Laura Rozen
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Reporting on foreign policy. Current: Diplomatic Substack, Just Security ed bd. Al-Monitor Politico Foreign Policy alum. lkrozen threads, lkrozen.bsky, at gmail
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🧵US Senior Admin Official, in call with reporters, said in addition to disconnecting key Russian banks from SWIFT, the US & Europeans agreed to launch a mutlilateral transatlantic task force to identify, hunt down and seize the assets of sanctioned Russian officials & oligarchs,
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this is really disturbing. House tours canceled even by members because of covid, so she was shocked to see groups of people walking around with Republican members and staff on Jan. 5, day before capitol attack. so shocked her chief of staff called sergeant at arms jan.5
Rep. Sherrill describes how her military training taught her to "look for things that were out of place, look for things that were odd, and look at them with an eye toward security," and how that led her to raise questions about visitors to the Capitol the day before the attack.
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Retroactively classified. Think about that. Getting prosecuted for something that was legal but specifically changed later for the purpose of selectively prosecuting it
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Barr lied about tear gassing people on camera in the capital of the free world. he lied about the Mueller report. He lied about dropping the Flynn case. He lied about Ukraine. He lied about the US attorney resigning. But the US attorney called him on it
It's worth not losing sight of the fact that the Attorney General of the United States out-and-out *lied* in a written statement—and in a context in which there could have been little question to him that Berman would publicly call him out for doing so.
And he did it anyway.
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Trump should not use Melania’s bronzer. He needs something more matte.
“We are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream. It was called ... Las Vegas.”
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“Trump did not sit with the Lerner family, the principal owners of the Nationals. A representative for the Lerner family put in a request to MLB to not be put in position to turn down a request from the White House to sit with Trump, according to WUSA.”
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How you know TrumpUkrainegate is really bad. Pompeo pretends not to have heard about it
"You just gave me a report... none of which I've seen," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells
@martharaddatz
when asked about a report that President Trump pressed the President of Ukraine to work with Rudy Giuliani to investigate Joe Biden's son.
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Louis DeJoy today: “I would suggest we are on a death spiral.”
Gee whiz, what company would keep a ceo who says/thinks this? Get rid of him before he breaks it more
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know what endangers journalists? Assange working with Russian intelligence to elect a US president who calls journalists enemy of the people
#Assange
lawyer Jennifer Robinson: “This sets a dangerous precedent for all media organizations and journalists around the world.”
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A US official writes me on Grenell memo: “I wish this would get stressed more as folks cover the Grenell list...Nobody ‘unmasked Flynn.’ You don’t know who it is when you request. You read a report that notes an American citizen (hence the masking, since American citizens 1/
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House Foreign Affairs chair
@RepEliotEngel
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Remember that Pompeo had US ambassador to Ukraine recalled to fire her because Giuliani thought she was in the way of Trump blackmailing ukraine
Pompeo kicks off his speech addressing Ukraine and Afghanistan: “We've seen a Russian dictator now terrorize the Ukrainian people because America didn't demonstrate the resolve that we did for the four years prior.”
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👉🏼So, Stone was closely coordinating with Trump, Trump campaign chairman, dep. chairman, & CEO on cordinating with Wikileaks/Assange on material stolen by Russian govt it had & would release to damage Trump rival, & Trump lied to Mueller about it & Stone lied to Congress about it
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as well as those of their families and enablers. We will take their yachts, their luxury apartments, their money, their ability to send their kids to college abroad, the US official said.
also cracking down on entities that sell citizenship to wealthy russians to bypass sanctions
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wow.
was thinking about the date of Trump call w Zelensky,
July 25.
wondering when Mueller testimony was:
July 24.
Trump felt liberated
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He’s been on vacation in Palm Beach for half a month
As hard as I work, & as successful as our Country has become with our Economy, our Military & everything else, it is ashame that the Democrats make us spend so much time & money on this ridiculous Impeachment Lite Hoax. I should be able to devote all of my time to the REAL USA!
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🧵Masha Gessen to
@WNYC
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Garland to Hawley: I can tell you how angry judges get when they learn someone has not told them the truth or has spun the truth
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More than 90 minutes after Capitol Police chief Sund at 2:22pm had formally requested help, Miller still would not approve.
Miller & his aides need to be interrogated under oath to explain their extended delay in approving national guard forces, and any White House role in delay
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Trump tweeting during his ill attended roundtable with governors. Only 2 showed up.
President Trump during a reopening roundtable at the White House.
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Sessions wrote the letter to get US ambassdor to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch fired, at behest of Giuliani et al, under direction of ukrainian officials working for Russia
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a failed presidency.
Lights that usually illuminate exterior of the WH have been turned off.
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I remember being struck that after the Whitmer kidnap plot revealed, not only did Trump keep up his incitement against her. But Bill Barr did not say a single word about it.
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Reports on the Bolton book reveal that Trump told Turkey’s President Erdogan that he was ready to fire SDNY leadership to kill investigations that Erdogan asked him to
Some SDNY news... the U.S. Attorney for N.J. is taking over SDNY on an acting basis as Geoffrey Berman steps down.
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🧵The AP’s review found at least 3 Trump campaign aides named on the permit for the Jan. 6 event. Megan Powers was listed as one of two operations managers for the Jan. 6 event, and her LinkedIn profile says she was the Trump campaign’s director of operations into January 2021.
Records: Trump allies behind rally that ignited Capitol riot
By
@AP
’s
@rplardner
and
@MRSmithAP
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Schiff’s letter is among the most furious documents ever seen, and disturbing.
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“Mr. Cohen’s father urged him not to protect the president, saying he didn’t survive the Holocaust to have his name sullied by Mr. Trump.”
Under pressure: The inside story of how Michael Cohen turned on his former boss. Great read from
@rebeccadobrien
@nicole_hong
@joe_palazzolo
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wow, Trump adviser tells
@svdate
why trump hasn’t fired parscale yet. Parscale is paying 1 trump daughter in law and don jr’s girlfriend $180k a year campaign money thru his businesses. “he’s the paymaster.”
Because he continues secretly paying the wife of one Trump son and the girlfriend of another $180,000 per year using campaign money funneled through his personal business.
“They can’t fire Brad,” the adviser said. “He’s the paymaster.”
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Klobuchar says White House made calls to stop bipartisan legislation to secure elections from foreign interference, incl. paper ballots
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@ToluseO
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this is disgusting. Advertisers should pull their ads.
Tucker Carlson: "This may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through, but it is definitely not about black lives and remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will."
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Thank you, Sec. Raffensperger, for upholding the law and your oath of office.
Respectfully, President Trump: What you're saying is not true. The truth will come out
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Doesn’t everyone at some level get that the reason for Trump’s announced decision to pull US forces from Germany is because Merkel doesn’t kiss his ass. The stated reason, that Germany should spend more on defense, is analogous to Trump saying quid pro quo with Ukraine 1/
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Marie Yovanovitch retired last week, Kurt Volker turned over texts and quit, Sondland testified now fired, Taylor testified removed Jan 2., Morrison left week after testified, Vindman testified, escorted out today along w twin brother, Pence aide Williams left OVP for Centcom
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“A third marriage has fallen into divorce court ruins, revealing monthly expenses of $230,000 for six homes and 11 country club memberships.”
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“Mr. Giuliani has been the voice in Mr. Trump’s ear when others could not be heard, and served as the voice of Mr. Trump in places where presidents dare not go”
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“I was actually on the phone with Leader Hoyer who was pleading with us to send the guard,” Maryland Gov. Hogan.
But Hogan said Maj. Gen. Timothy Gowen, head of the Maryland National Guard, was *repeatedly rebuffed by the head of the National Guard on the federal level.*
Why?
NEW: How the U.S. Capitol Police were overrun in a ‘monumental’ security failure, by
@phscoop
@CarolLeonnig
@byaaroncdavis
and
@Fahrenthold
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Trump not firing Flynn suggests that Flynn was acting with Trump's consent. including in denying to the elected VP the nature of the calls
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think it was the Iran protests in the summer of 2009 that got me on twitter. the glimpses of the protests now also riveting. was struck in 60 min interview with Raisi Sunday with the few scenes of street life in Tehran…how little we see of Iran at all on our TV, even with all
In Kerman city centre, protesters directly confront riot police and plainclothes officers, preventing them from beating and arresting fellow protesters, on the fifth day of unrest in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in morality police custody.
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Biden says Trump has been calling Republican members of the House and Senate the last 24 hours and threatening them and trying to intimidate them to vote against proposal. It looks like they’re caving.
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Parnas on Nunes: we met several times. relationship expanded when i was introduced to his aide derek harvey. nunes gave me derek harvey to deal with, because he was under ethics investigation.
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why didn’t Bolton go to the FBI? he waited to speak til he was fired more than two months later
Bolton Objected to Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Calling Giuliani ‘a Hand Grenade’
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🧵Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), a member of Senate Armed Services Comm., noted to reporters on a call tonight that the committee held only one hearing on Afghanistan all last year, the year the Trump admin struck the deal with the Taliban to pull all US troops out of Afghanistan
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“In 2018, the Trump administration fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House management infrastructure.” One of Bolton’s/Trump’s legacies
As it improvises its way through a public health crisis, the United States has never been less prepared for a pandemic.
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two $500,000 payments from Russian national in Sept & oct 2018 to funnel thru parnas and fruman in illegal donations to US pol entities
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every Trump event is turning into a coronavirus PR catastrophe
NEW - Kim Guilfoyle, girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr. and a top campaign official, tested positive for coronavirus in SD ahead of attending Mt Rushmore event, according to a person familiar w what happened. She was never was with POTUS, and neither was Don Jr., who tested negative.
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Former French Amb. Gerard Araud: “For Europeans, I'm convinced that the election of November the 3rd will be maybe the most important election since the election of Roosevelt in 1932...Pres. Trump doesn't care about alliances, doesn't care about the West.”
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Am coming to agree. House should impeach Barr. Could do it fairly quickly. He has not bothered to show up for a hearing for a year. This Senate won’t remove him but maybe next one can do something to validate it and it will be in the title of all of Barr’s obituaries.
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12 hours. beyond shameful
Night has fallen, but voting lines continue in Marietta, Georgia. The
@WCKitchen
team just finished serving dinner. They met someone walking out who arrived at 8am — he waited 12 hours to vote today. We must do better! Until then,
#ChefsForThePolls
will try to keep everyone fed.
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as many remarked at time, there was something aggressively weird about parscale days ago proclaiming 800,000, then
a million ticket requests, & bragging abt data haul from the scheme. seems even more perplexing tonight. when maybe closer to 10k showed up. what *was* he doing?
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When Nader’s phones were seized by FBI at Dulles in Jan. 2018 with porn of a 3yo child, he was en route from UAE to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
this accused pervert was helping advise the Trump brain trust on how to prostitute US foreign policy to UAE & KSA
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Blinken, asked what kind of Trump admin planning it received for the May 1 Afghanistan withdrawal the Trump admin agreed to, suggests almost none: “We inherited a deadline. We did not inherit a plan.”
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Helsinki was one of the low points of his presidency.
Trump remembers it fondly, in one of his more psychotic statements
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(sounds like those countries and institutions that sell foreign citizenship to wealthy Russians will become the target of sanctions).
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Former Twitter executive: “The numbers are totally and completely bogus,” she said. “It’s all completely made up. It really feels like they’re arbitrarily writing checks to people they like, which is not a sustainable creator strategy.”
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“Dershowitz in an interview said executing a search warrant against a lawyer was a violation of the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits ‘unreasonable searches and seizures,’” oh. so lawyers are never subject to a search warrant? who knew? what about michael cohen & avennati?
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A spokeswoman for Ms. Loeffler said federal authorities had not contacted the senator. ...Burr is in the final stages of completing a nearly 1,000-page report on Russia’s 2016 election interference...that is expected to roughly mirror the findings of the special counsel, Mueller
Breaking News: The FBI seized Sen. Richard Burr’s phone for an inquiry into stock sales that followed briefings for lawmakers about the emerging coronavirus pandemic
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There were Trump Putin phone calls on:
March 30
April 9
April 10
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June 1
Trump and Putin also issued a joint statement on April 25
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One day, Trump asked his sister Maryanne Trump Barry if she watches Fox.
Barry: No. [...]
Trump: What do you do?
Barry: I read.
Trump: What do you read?
Barry: Books
Trump was incredulous. “You don’t watch Fox?”
“I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit.”
This is an extraordinary read:
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Please think before posting the stupid things WH press sec utters so all can marvel at the stupidity. at some point it is just pollution, not serving the public
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Pretty unseemly for Pompeo to falsely claim he was a soldier who “fought” in Europe when he did not in fact see combat, no?
Here's Mike Pompeo claiming "I fought on the border of East Germany" (there was no fighting on the border of East Germany)
h/t
@julianborger
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.
@Yamiche
on
@AliVelshi
says her WH sources say Trump has lost it. drunk on power. wants to hold onto power by any means.
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and he said this is sad.
But he said they (the US, UK, Europe, etc) faced a choice. And they decided they had to make Putin’s war on Ukraine a strategic failure for Russia.
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what a disgrace. That Barr has not found a way to correct this... bad for him and the country.
Trump campaign sends text fundraising off AG Barr’s spying comments
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Sen. Durbin on CNN asked by Dana Bash what most surprised him in what former acting AG Rosen told them: just how directly trump was involved. the pressure he was putting on them… (to falsely claim election fraud)
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thread. Trump is, inexplicably, giving a thumbs up in photo with apparently newly orphaned baby brought for photo op
From the First Lady’s twitter account, this appears to be the baby both of whose parents died shielding him from the El Paso shooter. The baby in question was discharged the day before and brought back for Trumps visit. Child is not id’d on
@flotus
account. But appears to...
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“By around 4pm, Gov. Hogan said, he learned that Acting Defense Sec. Chris Miller had yet to grant the necessary approval for Guardsmen to enter Washington. “We were repeatedly being told by the National Guard at the national level that we did not have authorization,” Hogan said
New: Calls for some reinforcements took hours to approve as police and federal agents tried to squelch the storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Trump.
@nancyayoussef
@scottmcalvert
@ailworth
@dnvolz
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jesus. what has our government done? on a whim? to troll the libs?
Tonight, Guatemalan asylum seeker Hermelindo Che Coc was reunited w/ his 6-yr-old son, Jefferson at LAX. The two were separated at the border, didn’t see each other nearly 2 months. The boy had a vacant look in his eyes. Also a cough, bruise on his eye & rashes all over his body.
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These Santos campaign expenses all coming to $199.99 seems kind of dodgy. From hotel rooms, to meals and Ubers, each item listed as costing $199.99. via
@mrspanstreppon
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Republicans trying to make issue of Zelinsky appearing by video. seems it is because of health concerns for a newborn child. what possible political benefit to complain about this..
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This State Dept briefing just latest example of how angry US is at KSA. However many tens, hundreds of millions of dollars KSA spent on lobbying in DC over the past year, it might as well have flushed it down the toilet.
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The US official said this has been the worst week for the Russian stock market on record. The worst week for the rubel since march 2020. Russia econ rated junk status
In last week, Russia has become a global political & economic pariah.
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He bought Trump’s Palm Beach house for $95 million, twice the amount Trump paid for it.
Oh wow, Monaco has arrested Dmitry Rybolovlev, number 18 on the Russian Forbes list. His land deal with Trump was investigated by Senate.
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Former Trump NSC advisor Fiona Hill: “The president was trying to stage a coup... This could have turned into a full-blown coup had he had any of those key institutions following him. Just because it failed or didn’t succeed doesn’t mean it wasn’t real.”
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so Jared was looking for James Baker and they came up with Ric Grenell, Matt Schlapp, and Pam Bondi?
Ric Grenell is now speaking about the Trump camp's latest lawsuit, in Nevada. A local journalist there asked Grenell his name; Grenell scowled at him, didn't say and just kept talking.
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🧵Jan. 6 comm letter: “recent information from former WH personnel has identified an effort by certain House Republicans after Jan. 6th to seek a presidential pardon for activities taken in connection with Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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Thinking about the Trump/WH reaction to the alleged Russian bounty intel: He supposedly wasn’t briefed. Nowhere do the WH or DNI or Trump feign the slightest interest in why he supposedly wasn’t briefed, or pretend that Trump is now interested in learning more about the claims
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Where are good places to vacation in Georgia when the pandemic is over? Am done with Florida
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apparently no conflict of interest for GOP lawyer for Trump campaign to be working for Kanye West campaign. Indeed, getting Kanye West on ballot is part of the Trump campaign strategy.
A little update — The GOP lawyer who helped
@kanyewest
get on the ballot in Wisconsin is actively working for
@realDonaldTrump
's campaign. She's the lawyer of record in their lawsuit to try to get a
@prioritiesUSA
anti-Trump ad pulled. Original story:
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Remember when Barr had Berman come to his NY hotel to tell him to resign, they’d find a nice job for him in dc. then had DOJ put out a press release saying Berman resigned-when he hadn’t? we all suspected it was to block this Giuliani investigation & related, turns out, prbly was
DOJ denying SDNY search warrants is likely related to the firing of Berman in June. Far ahead of the election cover they are claiming.
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Parscale gets the ‘Jared and Ivanka are pissed’ treatment. You hate to see it
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“Barr had put forward a ‘distorted...misleading’ account of the Mueller report findings...’These circumstances generally, and AG Barr’s lack of candor specifically, call into question Attorney General Barr’s credibility,’” Judge Walton wrote.
Mueller Report Details Highlight Trump’s Interest in Emails Damaging to Clinton - The New York Times
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Looks like Barr created a mess that will distract from Trump’s coronavirus festival in Tulsa tomorrow.
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looks like Barr stuck those referrals under his pink slips for the US Attorneys for DC and SDNY and EDNY
The Senate Intel Cmte. made criminal referrals of Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Erik Prince and Sam Clovis to federal prosecutors in 2019, passing along their suspicions that the men may have misled the committee during their testimony.
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Senators
@marcorubio
,
@RoyBlunt
, please watch this. “Many just went along, step by step, down the road.”
My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol.
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Why did acting Secretary of Defense Chrsitopher Miller not say yes for so long to national guard troops for the Capitol unless he or his advisors believed the White House did not want them to?
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alleged suspect had post 2hrs ago blaming jewish immigration resettlement org for caravan, “likes to bring invaders in that kill our people”
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Reuters: WH has ordered health offls to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified, hampering govt response
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after Barr intervened to shorten Stone’s sentence, prompting all the prosecutors on the case to resign, Trump commuted Stone’s sentence altogether. Barr deeply corrupted the dept and himself in this case for nothing, and got exposed doing so.
Attorney General Barr discussed clemency for Roger Stone with Trump and recommended against it, an administration official tells NBC News. The official said the Justice Department had nothing to do with Trump’s decision to commute Stone’s sentence.
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Wichita State U & WSU Tech cancel virtual Ivanka Trump commencement speech. Prof: “To many Americans, that admin has come to signify the worst of our country, part. in its recent actions toward those peacefully protesting against racist police brutality.”
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