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17 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
And this: Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott - who has opposed mask and vaccine mandates - has tested positive for Covid-19.
**Greg.** Apologies for the error.

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30 Jul
Congress is getting Trump's tax returns: justice.gov/olc/file/14191…
"There is ample basis to conclude that its June 2021 Request for former President Trump’s tax information would further the Committee’s principal stated objective of assessing the IRS’s presidential audit program—a plainly legitimate area for congressional inquiry."
"The Chairman’s additional stated objectives for reviewing that tax information are also legitimate, and the Committee has authority to seek the records for those reasons as well."
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The perils of riding the Trump bandwagon, and possibly lining your pockets along the way:

Tom Barrack, the founder of Colony Capital and a former top Trump fund-raiser, was arrested on charges of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Barrack and two others are charged with illegal efforts to advance the interests of the UAE in the US at the direction of senior UAE officials. They are alleged to have done so by influencing the foreign policy positions of the 2016 Trump campaign and then the new administration.
The indictment also charges Barrack with obstruction of justice and making multiple false statements during a June 2019 interview with federal law enforcement agents.
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Sometime next month, for the first time, the government is likely to declare a water shortage at Lake Mead. Arizona and its farmers will get hit first, but the water crisis will touch everyone.

Inside the Southwest’s two-decade mega-drought. bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-…
“If the drought persists or accelerates, then this becomes a race against time. The Colorado River Compact, drafted in the wake of two decades of unusually abundant rains, allocated more water than the river could provide. Now Mother Nature is forcing the Southwest to adjust.”
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12 Jun
“While Trump may be prosecuted for financial crimes he potentially committed before he became president, what is most important to go after are his actions during his time in office, especially those after the 2020 election.” apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphi…
- Obstruction
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- Insurrection
“Trump’s presidency didn’t just expose glaring legal weaknesses: It also made clear that our institutions are incapable of holding presidents accountable for breaking even our existing laws.”
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7 Jun
US investigators have recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid in ransom to hackers whose attack prompted the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline last month.

Maybe cryptocurrencies aren't as untraceable as we thought. cnn.com/2021/06/07/pol…
"In some cases, US officials can find the ransomware operators and "own" their network within hours of an attack, one of the sources explained, noting that allows relevant agencies to monitor the actor's communications and potentially identify additional key players."
Colonial Pipeline paid its ransom in cryptocurrency. There's a reason for that: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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7 Jun
Serial bankruptcy artist and scamster weighs in on Bitcoin.
If somebody from Russia walked into Mar-a-Lago with a bag of cash and a proposal to create and market a Trumpcoin, Trump would pounce on it in seconds.
And there it is: coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tru…
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