Trip Gabriel
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Reporter at @nytimes. I used to cover elections. Now I only write about you if you're dead (and don't mind that you don't return calls).
New York, NY
Joined May 2009
NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution. Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors. Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture. https://t.co/5cjY1dQTZt
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US cancels citizenship ceremonies for migrants from travel ban countries
bbc.com
It is the latest part of the Trump administration's renewed immigration crackdown in the wake of a deadly DC shooting.
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"Trump targeted illegal immigrants. Then he went after legal immigrants. Now he’s attacking naturalized Americans, citizens who were born elsewhere. He’s trying to turn white against nonwhite Americans...The U.S. government now openly stands for bigotry." https://t.co/s9kObPn7oI
thebulwark.com
He’s not just bashing refugees and illegal immigrants. He’s going after U.S. citizens born in other countries.
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The family of the Colombian fisherman who was killed in the Sept. 15 U.S. military strike in the Caribbean Sea filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleging the U.S. government illegally killed him. https://t.co/3rSAkAmhN5
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NEWS: President Trump pardons Democratic lawmaker indicted last year based on evidence he and his wife took more than $600k in bribes from Mexican-based bank and Azerbaijan state-controlled oil company.
houstonchronicle.com
Cuellar and his wife, Imelda, were indicted in May 2024 on charges of bribery, money laundering, working on behalf of a foreign government and conspiracy.
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This man ripped off teachers, nurses, small business owners - people from all walks of life and professions. Some lost their life savings. Not only did Trump let him out of prison, he also doesn’t have to pay back the victims.
NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution. Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors. Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture. https://t.co/5cjY1dQTZt
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My brother is an interventional cardiologist. He steps in during life-or-death cardiac emergencies and has saved countless patients in Minnesota, many of them white.
Trump on Minnesota's Somali community: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you."
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Exclusive: Inspector General report finds Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked endangering troops by sharing sensitive war plans on Signal, sources say.
cnn.com
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth risked compromising sensitive military information, which could have endangered American troops and mission objectives, when he used Signal in March of this year to...
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NEWS: Jack Smith's lawyer said Smith is "disappointed" House Republicans won't let him testify in public -- after Jim Jordan subpoenaed him for Dec. 17 closed-door deposition. Republicans see Smith as a dangerous (credible) witness who could embarrass Trump (& them).
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According to sources familiar with the Inspector General report on “Signalgate” the Acting Pentagon Inspector General after a months long investigation concluded Secretary Pete Hegseth “created risks to operational security” and his actions (sharing operational details before the
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With the pardon of Rep. Henry Cuellar D-TX, who had been accused of bribery and corruption, President Trump has now pardoned 12 members of Congress - 10 Republicans and 2 Democrats. (All but Cuellar had been convicted.)
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The GOP should be running for the hills, as the blue wave is building. Tuesday's result in TN-07 is part of a larger pattern of Dems outrunning Harris 2024 in 6 specials by 13+ pts. 5 of 5 times since 2005 the party that outperforms in specials ahead of midterms win the House.
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George Will: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement." https://t.co/GgVgdQ7BBw
washingtonpost.com
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara notes that the MPD will not work with federal agents and says, "In moments like this, I know how real the fear is in our community. People are going to want to speak out, protest, and exercise their 1st Amendment rights. We will absolutely
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For years, Trump ridiculed Biden for appearing to doze off in public. "Nobody that has true enthusiasm and belief in a subject will ever fall asleep!” Trump said. For the second time in less than a month now, Trump has apparently done the same thing. https://t.co/eawhJTN3PR
cnn.com
At the start of a Cabinet meeting just after noon ET on Tuesday, President Donald Trump made his seemingly obligatory reference to “Sleepy Joe” Biden.
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The national debt went up $89.38 billion in the last week to $38.4 trillion. When President Trump took the oath on Jan. 20, the national debt was at $36.2 trillion - it's gone up over $2.2 trillion in 10+ months.
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Putin Meets With Witkoff and Kushner for Nearly Five Hours and the two sides did not reach any specific compromises, an aide to President Vladimir V. Putin said, as the United States pushes a plan to end the war in Ukraine. Let me translate for you what this means. There was
"So far, no compromise option has been found, but some American developments look more or less acceptable, but they need to be discussed. Some of the wording that was offered to us does not suit us." Russia pushes back on American peace proposal for #Ukraine.
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Asked whether Mr. Trump fell asleep, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement that the president was “listening attentively and running the entire” meeting.
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NYT: Over the course of two hours and 18 minutes, the president, who is 79, sometimes appeared to struggle to keep his eyes open as cabinet officials went around the room describing their work and heaping praise on him. https://t.co/85jpCmAIwu
nytimes.com
President Trump began the meeting by criticizing media coverage about him showing signs of fatigue. Last month, he appeared to doze off during a meeting in the Oval Office.
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The Russians started the war, and there is no other way to put it. The whole world is a witness. They came with aggression to destroy us. We stopped them. Europe helped, America helped. Russia failed to occupy Ukraine first and foremost because of the strength of the Ukrainian
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