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Reminder: Emails show that Cohen's intermediary on the Moscow deal was Felix Sater, who wrote in a 2015 email: "Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it."

The doc describes an intermediary as "Individual 2."

Old NYT story: nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/…
Cohen admitted this morning that he lied to Congress on Aug. 28, 2017, when he told House and Senate investigators that the Moscow Project ended in January 2016 and was not discussed extensively with others in the company.
The doc describes "Individual 2" as a U.S. citizen.

Born in Russia, Sater is now a U.S. citizen who became a government informant after pleading guilty in 1998 to a Russian mafia-orchestrated pump-and-dump stock fraud scheme.

WaPo on this history:

washingtonpost.com/politics/forme…
.@CourthouseNews also reported on this history in covering a 2013 lawsuit against Sater and the Bayrock Group, where he worked as managing director. Bayrock has been involved with multiple Trump projects.

This lawsuit was later removed to SDNY.
courthousenews.com/did-cia-helpa-…
That case was voluntarily dismissed in 2015.
Here is the Miami Herald story cited in that old Courthouse News coverage. miamiherald.com/news/local/com…
Confused about the significance of Cohen's guilty plea this morning?

My colleague @FRIED_ALIVE and I untangle what Cohen lied about to Congress and the domestic- and geopolitical context of these lies in an updated story for @CourthouseNews courthousenews.com/michael-cohen-…
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Take the quote: “Impeach the motherfucker.”

It seems to me that a serious journalist should contextualize the operative verb “impeach.” The noun “motherfucker” typically requires little additional context.
For instance, how many people know that the day Rep. Tlaib made that remark, she co-wrote an op-ed with a constitutional attorney laying out the grounds they would cite?

Or that, a day earlier, her colleague Rep. Sherman announced plans to introduce articles of impeachment?
I spoke to Tlaib’s co-author in the below op-ed, attorney John Bonifaz, on Friday, to discuss the push for impeachment, touching upon the grounds, timing, momentum and more.

Look out for a story next week on the substance beyond the swear word. freep.com/story/opinion/…
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Reminder: The Trumpified-Department of Homeland Security, whose spokesman is seen here echoing White House’s anti-press attack line, has been compiling a database of journalists and “media influencers,” including by “sentiment.” 🔽 biglawbusiness.com/homeland-secur…
This spokesman called that database “standard” and suggested that it’s tin-foil hat territory to question whether they would use it responsibly.
It should be added that the substance of @SpoxDHS’s statement is pure and reprehensible disinformation: The CNN story quotes a TSA official by name without a denial, in a story whose deep sourcing speaks to its clear credibility.

In case you missed it. cnn.com/2019/01/04/pol…
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What if we defined profanities as something other than “naughty words”?
Separating parents from their children is a profanity.
Describing Global South nations as “shithole countries” is a profanity for reasons that have nothing to do with the word “shit.”
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