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9 Feb, 6 tweets, 3 min read
In just a short time, U.S. Senators will file into a room to hear the second impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump. Some of those elected officials would rather not be there in the first place. trib.al/9AfKBgU
Why? Keeping their promises to their constituents to pass the COVID relief package is a far more pressing issue. Also, no one wants to deal with Trump’s circus trib.al/9AfKBgU
"It’s so Trumpian," one transition official told The Daily Beast. "Only Trump could find a way to make someone else’s first 100 days in office become so much about him." trib.al/9AfKBgU
In a 78-page defense, Trump’s team ripped the impeachment trial of a former president as a contradiction in terms while padding the footnotes section with Easter eggs for Trump devotees.
trib.al/9AfKBgU
One passage condemns the House impeachment report as "hearsay." The defense brief also cites Gateway Pundit, the conspiracist website that was recently banned from Twitter for supporting Trump’s false claims of election fraud trib.al/9AfKBgU
Read this report in full by @sambrodey, @swin24, and @scottbix trib.al/9AfKBgU

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On today’s @NewAbnormalPod, @TheRickWilson and @MollyJongFast discuss how the cesspool of Facebook has become even more dangerous in the age of the pandemic

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