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The idea of a Russian-made surface-to-air missile system killing 176 people aboard a Ukrainian plane at a time when Ukraine and Russia are at war is sickening. We don't know for certain that's what happened, but U.S. officials are saying with "high confidence" they believe it is.
SOURCE/ I just posted the Washington Post sourcing for the above statement on my feed, but I'm happy to post it again here in the thread.
PS/ I suspect that Trump is correct that it was a mistake. That said, I feel further nauseated by the fact that Putin was in the region at the time, Iran is a Russian ally, and Trump was *so* quick to use the term "mistake" when we have no evidence one way or another on that yet.
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One thing that troubles me about Maggie is how credulous she is about how aloof Trump is. I think that if instead of being a very talented journalist she'd been a very talented public defender, she'd understand how *frequently* longtime criminals play with aloofness as a defense.
PS/ I know many people have a problem with Maggie; often I do too. But I also was a criminal investigator for a period of time, so I know how difficult it is, and how incredibly skilled you have to be, just to get people to talk to you when it's not necessarily in their interest.
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When people apologize, I give them credit. I think you have to; if we don't, we create a world in which no one apologizes because doing so changes nothing and is never acknowledged. So I've a lot of words to say about Collins, including about this thread, but won't say them here.
PS/ The response to tweets like this is always the same: "No, he doesn't deserve *any* credit, to get *credit* he'd have had to [X]...."

I'm old enough to know that game goes on forever. The acknowledgment of an apology having occurred never arrives, and people stop apologizing.
PS2/ Way more people read Twitter than watch Fox News. *Way* more. If your argument is that Fox News viewers don't read Twitter or Collins "buried this" by putting it on Twitter...well...I think my earlier point (which is about me, too, and how I react to things) is being made...
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Wow. This says Trump simply "came across" disinformation about Clinton and Biden as part of a "mistake," then belatedly chose to amplify it.

No.

The facts are coming out and will continue to come out. Trump and his team *hunted* for—in some cases *created*—the disinformation.
PS/ This sort of profoundly ahistoric take on the Ukraine scandal is the *product* of the way the story has been told, admittedly—sad to say—by House Democrats, who've focused on one phone call and constitutional (rather than statutory) violations. No—this was way more than that.
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