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I've compiled a list of the people the White House restricted FBI from interviewing, and a list of today's new revelations.

Taken all together, it's a disturbing picture. How can @JeffFlake, @SenatorCollins and @lisamurkowski accept this?

My new piece: washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-lin…
@JeffFlake @SenatorCollins @lisamurkowski The new reporting out today utterly demolishes one of the leading pro-Kavanaugh talking points, the one that goes, "hey, he totally admitted to drinking and doing things that made him cringe, so we're all good":

washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-lin…
@JeffFlake @SenatorCollins @lisamurkowski One more point:

This whole process has failed the standard that @JeffFlake *himself* set, when he insisted on the reopened FBI background check.

Voting for Kavanaugh now would betray that Flake's own declared standard was nothing but a lie:

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The migrant crisis reveals Trump's immigration strategy is failing, an important new NYT report demonstrates.

An anonymous Homeland Security official, and others at the border, confirm what's really happening.

Deterrence through cruelty is a failure:

nytimes.com/2019/01/04/us/…
This is what I've been trying to argue. The right way to describe Trump's handling of immigration is as a massive failure. And the endless lies about this issue illustrate the wrongheaded and sometimes delusional worldview undergirding this failure.

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Here's another revelation from the NYT piece.

Administration insiders *know* that Trump's latest moves to get "tough" on the border will either fail or be unjustifiable to the American people.

But the WH keeps insisting they forge ahead anyway:

nytimes.com/2019/01/04/us/…
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1) As Trump ends the year with a flood of lies about his wall, we need to recapture a core truth about this presidency.

Trump isn't “twisting the truth” or “stubbornly refusing to admit error.”

Trump is engaged in *disinformation.*

This is a different thing entirely.

*THREAD*
2) The WaPo and NYT fact checkers have now posted their year-end pieces. They are notable.

Via @glennkesslerwp, Trump has now passed the 7,500 mark in falsehoods and distortions as president:

washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/…
@GlennKesslerWP 3) Meanwhile, @YLindaQiu points to a pattern in which Trump regularly converts his falsehoods into “alternative facts” through “sheer force of repetition.”

This is the essence of the matter.

nytimes.com/2018/12/29/us/…
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Please focus on this, it's important.

Trump's threat to cut off aid to Northern Triangle countries is flatly contradicted by recommendations for addressing the migrant crisis from *both* the State Department *and* his own Customs and Border Patrol chief:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/…
Trump just said again that Central American countries are scamming us.

This is foundational to Trump's delusional worldview.

Trump called Mexicans rapists *and* he claimed Mexico "sends" them to us.

That's why he vowed to make Mexico pay for the wall.

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In the Trumpist mythology, other countries send us their outcasts and laugh about it. Only Trump is tough enough to end it.

Thus, his failure to make Mexico pay for the wall isn't a small, tangential broken promise.

Trump's vow to do this was a pillar of his entire worldview.
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