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1. Something important happened on the way to impeachment that was basically ignored

On 10/22, GOP Leader McCarthy said we should LISTEN TO THE DIPLOMATS about QUID PRO QUO

In other words, if diplomats said there was a quid pro quo this would be serious

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2. The same day, the top US diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor was deposed

He said explicitly there was a quid pro quo for both the White House meeting AND the military aid

Taylor is not a Democrat. The Trump admin recruited him out of retirement in June

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3. In November, Gordon Sondland, who was serving as U.S. ambassador to the EU, testified that there was a quid pro quo for the White House meeting and the military aid.

Sondland is a Republican fundraiser who donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural.

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4. So

The top House Republican set a criteria. Trump's actions would be serious misconduct if "the diplomats" said there was a "quid pro quo"

Then "the diplomats" testified there was a "quid pro quo"

And McCarthy and the GOP pretended it never happened

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Hi @mollywood @kairyssdal:

I just got out of the car and your NPR segment on Facebook's policy on misinformation in political ads contained misinformation.

Molly said that Facebook has consistently refused to "police content."

This isn't true!
@mollywood @kairyssdal Facebook polices all kinds of content! It partners with numerous fact-checking organizations.

This is a specific EXEMPTION that only applies to political ads by candidates and parties. Facebook subjects all other ads to fact-checking.

Your listeners deserve the truth.
Facebook put in place this exemption as it tries to curry favor with the Trump, whose campaign has put out numerous ads with blatant falsehoods.

Facebook says they didn't change their policy, which is a sleight of hand. In 2016, Facebook didn't have a fact-checking program!
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1. Since Trump ordered the drone attack that killed Soleimani, television news has been filled with commentary on the strike.

Many of TV pundits who weighed in have undisclosed ties to the defense industry.

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2. Joe Lieberman appeared on Fox News on January 6 praising Trump for ordering the strike.

He was introduced as the former Democratic VP nominee.

NOT DISCLOSED: Lieberman works for an Israeli weapons manufacturer looking to expand sales to the DoD

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3. William Cohen appeared on CNN on January 5. He was identified as the “former secretary of defense.”

NOT DISCLOSED: Cohen runs a consulting firm which “has assisted [defense] clients to compete for and win tens of billions of dollars in contracts.”

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In an internal message, the former head of Facebook's advertising team (and current executive), @boztank, says Facebook delivered Trump victory in 2016 and is poised to do so again in 2020 but the company should not change any of its advertising policies

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@boztank The internal message was first reported by the NYT but then @boztank posted the whole message publicly.

According to the NYT, many other Facebook employees objected to the company's current policy of allowing politicians, including Trump, to lie in ads

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@boztank The full post falsely claimed Facebook never changed its ad policies. Facebook may not have changed how they ENFORCED its policy as compared to 2016, but its written ad policy was changed in September 2019 to accommodate Trump.

I first reported that here: popular.info/p/facebook-say…
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Alrighty, then, my live #impeachment thread for you.

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QUID PRO QUO = BRIBERY = IMPEACHMENT.

There's no coming back from a mass Republican admission of what the evidence confirms: a quid pro quo that extended *well* beyond a single phone call. So if and when what the Post describes happens, media *must* explain our bribery statutes.
1/ 18 U.S.C. § 201 makes it a felony punishable by 15 years in prison to, “directly or indirectly, corruptly seek anything of value in return for being influenced in the performance of any official act.” “Anything of value” is defined as anything with a “market value.”
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