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27 Feb, 4 tweets, 3 min read
1. Democratic party defector Kurt Schrader may want to start packing. OR5th district is an apparent gerrymander that with the Oregon legislature in solid Democratic control should be easy to hold or even eliminate in light of SCOTUS giving political gerrymanders the green light.
2. Why @RepSchrader would choose to give instant life to a primary challenge is puzzling. I'd watch for a Koch connection and if he did it for money, it may open some options for changing the GQP funding plans with the boss of bosses in a federal pen.
3. Maine's 1st Democrat defection is also puzzling. @RepGolden is in a somewhat GQP leaning district but with solid Democratic control of the Maine legislature and political gerrymanders being the rage this redistricting season, he too deserves watching for Koch cash. If we can
4. link a quid pro quo for these two puzzling defectors we can leave them to stew under double probation until Nov 2022 and go after Charles Koch and his RICO crew of political bribery mobsters and lawyers to insure that by 2022, Charles is at ClubFed. @GroverNorquist @Heritage

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27 Feb
1. @McFaul. Read the report again. There's a big difference between "kill or capture." Was his kidnapping in Istanbul a US federal crime? I don't think it was. And who taught the Saudis how conduct a rendition? Bush43 that's who. Why would MBS kill him in his consulate?
2. Looking at his killing as simple case of homicide, who had motive and opportunity to do it? Was it someone who would like to make MBS's life a mess? I'm no fan of the Saudi's but MBS was viewed as a reformer and Khashoggi was at best an Al-Qaeda sympathizer.
3. I just grew up in a family with people who did homicide investigations and learned to just do it by the numbers. And the numbers don't add up. Two world leaders had motive and opportunity for the killing. One was easy to fathom. Like playing checkers.
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26 Feb
1. Question to my party: If you find out that #Erdogan was actually the person who ordered #Khashoggi be killed & dismembered, will you put sanctions on him & Turkish military? How about boot Turkey from @NATO? @SenateDems @HouseDemocrats @JackieSpeier
2. I'm certain MBS was going to grab him. But you should remember that under Bush43 we made that acceptable conduct. Also, point to a US law that makes that crime enforceable in the US? You all turn your eyes away from Turkey's dictator who was running Yazidi sex slave markets
3. in Gaziantep. You arm his F-16s to bomb Kurds in Iraq and Syria. You love to hate the Saudis but allow the most dangerous person in the Mideast to be treated like an trusted ally even after he brutalizes Americans in DC right under your noses. Sure, MBS deserves punishment.
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25 Feb
1. I went back to build the timeline.

Oct 2. Khashoggi disappears in Saudi Istanbul Consulate.

Oct 6 NYTimes reports but no mention of bone saw.

nytimes.com/2018/10/06/wor…
2. Oct 9 NYTimes reports "A senior Turkish official said that within two hours of his arrival, Mr. Khashoggi was killed by a team of Saudi agents, who dismembered his body with a bone saw they’d brought for the purpose"
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
3. I think I recall some airport scanner angle on this but we also know the Turks were recording the killing. How did the Turks get evidence of intent from a diplomatic team?
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22 Feb
1. In Hawaii if you're lucky you get to go to one of the top prep schools because you're wealthy. If you smart you may get to go to one when they increase the class size in seventh grade. People try to get their kids in. We did with our boys.
2. I remember the day I took my son for his interview at Punahou, @BarackObama was one of the rare lucky ones who wasn't rich but went there for his entire pre-college education. There are few Black teachers there. One was a well-respected teacher of Hawaiian related courses.
3. He was the person doing the interviews. They first took your kid to a room where they were given an essay to write while they observed. Made sure it was all their work. Then we sat as every other kid went into the room with their parents to meet the interviewer. We were last.
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20 Feb
1. This is old news. In 2017, I spotted that Flynn and Trump were likely violating US anti-proliferation laws in 2016. IMO it's why they were listening to Flynn's calls. It triggers FISA.
apnews.com/article/ec3299…
2. I did a long thread that laid out the criminal case citing relevant sections of the US Code. Only this little fragment is still on Twitter. I didn't delete it.
3. Trump's Flynn pardon referred to secret section of Mueller's remit I think was this criminal operation. If it was, Flynn can't take the 5th and has to give up Trump. i think it also involved both Bannon and Kushner who met the Emirati Crown Prince at Trump Tower with Flynn.
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19 Feb
1. This is how a West Virginia Democrat survives & without Manchin, we lose the majority. I wondered from the announcement if Neera Tanden was meant to draw fire. I respect her and want her in the tent but know in an evenly divided Senate a lightning rod is hard to confirm.
2. And as @TheDemocrats rush to vilify @JoeManchinWV, I might suggest that he may be taking one for the team of other Democrats who were having second thoughts. Sausage making is nasty business. But Manchin, like him or not, knows how to make sausage. @RonaldKlain
3. Mark Kelly and Rapheal Warnock are both running again in 2022 and will have a tough row to hoe in red states. Maggie Hassen and Catherine Cortez-Masto are also on the cusp. So Joe takes our fire and they can all avoid a vote that might give McConnell back the majority.
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