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National News Editor @Axios / former @buzzfeednews @ottawacitizen @thewindsorstar / emma.loop @axios dot com

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Professional news: Excited to announce that I've accepted a full-time job as a news editor withย  @Axios ! I'll continue to work with reporters on national breaking news, as well as more original/enterprise work moving forward. Send tips: emma.loop @axios .com
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Inside the envelope is an article Bernie cut out of the newspaper that he thought Biden would find interesting
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Bernie with zero sartorial consideration. Just full Vermont grandfather
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Other senators' faces as McCain talks.
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Anthony and Jason are amazing. But I also worked my butt off on this story.
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Burr confirms SSCI is investigating Jill Stein's campaign, saying there are TWO campaigns the committee has just started looking at. I asked what he's looking for from Stein's campaign. "Collusion with the Russians," he said.
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A Silicon Valley engineer with no medical supply background tweeted at Trump saying he could provide ventilators. Days later, New York state paid him $69.1 million โ€” at the recommendation of the White House task force. But the ventilators never arrived.
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Relatable. via @politico West Wing Playbook ( @AlexThomp & @TinaSfon )
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Just asked Feinstein about her comment yesterday about being "pressured" to release the Simpson transcript. "I made no statement to that effect," she said. Me: but there are recordings of you saying you felt pressured "I don't believe there are. I don't believe I said that."
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Whoa โ€“ big @mikeallen scoop on the secret campaign by top Trump allies to get Texas AG Ken Paxton acquitted. "It was made clear to Texas GOP senators that they'd face a very well-funded primary opponent in their next election if they voted to impeach."
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I bring this up because it's not the first time in my career male colleagues have been given credit for a collaborative effort. I'm not saying what happened here had anything to do with gender, but after it happens a few times, you do start to wonder -- and get frustrated.
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Some news: I found out this morning that I'm one of the reporters affected by the cuts at BuzzFeed News. I'm completely gutted and will miss my coworkers so much. It's been an insane, wonderful ride, and I'm incredibly proud of our work.
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Holy shit, this is dumb. 1. THIS IS NOT NEW. 2. IT IS NOT SEXIST. MEN HAVE TO WEAR JACKETS & TIES. 3. IT IS LITERALLY ONLY FOR 1 ROOM.
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Congress's dress code is sexist and just plain fucked up
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NEW: Weโ€™ve obtained access to scores of banking records on Lev Parnas & Igor Fruman, the two men working with Giuliani to dig up dirt on Biden. The records reveal more than $200K in spending across the globe as the backchannel campaign was gaining steam.
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. @ewarren says Alan Dershowitz' arguments tonight were "contrary to both law and fact." "His characterization of the law simply is unsupported. He is a criminal law professor who stood in the well of the Senate and talked about how law never inquires into intent..."
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It's official: the final version of the NDAA contains major reforms to the United States' anti-money laundering regime. Most notably, shell companies will be forced to disclose their true owners to Treasury -- a major gap in the regime that has been criticized for years.
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NEW: The House Intelligence Committee will investigate our report that Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress.
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Major exclusive from @JasonLeopold and @a_cormier_ : President Trump Directed His Attorney To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project
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"Mr. Manchin appeared to have single-handedly shattered Mr. Bidenโ€™s ambitious climate agenda and what would have been the largest single federal investment in American history toward addressing the toll of climate change."
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Rudy Giuliani calls Sen. Tuberville to urge him to object to more states to buy them more time. Except Giuliani called the wrong senator, and that senator shared it with the media:
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The quiet "I'm falling" really makes this. ๐Ÿ˜‚
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. @MurphTWN gets hit by a gust of wind in St.Johnโ€™s, as a raging blizzard brings eastern Newfoundland to a standstill (He's OK). Read the lastest about the storm here:
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It gets better:
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Reminder: Per the Mueller report and our 302s, McFarland was so concerned by a request from the president at the end of her tenure as deputy NSA that she consulted a top NSC lawyer & wrote a memo about the request that Mueller's team eventually obtained.
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๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜‚ KT McFarland: "Donald Trump is the king of reality television, they are not going to outsmart Trump."
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Did you...did you read his resignation letter?
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Gen.Mattis has served our nation with great distinction. He will not be easy to replace. For the sake of our national security I hope his decision to resign was motivated solely by a desire to enjoy a well deserved retirement.
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Sens. Thom Tillis, Lindsey Graham, Cory Booker, and Chris Coons -- who had previously introduced two separate bills to protect the special counsel -- will introduce a merged bipartisan bill today that would protect Bob Mueller and any other special counsel:
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John Boltonโ€™s legal team has told the House Intelligence Committee that Bolton will take them to court if heโ€™s subpoenaed, per a committee official. โ€œ[T]he White House instruction that he not appear will add to the evidence of the Presidentโ€™s obstruction of Congress."
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A newly uncovered video shows Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg in 2019 describing transgender people as an โ€œhe, she, or itโ€ and โ€œsome guy in a dressโ€ who enters girlsโ€™ locker rooms, @dominicholden reports.
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NEW: More than five hours after we published our story, a spokesperson for Ivanka Trumpโ€™s attorney wrote that he "inadvertently" left off part of her statement โ€” the part confirming our reporting:
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Full video: Chaos erupts as President Trump enters the Senate GOP lunch and a protester posing as a reporter begins yelling about treason.
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Finally, I can share the project I worked on for nearly two years at @BuzzFeedNews : The #FinCENFiles โ€” 1000s of SARs & other docs โ€” offer an unprecedented view of global financial corruption, the banks enabling it & the govt agencies that fail to stop it.
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How am I supposed to NOT adopt this pup? How????
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I couldn't help but wonder...had Sam Nunberg been talking to every reporter except me?
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar announces that her husband John has tested positive for the coronavirus. She says he got tested after he started coughing up blood and is in the hospital on oxygen.
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"...and that we should not be using the president's intent as part of understanding impeachment. Criminal law is all about intent. Mens rea is the heart of criminal law. That's the very basis of it. So it makes his whole presentation just nonsensical. I truly could not follow it"
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@JasonLeopold @a_cormier_ @RepAdamSchiff @JoaquinCastrotx @RepSwalwell : "If a candidate for president is offering a foreign adversary a $50 million-gift while that adversary through his own backchannels is offering support of the campaign, thatโ€™s betrayal at the highest level; thatโ€™s conspiracy.โ€
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the reviews for Urban Decayโ€™s All Nighter makeup setting spray are amazing
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman @RepAdamSchiff : "The retirements of Dan Coats and Sue Gordon represent a devastating loss to the Intelligence Community, and the men and women who serve in it."
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Spotted near the Hill today: - cherry blossoms in full bloom - Merrick Garland
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This graf made me laugh. An all too familiar experience for anyone whoโ€™s ever reported on government.
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Rick Davis says McCain asked him to read a letter. โ€œThis will be somewhat difficult,โ€ he says, clearing his throat.
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Lev Parnas was using Joseph Ahearn, America First Actionโ€™s director of development, to send things to Donald Trump Jr. to tweet about Ukraine. โ€œSent,โ€ Ahearn wrote in March, per docs @politico has written about here:
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SCOOP: House Democrats will keep at least some of their Trump investigations and court fights active once he leaves the White House. "This was a very dark period in the American presidency,โ€ one lawmaker says.
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Also, guys, this isn't supposed to be that serious or a hit piece! It's just a fun look inside the White House from a daily newsletter. Reporters swear like sailors ๐Ÿ˜…
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Here's the protester. He said his name is Ryan Clayton and he's with Americans Take Action.
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NEW: The House Intelligence Committee will investigate the Trump Organizationโ€™s plan to give Putin a $50 million penthouse in Trump Tower Moscow. Follow-up to stellar reporting today by @JasonLeopold and @a_cormier_ .
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Reuters reports that Deutsche Bank is looking at ways to cut ties with President Donald Trump after the election because the bank is tired of the bad publicity.
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NEW: @RepAdamSchiff says ODNI has provided a "classified annex" to Congress about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. But by law, the report must be unclassified. Schiff is asking ODNI to "immediately declassify the annex."
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The chairmen of seven House committees have sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin demanding answers on the decision to ease sanctions on businesses connected to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. They also want Treasury to delay implementation.
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House Judiciary Committee Chair @RepJerryNadler sends another letter to Acting AG Matt Whitaker basically warning him that heโ€™s going to need to answer questions on Friday. Background:
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Sen. Richard Burr, chairman of Senate Intel Committee, with some fairly devastating shade for House Intel Committee Republicans as it relates to their final Russia report: โ€œIโ€™m not sure that the House was required to substantiate every conclusion with facts."
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LOL LIZ MAY YOU SASSY GAL
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Among other things, WaPo reports that when HHS Secretary Azar got ahold of Pres. Trump to talk about the coronavirus in mid-January, "the president interjected to ask about vaping and when flavored vaping products would be back on the market."
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"Did you hear what Nunes did?" Sen. Mark Warner, ranking member on Senate Intel, says to fellow member Marco Rubio as he walks by.
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Mimi Abusaif, 19, tells Miley about meeting a cute guy at a fraternity party who was a Trump supporter.
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. @SenSherrodBrown says that should Democrats win back the Senate next month, he would use his new position as Banking Committee chairman next year to scrutinize the lack of prosecutions & those banks that blatantly allow dirty money to flow. #FinCENFiles
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Top Senate Democrats have sent a letter to Trump urging him not meet alone with Putin. "Mr. Putin is a trained KGB intelligence veteran who will come to this meeting well-prepared," the letter says. Dems also want election interference to be "the top issue" of the meeting.
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UPDATE: @RepAdamSchiff issues another statement on our story, saying the House Intelligence Committee "is already working to secure additional witness testimony and documents related to the Trump Tower Moscow deal and other investigative matters.โ€
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Burr was asked just before that about the committee's progress in the investigation. "I think it's safe to say that we've got two other campaigns that we're just starting on," Burr said.
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Scoop from me: A former campaign staffer says the Senate Intelligence Committee wants documents from Jill Stein's campaign as part of the Russia investigation
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Joe Hinton, 18, says he voted Clinton for many reasons. "The biggest reason probably is that the most important people in my life are women"
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Corker, chair of Foreign Relations, was told Trump tweeted about Qatar basically being a state sponsor of terrorism. โ€œThe president?โ€
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After a regular committee briefing, a guy in a suit comes out of the Senate Intel SCIF holding a shiny purple hula hoop. I ask @SenatorBurr what it's for. Burr: "We were doing exercises."
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"Walk the Walk" and "Jill Stein #jillnothill " signs have also popped up. #DemsInPhilly
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For the record, @desiderioDC has a recording and @mkraju reported the comments as well. Feinstein's office said yesterday she misspoke -- and she corrected herself as well at the time. But now she's saying she never made the comments, which seems...odd.
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Hereโ€™s what @a_cormier_ , @JasonLeopold , and I reported in June about Russian Olympic weightlifter Dmitry Klokovโ€™s communications with the Trump Org. about Trump Moscow, and hereโ€™s what Mueller says in todayโ€™s sentencing memo for Michael Cohen:
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NEW: As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to takes the reins in January, former federal prosecutors, academics, and lawmakers say the new administration is poised to crack down on financial crime. My latest for @thisisinsider :
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This is a big, especially in light of the #FinCENFiles : @MarkWarner says his bipartisan bill to fight money laundering & terrorist financing has been included in the NDAA, the yearly defence spending bill. His bill forces shell companies to reveal their true owners to Treasury.
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NEW: The Senate Intelligence Committee has just released the first volume of its bipartisan Russia investigation report. This volume deals with election security. You can read it here:
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Once again, @JasonLeopold gets the receipts: The DEA has been granted sweeping new authority to โ€œconduct covert surveillanceโ€ and collect intelligence on people participating in protests over the murder of George Floyd, according to a two-page memorandum.
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@JoaquinCastrotx . @RepSwalwell : This is โ€œpowerful evidence of collusion.โ€ Asked whether the committee will be investigating the revelation, Swalwell told BuzzFeed News: โ€œOh yes. It will be.โ€
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GOP Sen. David Perdue says he hasn't read the story but just saw it: "It's devastating. I think if those allegations are true, he should step aside. I mean, I'm sorry but this is untenable -- if they're true. I have no facts, I just saw the story. But it's very serious."
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Some very exciting personal/professional news: My US work visa has been approved! I'll be back in DC likely at the end of April!
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Things go off the rails a bit as Rep. Tlaib says itโ€™s racist for a black woman to be used as a prop (referring to Lynne Patton earlier) and Meadows is furious.
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. @RepAdamSchiff says today's briefing with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin about the decision to ease sanctions on companies connected to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska "did not resolve [his] concerns." "It will be incumbent upon Congress to maintain pressure on the Treasury"
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A sad but necessary story. Feinstein's legacy and accomplishments deserve respect. But she still represents millions of people, and has clearly been having trouble for a while. Reporters on the Hill know this, and it's really tricky to navigate.
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And more, for the record: I specifically asked her if she just made a mistake when she was talking yesterday. That's when she said, "No, no. I made no statement to that effect."
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If you weren't sure why the whistleblower was afraid to testify in the House before...
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NEWS: Source tells me that after House Republicans tried flooding the SCIF with non-committee members, โ€œmany brought their cell phones too into the classified area.โ€ โ€œStand off in progress,โ€ source adds.
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BREAKING: President Donald Trump has told Congress that he is firing Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, per a letter obtained by BuzzFeed News. Atkinson found that the whistleblower complaint that led to Trumpโ€™s impeachment was credible.
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New from @JasonLeopold , @a_cormier_ , and me: In New Documents, Cohen Says Trump "Instructed" Him To Lie Trump โ€œencouraged Cohen to lie and say all Moscow Tower project contacts ended as of January 31, 2016 using โ€˜codeโ€™ language."
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Hm. Not surprising. People who were convicted of crimes can also be denied entry to the US.
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so, i guess canada has permanently banned me ? โœ‹๐Ÿค ๐ŸŒ„๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @CitImmCanada denied entry b/c of convictions similar to "treason" offense ๐Ÿค”๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ’•
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The Black Capitol Police officer seen on video single-handedly trying to stop the insurrectionists from making their way up to the Senate held them off *just* long enough for police in the chamber to seal it off.
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Inside the Capitol siege: How barricaded lawmakers and aides sounded urgent pleas for help as police lost control
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Sens. tweeting support of McConnell: โ–ช๏ธCornyn โ–ช๏ธCorker โ–ช๏ธTillis โ–ช๏ธIsakson โ–ช๏ธCollins โ–ช๏ธHatch โ–ช๏ธGardner โ–ช๏ธHeller โ–ช๏ธFlake โ–ช๏ธYoung โ–ช๏ธCapito
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Chuck Schumer has just put out a statement on Schiffโ€™s letter to Nunes: "If Speaker Ryan cares about the integrity of the House or the rule of law, he will put an end to this charade once and for all.โ€
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This Bernie supporter was very angry. "Shame on all of you!" she yelled. #DemsInPhilly
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Rep. Welch, one of the Dem rookies, asked: "But making that decision [not to prosecute] does not mean your investigation failed to turn up evidence of conspiracy?" Mueller: "Absolutely correct."
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"Frankly, I don't give a damn,โ€ Sen. McCain said when asked how he expected Russia to react if the US were to bomb Syrian airfields.
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"Usually that's not a place where you do that kind of thing," Sen. Marco Rubio says of Trump talking North Korea outside at Mar-a-Lago.
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This tweet structure sure looks familiar.
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I'm hanging out with some young Bernie Sanders supporters in Providence, RI. This is Clancy, dressed as Bernie. He is a Good Dog.
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why did I bring this to America
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The demand for the documents comes after at least one US bank raised concerns about a series of suspicious transactions in Parnasโ€™s accounts, which had hallmark signs of money laundering and fraud, according to two senior law enforcement officers.
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Sen. Marco Rubio: "Yes, it would be a mistake to fire Bob Mueller because I think he is a highly credible individual who will do a good job"
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Accurate lol:
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lol they chose to live in a brand new building that's way more expensive than other apartments in the area $4,500 for a one bedroom in Capitol Hill is not normal
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The rent in D.C. is too damn high for Pete and Chasten Buttigieg: "We couldnโ€™t afford the one-bedroom-plus-den."
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Scooplet: Jill Steinโ€™s Campaign Has Turned Over Documents To The Senate Intelligence Committee
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