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4 years

Really big, important story: Richard Grenell was hired by Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc and didn't disclose it:

Trump’s New Spy Chief Used to Work for a Foreign Politician the U.S. Accused of Corruption

Richard Grenell did not disclose payments for advocacy work on behalf of a Moldovan politician whom the U.S. later accused of corruption. His own office’s policy says that could leave him vulnerable...

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Trump had no plan to distribute the vaccine! He said this himself - the 'last mile' of distribution - shots into arms - was up to the states, not him

No, Trump Doesn’t Deserve Credit For Planning Vaccine Distribution

With the COVID-19 vaccines starting to bring the pandemic to an end,...

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Zelensky: “If soldiers attack us, if they try to take our country, our freedom, our lives, the lives of our children, we will defend ourselves. Not attack, but defend ourselves.” “Attacking us, you will see not our backs but our faces."

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Exclusive: TPM is publishing inside documents from Trump's attorneys as they sought to overturn the 2020 election

The Legal Coup

In late 2020, a group of conservative movement attorneys set out to...

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Roman Nasirov, Ukraine's notoriously corrupt former tax chief, made it to Mar-a-Lago with Lev Parnas for some reason

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Scoop: The Trump admin is ending support for 7 testing sites in Texas at the end of this month, as it shuts down support for community-based testing nationwide:

EXCLUSIVE: Feds About To Bail On Supporting COVID Testing Sites In Texas And Other States

The Trump administration is ending funding and support for local COVID-19 testing...

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New, w/ @hunterw : Bernie Kerik asked Mark Meadows for $5 to $8 Million for a plan to reverse Trump's 2020 defeat

Bernie Kerik Pitched Mark Meadows on '$5 to $8' Million Plan To Reverse Trump 2020 Loss

Bernie Kerik had a plan to keep former President Trump in office...

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NEW: Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’

Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’

A secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the...

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4 years

By any measure, the true death toll of the pandemic likely went past 100k weeks ago

Obits Spiked Around Country With COVID Onslaught

Don’t just take it from the CDC. Deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic...

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Emails and texts show how Ken Chesebro and other Trump attorneys gamed out what would happen if they succeeded in halting the count on Jan. 6: weeks of chaos, hearings on voter fraud, and maximum pressure on the Supreme Court

Two Weeks of Chaos

Donald Trump’s months-long effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election...

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4 years

Shokin was not investigating Burisma! One of the reasons there was an **international** chorus calling for his removal was precisely because he had failed to move at all on the Burisma probe

Senators Vote To Acquit President Trump

The Senate voted Wednesday to acquit President Trump of charges of abuse...

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BREAKING: David Correia - indicted w/Giuliani pals Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas - was arrested at JFK this morning

Feds Nab Fourth Defendant In Case Against Giuliani Pals At JFK Airport In New York

David Correia, the last defendant at large in alleged schemes tied to...

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2 years

This is a war of choice against 40 million peaceful people

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NEW: Liberty University sues Jerry Falwell Jr., alleging that Falwell breached his fiduciary duty to the university by concealing his relationship with Giancarlo Granda

READ: Liberty Sues Jerry Falwell Jr. For Millions In Damages Over Granda Episode

Liberty University sued its former leader Jerry Falwell Jr. on Thursday, accusing...

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4 years

Fun fact: Trump fired Blagojevich from Celebrity Apprentice due to his insufficient knowledge of Harry Potter

Before Trump Mulled A Blagojevich Pardon, He Fired Him

Rod Blagojevich had made the wrong move. He had thrown what dwindling...

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BREAKING - @ABC News has learned President Trump expected to commute the sentenced of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich via multiple senior level sources - more to come @KFaulders @vlasto & me

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This includes Chesebro contemplating a scenario in which Congress failed to act at all, thereby forcing the election to......Nancy Pelosi

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US Treasury sanctions Ukrainian MP Andrii Derkach over election interference, calling him a Russian agent. Derkach met with Giuliani in Kyiv in December and handed him a dossier of information:

US Treasury Sanctions Ukrainian MP Who Spread Biden Disinfo Over Electoral Interference

The Treasury Department sanctioned a Ukrainian parliamentarian who met with Trump attorney...

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4 years

As the Senate votes to acquit President Trump, we obtained evidence showing that President Petro Poroshenko, Zelensky's predecessor, nearly announced Biden investigations in March '19:

New Evidence Shows Pressure Campaign Started Earlier With Prior Ukraine Prez

As the Senate votes to acquit President Trump over his bid to...

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3 months

We will be publishing more stories on this in the coming days. Stay tuned

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George Santos on his chief of staff: "I’ve obviously fucked up and lied to him, like I lied to everyone else." On not traveling overseas for pricey but reliable Botox treatments: "I spend a lot more than that on Botox, but I trust the people."

Leaked Audio And Staff Dispute Show Chaos Inside George Santos’ Office

After a little over a week working with embattled Rep. George Santos...

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Had it gone according to plan, however, the Trump camp would have found a way to remove the time limits on debate set by the Electoral Count Act, thereby extending debate on the 2020 election until Jan. 20.

Two Weeks of Chaos

Donald Trump’s months-long effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election...

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Six members of The Base, a violent neo-nazi organization, have been arrested this week . W/ @mattshuham

Three Neo-Nazis Arrested Over Plot To Murder Antifa Couple

Three members of neo-Nazi group “The Base” were arrested Wednesday on murder...

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As Chesebro said in the messages, that was both an invitation to SCOTUS to rule, and a means of applying leverage on the court

Two Weeks of Chaos

Donald Trump’s months-long effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election...

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New: It looks like Ihor Kolomoisky used Lev Parnas to feed Giuliani disinfo about Joe Biden:

Everything Rudy Did, He Did For Trump

When Rudy Giuliani wanted to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in May...

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another juror, now excused: "I was born and raised in Italy...the media has raised specific images and associations between Mr Trump and Silvio Berlusconi. and now sitting here it is hard for me to maintain impartiality and fairness."

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Plahotniuc was banned from entering the US last month, after the State Dept endorsed corruption allegations that Grenell tried to discredit

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"Apparently believing it would be too cruel to cut Trump off from his institutional support base completely, conservatives decided to arrange for him a sort of Make-a-Wish Foundation version of Bush v. Gore."

A Coup Is a Coup

It’s still an illegitimate power grab, even if Republican operatives are only doing it to protect Trump’s fragile ego.

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1 year

Kind of amazing how easy it was to bait the GOP into having a big, public fight about whether we should end Social Security and Medicare

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🚨 On the radio this morning, Ron Johnson says “yes” to Social Security and Medicare reforms, and repeats that Social Security is a “legal Ponzi scheme.”

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At least two of the people sanctioned here - Voloshyn and Sivkovych - worked with Paul Manafort in Kyiv

Natasha Bertrand

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NEW Blinken statement on the sanctions: "In advance of a potential further invasion of Ukraine, Russian intelligence services, mainly the Federal Security Service (FSB)...have been recruiting Ukrainian nationals in key positions to gain access to sensitive information."

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Laura Ingraham Rushed To Defend Alito — But Didn’t Mention She’d Stayed At Same Lodge Owned By Mutual Friend

Laura Ingraham Rushed To Defend Alito — But Didn’t Mention She’d Stayed At Same Lodge Owned By...

Justice Samuel Alito’s decision to leave his luxury Alaska fishing trip unmentioned...

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The line to enter the courthouse today includes a man with a steampunk clock purse. He says he is here to gather body language info and sell it to professional gamblers seeking to bet on the outcome. “In the gold rush, the people who were guaranteed to get rich sold the shovels.”

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IMO the news of what McGonigal allegedly did while *in* government is way bigger than the Deripaska allegations

DOJ Accuses FBI Official Of Concealing Massive Cash Payments From Foreign Gov't

The same FBI official accused of illegally working for a Russian oligarch...

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We have the Meadows texts thanks to the indefatigable @hunterw . This work offers an extraordinarily detailed look at how top White House officials plotted to stay in power against the will of the American people as expressed in the 2020 election

A Plot To Overturn An American Election

The messages you are about to read are the definitive, real-time record...

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3 years

Not a coincidence that those with greatest criminal exposure post-Trump are also the most cynical in promoting this kind of violent and irresponsible rhetoric

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General Flynn sharing the clip of the man telling Limbaugh he would die for President Trump and that only Limbaugh and Trump stand for them — not anyone else in the GOP.

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Scoop: Some states won't agree to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine if it's approved without phase III tests complete, reviewed by independent board

EXCLUSIVE: Some States Won't Distribute A Trumpian Half-Baked COVID Vaccine

Officials from at least three states have suggested that they would refuse...

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The Trump admin portrays it as a "transition" to state control of testing. But Dallas officials have asked - and been refused - an extension of the program, as cases and hospitalizations in TX have skyrocketed

EXCLUSIVE: Feds About To Bail On Supporting COVID Testing Sites In Texas And Other States

The Trump administration is ending funding and support for local COVID-19 testing...

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RIA reports that an SU-25 suffered an "accident" due to a "piloting error." Make of that what you will

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The deal was, per Parnas, as follows: Trump gets dirt on Mueller and Biden; Firtash walks. Not yet corroborated but explosive:

Parnas Alleges White House Deal To Free Ukrainian Mobster In Exchange For Trump Legal Help

Former Rudy Giuliani amigo Lev Parnas may have revealed a staggering scandal...

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This is also what Tucker was unable to get answered last night, without Gaetz trying to implicate him by associate lol

Gaetz Implodes In Surreal Tucker Carlson Appearance

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) further nuked himself on Tuesday night in a...

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The furor that Trump and others on the right are building over Ashli Babbitt's death makes a lot more sense when you learn that they have been convinced since January that the cop who killed her was a black man:

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It goes to the sense of grievance and fear of loss of status which spurs a group of otherwise well-to-do professionals to join the group. The Guardian first broke the news of SACR's existence back in August, in this excellent story

US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network

Revealed: Charles Haywood, creator of the Society for American Civic Renewal, has said he might serve as ‘warlord’ at the head of an ‘armed patronage network’

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!! Putin says that Russia will accept the L/DNR request for a "special military operation" in Ukraine

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I pulled corporate records for an Albanian firm called Lawoffice & Investigation which names both McGonigal and former FBI agent Mark Rossini as partners

Albanian Firm Ties Indicted Former FBI Official To Yet Another Disgraced Former Agent

Indicted former top FBI official Charles McGonigal is a partner in an...

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New: Ron Johnson's Ukraine probe allegedly uncovered evidence of Trump admin corruption w/r/t a Ukrainian energy company (not that one)

Wyden: RonJohn Stumbled Upon Evidence Of Trump Corruption In Ukraine Probe

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) accidentally revealed more evidence of corruption in the...

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Claremont President Ryan Williams told TPM that he's a member of the Society for American Civic Renewal, a men's only group only open to certain christians which aims to recruit members to form an "aligned future regime"

Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’

A secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the...

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The 'plan' in Trump's case was for the federal gov dump vaccine at ports in every state, and lobby against funding for the states to vaccinate people

No, Trump Doesn’t Deserve Credit For Planning Vaccine Distribution

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New: FBI raided three percenter-linked couple in Georgia who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6

FBI Seizes Devices, Clothes Of Militia-Linked Couple Who Were In DC On Jan. 6

In a raid earlier this month, the FBI seized electronic devices and...

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Exclusive, w/ @hunterw : How Freedom Caucus chair @RepScottPerry tried to hijack the DOJ to keep Trump in office

Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry’s Work To Overturn 2020 Election Included A ‘Cyber Team’ And An...

It had been one week since the 2020 presidential election and three...

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EXCLUSIVE from @Tierney_Megan : Trump admin bypasses career prosecutor to name Bobby Christine, US Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, as the new USA in Atlanta

EXCLUSIVE: Trump Bypasses Top Career Prosecutor To Name New Acting US Attorney In Atlanta

Following the abrupt Monday resignation of Byung Jin “BJay” Pak, the U.S....

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He gave the address in Russian, directed at the Russian people “Today I initiated a phone call with the President of the Russian Federation. The result was silence, although the silence should be in Donbas."

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Here's Nasirov pictured at Trump's inauguration. Whether he used state funds to travel there briefly set off a minor scandal in Ukraine

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Another juror which Trump's attorneys are seeking to have removed: “I do read the Borowitz report.”

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In case you missed it, my scoop today on Bud Cummins contacting SDNY in October 2018 about setting up a meeting with Lutsenko

EXCLUSIVE: Bud Cummins Tried To Interest US Law Enforcement In Ukraine Dirt On Bidens In 2018

As far back as October 2018, a former U.S. attorney acting on...

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Mike Pence is a reminder that the pre-Trump GOP never went away

Pence Reminds Us All That The Pre-Trump GOP Is Alive, Kicking, And Terminally Smarmy

He’s the adult in the room. But Mike Pence is both much...

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EXCLUSIVE, w/ @hunterw : Leaked Audio And Staff Dispute Show Chaos Inside George Santos’ Office

Leaked Audio And Staff Dispute Show Chaos Inside George Santos’ Office

After a little over a week working with embattled Rep. George Santos...

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Judge Ramos came down with a deep, very methodical rejection of Trump's argument that Congress is conducting an illegal investigation of his finances. My look from inside the courtroom:

Judge Told Trump Attorneys Their Case To Block Subpoenas Isn't 'Serious'

The Manhattan federal judge who immediately blocked an attempt from President Trump...

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A visual explanation of why the ambulance sirens never stopped in NYC

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Relatedly, the Jan 6 hearings demonstrate with piercing clarity what was always obvious: Trump and his acolytes were lying to all of us from the beginning

Trumpworld Lied To Your Face About The Election

In the fall and winter of 2020, former President Trump’s top lieutenants...

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The group has restrictive criteria for membership. You must be male, a "trinitarian" christian, heterosexual, and show the following qualities:

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Today's sanctions on Kilimnik go way further on what happened to the Trump '16 polling data: Treasury now says that he shared them with Russian intelligence

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Thousands of protestors marching though prospect park

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We beat @MLevineReports and @ABC at this story. That they continue to refuse to credit @TPM with our reporting and basically ripped the story off is incredibly unethical

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"I've known about this stuff since September of 2018," lobbyist Bud Cummins told @ABC , referring to allegations that Joe Biden interfered in Ukraine to protect his son. It represents the first known instance of those allegations coming to America.

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There's a bizarre South Africa link here. Two SACR chapter members discussed a book about the Afrikaner Broederbond, a semi-secret society in South Africa to which much of the afrikaner leadership during apartheid belonged

AFRIKANER MINISTER TELLS OF HIS LONG ROAD OF CONVERSION FROM APARTHEID (Published 1985)

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Derek Myers, who had a job offer rescinded from Santos' office yesterday, surreptitiously recorded the conversation on Monday. We included the full audio here:

Leaked Audio And Staff Dispute Show Chaos Inside George Santos’ Office

After a little over a week working with embattled Rep. George Santos...

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When I moved back to the US from Ukraine in 2018, it struck me that my home country seemed to be slowly turning into a former Soviet republic. Did not realize how quickly that would turn out to be true!

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. @hunterw and I broke this story back in January. Read it here:

Campaigns Linked To Santos Left Donors Feeling Ripped Off After Questionable Credit Card Charges

Late in the 2020 election cycle, one regular Republican donor said they...

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US Attorney EDNY

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(1/3) “As alleged, Santos is charged with stealing people’s identities and making charges on his own donors’ credit cards without their authorization, lying to the FEC and, by extension, the public about the financial state of his campaign," stated U.S. Attorney Peace.

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If you make it to a gathering, you'll need to be prepared to answer the following questions:

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Read our reporting on it here:

Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’

A secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the...

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Putin is addressing the Russian people. Calls the west an "empire of lies"

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Merchan declines to approve the challenge to the Borowitz Report enjoyer

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Exclusive: @TPM obtained the entire log of text messages that Mark Meadows gave to the J6 Committee

A Plot To Overturn An American Election

The messages you are about to read are the definitive, real-time record...

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One of the crazier stories I've worked on

Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’

A secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the...

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NEW, w/ @hunterw : Meadows Texts show how Rudy Giuliani's legal team sought payment after January 6 and sowed chaos throughout

Texts Expose Giuliani Legal Team’s Divisive Election ‘Circus’ And Requests For Cash

It was just shy of six weeks after the 2020 election and...

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Here's a live video feed of dissident Russian journo Arkady Babchenko, dead yesterday, and alive today in what was apparently an SBU sting operation to capture the hit squad

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As we've been reporting for weeks, this was always a recipe for disaster, particularly given the lack of $ for distribution from Congress

Total Breakdown: There’s Still No Money For Mass COVID Vaccinations

Guilford County, North Carolina’s positivity rate is ticking up. As public health...

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Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

3 years

It is up to the States to distribute the vaccines once brought to the designated areas by the Federal Government. We have not only developed the vaccines, including putting up money to move the process along quickly, but gotten them to the states. Biden failed with Swine Flu!

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As we show in the story, southern Africa fascinates some of the board members: Haywood brings it up in his blog, and reviewed a Rhodesian anti-guerilla combat manual. Nate Fischer, another board member, has said that South Africa offers a "grim warning sign of our future"

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Good morning from lower Manhattan. I’ll be covering Trump’s NY criminal trial for the next few weeks @TPM

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EXCLUSIVE, w/ @hunterw : How key members of Congress and Trump admin officials pinned the blame for January 6 on Antifa -- even as the attack was happening

Texts Show How Members Of Congress Advanced ‘Antifa’ Conspiracy Theories In The Wake Of Jan. 6

Within two hours of protesters breaking the first barricades at the U.S....

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New: Obscure Albanian company ties indicted ex-FBI official Charles McGonigal to another disgraced former FBI agent

Albanian Firm Ties Indicted Former FBI Official To Yet Another Disgraced Former Agent

Indicted former top FBI official Charles McGonigal is a partner in an...

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Here we have Lutsenko telling Parnas he has evidence of payments from Burisma to Seneca (Hunter Biden’s firm) for half a million dollars. When Parnas says he can send them, Lutsenko replies “I’ll transmit them through the new ambassador :)”

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I asked Williams about this. He conceded that SACR's founders discussed the Broederbond when conceptualizing what SACR would be, but denied that it served as a model

Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’

A secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the...

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Much of what we know about Trump's pressure campaign on Ukraine should be understood as an attempt to enforce a deal that Trump thought he already had:

The Most Pivotal Moment In The Trump Ukraine Scandal Timeline

It all comes down to April. President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and his...

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There are some odd parallels. Both groups are *extremely* restrictive in who can join: men, certain types of christians. Both operate via a series of independent chapters; the Broederbond was founded at a time when white afrikaner domination had been crushed (that changed)

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In fact, Shokin's failure to probe Burisma was considered egregious specifically because the criminality was so blatant as to be low-hanging fruit for asset recovery efforts

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Exclusive, w/ @hunterw : Donors to @Santos4Congress were left feeling bilked, including one alleging fraudulent credit card charges from Santos' campaign

Campaigns Linked To Santos Left Donors Feeling Ripped Off After Questionable Credit Card Charges

Late in the 2020 election cycle, one regular Republican donor said they...

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NEW, w/ @hunterw : A GOP congressional candidate ran a Telegram chat with neo-Nazis, two Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy, Roger Stone, and others. The candidate asked "where can we hang Nancy" days after January 6

AOC Challenger Helped Lead Encrypted Chat Group Filled With Proud Boys And Racial Slurs

The photo is chilling in light of what transpired 26 days after...

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Manafort's former Large Adult Son-in-law was arrested for real estate fraud while awaiting sentencing on real estate fraud

Ex-Manafort Son-In-Law Allegedly Bragged About Aiding Mueller Probe As Part Of Scam

Paul Manafort’s former son-in-law Jeffrey Yohai boasted about having “turned state’s evidence”...

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Perry lobbied the highest levels of American government to investigate ItalyGate, the theory which holds that an Italian defense contractor used military satellites to zap the election away from Trump

Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry’s Work To Overturn 2020 Election Included A ‘Cyber Team’ And An...

It had been one week since the 2020 presidential election and three...

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Claremont President Ryan Williams: "(SACR) wasn't conceived as, nor is it meant to be some cabal with the aim of taking over the federal establishment."

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Reupping this map we did tracking Rudy Giuliani's foreign biz activities since Trump took office

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4 years

I interviewed him back in 2016. He responded to my first question (and really, most of them), by saying "stupid question"

Roman Nasirov, nation’s tax chief, answers critics - Dec. 15, 2016

Is State Fiscal Service chief Roman Nasirov the nation’s whipping boy for tax & customs corruption, or… - Dec. 15, 2016. By Josh Kovensky

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Mini-mystery for the Twitter hive mind: what watch is George Santos wearing? A $20k Cartier, a knock-off, or something in-between?

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The other point here is not conflating vaccine development with distribution. True that 3 COVID vaccines were developed in record time under Trump (tho it was a career employee-led effort), but there was no planning to distribute them

No, Trump Doesn’t Deserve Credit For Planning Vaccine Distribution

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The oddities here include: -Hotel stays at Harrah's Atlantic City and The Palazzo at the Venetian in Las Vegas -$11k in apartment rental payments to a Long Island cleaner -a meal at Nusr-Et, Salt Bae's Miami steakhouse -a "staff meeting" at Bergdorf Goodman -and much more

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So, to keep score, @JoshKovensky and I have found that Santos and his campaign associates have: -Payments to themselves. -Lavish unexplained expenses. -Alleged credit card fraud. -Seemingly mislabeled hotel stays. -Payments made to "Anonymous."

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5 years

I called this earlier today

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Our latest story examining how radical ideas aimed at pressuring Mike Pence made it into the Trump campaign's planning is here:

The Ideas Man

Some of the most radical legal theories which animated Donald Trump’s 2020...

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DOJ: It's okay for Trump to have a business with foreign gov customers while in office, because early presidents....sold tobacco from their plantations to foreign customers?

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This juror describes herself as a "Bernie gal" who made some of these comments while replying to "Bernie bros"

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"We will strive for the demilitarization...of Ukraine"

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Prosecutors said that the investigation in the Giuliani pals case is "ongoing," and referenced docs from more than 50 bank accounts and email accounts in the government's possession:

Giuliani-Linked Duo Pleads Not Guilty In Alleged Campaign Finance Conspiracy

NEW YORK — Two out of four defendants in the Rudy Giuliani-linked...

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