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12 Feb, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Mitt Romney's questions:
Susan Collins just asked Question 1 -- exactly when did the president learn of the breach? She also asks to know what he did about it.

Trump's lawyer is NOT answering the question. It's really weird.
"We have a tweet at 2:38 so it was certainly sometime before then," Michael van der Veen says, blame House managers for not providing this information.

They asked Trump to testify and his legal team called it a stunt.
Dem Ed Markey just asked Susan Collins' question again, verbatim, but directed it to House managers.

Stacey Plaskett notes "this attack was on live TV"
What did Trump do?

Plaskett: "The reason this question keeps coming up is because the answer is 'nothing.'"

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12 Feb
Fastball from Bernie Sanders: Did Trump actually win the election?

(They already said he did in a formal trial brief.)
This was to both sides. Stacey Plaskett notes, factually, that Trump lost by 7 million votes.

I am excited to hear from Trump's team on this one, since they've said he won.
"My judgement's irrelevant" says Trump attorney Michael van der Veen.

Not very brave.
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12 Feb
Trump's impeachment defense is just trashy. They said it was antifa at the Capitol!!! huffpost.com/entry/trump-im…
“According to publicly available reporting it is apparent that extremists of various different stripes and political persuasions preplanned and premeditated an attack on the Capitol,” van der Veen said.

Come. On.
It was Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol ― Trump supporters wearing Trump shirts and Trump hats, waving Trump flags and screaming Trump’s name as they sought to stop Congress from certifying Trump’s loss in the November election.
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11 Feb
The impeachment managers have made a strategic decision to excuse certain Republican senators for helping Trump incite the mob. huffpost.com/entry/democrat…
Joe Neguse yesterday even lauded the "bravery of the senators in this room" for their votes on Jan 6, even though 8 of them voted with Trump and the mob
Presumably Democrats are making these untruthful statements to coddle the whole Republican conference, because they showed at the first impeachment trial they will use the tiniest slights to write off the entire presentation
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10 Feb
A Republican on the Ways and Means Committee opposes Democrats' plan for expanded unemployment benefits in part because it reminds him of his loser stepdad who wouldn't work. Intense.
He said his childhood was "marred" by his stepdad's dependence on government.

"At a young age I decided the example set by my stepdad was not the life I wanted and I put myself to work. I worked harder and longer than anyone."
It's new Ways and Means member Kevin Hern from Oklahoma.

Former GOP congressman Ted Yoho used to talk about having been on food stamps as a young adult.

Hern's personal story is little more intense.
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4 Feb
The federal government would pay most parents of young children $350 per child every month under a groundbreaking new proposal from @MittRomney that would put a serious dent in child poverty. huffpost.com/entry/mitt-rom…
Romney's child benefit is actually BOLDER than what Democrats have proposed with the child tax credit.

He's pitching an actual child allowance rather than reverse engineering one through the tax code. Payments by SSA instead of IRS.
Both Romney's and the Democratic proposals would SLASH child poverty.

Romney's aides said he wants his idea in the mix as Dems get ready to do something like this as part of their next COVID relief bill.
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2 Feb
All last year Democrats said Congress should add $600 to unemployment benefits.

Now they control Congress and they're aiming for... $400. huffpost.com/entry/democrat…
Joe Biden's campaign website said he would "work with Congress to extend the boosted unemployment benefits (the extra $600) for however long this crisis lasts."
Several unemployed workers I've talked to are also looking for backdated benefits to make up for weeks with no federal supplement.

Congressional Dems had that in their plans last year but the idea appears to be completely off the table now.
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