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Ted Boutrous

3 years

Trump pardoning a guy indicted by the Trump Justice Department for defrauding Trump supporters over the fake Trump wall is a fitting ending to the Trump presidency.

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

3 years

Soon William Barr will no longer be Attorney General of the United States.

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We are experiencing the complete and utter failure of the Executive Branch of the United States government right now.

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

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Donald Trump fully deserves to be the first President in history to be impeached twice.

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Donald Trump’s presidency, by every possible measure, is an abject failure.

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Tucker Carlson is not a journalist, he is a bad person.

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How awful is Mike Pence

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Donald Trump is making a record-breaking historical fool of himself.

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We don’t have a President right now.

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Ted Boutrous

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A former President cannot assert Executive Privilege against a current President.

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@BoutrousTed

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Donald Trump would be wise to avoid advocating prosecution of presidential families for federal tax crimes.

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

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Donald Trump attempted to corruptly coerce the Justice Department to make false fraud claims about the 2020 presidential election to help him fraudulently overturn it. That’s the worst crime any President has ever committed.

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3 years

It remains shocking that Donald Trump was President of the United States for even one day.

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@BoutrousTed

4 years

Message to the American people from President Trump: I can get tested for coronavirus any time I want and can vote by mail. You can’t.

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

3 years

I have now come to grudgingly admire Mitch McConnell’s exploitation of every loophole in the Senate rules and every lever of power and believe that Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats should follow the exact same approach.

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Ted Boutrous

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Russian interference in a U.S. presidential election is horrible. U.S. presidential interference in a U.S. presidential election is beyond despicable.

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

3 years

The Roman Catholic Bishops are looking really bad right now.

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

4 years

Some Republicans: I was on the verge of doing my duty as a Senator to support the Constitution but then Adam Schiff referenced a news report about something a White House source said so I am mad and now I won’t fulfill my constitutional responsibility.

Emily Cochrane

@ESCochrane

4 years

Republicans are VERY angry about Schiff’s decision to reference that CBS “head on a pike” report. Murkowski says “that’s where he lost me.” Barrasso says “whatever gains he may have made, he lost all of it — plus some — tonight.”

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

3 years

No big-lie-endorsing, Trump-defending insurrection deniers should be allowed on television.

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@BoutrousTed

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Senators should have to pass a basic political science and history test before being sworn in to office.

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@BoutrousTed

3 years

Who agrees that @SenMikeLee made a sniveling historic fool of himself today?

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Ted Boutrous

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If you act honorably and honestly, Donald Trump will fire you.

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

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I think this is a bad look for a journalist.

Terry Moran 🇺🇸

@TerryMoran

4 years

Do you think this is a good look for a President of the United States? Or do you think this is a bad look for a President of the United States?

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

3 years

There is a legal doctrine called “fraud on the court” where a party lies and submits false evidence to try to win and the courts impose sanctions against the perpetrator— @realDonaldTrump is committing fraud on the court and fraud on the country.

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Ted Boutrous

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The President of the United States has now admitted on tape that he blatantly, repeatedly lied to the American people about a deadly virus rampaging through the country killing hundreds of thousand of citizens, and that is the highest of crimes, disqualifying him from office.

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Ted Boutrous

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3 years

If your lawyer helps you in inciting an insurrection against the United States, you shouldn’t have that same lawyer defend you against charges of inciting an insurrection.

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Ted Boutrous

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It’s extraordinarily hard, almost impossible, to pass a law that violates constitutional “rational basis” review, but I think a law that bars one citizen from giving another citizen food and water lacks any rational basis and violates the Constitution.

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Ted Boutrous

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4 years

Leave it to @realDonaldTrump to issue a nasty false tweet about @MaryLTrump and her book that further verifies exactly what she said about him in the book.

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

4 years

As President, you own all of this @realDonaldTrump

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3 years

Constitutional fact: no one in the Senate actually has to listen to a word Mitch McConnell says or follow any unenforceable rules and 51 Senators can put any bill to a vote and vote it in as a law.

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Ted Boutrous

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2 years

What we are now learning confirms that what happened during the period November 4, 2020 through January 6, 2021 is one of the worst, most shocking episodes in American governmental history.

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

4 years

The President of the United States has tried to get the courts to ban a book a week for the last two weeks.

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Ted Boutrous

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4 years

Reporters please subject Mitch McConnell with an honest and unmerciful and unrelenting barrage that will bury him with his own words and actions. This is not a close call.

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Ted Boutrous

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4 years

The Supreme Court has no obligation to grant certiorari and hear every frivolous case @realDonaldTrump brings to it. The President isn’t entitled to any special treatment from the Supreme Court.

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

4 years

Throwing the bag of money out the car window after robbing a bank because the cops are chasing you is not a “subsequent remedial measure.”

Joel Pollak

@joelpollak

4 years

Wrong. This is not evidence of anything at all. Even assuming — for argument’s sake — that the President only released aid because he heard of the whistleblower’s complaint, federal rules of evidence bar “subsequent remedial measures” from being used to prove “culpable conduct.”

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Ted Boutrous

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4 years

If we all vote, Donald Trump loses in a landslide, an absolute avalanche.

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Ted Boutrous

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3 years

. @SenRonJohnson is, in a word, disgusting.

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Ted Boutrous

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8 years

I repeat: I will represent pro bono anyone #Trump sues for exercising their free speech rights. Many other lawyers have offered to join me.

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Ted Boutrous

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3 years

Democracy is in deep deep trouble.

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

4 years

When President Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg in 1863 he delivered a monumental speech for the ages aimed at uniting and healing a torn nation; when Donald Trump spoke at Gettysburg in 2016, he threatened to sue the many women who had accused him of sexual misconduct for defamation.

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Ted Boutrous

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When you are President of the United States and are supposed to be fighting a deadly virus attacking your country and the world and you recklessly and needlessly infect yourself with the virus, you have failed.

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

4 years

If you think things are bad in America right now, think how much worse it would be without a free and independent press protected by the First Amendment.

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@BoutrousTed

4 years

The President of the United States has, in the last 24 hours, simultaneously made a mockery of medical science, the rule of law, the First Amendment, common sense and common decency, and it is grievously damaging to our country.

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Ted Boutrous

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4 years

We are about to find out if Americans can be persuaded to elect someone as president who disrespects them so completely that he will laugh and smile and lie and lie right to their faces about facts that can make them seriously ill, kill them, and throw them into bankruptcy.

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

4 years

The impeachment hearings are not a TV drama or comedy, or a streaming series, or a movie or a play.They are a constitutional evidence-gathering process intended to inform the American people and their elected representatives so we can all decide what to do about President Trump.

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Ted Boutrous

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The First Amendment does not require reporters to “be nice,” but instead protects freedom of the press that is, in the Supreme Court’s words, “uninhibited, robust, and wide-open,” including “vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on . . . public officials.”

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Ted Boutrous

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3 years

I for one would welcome a serious substantive press conference tomorrow from @JoeBiden ’s legal team (at a suitable location) eviscerating, and explaining to the public, Trump’s campaign of frivolous lawsuits against democracy, and addressing Bill Barr’s latest maneuvers.

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It’s extremely rare for a defendant in a civil case to invoke the Fifth Amendment. Extremely rare.

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3 years

We need so many amendments to the Constitution.

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We need to hold accountable, legally and politically, everyone who sought to thwart the lawful 2020 presidential election and our basic processes of democracy.

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There is an evil wind blowing across our great country right now.

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I don’t like Manchin and Sinema.

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Ted Boutrous

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The @ProjectLincoln has been an immense force for good during this election and for democracy and the Democrats should exploit it and take advantage of it for all it’s worth in any way they can.

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Ted Boutrous

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I am the President of the United States, and I don’t know anything about the most egregious, deadly, outrageous threat to the national security of the United States.

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Ted Boutrous

@BoutrousTed

4 years

This former press secretary is an insult to journalism.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

@SarahHuckabee

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The malicious lies about @realDonaldTrump from anonymous sources in the Atlantic are disgusting. This story is an insult to journalism. I would know, because I was there->

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Ted Boutrous

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No former president in our nation’s history has invoked the Fifth Amendment 440 times in a state AG civil financial fraud case, and had his house searched by the FBI pursuant to a warrant in a separate federal national security case, let alone in the same week.

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When they keep two sets of books they know it’s illegal.

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4 years

The chances that impeachment and removal of Donald Trump will create bad precedent for future presidents are absolutely zero.

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Ted Boutrous

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Because @DevinNunes simply can’t handle and respond to real questions from actual journalists just seeking the facts, he runs and hides from them.

Oliver Darcy

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When CNN approached @DevinNunes for comment on this story, he replied, “I don't talk to you in this lifetime or the next lifetime.” "At any time," Nunes added. "On any question."

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Ted Boutrous

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Bill Barr should have repudiated Donald Trump when he first read the Mueller Report, but instead Barr blatantly deceived the public about what the report said and breached his duties as Attorney General by misleadingly trying to defend indefensible misconduct by a president.

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Ted Boutrous

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I wouldn’t trust the President’s doctor to put a BAND-AID on my finger

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If you are president of a country, and you actually know something is happening that could very well kill millions of people in your country, and you lie about it for months falsely telling your country that it actually is not happening, you don’t rate a “10.”

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Ted Boutrous

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Inciting a physical attack on Congress to thwart the peaceful transfer of power to a new President AND trying to engineer an elaborate conspiracy to subvert and corrupt state vote-counting AND seeking to illegally nullify the electoral college has got to be a major federal crime.

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The entire premise of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United, which Sen. McConnell backed and backs wholeheartedly, is that corporations have full-throated First Amendment rights in politics.

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@stltoday

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‘Stay out of politics,’ Republican leader McConnell tells U.S. CEOs, warns of ‘consequences’

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Here is a proposal: police cannot use any physical force or violence, tasers or guns or knees or anything else, in connection with minor alleged traffic or financial offenses.

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The President is a mean dumb lunatic

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What a humiliating day for what’s left of the Republican party.

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Donald Trump will almost certainly commit additional impeachable offenses in the coming days, plus new evidence will keep coming on Ukraine and there is no double jeopardy impeachment clause.

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This is outrageous, and banning or punishing Steve Herman @W7VOA for reporting the truth about an issue of immense public concern would violate the First Amendment and due process.

Josh Dawsey

@jdawsey1

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Pence staff threatens action against reporter who tweeted about visit to clinic without surgical mask - The Washington Post

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As a lawyer, you are not allowed to file lawsuits and cast false aspersions and litigate without any evidence just to make your client feel better.

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The court has dismissed the Trump family’s lawsuit seeking to block Mary Trump’s book. . My statement: “The court has promptly and correctly held that it lacks jurisdiction to grant the Trump family’s baseless request to suppress a book . . . 1/2

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In light of @realDonaldTrump ’s threat that “people should pay dearly for such false accusations” in response to E. Jean Carroll’s powerful accusations, I reiterate: there is an army of lawyers, including me, ready to defend her and anyone else he attacks for speaking freely.

Beth Reinhard

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“I’ve never met this person in my life,” Trump said. But accuser has a photo of what appears to be him, ex-wife Ivana and her at what she said was a 1987 party. She said he called her "that advice lady" when she ran into him a few yrs later.

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The word “Republican” means something completely different than it did 10 years ago.

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I guarantee no one actually admires or respects @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy.

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We have just achieved a massive upgrade at the Department of Justice.

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This utterly false tweet from President @realDonaldTrump is a high crime and misdemeanor.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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A blow to her head? Body found under his desk? Left Congress suddenly? Big topic of discussion in Florida...and, he’s a Nut Job (with bad ratings). Keep digging, use forensic geniuses!

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The Supreme Court really never should have anything at all to do with deciding a presidential election if the political question doctrine means anything.

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Jared Kushner has no idea what he is doing and we are all victims of that.

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They are fined with large monetary penalties or jailed until they comply. The flagrant disregard of congressional subpoenas in an impeachment inquiry is lawless and inexplicable.

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I have a question for the lawyers...what happens if a citizen refuses to comply with a subpoena?

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Just think how easily Mike Pence could have used this day to elevate our country’s politics and discourse and to inspire and ensure our future as a democracy if he only had the tiniest amount of courage to do so.

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Ted Boutrous

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There are so many stellar, renowned lawyers and constitutional scholars who are closely identified with the Republican Party—and not a single one of them would agree to defend Donald Trump in a Senate impeachment trial for his inciting of an insurrection against our country.

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. @mattgaetz is a very good symbol of Donald Trump and what he represented for our country.

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Convict Trump

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We have a self-Ponzi scheme artist as our President and it’s all coming to a head.

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We have hit many First Amendment lows in the Trump years but the President imprisoning a citizen to stop the citizen from writing a book criticizing him is an especially frightening moment. We should all be grateful to the lawyers, @ACLU & @edanyaperry , and judge who killed it.

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This was an utterly embarrassing, foolish speech that contradicts conservative and liberal legal philosophy — and the facts of life — by someone who has no business serving as Attorney General.

Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸

@MaxBoot

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Earth to Barr: Trump does not treat his critics as “the loyal opposition." He calls them “human scum,” “traitors,” & “the enemy of the people.” And it is Trump and toadies—not his opponents—who are “willing to use any means necessary to gain ... advantage.”

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This interview will goes down as the worst effort at real-time rapid response of all time.

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@atrupar

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"Ready? Will you please get me the mortality rate? Kayleigh is right here... I heard we have the best mortality rate" - the WH just flat out made up a chart to create a false impression that the US has the best mortality rate in the world during Trump's interview w/ Chris Wallace

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During a global health pandemic and economic crisis, we need a president who is brave, honest, compassionate, calm, clear, thoughtful and decisive. We don’t have that.

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When the defendant himself releases a document that is itself so incriminating that it is more than sufficient to convict him, then immediately confesses to the crime on camera, then doubles down by committing the crime again on global television, he received due process. Guilty.

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Reporters have the right and indeed an obligation to try to get secret information from every branch of the government and the First Amendment protects their efforts to do so.

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This is not due process.

Acyn

@Acyn

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Mitch McConnell: Everything I do during this, I’m coordinating with White House Counsel. There will be no difference between the President’s position and our position as to how to handle this

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The introductions to the two volumes of the Mueller Report do not contain a single redaction and could have been released in full on March 24 instead of the Barr letter.

Brian Stelter

@brianstelter

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"Trump and supporters filled the 25-day vacuum from letter to report with jubilant claims of vindication." And "it's working," @mikeallen writes. "Most Democrats, including Speaker Pelosi, are opposed to impeachment hearings."

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It’s difficult to overstate just how devastating it is to @realDonaldTrump that the whistleblower’s complaint (written weeks ago) matches up precisely with the official White House memorandum of Trump’s phone call with the President of Ukraine (publicly released only yesterday).

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Flynn’s Trump pardon is more of a badge of shame than his guilty plea.

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When you publish a book revealing all sorts of confidential information about and communications with the former President, you can’t claim Executive Privilege against Congress or the courts.

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Donald Trump incited an insurrection against the United States government, was impeached and nearly convicted for doing so, and is continuing to do it with impunity. There must be harsh legal consequences for this, to protect our democracy.

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As I discussed with @maddow tonight, AG Barr’s claims that he is barred from disclosing grand jury information contained in the Mueller report to Congress by Rule 6(e) is false. Rule 6(e)(3)(D) creates a national security/foreign intelligence exception that applies here. 1/1

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Getting busted is different than getting canceled.

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@RepMattGaetz

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I may be a canceled man in some corners. I may even be a wanted man by the Deep State. But I hear the millions of Americans who feel forgotten, canceled, ignored, marginalized and targeted. I draw confidence knowing that the silent majority is growing louder every day.

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Let’s face it: If you are a country that is depending on Sen. Joe Manchin for survival and success, you are a country that is in very big trouble.

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America, let’s not forget to have a huge celebration and burst of immense joy to commemorate the purging of Donald Trump and all his people from the presidency.

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