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This is horrifying.

@SenMikeLee just gave a new interview about why he erupted over that Iran briefing.

Lee said officials refused to say whether they'd seek Congressional approval for the hypothetical assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader.

New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@SenMikeLee Another key point:

Today Trump called on "all House Republicans" to vote against the war powers resolution.

It's a bad development that Trump has decreed that loyalty to him is now synonymous with giving him absolute, unconstrained warmaking authority:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@SenMikeLee This extreme hypothetical illustrates as starkly as you could want that Trump recognizes zero constraints on his warmaking authority.

I talked to law professors about that. Some alarming quotes:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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Greg Sargent
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Notorious NeoMcCarthyite @BernieSanders just released a strong statement condemning Russia over the news that Russian hackers targeted Burisma to smear @JoeBiden.

Sanders explains well why progressives should care about Russian sabotage of our elections: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@BernieSanders @JoeBiden By the way, perhaps we should be making more of the fact that Trump, Giuliani, and Russian hackers targeting Burisma are all working to validate the same made up narrative about the Bidens:

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@BernieSanders @JoeBiden .@BernieSanders situates Russian sabotage of our elections in a broad narrative in which plutocrats at home and illiberal authoritarians abroad are allied against liberal democracy and international institutions, all to enable their continuing plunder:

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Don't get snowed. Senate Republicans are nixing immediate dismissal of charges against Trump to lay the groundwork to spin a witness-free trial as fair by reverse-comparison. You can see it in their quotes. Same goes for their other "offers." New piece: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Also:

Don't get snookered by the "one for one" fake witness "offer" that Trump allies are making.

1) Trump and McConnell would never accept that, which is itself a key tell

2) It's meant to lay groundwork to spin a no-witness outcome as fair:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Here are some core facts that really must not get lost in media coverage.

Trump and McConnell are banking on both-sidesing coverage that fails to convey these basics, thus obscuring the monumentally lopsided absurdity of the Trump/GOP position here:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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Greg Sargent
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1) The bombshell news of the failed effort to kill Shahlai shows once again that we have no idea how deep Trump's deceptions on Iran really run.

We talked to two senior House Democrats about the news. Here are their quotes: It's alarming stuff.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
2) @RepEliotEngel, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, says he has "no doubt" that the operation is broader than we know, and largely being concealed from Congress:

“The more you hear, the more you realize that you’ve been fed a bunch of untruths."

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@RepEliotEngel 3) Rep Tom @Malinowski. a member of Foreign Affairs and a former state dept official, make this alarming point:

“If the objective was to weaken the Quds Force irrespective of ... imminent attacks on Americans, then where does that end? And is it over?”

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