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1. Yesterday, the Trump campaign was caught defrauding thousands of its own supporters.

They enticed people to donate with the promise of a breakfast w/Trump.

There was no breakfast w/Trump.

The vast majority of news outlets are ignoring this story.

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2. This is likely the tip of the iceberg. The campaign admitted one contest for a meal with Trump was a fraud

There are 14 other similar contests & no evidence that the meals occurred

This is potentially a multi-million fraud by the president's campaign

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3. IMO, there is too much coverage of what Trump and his campaign is SAYING and not enough investigation into what they are DOING.

I think we need more independent accountability journalism.

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We’ve also created a different set of standards for Trump, because he’s involved in so much misconduct. I can confidently say that, in 2012, if Obama solicited donations w/a high-profile contest to have a meal w/him and then DIDNT SHOW UP it would have received blanket coverage
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UPDATE: Last Thursday, I reported that Facebook was a sponsor of Kavanaugh's keynote speech to the Federalist Society.

Facebook told me it didn't see anything wrong with it.

Many Facebook employees disagreed.

And now Facebook is changing its tune.

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2. A source tells me that a member of Facebook's public policy team responded to employee complaints on an internal Facebook message board and said "we made a mistake" in sponsoring the Kavanaugh speech

Facebook told employees it would take steps to remedy the situation
3. I asked Facebook about the difference between what it was now telling employees internally and what it told me last Thursday about sponsoring Kavanaugh's speech.

"We’re not going to have any comment on this, Judd," a Facebook spokesman told me.

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1. There are 351 days until the presidential election and Facebook's policy to allow politicians to lie in ads is already a disaster

popular.info/p/open-season
2. The Trump campaign is regularly running ads on Facebook that feature claims that have been debunked by Facebook's third-party fact-checkers.

Like this ad which claims the Mueller Report was a "total exoneration" for Trump

popular.info/p/open-season
3. Facebook says that it will fact check political ads by non-candidates. But it's approving ads w/blatant lies. Facebook approved an ad by a PAC that made it seem like Obama was encouraging blacks not to vote for Democrats.

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1. For the last 13 months BRETT KAVANAUGH has kept a low profile.

That changes tonight, when Kavanaugh is honored as the keynote speaker at The Federalist Society's annual black tie dinner.

And who is a "Gold Circle" sponsor of the event?

FACEBOOK

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2. Last year, many Facebook employees were angry when a top Facebook executive, Joel Kaplan, showed up to support Kavanaugh

Facebook attempted to control the damage & Kaplan apologized

Now, Facebook is sponsoring Kavanaugh's return to the public stage

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3. One thing that has changed since Kavanaugh's confirmation is that the evidence against Kavanaugh has gotten STRONGER.

Specifically, there are now more corroborating evidence to support the claims of Deborah Ramirez, who wasn't even allowed to testify

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