#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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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
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.
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.
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.
'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
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…
Don’t escalate
WH & Iranian leaders exchanged further msgs, described as far more measured than the fiery rhetoric traded publicly.
wsj.com/articles/swiss…
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📌Did they discuss Iran & Soleimani?
cnn.com/2019/12/30/pol…
washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
thedailybeast.com/hannity-appear…
dw.com/en/opinion-put…
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/…
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…
House to Send Articles of Impeachment to Senate Next Week
wsj.com/articles/house…
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…
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…
cnn.com/2020/01/10/pol…
“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…
An NPR/Harvard poll shows that, among the rich, 97 percent say they’re living the ‘American Dream.’
washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
Operation occurred at the time of the killing of Iranian General Soleimani
wsj.com/articles/u-s-t…
reuters.com/article/us-boe…
Intelligence and law enforcement are weighing the possibility
Move by Kremlin would echo the 2016 attacks on Hillary Clinton
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-…
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-…
newstalkflorida.com/featured/gops-…
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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 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/…
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…
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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