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1. Reuters (goo.gl/D82U4k) confirms the exclusive popular.info January 17 report on Nigerian prez candidate @atiku

@atiku was banned from visiting the U.S. due to public corruption but was allowed to visit last month after hiring a Trump-connected lobbyist
@atiku 2. The Trump administration lifted @atiku's travel ban after his political party signed a $1.1 million contract with a lobbying firm run by Brian Ballard, who ran Trump's campaign in Florida and is one of his top fundraisers

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3. Atiku stayed at the Trump Hotel and even got a meeting with the State Department.

He was previously banned from the U.S. based on evidence he funneled $40 million in "suspect funds" from Nigeria to the U.S.

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4. An FBI agent also testified that Atiku demanded a $500,000 bribe from former Congressman Richard Jefferson. The cash found in Jefferson's freezer was allegedly intended for Atiku popular.info/p/what-does-a-…
5. I was branded a liar on pro-Atiku sites in Nigeria for suggesting Ballard's firm brokered Atiku's trip. Now Ballard admits they were directly involved in the lobbying effort

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BOMBSHELL testimony right now in North Carolina by Mark Harris' own son, John

John revealed he emailed his dad and warned him that Todd Johnson's absentee ballot operation in Bladen in 2016 was fishy and might be illegal.

Mark Harris then when out and HIRED THE GUY RUNNING IT.
In APRIL 2017 John Harris told his father Mark Harris that if he hired McCrae Dowless he should be prepared for a criminal investigation because there were red flags in his previous work
Note: Mark Harris publicly claimed in January that NO ONE WARNED HIM ABOUT MCCRAE DOWLESS

His son just testified that he warned his dad and he has the emails to prove it

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Judd Legum
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1. Can anyone one explain why House Democrats haven’t requested Donald Trump’s tax returns yet?

I cannot figure it out.

The point of taking back the House was to use that power to bring some basic transparency and accountability to Trump

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2. The new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Richard Neal, has the unqualified authority to request Trump’s returns from the Treasury Department.

The committee can then vote to make them public

But Neal is still “studying” the issue popular.info/p/taxing-our-p…
3. The really strange thing is that Democrats, including Neal, voted unanimously to force Trump to turn over his returns to the committee TWO YEARS AGO.

They were thwarted by the Republicans.

Now that they have the power, all of a sudden it’s too soon popular.info/p/taxing-our-p…
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Judd Legum
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1. Today's the day. North Carolina Election Board finally conducting a hearing about election fraud.

Board finds "a coordinated, unlawful, and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme operated during the 2018 general election in Bladen and Robeson Counties"
2. North Carolina election board finds that McCrae Dowless, who was working for GOP candidate Mark Harris, paid people to falsify absentee ballots
3. North Carolina State Election board finds that McCrae Dowless and his crew submitted between 1000 and 1200 absentee ballots

(More than enough to swing the election to Harris, who won by less than 1K votes)
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