the Finnish President Just now he enjoyed spending time with him at the NATO summit. Finland is not part of NATO.
#awkward
@jaketapper
@camanpour
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No mention of the Afghanistan withdrawal last year in Biden's SOTU speech. It's almost as if the administration doesn't want to talk about the thousands of Afghans we left behind.
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Invoking the fight against corruption to corruptly persecute political rivals under the cover of authority is what the Chinese Communist Party does every day. Never thought I'd see a U.S. president use and defend the same tactic.
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American reporters who took stories from Guccifer 2.0 or DC Leaks have to wonder if they weren't used as a tool of a foreign military intelligence operation against our country.
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U.S. companies are finding out they don't own their own factories in China. When they tried to export THEIR medical equipment, the Chinese government stopped them:
@nypost
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WH official: When Reagan said “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” he did not mean to suggest any physical walls be torn down and certainly not in Berlin. He was referring to Pink Floyd’s album The Wall and was calling on Gorby to write a critical review.
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Most MSM reporters didn’t “ignore” the lab leak theory, they actively crapped all over it for over a year while pretending to be objective out of a toxic mix of confirmation bias, source bias (their scientist sources lied to them), group think, TDS and general incompetence.
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“This strike was aimed at deterring future attack plans.” By the Pentagon’s own logic, if Iran retaliates, the strike mission failed its key goal. Remember that.
🚨🚨🚨 from the Pentagon: At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani...General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members...
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Leaked State Dept emails show that everybody knew the Ukraine aid was being held up for corrupt purposes, but officials decided to look the other way:
@nytimes
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So the official story is Navy Secretary Spencer was fired for secretly promising Trump to do exactly what Trump wanted? Does that make any sense at all?
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@SenWhitehouse
tells
@wolfblitzer
there is a ton of evidence Mike Flynn is a cooperating witness with the FBI. Wow.
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President Biden has spoken to ZERO other world leaders since Kabul fell to the Taliban, Jake Sullivan says.
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Gen. Milley on the Afghanistan evacuation mission: "It was a logistical success but a strategic failure." Wow.
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Reporters on the border tell me migrants often carry small heavy rugs to throw over the barbed wire and then dump them when they make it to the U.S. side. Has nothing to do with Islam, Mr. President.
Border rancher: “We’ve found prayer rugs out here. It’s unreal.” Washington Examiner People coming across the Southern Border from many countries, some of which would be a big surprise.
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Right now, we have two separate U.S. government explanations for assassinating Soleimani.
Pentagon: It was meant to deter future Iranian aggression.
Pompeo: "There was an imminent attack taking place" we needed to stop.
Could both be true? I suppose. But it's confusing.
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Working with the American government bad, but working with the Chinese Communist Party censors no problem? Amazing.
Google drops out of Pentagon's $10 billion cloud competition, saying the project may conflict with its corporate values
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Comey tells
@maddow
he commissioned an internal FBI investigation into leaks to Giuliani about the Hillary investigation. Wow.
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This
@AP
account of how Erdogan convinced Trump to pull out of Syria and Bolton, Mattis and Pompeo tried to stop it is downright scary.
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To those reporters who worked with DC Leaks and Guccifer 2.0, congratulations on being used as a tool of a Russian military intelligence attack on our country.
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There should be pool coverage of the WH entrances to track visitors if the WH won't release the logs.
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The more Trump talks about the deal, the worse it sounds. U.S. stops exercises, pledges to remove troops, no new sanctions, all in exchange for vague promises of denuclearization.
#trumpkim
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Pentagon reporter points out that Assad has been using chemical weapons on a regular basis so why attack now? Mattis has no real answer.
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When your U.S. foreign policy is being celebrated by the Russian embassy, you're doing it wrong. cc:
@realDonaldTrump
The
#US
🇺🇸 decision to pull its troops from
#Syria
🇸🇾 creates good prospects for a political solution in that Arab country -
#Zakharova
👉
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@CNN
reports Biden to ban all Russian energy imports today. Winston Churchill once said, “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.”
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Too late. We all heard Biden say: “For god’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” The world heard it. No way to unring that bell.
From a White House official after Biden's speech: “The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.”
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@jaketapper
on
@kayleighmcenany
: “This is what she does, she tells lies, all the time. She can’t acknowledge reality. So I’m just not going to put someone like that on air.”
@brianstelter
@ReliableSources
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Vance says he didn’t attend the meeting with Zelensky because he didn’t think he would learn anything new. I talked to those Senators who bothered to show up. Vance would have learned exactly how his opposition to aid to Ukraine is costing lives on the battlefield and how his…
MUNICH — Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), acknowledging his perspective is “underrepresented” here, says the U.S. should be pushing for a negotiated settlement to the Ukraine war
Vance also tells me he didn’t join the Zelensky meeting bc he didn’t think he would learn anything new
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@HillaryClinton
tells
@maddow
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Trump administration told Russia about its war plans before they told the U.S. Congress.
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Gen. McKenzie: "I recommended we keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan." Also says he predicted withdrawing them would cause the Afghan army to collapse and the Taliban taking over. Gen. Milley agrees.
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Chris Wallace announces that after 18 years, today was his last time hosting
@FoxNewsSunday
. "I have decided to leave FOX. I want to try something new."
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@murraywaas
on Giuliani: "The Ukrainian initiative appears to have begun in service of formulating a rationale by which the president could pardon Manafort, as part of an effort to undermine the special counsel’s investigation." Wow.
@nybooks
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Breaking: Chinese researcher fugitive has left the San Francisco consulate and been arrested, will appear likely today in CA Eastern District Court. - Senior Justice Department Official
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Bagram Air Base would have been a much better place to mount a huge military evacuation mission than the airport with one runway half controlled by the Taliban. Too bad we closed it before making sure out people were safe.
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To be clear, Tulsi didn’t just go to Syria and push diplomacy, as she likes to say. She toured Aleppo just after Assad had perpetrated war crimes there and she declared it a victory for peace. She helped Assad whitewash a mass atrocity.
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Make no mistake, Mattis didn’t just retire, he quit.
General Jim Mattis will be retiring, with distinction, at the end of February, after having served my Administration as Secretary of Defense for the past two years. During Jim’s tenure, tremendous progress has been made, especially with respect to the purchase of new fighting....
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Over 1,000 State Dept employees have now signed the dissent cable. Spicer's "get with the program or go" message not going over well.
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Exclusive: State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses
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Zero senior Trump officials were willing to go on the Sunday shows and defend his Syria decision. Nobody wants to explain this blunder to the American people. Disgraceful.
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The Ukrainians want to keep fighting because they have seen what happens under Russian occupation. Mass murder. Mass deportation of children. Putin is the psycho. Ukrainians just want to keep defending themselves. Abandoning them would result in more dead kids not less.
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This is funding to stabilize the area we just liberated from ISIS. It’s going to cost a lot more when ISIS returns and we have to fight them again. This is the definition of stupid policy.
The United States has ended the ridiculous 230 Million Dollar yearly development payment to Syria. Saudi Arabia and other rich countries in the Middle East will start making payments instead of the U.S. I want to develop the U.S., our military and countries that help us!
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Here's the statement State Dept gave me in May about Amb. Yovanovitch's departure: "Ambassador Yovanovitch is concluding her 3-year diplomatic assignment in Kyiv in 2019 as planned." That turned out not to be true.
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Trump threatening Google with punishment if they don’t appease his political demands smacks of authoritarianism the likes of which we see from the Chinese government.
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National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says the Taliban have guaranteed safe passage for Americans in Afghanistan to the Kabul airport. So Americans are meant to trust their lives to the good graces of the Taliban? Is that really the plan?
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@theintercept
@nytimes
For anyone who wants to leak without getting arrested, I'm at josh.rogin
@washpost
.com
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Dr. Sean Conley is being coy and evasive, giving conflicting information on whether Trump has been on oxygen and when was he diagnosed. This is unacceptable. His credibility is in question.
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Hey everybody, it’s Friday, the day
@SenatorLankford
said he would “step in” and make sure President-elect Biden was getting his intel briefings. I’m on the edge of my seat.
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“scientists don’t rule out that an accident at a research laboratory in Wuhan might have spread a deadly bat virus that had been collected for scientific study,” writes
@IgnatiusPost
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All these reporters scrambling to defend their own records on the lab leak theory are exposing their own hypocrisy & ignoring their basic error. Just report the facts. Don’t act like its your job to tell us whats ok to think or talk about. Own up to it when you fail your readers.
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“The Chinese Virus”
The United States will be powerfully supporting those industries, like Airlines and others, that are particularly affected by the Chinese Virus. We will be stronger than ever before!
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There are more people marching in this parade than watching it.
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Exclusive: State Department official Andrea Thompson, who is in charge of negotiations with Moscow, didn’t disclose ties to the boyfriend of Russian agent Maria Butina
@washingtonpost
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Nunes freelancing and increased coordination with the White House is already bolstering calls for a select committee. cc:
@Evan_McMullin
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Exclusive: The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned
@washingtonpost
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Chinese state propagandists promoting
@BillGates
defense of the Chinese government.
Bill Gates blasts Trump’s blame game on China as a distraction.
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@elonmusk
throws Taiwan under the bus, suggests “a special administrative zone for Taiwan that is reasonably palatable, probably won't make everyone happy.” He doesn’t understand the CCP’s cruel intentions or he doesn’t care. Either way, it’s horrendous.
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If China does something aggressive when the Pelosi delegation visits Taiwan, that's China starting a crisis, not the United States. The Chinese government should take a deep breath and relax.
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Give Ukraine all the Stingers, Javelins and Tows. Give Ukraine all the Stingers, Javelins and Tows. Give Ukraine all the Stingers, Javelins and Tows. Give Ukraine all the Stingers, Javelins and Tows. Give Ukraine all the Stingers, Javelins and Tows.
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Even after accepting disinformation from Russian agents, Johnson and Grassley couldn't come up with anything new or interesting on Hunter Biden Read
@karoun
@thamburger
@PaulSonne
@washingtonpost
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@KamalaHarris
calls
@TulsiGabbard
an "apologist for an individual, Assad, who has murdered people in his country like cockroaches. She has embraced and been an apologist for him... I can only take her criticisms so seriously."
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Wait, what?
John Kerry Has At Least $1 Million Invested In Chinese Fund Supporting Company Blacklisted For Human Rights Abuses
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Tillerson and Mattis were both opposed to Trump’s Jerusalem announcement due to security concerns.
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Shorter Biden: The Afghan government and the Trump administration are responsible for this debacle. Also, there is no debacle.
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The White House doesn't have any credibility, so it tells Esper to put out this convoluted Spencer story that doesn't add up and then Trump contradicts it by tweet moments later, completely undermining Esper's credibility. What a mess.
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The real question is: Why are Trump's top aides acting like Putin's defense lawyers?
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Brennan on Trump: “He’s drunk on power. He really is. And I think he’s abusing the powers of that office.”
@maddow
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Congrats on the
#FreeBritney
movement’s success. Imagine if the
#FreeUyghurs
movement had the same level of attention and support.
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Also, the lab leak theory didn’t change. It didn’t suddenly become credible. It didn’t jump from crazy to reasonable. The theory has always been the same. The people who got it wrong changed their minds. They are writing about themselves, with zero self awareness.
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The White House Chief of Staff should spend less time trying to spin this disaster on Twitter and more time working to find ways to get Americans and Afghans to the airport.
We evacuated 5700 people in the past 24 hours. The best military operation in the world is in charge.
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Giuliani to
@jaketapper
on ethics laws on conflicts of interests: "Those laws don't apply to the president." I feel so much better.
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@jaketapper
: "This is a stain that will forever live on his presidency. When we are all long gone... that might be the only thing people know about Donald Trump, that he was impeached."
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Senior Trump admin national security official to me on Gen. Milley's reported secret calls to Chinese generals:
“It was dangerous for Mark Milley to be doing freelance diplomacy on China without involving any of the other senior officials dealing with China at the time..." 1/3
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