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A part of the Ukraine story not being discussed involves Trump possibly interfering in *Ukraine's* elections in addition to the reverse. There's some evidence Giuliani, Parnas, and Fruman tried to shake down Poroshenko in January and February 2019 by dangling a Trump endorsement.
1/ By February 2019, the US embassy in Kyiv had already determined that there was a significant chance Zelensky would beat Poroshenko, perhaps in a landslide. Yet with the election just weeks away, Giuliani and his crew were trying to get Poroshenko to focus on Clinton and Biden.
2/ As I read the federal bribery statute, a president dangling an endorsement (which is an official act) in exchange for opposition research with a set market value could be yet *another* instance of impeachable and criminal bribery in *addition* to withholding U.S. military aid.
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(THREAD) The Trump-Ukraine scandal is a NATIONAL SECURITY scandal—and media's failure to explain this to America is hindering the scandal being treated as the national security emergency it is. This isn't about Biden or one call; it's much bigger. I hope you'll read on and share.
1/ First, the background: every president has a foreign policy, a process for taking in intel, a temperament that makes handling/avoiding certain types of conflict more likely, and a disposition toward the U.S. intel community. Trump's is historically dangerous, even treacherous.
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Message to Biden and Buttigieg: it's fine to critique her policies, but if you're armchair-quarterbacking Warren being angry at this moment in history (especially as one of you is talking about "beating Trump like a drum"), consider that that's some gendered bullsh*t right there.
1/ Pete has every right to criticize other candidates for being angry, because that's not the road he's taking or his philosophy, but the angriest-sounding person in the race is Joe Biden, and that's by far, and if Pete is implying it's Warren he needs to take a deep look inside.
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I just saw Harry Enten on TV saying how important general election polls are a year out from Election Day. Of course, they only seem to be important now that a moderate (Biden) is doing well in them. In 2015, Enten told Sanders supporters it was too early to look at such polling.
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