"Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in February 2018 began an inquiry of
the NRA following public reporting of potential improper activities related to financial contributions and
its role in the 2016 presidential election."
"Documents show previously undisclosed efforts by former Russian Ambassador Sergey
Kislyak to build relationships with NRA officials while he was in the United States in 2015,
2016, and 2017"
That's the same Kislyak who Flynn communicated with, which led to his guilty plea.
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Do you think @DonaldJTrumpJr is involved? He is definitely dumb enough.
"It was during the NRA’s 2016 annual meeting that NRA officials introduced Butina and Torshin to Donald Trump Jr."
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On p.69 they discuss a 5/22/17 meeting where @DonaldJTrumpJr met with one of the targets of the investigation, Wilson Woody Philips.
"The #NRA party was Wayne sheet's gathering of roughly 30 donors...Ollie North, Woody and Don Trump were counted amount the members present.
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I would like to see @DonaldJTrumpJr answer some questions about this:
"Documents provided by the NRA show that at least one unidentified person had misgivings about the interaction. The NRA provided copies of two text messages dated May 23, 2016..."
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"...showing an unidentified individual warned [@DonaldJTrumpJr] to avoid “a Russian gal” he’d met that weekend.
“I understand that someone introduced a Russian gal to you this week. I’ll fill you in this week but I would steer clear if she tries to reach out to you.”
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Since its creation, the United States of America has sought to find a balance between federal power and state power. All with the belief that a government EXISTS to protect the rights of the PEOPLE. This was a radical concept.
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After the failed fractured government of the Articles of Confederation, men like Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington knew that the country needed a national leader and a federal government.
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At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, the framers argued ferociously over how to strike a balance between state and federal powers, while maintaining that government exists to protect individual rights.
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On sorting machines: DeJoy claims no knowledge of disassembly of sorting machines being sold for scrap.
@SenatorHassan: "You are really sabotaging the Postal Service's ability to sort mail efficiently..." #DeJoy
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@SenatorHassan wants to make sure that postal workers are not retaliated against, asks for #DeJoy's commitment to NOT retaliate, to which he says, "Yes Ma'am."
This has to do with Flynn, who lied to the FBI about subverting the acting President’s foreign policy, which he also did not take notes about because he knew what he was doing was problematic.
I would like to see @DonaldJTrumpJr answer some questions about this:
"Documents provided by the NRA show that at least one unidentified person had misgivings about the interaction. The NRA provided copies of two text messages dated May 23, 2016..."
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"...showing an unidentified individual warned [@DonaldJTrumpJr] to avoid “a Russian gal” he’d met that weekend.
“I understand that someone introduced a Russian gal to you this week. I’ll fill you in this week but I would steer clear if she tries to reach out to you.”
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Correcting an earlier tweet: This is NOT the same person who was charged, this is Bob Woody, NOT Wilson Woody Phillips.
"The #NRA party was Wayne sheet's gathering of roughly 30 donors...Ollie North, Woody and Don Trump were counted amount the members present.
Images of anonymously uniformed federal agents arresting protestors in Portland feels like fascism. We are witnessing the ground level of something terrible.
It reminds me of a deeply disturbing book called Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning.
Ordinary Men describes the descent of average German citizens to murderers who would say things like, "It was supposed to be...soothing to my conscience to release children unable to live without their mothers," describing how they rationalized murdering children.
"...it was desirable at the time that platoon leaders were also party members, I entered the party shortly before the outbreak of the war." - Nazi Lt. Drucker, reflecting on his time in a mobile killing squad.