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Trump Inauguration Spending Under Criminal Inv’n

Probe looking into whether committee misspent funds & top donors pay to play access to the adm

Pelosi shrugs off GOP gripes about her holding onto articles of I.

“Frankly I don’t care, what [Republicans] have to say.
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Timing of Trump Impeachment Trial in Limbo as Pelosi Holds Out for Assurances on the rules for a trial.

Schumer Joins Pelosi in Backing Plan to Sit on Impeachment Articles

Why doesn’t McConnell want witnesses at Trump’s trial?

Because Trump is guilty.
🍑DJT*3🍑

The Conservative Case for Impeachment — and Removal

‘The most heinous act in which a democratic government can engage is to use its law enforcement machinery for political ends.’

What Republicans are now doing with their lock step opposition to impeachment — and
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With their indifference to the behavior that brought impeachment about — is not conservative.

It is the abdication of principle to power.

Trump hasn’t shown any sense of contrition nor have Republicans shown any inclination to censure him.
🍑DJT*5🍑

Whatever the political ramifications of impeachment now, history will judge members of this Congress harshly if they fail to state their revulsion at Trump’s behavior in the strongest terms they can.

Impeach and convict.
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Trump is just 67 votes away from being an ex-President and it's freaking him out

McConnell told FoxNews Hannity,

'There will be no difference between the president’s position and our position as to how to handle this'

Pelosi demands fair impeachment trial.
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Trump, Impeached in Washington, Is Defended by Putin in Moscow

Echoing Republican talking points (rather GOP parroting RU talking points), the Putin mocked the moves against his Trump as a “baseless bid by Democrats to reverse their 2016 defeat”.
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Impeachment won’t constrain Trump from trying to get foreign help for his reelection, it will make him more likely to do it.

Trump contributes to one of Putin’s key long-term projects: the discrediting of WL democracy.

So we can expect RU to help Trump win reelection
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And we know Trump will welcome rU help wholeheartedly

Mark Meadows, top Trump ally, to retire from Congress

Goldman Sachs in Talks to Admit Guilt, Pay $2 Billion Fine to Settle 1MDB Probe

US Forest Service allows Mining company write its own environmental report
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Attack on Saudi Oil Facilities Likely Came From North, U.S. Probe Reveals

New evidence of the September 14 attack reinforces earlier assessment that Iran was behind the offensive

Facebook separates security tool from friend suggestions, citing privacy overhaul
DJT*11🍑

Rival German Banks Forced to Share Branches in Cost-Cutting Drive

Israeli Spyware Allegedly Used Against Senior Pakistani Officials, Report Says

Report on purported use of NSO Group's software comes after speculation that India may be utilizing it to spy domestically
🍑DJT*11🍑

The GOP Is Now the Evil Party.

‘VISCERALLY REPELLENT’

Says former Republican

Cyprus Police Arrest 3 EEs of Israeli-owned Firm on Spying Charges

Senate Approves Anti-Robocall Bill
TRACED Act easily passed the House; legislation now awaits Trump’s signature
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Appeals court strikes down individual mandate, stops short of scrapping entire ACA.

Revised North American Trade Pact Passes House

Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign
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Durham Is Scrutinizing Ex-C.I.A. Director’s Role in Russian Interference Findings

The federal prosecutor investigating the origins of the Russia inquiry is examining testimony by the former C.I.A. director John Brennan and seeking his comm records.
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DOJ investigates Sci-Hub founder on suspicion of working for Russian intelligence

Scammer Gets Five Years for $120 Million Theft From Facebook and Google

Antidepressant use by children jumps more than 20 percent after a school shooting, data shows #NRA #GOP
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SIGTARP calls for a national financial fraud registry

The federal government should establish a national financial fraud registry to make it easier for prosecutors and investors to identify repeat offenders, according to a top law enforcement official.
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Grassley said there is GOP resistance to his legislation, which would penalize drugmakers who raise prices faster than inflation, b/c McConnell told them not to support it.

US dollar ticks up in step with Treasury yields

Pound plunges as hard Brexit fears revived
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Washington Rep. Matt Shea engaged in domestic terrorism against U.S., says state House report

The report found that beginning in Nov 2015, Shea, working with militia leader Ammon Bundy, helped “in the planning & preparation” of the Malheur takeover.

#BundyRanch
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The U.S. Department of Justice is using a once-obscure law, most commonly used today to require the registration of those who lobby in the United States on behalf of foreign governments, to target foreign-based anonymous disinformation actors on social media.
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Nancy Pelosi’s Playing 3-D Chess With a President Who Has Trouble with 4-Piece Puzzles

“Firtash has always been an intermediary,” said Viktor Chumak, chairman of the anti-corruption committee.

“He is a political person representing Russia’s interests in Ukraine.”
Trump Inauguration Spending Under Criminal Investigation by Federal Prosecutors

Probe looking into whether committee misspent funds and top donors gave money in exchange for access to the administration

wsj.com/articles/trump…
Don’t let Mitch McConnell conduct a Potemkin impeachment trial

McConnell has announced his intention to conduct not a real trial but a whitewash, letting the president and his legal team call the shots.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-…
Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine and 2016 campaign

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Goldman Sachs is in talks to admit guilt and pay a roughly $2 billion fine to resolve the DOJ’s criminal probe into the bank’s role in Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal, people familiar with the matter said

wsj.com/articles/goldm…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cites Najib as a key figure in a corruption case brought against Tim Leissner, a former Goldman Sachs executive. The SEC issued an order permanently banning Leissner from the financial industry

asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Najib…
How 2 Soviet Émigrés Fueled the Trump Impeachment Flames

“Lev and Igor” were obscure businessmen who became fixtures of the Republican donor set. Then they played an unlikely role in the proceedings gripping the nation.

nytimes.com/2019/12/19/nyr… via @NYTimes
Multiple people killed in shooting at Russia’s Federal Security Service headquarters
(FSB) building on Lubyanka Square.

RBC reported that unknown individuals opened fire there, with at least one using a Kalashnikov automatic rifle.

meduza.io/en/feature/201…
Revised North American Trade Pact Passes House
In passing the House, President Trump’s revised trade deal overcame the biggest remaining hurdle to becoming law.

nytimes.com/2019/12/19/us/…
Individual mandate ruled unconstitutional, ACA in limbo

washingtonpost.com/health/appeals…
Washington Rep. Matt Shea engaged in domestic terrorism against U.S., says state House report

The report found that beginning in Nov 2015, Shea, working with militia leader Ammon Bundy, helped “in the planning and preparation” of the Malheur takeover.

seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…
Trump contributes to one of Putin’s key long-term projects: the discrediting of western liberal democracy

So although we don’t know precisely what form the Russian effort to help Trump win reelection will take, & that Trump will welcome it wholeheartedly

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
The Conservative Case for Impeachment — and Removal
‘The most heinous act in which a democratic government can engage is to use its law enforcement machinery for political ends.’

nytimes.com/2019/12/18/opi…
Italian Police Arrest Over 300 in Raids on Organized Crime
Officials said they had dismantled a major crime family within the ’Ndrangheta, the group based in the southern region of Calabria that is Italy’s most powerful mafia syndicate.

nytimes.com/2019/12/19/wor…
US government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner

bbc.com/news/world-us-…
Trump is just 67 votes away from being an ex-President and it's freaking him out

cnn.com/2019/12/15/opi…
Deadly shooting at Russian intelligence agency in Moscow, reports say
Unidentified man said to have attacked reception at Federal Security Service office

theguardian.com/world/2019/dec…
Durham Is Scrutinizing Ex-C.I.A. Director’s Role in Russian Interference Findings

The federal prosecutor investigating the origins of the Russia inquiry is examining testimony by the former C.I.A. director John Brennan and seeking his comm records.

nytimes.com/2019/12/19/us/…
The U.S. Department of Justice is using a once-obscure law, most commonly used today to require the registration of those who lobby in the US on behalf of foreign governments, to target foreign-based anonymous disinformation actors on social media.

lawfareblog.com/justice-depart…
2014:
“Firtash has always been an intermediary,” said Viktor Chumak, chairman of the anti-corruption committee in the previous Ukrainian parliament. “He is a political person representing Russia’s interests in Ukraine.”

reuters.com/investigates/s…
Why doesn’t McConnell want witnesses at Trump’s trial?

Because Trump is guilty.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
Trump, Impeached in Washington, Is Defended by Putin in Moscow
Echoing Republican talking points, the Russian president mocked the moves against his U.S. counterpart as a baseless bid by Democrats to reverse their 2016 defeat.

nytimes.com/2019/12/19/wor…
Senate Approves Anti-Robocall Bill
TRACED Act easily passed the House; legislation now awaits President Trump’s signature

wsj.com/articles/senat…
I Was a Lifelong Republican. The GOP Is Now the Evil Party.

‘VISCERALLY REPELLENT’

By Matt Lewis

thedailybeast.com/in-the-age-of-…
Russia, Ukraine, EU agree 'in principle' on new gas deal: EU official

reuters.com/article/us-ukr…
Schumer Joins Pelosi in Backing Plan to Sit on Impeachment Articles

thedailybeast.com/chuck-schumer-…
Documents show the U.S. Forest Service is allowing a Canadian company to write a key environmental report on its proposed open-pit gold mines in central Idaho after the Trump administration became involved.

apnews.com/ca73589cb506a3…
Justice Department investigates Sci-Hub founder on suspicion of working for Russian intelligence

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Grassley said Tuesday that some of his Republican colleagues have resisted his legislation, which would penalize drugmakers who raise prices faster than inflation, because McConnell told them not to support it.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Pelosi, in Extraordinary Move, Hints Will Not Refer Trump Impeachment to Senate Until 'Fair' Trial Guaranteed

McConnell told FoxNews Hannity, 'There will be no difference between the president’s position and our position as to how to handle this'

haaretz.com/us-news/pelosi…
🌳Breathe🌳

Today was a day of recovery & relief, Trump is centured.

I am so proud of everyone who voted to protect the rule of law & our nation from all enemies foreign & domestic.

Republicans hate America & the Rule of Law as evidenced by their defense of the indefensible.
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December 19, 2019

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