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Chris Murphy 🟧 Profile picture
@ChrisMurphyCT
Oct 1, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
This hasn't gotten enough attention, but you need to know. Everybody needs to know.

1/ It's about the massive coverup campaign underway to disguise the octopus-like Russian election interference operation being run on Trump's behalf.

Please read this whole thing.
2/ Earlier this year, reports start coming into Congress about a giant, multi-layer Russian effort to help Trump in 2020. Bigger than what they did in 2016. Looks like Russians are trying to get U.S. persons - especially those close to Trump - to help.
3/ On July 13, Dem leadership writes a letter to FBI Director Wray, asking for an all-Congress briefing, especially because the reports we're reading suggest Russian agents are trying to find Members of Congress to assist their interference operation.
speaker.gov/newsroom/72020…
4/ On 7/24, Bill Evanina, Trump's counter-intel chief, releases a super vague statement. 72 words on Chinese/Iranian interference, and 54 words on Russia.

Very puzzling. Congress has never been briefed on any meaningful Chinese/Iranian interference plans.
dni.gov/index.php/news…
5/ On 8/7, an update. This one has 219 words on China/Iran, 105 on Russia.

But read it closely - though China gets the lead and the most attention, Evanina just says they are "weigh[ing] the risks" of election interference - NOT that they are doing it.
dni.gov/index.php/news…
6/ Then, on 9/9, a bombshell that few noticed. The head of intelligence at DHS (the top guy!) files a whistleblower complaint.

He says the White House instructed him to bury info on Russian interference because it "made the President look bad."

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
7/ A day later (coincidence!), the Treasury Dept. sanctions Andriy Derkach, a Ukrainian politician in charge of spreading Biden conspiracy theories, and notes, offhand, that Derkach is indeed a Russian agent.
politico.com/news/2020/09/1…
8/ No press conference from Intel or the FBI or DHS that they've caught a Russian agent who has been in regular contact with the President's inner circle.

Nope. Just buried in a sanctions announcement. Likely because so many people knew the intel, they knew it would come out.
9/ What's happening is clear. American intel agencies, that are supposed to be totally apolitical, have been folded into Trump's campaign.

They are keeping info about Russian interference hidden, and overhyping info about China and Iran helping Biden.
10/ It's why Trump's former National Security Advisor, H.R. McMaster, said something today that is as shocking as it unsurprising.

He said Trump is "aiding and abetting" Putin's interference campaign.

Wow.

But of course he is. And now you know the details.

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Jul 21
On this historic day, I want to tell you a story about Joe Biden, and what he did behind the scenes to make the historic 2022 gun bill - the first major gun safety legislation in 30 years - a reality.

1/ It starts with a phone call he made to me days after the Uvalde shooting.
2/ After the tragic Uvalde and Buffalo shootings, Biden wanted to give a prime time address to push the Congress to act.

But several of his advisors told him not to waste one of his few prime time speeches on guns. Congress will never pass a gun bill, they told him.
3/ He called me to ask my opinion. In 2013, he and I had sat for hours with the Sandy Hook parents, and parents of kids killed in Hartford and Bridgeport. I knew how personal those families' pain was to him.

"I want to give this speech, even if a bill is a long shot," he said.
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Jul 15
What I'm thinking tonight:

1/ I know it feels like the nation is unraveling. Yesterday's shooting was a watershed moment, but long before this moment, our politics had become dangerously hostile, zero sum, and too prone to violence.

The question is: what do we do?
2/ I know for many active citizens, there will be an instinct to retreat. In such a dangerous moment, better to just focus on me and those closest to me.

I begrudge no one that choice. But with our nation unravelling, I believe this is a time to lean forward.
3/ Our nation's politics are badly broken. But not unfixable.

Our modern world is a world based upon the mythology of the omnipotent individual, living in a purpose-built culture of scarcity, in which no matter how hard you strive, there is never enough for everyone.
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Jun 29
The Supreme Court is just a cog in the Trump/Republican/corporate/billionaire power grab.

Today's decision to gut regulators' power to enforce pro-consumer laws is a watershed moment in the history of this quiet coup.

1/ Let me tell you why.
2/ For years, the Court deferred to federal agencies when interpreting a law with broad enforcement guidelines.

Congress knew this, and often intentionally wrote laws with non-prescriptive terminology, knowing the experts at the agency would implement it in the best way.
3/ This is good for democracy, because the voters get to decide who runs the agencies. But it's not good for corporations/billionaires, because they want right wing judges (remember, corporations can "forum shop" and bring cases before their hand picked judge) to interpret laws.
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Jun 7
Two years ago this week I was at the White House meeting with President Biden to develop a strategy to get the gun bill passed.

1/ I want to tell you a behind-the-scenes story to show how these legislative victories would not have happened without Biden's personal involvement. Image
2/ Days after the Uvalde shooting, a small group of bipartisan Senators began to meet to work on a breakthrough gun safety bill. But the next week Congress was scheduled to be on recess, and we risked losing all our momentum.

As we were leaving for break, Joe Biden called me.
3/ He told me he wanted to give a prime time address to ramp up pressure to get a gun bill done. He told me many of his advisors thought it was too big a risk since a President only gets a few prime time addresses and passage of a gun bill seemed a remote possibility.
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May 28
You want to know how the economy is rigged against working people? Here’s Izzy’s story - I ran into him along my walk and he was nice enough to walk with me for a while this afternoon.

1/ Izzy worked full time for Walmart for 17 years. Image
2/ He never made enough to put any money away. He lived paycheck to paycheck. But he found honor in the work. He liked helping people.

But when he got to retirement age, after working full time his whole life, he had virtually nothing saved.
3/ He gets $900 in social security income and a little help w food stamps. He shares a 3 BR with two strangers and his rent is $700 for a single room. He has $200 left over for everything else each month. For a guy who worked hard his whole life, it borders on dehumanizing.
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Apr 26
Just wrapped a super energizing first session of my new initiative with Utah's @GovCox, Restoring the Common Good.

We're trying to figure out if there's a way for right and left to work together to build more common bonds between Americans.

1/ Here's what we talked about today.Image
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2/ Our focus today was on how good, meaningful lives often are determined by healthy relationships and connection to community.

We were joined in Salt Lake City by local and national leaders on these topics of combatting loneliness and building a concern for the common good.
3/ A few topics dominated the discussion. First, why are institutions where people find connection and selflessness - like churches or social clubs - weaker today, and is there a role for government to play to help build them back up?
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