Day 731 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.
The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
Day 519 since the deadliest mass shooting on U.S soil in Las Vegas that killed 58, injuring 546.
Although a bump stock ban takes effect in 13 days, Congress must take action to prevent future mass shootings. #NeverForget #NeverAgain #EnoughIsEnough
These Republican lawmakers wore pearl necklaces to a gun violence hearing seemingly to mock Moms Demand Action
Notice the lapel pin. An assault rifle like the one used in Parkland and Las Vegas and... and... and...
By @washingtonpost cartoonist @AnnTelnaes: “New Hampshire lawmakers wore necklaces during a hearing while volunteers with the group @MomsDemand testified.”
@_juliannemoore, founder @shannonrwatts, and more mothers talk about the importance of gun safety in schools and why they got involved with @MomsDemand.
Our children shouldn’t have to live in perpetual fear of gun violence.
Join the millions of Americans fighting to end gun violence in America. Text READY to 644-33 to volunteer with a Moms Demand Action chapter near you. buff.ly/2SIFWBH
FYI: The Trump admin has quietly resumed separating immigrant families at the border.
At one agency, the children were put into temporary foster care and shelters with little or no indication that they arrived at the border with their parents: propub.li/2QcsPvY
Reminder: The Trump administration is systematically locking up thousands of children at unheard of rates - now almost 15,000 are in U.S. custody.
The government classifies these children as "unaccompanied"
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Thousands more kids may have been separated from their parents at the border under the Trump administration than was previously thought, according to an internal government report.
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Kirstjen Nielsen testified on immigration policy before House Committee on child separations nyti.ms/2Tx0LUZ @KannoYoungs
Rep. Shiela Jackson Lee: "Do you know how many young people are detained?"
Sec. Nielsen: "Yes, ma'am. I don't have that number in front of me."
Bookmark this quote:
Kirstjen Nielsen says no immigrant was deported without being given multiple "opportunities to take their children." washingtonpost.com/video/national…
Rep. Lauren Underwood to Kirstjen Nielsen: "I'm not sure if DHS was so negligent that they didn't know how traumatic family separation was for children or if they knew and did it anyways...Tearing kids and their parents apart like this is immoral."
Nanette Barragán to Nielsen: "You said that you waited to give direction on how to implement the zero tolerance policy because you wanted to do it with compassion... You wanted to separate ... families & you wanted to do it with compassion?"
The Trump administration identified 471 parents who were removed from the United States without their children, according to a lawsuit
Read » cnn.it/2HjnrBE
Russian state TV is mercilessly mocking Trump for his failed North Korea summit.
The saddest part is that Russia's take on the summit is more accurate than the take offered by the White House and its propaganda arm over at Fox News.
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Trump says he would be "very, very disappointed in Chairman Kim" if North Korea is re-building a long-range rocket site, as @NBCNews reported Tuesday, but added, "I don't think I will be."
The Cohen checks that Trump wrote were among others he would write each month, per multiple people aware of the set-up. It raises a question - who else might have gotten payments from Trump each month? nytimes.com/2019/03/05/us/…
The New York Times has now obtained eight of the checks that reimbursed Michael Cohen for the criminal hush money scheme.
Six were signed by @realDonaldTrump, and two were signed by @DonaldJTrumpJr:
“If Trump Jr was acting on behalf of the campaign and involved in the conversation about the importance of keeping [Stormy] quiet, then he’s in the circle of co-conspirators."
Trump Jr signed two hush money reimbursements.
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Beyond belief -- @SenatorRounds says Trump's hush payments to women are actually evidence of how much he loves his family.
I wonder if his wife, Jean, would agree that a husband having an affair with a porn star is "love"?
After the FBI raids, Michael Cohen was contacted by two New York attorneys who claimed to be close with Rudy Giuliani, ABC News reports. The contact was described as "an effort to keep him in the tent." Investigators are looking into this contact. abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-cla…
Michael Cohen gives House Intel new docs showing edits by Trump attorneys to false written statement he delivered to Congress in 2017 about the Trump Organization's pursuit of the Trump Tower Moscow project into the 2016 campaign season cnn.com/2019/03/06/pol…
Bloomberg reports Trump was actively involved in planning his inauguration, an event that's now under scrutiny from federal prosecutors, despite WH denials. Tom Barrack told staff Trump wanted to know everything about the inauguration's finances.
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Things that make you go, hmm: "People close to Trump privately predict he will choose to seek a 2nd term in part because of his legal exposure if he is not president.
Justice Dept policy says that a president cannot be indicted while in office." nyti.ms/2XHF6IT
The WH counsel's office has made 17 new hires, and at least one attorney has moved to the press shop as Trump's aides get ready for Mueller's report, @Noahbierman & @ChrisMegerian report.
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Power Up: Despite Trump's efforts, Senators won't let Khashoggi killing go wapo.st/2ECAT0B
Saudi Arabia faces first-ever censure at U.N. rights forum for detaining activists, Khashoggi murder
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"European countries will urge Saudi Arabia on Thursday to release activists and cooperate with a U.N.-led probe into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in the first rebuke of the kingdom at the Human Rights Council" reuters.com/article/us-sau…
Day 20 since Trump declared a national emergency in response to a manufactured crisis to seize power and subvert the Constitution.
"I didn't need to do this"
American voters disapprove 66-31% of Trump's emergency declaration, according to Quinnipiac.
Republicans back Trump 69-29%. Every other listed party, gender, education, age and racial group disapproves of this action.
New Quinnipiac poll:
Support/oppose border wall: 41-55
Approve/disapprove of national emergency: 31-66
A lawyer for the Trump admin has told a federal judge that, to his knowledge, a supposed contract for border wall construction referenced by Trump in a tweet does not exist, the central question in a public records suit filed by the ACLU. bit.ly/2Uo0Zei
Trump’s sons entrusted their private hunting retreat to a caretaker. He was working in the country illegally, via @partlowj @NickMiroff @Fahrenthold washingtonpost.com/politics/the-p…
Juan Quintero, living in the US illegally, personally texted with Eric Trump about his work at the Trump sons' hunting lodge. When he couldn't produce a social security # to get an ATM card, he was given an ATM card to use in someone else's name. washingtonpost.com/politics/the-p…
The @washingtonpost tallies 33 documented cases of illegal aliens working for the Trump family.
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A federal judge in California blocked the Trump admin from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, saying the decision ran afoul of federal law and was unconstitutional.
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ProPublica has a letter from dentist Albert Hazzouri that he wrote to Trump after a meeting with him at Mar-a-Lago in '17. Hazzouri urged Trump to bring together the American Dental Assoc. & V.A.
Trump apparently sent the note to the VA chief. propublica.org/article/trump-…
Trump still owns and profits from a luxury resort in Florida where paying customers can give him notes, scrawled on resort stationary, that he personally forwards to cabinet secretaries. Here's the note: #DearKing
Flashback: Trump’s personal dentist highlights friendship with president to obtain Florida dental license
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Elijah Cummings tells us “of course” he wants info on Ivanka Trump’s security clearance in the aftermath of CNN report.
“Security clearances are directed under the purview of my committee. That’s part of what we do...We just want to make sure that the process is proper.”
Ex-CIA Director John Brennan: "I've never heard of a case in the past, in my experience, of a president even inquiring about a security clearance much less directing and overruling the agencies to give members of his family a security clearance." @MSNBC
Donald Trump made SIXTY false claims in his speech to CPAC.
Two hour speech. So, one lie every two minutes. #TrumpLies
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WaPo: Trump promised to shrink the trade deficit. Instead it exploded.
The U.S. posted record-breaking $891.2 billion merchandise trade deficit in 2018, despite Trump's ‘America First’ policies. #TrumpLies
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Family Dollar will close 390 stores this year and make big changes to the stores it is keeping open as the discount chain seeks a turnaround.
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A federal judge ruled that the Trump admin must reinstate an Obama-era requirement for companies to report how much they pay their employees, along with their gender and race. axios.com/judge-rules-tr…
AP: Foreign leaders, including from Saudi Arabia and China, lavish Trump with $140,000 in gifts #EmolumentClause
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The guy who tweeted out an image of Hillary Clinton over a Star of David and piles of money, who said Jewish donors controlled pols with their money, and who excused Neo Nazis is DEEPLY worried about Anti-Semitism fueling atrocities
Billionaire Tom Steyer is setting his sights on two of Donald Trump’s fiercest defenders in Congress: Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mark Meadows of North Carolina politi.co/2TABHMM
Republicans are quietly planning what their solutions to climate change will be after years of ignoring or sowing doubt about the phenomena.
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Trump’s second home, Florida, is typically viewed as a must-win for a Republican —but a new poll shows only 40 percent want him re-elected here, while 53 percent don’t want him to have a second term
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Priorities USA says Ohio isn’t a top priority for Democrats in 2020 general election cleveland.com/politics/2019/…
Trump’s foreign policy is part nationalist, part conservative, part isolationist, part militaristic pageantry. His aides and GOP allies struggle to explain it.
"fully compromised"
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The 98 Russian oligarchs on this year’s Forbes list have a combined wealth ($421 billion) that tops the total amount that the entire Russian population has in the bank ($420.7 billion). themoscowtimes.com/2019/03/06/98-…
Russia’s parliament has approved a controversial new law that allows courts to jail people for online “disrespect” of government or state officials, including president Vladimir Putin, as well as Russia’s official state symbols and constitution.
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What happens when someone doesn’t buy into Stalin's cult of personality that is perpetuated to this day.
Big scoop by @nbcsandiego: The Trump administration created a "secret database of activists, journalists, and social media influencers tied to the migrant caravan and in some cases, placed alerts on their passports."
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Customs & Border Protection compiled a list of 59 mostly American reporters, attorneys & activists for border agents to stop for questioning when crossing the border at San Diego-area checkpoints. Agents questioned or arrested at least 21 of them. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
By Executive Order, Trump today revoked reporting requirements on US strikes on terrorist targets outside active war zones, and on *civilian casualties* in the attacks. The action undoes a key provision of an Order issued by Pres Obama in 2016.
To be clear, the RNC did just this in 2016 for their own primary debates.
No one seems to remember that.
U.S. wildlife officials plan to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states
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Here's Trump calling Tim Cook, Ceo of Apple, "Tim Apple."
Gen John Kelly asked what advice he had for his successor, Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney? “Run for it,” Kelly said to the laughter at Duke University. “Tell him what he needs to hear.”
Every president since Nixon has voluntarily given their tax returns. Trump hasn’t.
There’s a reason for that, he has a lot to hide.
In case you missed yesterday's thread:
Chad Readler tried to gut Obamacare's protections for people with pre-existing conditions, so of course Senate Republicans confirmed him to be a lifetime federal judge today. huffpost.com/entry/chad-rea…