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Jake Tapper

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10 Mar

You may remember this story we broke last Fall about Trump Administration officials who were alarmed by the White House pushing to fast track a lucrative 5G spectrum contract to a well-connected company called Rivada... 1/ cnn.com/2020/10/20/pol…

2/ Untold billions were at stake. Sources told me Trump was encouraged to help Rivada by Fox commentator Karl Rove, a lobbyist for, and investor in, Rivada. Rove denied Rivada was seeking any non-competitive process, as many officials said Rivada was pursuing.

3/ Ultimately no non-competitive offer was made — though many folks close to the process believe if Trump had won re-election it likely would have happened and lots of folks such as Rove would have gotten very, very rich.

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Jake Tapper

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6 Mar

@DrSeuss

I have not seen the offending images in every book because the @DrSeuss foundation has been vague and opaque about the specifics. So: no, I’m not “on board” with the argument you’re ascribing to me. I’ve seen similar suggestions of overreach with McElligot’s Pool.

https://twitter.com/danielradosh/status/1368237548640813059

2/ Again, let’s stick to facts. Which also means let’s not put words in people’s mouths. If there’s a debate and discussion to be had — let’s have it. But Green Eggs and Ham is not part of that.

https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1368231055816265729

3/ here’s McElligot’s Pool —

https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1368231055816265729

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Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

6 Mar

@DrSeuss

One of the weirdest parts of this culture war is that the self-styled “warriors” aren’t willing to stand by the empirically racist images they’re supposedly defending. Green Eggs and Ham is not one of the books the @DrSeuss Foundation has decided to stop publishing.

https://twitter.com/gopleader/status/1368011754425483265

2/ The NRCC will send contributors copies of The Cat In the Hat — also not one of the books that will no longer be published.

3/ The actual books no longer being published are:

- And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
- If I Ran the Zoo
- McElligot’s Pool
- On Beyond Zebra!
- Scrambled Eggs Super!
- The Cat’s Quizzer

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Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

4 Mar

@nimaelbagir

.@nimaelbagir reports: @amnesty today said the UN must immediately launch an investigation into ongoing allegations of grave violations in the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, citing an investigation by CNN as well as one of its own.

@nimaelbagir

@nimaelbagir @amnesty 2/ The human rights organization called on the UN to look into “potential war crimes and crimes against humanity.”

@nimaelbagir

@nimaelbagir @amnesty 3/ The UN’s human rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet said there was a need for an "independent, objective assessment" of the situation on the ground in Tigray...

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Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

1 Mar

@CDCDirector

.@CDCDirector Dr. Rochelle Walensky said this morning she is “deeply concerned” about the potential shift in the trajectory of the pandemic.

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2/ While the number of cases had been declining, the most recent seven-day average of new cases at about 67,200 people represents an increase of a little more than 2% compared to the prior seven days.

The most recent seven-day average of deaths has also increased more than 2%.

3/ “Please hear me clearly. At this level of cases with various spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard earned ground we have gained,” Walensky said during a White House COVID-19 Response team briefing.

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