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@washingtonpost @MSNBC , finder of fact, best-selling author "Zero Fail", "A Very Stable Genius", "I Alone Can Fix It". Story tip? carol.leonnig @washpost .com

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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
3 years
🎉🥂Pinching myself that my book #ZEROFAIL , debuts at #2 on #nytimes Bestseller List! *THANK YOU* to @randomhouse , the readers and lovers of history - and esp the @SecretService agents and officers who shared their stories with me to help the agency they love. Ever grateful. 🙏❤️
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She was taking no prisoners
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Well, this was remarkable.
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Carol Leonnig
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By the end of February, a Berlin start-up had produced 1.4 million tests for coronavirus to ship around the world. The US said no thanks; we can create our own. But now after numerous failures, the US now has the lowest rate for testing its citizens
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Carol Leonnig
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BREAKING: NY AG calls to dissolve @NRA and oust Wayne LaPierre, its leader for the last 39 years. In lawsuit filed today, AG accuses LaPierre and top lieutenants of a decades-long pattern of fraud -- and of diverting millions from NRA coffers to line their own pockets.
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Carol Leonnig
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PURGED — Here’s the news. ⁦Those @SecretService ⁩ texts are gone, gone, gone . Agency scoured records and said it found nothing new to give Congress . National Archives now investigating if USSS broke the law
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Carol Leonnig
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NEW >>>> Trump once said he'd "rarely leave the White House" and would save taxpayers by cutting back on travel. Now his administration is trying to block the public from learning the bill for his travel until after the election. me and @Fahrenthold
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Carol Leonnig
4 years
Just Now: Seasoned judge, appointed by Republican president, says AG Barr's credibility is in doubt. Walton argues the way Barr spun Mueller investigation appeared "calculated" to help @realdonaldtrump and hurts DOJ credibility too.
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Carol Leonnig
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NEWWWS -- Details about nuclear capabilities of a foreign government were in records seized at trump's Mar-a-Lago in early August. As well as details of US programs so secret that seniormost natsec officials didn't know they existed. me & @DevlinBarrett
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Carol Leonnig
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NEWWWWS -- National Archives is now investigating the "potential unauthorized deletion" of Secret Service texts, per statement they sent us today. Story to come from me and @mariasacchetti
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Carol Leonnig
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NEW >>>> Jeff Epstein autopsy found multiple neck bone fractures, which can be caused by suicidal hanging -- but are more commonly found in homicidal strangulation. The mystery deepens about the death of a billionaire w secrets Me w @byaaroncdavis
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Carol Leonnig
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NEWWW - Trump Org charged @SecretService five and six times the government rate for agents who had to stay at his properties to protect him and his families. As much as $1185 a nite for Trump International -- not "at cost" and "free" as Eric Trump claimed
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Carol Leonnig
4 years
Trump said he was hiring all the best people. Here's the startling reality.
@ProjectLincoln
The Lincoln Project
4 years
Trump’s campaign manager is a felon. His deputy campaign manager is a felon. His national security advisor is a felon. His foreign policy advisor is a felon. His personal lawyer is a felon. His long time advisor is a felon. It’s not a campaign, it’s a criminal enterprise.
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Carol Leonnig
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SCOOP White House review of Ukraine records finds Chief of staff and OMB staff trying to figure out justification for @realDonaldTrump block on aid - after the fact and after an anonymous CIA complaint. Me w @jdawsey1 @thamburger
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
4 years
No one can watch this video and think police would ever do this to a white family and their young girls. The suspicion of a stolen car, the police claim of following "protocol"- it barely matters. It is the horrific treatment.
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Kristen Clarke
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Aurora Colorado cops drew their weapons on a Black woman and 4 girls after claiming they believed their car was stolen. The children can be heard crying. This is the same department tied to the death of #ElijahMcClain . Dehumanizing and racist treatment.
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Carol Leonnig
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SCOOP: 🚨 President Trump *was* rushed to bunker after protesters breached barricades Friday night, accd'g to officials and record. It conflicts w/ Trump's claim he wasn't there for his security, but was just "inspecting" the place.
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Carol Leonnig
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I cannot repost the "Trump as mass murderer" video. How low are we going to go? How much lower can we bear?
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Carol Leonnig
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To remind: Here's why Jared Kushner was never supposed to get a clearance "Officials in at least 4 countries privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner..using his financial difficulties and lack of experience." Me W @shaneharris @jdawsey1
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Carol Leonnig
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The line that infuriated Trump: “There’s mourning in America. And under the leadership of Donald Trump, our country is weaker, sicker and poorer. And Americans are asking, ‘If we have another four years like this, will there even be an America" @gtconway3d
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Carol Leonnig
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"A Texas nurse and 17-year veteran of emergency rooms wrote: 'Never seen anything like this. Protocols change minute to minute if there are any at all. I can no longer trust the @CDCgov . For the first time in my career I am scared to go to work.'"
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
4 years
FACT: US has conducted 16.4 tests per every 1,000 people, below the world average and about the same as *Belarus* Iceland: 136 per 1,000 Bahrain: 71 Italy: 30 Russia: 22 Belarus: 17
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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The only reason the U.S. has reported one million cases of CoronaVirus is that our Testing is sooo much better than any other country in the World. Other countries are way behind us in Testing, and therefore show far fewer cases!
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Carol Leonnig
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Update: - Kavanaugh acknowledges close friendship with Kasowitz atty Ed McNally - White House and Kasowitz firm say McNally neither helped prep Kavaugh nor discussed Mueller probe with him.
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Carol Leonnig
6 years
Still waiting on Kasowitz firm to answer this question: How do they know -- in less than 24 hours -- that none of their staff in 9 offices across the country spoke to Brett Kavanaugh?
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Carol Leonnig
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NEW Army is ready to relocate Lt. Col Alex Vindman and his family to an Army base to protect him. Stepped up patrols of his home and security assessment come after @realDonaldTrump & GOP allies have attacked impeachment witness.
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Carol Leonnig
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THERE'S MORE Judge Sullivan demands that public gets to learn everything Trump's lawyer John Dowd said in voice mail to Flynn's lawyer. In his calls, Dowd appeared to suggest it wasn't good idea for Flynn to cooperate, it would upset @realdonaldtrump
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Carol Leonnig
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People close to Epstein fear he was murdered...as Epstein told authorities someone tried to kill him in a previous incident weeks earlier. He was described as being in good spirits in recent days...
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
4 years
This has been a long time coming. @SecretService has been stalling on turning over its costs of protecting Trump to anyone - despite laws requiring them to report to Congress every six months. Why? Who is telling them not to?
@FOIANate
FOIA Nate📄
4 years
. @washingtonpost has just sued the Secret Service and State in a #FOIA lawsuit for failing to produce Secret Service spending data at Trump properties in response to @Fahrenthold and @partlowj FOIAs .
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Carol Leonnig
6 years
Trump says FISA docs prove FBI probe was crooked. Nearly every intel reporter who read them concluded the opposite.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Congratulations to @JudicialWatch and @TomFitton on being successful in getting the Carter Page FISA documents. As usual they are ridiculously heavily redacted but confirm with little doubt that the Department of “Justice” and FBI misled the courts. Witch Hunt Rigged, a Scam!
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Carol Leonnig
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One thing that struck me. Our sources say Mueller team really upset that Barr hasn't shared full story on the obstruction evidence they gathered.
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Neal Katyal
5 years
Very interesting that @washingtonpost has now matched the @nytimes story. We went 22 months without even a peep from Mueller and his team, and now this.
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When I interviewed NRA folks about the Russian influence operation, they always stress that LaPierre had no connectionn to Butina, it was Keene.
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Darrell Hill
5 years
Whatever you do, DO NOT SHARE this photo of NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre with Russian agent Maria Butina. Apparently, Wayne wants it removed from the internet.
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Carol Leonnig
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Chad, I don't see you citing any inaccuracies. Please let us know what you believe they are and we will be happy to review. We reported the facts, as documented in correspondence with your former agency. 1) Your texts are missing.2) DHS said the reason is they reset your phone.
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Chad Wolf
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It’s hard to know where to begin with the inaccuracies in this reporting. @mariasacchetti @CarolLeonnig gave me just hours to “respond” while I was traveling. Had they actually attempted to reach me this is what I would have said…
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BREAKING — IG knew ⁦ @SecretService ⁩ texts from Jan 6 had been wiped in February … but didn’t tell Congress . That’s despite the fact that multiple committees were actively investigating Jan 6 and seeking those records w ⁦⁦ @mariasacchetti
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SCOOP O'Clock: In eerily-worded Jan 3 memo, Capitol Police's intel unit predicted every grim thing that happened in the Capitol siege. They forecast a perfect storm: desperate pro-Trumpers, armed and storming toward a new angry target: Congress. My latest
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Biden White House takes rare step, blocks promotion of one of 2 Army generals who initially refused on Jan 6 to send National Guard to Capitol and then tried to cover up their role. Gen Piatt denied 4-star; Gen Flynn got his.
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Carol Leonnig
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New and Not Good; Fed personnel chief quits abruptly, reportedly upset at being micromanaged by White House and unable to communicate clear, timely alerts to agency managers on how they should respond to the growing coronavirus health threat @reinlwapo
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Carol Leonnig
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"We don’t want you to be our neighbor." Mar a Lago well-to-do warn Trump he can't legally live at his Palm Beach club after taking tax breaks that promise he won't use it as his residence. @RoigFranzia and me..
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Top White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly. His team at NSC has been disbanded. “These moves make us materially less safe,” one expert says. @bylenasun
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Carol Leonnig
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Cannot-Make-It-Up Department. Interior Secretary under investigation for allegedly trying to enrich himself in office wouldn't leave job until he could have Christmas party with lobbyists and take pictures in front of stuffed polar bear
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Josh Dawsey
5 years
White House pushed Zinke to quit for weeks and told him he would be fired if he did not. He was viewed as big issue w/Democrats taking House. But he wanted to have his Christmas party Thursday night, where he invited activists, lobbyists, donors and more.
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"I said, Get it done. I didn't say, Go do it." AG Barr seeking to distance himself from broadly condemned move to forcibly remove peaceful protesters near White House @mattzap
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Carol Leonnig
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HERE are the TAPES: Trump berates Ga. secretary of state, urges him to ‘find’ votes via @WordsOfSarah
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Carol Leonnig
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SCOOP: Mark Judge’s girlfriend is ready to talk to FBI and Judiciary Committee about what Judge confided to her about boys taking turns having sex with a drunk woman, her lawyer says @ThePlumLineGS
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Carol Leonnig
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NEWWW : Secret Service had a motorcade accident -- with @VP Harris inside -- but at first obscured what really happened. Accident disturbed USSS Director and Veep -- and revived worries about the @SecretService history of hiding the truth
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Carol Leonnig
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This is a big deal. Chuck Rosenberg, known as smart manager, devoted law enforcer, leaves. Said he concludes Trump doesn't respect the law.
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Matt Zapotosky
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BREAKING: DEA administrator plans to step down with @devlinbarrett
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Carol Leonnig
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Ted Olson, Republican lawyer who argued Bush v Gore, says Biden is the president and election is over. His audience: Federalist Society panel
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Carol Leonnig
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NEW: It was the Attorney General who gave the order to forcibly clear protesters, largely peaceful, out of Lafayette park area where Trump held photo op. We've been asking White House and a slew of federal agencies all day, and nobody would cop to it. Until now.
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Matt Zapotosky
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NEW: A decision had been made late Sunday night/early Monday to extend perimeter around Lafayette Square. It was supposed to happen Monday afternoon. But when AG Barr showed up at that time, it wasn't done. He told police to do it.
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Carol Leonnig
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Britt used a graphic sex trafficking story to suggest a frightening crisis at America's border under Biden. But now this reporting finds the story didn't occur on America's border and has nothing to do with Biden
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Yashar Ali 🐘
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Well it looks like Jonathan M. Katz has caught @SenKatieBritt in a pretty significant lie.
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Carol Leonnig
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Turkey's president threw Trump's letter in trash, report says. Erdogan launched Syria offensive the next day. How little @realDonaldTrump threats swayed the leader of Turkey.
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Carol Leonnig
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Everybody should read this. El Paso County Sheriff has some cut- to-the-bone questions
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Carol Leonnig
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"We were invited by the president of the United States."
@drewharwell
Drew Harwell
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Very telling video of rioters outside the Capitol shouting at police: "We were invited here. We were invited by the president of the United States"
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Carol Leonnig
4 years
This is 100% not true. As he and multiple Trump aides testified, Vindman alerted a superior, the White House lawyer supervising the NSC, as his top boss, John Bolton, had previously recommended he do. Vindman did not leak the call. He discussed concerns with colleagues only.
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Carol Leonnig
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NEW Justice Kennedy privately and successfully lobbied @realDonaldTrump to get his clerk - Brett Kavanaugh - added to contender list to replace him on Supremes. From new book by @RuthMarcus
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
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It was a shock to fed prosecutors that the FBI resisted the raid in the face of this surveillance video and evidence of an intent to obstruct the subpoena
@FrankFigliuzzi1
Frank Figliuzzi
10 months
This earlier account of FBI execs balking at a Mar a Lago search warrant is even more troubling now that we know the Bureau had video of Nauta hiding boxes: FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors argued over raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago - The Washington Post
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Carol Leonnig
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Two veteran doctors who treated covid patients told me they would have been fired for letting an older covid patient take a drive outside the hospital
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Rachel Maddow MSNBC
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"the president has been a phenomenal patient"? this is absolutely ridiculous.
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Carol Leonnig
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The Mueller team found evidence of @realDonaldTrump engaged in obstruction that was "far more serious" and "more acute" than AG Barr revealed to the public in his summary, our sources say. Mueller team frustration is bubbling to surface.
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Carol Leonnig
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"The things she’s highlighting that say that Dr. Ford is not credible are the very things she has taught me to ignore,”says Mitchell protege. "She’s abandoned what she knows to be true in favor of being a political operative.” @emmersbrown @seungminkim
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Carol Leonnig
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EXCLUSIVE: Roger Stone, a Trump ally, told *two* friends he knew of a trove of hacked emails that would damage Democrats in 2016 -- months before the public knew they existed. Me w/ @thamburger @jdawsey1 @shaneharris .
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Carol Leonnig
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Trump is right. No other president has been roundly blamed for a mass shooting before. The question: why is that?
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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“Did George Bush ever condemn President Obama after Sandy Hook. President Obama had 32 mass shootings during his reign. Not many people said Obama is out of Control. Mass shootings were happening before the President even thought about running for Pres.” @kilmeade @foxandfriends
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Carol Leonnig
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Seminary professor steps forward to say he was Yale student who knew said Kavanaugh pushed his penis in classmate's face: “I can corroborate Debbie’s account..I believe her, because it matches the same story I heard thirty-five years ago."
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
2 years
Firing of Jan 6 chief investigator from UVA job is going to draw a lot of questions, rightly so. Highly respected, well liked fed prosecutor,Tim Heaphy is double UVA grad who was driving Jan 6 probe deep into Trump orbit
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Carol Leonnig
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Wow. It would cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars in @SecretService expenses, but Melania stayed in Trump Tower after inauguration to sweeten her financial standing and prenuptial agreement with Trump, Per new book by @marycjordan
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
4 years
This story is one to watch: EPA chief of staff under investigation for reports he routinely destroyed politically-sensitive documents. @dlippman via @politico
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
5 years
Weirdly , I dont think this is hyperbole at all.
@allinwithchris
All In with Chris Hayes
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. @neal_katyal : "I think we very well could look back on this day...as the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency" #inners
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Carol Leonnig
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The Fullest Story: Va man arrested w Glock had proper Park Police pass but PP had not communicated that to @SecretService , other law enforcement. Man has no extremist ties, cooperated fully with cops and was released, cleared from further investigation
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Carol Leonnig
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NEWWWS >>> The readout for Trump's April call w Ukraine leader was wrong. Trump never mentioned a concern about corruption, and White House issued inaccurate public readout of call, per source familiar with discussion.
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Carol Leonnig
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This is not how the FISA court works. The duty judge doesnt normally hold a hearing to consider an application.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Report: There were no FISA hearings held over Spy documents.”It is astonishing that the FISA courts couldn’t hold hearings on Spy Warrants targeting Donald Trump. It isn’t about Carter Page, it’s about the Trump Campaign. You’ve got corruption at the DOJ & FBI. The leadership....
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Carol Leonnig
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Keep in mind the President has been briefed
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
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Ukrainian president “directly” expressed concerns at meeting w US lawmaker that “the aid that was being cut off to Ukraine by the president was a consequence” of his unwillingness to launch an investigation into the Bidens.
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Carol Leonnig
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Dragged from car and shot to death
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Brett McGurk
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Turkish state-backed media hails a “successful operation” to “neutralize” an unarmed 35-year old woman working to unite Arabs, Christians, and Kurds in NE Syria. Ms. Hevrin Khalef was reportedly dragged from a vehicle and shot to death. That’s a war crime.
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Carol Leonnig
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BREAKING... Federal judge rules against @realDonaldTrump and administration in Democrats anti- corruption lawsuit ... would clear way for search of records of his profits from foreign interests. Me w @amarimow @OConnellPostbiz
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NEW : AG Whitaker was once ranked as one of the worst US Attorneys in the country for abusing a power to send minor drug offenders to prison for decades...via @PostKranish
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Carol Leonnig
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This will stick with me for a while. @BWilliams says it just right. "My biggest worry is for my country.... The Darkness on the edge of town has spread to the main roads"
@11thHour
11th Hour
2 years
Brian signs off from the 11th Hour one last time.
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
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BREAKING NEWS -- Political nonprofits have to IDENTIFY many of their donors under federal court ruling after Supreme Court declines to intervene via @myhlee & @scotusreporter
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Carol Leonnig
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“For the president, the leader of the free world and head of the Republican Party, to make completely unsubstantiated charges about our elections being rigged is not right,” GOP campaign superlawyer Ben Ginsberg switches sides to blast @realDonaldTrump
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Carol Leonnig
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This decision to allow a USSS agent - who is sworn to be above politics -to serve as a Presidential political adviser crossed a major line for @SecretService . It was approved by current director James Murray at Trump’s urging, a decision that infuriated current and former agents
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Carol Leonnig
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Still waiting on Kasowitz firm to answer this question: How do they know -- in less than 24 hours -- that none of their staff in 9 offices across the country spoke to Brett Kavanaugh?
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
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TONIGHT >>> In interviewing Chief Sund, here's what I learned. * He tried 6 times to get reinforcements for his officers to shield the Capitol, and was denied and delayed each time. *He sees his officers as heroes *He fears: "it’s going to happen again,”
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Carol Leonnig
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NEWWWWS >>Secret Service agents sick with COVID forced VP Pence to delay his trip this week to Arizona. Agency had to find healthy agents and officers to replace sick ones. Second time they have tested positive while helping plan WH trips Me and @jdawsey1
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Carol Leonnig
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Trump claimed he knew nothing about WH disbanding pandemic team. But video shows he did: “Some of the people we’ve cut they haven’t been used for many, many years and if we ever need them we can get them very quickly and rather than spending the money”.
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
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SCOOP The president's travels keep sickening and sidelining @SecretService agents. Five had to be replaced in Tampa. Two fell sick when assigned to Bedminster for Trump's golf trip there. Agents who will take a bullet for democracy now risk lethal virus
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
4 years
Some Secret Service agents outraged at @realDonaldTrump 's Sunday night drive . How could.Trump’s desire to be seen outside of his hospital suite justify the jeopardy to agents who protect him, they ask
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
3 years
In the Jan. 6 call, Capitol Police chief Sund begged the Army generals for reinforcements as rioters breached the Capitol. Accdg to one person, Flynn said some of those marching to the Capitol were "peaceful protesters." DC's police chief retorted: "They're not peaceful anymore."
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
4 years
"The president seems oblivious to the fact that his own clown car of an administration bungled the priceless lead time to get ready for the pandemic. After 7,000 deaths, Trump is focused on the same thing he is always focused on: himself. " @maureendowd
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
2 years
Stay tuned. I don’t think this is the last time we’ll be using the words “erased” and “missing”
@ratemyskyperoom
Room Rater
2 years
Weird, huh? More disappearing emails. 10/10 @CarolLeonnig is on it. Great kitchen, too.
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Carol Leonnig
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Quite a Stunning Tale: Trump doorman said presidential candidate Donald Trump had fathered another woman's child, but National Enquirer paid for his silence. @RonanFarrow reports the doorman passed lie detector test, but David Pecker shelved story
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
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"Kaepernick was treated as un-American and radical simply for asking the question, “Isn’t this lethal racism every American’s problem?” Instead of defending him, most NFL owners stood by or projected acceptance as Donald Trump called him a son of a bitch."
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
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EXCLUSIVE - DOJ twice axed plans to investigate Trump link to Jan 6 and Trump-led effort to steal 2020 election. It resulted in premier law enforcement agency not investigating his attack on democracy for more than a year. Me & ⁦ @byaaroncdavis
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
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EXCLUSIVE Chief Justice Roberts has received many misconduct complaints against Kavanaugh from a fellow judge based on Senate comments. In tense confirmation, he did not referr them to a judicial panel for further investigation. Me w @amarimow @thamburger
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
5 years
This seems quite big
@samstein
Sam Stein
5 years
EXCLUSIVE: Armed Services Chair James Inhofe bought 50k-100k in Raytheon stock days after pushing for record Pentagon budget. @lachlan asked his office about it today. He dropped the stock soon thereafter.
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@CarolLeonnig
Carol Leonnig
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🚨🚨 “Government officials worried as Trump left office that he presented the perfect profile of a security risk: He was a disgruntled former employee, with access to sensitive government secrets, dead set on tearing down what he believed was a deep state”
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