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Numerous House Dems are privately pushing to hear testimony from the prosecutors who quit the Roger Stone case in protest against Bill Barr's meddling, aides tell me.

This would ratchet up the response to Barr big time.

Lots more in my new piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
A crucial point:

Some House Democrats are adamant that the prosecutors on the Roger Stone case must be heard from *before* William Barr testifies to Congress on March 31, to prevent Barr from getting away with stonewalling:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Another key point:

Everyone is obsessing over William Barr's attack on Trump's tweets.

But Barr also offered a *new chronology* of events leading up to the Roger Stone meddling.

The account is actually damning. And it raises new unanswered questions:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Final point:

After impeachment, there’s no aggressive, centralized process marshaling powerful investigative resources and commanding intense media attention. House Dems simply must come up with a new war footing to cope with emboldened, unchecked Trump.

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On reflection, @ewarren's performance was better than many have said. She solved the riddle of whether Trump is aberration or symptom. She attacked him as both: The guy who grabs women's privates is representative of elites gaming the system with impunity.
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@ewarren .@ewarren did a very good job telling a story about Trump, through Bloomberg, that connects the serial degradation of women to our corrupted political system.

The through line here is an indictment of elite corruption — of elites acting with impunity.

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@ewarren Warren is at her best when she attacks corruption and inequality, while staking out a posture that’s both progressive and pro-reformed-capitalism, both populist and technocratic. She showed Dems how to attack both Trump and our deeper maladies alike.

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In a stunning development, former Justice Department inspector general @mrbromwich has called on insiders to report political manipulation. I just had a long talk with Bromwich. It's hair-raising stuff. He sees an "existential threat." Our interview:
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@mrbromwich Here are some highlights from my interview with former Justice Department inspector general @mrbromwich.

Alarmingly, Bromwich notes that Trump is carrying out his corrupt directives to William Barr *in public,* that is, right out here on Twitter:

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@mrbromwich Former DOJ IG inspector @mrbromwich also tells me this moment is an "existential threat" to our institutions.

And he calls on DOJ insiders to step forward and report what they see. Bromwich thinks investigations of Trump's foes are a very real danger:

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Need a 2020 message? Trump wants to gut health care for millions -- while demanding billions for the useless, hateful wall he vowed to make Mexico pay for.

Trump's proposed hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts are a big liability. Act like it, Dems.

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Defending Medicaid from Trump can unify Dems. It can bridge the gap between the young, nonwhite and/or urban voters in the base and the suburban whites Ds hope to keep in their anti-Trump coalition through 2020.

Medicaid won for Ds in the suburbs in 2019:
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Hard to overstate how huge a betrayal Trump's efforts to gut Medicaid have been.

Protecting people's health care, and refusing to cut entitlements, were central to Trump's claim that his economic nationalism was a break from conventional GOP economics.

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Tomeka Hart - juror on Roger stone case, spoken out against the firing of the 4 prosecutors.

Now everyone knows was a juror. This is what you didn't know!

Tomeka Hart, was central in radicalising kids for the "resistance"

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She was on Memphis school board and Teach for America to push the "resistance"

She works for bill gates and bill gates funds killary "Clinton foundation" I went into detail about gates & Killary yrs ago.

This 'juror' was instrumental in the indoctrination of kids.
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Below is a description of the Teach for America agenda (2013), basically to start the resistance within the their org.

And prior to that 2012 Tomeka Hart ran for congress.
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Update:

TWO of the prosecutors have resigned. Jonathan Kravis and Aaron Zelinsky.

Schumer is calling for an IG investigation.
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Good Morning 🌞

We're back in federal court to tweet updates from Day 4 of Roger Stone's trial.

(Jury selection was Monday, today is 3rd day of evidence presented in the case.)

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Today we'll hear part 2 of testimony from Randy Credico, the federal witness Roger Stone is accused of threatening. Stone allegedly threatened Credico with statements such as "prepare to die" and threatened to kidnap his service dog, Bianca.
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