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NEWS on MARIA BUTINA: The Russian agent said in a talk five years ago that she had a "signed cooperation agreement" with the National Rifle Association motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Several people who attended Butina’s 2013 talk in Israel confirmed to @Motherjones and @TeamTrace that they remembered the Russian agent highlighting her connections with the NRA (though not specifically her alleged formal agreement) motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
My colleagues @mikespiesnyc @uri_blau and I obtained the slides Butina used for her 2013 talk in Israel, which don’t mention the NRA by name but refer to “signed cooperation agreements” with foreign groups motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Regarding this cooperation agreement Butina said she had with the NRA, we got this rather interesting response from an NRA spokesperson: “The NRA says it is not aware of any such agreement.” 🤔 motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
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TV networks should offer Trump prime time only with their pre-approval of his script, and subject to a 10-second delay and agreement they can cut him off if he lies on air. (Shortest presidential TV address in history!) nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/…
This is an opportune moment for TV execs to show some spine. Trump is gonna keep calling them all partisan and 'fake news' no matter what they do on this! So they should reject his request unless he agrees, verifiably, to not lie
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Who could’ve ever predicted Trump would ignorantly careen from one self-made crisis to the next? The Republican Party owns this unmitigated disaster and they’d better start finally trying to fix it, and fast.
IMO, it'll take a lot of dumb luck for Trump—and major misfortune for the country—for him to last even another year. He should fly off to Mar-a-Lago as planned, and tweet his resignation en route.* Time to face the music already.

(*Obviously he won't do this. Congress must act.)
Grim talk aside, I'm optimistic for 2019. I see our system mostly proving resilient—DOJ, courts, the press. Painfully slow, but no quick fix exists. The exception, of course, is the fully GOP-controlled Congress. But Trump is about to lose that protection racket. cc @djrothkopf
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Trump tweeted ‘ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE’ again tonight and CNN’s offices in New York were just evacuated because of a bomb threat motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Read this powerful thread responding to Trump's tweet tonight, from a Capital Gazette photojournalist whose colleague was murdered in the mass shooting in June
Trump either still doesn't realize his words have consequences, or he doesn't care.

“You’re the enemy of the people, and we’re going to kill every fucking one of you,” said the caller who repeatedly threatened the Boston Globe in August motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
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"Maria Butina had developed close ties with the Republican party and had become an advocate for gun rights"

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"The FBI is investigating whether a top Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin illegally funneled money to the National Rifle Association to help Donald Trump win the presidency, two sources familiar with the matter have told McClatchy."

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