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With tonight's blockbuster story from the @nytimes tonight implicating OMB Secretary/Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney deeper into the current Ukraine mess that's prompted an official inquiry of the President, ...

nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/…
... there are now SEVEN key Trump Administration figures that may merit at least an impeachment inquiry:

1. President Trump
2. Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin
3. USAG William Barr
4. Commerce Sec. Wilbur Ross
5. SCOTUS Justice Brett Kavanaugh
6. Transportation Sec. Elaine Chao
7. OMB Secretary/Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney

Secretaries Chao, Mnuchin, and Ross may deserve a look for reasons other than the Ukraine mess. And we still don't know how implicated VP Pence is, but it's doubtful he'll be caught up in any impeachment effort.
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Today marks the 30th anniversary of what might have been the worst disaster ever to hit or affect a sporting event, the 1989 #WorldSeries Earthquake. Just before the @SFGiants & @Athletics we to take the field, a 6.9 earthquake hit and leveled parts of the San Francisco Bay Area.
@SFGiants @Athletics Yet the fact that the #WorldSeries was going on when the earthquake struck may have been the biggest break of all, because it hit during the evening commute. As a result, the death toll just just around 70, instead of in the hundreds, or possibly even the thousands.
In fact, the safest place to be when that earthquake struck might have been Candlestick Park, particularly the lower level seating and the field, though had the upper deck buckled (as I-80 and I-880 did), who knows how many casualties there might have been at Candlestick.
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Charles
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Got an update coming on the breadth of the GOP lawmakers that are tied to Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas, mainly through campaign donations in the 2018 election cycle, and it's more than the 13 that I previously know about. A number of them lost in 2018, but others won their races.
Here's the update I promised. I had to figure out the status of the others I had not yet known about who are tied to Fruman and Parnas, and apparently it didn't help them, because the vast majority LOST their 2018 midterm races, though a few won. All are/were in the House.
Those who won their races and are still in the House:

-IL Rep. Mike Bost
-NE Rep. Don Bacon
-NY Rep. John Katko
-TX Rep. Will Hurd (not running in 2020)

Those who LOST their races in 2018:

-former CA Rep. Steve Knight
-former CA Rep. David Valadao
-former IA Rep. Rod Blum
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Charles
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Remember that story @thedailybeast ran last year tying SC Rep. Joe Wilson, FL Sen. Rick Scott, FL Gov. Ron DeSantis, and former TX Rep. Pete Sessions to a Trump Super PAC tied to Russia, in regards to taking money from that Super PAC?

thedailybeast.com/watchdog-myste…
I tweeted about that in my first thread regarding GOP lawmakers being tied to Russia and/or what was known to have been investigated (Sessions and Wilson were the 37th and 38th GOP lawmakers tied to this mess).

A couple of interesting updates about that. First, two of the key principles involved, Giuliani associates Igor Fruman & Lev Parnas, were arrested & indicted today. Secondly, that Super PAC in question also gave to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

rawstory.com/2019/10/reveal…
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