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Investigative journalist / Deputy editor, @BuzzFeedNews inequality desk / Author, "Never Ran, Never Will" / albert.samaha@buzzfeed.com / 🇵🇭🇱🇧
Jan 5, 2021 12 tweets 5 min read
This is some audacious spin. What actually happened: Pompeo endorsed the results of a rigged election in DRC after a private security company working for a Congolese autocrat back channelled with Giuliani and other Trump allies. Our investigation: buzzfeednews.com/article/albert… In negotiations, the US maintained it wouldn't allow then-DRC president Joseph Kabila to run for a third term. So the private security company, Mer, helped Kabila craft a new plan to control his country: a secret power-sharing deal with another candidate. buzzfeednews.com/article/albert…
Nov 7, 2020 15 tweets 4 min read
live from Brooklyn Will Mensah, 41, with a message for Biden: “We’re gonna hold you accountable.
Nov 6, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read
Today, PA has 85k provisional ballots to count. Here's how 55k-65k of that is distributed, per election officials & local reporting:

15-20k, Philly
17k, Allegheny
6.7k, Bucks
5.3k, York
3.8k, Dauphin
3.6k, West Moreland
2.1k, Northampton + Monroe
1-3k, Erie
400, Lehigh useful background here on provisional ballot process in PA: inquirer.com/politics/elect…
Aug 29, 2018 4 tweets 2 min read
And the story has advanced: "Cuomo Received $25,000 From Weinstein Lawyer’s Firm as He Suspended Probe" capitalandmain.com/cuomo-received… The $25k donation from Weinstein's lawyer came in 6 days before Cuomo's office ordered the AG to suspend the investigation. buzzfeednews.com/article/albert…