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Now at @JesseLee46. Former VP of Communications for CAP Action, Senior Advisor to Speaker Pelosi, Special Assistant to President Obama.
Jul 21, 2021 9 tweets 3 min read
The coverage of the Tom Barrack indictment, one of Trump’s closest friends, for illegal lobbying for the UAE, suggests to me that a lot of the shocking revelations about Trump & UAE have gone down the memory hole. Let’s revisit. (1/whatever)
apnews.com/article/barrac… First, Don Jr. had a second infamous meeting at Trump Tower about foreign election interference. This one with Erik Prince and, guess who, the UAE who were just dying to help for some reason.
nytimes.com/2018/05/19/us/…
Oct 1, 2020 9 tweets 3 min read
NEW: CAP report lays out how ACA repeal during a pandemic would lead to chaos in ways people haven’t even considered. americanprogress.org/issues/healthc…

#1: People with preexisting conditions and disabilities, including COVID-19 survivors, would be vulnerable to discrimination by insurers Image Ways that ACA repeal would lead to chaos.

#2: ACA repeal would throw insurance markets into chaos as millions would lose coverage during a pandemic Image
Aug 28, 2020 4 tweets 3 min read
Because @realDonaldTrump botched his test as president more than any president in history, he is the worst jobs president in history. medium.com/@CAPAction/pre… Image Because @realDonaldTrump botched his test as president more than any president in history, he is the worst Black jobs president in history. Image
Oct 17, 2019 6 tweets 2 min read
Mulvaney desperately wanted to erase the request to investigate the Bidens from the history of the pressure campaign. The attack on Trump's political opponent was front and center going back to Giuliani in May: “Somebody could say it’s improper." (1/6)
nytimes.com/2019/05/09/us/… The text messages between Trump’s Ambassadors made clear that the former company associated with Trump’s political opponent was central to the pressure campaign—including “the deliverable” that Mulvaney mentioned today. (2/6)
Apr 16, 2019 6 tweets 2 min read
There's been plenty of well-earned criticism of the journalistic ethics of the NYT hit on CAP this morning, but just to go on record, we firmly believe that the repeated reliance on Wikileaks hacked emails as a general reservoir for reporting is also outrageous & inexcusable. 1/6 The New York Times once pretended to take a hard introspective look at the use of these emails, the fruits of what Special Counsel Mueller has charged as a conspiracy against the United States by Russian agents. As Eric Lipton, David Sanger & Scott Shane wrote in December, 2016:
Oct 10, 2018 8 tweets 3 min read
Mark my words. Someday we’ll find out that something profoundly corrupt happened during Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia.
Mark my words. Someday we’ll find out that something profoundly corrupt happened during Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia.