Folks have chipped in Zoom calls and cool swag for you to bid on at eBay.com/hfot
2/ ALL proceeds go to a wonderful and high rated charity, @HomesForOurTrps, which builds specially-designed, mortgage-free homes for severely wounded veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
So we're holding a little auction on @eBay for the next week, and ALL the proceeds go to help build specially-designed homes for severely wounded veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan via @HomesForOurTrps.
Let me walk you through some of the items! Please bid if you can:
2/ Here's a VEEP script signed by castmembers including Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@OfficialJLD), @MrTonyHale and more!
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has been pushing back on President Donald Trump since 2019, which is important context for today’s firing, senior administration officials tell CNN.
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2/ Esper was among those administration officials in 2019 who urged Trump to release the aid to Ukraine, as we (and others) reported last Fall.
Trump was using the aid as leverage for dirt on the Biden family.
3/ Esper also cautioned Trump not to completely pull troops out of northern Syria, and after the Lafayette Square mishap, was extra careful to try to keep the US military out of the realm of the President's political desires, senior administration officials tell CNN.
As the great @ddale8 has pointed out, more than 5 hours ago, Trump campaign spokesman Murtaugh tweeted out this fake newspaper cover which he claims greeted Trump staffers at campaign HQ today despite the fact that it’s a fake 1/
On Tuesday at around 1:45 a.m. local time, in southern Niger, US citizen named Philipe Nathan Walton was kidnapped by 6 men with AK-47s on motorbikes, per media. The armed kidnappers called his father, who lives about a mile away, and demanded ransom, a local official said.
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2/ It was unclear if the kidnappers were members of the Islamic State or another terrorist group, but there's always the risk that even if they weren't extremists, the kidnappers might sell a hostage to such a group. There are several foreigners being held hostage in Niger.
3/ The Pentagon then flew members of the US Navy's elite SEAL Team 6 to the region, a US official with knowledge of the operation tells @barbarastarrcnn.
Early this morning they conducted a hostage rescue operation to save Walton.