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McConnell on the floor, arguing for Trump’s acquittal, bashing Dems: “That is the original sin of his presidency: That he won, and they lost.”
McConnell defends the process of the trial and the rejection of witnesses, says the Senate is under “no obligation” to have “new, live witnesses” to determine the outcome of case
McConnell calls the abuse of power charge “dangerous”
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Manu Raju
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House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler tells us that House Dems will “likely” subpoena John Bolton and continue with investigations to follow after today.

“I think it’s likely yes,” he told me of issuing a Bolton subpoena.
Asked what they will look at, if it’s just Ukraine, Nadler told reporters:
“We are talking about everything,” referring to continuing the probes that have been launched since last year.
Asked if he’s concerned about the political blowback, Nadler said: “First of all I think when you have a lawless president, you have to bring that to the fore and you have to spotlight that.
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Sen. Susan Collins to reporters on censure: “I considered censure. If the House had started with a censure resolution, instead of leaping to impeachment and shortcutting the process and skipping over judicial adjudication, it's something I would have looked at.”
“At this point, the fact is the president has been impeached -- and only third president to actually be impeached in history -- both Republican senators such as myself and Democratic senators have criticized his conduct, strikes me as a reprimand,” Collins added
I asked if she believed the House proved its case Trump withheld aid to push Ukraine to announce a probe into the Bidens, Collins said: "The motivations for the president's actions are mixed. There was evidence on both sides in the record.”
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New: GOP senators leave meeting and say there’s a deal for acquittal vote Wednesday
From Senators Barrasso and Blunt
4 or 5 Democratic amendment votes voted on tonight.
No weekend session.
Monday closing arguments on both sides
Senator floor speeches: Monday-Wednesday.
Acquittal vote: Wednesday afternoon.

McConnell and Schumer have a deal on this, per senators
Blunt told me final Wednesday vote is at 4p
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Welcome to today's #Trump #ImpeachmentTrial thread (potentially one of a few)! I've been playing around with tags a little in other tweets this morning but for now, I'm going to stick with the two I've used here. That may change later on, though. Follow/mute at will!
Today is going to be procedural stuff. The Senate will have to approve the (completely BS) rules proposed by McConnell. Dems will offer amendments, of course, but since a simple majority rules I don't have a lot of hope any of the amendments will pass. #Trump #ImpeachmentTrial
For those of you just tuning in, McConnell is proposing that this trial have:

Zero witnesses
Zero admitted evidence
Ridiculously little time set aside for opening arguments and questions.
As little sunlight as possible.

#Trump #ImpeachmentTrial
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The Davos congress hall is filling up with delegates waiting to listen to President Trump. theguardian.com/business/live/… #Trump2020 #Trump2020Landslide #Davos2020
2. The White House on Monday announced these House Republicans will join President Trump's Senate impeachment team. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7… #TRUMP #NEWS
3. The New York Times SMEARED Trump supporter from Queens, New York, as a “white nativist” in the course of its endorsement of Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren breitbart.com/politics/2020/… #TRUMP #NEWS
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Dianna Glampers
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So, I ran across a retweet of the below tweet and it immediately raised flags. Puffing up a witness has a reason, so decided to go look for the documentation behind it, since it had a direct quote. Didn't take long - few minutes and NPR coughed it up (will link at the end)./1
About puffing someone up - the reason is to try to give the person credibility, their views more weight than they should be given, and to set them above someone they are in disagreement with. In this case, also to elicit support due to his medal./2
In the case of the tweet, it is immediately followed by the statement "speaking out against the command-in-chief." (you're suppose to gasp here I think)

Then "the reason" is given - people kept telling him he needed to speak up (be sure to ignore other possible reasons)./3
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1. President Trump’s First 1,000 Days: In Spite of Constant Harassment from Deep State and Dems, President’s Accomplishments are Historic, If Not MIRACULOUS! thegatewaypundit.com/2019/10/presid… #Trump #Qanon #Trump2020 #WWG1WGA #News
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VOTER MEDDLING against her 'opponent', yet they scream about #Trump is meddling against 'opponent' BIDEN!

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Zach Everson
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Just last night, @realDonaldTrump shared a Trump Org tweet promoting—

Ferry Point.

Via @1100Penn bit.ly/2EbZMke
@realDonaldTrump @1100Penn If Eric Trump is no longer involved in his charity, why does this golfer—who just played in a benefit for it—call it "the Eric Trump Foundation"? [H/T @npenzenstadler]

Via @1100Penn zacheverson.substack.com/p/trump-plugge…

@realDonaldTrump @1100Penn @npenzenstadler Last night a gala was held to celebrate students who committed to enlist in the U.S. military after graduation. It was held at—

Trump National D.C.

Major General Scott Dingle addressed the recruits.

Via @1100Penn zacheverson.substack.com/p/40842294
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Zach Everson
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

bit.ly/2EPCSy1
National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
Two errors in the 2nd graf of Breitbart's Trump Hotel DC article:
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-Trump Org told Congress it was estimating foreign receipts—not auto donating in full
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