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17 Aug, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Game on.
First witness: Mike Pompeo.
Second witness: Donald Trump.

Expected questions:
-- Why did you free Taliban leader Baradar in 2018?
-- Why did you free 5000 Taliban fighters in Nov 2020?
-- Why didn't you anything when Putin put bounties on our troops in Afghanistan?
If Pompeo and Trump refuse to appear, then they'll be showing America they're cowards and chickens who can't and won't explain what they did and why. 🐓🐓
More questions:
-- Why did the Trump Administration negotiate an unnecessary cease-fire with the Taliban during the 2020 election, giving the Taliban a respite and chance to regroup?
-- Why do the Russians have a security arrangement with the Taliban to protect their embassy?
Oh wait, there's more!
-- What discussions did you have with the Russian government regarding the Taliban and the US departure from Afghanistan?
-- Why did you refuse to give the incoming Biden administration any briefings on Afghanistan?
Still going:
-- Why did you reduce the US troop count to only 2000 before leaving office in Jan 2021 when we still needed to have an orderly departure from Afghanistan?
-- You set this up as a ticking time bomb for Biden once you knew you'd lost the 2020 election, didn't you?

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14 Aug
What’s REALLY happening?

— The former president led a coup to overthrow the Constitution and stay in power; he’s being investigated, slowly; most people aren’t paying attention
— People are dying in droves from a disease for which we already have a vaccine
— EARTH IS ON FIRE
We are spending way too much time listening and adding to the noise — myself included.

Covid, Coup, Climate — those 3 things are historical crises facing us at the same time.

We fight to solve these 3 problems or human civilization will spiral and decline, or die off entirely
Also - COVID, Coup, Climate - all 3 are related, because the fascist forces undermining democracy have sown a disbelief in science, education, and expertise, blinding many to the existential threats of Climate and Covid

This is because the fascists are ultimately seeking chaos
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11 Aug
Gaetzgate latest - what we know, and my take

What we know - indictment is coming in the next few weeks, either in August or just after

Also clear that the US Attorney’s Office is taking very strong positions with Gaetz and his counsel and is ready to indict Gaetz and others
My take on Gaetzgate based on what I’ve been able to find out

What’s really going on is that the feds are applying a lot of pressure on Gaetz to flip and cooperate — if the feds are taking a strong position, it’s to get cooperation

But what would Gaetz be able to cooperate on?
Gaetz could cooperate on the existing case they have open in federal court in Orlando — adding to the testimony from Gaetz’s buddy Joel Greenberg

But what else could Gaetz do? What other things could he cooperate on? That’s the more interesting question.
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11 Aug
UPDATE: It turns out this was accurate. More details tomorrow on Gaetz...
Got some good intel and working on getting more — then as soon as I have the info I’ll share!
One thing that is already clear

The Politico piece was incorrect or is now out of date — the Gaetz case is definitely not stuck
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8 Aug
To be clear, Rosen is almost certainly a longtime Republican. He served in the GW Bush administration, then was Elaine Chao’s deputy at Transportation before Trump made him Deputy AG. He is not a Democrat, a lib, or anything of the sort. He simply refused to support sedition.
When Trump named Rosen as Deputy AG despite zero prosecution experience, it was likely done in communication with Chao (his then boss) and Mitch McConnell (her husband). Likely they all thought he would be loyal to the administration and GOP. There were limits to that, thankfully
This underscores that McConnell likely knew what Trump was doing to overturn the election results all during the weeks leading up to January 6. Trump may have pushed on McConnell directly — and Rosen may have been in touch with Chao as well.
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2 Jul
1/ Something that jumped out during the Trump lawyers’ press remarks — with potentially interesting ramifications:

They said that the Trump Organization has 3500 employees globally.

Why is this interesting?
2/ Trump Org is actually a holding company, with hundreds of subsidiaries. The subsidiaries contain the various businesses. Each building or hotel or golf course is usually its own LLC. Trump University was its own LLC when we prosecuted it. 40 Wall Street has its own LLC, etc.
3/ Trump has this system to manage liability, especially with creditors. So when they shut down Trump U, they said oops it’s dead, no more money to pay you, even though Trump Org could have paid the invoices. This is how they run everything.
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