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14 Nov, 7 tweets, 3 min read
NEW: President Trump’s string of losses in court in recent days extended beyond his effort to challenge the outcome of the election: Defamation lawsuits he filed against two news organizations were also dismissed this week. nytimes.com/live/2020/11/1…
Let's take a look at these Trump losses....Here is the white flag being waved by Trump lawyers in the Wisconsin case Trump filed against NBC. int.nyt.com/data/documentt…
Here is the court order in the case filed against CNN, where the judge found Team Trump "failing sufficiently to plead
malice," after opinion piece said “Trump cheats and lies, and when caught, lies again and claims the right to make the rules." assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2040…
I did a piece in Sept looking at how Trump weaponized his campaign $$ to turn it into a legal fund, filing lawsuits that at times appeared to have little merit/or to silence his former aides turned critics/or defending his campaign against abuse claims nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/…
Lawsuit still pending by Trump campaign against WashPost also claiming "false and defamatory statements"
Also a lawsuit pending against NYT claiming "false and defamatory statements"
WashPost has already moved to dismiss the lawsuit Trump campaign filed against The WashPost. Hearing on that motion is set for early December. Read the motion to dismiss here. (Unlike PACER, I don't charge) int.nyt.com/data/documentt…

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8 Nov
Very interesting move. Turkish President Erdogan's son-in-law, who had served as intermediary to Trump via Jared Kushner (another son in law), resigns unexpectedly from his government post in Turkey. Must be more to this story. Albayrak had been considered possible successor.
Here is Berat Albayrak and Jared Kushner with Turkish President Erodgan at a meeting in Turkey--and our story on the ties between Kushner and Albayrak. with @ddknyt nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/…
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30 Oct
THREAD: A moment from cutting room floor re our Turkey and Trump story: Here is a key meeting at DOJ in DC on June 11 2019 between AG Barr and Turkish Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gül, where we were told the Halkbank sanctions evasion case came up, among other matters
What we also know is that DOJ, at this point, had evidence suggesting that key senior political allies of Erdogan (or former allies) had taken bribes as part of the Iran sanctions evasion scheme. DOJ acknowledged this in 2016. Here:
We also know that Erdogan had repeatedly told Trump that he wanted this case gone--the investigation into Halkbank and others potentially implicated in the sanctions evasion that sent billions to Iran. This is from Bolton's account of a Dec. 2018 meeting between Erdogan and Trump
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28 Oct
WSJ: Trump tariffs on steel haven’t produced the steelmaking job growth he boasted about. Instead they hurt U.S. manufacturers, including in automotive and appliance sectors. wsj.com/articles/tarif…
Higher prices made steel more expensive for manufacturers that buy it, leading to the loss of about 75,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs, according to a study released late last year by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
Those repercussions weren’t expected when Mr. Trump sketched out his tariff-led trade and infrastructure policy at a 2016 campaign speech in Monessen, Pa., a steel town south of Pittsburgh
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27 Oct
24 state attorneys general, in addition to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and city agencies in New York and Chicago, call on Trump Labor Depart to stop rule that would redefine if millions of private sector workers are contractors or employees, i.e. Uber ag.ny.gov/sites/default/…
See more on this from story earlier this month nytimes.com/2020/10/16/us/…
And this story by @noamscheiber nytimes.com/2020/09/22/bus…
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27 Oct
Labor unions/House Dems turn up their fight against Trump move to revoke civil service protections for certain fed workers intended to limit political influence. This might be posturing by both sides. Regardless, war is escalating. Lawsuit by labor union: int.nyt.com/data/documentt…
House Dems intro legislation (which will not pass into law, never will happen in this Congress) to show they oppose the change connolly.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
Republican chair of a federal advisory panel also has resigned in protest.
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26 Oct
The head of a federal panel that advises the White House on compensation issues resigned on Monday to protest President Trump’s new executive order that could wipe out employment protections for tens of thousands of federal workers. nytimes.com/live/2020/10/2…
SHOW ME THE DOCUMENT: Here is the resignation letter
"The Executive Order is nothing more than a smokescreen for what is clearly an attempt to require the political loyalty of those who advise the President...I have concluded that as a matter of conscience, I can no longer serve him or his Administration. "
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