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Mikel Jollett
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Right now the President of the United States is hanging out with a murdering dictator he says he “admires” while his personal attorney testifies before congress that he illegally paid hush money to a porn star and colluded with a hostile country to destroy democracy in America.
My favorite part about the Cohen testimony is that it confirms all the things you just KNEW were true:

- Trump was projecting about Obama.

- He ran for office as a political stunt and never thought he’d win.

- He functions more like a crime syndicate than a politician, etc.
MICHAEL COHEN: “Trump is a racist, a conman and a cheat.”

Literally everyone who isn’t ALSO one of those things:
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Mikel Jollett
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REPUBLICANS [to Cohen]: You acted unethically!

COHEN: Yes, that's what I'm saying. For Trump.

REPUBLICANS: You lied!

COHEN: Uh, huh. Yep. About Trump.

REPUBLICANS: You did shitty things!

COHEN: Totally. For Trump.

REPUBLICANS:

COHEN:

REPUBLICANS: This exonerates Trump.
MOB LAWYER: You murdered someone!

HITMAN: Yep. I was paid by the mob to do it.

MOB LAWYER: But you're a liar!

HITMAN: Absolutely. I lied for the mob.

MOB LAWYER:

HITMAN:

MOB LAWYER: Your honor, I told you the mob was innocent.
If you're wondering just how complicit the Republican Party is in Trump's criminality, not ONE asked about the shocking, allegations of illegal activity put forward by his PERSONAL attorney WITH EVIDENCE.

Every single one attacked THE ATTORNEY instead.
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Mikel Jollett
@Mikel_Jollett
The basic position of the entire Republican party right now is:

"We KNOW Trump lied and broke the law, we know there is EVIDENCE he lied and broke the law, we know those lies fundamentally HURT the American people and WE DON'T CARE."
Wow. Cohen's statement to Republicans as he heads to prison:

"I did the same thing you're doing now. I protected Mr. Trump…I can only warn people, the more that follow Mr. Trump as I did blindly are going to suffer the same consequences I'm suffering."
Chris Christie: “There hasn’t been ONE Republican yet who’s tried to defend the president on the SUBSTANCE.”

All they can do is attack Cohen.

Because EVERYONE, including them, knows Cohen is telling the truth that Trump is a racist criminal.
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Mikel Jollett
@Mikel_Jollett
Making all public college free in the US would cost about $60 billion.

Congress gave the military a $61 billion increase from fiscal year 2017 to 2018.

We didn’t even have a national conversation about it.

I’m sorry but this is horseshit. Of course we can afford it.
A couple notes:

1. The number is actually more like $40 billion since roughly $20 billion in Pell Grants are already being spent on public schools.

2. The F-35 fighter jet cost $400 billion to develop. It can't fly at night & has never seen combat.
theatlantic.com/business/archi…
Some say, "People aren't ready for this. It's too progressive."

Well,

1. Public college was free (at least in certain states) up until quite recently.

2. Trump's tax cut cost $174 billion THIS YEAR. That's over 4 TIMES as much as free public college would cost ($40 billion).
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Good morning from New York.

Today’s sentencing hearing for Michael Cohen begins at 11 a.m., and I‘ll be live-tweeting it.

As Cohen tries to avoid a lengthy prison term, we’ll see if there will be more revelations about “Individual-1,” i.e. Trump.

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Pano shot of the enormous press scrum outside of Manhattan federal court.
Michael Cohen is reported to have arrived.

Michael Avenatti is also said to be in attendance.
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For the news scribes/outlets who follow, the "Fake News!" bullhorn has an aim, & YOU ARE MISSING IT. It will flank you.
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2/ The admission goes something like this:
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A BLITZ ON LISA MONACO
Lisa Oudens Monaco was born on February 25, 1968. She received a bachelor of arts in American history and literature at Harvard University in 1990, and a law degree at the University of Chicago in 1997.

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Mega Poll: with the Democratic challengers different in each of the following four-way races, hypothetically, who would you vote for #President of the United States in 2020?

🗳 Vote & RT to spread the poll! 🗳

💙 Democratic Candidate:
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💙 Democratic Candidate:
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💙 Democratic Candidate:
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
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