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For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted luxury trips from a major Republican donor, newly obtained documents and interviews show.
The extent and frequency of these apparent gifts to Thomas has no known precedent in modern SCOTUS history... 🧵👇
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The presidential seal being sold on mugs at Trump Tower.
[breaths]
It’s illegal to use the seal for commercial purposes.
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1/ So
@seanspicer
just called us a “left-wing blog.” Since we’re actually in the biz of facts, we figured we’d respond w/ a few...
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NEW: A ProPublica investigation has found that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas secretly participated in Koch network donor events – a breach of judicial norms that one federal judge said “takes my breath away.” 🧵👇
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The invasion of the U.S. Capitol was discussed for weeks in plain sight.
We reviewed scores of social media posts — many of them public — welcoming violence leading up to Wednesday’s attack.
See for yourself 👇
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1/ We got our hands on screenshots from a secret FB group for current and former Border Patrol agents. They joke about migrant deaths, including the death of a teen in their care, and post racist, sexist memes.
Here's what we found.
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Video obtained by ProPublica shows the Border Patrol held a sick teen in a cell without proper medical attention and did not discover his body until his cellmate alerted guards. The video doesn’t match the Border Patrol's account of his death.
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Justice Alito didn't answer our questions. Instead, he wrote an opinion piece attacking as unfair a story he hadn't read.
ProPublica has leveled two charges against me. Neither charge is valid, writes Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.
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Doctors at a major US insurance company deny tens of thousands of claims a month without even looking at patients’ files.
“We literally click & submit,” a former Cigna doctor told
@ProPublica
&
@Capitol_Forum
. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.”
The inside story 🧵
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Very nice to meet you too,
@GovMattBevin
!
You asked who
@ProPublica
is. We thought we’d give you some answers. Like everything we do, they are, you know, actually accurate.
OUTRAGEOUS.
ProPublica, a left-wing activist group funded by the likes of George Soros, is now funding . . . "investigative reporting" at the
@courierjournal
.
Is this the future of journalism?
Who is holding the Courier-Journal accountable?
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Documents show the president’s company reported different numbers — higher ones to lenders, lower ones to tax officials — for Trump’s signature building. Last month, ProPublica revealed a similar pattern in two other Trump buildings.
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took a luxury fishing trip to Alaska with billionaire Paul Singer, whose hedge fund then had repeated business before SCOTUS over the years that followed.
Alito never disclosed the trip or recused himself from Singer's cases. (THREAD)
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We’re still reporting...
Stephen Miller Furious At ProPublica For Only Releasing 7-Minute Recording Of Immigrant Children Sobbing
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A right-wing think tank is now a church in the eyes of the IRS. It’s part of a growing movement of activist groups that are seeking church status.
And it’s all perfectly legal. Here’s how 👇
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6/ What we do is hold people in power accountable, no matter who they are, or what names they call us. We do it with facts. Like...
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In 2014, one of Texas billionaire Harlan Crow’s companies quietly bought several lots on a residential street in Savannah, GA.
The seller? Crow’s friend & travel companion Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. 🧵👇
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Trump said he's resigned from his businesses.
We checked.
He hasn't.
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In acquiring church status, the Family Resource Council told the IRS it holds chapel services at its office, averaging 65+ people.
But when we called to inquire about service times, a staffer responded, “We don’t have church service.”
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@seanspicer
7/ The fact that Tom Price bought drug company stock same day he pushed policy that could help the company.
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Trump's voter fraud commission members are using private emails to conduct govt. work.
It violates federal law.
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@seanspicer
4/ The Trump trust doc was revised & signed Feb. 10. Here you go,
@seanspicer
:
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A DACA recipient died trying to rescue people in Harvey
Border agents refuse to let his mom into U.S. to bury him
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New: In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.
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@seanspicer
9/ The fact that Jared Kushner isn’t actually separating himself from his business empire:
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P.S. Our new partners at the
@courierjournal
have been doing lots of good work, like this recent story about how
@GovMattBevin
hired a buddy for a govt job and then gave him a $215,000 raise.
(Via
@RobertFaturechi
)
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@seanspicer
8/ The fact that Trump has quietly installed officials across the government to be his eyes and ears:
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@seanspicer
5/ We do no-surprises journalism. We told the Trump Org & WH what we knew and gave them time to explain.They didn’t.
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"In acquiring church status, the Family Resource Council told the IRS it holds chapel services at its office, averaging 65+ people.
But when we called to inquire about service times, a staffer responded, “We don’t have church service.”"
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Breaking: One day after being exposed as a member of a violent white supremacist group, Michael Miselis lost his job as an aerospace engineer.
UPDATE: Defense contractor Northrop Grumman said it will investigate its employee, Michael Miselis, who was identified as a member of a violent white supremacist group in a recent report by ProPublica and
@FrontlinePBS
.
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New: ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing.
Border Patrol agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.”
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While making “Documenting Hate: Charlottesville,” we identified one assailant who was a U.S. Marine, and another who held a U.S. government security clearance. Here’s what’s happened to them since our initial reporting was published.
Watch more:
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@seanspicer
10/ Or the fact that 5 top Trump officials have made false statements to Congress:
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Without listing the property publicly, Sen. Perdue sold his D.C. house for $1.8 million to a board governor of FINRA, a financial industry organization under the purview of the Senate Banking Committee, on which Perdue sits.
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Inside a detention center last week. Children separated from their parents wail and ask for help.
A Border Patrol agent booms above the crying. “Well, we have an orchestra here,” he jokes. “What’s missing is a conductor.”
Listen to the full audio here:
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1/ We obtained police reports and call logs from more than two-thirds of the shelters housing immigrant children. In the following tweets, we’ll share some of the most disturbing records we found.
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New: El presidente mexicano López Obrador atacó nuestro artículo como “una calumnia” y a nuestro reportero como “un peón.” Aquí presentamos algunos hechos.
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1/ Last night, the WaPo reported Rudy Giuliani was slated to make a paid appearance at a Kremlin-backed conference. He canceled after the story.
But we remembered: He ATTENDED THE CONFERENCE LAST YEAR.
WE HAVE TAPE.
via Trump, Inc podcast w/
@WNYC
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Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.
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We interviewed experts and frontline officials from Italy, Germany, Spain, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea.
Of all of them, we found more commonalities than differences. So…
These are the 7 things we must do before we open up America.
A thread:
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@seanspicer
2/
@seanspicer
was trying to knock our story that Trump’s trust doc was revised to say he can take $ frm biz anytime
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Well, here’s our True Story about how Ivanka and Don Jr were being investigated for felony fraud.
Wow, so many Fake News stories today. No matter what I do or say, they will not write or speak truth. The Fake News Media is out of control!
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11/ And yes, our job always has been and will be holding *all* those in power accountable.
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More revelations on the financial ties between Clarence Thomas and billionaire pal Harlan Crow:
The GOP megadonor paid the private school tuition for a Thomas family member the Supreme Court justice raised "as a son."
And no, Thomas didn't disclose the payments. (THREAD)
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The company that took U.S. money to develop a cheap ventilator, then did not deliver a single one to the national stockpile, has just inked ANOTHER contract with the government.
This time, it is selling ventilators for quadruple the price.
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Don't forget: the rich buy their under-achieving children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations.
Article from 2016:
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1/ This tweet -from the official White House account- is false. 1)It is not a slush fund. 2)The fund was not created by the Paris Agreement.
The Paris Accord created a U.N. slush fund:
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@GovMattBevin
@courierjournal
You called us a “biased, left-wing organization.” Actually, we believe in evidence. Hard, indisputable evidence. Carefully gathered and precisely told.
Perhaps that’s why our peers have given us 4 Pulitzers, 3 Peabodys, 2 Emmys, 6 Polks, a duPont and a National Magazine Award.
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14/ His failure to report the flights appears to violate a federal disclosure law passed after Watergate, according to experts.
By accepting the trips, Thomas has broken long-standing norms for judges’ conduct, ethics experts and four current or retired federal judges said.
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@seanspicer
3/
@seanspicer
said he’s “not aware of any change in the trust.” And he then said this:
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4/ In June 2019, Thomas boarded Crow's private jet to Indonesia for 9 days of island-hopping on Crow's yacht.
Had Thomas chartered the jet and yacht himself, it could have cost him over $500K.
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New: ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.
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AMLO continues to attack our reporting. We hope the president of Mexico will grant us an interview, but until then we’ll continue to write about Mexican corruption and U.S. policy either way.
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3/ But Thomas' friendship with Dallas-based real estate magnate Harlan Crow has allowed him to repeatedly experience luxuries well beyond his means.
He's vacationed on Crow’s 162-foot superyacht around the globe and flies on Crow’s Bombardier Global 5000 jet.
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1/
@serenawilliams
nearly died after giving birth to her daughter Olympia. She identified her own symptoms of potentially deadly complications and told the doctors what she needed before it was too late.
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We sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users during the riot at the Capitol.
Then we created an interactive database that lets you sort through the footage.
Here’s how it works 👇
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Witnesses told the DEA that traffickers funneled $2M to López Obrador’s 2006 campaign in return for a say in choosing key police commanders and even the Mexican attorney general, US officials said.
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13/ These trips appeared nowhere on Thomas’ financial disclosures, where justices are required to list most gifts.
We drew on flight records, internal documents & interviews with dozens of people ranging from yacht staff to a scuba instructor to uncover Thomas' travel details.
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For more than a decade, the all-white judges of a Louisiana appellate court ignored thousands of petitions filed by prisoners, most of them Black, who claimed they had been wrongly convicted.
Efforts to expose the injustice went unheard. (THREAD)
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An update: Customs and Border Patrol has announced it is launching an investigation.
"Any employees found to have violated our standards of conduct will be held accountable." — US Border Patrol Chief
1/ We got our hands on screenshots from a secret FB group for current and former Border Patrol agents. They joke about migrant deaths, including the death of a teen in their care, and post racist, sexist memes.
Here's what we found.
👇👇👇
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2/ Thomas has publicly presented himself as an everyman with modest tastes.
In this documentary about the justice, he waxes nostalgic about his fondness for Walmart parking lots:
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New: Mexican President López Obrador Called Our Story “Slander” and Our Reporter a “Pawn.” Here Are Some Facts.
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Ivanka & Don Jr were being investigated for felony fraud
They lied to Trump SoHo buyers
And yep, there are emails
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9/ If Leo's name sounds familiar, it's because the longtime Federalist Society executive is regarded as an architect of the Supreme Court’s recent turn to the right and recently received $1.6 billion for a new conservative political group:
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7/ The justice has gone with Crow to the Bohemian Grove, the exclusive California all-male retreat, and to Crow’s sprawling Texas ranch.
Every summer, Thomas typically spends about a week at Camp Topridge, Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks.
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New: The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.
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NEW: Trump trust's been quietly revised to say he can take his biz's profits anytime, & he doesn't have to tell us.
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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accrued as much as $200,000 in debt buying tickets to Washington Nationals baseball games. We'd still like to learn more about who they were for.
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Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to.
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8/ Inside Topridge hangs a photorealistic painting of one of Thomas' visits to the 105-acre property in remote upstate NY.
The painting shows Thomas enjoying a cigar alongside Crow and chatting with other conservative power brokers like Leonard Leo:
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16/ Virginia Canter, a former government ethics lawyer who served in administrations of both parties, said Thomas “seems to have completely disregarded his higher ethical obligations.”
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5/ It wasn’t Thomas’ first time on Crow's yacht, the Michaela Rose. He went on a river day trip in Savannah, Georgia, and an extended cruise in New Zealand roughly a decade ago.
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@seanspicer
12/ So, we wrote about fact that Obama caved to big banks and didn’t deliver on his promises to help homeowners:
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“It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube.”
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A Chicago cop got out of 44 tickets by saying over and over that his girlfriend stole his car.
And it worked.
All 44 times, his tickets were dismissed. 👇🧵
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15/ “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” said Nancy Gertner, a retired federal judge appointed by former President Bill Clinton.
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New: The brother-in-law, a Trump appointee, sold between $97,000 and $280,000 worth of stock. Burr is under federal investigation over whether he traded on non-public information gathered through his work in the Senate.
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ProPublica editor
@DanLGolden
wrote a book a decade ago about how the rich buy their children access to elite colleges.
Case in point, Jared Kushner:
Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin among actresses, CEOs arrested in nationwide college admissions cheating scam
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11/ While Thomas and Crow have a genuine friendship, say sources familiar with the two men, these vacations often put the justice in contact with corporate execs and political activists.
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1/ So, what was going on at
@CDCgov
from Jan-March, against the mounting threat of coronavirus?
Based on hundreds of pages of emails we got our hands on: fumbling communications between federal and state agencies + general chaos. A few “jokes.”
Take a look for yourself:
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A reminder that our searchable PPP loan tracker has details on all 11.5 million approved PPP loans, including how much of each loan has been reported as forgiven.
Search by organization name, type, lender or even ZIP code:
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6/ While sailing around New Zealand with Crow, Thomas autographed a copy of his memoir as a gift for a crew member.
"Thank you so much for all your hard work on our New Zealand adventure," reads the inscription.
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This is AP reporter
@jonlemire
's tweet from same day Don Jr., Kushner, & Manafort met Russian lawyer.
They met in the Trump Tower.
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Who are the white supremacists assaulting people at rallies in Berkeley, Charlottesville and Huntington Beach? We found some of them:
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10/ At Crow’s invitation-only resort, guests enjoy boathouses, a clay tennis court, batting cage, a replica of Hagrid's hut from Harry Potter, bronze statues of gnomes & milkshakes at a 1950s-style soda fountain.
For free.
Rooms at a nearby resort start at more than $2K/night.
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You know who was subpar student and still got into Harvard?
Jared Kushner
Oh & his dad donated $2.5 mil.
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Inside a detention center last week. Children separated from their parents wail and ask for help.
A Border Patrol agent booms above the crying. “Well, we have an orchestra here,” he jokes. “What’s missing is a conductor.”
Listen to the full audio here:
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New: After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
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President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have repeatedly attributed the increase in the coronavirus case count in the United States to an increase in testing. These assertions are not backed up by the data, a ProPublica analysis shows.
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12/ During just one July 2017 trip, Thomas’ fellow guests included execs at Verizon & PricewaterhouseCoopers, major GOP donors, and one of the leaders of the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.
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NEW: We got access to a secret, 9,500-member FB group where current and former Border Patrol agents make explicit and derogatory remarks and “jokes” about migrants, female lawmakers and more.
@CPB
hasn't responded to our requests for comment.
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@GovMattBevin
@courierjournal
We noticed you mentioned two of our donors – who just happen to be Jewish.
So here are a few *facts* about our funding:
We had *34,000* donors last year. George Soros provided less than 2 percent of our revenue.
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El presidente mexicano López Obrador atacó nuestro artículo como “una calumnia” y a nuestro reportero como “un peón.” Aquí presentamos algunos hechos.
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Ventilators that the Obama administration agreed to buy for $3,280 each suddenly cost $15,000. It turns out they were “functionally identical,” according to House investigators, and the “waste of taxpayer funds” may have reached $500 million.
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