Day 619 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.
The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
Day 409 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
With Democrats in control of the House, expect gun control to be on the legislative agenda... Bloomberg’s cash-flush Independence PAC, which funded Democratic candidates who supported gun regulations, went a stunning 21-for-24 in House races”
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Update: Parkland mass shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz has been charged with attacking several guards in jail. wsvn.com/news/local/sto…
2 Indian-American men were killed at a bar in Olathe, Kansas while the assailant yelled “get out of my country!” The shooter pled guilty to fed hate crime charges.
Olathe never reported this hate crime. According to fed data, it never happened. bit.ly/2RRlWN6
Michigan man sentenced to 4 to 10 years in prison for shooting at a black teen asking directions
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Relatives said both brothers were part of alt-right movements and had begun stockpiling guns in preparation for a civil war. One of them wrote on Gab about the Pittsburgh mass shooting, “This was a dry run for things to come.” cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-c…
In addition to sending bombs to Dems, white man shooting 2 black shoppers in a Kroger, deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history & Borderline shooting, Miami police arrested a man armed with an arsenal, bulletproof vest, knife with a swastika:
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Statement from Fox News, NBC News, NY Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg News, AP, Politico, First Look Media, USA Today & others:
"We will be filing friend-of-the-court briefs to support CNN's and Jim Acosta's lawsuit based on these principles." hollywoodreporter.com/news/fox-news-…
In a court hearing over @acosta’s press credential, government lawyers advanced a legal theory that would let Trump ban reporters from White House grounds for any reason — including the tenor and tone of their coverage. wsj.com/articles/trump…
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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Lawyers suing Trump over his decision to end special protections shielding certain immigrants from deportation are seeking unaired footage from "The Apprentice" to try to bolster their case alleging the move was racially motivated, attorneys said. nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
This is what we call a money laundering scheme motherjones.com/politics/2018/… via @MotherJones
John Bolton says audio recording of Khashoggi killing does not implicate Saudi crown prince... washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
Jamal Khashoggi's killers carried syringes, electro-shock devices and cutting tools as they left Istanbul, says report | The Independent
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attempted to persuade Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to start a conflict with Hamas in Gaza as part of a plan to divert attention from the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi ow.ly/j2hZ30mBD2Y
14 senior admin officials, outside Trump confidants and foreign diplomats detail Trump's "five days of fury" after Democrats's election wins. Aides say Trump "brooded" over the Florida recounts and "sulked" over key races being called for Democrats.
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WH officials are struggling to understand the source of the fury fueling Trump's eruptions. "This is a level of insanity I've never seen before," one ex-West Wing staffer said.
"He's under tremendous amount of mental stress," a prominent GOPer said.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/t…
One Republican says Trump didn't want to go to the cemetery in France because there wasn't a tent to stand under.
"He was worried his hair was going to get messed up in the rain," the source said. "Everyone was telling him this was a big mistake." vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/t…
"It's like an episode of "Maury,'" one former Trump aide observed to POLITICO as the White House spectacle unfolded over the last 12 hours.
"The only thing that's missing is a paternity test."
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Trump should have respected France's mourning on the Paris attacks anniversary, French govt. spokesman says.
"We were commemorating the murder of 130 of our people," he said. "So I'll reply in English: 'common decency' would have been appropriate."
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Just as the annual Federalist Society convention is about to begin, George Conway (Kellyanne's husband) has formed a new group of more than a dozen conservative lawyers who believe the Trump admin is betraying the bedrock legal norms.
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"We believe in the rule of law, power of truth, independence of the criminal justice system, individual rights and the necessity of civil discourse," the group said. "We believe these principles apply regardless of the party or persons in power."
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"[Trump] has ... urged that the [DOJ] investigate his political opponents," ex-acting A.G. Peter Keisler said. "That's a fundamentally wrong and very dangerous view of the criminal justice system, and people from both parties ... should condemn it."
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Justice Department memo declares that Matt Whitaker's appointment is legal.
The memo was likely written by Whitaker, himself.
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If the Admin is upheld by the courts on Whitaker, it erases the confirmation power of the Senate. Presidents can bypass the Senate at will, choosing temps who have never been confirmed, and who cannot be confirmed, for 7 months, renew them, and then pick another.
Chuck Schumer: "If Whitaker does not recuse himself, we are going to attempt to add legislation to the must-pass spending bill in a lame-duck session that will prevent Acting AG Whitaker from interfering w/ the Mueller investigation in any way."
Reps. Cummings, Nadler, Schiff, and Pallone are launching an investigation into Matthew Whitaker's involvement with World Patent Marketing, the company that allegedly bilked millions from consumers and suppressed criticism of their activities.
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CREW has filed an ethics complaint with DOJ calling on Matthew Whitaker to recuse himself from the Russia investigation due to a "lack of impartiality with respect to these investigations." CREW also sites the FBI probe into World Patent Marketing. bit.ly/2K5pxEH
Senators Chris Coons and Jeff Flake, both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked for unanimous consent to bring the bipartisan Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act to a vote on the Senate floor.
Mitch McConnell Blocks Bipartisan Bill To Protect Robert Mueller buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmc… by @pdmcleod
Jeff Flake: "I will not vote to advance any of the 21 judicial nominees pending in the Judiciary Committee or vote to confirm the 32 judges awaiting confirmation until S. 2644 [the Mueller protection bill] is brought to the full Senate for a vote."
Here's why Flake's threat matters: Judiciary Committee is 11 Republicans, 10 Democrats. If Flake opposes all of them, it makes it significantly harder (not impossible) to get them out of Committee.
Flake: "With the firing of [Sessions], and, in my view, the improper installation of an acting attorney general who has not been subject to confirmation by this body, [Trump] now has this investigation in his sights, and we all know it."
Mueller's office is exploring whether Roger Stone tried to intimidate & discredit Randy Credico, a witness who is contradicting Stone's version of events about his contacts with WikiLeaks, people who have spoken to Mueller's investigators tell WSJ. wsj.com/articles/muell…
Roger Stone repeatedly claimed to be in touch through phone calls w/Trump & members of the campaign while touting that he had advance knowledge of Wikileaks.
Whether or not Stone shared that info w/Trump is a focus of the special counsel. cnn.com/2018/11/14/pol…
Trump has nudged Kevin McCarthy to make JIM JORDAN the top Republican in the Judiciary Committee — which would put Trump’s fiercest loyalist in position to defend him against investigations and impeachment.
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Trump makes this false claim about voter ID: "If you buy a box of cereal — you have a voter ID."
He also claims, without evidence, that, "Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again."
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“Analysts, historians and veterans of previous administrations said there were few comparable instances of a commander in chief warning about what he called a looming threat, only to drop it as soon as people voted.” nytimes.com/2018/11/13/us/…
Jeff Flake says that the U.S. troops deployed to Tucson to stop the migrant caravan are actually stationed about 90 miles from the border. "They’re not forward-deployed actually on the border. So I think you can't call it anything but a stunt here." @Morning_Joe
Mattis, standing with Nielsen, spoke to troops in McAllen, Texas.
Someone should probably let them know the refugees are headed to Tijuana...over 1,500 miles away.
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The Census Bureau's top scientist has testified that neither he nor other top Census officials thought the decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census was a good idea.
The researcher says he raised the issue to Wilbur Ross.
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While HUD Secretary Ben Carson pledged to fix low-income housing, the number of properties cited for health and safety violations has been on the rise, an NBC News investigation found. nbcnews.com/politics/white…
"At one HUD-subsidized property in Hartford, CT, residents complain of mold, leaks and insect infestations, while their private landlord continues to collect millions in taxpayer dollars and HUD missed federally mandated deadlines to crack down." nbcnews.com/politics/white…
The BLUE WAVE of 2018 in a nutshell:
-Republicans carried white evangelical Christians by 53 percentage points
-Democrats carried everyone else by 34 points
White evangelical Christians are only one-fourth of the electorate
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Poll: About 60 percent of Americans want someone other than Trump elected president in 2020
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“Every other wax figure at Madame Tussauds has human hair, but Trump’s orange mane could not be realistically duplicated with anything human. The sculptor settled on yak hair, said museum marketing director Matthew Clarkson.”
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In case you missed yesterday's thread:
Matthew Whitaker has denied, through a DOJ spokesperson, being aware of World Patent Marketing’s alleged fraud.
Turns out he fought back against such allegations when they appeared on a website. washingtonpost.com/politics/he-wa…