Day 738 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.
The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
Day 526 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 6 days, Congress must take action to prevent future mass shootings. #NeverForget #NeverAgain #EnoughIsEnough
Real-time American gun violence data for 2019:
•2,663 gun deaths
•4,571 gun injuries
•101 children shot
•430 teenagers shot
•55 mass shootings
•345 armed home invasions
•236 defensive gun use incidents
•286 unintentional shootings
#NationalEmergency
A Florida woman shot her boyfriend of three weeks with a shotgun during an argument about the victim’s loud snoring. wave3.com/2019/03/09/flo…
A 7-year-old Kentucky girl is in critical condition after she and an 11-year-old child found a loaded gun under a bed and began playing with it. The gun discharged, striking the child in the head. buff.ly/2Hj0KOY
January 15th: Brazilian President Bolsonaro dangerously loosens gun laws.
Today: Shooting inside a school in Sao Paulo with at least 8 killed.
This is why this happens in Brazil.
This is why this happens in America.
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Dick’s Sporting Goods is pulling hunting guns, ammunition, and accessories from its shelves in 125 locations
Military will begin enforcing transgender troop ban in April: report
This move only weakens our military. All because Trump and GOP are transphobic!
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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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In the early months of the Trump administration, officials examined the effects of plans to deter immigration at the border by separating families and tracking down those who came to pick up UACs at shelters, according to a newly obtained memo:
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North Korea has refused service of the lawsuit brought by Otto Warmbier's family.
What say Trump, now?
An attorney speaking to Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani reassured Michael Cohen in an April 2018 email that Cohen could "sleep well tonight" because he had "friends in high places," according to a copy of an email obtained.
cnn.com/2019/03/13/pol…
Federal prosecutors have requested Michael Cohen's communications with Robert Costello, a lawyer who last year sought a pardon for Cohen. Among those emails are one in which Costello assured Cohen he had "friends in high places."
wsj.com/articles/prose…
The Justice Department is investigating whether a $100,000 donation to the Trump Victory fund came from Jho Low, the Malaysian businessman accused in the global 1MDB scandal.
wsj.com/articles/doj-p…
A new State Department report on human rights violations omits Saudi crown prince from section about Jamal Khashoggi's murder cbsn.ws/2HjmBps
The Senate again voted to end U.S. military assistance for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, rebuking Trump for a second time over his response to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi nyti.ms/2EY2sBI
Day 27 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"
EDITORIAL | Senate Republicans should vote to disapprove the emergency declaration on principle and out of institutional self-respect. bit.ly/2TII6G1
Trump: "We have a vote tomorrow on national emergency. We'll see whether or not I have to do the veto."
House Dems are set to grill Wilbur Ross over his decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
"Everything about adding the question doesn't pass the smell test," Rep. Jimmy Gomez says. "I want to really get to the bottom of that."
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Trump infamously called for the death penalty for the Central Park Five
The nine tweets of executive time this morning have dealt with impeachment, the death penalty in California, the FBI, the "fake news," Melania Trump, Nancy Pelosi & the economy, among other topics.
Manafort tried to get in on a sweetheart Vatican real estate deal with Anne Hathaway's then-boyfriend, and talked about his expectations many many times.
The whole thing was later revealed as a scam.
thedailybeast.com/paul-manafort-…
USA Today reviewed 67K defendant sentences in federal courts from 2017. Of the 308 fraud defendants who had the similar guidelines calculations as Paul Manafort, only ONE case ended up receiving a sentence below the guidelines as Manafort's in EDVA.
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Judge Jackson will be weighing an unusual set of circumstances. She is expected to consider not only the conspiracy charges, but also the fact that Manafort lied to prosecutors. nytimes.com/2019/03/13/us/…
Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Manafort: "It's hard to overstate the number of lies, the amount of fraud and the extraordinary amount of money involved." —@NBCNews
Judge Jackson sentences Paul Manafort to 60 months on first count, 30 months to run concurrent with Virginia case; judge imposes sentence of 13 months on Manafort for second count, to be served consecutively. It is an additional 43 months in total.
Flashback. August 19, 2016. Newt Gingrich: "Nobody should underestimate how much Paul Manafort did to really help get this campaign to where it is right now."
“Without Manafort’s cooperation, we might never gain clarity about some of the most disturbing questions that still hover around him.”
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Definitely important to include the hecklers here for Manafort's lawyers since they were the only ones telling the truth.
Literally within minutes of Paul Manafort sentencing, Manhattan DA announces Manafort indictment for "a yearlong residential mortgage fraud scheme" > manhattanda.org/district-attor…
The new state charges against Manafort are contained in a 16-count indictment that alleges a yearlong scheme in which he falsified business records to obtain millions of dollars in loans manhattanda.org/district-attor…
"He could face up to 25 years in New York state prison if convicted of the most serious charges in the new indictment." manhattanda.org/district-attor…
Good time to bring back this clip.
Are NY prosecutors trying to make sure Trump and his inner circle can't game the judicial system?
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Trump: "I feel very badly for Paul Manafort." hill.cm/r6XCwwd
Trump says “no collusion” six times in this 79 second clip
Echoing what Manafort's lawyers said after sentencing in what appears to be a plea for a pardon
Trump, denying his campaign colluded with Russia: "You don't call Russia when you go to Florida. Russia won't help you much."
Fact Check: Russia did, in fact, try to help Trump in Florida.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Ivanka didn't get a document request from House Democrats.
But 52 individuals and organizations out of the 81 were asked to turn over documents related to Ivanka or her business interests.
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Matthew Whitaker was involved in discussions about whether SDNY “went too far” in its campaign-finance investigation & about whether to fire U.S. attorneys. Whitaker also didn’t deny that Trump called him to discuss the Cohen probe.
wsj.com/articles/whita…
Facebook's controversial data-sharing deals are under criminal investigation. A grand jury in New York has issued multiple subpoenas to device-makers that partnered with the social media giant. nytimes.com/2019/03/13/tec…
Spa owner Cindy Yang’s lawyer speaks out — says she was not a member of Trump’s clubs but was rather a registered guest of a member who is a close friend
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Trump: "We're going to be issuing an emergency order of prohibition regarding all flights of the 737 max 8 and 737 max 9."
Trump literally had to be dragged to announce the grounding of flights!
Boeing is making an extensive change to 737 MAX flight-control feature - it had been expected in Jan but was delayed, in part, b/c --> "U.S. officials have said the #TrumpShutdown halted work on the fix for five weeks." on.wsj.com/2EVVm0n
Today's Boeing news is a good excuse to revisit this amazing @mviser story, on the (literal!) crash landing of Trump's airline, the Trump Shuttle.
"Airplanes are too complex to fly" -Trump yesterday
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US to test-launch missiles after Trump suspends compliance with treaty banning them: report
#NeoCon
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Pompeo told reporters their math was wrong about the admin's budget. The State Dept soon after conceded that the reporters were right.
Why does the Sec of State keep stumbling over details he's supposed to know? on.msnbc.com/2TAxbPf
Trump on potential trade deal with China: "I'm in no rush. I want the deal to be right."
So, no deal. #ArtOfTheDeal
Samuel L. Jackson: Trump is "ruining the planet and all kinds of other s--t" hill.cm/gy0o0eY
Trump's pick to lead the World Bank plans to preserve its climate change agenda despite Trump's view that global warming is a hoax.
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The UN says the environment is a deadly, worsening mess.
But it also says it's not too late to fix the planet
New Mexico passes bill requiring 100 percent of state's electricity to come from renewable energy hill.cm/aU7OthM
Beto O'Rourke has confirmed, via a text-message sent to a local news network, that he is running for President of the United States.
Announcement is tomorrow. Saddle up!
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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:
ICE holding boys as young as 5 for more than a month, a violation of federal law thedailybeast.com/complaint-ice-…
"Two months after Congressman Steve King of Iowa was roundly condemned by other Republicans, President Donald Trump has offered not a single word of criticism of the white nationalist" goo.gl/LcmTA6