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“I’m not gonna do it again,” Trump says of today’s omnibus bill. Trump reiterates his desire to get rid of the filibuster, calls for a line-item veto power, and continues to claim that Democrats don’t want a DACA solution (despite that he ended DACA). pscp.tv/w/bYUxLTI3ODI4…
Note: Here’s the 1998 #SCOTUS decision striking down the line-item veto as unconstitutional: law.cornell.edu/supct/html/97-…
“We’ll be suing certain drug companies for what they’ve done with the opioids,” President Donald Trump says.
Trump laid out a fan-fiction version of what’s going on with DACA, which someone actually working today will surely be writing a story about. Find it and read it.
Finally, despite the White House calling this a press availability, Trump did not take questions from the podium — only stopping to answer two questions (one on the veto threat and one about tariffs) as he was walking out of the room.
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In the grand jury subpoena matter, over the past 24 hours, the Post has reported — washingtonpost.com/politics/court… — that the corporation is "a foreign financial institution" and CNN has reported — cnn.com/2019/01/09/pol… — that lawyers from Alston & Bird have been involved in the case.
Here was my report on what has happened in the run-up to those reports: buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
Incidentally, but I thought it should be noted: One of the lawyers named in the CNN report, Brian Boone, once represented AG nominee (and former AG) William Barr on an amicus brief at SCOTUS in a Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act case. americanbar.org/content/dam/ab…
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BREAKING: Supreme Court denies the foreign country-owned company's request to stay a contempt order resulting from its refusal to comply with a grand jury's subpoena. Chief Justice Roberts' "administrative stay" is vacated, so the result is the contempt order is back in effect.
That order of the court follows this request, made Monday but put on the docket today, to file a cert petition in the case under seal. Not clear what will happen with that now, but the contempt order (and associated fines) will now be back in place.
REDACTED DOCUMENT: Here's the redacted motion at SCOTUS, noted previously, of what appears to be the foreign-owned company seeking to file its petition for certiorari in the grand jury dispute under seal. documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
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In the wake of yesterday's contentious hearing involving Concord in the Russian troll farm case, Concord's lawyers are STILL AT IT, in a new filing that could be one sentence and instead is four pages: documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
Here's @ZoeTillman on yesterday's hearing: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Concord's lawyers say that Judge Dabney Friedrich created "at a minimum an appearance of bias or prejudice in favor of the government" yesterday.
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Thread. #Wisconsin story. @jessieopie live-tweeted Gov. Walker’s announcement that he would sign all the legislation in the #WisconsinPowerGrab, & reaction from Governor-elect @Tony4WI. A couple of thoughts...
2. First, I don’t know how anyone who had lived in Wisconsin watching its politics over the last decade could have been surprised Walker approved what the legislature sent him. It is probable he was consulted extensively long before the legislature acted.
3. Scott Walker & Republican legislators in Wisconsin are served by the same campaign infrastructure, and serve the same large donors. They can disagree about some things, but must always be assumed to be of one mind on anything related to funding campaigns & winning elections.
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How @realDonaldTrump plans to stop the spending of the $1,000,000,000,000 #Omnibus #4Dchess #Timeless 1/
What if @potus could send spending cuts he wants to be voted on to Congress? What if those cuts could be passed with a simple majority in the House and Senate?

Meet what is called a #rescissionbill
The Rescission Bill was last invoked in 2000 by President Bill Clinton.

Since 1974, ##cuts were submitted 1178 times and approved by Congress 461 times.

Why did something that was such a common practice become obsolete?!
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So, the Anons are busy reading the #omnibus bill (cause, of course they are!)
How we're ever going to thank these guys I do not know
For now, the best we can do is SHARE their hard work!

🚨 THREAD 👉 Potential #StormRelated reasons @POTUS signed it

#QAnon #BreadCrumbs #CBTS #Q
2. DID THE DEMOCRATS JUST FUND THE TRIBUNALS?

#QAnon #BreadCrumbs #TheGreatAwakening #FollowTheWhiteRabbit #omnibus #CBTS #Q @POTUS @realDonaldTrump
3. DID @POTUS JUST FIND A BRILLIANT WAY TO GET FUNDING FOR THE WALL BY HAVING THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS TO BUILD IT??

#QAnon #BreadCrumbs #TheGreatAwakening #FollowTheWhiteRabbit #omnibus #CBTS #Q @POTUS @realDonaldTrump
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1. Do you know why the Omnibus is not going to get any notice…Here it is..
It’s not an official ‘Federal Budget’. It’s an Omnibus bill…not a Budget…He outsmarted them again…Congress basically screwed themselves by not passing a Budget…
2.Per the Constitution…the President must adhere to a Budget set forth by Congress and direct the expenditures as provided therein.This is another one of those big Porkulus Bills, like they gave Obama for 8 years. This is not a Budget..
3.An Omnibus Spending Bill may have some ‘instructions’ as to how the money will be spent…but Obama ignored them.
He spent the money, or didn’t spend it, however he wanted to.
And Congress didn’t do a thing about it! Because they couldn’t..
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Trump begins by saying there is going to be a wonderful trade deal with South Korea. He says he'll let Wilbur Ross speak about that, and then he'll move on to the "ridiculous situation" of the last week.
Ross says they're close to a deal with South Korea, and they hope to have a "real announcement" next week. The end.
Trump claims, with no elaboration or evidence, that there is "tremendous" "opposition to the military" from Democrats.
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
Two errors in the 2nd graf of Breitbart's Trump Hotel DC article:
-holdings aren't out of @realDonaldTrump's hands: trust isn't blind & he can profit from it
-Trump Org told Congress it was estimating foreign receipts—not auto donating in full
bit.ly/2CpL7z2
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