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In October, Chris Collins—the 1st member of Congress to endorse Trump in 2016—pleaded guilty to felony crimes related to insider trading.

Tomorrow, Duncan Hunter—the 2nd member of Congress to endorse Trump—will reportedly plead guilty to an array of felonies related all this 👇
So for those playing along at home:

- After tomorrow, the first two members of Congress to endorse Trump in 2016 will be convicted felons

- Trump's campaign manager and longtime personal lawyer are both in jail

- Trump's deputy campaign manager will be sentenced soon
- Trump's first National Security Advisor is slated to be sentenced this month

- Multiple Trump cabinet members have left amid major ethics scandals, and one of them is the target of a possible criminal investigation for actions taken in office
Trump's longtime friend and political dirty trickster was convicted of seven felonies two weeks ago nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/…
Trump's current personal lawyer is now the subject of multiple Ukraine investigations, including one criminal investigation into his business relationship with two political donors (who have themselves been charged with multiple felonies) vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/r…
Meanwhile, President Trump—who is currently trying to portray himself as an anti-corruption crusader—has more than twice as many conflicts of interest than he has days in office citizensforethics.org/trump-conflict…
And of course, Trump has also had to pay more than $27 million in legal settlements for fraud and charity abuse *as president* in both the Trump University and Trump Foundation cases that he said that he would never settle.
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One of the first things Trump did in office was weaken regs that required energy companies to disclose bribes paid to foreign govts, and his administration has sought repeatedly to cut aid programs tasked with combating corruption around the world, including in....Ukraine
It wouldn't be hard for Collins to find this kind of information if he was looking. It's right here on the Internet.

Rescinding anti-bribery regs: npr.org/2019/10/09/768…

Attempts to cut anti-corruption aid in Ukraine and elsewhere: washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019…
Once the bandaid's ripped off, boy is he in for some learnin'
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1/ During a break in the hearing, Doug Collins was asked by reporters whether he has "any concern whatsoever" about Trump asking for an investigation of a political rival.

He says Trump had "deep concerns" about Ukraine's corruption from the "very beginning."

This is absurd.
2/ This claim that Trump was actually really, really concerned about corruption is probably going to come up a lot in the next part of today's hearings, so let's explore it a bit.
3/ First, let's consider the specifics. Trump's first call with Zelensky was in April. If we're to believe that Trump really cares about corruption in Ukraine, then it's really weird that he ignored his own NSC's advice to....discuss corruption on the call politico.com/news/2019/11/1…
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I can't get over the fact that the president of the United States and his allies are pushing debunked conspiracy theories that our own intel community (including former high-level, Trump-appointed White House officials) have warned are part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
And that there are people with massive media platforms who, despite knowing better, somewhere in the depths of what's left of their soul, are ready and willing to feed this constant stream of utter bullshit to line their pockets.
Hypocrisy and dissembling are the coin of the realm in DC, and partisans have always rallied to protect their own. This is not a new problem, on either side. But as bad as it gets sometimes, it always felt like there were limits.
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