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Polly Sigh
@dcpoll
Loudmouth writer. “If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.” –Albert Einstein
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Nov 4, 2020 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Georgia on my mind... Trump's lead in Georgia has shrunk to just 54,405 votes.
apps.npr.org/elections20-in…

🎶I said, Georgia, oh, Georgia...🎶
Oct 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Trump's former NSA accused him of treasonous conduct –– “aiding and abetting” Russia's attack on the 2020 election –– and the story was blown away by the never-ending firehose of craziness and disinformation generated by Trump and his crew.
by @DavidCornDC
motherjones.com/politics/2020/… Also see this thread by @ChrisMurphyCT about "the massive coverup campaign underway to disguise the octopus-like Russian election interference operation being run on Trump's behalf."
Oct 6, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Senior Pentagon leadership are quarantining after exposure to Vice Commandant of the US Coast Guard, Adm. Charles Ray, who tested COVID+ Monday:
-Gen. Mark Milley
-CoS of the USAF, Charles Brown
-Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gilday
-Chief of Space Operations, Gen. Raymond. Head of U.S. Cyber Command, Gen. Paul Nakasone, is also among those quarantined.

Up to 14 officials are believed to have been potentially exposed to coronavirus after meetings last week with Adm. Wray, who tested positive.
Apr 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Feds are seizing masks and other #COVID19 supplies from hospitals without a word.

“Federal officials sweep in without warning to expropriate our supplies... Are they stockpiling it? Distributing it? Will we get any of it back? We can’t get any answers.”latimes.com/politics/story… “Trump and other White House officials, including Jared Kushner, claim that the federal government is using a 'data-driven approach' to procure [STEAL] medical supplies from hospitals and direct them where they are most needed [TO HELP TRUMP'S REELECTION].”
Apr 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It took 70 days from the initial notification on Jan 3 for Trump to treat coronavirus not as a hoax, but as a lethal force poised to kill thousands. But by then, critical time had been squandered and opportunities to mitigate the pandemic were lost.washingtonpost.com/national-secur… Because of Trump and his admin's failures over the first 70 days of the coronavirus crisis, the US will likely go down as the country that was supposedly best prepared to fight a pandemic but ended up sustaining heavier casualties than any other nation.
Apr 4, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: Trump has fired inspector general for the intelligence community, Michael Atkinson, who opposed then-DNI Maguire’s decision to withhold the whistleblower complaint from Congress, which sparked the impeachment inquiry. NEW: Trump has fired intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, who was first to sound the alarm to Congress last September about an “urgent” complaint he’d received from an intelligence official re Trump’s communications with Ukraine.politico.com/news/2020/04/0…
Mar 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Cut the bullshit. No one is claiming that Rand Paul went to the gym *after* learning his test results, but that he we spreading his coronavirus germs all over the gym, pool area, and god knows where else, while waiting for his results –– which is a major dick move. Rand Paul's Chief Strategist, @dougstafford, on March 16: "So people can’t eat out but can go to the gym where they expel bodily fluid and touch things other people just touched. Ok."
Mar 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In mid-Feb, the WHO warned that global demand for medical safety gear was 100 times higher than normal, prices were 20 times higher, stockpiles were depleted, and there was a 6 month backlog. Despite this, the US government made no effort to submit orders. apnews.com/6d9382c1e8ee36… Trump's trade policies haven’t helped. Tariffs on medical supplies made them more expensive, and they were only lifted on March 5, even though health care associations asked the Trump administration LAST YEAR to exempt items like masks, gloves, and gowns.
Mar 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: US intelligence agencies were issuing ominous, classified warnings in Jan and Feb about a likely global coronavirus pandemic as Trump and GOP lawmakers called the virus a hoax and failed to take action that might have slowed its spread and saved lives.washingtonpost.com/national-secur… By January, “the system was blinking red” but “Trump’s advisers struggled to get him to take coronavirus seriously.”

Azar spoke to Trump about the virus on Jan 18 but “Trump interjected to ask when flavored vaping products would be back on the market.”
Mar 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
SCOOP: In a secret recording obtained by @NPR, Senate Intel Chairman @SenatorBurr raised alarms about the dire consequences of coronavirus to a small group of well-connected constituents 3 WEEKS AGO –– concerns he never shared with the public.
by @timkmak npr.org/2020/03/19/818… NEW: After assuring the public about the government's coronavirus preparedness [while secretly raising coronavirus alarms with GOP donors], Senate Intel chair Richard Burr dumped up to $1.6M of stock in one day. A week later, the market began its nosedive.propublica.org/article/senato…
Feb 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in 2020 to get Trump re-elected, a disclosure to Congress that angered Trump, who complained that Democrats would use it against him.

None of this comes as any surprise.nyti.ms/2uTOgJ7 Trump was so enraged that acting-DNI Maguire's staff briefed Congress about this national security threat from Russia, he replaced Maguire as his permanent DNI pick and replaced him with Trump lackey, Richard Grenell, who has ZERO intelligence experience.
Feb 14, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: Barr has assigned an outside prosecutor to scrutinize the criminal case against former Trump NSA Michael Flynn.

The review is highly unusual and more evidence of political interference by Barr into the work of career DOJ prosecutors.
#Maddow nyti.ms/2SJAAZ1 Barr has also installed outside prosecutors to review the handling of other politically sensitive [Trump related?] cases in the DC US Atty’s office. The team includes prosecutors from the office of US Atty Jensen, who's handling the Flynn matter.
#Maddow
Feb 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Seriously? 🙄 I just don't understand these people claiming Barr lashed out at Trump or that Trump is embarrassed, angry, or somehow chastened by Barr's comments. Are they new?
Feb 12, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Barr's intervention in Roger Stone's sentencing wasn't the first time he took control of a Trump ally's case.

Senior DOJ officials also stepped in last month to lower the government's sentencing recommendation for former Trump NSA Michael Flynn.nbcnews.com/politics/justi… The revised sentencing recommendation for Flynn came on the same day Jessie Liu stepped down as DC US Atty [because Trump was to nominate her for a Treasury post]. She was replaced the next day by a Barr ally.

Trump has now rescinded his nomination of Liu.
Feb 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
SCOOP: Trump suddenly pulls his nomination of former DC U.S. attorney Jessie Liu [who, until Dec 2019, was overseeing many Mueller probe related cases, including Roger Stones] to Treasury post.
axios.com/trump-jessie-l… Liu stepped down from the DC USAO [that oversaw the Manafort, Butina, Stone, and Patten cases] after Trump announced in Dec 2019 that he'd nominate her to a Treasury post .

After Barr installed his crony to replace her, Trump withdraws Liu's nomination.
Feb 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🚨>>>> A THIRD prosecutor, AUSA Adam Jed, announces his withdrawal as counsel on behalf of the Government in the Roger Stone case –– days before sentencing. NEW: In the wake of BARR's Justice Dept filing a revised sentencing memo which asks for “far less” jail time than the office asked for a day earlier, 3 out 4 Mueller prosecutors — Zelinsky, Kravis, and Aaron Jed — have withdrawn from the Roger Stone case.
Feb 7, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
NEW: Andrew Peek, Trump's Russia Director who was escorted from WH grounds on Jan 17, was under investigation before joining the NSC in Nov '19. State and NSC officials are cooperating with the probe which has ongoing for months.
by @ErinBanco @attackerman thedailybeast.com/andrew-peek-ns… @ErinBanco @attackerman “Multiple officials in the State Department and the White House are cooperating in a *security-related investigation* into Andrew Peek…”

Oh.
Jan 31, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: During an August meeting in Madrid, Rudy Giuliani urged Zelensky aide Andriy Yermak not to fire Giuliani's longtime client, Kyiv Mayor Klitschko, whose re-election campaign was headed by Manafort associate Sam Patten and bankrolled by Firtash.
#Maddow wapo.st/31dBCA3 Klitschko, a Poroshenko ally, was on the verge of being fired from an appointed post by Zelensky. Giuliani pressured Zelensky's aide to retain him, and, a month later, chastised Zelensky on twitter re the same.

Ultimately, Zelensky did not fire Klitschko.
Jan 31, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: Per John Bolton's book, in early May, Trump directed him to help with his Ukraine extortion scheme.

Trump gave the order in the Oval Office in front of Mick Mulvaney, Rudy Giuliani, and Pat Cipollone, who is leading Trump’s impeachment defense.
nyti.ms/2tcP1fc In his book, Bolton writes that during the early May meeting, Trump directed him to call newly elected President Zelensky to ensure he'd meet Giuliani, who was planning a trip to Ukraine to discuss the politically motivated investigations that Trump sought.
Jan 30, 2020 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
SCOOP by @woodruffbets: Paul Manafort and Igor Fruman, the indicted associate of Trump and Giuliani, go way, way back.

Their relationship long predated Giuliani’s efforts to discredit the Black Ledger evidence that played a key role in Manafort's downfall.thedailybeast.com/paul-manafort-… @woodruffbets Giuliani/Trump ally Igor Fruman and ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort have been friendly for years.

Fruman invited Manafort to the opening party for Buddha-Bar in Kyiv many years ago. They've also spent time together in London and NY. But of course!
Jan 30, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
New Recording: Ten days before they attended the exclusive dinner with Trump at his DC hotel in Apr 2018, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were part of a small group of GOP donors who had dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

All this before they ever met Giuliani.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-r… Parnas and Fruman attended a private donor dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago and the exclusive dinner with Trump and Don Jr. in at Trump's DC Hotel in April 2018, and had breakfast with Don Jr. in May 2018

They didn't meet Giuliani until Jun 2018.