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We’re LIVE at the White House #ConfrontCorruption vigil with @SenWhitehouse @SenJeffMerkley and hundreds of others in defense of our democracy following the outrageous Helsinki summit: facebook.com/moveon/videos/…

This is just one of 200 actions happening across the country tonight.
.@SenBlumenthal at the #ConfrontCorruption vigil in front of the White House:

"You cannot intimidate or fire a Special Counsel investigating you to hold you accountable for breaking the law... Trump's also breaking the law by violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution."
.@SenJeffMerkley: We’re facing profound corruption through gerrymandering, voter suppression and dirty money; through Citizens Untied, which like a sound system drowns out the voice of the people.

We need to overturn that ruling and bring power to the people. #ConfrontCorruption
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Saudi Arabia has poured money into Trump’s operations and curried favor with $ since he’s been president. THREAD.
The Saudi embassy has spent at least $270,000 at Trump’s Washington hotel since the November 2016 election, and the royal family has spent big money at his Chicago and New York hotels since he became president.
washingtonpost.com/politics/i-lik…
In 2015, Trump boasted about his business dealings with the Saudis: “Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much."
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Almost every sentence in Trump's USA Today op-ed attacking Medicare for All contained a misleading statement or falsehood. Let's set the record straight.

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Time to do a synopsis of the #Helsinki summit in Star Wars gifs...

A week before the summit...

the entire intelligence community:
Putin to Trump:
Trump... pretty much always:
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Re: today's events:
In February, Mueller released information clarifying how and why #Putin desperately wanted to stop #HillaryClinton from being elected.

Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Jill Stein were helped by Russian election interference  vox.com/policy-and-pol…
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Following the disastrous NATO summit & @realDonaldTrump labeling our European allies “foes,” he buddies up again to his favorite dictator – Putin. Never before has a sitting President met with his Russian counterpart from such a position of weakness. #TrumpPutin
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Today was a shameful, dark day in our nation’s history. @POTUS is selling out our country, weakening our democracy, and siding with those who seek to do us harm. Instead of praising Putin, our President should be holding him accountable.
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Thread: 1) Investigate everything but the real crime.

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1. Amidst modest,if not low,expectations on the very deliverables of the meeting it's interesting to see public & back-channel efforts of #Moscow & #Washington to build the agenda for the summit.
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@Secy_State_US Senate Intel report: Russia waged an "unprecedented, coordinated cyber campaign" against US voting systems.

Russia-linked hackers were in a position to "alter or delete voter registration data" in a small number of states before the election
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