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Important nugget in must read story: Mueller has "interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents."

The Trumps are known for admitting crimes in email/text.
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
One of the best past examples: "Donald Jr. spoke reassuringly to a broker who was concerned about the false statements, saying that nobody would ever find out, because only people on the email chain or in the Trump Organization knew about the deception."
propublica.org/article/ivanka…
And of course there are Don Jr.'s texts laying out collusion with the Russians.
themoscowproject.org/explainers/col…
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Sam Berger
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The Democratic primary will be focused on cleaning up corruption in our politics and our economy. Candidates will be competing to show they: (a) have truly bold solutions; (b) independence from big $; and (c) are willing to fight to see their vision enacted into law.
In the Democratic primary it will quickly be insufficient to put forward far-reaching policies without an equally far-reaching plan to achieve them. But this article misses the role that anti-corruption/pro-democracy policies will play in the debate.
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How to deal w/ courts and Congress will be critically important. But so too will be dealing with the influence of $ in politics, voter suppression, and partisan gerrymanders. Addressing structural corruption is critical to achieving long-lasting political change.
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Sam Berger
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With the news that the House is moving to block Trump's faux emergency declaration, a short thread on the National Emergencies Act (NEA) and how to fix some its problems. /1
nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/…
The NEA was originally passed in the aftermath of Watergate, in response to Nixon's efforts to abuse emergency authority. /2
americanprogress.org/issues/democra…
A major check that it provided was that Congress could end a national emergency through a concurrent resolution, which does not require presidential approval. But an unrelated SCOTUS case, INS v. Chadha, invalidated this so-called "legislative veto." /3
lawfareblog.com/supreme-courts…
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Sam Berger
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really important point by @emptywheel: "w/ both Flynn and Manafort — where the judges have seen significant amounts of non-public information...very reasonable judges have raised explicit questions about whether Trump’s aides had betrayed their country."
emptywheel.net/2019/02/18/fou…
House oversight: "According to the whistleblowers, the NSC Ethics Counsel and several attorneys in the NSC Legal Advisor’s office agreed that General Flynn had a potential conflict of interest that could violate the criminal conflict of interest statute"
oversight.house.gov/sites/democrat…
Some context: this is related to Flynn's efforts to give Saudi Arabia sensitive nuclear technology as part of a plan developed by a private company to build nuclear facilities in the Middle East. Flynn served as an adviser to this same company through at least December 2016.
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Aaron Maté
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1/ Re: Buzzfeed story: I wrote in 2017 that Trump Tower Moscow was a conflict for Trump, who praised Putin on campaign trail as he pursued it. I've always wondered if that motivated his call for better Russia ties. So I think story is plausible. But, a few reasons to be cautious:
2/ If true, it means Trump committed a felony in telling Cohen to lie. Huge deal. Possibly impeachable. But first, they'll need to prove it beyond Cohen's word -- if it's even true that's this word. Also, don’t expect that to lead us to a conspiracy w/ Russian gov’t. Here's why:
3/ To date, all we know is that Trump Moscow had no financing (from anyone) & no Kremlin help — except for a Kremlin assistant who called Cohen & told him that the Kremlin can’t help. Deal never got beyond a letter of intent (LOI) w/ what Cohen dubbed a "third-tier bank."
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HawaiiDelilah™
@HawaiiDelilah
Breaking: President Trump Directed His Attorney To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project. Trump received 10 personal updates from Michael Cohen and encouraged a planned meeting with Vladimir Putin.
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl… via @jasonleopold
"The special counsel’s office learned about Trump’s directive for Cohen to lie to Congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents" buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Remember this part when Republicans dismiss claims made by Cohen, noting that he's a known liar. There were multiple witnesses & there is a paper trail...
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Brendan Nyhan
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"Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow...

"Trump also supported a plan, set up by Cohen, to visit Russia during the presidential campaign in order to personally meet President Vladimir Putin"
Barr's memo literally says that suborning perjury is obstruction
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner
BOOM: Trump received 10 personal updates about the Trump Tower Moscow project from Michael Cohen and encouraged a planned meeting with Vladimir Putin, @JasonLeopold & @a_cormier_ report. buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
MORE: Cohen has told Mueller that Trump personally told him (Cohen) to lie to Congress, information backed about by other interviews and documents, per sources. buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
This is key for when you hear Trump's defenders saying that Cohen is a "proven liar," or similar things.
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Sasha Ivy Fox🦄🐱🦈
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Russians interacted with at least 14 Trump associates during the campaign and transition
wapo.st/2rrBAUn?tid=ss…
Coincidence or coordination?

Russians approached at least 14 people in Trump’s orbit during the campaign and presidential transition.
washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/…
For those without a subscription, here's the #TrumPutin timeline:

It involves these 14 associates of 45*
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Julie Laumann
@Otpor17
Conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi in plea negotiations with Mueller, which could shed light on whether Trump or his advisers were linked to WikiLeaks’ release of hacked Democratic emails in 2016 washingtonpost.com/politics/stone…
"Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps. One shortly after I'm back. 2nd in Oct. Impact planned to be very damaging."

Corsi informed Stone about the planned WikiLeaks Dem email releases 2 months in advance.

And Mueller has the exchange. nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
"Stone responded, "Get to (Assange) [a]t Ecuadorian Embassy in London and get the pending (WikiLeaks) emails."

Corsi passed the request along to conservative author Ted Malloch in London"
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