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Another day, another Mueller sentencing. Michael Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, to hear fate shortly after admitting lying to FBI over contacts with the Russian ambassador.

Small sentence expected. Guidelines 0-6 months. Mueller wants leniency given co-operation.
He’s already had one good luck message...
Last week Trump's ex-lawyer (Cohen) got three years in jail. His ex-foreign policy adviser (Papadopoulos) has spent 12 days in prison. And his former campaign chairman (Manafort) is still behind bars.
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Ben Riley-Smith
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**THREAD**

800,000 US government workers didn’t get paid this weekend because of the shutdown.

Here is one of their stories....
Victor Payes is a 29-year-old security guard at LAX, the main airport in LA. He screens passengers and checks bags for explosives. He’s been doing the job for a decade.
For the last 3 weeks he’s been doing his job as normal (10hr shifts, 4 days a week). He drives the 20 mins to work, keeps people safe, drives back. But because of the shutdown he’s not been getting paid.
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Ben Riley-Smith
@benrileysmith
NEW: Trump says he "definitely" will call a national emergency if he can't agree a border wall deal with Democrats. Strongest hint yet he'll go down that route. "I would say 100%" he adds.
He's getting more explicit now: "We're either going to have a win, make a compromise ... or I will declare a national emergency."
CNN now reporting White House lawyers are preparing the legal justification for calling a national emergency.
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Ben Riley-Smith
@benrileysmith
**PROCESS ALERT**

Quick thread on national emergency powers and how Trump could try to use them to build his wall.
1/ The National Emergencies Act (1976) is the key bit of legislation.

Created during the post-Nixon tightening up of executive power rules. It reduced the number of national emergency powers and created a system of oversight.
2/ There are no preconditions Trump needs to meet to declare a “national emergency”.

He just has to sign a declaration and name which ‘national emergency’ powers he plans to use.
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Karol 🌿
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Vox
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1/ Another week, another whirlwind of news surrounding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation.

If you’re just catching up, here’s a rundown of what happened:
2/ On Monday, President Trump sent some 👀 tweets that railed against one cooperating witness (his former lawyer, Michael Cohen), while praising the “guts” of another potential witness (Roger Stone) who hasn’t cooperated with the probe. bit.ly/2BYTbcc
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'Mueller has already weaponized politics ...

And so his chief legacy will have little to do with whatever he finds on Donald Trump.

... There is now no real equality under the law, at least as Americans once understood fair play and blind justice.'

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Lauren Werner 🗽
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As I've continued to say, it doesn't who Trump's National Security Adviser is... Trump is the Putin puppet behind his regime's Russia-friendly policies.

Trump was praising Vladimir Putin during the GOP debates in 2015, even before Paul Manafort publicly joined his campaign.
Michael Flynn, Trump's first National Security Adviser, got in trouble for lying to the feds about his discussions w then Russian Ambassador to the US Sergei Kislyak. Flynn reassured Kislyak that Trump would lift the sanctions Obama imposed on Russia for meddling in our election.
The question has always been about whether Trump ordered Flynn to communicate w Kislyak.

After Flynn resigned, Trump still remained Putin's Orange Sock Puppet. Not even Flynn's replacements (McMaster/Bolton) could/can rein in Trump's pro-Putin stances
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Stealth Jeff
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WHAT IS THE STEELE DOSSIER?

The Steele Dossier was a hastily cobbled together justification for two things:

1) to justify the spying on Trump's campaign team PRIOR to Mike Rogers shutting down NSA SIGINT database mining for Trump Team comms up to April, 2016.
2) to justify RESTARTING intelligence community intercepts of Trump campaign/transition team comms by proffering the dossier to the FISA Court by claiming Trump team members were foreign agents serving Russia.
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