Former Miami-Dade police sergeant Mike Fisten [also a homicide investigator & FBI Organized Crime Task Force member] said the FBI had enough evidence to put child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein away for a long time but was overruled by now-Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta. #Maddow
In 2011, Jeffrey Epstein tried to have his sex offender status reduced in NY & now-DA Cyrus Vance argued on his behalf. The judge denied the petition, shocked that a prosecutor would make such a request for a serial sex offender who molested so many girls.
Runaway teen Virginia Roberts was working at Trump's Mar-a-Lago when she was lured by child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein into a life of depravity & sexual abuse. Epstein 'lent' her to other men, including his attorney, Alan Dershowitz.
by @jkbjournalist#Maddowmiamiherald.com/news/local/art…
ICYMI: DA Cyrus Vance, who in 2011 tried to have Jeffrey Epstein's sex offender status reduced in NY [and was shot down by an outraged judge], overruled his own prosecutors in 2012 on indicting Ivanka & Don Jr after a payoff from Trump's lawyer. #Maddow
Lawmakers call for a Justice Dept investigation into Trump Labor Sec Alexander Acosta after a scathing report by @jkbjournalist@MiamiHerald revealed that he granted serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein the “deal of a lifetime’’ while serving as US attorney. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
Trump's former NSA accused him of treasonous conduct –– “aiding and abetting” Russia's attack on the 2020 election –– and the story was blown away by the never-ending firehose of craziness and disinformation generated by Trump and his crew.
by @DavidCornDC motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
Also see this thread by @ChrisMurphyCT about "the massive coverup campaign underway to disguise the octopus-like Russian election interference operation being run on Trump's behalf."
Senior Pentagon leadership are quarantining after exposure to Vice Commandant of the US Coast Guard, Adm. Charles Ray, who tested COVID+ Monday:
-Gen. Mark Milley
-CoS of the USAF, Charles Brown
-Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gilday
-Chief of Space Operations, Gen. Raymond.
Last Sunday, General Milley and many of the Pentagon’s senior leadership attended a White House reception for “Gold Star” families of fallen troops. Trump and Melania were at that event.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/0…
Feds are seizing masks and other #COVID19 supplies from hospitals without a word.
“Federal officials sweep in without warning to expropriate our supplies... Are they stockpiling it? Distributing it? Will we get any of it back? We can’t get any answers.”latimes.com/politics/story…
“Trump and other White House officials, including Jared Kushner, claim that the federal government is using a 'data-driven approach' to procure [STEAL] medical supplies from hospitals and direct them where they are most needed [TO HELP TRUMP'S REELECTION].”
!! Chairs of two key House panels are demanding answers about Jared Kushner's role “in the acquisition, distribution of, or federally directed sale of any form of PPE or medical supplies and equipment to be used for the diagnosis or treatment of COVID-19.”nbcnews.com/politics/white…
It took 70 days from the initial notification on Jan 3 for Trump to treat coronavirus not as a hoax, but as a lethal force poised to kill thousands. But by then, critical time had been squandered and opportunities to mitigate the pandemic were lost.washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Because of Trump and his admin's failures over the first 70 days of the coronavirus crisis, the US will likely go down as the country that was supposedly best prepared to fight a pandemic but ended up sustaining heavier casualties than any other nation.
For 70 days, Trump lied to the public about coronavirus.
By the time he proclaimed himself a wartime president and coronavirus the enemy, the US was on track to see more of its people die than in the wars of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined. washingtonpost.com/video/politics…
BREAKING: Trump has fired inspector general for the intelligence community, Michael Atkinson, who opposed then-DNI Maguire’s decision to withhold the whistleblower complaint from Congress, which sparked the impeachment inquiry.
NEW: Trump has fired intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, who was first to sound the alarm to Congress last September about an “urgent” complaint he’d received from an intelligence official re Trump’s communications with Ukraine.politico.com/news/2020/04/0…
Schiff: Trump’s dead of night decision to fire ICIG Michael Atkinson is another blatant attempt to gut the independence of the Intelligence Community and retaliate against those who dare to expose presidential wrongdoing.