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@GregTSargent
Aug 29, 2019 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Some context on Trump offering pardons as a "joke":

* Mueller concluded Trump dangled pardons with corrupt intent

* Michael Cohen testified that Trump always communicates shady directives indirectly

* Trump offered pardon to his DHS chief

New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
More context on Trump's "joke" pardons:

After we learned Trump dangled a pardon to DHS chief Kevin McAleenan, Judiciary Dems requested a list of people who attended that meeting, to flesh out the truth.

A committee spox tells me DHS has not responded:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
Please note this.

There were people *in the room* when Trump reportedly dangled a pardon to DHS chief Kevin McAleenan.

Judiciary Dems are asking who was in the room. DHS is refusing to say.

Now that we have more dangled pardons, this is newly relevant:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
This is amazing.

A senior administration official is now claiming that Trump "winks" when he offers pardons to underlings, after instructing them to skirt laws and rules.

That's not a defense. It's a damning admission:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

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Absurd: Trump's aides are telling him working class voters love his tariffs. But recent polls actually show majorities of non-college voters say tariffs raise prices, and disapprove of his handling of them. I looked at the data. It's striking.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/193791…
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A note on JD Vance's repulsive response to the deportation of a Salvadoran in "error": The whole point of his stunt is to show that Trump feels free to remove people even when the law *doesn't* justify it.

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newrepublic.com/article/193442…
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Time to focus on Marco Rubio's role as a chief Trump enabler. Rubio is helping execute some of Trump's worst designs: Terminating program for Ukrainian kids, deporting people to foreign gulags, wrecking USAID, arrests with zero due process.

My new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/193064…
First up: Marco Rubio's State Department terminated the program tracking Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.

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Horrifying: After the contract tracking Ukrainian children abducted by Russia was terminated, the underlying evidence of these potential war crimes seems to be missing, a bipartisan group of Reps just charged in letter to Rubio. Two GOPers signed. Details:
newrepublic.com/article/192924…
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Horrific: One of the USAID programs Trump just terminated was set to deliver lifesaving treatment to hundreds of thousands of starving kids abroad. Much of it is now in a Georgia warehouse.

Rubio's promise to preserve urgent assistance was a lie.

New:
newrepublic.com/article/192193…
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