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Judd Legum
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ABSOLUTE CONTEMPT for democracy by the North Carolina GOP

The party couldn't convince enough Democrats to side with them to override the Governors' veto of the budget so Republicans held a surprise vote this morning while many Democrats weren't around

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This vote, which will determine the state's budget for the next TWO YEARS was taken with LESS THAN HALF of North Carolina's House members present.

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CORRECTION: The vote was 55-9, so slightly more than half of members were present. Democrats were told the session was a formality and there would be no votes.
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Wow. WTF.

"Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the U.S. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint."

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Gets worse: "Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson determined that the complaint was credible and troubling enough to be considered a matter of 'urgent concern,' a legal threshold that requires notification of congressional oversight committees."
And then, the coverup: "But acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire has refused to share details about Trump’s alleged transgression with lawmakers, touching off a legal and political dispute that has spilled into public"
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Lewandowski just told the Judiciary Committee that he had taken dictation for Trump "many times."

But Lewandowski told Mueller that the only time he ever took dictation from Trump was on June 19, 2017. (Vol 2. Pg 91)

So he either just lied to Congress or lied to Mueller.
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OH SNAP. Hakeem Jeffries just confronted Lewandowski on this contradiction.

"Did you lie to Mueller or are you lying now."

Lewandowski basically accused MUELLER of misrepresenting what he said.
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If Biden enters, there will be SEVENTEEN.
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@davidfrum @TheAtlantic This has nothing to do with enforcement. The president is claimig the immigrants coming to our country are some kind of ‘liberal plot’ or somehow associated with the Democratic party - this is a lie. Democrats want border enforcement too - we just don’t think a wall makes sense.
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Well, there you have it - the Democrat Party. Here are 3 more #Democrats, one being 2nd in charge of DNC, who also met with anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan and Iranian President Rouhani in 2013:

✔️Keith Ellison
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