OT: American Politics

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Mitch just threw Trump under the bus:


REPORTER: The president has said that you told him that his phone call with the Ukrainian president was “perfect” and “innocent.” Do you believe that the president has handled this Ukrainian situation perfectly?

MCCONNELL: We’ve not had any conversations on that subject.

 

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apparently the hearing today was pretty damning.

 

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So Anonymous Insider who published the resistance Op-Ed is gonna publish a tell all book.

Probably explains Dorito’s latest meltdown re: the NY Times.

 

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@shaneharris

BREAKING: The Post has obtained a copy of Amb. Bill Taylor's opening statement, in which he says he was told the release of Ukraine aid was contingent on public declaration to investigate Bidens, 2016 election

 

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Two Proud Boys Hit with 4-Year Prison Sentences for Street Brawl Outside Manhattan GOP Club

“It became clear during this trial that violence is very much ingrained in the Proud Boys ethos.”

www.mediaite.com

 

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Wow, Sanders vowing to put an end to Obama's favourite tool of journalistic repression.

Sanders Pledges Not to Use Espionage Act on Whistleblowers as President

“The prosecution of whistleblowers is frankly against our democracy,” added Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

theintercept.com

The century-old law had largely gone out of fashion until it was deployed heavily by the Obama administration, which prosecuted eight people accused of leaking to the media under the Espionage Act, more than all previous presidents combined. President Donald Trump is on pace to break Barack Obama’s record if he gets a second term: He has prosecuted eight such whistleblowers, five of them using the Espionage Act, according to the Press Freedom Tracker.

 

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Mitch just threw Trump under the bus:


REPORTER: The president has said that you told him that his phone call with the Ukrainian president was “perfect” and “innocent.” Do you believe that the president has handled this Ukrainian situation perfectly?

MCCONNELL: We’ve not had any conversations on that subject.

I feel like people should be making a bigger deal about this.

If Mitch is no longer willing to blindly cover for the dotard...

 

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The FBI’s Long History of Treating Political Dissent as Terrorism

A new report documents the FBI’s history of violating the civil rights of political dissidents.

theintercept.com

 

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How Democrats Became the Party of Monopoly and Corruption

This wasn't an accident.

www.vice.com

Detailing the orgy of deregulation of Clinton's administration ...

During the 12 years of the Reagan and Bush administrations, there were 85,064 mergers valued at $3.5 trillion. Under just seven years of Clinton, there were 166,310 deals valued at $9.8 trillion. This merger wave was larger than that of the Reagan era, and larger even than any since the turn of the twentieth century, when the original trusts were created. Hotels, hospitals, banks, investment banks, defense contractors, technology, oil—everything was merging.