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15 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
McConnell on the Senate floor right now extolling the achievements of outgoing President Trump in a speech that sounds as though it is a eulogy...and winding up to something...
2/ Praises the vaccine....foreign policy achievements in Middle East.... VA MISSION Act.... lotta throat clearing going on here....
3/ "6 weeks ago...Americans voted in this year's general election... yesterday electors met in all 50 states....So as of this morning our country has officially a president-elect and a vice-president-elect..
4/ "The electoral college has spoken...so today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden...." Also praises Senate colleague new Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris and notes historic nature of her win as first female to be VP

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From @jmhansler: The Trump administration on Monday identified and sanctioned two senior Iranian intelligence officials who the US government says were involved in the abduction and "probable death" of former FBI agent Robert Levinson. 1/
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SO...

After an election that respected election officials from both parties say went very well with no evidence of widespread fraud...

... in an election where Republicans generally did very well except for the top of the ticket with a historically unpopular president...
2/ ... the president, distraught, lies and spreads deranged conspiracy theories about the election and software, and attacks GOP officials for abiding by the law...
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.@AdamSandler’s classic Chanukah Song
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McEnany attacks me in this clip for allegedly not reading the court document. I did read it and it’s embarrassing.

Here’s a good explainer at @reason about the suit: “Garbage in, garbage out.”

reason.com/volokh/2020/12…
@reason 2/ We also discussed the insanity of the Texas lawsuit with @gtconway3d, whom Trump once considered for the Solicitor General position.

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President-elect @JoeBiden will nominate former Obama WH chief of staff Denis McDonough to be the next Secretary of Veterans Affairs, a source familiar with the decision tells me.

Politico reported this first.
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Email to every member of House GOP from ⁦@RepMikeJohnson⁩, R-LA, soliciting signatures for an amicus brief in the longshot Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate electoral college votes from GA MI PA and WI. Trump is “anxiously awaiting the final list” to see who signs on.
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