ICYMI:
Dropped late last night that the WH has decided Americans should get Covid vax boosters 8 mos after their 2nd shot
Announcement as early as "this week"
The rollout is expected in mid-September: nytimes.com/2021/08/16/us/…
2/"The Biden administration has decided that most Americans should get a coronavirus booster shot eight months after they completed their initial vaccination, and could begin offering the extra shots as early as mid-September …
3/"Officials are planning to announce the administration’s decision as early as this week. The first boosters are likely to go to nursing home residents and health care workers, followed by other older people …
4/"Among other worrisome signals, Biden administration officials are particularly concerned about data from Israel suggesting that the Pfizer-BioNTech’s protection against severe disease has fallen significantly for elderly people who were vaccinated in January or February.” ~NYT
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fmr Trump aide Max Miller is the candidate Trump has endorsed to replace retiring House member Anthony Gonzalez in OH-16
Miller's a Trump poster child
And he's a BAD guy: politico.com/news/magazine/…
2/"Ranging from people who grew up with Miller in the affluent Cleveland inner suburb of Shaker Heights to those he worked with and for in the White House and on Trump’s campaigns—some of whom were granted anonymity because they fear retaliation from Miller,
3/"Trump or both—these people told me Miller can be a cocky bully with a quick-trigger temper. He has a record of speeding, underage drinking and disorderly conduct—
This pc references internal investigation docs from USCP re improper action taken by cops on 1/6
At least one was a Trump supporter, turned in by a friend of 40 yrs "he's fallen into this cult.."
Good read miamiherald.com/news/politics-…
2/"The allegation stems from a conversation the officer had with a friend the week after the riot in which he allegedly revealed information about the secure location he helped evacuate lawmakers to during the riot.
3/"The friend, who is referred to as “ANONYMOUS” in the documents, called the FBI tip line to report the conversation and expressed concerns that the agent subscribed to Trump’s election conspiracy theories.
In late January someone connected to the Trump WH told me that Pence was "no hero"
Told me Pence seriously considered overruling the states on 1/6 until he realized he just couldn't get away with it
Per Costa & Woodward they were right ⤵️ cnn.com/2021/09/14/pol…
2/"'Peril' reveals that after four years of abject loyalty, he struggled with the decision. Woodward and Costa write that Pence reached out to Dan Quayle, who had been the vice president to George H.W. Bush, seeking his advice.
3/"Over and over, Pence asked if there was anything he could do.
"Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away," Quayle told him.
Pence pressed again.
"You don't know the position I'm in," he said, according to the authors.
Despite the GOP's complete lack of substance
their accusations, disrespect & calls for him to resign
Today's House Foreign Affairs Afghanistan hearing worked out well for SOS Blinken
Gave him a great opportunity to tout Biden's messaging re leaving
And he did a great job
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Blinken today:
“After 20 years, 2,641 American lives lost, 20,000 injuries, and two trillion dollars spent, it was time to end America’s longest war,”
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“There’s no evidence that staying longer would've made the Afghan security forces or the Afghan gov't any more resilient or self-sustaining. If 20 years & hundreds of billions of dollars in support, equipment and training did not suffice, why would another year, or five, or ten?”
Per WaPo:
Republican OK Congressman Markwayne Mullin threatened U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Pommersheim when he was told he couldn't enter the country
Where is he now?
No one seems to know..
Helluva story here:
(Thread) washingtonpost.com/politics/mulli…
2/"The call to the U.S. ambassador to Tajikistan came in Monday. On the line, two U.S. officials said, was Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) with an unusual and urgent request:
3/"He needed assistance in transporting a huge amount of cash into the country, saying he was going to neighboring Afghanistan to rescue five American citizens, a woman and her four children, stuck in the country. They planned to hire a helicopter for the effort
ICYMI:
Here's the letter the Select Committee sent to the National Archives today requesting documentation related to Trump, Pence, & Trump's band of political appointees & family dated from the election to 1/6
(Thread) january6th.house.gov/sites/democrat…
2/AND:
"All documents and communications within the White House on January 6, 2021, relating
in any way to the following:
• the January 6, 2021, rally;
• the January 6, 2021, march to the Capitol;
• the January 6, 2021, violence at the Capitol;
3/ "• any aspect of the Joint Session where Congress was counting electoral votes;
• any legal, political, or other strategy regarding the counting of electoral votes;
• Donald J. Trump;
• Vice President Pence;