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Mar 1 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
What has happened since a sitting member of Congress, Rep. MTG, spoke at a white nationalist event Friday:

*CPAC was aware of what happened Fri., but she still spoke there Sat. to cheers.

*Trump praised her in his Sat CPAC speech.

*Criticism but no punishment from GOP leaders
How CPAC handled:
How Trump handled:
How the RNC initially handled:
Later, the RNC issued this statement:

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Tonight is an important night, coming nearly six months later. Tonight, the committee is, for the first time, firmly stating that it believes crimes were committed related to Trump's multi-front efforts to overturn the election and his scheme of organizing "alternate electors."
Details of what the commitee is now saying was a criminal conspiracy...

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Mar 1
INSIDE THE ROOM: Last night, at classified Hill briefing, Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) stood up and closed the briefing with urgent plea to admin. officials and colleagues. Warned that "free world has failed Ukraine" and "history is watching us," per 3 lawmakers who were there....
“She was the final speaker and got up, the last one up after many others said just said a few words and asked questions. But then she gave me chills,” one of the lawmakers said. “Marcy called us out. She said the free world has failed Ukraine.”
A 2nd lawmaker said Kaptur’s remarks ended w/ a round of applause as congressional leaders and Biden administration military and national security officials listened. “When someone seemed to signal her time was up, she said, ‘I’ve been here [in Washington] 45 years," kept spkg.
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Feb 27
CPAC notes/Day 3: Former president Trump continues to falsely claim the 2020 election was “rigged” and that he won presidential elections “twice.” And praises @RepMTG by name, one day after she spoke at a white nationalist conference in Florida.
Of note: Trump now signaling his solidarity with blocs of the congressional GOP, but has not spoken name of McCarthy (yet) or McConnell, just months before midterms. Instead praises R. Scott, Hagerty, J. Kennedy, Jim Jordan, Gaetz. Trump spelling out the Trump wing on Hill.
Trump on Ukraine at CPAC:
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Feb 26
(thread) One unanswered question from the post-January 6 period inside the Trump White House: who provided Mike Lindell with his “martial law” papers, photographed on January 15, 2021? This story is detailed here by @maggieNYT…

nytimes.com/2021/01/15/us/…
Lindell has so far refused to give an answer about who told him to bring those papers and ideas to Trump, or who else was involved in related discussions during Trump’s final days.
Today at CPAC, @CBSNews asked Lindell several times to share the name of the lawyers. He says a “whole bunch of lawyers” gave him the documents, but grew irritated when asked to name them.

Eventually he started to chant “traitor!” at me for asking questions.
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Feb 25
I sat down with @SecPompeo for a @CBSNews interview this afternoon. A few highlights...

Asked him about his recent use of the word "respect" re: Putin. "I have enormous respect for him," Pompeo said on Feb. 18, 2022. Earlier, he told Fox News Putin "has lots of gifts."
Q: What would you say to the Ukrainians as more horror unfolds in their own nation? Should the U.S. be ready to send in troops, or should that option just be totally off the table?

POMPEO: "It doesn't make sense to send U.S. forces to Ukraine today... "
Q: But what about a no-fly zone over Ukraine?

POMPEO: "I can't imagine that there aren't tools that create far less risk for the United States of America than a no-fly zone, that could have prevented this from happening."
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Feb 25
news: A tense confrontation between the House select committee and Kimberly Guilfoyle unfolded privately on Friday morning, with Guilfoyle and her lawyers abruptly ending her conversation with the committee over concerns about its ground rules, according to 4 people familiar..
When Guilfoyle appeared on Friday’s virtual meeting, she and her lawyers grew immediately concerned when they saw who else was on the call, including lawmakers on the committee such as Rep. Adam Schiff of California and Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, both Democrats...
Guilfoyle spoke up and asked why members — and not just lawyers and committee staff — were on the call, three of the people said.
“Kim balked and said this isn’t my understanding,” one of the people said. A second person described her as “outraged."
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