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💣Timeline💣

#UkraineGate (Impeachment) 👉🏼 narrative chg needed = #IranGate

12/29/19 Trump chats w/Putin.

1/3/29 Soleimani killed

RUMINT: Soleimani’s power & independence vexed Putin.

WH/Iran backchannel: Don’t es­ca­late!

Private dialog measured vs fiery public rhetoric.
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Pompeo, Pence & Trump’s reason conflict, Congress stonewalled.

BOOM: Trump, after the strike, admits he was under pressure to deal w/ Soleimani from GOP senators he views as important supporters in his coming impeachment trial in the Senate, associates said.
💣Timeline3💣

Pompeo: “There is no doubt that there were a series of imminent attacks being plotted by Soleimani. We don’t know precisely when & we don’t know where, but it was real.” = NOT IMMINENT.

Pence cited the killing of a US contractor by Iranian-backed Iraqi militia.
💣Timeline4💣

I think we will learn Putin, Bibi, Adelson, Gingrich, Graham, Cotton, Bolton wanted Soleimani gone & TeamTrump did the favor.

BONUS = Distraction

Damningly, RU denied Iran was behind the shoot down of the UKR (coinky dink) plane contrary to evidence = admission.
💣Timeline5💣

Putin knew Soleimani very well: He played a key role in creating the Russian-Iranian alliance that saved Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria from what seemed in 2015 an imminent demise.

📌Russia benefited from a hike in oil prices post the US-Iranian confrontation.
💣Timeline5💣

The conflict would likely push Tehran to buy more weapons from Moscow & sign more deals w/ Rosatom, Russia's nuclear energy monopoly, which is building the Bushehr reactor on Iran's Persian Gulf coast.

Hours af­ter Soleimani was killed backchannel comms began.
💣Timeline6💣

The operation was “planned very quickly,”

There was not “unanimity” among Trump’s advisers about the “wisdom” of targeting Soleimani, but intelligence suggested that he planned more attacks on American troops in the region — or was it embassies as Trump said...?
💣Timeline7💣

WH & Iran­ian lead­ers ex­changed fur­ther msgs, via the Swiss Em­bassy in Iran de­scribed as far more mea­sured than the fiery rhetoric traded pub­licly.

Rep. Bennie Thompson: I’m not convinced, based on what I heard, that the measure taken matched the threat,”
💣Timeline8💣

Rep. Gerry Connoly:”I was utterly unpersuaded about any evidence about the imminence of a threat that was new or compelling,”

Warren: “Trump is taking us to the edge of war for his own political benefit,” she wrote. “It’s reckless and dangerous.”
💣Timeline9💣

Sen. Ted Cruz and 42 Republican co-sponsors urged the Senate to express its support for killing the leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Quds Force.
#ImpeachmentTrial QPQ

Russian warship 'aggressively approached' US destroyer in Arabian Sea
💣Timeline10💣

With Iranian oil already sanctioned, US punishes what's left

Mnuchin Says U.S. to Waive Sanctions for Iran Crash Probe

Speaker Pelosi indicated the House would prepare the resolution to initiate President Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate.
💣Timeline11💣

House to Send A of I to Senate Next Week

Trump's model for America is corrupt, autocratic crony capitalism. Like in RU.

Trump & his allies are meddling in our economy & legal system to punish opponents & reward supporters = more corruption, less freedom.
💣Timeline12💣

1/4/20

Saudi's deputy defense minister, Prince Khalid bin Salman, met w/ Trump in OO.

“Saudi is deeply concerned it could become engulfed in uncontrolled escalation between the U.S. and Iran following Trump's decision to kill Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani.”
💣Timeline13💣

Trump proposes rollback of environmental rules even if the environment could be harmed or the rollback accelerates climate change.

“The proposal affects virtually every significant decision by the federal government that affects the environment.
💣Timeline13💣

“The roll back also could prevent communities from having much say about what gets built in their backyards.

Trump has long relied on loyalists to push the limits in defense of his image, but Roy Cohn, David Pecker and Michael Cohen all wound up out in the cold
💣Timeline14💣

U.S. Targeted but Missed Senior Iranian Commander in Yemen,
Op occurred at the time of the killing of Iranian General Soleimani

Iraqi PM Adel Abdul Mahdi told the U.S. to send a delegation to Iraq to set up a mechanism for troop withdrawal from the country,
💣Timeline15💣

Washington rejects Iraqi request to remove troops

Iraq’s top Shi’ite Muslim cleric condemned the U.S.-Iranian confrontation taking place on Iraqi soil, saying it risked plunging the war-ravaged country & the wider Middle East into deeper conflict

Kush demoted.
💣Timeline16💣

‘Chaos Is the Point’: Russian Hackers & Trolls Grow Stealthier in 2020

US defenses have vastly improved in the 4 years since RU hackers & trolls mounted a broad campaign to sway the 2016 election.

U.S. imposes more sanctions on Iran for missile attacks
💣Timeline17💣

U.S. Probes If Russia Is Targeting Biden in 2020 Election Meddling
Intelligence and law enforcement are weighing the possibility
Move by Kremlin would echo the 2016 attacks on Hillary Clinton

Russian gas deliveries to Europe drop by 20 percent
💣Timeline18💣

Gaetz BURNED

A senior WH official said it was “super uncool” and “quite unwise” for Gaetz to push for limits on the president’s authority, adding WH officials would not be returning Gaetz’s phone calls, text messages, “smoke signals or his kneelings in the snow.”
💣Timeline19💣

The denials begin, revealing the truth....

A Russian deputy foreign minister said on Friday that Moscow currently sees no grounds to blame Iran for the crash of a Ukrainian airliner near Tehran, contradicting statements by Canada and others.
💣Timeline20💣

Pelosi: House will soon vote to repeal the 2002 AUMF against Iraq.

Pelosi: 🐢 is clear he intends to stonewall a fair trial by signing on to a resolution that would dismiss the charges.

A dismissal is a cover-up and deprives the American people of the truth.
💣Timeline21💣

The real question is for the chief justice, who presides over the president’s trial:

Can he accept an oath that he knows is false?

Can he seat a juror who he knows has pledged not to be impartial?

U.S. Proposes Overhaul of Antitrust Rules for Vertical Mergers
💣Timeline22💣

Hannity Appears to Threaten to Give Out GOP Senators’ Phone Numbers if They Allow Impeachment Witnesses

Boris Johnson's Brexit bill passes in historic vote clearing the way for Britain's exit from the EU

Bloomberg to fund sizable campaign effort through November
💣Timeline23💣

Even if he loses Democratic nomination

Bloomberg plans to continue paying hundreds of staffers and funding his digital operation to defeat Trump even if he's not the nominee.

The 1% are much more satisfied with their lives than everyone else, survey finds
💣Timeline24💣

'Designed by clowns': Boeing employees ridicule 737 MAX, regulators in internal messages

Republican governors sign on to resettle refugees in their states

A criminal cover-up on the world’s busiest bridge hits SCOTUS
#BridgeGate
💣Timeline25💣

FEC Commissioner Rips Facebook Over Political Ad Policy: 'This Will Not Do'

John le Carré wins $100,000 prize for ‘contribution to democracy’

Spain's top court asks EU parliament to strip Catalan separatist leaders of immunity
💣Timeline26💣

Medicaid expansion may have saved thousands from drug overdose deaths

Additional access to drug-abuse treatment was linked to a six percent lower overdose rate for states that allowed more people to enroll in Medicaid than in states that did not.
💣Timeline27💣

Trump ad­m seeks to tighten el­i­gi­bil­ity re­q’mts. for dis­abil­ity ben­e­fits for older Amer­icans.

They have already en­dorsed stricter rules for nu­tri­tion as­sistance & Med­icaid, ar­gu­ing they would draw more Amer­i­cans into the la­bor force.
💣Timeline27💣

ABB cuts a quarter of jobs at US power grids plant

Alphabet’s Top Lawyer to Retire Following Questions on Conduct

Google is quietly adding 1000s of jobs in NYC in the wake of Amazon's botched expansion

Bolivia will Probe Morales and 591 Officials for Corruption
💣Timeline28💣

Goldman Sachs Group Inc launched an app this week for customers of its online bank Marcus.

Rep. Collins apologizes.
“Let me be clear: I do not believe Democrats are in love with terrorists, & I apologize for what I said earlier this week,”

TY
💣Timeline29💣

Epstein gave $850k to MIT

AOC should leave the Dem party.

Bradby said Harry and Meghan understood “there was going to be a slimmed down monarchy, and they weren’t really a part of it.” He also added there have been “really bad personal splits” within the family.
Iran Says It Unintentionally Shot Down Ukrainian Airliner

After maintaining for days that there was no evidence to show one of its missiles had struck the plane, the Iranian military said it was an accident caused by human error.

nytimes.com/2020/01/10/wor…
Trump Will Invoke Executive Privilege to Block Bolton Testimony

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Hours af­ter a US strike killed Soleimani, the Trump ad­m sent an en­crypted fax via the Swiss Em­bassy in Iran:

Don’t es­ca­late

WH & Iran­ian lead­ers ex­changed fur­ther msgs, de­scribed as far more mea­sured than the fiery rhetoric traded pub­licly.

wsj.com/articles/swiss…
Trump and his senior national-security advisers waited anxiously in the White House Situation Room Tuesday night after intelligence warnings that Iranian missiles would hit two bases the U.S. military uses in Iraq.

wsj.com/articles/trump…
📌Reminder: Trump's latest call with Putin on December 29, 2019, raises more questions than it answers

📌Did they discuss Iran & Soleimani?

cnn.com/2019/12/30/pol…
Questions pile up about Trump’s claim that Soleimani was going to ‘blow up’ a U.S. embassy

washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
Hannity Appears to Threaten to Give Out GOP Senators’ Phone Numbers if They Allow Impeachment Witnesses

thedailybeast.com/hannity-appear…
According to sources in Moscow, Putin knew Soleimani very well: He played a key role in creating the Russian-Iranian alliance that saved Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria from what seemed in 2015 an imminent demise.

dw.com/en/opinion-put…
‘Chaos Is the Point’: Russian Hackers and Trolls Grow Stealthier in 2020

American defenses have vastly improved in the four years since Russian hackers and trolls mounted a broad campaign to sway the 2016 presidential election.

nytimes.com/2020/01/10/us/…
The denials begin, revealing the truth....

A Russian deputy foreign minister said on Friday that Moscow currently sees no grounds to blame Iran for the crash of a Ukrainian airliner near Tehran, contradicting statements by Canada and others.

reuters.com/article/us-ira…
Video shows the moment of plane crash in Iran

cnn.com/2020/01/10/mid…
Speaker Pelosi indicated the House would prepare the resolution to initiate President Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate.

House to Send Articles of Impeachment to Senate Next Week

wsj.com/articles/house…
Dear Colleague on Next Steps on Impeachment | Speaker Nancy Pelosi

speaker.gov/newsroom/11020…
Washington rejects Iraqi request to remove troops

Iraq’s top Shi’ite Muslim cleric condemned the U.S.-Iranian confrontation taking place on Iraqi soil, saying it risked plunging the war-ravaged country and the wider Middle East into deeper conflict

reuters.com/article/us-ira…
Medicaid expansion may have saved thousands from drug overdose deaths

Additional access to drug-abuse treatment was linked to a six percent lower overdose rate for states that allowed more people to enroll in Medicaid than in states that did not.

washingtonpost.com/health/medicai…
The Trump administration is imposing new sanctions on Iran following attacks on US and allied troops in Iraq earlier this week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced Friday.

cnn.com/2020/01/10/pol…
Rep. Collins apologizes.

“Let me be clear: I do not believe Democrats are in love with terrorists, & I apologize for what I said earlier this week,” Collins began in the first of five tweets.

washingtonpost.com/politics/rep-c…
Call Trumpism what it is: a cult

latimes.com/opinion/story/…
Mnuchin Says U.S. to Waive Sanctions for Iran Crash Probe

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The 1% are much more satisfied with their lives than everyone else, survey finds
An NPR/Harvard poll shows that, among the rich, 97 percent say they’re living the ‘American Dream.’

washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
U.S. Targeted but Missed Senior Iranian Commander in Yemen, Officials Say
Operation occurred at the time of the killing of Iranian General Soleimani

wsj.com/articles/u-s-t…
Video: Russian warship 'aggressively approached' US destroyer in Arabian Sea

Russian warship 'aggressively approached' US destroyer in Arabian Sea

cnn.com/2020/01/10/pol…
'Designed by clowns': Boeing employees ridicule 737 MAX, regulators in internal messages

reuters.com/article/us-boe…
U.S. Probes If Russia Is Targeting Biden in 2020 Election Meddling

Intelligence and law enforcement are weighing the possibility

Move by Kremlin would echo the 2016 attacks on Hillary Clinton

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
AOC should leave the Democratic Party

cnn.com/2020/01/09/opi…
Bolivia will Probe Morales and 591 Officials for Corruption

occrp.org/en/daily/11402…
Trump proposes rollback of environmental rules even if the environment could be harmed or the rollback accelerates climate change.

washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
Boris Johnson's Brexit bill passes in historic vote clearing the way for Britain's exit from the EU

businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-…
A judge rejected President Donald Trump’s argument that living in Washington means he can’t be sued in New York by an advice columnist who claims he raped her two decades ago and then lied about it.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The real question is for the chief justice, who presides over the president’s trial: Can he accept an oath that he knows is false? Can he seat a juror who he knows has pledged not to be impartial?

washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-…
GOP’s fear and loathing of Hillary Clinton cost taxpayers $100 million

newstalkflorida.com/featured/gops-…
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has flown back to Canada following the bombshell announcement that she and her husband, Prince Harry, are "stepping back" from royal duties, prompting intensified speculation that the couple will make Canada their part-time home

washingtonpost.com/world/meghan-f…
Trump ad­m seeks to tighten el­i­gi­bil­ity re­q’mts. for dis­abil­ity ben­e­fits for older Amer­icans.

They have already en­dorsed stricter rules for nu­tri­tion as­sistance & Med­icaid, ar­gu­ing they would draw more Amer­i­cans into the la­bor force

wsj.com/articles/trump…
Trump's model for America is corrupt, autocratic crony capitalism. Like in Russia.

Trump and his allies are meddling in our economy and legal system to punish opponents and reward supporters.

That means more corruption, less freedom.

usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
The Fall of Donald Trump’s Fixers
Trump has long relied on loyalists to push the limits in defense of his image, but Roy Cohn, David Pecker and Michael Cohen all wound up out in the cold

wsj.com/articles/the-f…
🌳Breathe🌳

Yikes! Today was crazier than yesterday! No rest for the weary!

Please check out @RubyWorms calendar—next week will be epic.

Meanwhile I hope tomorrow is at least semi quiet.

Sleep well, xoxo, Karol
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