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Good @washingtonpost editorial about the serious concerns raised by Trump lying about financial leverage Russia had over him. But it also includes this bit of conventional wisdom that is just wrong: "The collusion question is still outstanding."
washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump…
We already know that, during the campaign, high-ranking Trump campaign officials met with Russian officials to discuss the Kremlin's support for Trump and how they could help. DJT Jr. has released the emails proving it. That's collusion.
themoscowproject.org/explainers/a-c…
Just this week, we learned that Mueller has separate evidence of collusion. The Trump team got advance info on WikiLeak's email release strategy, after Russia told them it had hacked emails. That's collusion.
themoscowproject.org/dispatch/its-o…
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I think this aspect of Trump's proposal to order DoD to illegally build a wall has not gotten enough attention: it would require the military to *seize a massive amount of property* from states, tribes, and private citizens.
Trump is proposing to use emergency authority to make DoD build a wall. This raises a whole host of legal issues b/c it's not, in fact, legal. One of them is that the military can only build things on property "under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of a military department."
So if the military is going to build over 1,000 miles of border wall, then it needs to have "jurisdiction" over that land. And that's where Trump's "military version of eminent domain" comes in. It's the sort of thing you expect to hear in a dictatorship, not America.
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Great scoop from @KFaulders, @Santucci, and @Elizabeth_McLau. As a lawyer at OMB, I worked on appropriations issues all the time. What the Trump administration is discussing here is illegal, plain and simple.
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Under the Anti-Deficiency Act, it's a crime for federal agencies to spend $ on something Congress hasn't authorized - it's the statutory means for enforcing Congress' constitutional power of the purse. The Trump team is trying to sidestep the law by using emergency powers. /2
How? 10 USC 2808 says that w/ "a declaration of war or...a natl emergency...that requires use of the armed forces, SecDef...may undertake military construction projects...not otherwise authorized by law that are necessary to support such use of the armed forces." /3
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I helped manage the 2013 shutdown at OMB, so believe me when I say that they get exponentially harder to manage as time goes on. Agencies run out of carryover $, grant recipients able to cover a short time w/o federal funds can't any more, and unexpected issues crop up.
This type of management challenge is hard enough when you have a competent, committed group of people doing their best. But when you're relying on the most incompetent administration in modern American history...that's a recipe for disaster.
Great ex. from @meghanncuniff, John Waters, and @JoelAchenbach: to limit political blowback, Trump is keeping parks open w/o enough personnel. It exposes parks to damage and visitors to danger. But WH put politics over safety and our national treasures.
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@Jim_Jordan Any #Trump sycophant, alleged pedophile protector, trying to besmirch this hero, while his own children will have to suffer from the decisions made for the country, is sad. Why wouldn't the #GOP make it an open door session if they had nothing to hide? Your reign ends soon.
@Jim_Jordan As time passes, more comes to light, with the Steele dossier, Trumps alleged involvement in Epstein child sex ring where Secretary Acosta stopped the FBI investigation before more suspects could be arrested, and money laundering campaign contributions from Russian operatives.
@Jim_Jordan Plus your support for a theocratic monarchy that really acts like a ruthless inhumane dictator & desire to sell American technology to them when it could then be used to kill our own troops or handed over to Russia is genuinely INSANE. Who is dishonorable, spineless sycophantic?
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Trump: Day 678
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Day 634 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.

The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
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Who funds the IEA, the TPA, the ASI &co?
You know, the RW 'free trade' thick tanks advocating tax havens, "freedom" (no regulations like workers' rights or environmental protection), no welfare (no tax & no free healthcare).
Basically, "Only the wealthier survive" philosophy?
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*Could it be* that it has something to do with defending their funders' interests?
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Featuring Atlas, huge piles of money, tradition, "free speech", useful idiots and a very clear agenda that Brexit/Trump are a part of.
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BREAKING: The White House has said that US President #Trump is canceling his upcoming South America trip to remain in the US "to oversee the American response to Syria." - @NBCNews
This sounds like the US is planning to strike #Syria and Trump will remain in the US to closely monitor responses by #Russia. This is terrible.
BREAKING - British forces are now mobilizing at their bases in #Cyprus for strikes against #Syria. It appears very likely that the US, France and U.K. will strike Syria in the next 24 hours. This is dreadful.
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THREAD: for those of you concerned about the relative quiet coming from Mueller: HAVE NO FEAR.

Mueller has assembled an A-team Justice🇺🇸League of some of the finest lawyers in the country, many of whom left lucrative jobs.

And they didn't come for the doughnuts.😎 1/
We've all become rather immune to the shockwaves of news. THIS IS PART OF TEAM🇷🇺TRUMP'S PLAN TO DISTRACT AND DEFLECT FROM THE *REAL NEWS*.

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TRUTH: in 9 months, Mueller already has 3 convictions (Flynn, PapaD, Gates) & 1 indictment (Manafort).🤔

Fmr CABINET MEMBER/NSA (Flynn)👉🏼pleaded GUILTY to LYING about his contacts with #Russia🇷🇺

Fmr campaign chair (Manafort)👉🏼indicted for laundering Russian cash.

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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
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