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I’ve observed Colorado @SenCoryGardner since his election. What I’ve seen has left me dismayed. Rather than building bipartisan bridges to get things done, Cory became a supine Trump yes-man. There are 1000s reasons he shouldn’t be re-elected. Here are 101: #VoteCoryOut #COsen
#1: Even though he was elected by the narrowest of margins in 2014 in a state that has since voted for Hillary in 2016 & a democratic state govt trifecta in 2018, Cory continues to act as if he has a mandate from the white nationalist alt-right. #VoteCoryOut #cosen
#2: Cory Gardner has consistently voted for the extreme Trump agenda. During the 2019-2020 Congress, he’s voted with Trump over 90% of the time. During Trump’s 1st two years, Cory’s voting record was over 95% in line with Trump. #VoteCoryOut #cosen
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Some corners of the internet are attacking @RepEBJ for inviting her constituent, the beloved TX Imam @omarsuleiman504 to give a prayer to Congress yesterday. You might not know who he is, so I'll tell you.
He's known in the Muslim community for being a founder of @MUHSENORG which helps and trains mosques to serve Muslims with special needs and of @yaqeeninstitute which publishes papers on issues facing US Muslims.
Muslims also know him as an ally to Muslim women, bc Sh. omar was one of the first US Muslim religious leaders to take a private and public stand against another TX preacher accused of sexually predatory behavior two years ago.
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#REDFLAG: In Feb, after Trump was forced to reopen the government for 3 weeks, following the 35 day #TrumpShutdown...

...a bipartisan committee hashed out an immigration funding compromise to avoid another one.

But...WHERE. DID. THE. MONEY. GO?

[THREAD]
nytimes.com/2019/02/14/us/…
#ATTN: The bipartisan deal included:

🔹 $1.375B — 55 miles of New Fencing.
🔹 $524.2M — Ports of Entry + 600 New Border Agents.
🔹 $415M — Humanitarian Aid at Border.

AND...

🔹 $563.4M — for Immigration Courts, (incl. $59M for) 75 NEW JUDGES.
🔹 $527M — Aid to Central America.
#FLAG: Congress JUST passed funding for 75 new Immigration Judges, largely to hear asylum claims.

Today, AG Bill Barr boasted about DOJ's progress...PRIOR to this year.

Yet, he's requesting $72M to hire 100 new judges in FY2020.

But...WHERE DID THE MONEY GO FROM THE LAST DEAL?
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THREAD: Last night, the Pentagon informed Congress that it authorized the transfer of $1 BILLION to build Trump's border wall.

TODAY the House votes to override Trump’s veto of Congress’ decision to block this illegal #FakeTrumpEmergency.

cnn.com/2019/03/25/pol…
When he didn’t get his way during the 35-day #TrumpShutdown—which cost American workers billions—Trump declared an illegal national emergency to build his border wall.

Congress soundly rejected his illegal declaration. Here’s why:
ILLEGAL: The president can't just declare “an emergency” and turn the Pentagon into his private construction company...

@SamBerger_DC explains.
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Trump: Day 782
-Forced to Ground Boeing 737 Jets
-Manafort to Serve 43 More Months
-Manhattan DA Indicts Paul Manafort
-DOJ Investigating Malaysian Donor
-Whitaker Didn't Deny SDNY Prying
-House Democrats Targeting Ivanka
-Declaration 2 Be Disapproved Thurs
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Day 887 since Donald Trump *bragged* and joked about sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 738 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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💣Doozy💣

NYAG 16 New Charges for Manafort. If Convicted, Trump Can’t Pardon.

Res’l Mortgage Fraud
Attempted Mortgage Fraud
Conspiracy
Falsifying Biz Records
Scheme to Defraud

📌Ct 1: 60 mos, w/ 30 mos concurrent
📌Ct 2: 13 mos, to run consecutive to ct 1 & the EDVA sentence
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📌”U.S. gov’t now has a condo in Trump Tower. (It was Paul Manafort's.)”

📌Probe into whether Russia lent money to Trump through Deutsche Bank

📌📌DOJ inv’g Jho Low’s (fugitive at the center of the global #1MDB scandal) $100k donation to Trump Victory super pac.
💣Doozy3💣

At issue ia 100K payment from Jho Low via Larry Davis ➡️filled RNC/Trump’s coffers.

Davis’ parents in law pleaded guilty during a Clinton-era financing scandal.

B/c Low is not a US citizen, he is barred from making direct or indirect donations to US pols or to PACs.
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Wow

Where to even start

First, you’re not speaker any more

And your party’s “ideas” were so soundly rejected during the midterm elections that you lost an historic 40 seats

But let’s go a little deeper. Let’s look at Trump’s “accomplishments” and see if we are “better off”
With Trump and the GOP gutting the ACA and fighting Medicaid expansion, people who pay for healthcare are certainly #NotBetterOff

But healthcare and drug companies, and people that own them, sure are. Just ask your friend Chris Collins.

healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hbl…
The millions adversely affected by the #GOPTaxScam are #NotBetterOff

On the other hand, all the companies and wealthy CEOs who used the tax cut to buy back stocks and become richer were probably thrilled

npr.org/2019/02/14/693…
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Trump: Day 770
-Rebuked by Otto Warmbier's Parents
-Claims Comments "Misinterpreted"
-Dems Seek 2 Request Tax Returns
-1K TSA Workers Still Owed Back Pay
-HUD Official Sought Reality TV Spot
-Manafort Seeking Court's Leniency
-Stone Trial to Only Last 5 to 8 Days
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Day 875 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 726 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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Trump: Day 761
-Supporter Planned Terror Attacks
-Escalates Attacks Against NY Times
-Cheers Covington WaPo Lawsuit
-DOJ Expects Mueller Report Next Wk
-Energy Execs Spend Big at DC Hotel
-Global Recession Fears are Rising
-Cohen 2 Testify Publicly February 27
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Day 866 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 717 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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Trump: Day 755
-Intends 2 Declare Nat'l Emergency
-DHS Guts Election Protection Team
-McCabe Admits 2 Discussing 25A
-Barr Confirmed as Attorney General
-Scraps Plans 2 Build 'SCION' Hotels
-Took Putin's Word Over Intel on NK
-Retail Sales Steepest Drop in 9 Yrs
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Day 860 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 711 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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To sum up today’s #Trump bullshittery: dude says he’ll sign the funding bill that just passed Congress AND will declare a (totes bogus btw) national emergency so that he doesn’t have to honor it.
Worse, the “conservatives” are all supporting this. Including MITCH MCCONNELL who now suddenly wants to sing about it like it’s free candy.

Aren’t y’all supposed to be AGAINST Federal Government overreach?!

Oh right. Not when you’re the ones doing it.

Jerks.

#TrumpShutdown
If he gets away with this now, you know his team is going to try to figure out how to use this new “national emergency” schtick to f*ck with the 2020 elections.

#Trump #TrumpShutdown
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Trump: Day 754
-Installed Room-Sized Golf Simulator
-Refuses 2 Back-Pay Fed Contractors
-Aims 2 Detain Children at Toxic Site
-Judge Voids Manafort's Plea Deal
-FEMA's Chief Brock Long Resigns
-Hypocrisy Exposed by Jake Tapper
-Schedules Rally in Miami 4 Monday
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Day 859 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 710 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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Trump: Day 753
-Wants 2 Rob Disaster Money 4 Wall
-National Debt Surpasses $22 Trillion
-Unaware 4th of July Parade Exists
-Mueller Probe Has a Cost Surplus
-7M 90 Days Late on Auto Payment
-Interior Sec Raises Ethics Concerns
-Lied About El Paso Rally Crowd Size
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Day 858 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 709 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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Trump: Day 752
-Manafort Hearing Reveals Collusion
-Sued by Former WH Aide Cliff Sims
-Pushing to Expand Detention Caps
-Called 'Disillusioned' by El Paso Co.
-CA Gov Pulling Troops From Border
-Work Days Don't Start Before 11AM
-Deal Reached 2 Avoid Shutdown
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Day 857 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 708 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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Trump: Day 751
-Can Not Rule Out Another Shutdown
-Mocks Klobuchar in 'Virtual Blizzard'
-50% on 'Executive Time' Last Week
-Halting Supervised Injection Sites
-Flips Nat'l Park Shutdown Funding
-U.S. Farm Bankruptcies Are Soaring
-Reportedly Does His Own Make-Up
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Day 856 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 707 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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Trump: Day 750
-Tries 2 Spoil Warren's Campaign Run
-Jokingly References "Trail" of Tears
-Undermining Legitimacy of 2020
-W.H. Doctor Mocked Over Physical
-Thousands of Fed Workers Unpaid
-Average Tax Refund Down 8 Percent
-Beto Plans Competing El Paso Rally
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Day 855 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 706 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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Trump: Day 749
-Refuses 2 Hold MbS Responsible
-Whitaker Evasive in Judicial Hearing
-Inaugural Paid Hotel $175k Per Day
-Campaign Pays Javanka Legal Fees
-Appointed 8 Club Members 2 Admin
-Employed Pipeline of Undoc Workers
-Helping 2 Make N Korea Great Again
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Day 854 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 705 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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Trump: Day 748
-Touted "Abolition of Civil Rights"
-Furious Schiff Hires Ex-NSC Aides
-Treasury Skips Sanctions Doc DDL
-Millions Won't Get Refund Checks
-Farmers Income Falls to 15 Yr Low
-TSA Seized 4,239 Guns Last Year
-MbS Threatened Khashoggi in 2017
-Bezos Exposes Pecker
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Day 853 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 704 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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Trump: Day 747
-Dems Launch New Investigations
-Calls Adam Schiff a "Political Hack"
-CoS Sz 'Nobody Cares' About Deficit
-2018 4th Warmest Year on Record
-1st Gun Violence Hearing in 8 Years
-Rolling Back Consumer Protections
-More Tarriffs Would Cost 900k Jobs
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Day 852 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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The DOJ has launched an investigation into how federal government lawyers handled the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy Florida man accused of having sex with underage girls.

One of those lawyers, Alex Acosta, is now Trump's Labor Secretary.
nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
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Trump: Day 746
-Delivers Lie-Filled SOTU Address
-Feds Seek Interviews w/Org Execs
-4 Trips to Mar-a-Lago Cost $13.6M
-Arms Sold 2 Saudi Now w/Al-Qaeda
-Wants 2 Paint Section of Border Wall
-US Drops in Democracy Rankings
-Badmouths Candidates at Luncheon
-"Designates" Rick Perry
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Day 851 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 702 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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I made the mistake of looking at @WhiteHouse to see what content they were putting out ahead of #SOTU.

I can't get those five minutes of my life back (please spare yourself!), but I can provide some FACTS on the actual state of our union:
FACT: The gap between the richest Americans and everyone else has grown under Trump’s watch. finance.yahoo.com/news/rich-poor…
FACT: Last year, the stock market had its worst year since the 2008 financial crisis. cnbc.com/2019/01/02/sto…
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Trump: Day 745
-Inaugural Committee Subpoenaed
-Told 8,459 False/Misleading Claims
-Picks Ex-Oil Lobbyist 4 Interior Scty
-Purging Workers at 5 Golf Courses
-Graham Demands Nat'l Emergency
-Senate Votes 2 Rebuke Syria Policy
-Sz Reuniting Children Not Possible
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Day 850 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 701 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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Trump: Day 744
-168th Day at a Trump Golf Club
-222nd Day at a Trump Property
-60% of Day Spent on Executive Time
-Flip-Flops His Position on Football
-Moscow Tower Location Identified
-May Keep Mueller Report From View
-Deploying 4k Addt'l Troops 2 Border
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Day 849 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 700 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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Trump: Day 743
-221st Day at Trump Property
-167th Day at Trump Golf Club
-Denied 2016 Loan by Deutsche Bank
-Russia Will Build Banned Weapons
-GM Laying Off 4k Workers Monday
-Taps Dr Ronny Jackson 4 Promotion
-Orange Tan Result of "Good Genes"
-US Now 22nd Most Honest Country
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Day 848 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 699 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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