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To recap, Donald Trump is going to issue a fake national emergency in the gravest authoritarian action in U.S. history and literally steal money from the military in the process. If the American people do not stop this, they will have officially capitulated to authoritarianism.
ACLU sues Trump over "blatantly illegal" national emergency declaration hill.cm/FOQhgJR
House Judiciary Committee To Investigate Trump's National Emergency Declaration

Democrats on the committee are giving the White House until next Friday to provide legal documents about the declaration decision.
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A coalition of 16 Democratic state AGs filed suit against Trump over the national emergency declaration assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5743…

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But will it remember the Quid Pro Quo for Trump's appointment of Mitch's wife to Secretary of Transportation?
The U.S. DOT said it will cancel $929 million in federal funds awarded by the Obama administration for a California high-speed rail project and is "actively exploring every legal option" to seek the return of $2.5 billion the state has already received.
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Same Day: Trump slams California for lawsuit against border emergency declaration

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The Top US Investor in Russia, Michael John Calvey, Seized as Putin’s Regime Turns on ‘Good American,’ an alarming signal to foreign investors that they are not safe to operate in Russia

He runs the country’s largest independent private investment firm thedailybeast.com/the-top-us-inv…
"“We are very much alike, Russian and American people, we share the same feelings, we believe that everything is possible,” Calvey once said"

"He does, however, serve as a director of the advisory board at the Atlantic Council"
According to Russian reports, the arrests relate to a dispute between the fund and Vostochny Bank, in which Baring Vostok holds a 52.5% controlling stake. Vostochny told Vedomosti that the matter had nothing to do with the bank’s current activities. amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2019/0…
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U.S. charges former Air Force intelligence specialist Monica Elfriede Witt with conspiring to provide Iran with classified information washingtonpost.com/world/national…
"after leaving the air force she stayed in the defence industry. She worked for five months as an intelligence analyst for the contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and then more than two years at another Virginia-based contractor, Chenega Federal Systems"
amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/f…
"Iran was initially suspicious of Witt and slow-walked her defection, according to the indictment. But she kicked the process into high gear by threatening to “do like Snowden” and go public with U.S. intelligence secrets from the safety of Russia."
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