Day 567 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.
The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
At the end of a week that began with the White House saying that Trump "directed" the "immediate declassification" of documents relating to the Russia investigation, Trump acknowledged that there was no directive. #TrumpLies
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Day 356 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 #NeverAgain #EnoughIsEnough
A woman filed a petition to hold her ex-husband in contempt for failure to pay child support. The petition hearing was scheduled for next week.
Last night, the ex-husband fatally shot their 15 & 13-year-old while they slept and then shot himself.
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Russian social media agitators who pushed pro-gun messages in the United States sometimes copied the language of the National Rifle Association. And sometimes, the NRA copied them, according to NPR. npr.org/2018/09/21/649…
Reminder: The Trump administration is systematically locking up thousands of children at unheard of rates - now a staggering 12,800.
The government classifies these children as "unaccompanied"
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Very emotional scene at Dulles airport when an 11 y/o, held by ICE for 6+ months, reunited with his mother & grandmother.
He claimed asylum at the border & was detained, yet the mom was already living legally in VA.
She sued Trump admin & won.
@ACLU: Things the Trump administration has taken money from to fund the jailing of families and immigrant abuses:
❌ FEMA
❌ cancer research
❌ HIV/AIDS services
❌ Head Start
❌ mental health services
❌ substance abuse programs
❌ maternal health services
Trump admin announced that immigrants who legally use public benefits like food assistance and Section 8 housing vouchers could be denied green cards under new rules aimed at keeping out people the admin deems 'a drain on the country.' nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/…
Ambassador Wendy Sherman on North Korea: “I am quite skeptical that we are going to make the progress we need to.” on.msnbc.com/2NA9VxR
Removing a president via the 25th Amendment is harder than many think but talk of it within the administration, however seriously, underscores how volatile this presidency is and how fractured the team around Trump is. nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/…
FBI agents fire back at Trump: Nothing will stop us from protecting the American people
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A top adviser helping lead the Senate Judiciary Committee's response to the allegation against Brett Kavanaugh has stepped down amid evidence he was fired from a previous political job in part because of a sexual harassment allegation against him. nbcnews.com/politics/supre…
Garrett Ventry, the Judiciary Committee adviser who resigned over sexual harassment allegations, left the PR he was working for, too.
The PR firm was CRC Public Relations, the firm that apparently helped Ed Whelan push his bogus conspiracy theory.
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Dr. Ford considered leaving the country when she first thought Kavanaugh would be nominated to SCOTUS.
"She was like, 'I can't deal with this. If he becomes the nominee, then I'm moving to another country," her husband said. "She wanted out." wapo.st/2puiTOV
RAINN: Only 310 out of every 1,000 sexual assaults are reported to police. About 2 out of 3 go unreported.
Reasons for not reporting include:
20% feared retaliation
13% believed the police would not do anything to help
13% believed it was a personal matter
New email from Dr. Ford's lawyer: "Dr. Ford accepts the Committee's request to provide her first-hand knowledge of Brett Kavanaugh's sexual misconduct next week."
Email from Dr. Ford's lawyer: "Although many aspects of the proposal you provided via email ... are fundamentally inconsistent with the Committee's promise of a fair, impartial investigation into her allegations ... we are hopeful that we can reach agreement on details."
Clarance Thomas testified first. You should know. You were there.
Blumenthal: "I will support [Ford's]...bravery against...irrational constraints set by Chmn Grassley...No one should confuse support for that story with an endorsement or acceptance of this deeply broken process. I remain deeply disturbed by the conduct of my colleagues."
Senior WH official on this latest letter: “This is not a yes. It's another delay after Judge Kavanaugh has agreed to testify for a week now.”
Ford's legal team plans to continue to press for a Thursday hearing, as well as a Judge subpoena and to have senators do questioning, a person familiar with the lawyers’ thinking tells @emmersbrown
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Source familiar says that Grassley, Feinstein, and Ford's lawyers have agreed to a THURSDAY hearing with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
#IBelieveDrFord
Former senior Trump aide Jason Miller has been accused of secretly administering an abortion pill in a smoothie bit.ly/2Nx9GDX
"Pence became the first sitting VP to speak at the Value Voters Summit, an event sponsored by the Family Research Council, an anti-LGBTQ group that supports the damaging practice of conversion therapy."
#LGBTQ intomore.com/impact/pence-s…
There is no evidence that letting transgender people use public facilities that align with their gender identity increases safety risks, a UCLA study finds. nbcnews.to/2MWNu0K
Paul Manafort's plea deal with Mueller says that if Manafort's guilty pleas or convictions are wiped out for any reason, prosecutors can charge him with any other crimes he may have confessed to, according to Politico. politico.com/story/2018/09/…
K.T. McFarland has revised her statement to investigators after her initial claim was contradicted by Mike Flynn's plea.
She now says Flynn may have been referring to sanctions when they spoke after his calls with Sergey Kislyak, WaPo reports.
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An oligarch who helped finance Mariia Butina has been a discreet source of funds for business ventures useful to the Russian military and security services, according to documents and interviews reported on by NYT.
nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/…
Putin ordered the arrest of Sergey Slastikhin for embezzling hundreds of millions of roubles from Russian space agency Roskosmos - Slastikhin also has many businesses in FL including one that offers birth tourism in Trump properties, by @XSovietNews
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A judge says that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross can be questioned under oath by lawyers challenging a decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireS…
China cancelled the last chance to negotiate before Trump's tariffs hit Monday.
American biz groups here react, urging Trump to fix it: “This is brinkmanship that benefits no one."
washingtonpost.com/world/china-ca…
Trump's tariffs could mean a 2,000,000 drop in car sales and cost 715,000 American jobs, an auto industry group warns.
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Newly found documents from the 1980s show that fossil fuel companies privately predicted the global damage that would be caused by their products, according to The Guardian. theguardian.com/environment/cl…
Trump trade war adds to Hurricane Florence pain by hiking recovery cost.
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FEMA approved $8.2 million for recovery in Vieques, Puerto Rico, but estimated that the island sustained over $400 million in damage.
One year after the storm, its residents remain displaced. #Shameful
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White House has drafted an executive order calling for federal probes into business practices of social media companies such as Google and Facebook.
It’s in preliminary stages.
But part of growing concern over social media platforms’ anti-competitive behavior.
Trump hits McCain for voting against Obamacare repeal just weeks after his death hill.cm/z7b7lB5
Trump is holding a fundraiser at his Bedminster property tonight for the @The_RGA.
About 30 people will attend, including RGA Chairman, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam.
#Emoluments
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