Seems we’ve lost the forest for the trees: It’s not just “this should go to trial before elections so voters have all information” or “Trump Is winnning the delay game.” The federal charges must to go to trial before elections or he will never be subject to the criminal process…
The
@KamalaHarris
de-planing videos & her completely appropriate self-confidence every time are quickly becoming one of my favorite things about this campaign.🙌
Am I the only one who feels during the testimony of Amb. Yovanovitch the way I felt during the testimony of Dr. Ford? Pride at her courage & anger at corrupt men trying to take her down.
My 14 yo daughter was sitting on the couch this evening & crying. When I asked her why, she said, “What’s happened to our country?” And told me she feels powerless. I was not prepared for that. 😞
Hearing Supreme Court Justices seriously ask whether a subpoena for presidential tax returns interferes with the ability of this President to do his job when he spends 90% of his time tweeting nonsense is just 🤯
#Trumptaxes
I just went through a Democratoc primary where men told me I needed to "wait my turn” & called me “too ambitious.” I won by almost 75%. These tropes are not in line with most Democratic voters of today & should be rejected & denouced by party leaders from
@JoeBiden
on down.
I wish Judge Kavanaugh had a twitter account because I have one question for him:
If a lawyer walked into your federal courtroom & said they were putting on two witnesses for a hearing & had done no other investigation or made any attempt to find any facts, what would you say?
Here's Mitch McConnell responding to a female reporter's extremely straightforward question about the coronavirus bill by condescendingly asking her, "do you work here?"
Many of us have had faith in you
@SpeakerPelosi
. You are a smart, strong, stragic woman & politician. But time is up. We are out of patience & trust. The house is about to burn to the ground & you’re in charge of the fire dept. Let’s go.
The Trump Admin is clearly violating federal statute by blocking the head of US Intelligence from providing Congress with a whistleblower complaint described as being of "urgent concern & credible.” The stonewalling must end. What is the President hiding?
Had the honor of driving this woman to vote today. She’s 85 & fled Germany in 1939. She tried to vote by absentee -when that didn’t work, she tried to delegate someone to get a ballot for her today. When that didn’t work she said, “let’s go because I am voting no matter what.” ⚖️
Feels like the whole using the White House as a backdrop for a political campaign has been completely normalized already. It’s never been done before for a reason. It’s a violation of the Hatch Act, it’s a misuse of government resources & an abuse of power.
Update: over 2000 (!) former DOJ officials have signed. This is an extraordinary bi-partisan show of unity about our concern for the independence of DOJ.
Biden’s vaccine mandate is an assault on private businesses.
I issued an Executive Order protecting Texans’ right to choose whether they get the COVID vaccine & added it to the special session agenda.
Texas is already working to halt this power grab.
Laughing about mistreating a woman reporter, who was questioning him about mistreatment of a woman Ambassador. The misogyny is palpable with these guys.
Trump praises Pompeo after he bullied an NPR reporter and then prohibited another NPR reporter from traveling with him: "That reporter couldn't have done too good a job on you ... I think you did a good job on her actually."
As a former mafia prosecutor, this sure sounds like a mob hit was being planned on a public servant in a foreign country by associates of the POTUS. A POTUS who said she was “going to go through some things.” This takes Trump’s lawlessness & misogny to new level.
Um holy sh*t. This certainly makes it sound like Parnas and co. were actively tracking Yovanovitch's movements. This could explain why Yovanovitch was moved out of Ukraine so quickly.
YES. NYC Bar Assoc. has sent a letter to Congressional leaders, urging them “to commence formal inquiries into a pattern of conduct by Attorney General William P. Barr that threatens public confidence in the fair and impartial administration of justice.”
This is so outrageously inappropriate for an AG to be saying. You are the head of the DOJ for all Americans not just the ones in the Federalist Society. Please start acting like it.
AG Bill Barr: "Immediately after President Trump won election, opponents inaugurated what they call 'The Resistance' and they rallied around an explicit strategy of using every tool and maneuver to sabotage the functioning of the executive branch."
Seeing the news of the the Twitter ban, my daughter asked me how Congress will get his tweets for use as evidence in the impeachment trial. That’s a prosecutor’s daughter right there! 👏
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
As Roger Stone's trial enters its third day, Stone ally Alex Jones is stepping up his threats to out the Stone jurors and expose them to harassment from the Infowars audience.
It's time for people to get off the sidelines and fight for what they believe in. That's why I’ve made a huge decision -- I’m running to be Westchester’s next District Attorney! Will you be one of the first to join my campaign?
This 4+ min clip of
@RepSwalwell
questioning both counsel is amazing. Trump cares about corruption? So why 16 meetings with Russia but not Ukraine. Trump didn’t have anything to do with the scheme? Here’s 15+ things he did that were indispensable to the scheme.
Trump wants to use his impeachment defense to keep spreading the big lie because it helps him raise money, rile supporters & cause division. He’s not actually interested in truth, facts or real legal defenses. That’s why even his lawyers had to quit.
Just to put this in perspective a bit. At SDNY I wasn’t even allowed to collect $25 from prosecutors I supervised for holiday gifts for staff because it might look like those prosecutors were trying to curry favor with me. But Barr giving his boss 30k$ 👌
Attorney General Barr has booked Trump's D.C. hotel for a December holiday party that's likely to deliver Trump's business more than $30,000 in revenue, WaPo reports. Barr is paying himself. Experts say it adds to questions about Barr's independence.
Please keep demanding release of the Mueller Report. Don't let it get washed away in a sea of other breaking news. That's what Trump & Barr seem to be counting on. We need facts & conclusions of the SCO, whatever they are.
#ReleaseTheMuellerReport
As a federal prosecutor I was taught to pursue obstruction of justice cases with zeal because if obstruction goes unchecked our whole justice system is at risk. If we let the POTUS get away with obstruction, what message do we send to criminals, prosecutors & juries?
Schiff on
@MSNBC
: I can tell you that after the Senate voted not to hear witnesses...we did approach John Bolton’s counsel, asked if Mr. Bolton would be willing to submit an affidavit under oath, describing what he observed in terms of the Prez’s Ukraine misconduct & he refused
One more thing: the fact that I even hesitated to write the tweet below because I’m nervous about revealing myself to be Jewish in the US in 2018 is absolutely horrifying. And exactly why I decided to tweet it. Must stand up to this hate.
My father fled the Nazis. I grew up going to a Jewish day school in the 1980s where we had frequent bomb threats. There have always been sick people who want to kill Jews. But this atmosphere of hate & the ease of getting these weapons of mass murder are making it way too easy.
This is insane. Giuliani is committing crimes on behalf of the POTUS and live tweeting about it. There’s a lot going on but this should be getting a lot more attention than it is.
Here are
@AndriyUkraineTe
and
@RudyGiuliani
here in Kyiv,
#Ukraine
. At midnight, they are in lounge bar of the Premier Palace Hotel, owned by close Putin ally, Russian oligarch Alexander Babakov. Hotel known as den for Kremlin agents & Babakov is alleged Russian intel himself.
Martha Stewart must be quite confused right now as she was prosecuted and went to prison for lying during investigation of an underlying crime that was not established.
Barr spent weeks in 2019 questioning SDNY prosecutors over their decision to charge Michael Cohen with violating campaign finance laws.
At one point, Barr told DOJ officials to draft a memo that could have undermined that part of Cohen's conviction.
Barr is totally out of control. There was an investigation done by an investigator (who no one disputes is independent & unbiased). What Barr “thinks” is just not relevant or appropriate. He’s blatantly abusing his office.
So
@SenateGOP
saying Trump can’t be impeached for 1/6 since he’s now a private citizen will certainly agree that he can be criminally investigated (& prosecuted if warranted) by DOJ since he’s now a private citizen...😉
gee, too bad i had to give that videoed witness testimony for the senate trial in the clinton impeachment. (i mean, talk about unflattering lighting and having a bad hair day.)
BREAKING: President Trump: “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat – I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge, or great disloyalty.”
My kids at 6:30 this morning discussing the Iran attacks with great insights that included “it’s really bad that Trump has alienated all of our allies isn’t it?”
@FEC
@realDonaldTrump
@OpenSecretsDC
New
@FEC
filing: Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign paid $194,247.57 to Trump family members, properties & businesses in the final quarter of last year alone—steering over $1.8 MILLION in donations from presidential campaign donors to
@realDonaldTrump
's private interests.
I want to retweet every paragraph of this so that everyone knows how Trump has abused Lisa Page the way he’s abused so many other women, physically, emotionally & psychologically. Brava for her decision to “take my power back.” And to you
@MollyJongFast
for capturing it so well.
You’re clearly not a rational person so I’m just gonna say two things: I am a proud Jew and my father fled the Nazis so you don’t get to tell me who I should think is the “most pro-Jew” president. And, the only person who gets to say “stop it Mimi,” is my 90-year old mom.
This is a delusional tweet and a delusional take on the president. He is the most pro-Jew/Israel president we've ever had. He's pro-immigrant -- anti-ILLEGAL immigrant. 92 percent of all Muslims can still freely travel here and has women in very high positions. Stop it Mimi.
Every single
@SenateGOP
@HouseGOP
member who appears on TV to defend Trump should be asked if they’ve read the full Mueller Report & for specific examples so they can’t fake it. If they are going to defend his conduct they should have facts to back it up.
#ReadTheMuellerReport
BREAKING: White House is weighing plan to dismiss Alexander Vindman from National Security Council after he testified in impeachment inquiry, a move that will be part of a broader effort to shrink Trump admin foreign policy bureaucracy, sources tell me &
@nwadhams
. Story out soon
“A team of intern’l observers invited by the Trump admin. has issued a prelim. report giving high marks to the conduct of last week’s elections--& it criticizes Pres. Trump for making baseless allegations that the outcome resulted from systematic fraud.”
I see confusion about charges against Epstein. They’re federal, not state, charges which means 2 things: 1) Epstein is likely to face mandatory minimum of at least 10 years in prison (could be more) & 2) yes Trump could pardon him if he dares to pardon a child predator.
Whatever “side” you were on in this confirmation for the SCOTUS, this is not a joke & you are not a frat boy. You are a United States Senator. Please act like it
@JohnCornyn
.
Trump met with Wayne LaPierre and asked if the NRA would finance his impeachment defense. LaPierre said he would if Trump promised not to pursue any gun legislation.
Ok, so Barry Berke is revealing
@CLewandowski_
as lying, corrupt criminal he is. He’s showing what a well-prepared, experienced, strategic defense attorney can do. This is getting real facts & real truth out. Kudos to the
@HouseJudiciary
for making this happen.
-Mob boss wants something. Asks “nicely” so he can claim it wasn’t a demand.
-Mob lawyer tries to make demand happen & hide behind attorney-client privilege.
-Underboss & Capos carry out different parts of the plan.
-They get caught & all claim not to know the whole.
The end.
My father fled the Nazis & relatives died in the camps. I’m angry & ashamed
@AJCongress
that you choose to spend your time & resources attacking
@AOC
, who is trying to end cruelty to children, instead of working to get this Administration to end this inhumane treatment.
The massive White House coverup of Trump’s abuse of power vis-a-vis Ukraine & Biden, including evidence concealment, is now clearly documented. Bill Barr is up to his eyebrows in the criminal conspiracy. He’s Trump’s John Mitchell. Mitchell ended up in prison. It’s all unraveling
I worked on many child sex trafficking cases as a Fed Prosecutor. Epstein ran a child sex trafficking ring. We vigorously pursued these cases & gave breaks only in rare cases, with victim consult. Why wasn’t that done here? Congress should demand
@JusticeOIG
find out.
@MSNBC
@CNN
That exchange between
@RepAdamSchiff
& Marie Yavonovitch about
@realDonaldTrump
’s shameless real-time attempt at twitter witness intimidation was perfection. Unscripted, sincere, chilling.
POTUS continues to call for people to identify the whistleblower, whose account has been mostly verified by testimony before the House by people sympathetic to and critical of Trump. "You would be doing the public a service if you did," Trump tells reporters today, per pool.
Cohen is delaying his testimony due to threats from Trump and Giuliani.
Here is 18 U.S.C. § 1512:
"Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens ... or attempts to do so ... with intent to ... influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person" is guilty of a felony.
Think about how crazy this is: Putin-linked Oligarch indicted by US Justice Dept with attacking the 2016 election is now funding the President’s team to interfere in the 2020 election.
NBC News: Federal prosecutors say that an attorney for indicted Ukranian Oligarch Dmytro Firtash (and Paul Manafort associate) is behind the $1 Million loan to Lev Parnas.
Further, they raise questions as to whether this really was a loan or a loan disguised as a payment.
NEW: Lev Parnas' attorney has written to Attorney General William Barr requesting that the AG recuse himself from the Parnas investigation and prosecution and asks for the appointment of a special prosecutor, according to a court filing.
How and why does the owner of a shady massage chain have such access to so many high profile elected officials? Something tells me this isn’t only about sex but corrupt $. Hope there are some trained investigators with subpoena power looking into it.
Here’s the
@joshtpm
scoop that
@PreetBharara
just mentioned on
@AC360
.👇
Barr reportedly misled US Attorney of NJ—told him that Berman was voluntarily resigning—in asking him to replace Berman.
Carpenito was shocked to learn he’d been misled by Barr.
I literally created a cold case murder unit in the DA Office I now lead because victims & families don’t stop caring about justice simply because time has passed. No one should stop caring about the assault on our democracy on 1/6 just because a few weeks have passed either.
When women accuse Trump of something, he calls them liars & degrades them. Biden’s saying, I didn’t intend to make anyone uncomfortable but I’ll listen & learn. If respectful statements like that aren’t welcomed, we’re just encouraging the Trump double down & smear approach.
NEW: Statement from Joe Biden saying in all his years in public life, taking photos and giving hugs, “not once - never - did I believe I acted inappropriately. If it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully. But it was never my intention.”
Trying to tell a former prosecutor she’s wrong about crim law isn’t a good idea so please don’t mansplain to me. Putting aside that the FRE don’t apply here, what you’re talking about applies in a civil context when companies install safety equipment you can’t use that to (1/2)
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.”
Three weeks have passed since the shooting in El Paso. A study found that’s how long it takes for America to stop paying attention—but we will not forget, we will not stop fighting until we end this epidemic.
1st time I called Trump a liar was on
@DeadlineWH
in 2017 & honestly it was hard to do. No one wants to believe their Pres. is a liar. I wish I’d been able to say those words earlier. But now it’s crystal clear & also that our AG is corrupt. Say it loudly, clearly & often.
This was my message to the media going into 2020. Your responsibility is to the truth, not to "giving both sides" when one side is lies. And you cannot expose lies without spreading them. So repeat the facts.
The President suggesting his followers not respect an election if he loses (in addition to once again calling the press the enemy of the people) is a serious & impeachable offense. Can’t shrug these off
@SpeakerPelosi
. & shameless
@HouseGOP
@SenateGOP
will remain silent.
These threads by
@justinamash
are some of the most compelling & devastating summaries of the Mueller report & Barr’s corrupt acts. It’s not just that he’s a Republican saying it, it’s that he’s saying it with such detail & support for his conclusions. More of this please.
Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented key aspects of Mueller’s report and decisions in the investigation, which has helped further the president’s false narrative about the investigation.
Trump lied to Mueller about a really important part of the investigation, Stone could have expose him but didn’t, so Trump pardoned him & Barr helped all along the way. The rule of law has been decimated.
The President pardoned Roger Stone to protect himself.
Stone knows Trump LIED to Robert Mueller about his knowledge of WikiLeaks.
@realDonaldTrump
lied to the American people and will continue to do so.
I am so proud of my friend & former colleague Dan Goldman right now. His testimony is modeled on closing arguments we gave in SDNY but this is the case of a lifetime & our democracy hangs in the balance & Dan has risen to the occasion. 👏⚖️
Remarkable. Sen. Graham says he talked to AG Barr this morning and they have set up a "process" by which Rudy Giuliani will now send his Biden "dirt" directly to AG Barr.