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20 Jan, 4 tweets, 3 min read
NEWS in TP w/ @theodoricmeyer

How Biden ruined our cabinet predictions

sr. transition aides are staying on up to 60 days more including @AndrewBatesNC who is expected to go to WH after

& the Biden cabinet pick who used to host a weekly erotica reading
politico.com/newsletters/tr…
Scoop: a list of the transition aides staying on for cabinet picks, etc. b/c of delays in confirmations

The virtual inauguration is also making it harder for Biden to reward his big inaugural donors. One event for major donors? a “preferred viewing” Zoom w/ Bradley Whitford.
and DNI nominee Avril Haines is the one who used to host erotica nights at a local bookstore she co-founded in Baltimore. Here's a write up from the Sun in 1995 w/ Haines reading lines from "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty” (our summary below)

baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-19…
tbc, I'm pro-erotica reading nights!

ANYWAY, @theodoricmeyer went through the financial disclosures of Granholm, McDonough, Thomas-Greenfield, and Pete.

McDonough advised Apple, Mastercard. TG advised Amazon, Microsoft.

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20 Jan
NEWS in Transition Playbook w/ @theodoricmeyer

Sen. Chris Coons on Biden 2024: “He is planning to run again."

More: "He knows that we are at the middle of an absolute turning point, a pivot point in American history. And he's up for the challenge.”

politico.com/newsletters/tr…
Oppo Book: What did @RonaldKlain's wife say about Kevin Spacey playing him in the HBO movie about the 2000 Florida recount?

"He may be better-looking than you and more glamorous — but you have a full head of hair, and he doesn’t!”

FYI: Klain continues to have excellent hair
Trivia: which President said this in their 2nd inaugural address?
“During this course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare."

politico.com/newsletters/tr…
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9 Jan
NEW in Transition Playbook was @theodoricmeyer

Impeachment threatens the derail Biden transition, confirmation, early legislation.

A Senate trial (which prob won’t start til Jan. 20) will likely stall confirmations etc. for weeks, per rule experts.

politico.com/newsletters/tr…
you can change the rules on impeachment trials w/ a majority but
Unc’s Michael Gerhardt says: “If it got streamlined further I think some people would begin to question whether it’s a credible trial, and some of those people might be in the U.S. Senate”
the main purpose of continuing the impeachment process after Trump leaves office would be to disqualify him from running for president in 2024 or any federal office in the future.

That requires a separate vote by the Senate BUT only after a conviction with two-thirds majority.
Read 7 tweets
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8 Jan
Here's the video of the Capitol police shooting Ashli Babbitt as she and others attempted to break into the Speaker's Lobby (a warning about viewing this)

the clip is from this much longer YouTube account of the entire mob, riot of the Capitol.
Bedlam after the shooting.
"She's dead. She's dead. I saw the light go off in her eyes."
This is when the rioters pushed through more police inside the Capitol chanting "Stop the steal"
someone said: "let's be peaceful" and you can hear someone say "fuck that shit."
Read 4 tweets
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6 Jan
Call for impeachment from R.I. congressman
Ayanna Pressley joins in calling for impeachment
.@IlhanMN too
Read 21 tweets
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3 Jan
Liz Cheney sent a memo to GOP Reps. this morning addressing the GOP challenges to biden’s victory.

“This is directly at odds with the Constitution’s clear text and our core beliefs as Republicans.”

“The recent proposal for a new “Commission” is even more problematic”
More: “Such objections set an exceptionally dangerous precedent, threatening to steal states’ explicit constitutional responsibility for choosing the President and bestowing it instead on Congress.”
The memo is 21 pages long and goes through each challenge in AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, WI.
Re: “the commission”
“It is not reasonable to anticipate that any commission so formed could wrap up its work in 10 days; indeed, the subsequent debate...would likely require months”
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1 Jan
On New Years Eve, Biden team dumps a bunch of financial disclosures for nominees including SoS Tony Blinken and DNI Avril Haines
Haines lists Peter Thiel's Palantir.
She was a consultant there from July 2017 to June 2020 and lists 180k in income from the company
SoS nominee Tony Blinken's financial disclosure includes at least 5k income from:
Blackstone
BofA
Facebook
Uber
McKinsey
SoftBank
Gilead
Lazard
Boeing
AT&T
the Biden team tells me on the timing that the finalized documents went over mid week (today is Thursday) and just posted.
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