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Sep 20, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
VP Pence met with Ukraine's Zelensky a few weeks ago in Poland, sitting in for Pres. Trump, who couldn't make the trip. The meeting was in a windowless hotel room. Bolton sat silent, Sec. Perry there, too, as pool reporters were brought int. Zelensky kept bouncing his knees...
I was the pool reporter in the room. VP Pence did not respond to questions, including questions from reporters about whether the Trump administration would still allocate $250 million in planned security aid to Ukraine.
As Bolton looked on, VP Pence said that he could assure Zelensky "that we will continue to stand with the people of Ukraine on your security, on territorial integrity," but didn't get into details.

Zelensky said his administration is poised to "defeat corruption."
A day later, VP Pence took questions at a news conference. Pay attention to this response to a question from AP's @colvinj. Full remarks at the link. whitehouse.gov/briefings-stat…

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Jul 21
From this afternoon @CBSNews

CBS: Will you debate VP Harris?

Trump: "I don’t know who I'm going to debate.  So far, we haven’t determined who is going to be on that side.  But I think whoever it is, I’d like to debate.  Yeah, sure."
More:

CBS: Does it change how you see this whole race?

Trump: "No.  It’s policy. The policies is still bad... The policies whether its him or her wouldn’t be any different.  She was in charge of the border.  She was the border czar, she was the worst ever..."
On the news:

"You know, it's really been a shock to the country.  A lot of people got together, they kept him in the basement... The fake news media went along with it. And we have a man in there that shouldn’t be in there."
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Jul 20
My latest reporting...

+ President Biden is deeply frustrated in Delaware this weekend with those he perceives as unhelpful and who he believes are participating in an informal, somewhat slow-moving, misguided revolt against his candidacy
+ Biden and members of his inner circle believe both former Speaker Pelosi and former President Obama are privately underestimating his political appeal and the strength of his coalition, especially against Trump, and believe they and others are being too muted on Dem. dissent
+ President Biden, as one friend puts it to me, is "old school" and believes if you "don't think he should run, you should run against him publicly" or otherwise be quiet and be supportive.
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Jul 18
Years ago, in 2013, I spoke w/ Trump about wrestling. He had just been part of WWE Hall of Fame ceremony. His adviser Sam Nunberg, who had been first introduced to Trump through wrestling, was talking up Trump’s base of support in that community as Trump mulled a visit to Iowa…
I’ll always recall Trump talking about the power of TV, both for wrestling and The Apprentice. And for him. He was confident those things might mean more in terms of winning power than any GOP endorsement. He said wrestling fans “get me.” He was also still promoting birtherism.
Here we are, 11 years later, as he’s nominated for a third time at a convention where the Iraq War is scorned, Mike Pence and Paul Ryan are absent, GW Bush’s photo and name are nowhere, and pro wrestlers are set to speak in primetime, more prominent than any senator or governor.
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Aug 13, 2023
(thread) Will be on @FaceTheNation at 10:30 a.m. ET

Some reporting notes from this weekend...

Re: Hunter/S.C. news, spoke w/ several Biden advisers and top Dem strategists. They see public and private polling plus focus group data that shows most voters aren't focused on H.B.
Inside Biden WH, the SC news wasn't welcomed and there is an ack. that it could lead to a drip, drip scenario on DOJ front. And they know H.B. issues are deeply personal for the pres. But they also believe Rs on trail and on the Hill will overplay the issue, esp if imp. pursued.
Several Biden aides say that Trump has been focused on H.B. going back to the Zelensky call and that a lot of this latest GOP push is already “baked in," not fresh to voters, despite S. Counsel appointment. Expect this to be more of a story on the right than 2024 gen elex issue.
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Jul 27, 2023
(thread) Ahead of a possible Trump indictment on a Jan. 6 conspiracy, a review, in chronological order, of reporting I've picked up in recent days... what have witnesses been asked about? What has come under scrutiny during the investigation? What matters?

1) Hours after the...
1) Hours after polls close Nov. 3, shortly after 2 a.m. Nov. 4, Trump falsely claims he won. What was discussed in the campaign war rooms in both the Map Room and in the EEOB? What did Trump say? What pressure was put on Fox execs, DOJ officials, and political officials?
2) On Nov. 4, did Trump privately tell others he knew he had lost? Did he suggest it in any way? This is potentially a crucial point.

Focus on conversations Trump had on Nov. 4, 2020. "How the hell did we lose the vote to Joe Biden?" Trump priv. asked Kellyanne Conway that day.
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Jul 10, 2023
Hearing from 2 sources, familiar with the special counsel grand jury on J6, that Trump's consideration of using purported fed. authority to seize voting machines is under scrutiny. SC probing whether there was criminal intent to build a premise for delay/block in certification...
Why this matter... investigators, I'm told, are interested in whether Trump was CHOOSING, verbally and in documented exchanges, to buy into S. Powell/Flynn suggestion that, by claiming voting machines were problematic, the election had to be sent back to the states...
See p. 194 of Peril. Look at what Trump says to the group in the room, per our reporting: "I care about getting these machines... I want to get these machines and I have a right to do so... "
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