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How many Senators do you think are hearing the full story of @realDonaldTrump's corruption for literally the first time from @RepAdamSchiff?

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@realDonaldTrump @RepAdamSchiff I mean, when he's done with this, I want @RepAdamSchiff to go teach at a journalism school.

What he's doing, that most media does not do, is LINKING UP the crazy, corrupt statements @realDonaldTrump makes every day with the LARGER story of corruption and illegality.
@realDonaldTrump @RepAdamSchiff He's not playing Trump's greatest hits for "shock value." He's playing them for "probative value."

He says THIS [plays clip] because he's doing THAT [being corrupt].
@realDonaldTrump @RepAdamSchiff I love how he's using Mulvaney.
Dear Republicans... if you think Mulvaney has a better answer than the one we've all seen, by all means, ASK HIM TO TESTIFY!

I'm sure he can clear EVERYTHING up.
@realDonaldTrump @RepAdamSchiff Schiff: "You know what would happen to them [regular people] if they defied a subpoena. You know what would happen to them. They'd be arrested, they'd be detained, and they'd be forced to comply."

--am regular, CAN CONFIRM.
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Elie Mystal
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on @MSNBC, @SenSchumer says "the phones are good. Not overwhelming. Not like they were for health care."

We need this. We NEED the health care level of mobilization.

Maybe if people would stop acting so FATALISTIC about this whole thing, we could get there.
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@MSNBC @SenSchumer And, people, we were SO MUCH FARTHER BEHIND with Obamacare than we are for this.

It's hard to remember now, but Republicans campaigned against the ACA FOR HALF A DECADE! They took BOTH houses. Obamacare was functionally DEAD on November 9th, 2016.
@MSNBC @SenSchumer And yet, here we are in January 2020, and it's still here.

Why? BECAUSE WE FOUGHT FOR IT. Everybody. We called, we rallied, we protested, WE FOUGHT. And they COULDN'T kill it. The couldn't kill it, even though they promised to do so.
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This. Is. BRILLIANT.
@RepAdamSchiff is leading the Senate in a "close read" of the Transcript. The Trump/Zelensky transcript @realDonaldTrump keeps telling people to read.
He's explaining every line, EVERY LINE, in the context of the larger corrupt scheme.
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@RepAdamSchiff @realDonaldTrump This is movie level lawyering here.
And I don't mean that in the "fake" sense. I mean that in the "when everything comes together in the closing argument." sense.

Honestly expect @McConaughey to pop up and say "Now imagine this were Obama," and drop the mic.
@RepAdamSchiff @realDonaldTrump @McConaughey HA! "No one is really making the argument "Donald Trump would never do such a thing," because of course we know that he would. And of course we know that he did." -- @RepAdamSchiff
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Bad faith actors like @LindseyGrahamSC will not care, but what @RepAdamSchiff is doing here is brilliant. He's referencing docs he doesn't have, reminding the Senate that they can demand those docs, and then explaining what *other witnesses under oath* have said about those docs.
@LindseyGrahamSC @RepAdamSchiff This BLOW US the entire GOP "second hand information" argument. The information is NOT second hand, it's first hand from people who saw the docs. If you don't trust them, if you'd like to verify their recollections, SUBPOENA THE DOCUMENTS!
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@LindseyGrahamSC @RepAdamSchiff Again, Republicans don't seem to care about logic, or intellectual consistency. But this is pretty airtight.
"I'd like to read it to you, but I can't, so I'll tell you what those who saw them said. If that's not enough, issue a subpoena."
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#ImpeachmentHearings Livetweet for today. The Chairs are seated and Nunes has put up big posters about the whistleblower. The witnesses walk in.
Vindman is gazing about the room intensely, even looking up at the ceiling, I assume this is what soldiers do when they scope out the security situation in a new place. He is in dress uniform with many medals.
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The far right's big problem with the #ImpeachmentHearings is that they need more monster trucks and explosions to make them less boring.
Impeachment is a sham because Trump is a god, but also because it's boring. #ImpeachmentHearings
The last stand of the Republican Spartans: your spears don't kill us because they are boring. #ImpeachmentHearings
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