Day 498 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama. #fakenews #TrumpLies
Day 285 since the deadliest mass shooting on U.S soil in Las Vegas that killed 58, injured 546 and Congress has taken NO action to prevent future mass shootings. #NeverForget
WATCH: Sacha Baron Cohen tricks top Republicans into backing guns for toddlers on camera hill.cm/GSfU2vA
David Hogg: We are currently headed off to Las Vegas which passed a universal background checks ballot initiative but over two years later it is still not regularly implemented. The AG of Nevada @AdamLaxalt refuses to do his job and enforce these laws.
Trump continues golfing at Turnberry today prior to his Putin meeting. Across the country in Scotland, his other course, near Aberdeen, hasn’t fulfilled any of the promises Trump made for it to local residents when they let him build it:
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Trump is asked if he will ask Putin to extradite the 12 Russian military officers indicted by Mueller.
Trump responds, "Well, I might. I hadn't thought of that."
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Trump, instead of blaming the Russians for the DNC hack, blames the DNC: "I think the DNC should be ashamed of themselves for allowing themselves to be hacked."
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National security adviser John Bolton on whether he thinks Trump should trust Putin:
"I’m the national security adviser, I'm not the national security decision-maker...He's going to make the decision how to handle this"
National security adviser John Bolton tells @jonkarl he finds it "hard to believe" that Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin was unaware of Russian interference in 2016 presidential election
Asked to identify his "biggest foe globally right now," Trump says: "I think the European Union is a foe." cbsnews.com/news/donald-tr…
President of the European Council.
Theresa May says that Trump told her to sue the European Union over Brexit: "He told me I should sue the EU. Not go into negotiation, sue them." (via BBC)
Redefining allies as enemies has been Trump’s central foreign policy
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“We are witnessing something surprising, something that even the Soviet Union was not able to accomplish: Divide the U.S. & Western Europe. It didn’t work then, but it seems to be working with Mr. Trump now,” Tatyana Parkhalina said on state-run TV
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Prince Charles and Prince William were unwilling to meet Trump, according to The Times, leaving the Queen to greet Trump alone.
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Rand Paul justifies Russia's interference, claiming all countries meddle in foreign elections. "I think really we mistake our response if we think it's about accountability from the Russians. They're another country, they're going to spy on us."
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Biden on the separation of migrant families: "It makes me feel shame. I really mean that. I’m proud of the response the American people have shown. This is is not America. We are not as good as we believe we are — but we are much better than this." bit.ly/2uxoO7S
"I felt like a prisoner," said Diogo De Olivera Filho, a 9-year-old from Brazil who spent 5 weeks at a Chicago shelter, including 3 weeks in isolation after getting chickenpox. He said the shelter put up a gate to keep him in. "I felt like a dog."
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Sandy was reunited with her mother on July 5 after 55 days at Southwest Key Combes, a shelter in Harlingen, Texas.
For Sandy, it was a place of sorrow, fear and scoldings.
"They told us to behave," she said, "or we'd be there forever." washingtonpost.com/local/immigran…
Most children were reluctant to talk about what they went through in detention.
"I don't want to remember," said one 10-year-old, who recounted watching an out-of-control kindergartner get injected with something after misbehaving in class.
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According to the White House schedule just released, the Trump-Putin meeting will last for 90 minutes.
Can't wait to hear details of the meeting and see the pictures...from the Russian media.
Trump-Putin joint news conference scheduled for 9:50am EDT
Let's see if either will take questions from the media.
12 Russian operatives were indicted on Friday for trying to undermine American democracy and Trump responded by criticizing Obama and congratulating Russia for hosting a soccer tournament
Devin Nunes is refusing to release transcripts that appear to confirm that key witnesses — including Roger Stone and Trump Jr. — lied during congressional testimony shareblue.com/adam-schiff-de…
Michael Waldman: My take on the SCOTUS pick and its implications for the Russia probe ... nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…
British investigators believe the same Russian military intelligence service now accused of 2016 election interference—the GRU— may also be responsible for the nerve agent attack in Britain against ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal, NYT reports.
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The Guardian's Observer reports that there's an ongoing channel between Robert Mueller and the British investigation into Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.
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Prosecutors now have more than 2,000,000 pieces of evidence seized from Michael Cohen after a judge released 883,634 more items this week. nydailynews.com/news/ny-news-m…
Six months after the Trump tax cuts " real wages fell 1.4 percent from the prior year"
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Trump and Melania Trump arrive in Helsinki, Finland ahead of the meeting with Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin on Monday.
This is a march taking place in Helsinki, Finland today, where 10s of thousands of citizens take to the streets to protest Trump.
In case you missed yesterday's thread:
One of TRUMP's campaign committees received $170k in May from a real estate developer who partnered with the KUSHNER family on a $1B deal to sell the retail space at 666 Fifth Avenue. nytimes.com/2018/07/15/us/…
The @DevinNunes fundraising geyser: $4.4 million raised in 2nd quarter from 'tens of thousands'
#FollowTheMoney washex.am/2miICrV
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