“The money is going to be in the Bill Miller [restaurant] near your house,” Huerta wrote in Spanish to a 27-year-old Venezuelan migrant named Emmanuel. “It’s going to be behind the dumpster outside in a white envelope.”
Recruited by Huerta from tents behind a San Antonio McDonald’s, Emmanuel had been an ace in the hole for DeSantis’ secret program to charter flights to redirect Texas migrants to northern cities.A friendly & familiar face to Venezuelan migrants passing legally through Texas.
Jan 15, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
@AJDelgado13 “According to the seditious conspiracy indictment, the defendants conspired through a variety of manners and means, including: organizing into teams that were prepared and willing to use force and to transport firearms and ammunition into Washington, D.C.; recruiting members …”
@AJDelgado13 “…affiliates to participate in the conspiracy; organizing trainings to teach and learn paramilitary combat tactics; bringing and contributing paramilitary gear, weapons and supplies – including knives, batons, camouflaged combat uniforms, tactical vests with plates, helmets, …”
Come to Washington, Trump tweeted to his supporters on the Saturday before Christmas, issuing a clarion call for them to gather and protest on Jan. 6: “Be there, will be wild!”
Oct 3, 2021 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Jan. 6 Was Worse Than We Knew - The New York Times nytimes.com/2021/10/02/opi…
The country was hours away from a full-blown constitutional crisis — not primarily because of the violence and mayhem inflicted by hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters but because of the actions of Mr. Trump himself.
Nov 16, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The atmosphere has grown so contentious, Raffensperger said, that both he and his wife, Tricia, have received death threats in recent days, including a text to him that read, “You better not botch this recount. Your life depends on it.”
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“Other than getting you angry, it’s also very disillusioning, particularly when it comes from people on my side of the aisle. Everyone that is working on this needs to elevate their speech. We need to be thoughtful and careful about what we say.”
Oct 25, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“How strange for the president, then, to lay out all of Hunter Biden’s embarrassing failings, and to have Joe Biden’s response be: ‘I’m proud of him.’
Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and the politics of unconditional love washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
Biden’s life as father has been shaped by loss. His daughter Naomi died as an infant in the car crash that killed his wife. His son Beau died of brain cancer at 46. Beau, the golden boy, easy to love — who “had all the best of me, but with the bugs & flaws engineered out.”.
End Our National Crisis nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Donald Trump’s re-election campaign poses the greatest threat to American democracy since World War II.
On the afternoon of Feb. 24, Trump Tweeted the coronavirus was “very much under control,” one of numerous rosy statements he and advisers made at the time about the worsening epidemic. He even added an observation for investors: “Stock market starting to look very good to me!”
Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.
Sep 19, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“People ask me sometimes... 'When will there be enough women on the court?' And my answer is, 'When there are nine.' People are shocked, but there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that."
Sep 19, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
“I ask no favor for my sex; all I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Gloria Steinem on RBG: "the closest thing to a super hero I know."
Sep 18, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Dr. Anne Schuchat, a 32-year veteran of the C.D.C. and its principal deputy director, had appealed to Americans to wear masks and warned, “We have way too much virus across the country.” nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/…
Dr. Alexander, a part-time assistant professor of health research methods, wrote: “Her aim is to embarrass the president.”
Sep 17, 2020 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
🚨Secret Service reveals more charges by Trump properties, including for rooms at N.J. club while it was closed for pandemic washingtonpost.com/politics/secre…
President Trump’s luxury properties have charged the U.S. government more than $1.1 million in private transactions since Trump took office — including for room rentals at his Bedminster, N.J., club this spring while it was closed for the coronavirus pandemic, new documents show.
Sep 6, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
@washingtonpost Cohen says the Trump Tower plans called for a 120-story building in Red Square, including 30 floors devoted to a five-star hotel with an Ivanka Trump-branded spa and Trump restaurants, and 230 high-end condominiums for Russian oligarchs and leaders.
@washingtonpost The whole idea of patriotism and treason became irrelevant in his mind,” Cohen writes. “Trump was using the campaign to make money for himself: of course he was.”
Jun 17, 2020 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
During a one-on-one meeting at the June 2019, Trump immediately assumed Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility among the Democrats.
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He stunningly turned the conversation to the election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers, & increased Chinese purchases of soybeans & wheat in the electoral outcome.
May 23, 2020 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
One final viral infusion: Trump’s move to block travel from Europe triggered chaos and a surge of passengers from the outbreak’s center washingtonpost.com/world/national…
Epidemiologists contend the U.S. outbreak was driven overwhelmingly by viral strains from Europe rather than China. More than 1.8 million travelers entered the US from Europe in February alone as that continent became the center of the pandemic.
May 7, 2020 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
“I wanted to believe Reade when she first came to me, and I worked hard to find the evidence to make certain others would believe her, too. I couldn’t find it.” vox.com/2020/5/7/21248…
“Reade told me that she wanted me to think of this story as being about abuse of power, ‘but not sexual misconduct.’”
Apr 27, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
President’s intelligence briefing book repeatedly cited virus threat washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
U.S. intelligence agencies issued warnings about the novel coronavirus in more than a dozen classified briefings prepared for President Trump in January and February, months during which he continued to play down the threat.
Apr 11, 2020 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus nyti.ms/3ceNp5H
A week after the first coronavirus case had been identified in the U.S., and 6 weeks before Trump finally took action to confront the danger, Dr. Mecher was urging the upper ranks of the nation’s public health bureaucracy to wake up & prepare.
associates of Trump’s have financial interests in the issue. Sanofi’s largest shareholders include Fisher Asset Management, mutual fund company run by Ken Fisher, major donor to GOP, including Trump. nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/…
Another investor in both Sanofi & Mylan, another pharmaceutical firm, is Invesco, the fund previously run by Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary.
