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Seth Abramson
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Anyone who thinks a campaign finance violation will bring down a man accused of 20 incidents of sexual assault or harassment pre-election rather than his active knowledge of illicit collusion with a hostile foreign power as it was committing crimes against America is not thinking
2/ It may seem paradoxical to some, but anyone saying, like Chris Christie, that an SDNY campaign finance case poses the greatest danger to Donald Trump is basically saying Donald Trump is going to be fine because the worst thing he ever did is something he can totally get out of
3/ There may well be Trump Organization investigations that could jam Trump up because they involve money laundering or other illicit transactions on a grander (even international) scale, but all of those would be handled either by Mueller or as a joint prosecution with SDNY
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Seth Abramson
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(THREAD) To his credit, @AlanDersh likes a spirited debate as much as I do. So here is "Round 2" of our debate on whether Robert Mueller is the most professional, admirable, and successful federal prosecutor of this century thus far—which he is. I hope you'll read on and retweet.
1/ Here, below, is a link to my response to Alan Dershowitz's new—in some cases {*ahem*} quite *disappointingly* "new"—claims. Click the link below to open up a thread with my responses to him. (In a postscript, I'll provide a link to Dershowitz's thread.)
PS/ Here (below) is Alan's thread, which was in response to my first thread addressing him.
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Seth Abramson
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In response to my thread disassembling his claim that "Mueller crimes fit into 3 categories: process crimes that occurred after he was appointed; financial crimes unrelated to the Russia investigation; and crimes by non-Americans," @AlanDersh has changed his argument. Do I reply?
2/ For instance, his claim that Bob Mueller's authorizing document indicates that he should acknowledge "core," "secondary," and "not directly related" categories of crimes is *false*. In fact, Mueller's authorization implicitly demands the *opposite*: that all crimes be pursued.
3/ @AlanDersh also falsely says that Mueller's only purpose in conclusively establishing Manafort's and Gates' motives to collude by showing their financial status when they decided to work for Trump for "free" was in fact to "pressure them to provide information against Trump."
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Seth Abramson
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I've no problem with people calling for Northam to resign. I'm 100% fine with it. But if you're doing so and *haven't* publicly called for Trump to resign at least *30 times*, including after he called neo-Nazis "fine people" in *2017*, I have *strong* feelings about your values.
2/ This applies, as Gillibrand said, to both "friends and foes." Virginia Republican Party, *fuck you*. And any Democrat who let Trump be racist, anti-Semitic, and misogynistic as hell and *didn't* call for him to resign because you didn't want to seem "partisan," screw you, too.
3/ To put a finer point on it: we already know history will damn this era's GOP for being hypocrites who put party over country or basic decency. But all *Democrats* who call on Northam to resign—which is fine—must *also* be asked if they're currently demanding that Trump resign.
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Jessica Price
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Man, I was enjoying my December away from Twitter, but I have some thoughts on this.
This is example #196134135761 of how most people in positions of authority in games absolutely *will not* do the right thing unless public backlash forces them to.
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Sexual assault & harassment linked to long-term health problems for women:

High blood pressure
Depression
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A few possible long-term health consequences face mid-life women who experienced sexual assault & harassment, according to a study.
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Women who reported prior sexual assault were 3 times more likely to experience depression.
Twice as likely to have elevated anxiety than women without a history of sexual trauma.
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This is a GREAT piece. Wonderful perspective on the Founding Father's views on Impeachment. Well worth your time! #SaturdayMorning
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2/"WASHINGTON — There are more serious crimes than violating campaign finance laws. Some offenders face jail time, while others catch a break. But the campaign finance violation President Trump’s former lawyer accused him of on Tuesday — arranging to pay hush money to influence
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Election law experts from across the political spectrum largely agree that the New York attorney general made a compelling case this week that Trump’s campaign and his charitable foundation violated federal campaign finance laws during the 2016 election. nyti.ms/2JMSLvi
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Thread: We now have proof that the Trump campaign knew long in advance that the Russians were planning on releasing stolen Clinton & DNC emails. #Collusion has been established. Why is hardly anyone talking about this? 1/
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