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I reviewed all 837 tweets and retweets Trump sent since the Ukraine whistleblower story broke almost four weeks ago.

More than a quarter of those tweets and retweets were about the scandal and tied in some way to Fox. mediamatters.org/fox-news/nearl…
Trump has sent 223 tweets and retweets about the Ukraine abuse of power story that were in some way driven by Fox News. mediamatters.org/fox-news/nearl…
The president has sent or retweeted tweets containing Fox video/images/ links about the Ukraine/impeachment story 102 times, quoted people talking about the story on Fox 53 times, and generated at least 56 live-tweets responding to Fox's coverage. mediamatters.org/fox-news/nearl…
Trump has retweeted or quote-tweeted Fox personalities regarding the story 32 times. Maria Bartiromo received the most with seven; Jesse Watters, Mollie Hemingway, Gregg Jarrett, and Sean Hannity round out the top five.
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Matthew Gertz
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This chyron went up on Fox News at 10:11 ET, but Ed Henry et all aren't talking about their former colleague reportedly in talks to participate in the impeachment inquiry, they are just ranting about the supposed lack of transparency in the House impeachment process.
They just went to commercial without mentioning it. Amazing.
A glancing mention earlier this hour by Chris Wallace is Fox News' only acknowledgement today that their former colleague John Bolton might testify before the impeachment inquiry.
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Matthew Gertz
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I wrote about this after the Mueller hearing: “Republican politicians have taken an important lesson from [the Fox-Trump] feedback loop: They can use Fox to gain power in their party.” mediamatters.org/fox-news/its-n…
“The incentives for these members of Congress were straightforward: By regularly appearing on Fox to defend Trump from Mueller, they could capture the Fox-obsessed president’s attention and garner his favor.

That strategy worked.”
That’s the entire schtick for House Republicans like Gaetz, or Jim Jordan, or John Ratcliffe: converting acts of pro-Trump fealty into Fox hits that the president watches, thus earning his support and gaining power within the GOP.
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Matthew Gertz
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A list of important things about the Matt Gaetz crew storming the hearing:

1) The idiots took cameras into a SCIF.

2) My mentions are screwed up.

That’s it. That’s the list.
Ok fine.

3) This shows how the prime directive of and manner of gaining power within the House GOP is to do incredibly stupid shit that bolsters your Trumpist bona fides and gets you on Hannity.
But seriously, RIP my menchies.
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Dannielle Blumenthal PhD
@DrDannielle
So are you sick of this fake Ukraine whistleblower story yet?

Don't worry!

There's more!
This person made a whole timeline. You can view it in Google Sheets format here. (I converted it and it's rough. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…)
Posting the link again. It should be working.
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Dannielle Blumenthal PhD
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1) @ODNIgov Where did this logo come from?
@ODNIgov 2) Today I accessed your "Urgent Concern Disclosure Form." Again the document was posted in an odd way, with spaces in the name, on 9/24/2019 at 4:25:00 p.m. and then modified at 9/25/2019 at 2:39:15 p.m., using Acrobat PDFMaker for Word.
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Whose logo is this?
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Dr. Jack Brown
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THREAD: Body Language Analysis No. 4397: Donald Trump Defends Himself Against The Whistleblower - Nonverbal and Emotional Intelligence — — #BodyLanguage #BodyLanguageExpert #EmotionalIntelligence #Nonverbal #DonaldTrump #Ukraine #Whistleblower
1/ President Trump met with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday 20 September 2019. After their meeting, the two men took questions from the Press in the Oval Office.
2/ What follows is a partial nonverbal, verbal, and paralanguage analysis of a particularly important portion of that exchange.
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snarke
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#Trump is going to speak in the Rose Garden any minute now. Is he going to lie a bunch about reopening the government? Is he just going to yell "no collusion! witch hunt!" over and over again? Both? Stay tuned!
Oh hell, #Trump is going to take questions too. This is going to be a sh*tshow.
#Trump is running about a half hour late. I wonder if he's spent this whole time on the phone with Ann Coulter, begging for permission to cave?
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Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
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1. @Najmeh_Tehran, the journalist who wrote this piece, is immense. This is an issue she has been covering for years on the ground in #Tehran. You and colleagues at @FDD have cited her reporting in papers, briefings, and testimony. But let's put that aside for a second.
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