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Sarah Kendzior: It's deja news, the same thing again. The FBI was investigating Trump's businesses--it's a start; they should have been doing it 30 years ago, and definitely in the run-up to the election.
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Sarah Kendzior: Many of Trump's crimes were committed right out in the open. It blows my mind that the FBI has done so little and that there are still no indictments for Trump & so many of the players.
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Sarah Kendzior: When you're running for President, you get briefings that you shouldn't be see if you're committing crimes. Being a candidate for President shouldn't qualify you to see confidential documents/briefings.
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Sarah Kendzior: How did they let Trump go free for so long, let alone put him in a position to flaunt the law, to rewrite the law, and to continue committing crimes? The FBI doesn't seem too concerned.
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Sarah Kendzior: This is a massive, massive intelligence failure, as well as a failure of law enforcement.
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Sarah Kendzior: They let cyber security slack, allowing us to get hacked. The Russians infiltrated the Treasury in 2015 & continue to have dealings there via complicit employees & back doors that were established.
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Sarah Kendzior: Some of this goes back to Obama but certainly a lot of it is because of Trump.
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Sarah Kendzior: I'm hoping Mueller is nonpartisan but I really am concerned about the pace of the investigation. Faced with what's going on now, I would hope he'd pick up the pace. We were talking about this a year ago & still are.
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Sarah Kendzior: My concern is that this is a humanitarian issue, and some in this administration are more dangerous than others. It's in the public's interest to get them out & prevent them from hurting more people.
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Sarah Kendzior: They keep confessing to their crimes & leaving a trail of evidence, then call them not-crimes "because the laws are different now."
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Sarah Kendzior: There have been over 100 people indicted over this, and that doesn't even include the biggest players. There are people all over the world who wanted a part of it; they wanted to make money & hoard as much as possible.
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Sarah Kendzior: Trump changes his minds about all sorts of policies; he's not loyal to anyone except to Russia, & his devotion to Putin remains the same.
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Sarah Kendzior: Trump wants to flaunt it, and say, "What are you going to do about it?" The answer is apparently "Nothing." The FBI waits well after the fact to investigate it all.
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Sarah Kendzior: Maybe on some level, people see comfort in this. If it were just Putin, it could be solved. If it were just Trump, it could be solved. It's not-it's worldwide corruption, gov'ts participating in quid pro quo arrangements
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Sarah Kendzior: One of the reasons Trump shut down the gov't was to put off investigations into Russia. It's a continuation of the 2013 shutdown when the GOP tried to get rid of the gov't. #TrumpShutdown
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Sarah Kendzior: I wish we weren't involved in a worldwide corruption scheme run by kleptocratic sociopath white supremacists. It's not fun for anyone, it's not fun for me, & apparently it's sooo not fun for the FBI that they don't want to investigate it.
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Sarah Kendzior: Ivanka is a criminal; the only reason she wasn't convicted was b/c the judge in NY was paid off by Trump. She should not be considered for head of World Bank, not even to help choose the head of the World Bank.
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Sarah Kendzior: They're trying to take over international bodies such as the World Bank, not just countries like in Europe & Brazil. It's easier to keep the money flowing if they control the World Bank.
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Sarah Kendzior: The standards and expectations have shifted such that people accept we have a monarchy & a dynasty. Ivanka & Jared are criminals who have done nothing good for anyone but themselves.
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Rick: Do you buy Trump's claim he understands people's pain from #TrumpShutdown?
Sarah Kendzior: No. He doesn't know how to relate to people except through TV. He loves to create pain & chaos.
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Sarah Kendzior: Trump loved that his bldgs looked taller after 9/11.
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Sarah Kendzior: I'm so worried about our federal workers, about our national parks--I'm afraid we've already lost them--There is no bottom for Trump. No food inspections, either. #TrumpShutdown
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Sarah Kendzior: Trump wants to strip the state down and sell it off for parts, and he doesn't care if the buyers are citizens or foreigners.
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Sarah Kendzior: Everything the GOP accuses people of is what they want. They don't care about the human toll of this, for ex, if there's an outbreak b/c of no health inspections. "There must have been something wrong w/ you for that to happen."
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