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@PreetBharara

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Patriotic American & proud immigrant. @Springsteen fan. Banned by Putin, fired by Trump. Former US Atty, SDNY. Host of "Stay Tuned"

New York, NY
Joined February 2017
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@PreetBharara
Preet Bharara
4 years
Donald Trump is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on America
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3 years
Everyone who has a tape of Trump abusing his power should release it now
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4 years
Why does a president get rid of his own hand-picked US Attorney in SDNY on a Friday night, less than 5 months before the election?
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4 years
There’s a bridge needs a new name
Tweet media one
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3 years
I wonder if a twitter ban and second impeachment just days before retirement might feel familiar to the man who insisted on firing Andrew McCabe the day before his pension vested
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3 years
7 Republicans put country over party today
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6 years
Nobody wants to hear from Donald Trump today
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3 years
I wish the people so invested in Dr. Jill Biden’s dissertation had some interest in Donald Trump’s hidden grades & the guy who took his SAT’s for him
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4 years
Some see a stadium and say it’s half full. I see a stadium and say it’s half empty.
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6 years
What if Jeff Bezos bought Twitter with the change in his pocket and shut Trump's account?
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6 years
I've been much more inspired lately by the children of America than the adults.
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3 years
I too would be pissed if my boss’s supporters chanted that they wanted to hang me and my boss told them, “I love you.”
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4 years
I’m not running for anything but if I were I would hire all the people from @ProjectLincoln immediately
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4 years
I don’t know about you, but I’m finding it hard to balance the need to grieve and the urge to fight in this sad moment
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4 years
The most excited person I talked to today was my Indian mom. Because she cannot wait to vote for Vice President Kamala Devi Harris.
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6 years
If you're attacking kids whose classmates and teachers were massacred, you're losing
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4 years
God help us
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3 years
Vaccine arrives. Biden clinches. Barr leaves. Pretty good. Pretty pretty pretty good.
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4 years
I forget who but someone in a position of power assured us this would be over by Easter
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4 years
deja vu
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7 years
I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life.
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7 years
I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired. Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life.
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@PreetBharara
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4 years
The President delivered a powerful and moving eulogy today
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4 years
I like a president who is not Patient Zero. Or Individual 1.
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4 years
Does Trump employ any non-criminals
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I did not watch the briefing. I believe I have extended my lifespan.
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Mexico has 21 days to pay for the wall
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4 years
Bill Barr must go
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6 years
It’s very simple: the punishment for an alleged misdemeanor cannot be you may lose your baby forever.
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3 years
How many times is Biden going to win Georgia?
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7 years
When pursuing a corrupt politician, mobster or murderer on strong FBI evidence, if he "vehemently denied it," we just dropped it usually.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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I strongly pressed President Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election. He vehemently denied it. I've already given my opinion.....
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Would be grateful for a real President right about now
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6 years
Who all is sick and tired of being lectured on how you're supposed to show patriotism?
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3 years
Everyone feel better now?
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4 years
If I had the privilege of receiving the President’s Daily Brief, I would be damn sure to read it. Daily.
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6 years
No more lectures on patriotism from this president and White House. Ever.
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4 years
I’m watching the rally speech with the small crowd. This is the most optimistic I have been about Trump’s defeat in more than three years. Someone needs a new act.
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4 years
Those ads can go back up now
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3 years
There is hella more evidence of incitement to insurrection than evidence of election-changing voter fraud
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4 years
We need more women leaders
@tedcruz
Ted Cruz
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Listen Hellboy. You talk good game when you’ve got Hollywood makeup & stuntmen. But I’ll bet $10k—to the nonpolitical charity of your choice—that you couldn’t last 5 min in the wrestling ring w/ @Jim_Jordan w/o getting pinned. You up for it? Or does your publicist say too risky?
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“Mr. Ranking Member, it’s Lieutenant Colonel Vindman please.”
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4 years
Per capita we have a bad president
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6 years
Michael Cohen in a courtroom in SDNY, under oath, declared that the President directed him to commit a federal crime.
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4 years
The President just spoke
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Preet Bharara
2 years
1. It wasn’t a raid 2. It wasn’t Biden 3. Trump isn’t on the ballot 4. It was > 90 days before midterms 5. Judge found probable cause 6. Classified documents were found 7. Trump had no right to docs as ex-POTUS 8. Trump increased the penalties for such crimes 9. I could go on
@TomFitton
Tom Fitton
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The Biden raid on Trump's home is election interference.
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Is Mexico going to pay Steve Bannon’s bail?
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5 years
Bob Mueller today was decent, honest, humble, measured, patriotic, apolitical & above the fray. He returned none of the bile the president and others have heaped on him. Whatever you thought of his performance, he is far better than his critics and remains an American hero. 🙏
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I swing hard between sad and angry. You?
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Trump donor & Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, should be in the crosshairs of every relevant congressional committee, inspector general, prosecutor, investigative journalist, whistleblower, class action lawyer, editorial board, etc etc etc
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Postpone the SCOTUS hearing
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I too am sick and tired of subsidizing Kentucky
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Attorney General Merrick Garland 👊
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4 years
Six months after Easter, Trump’s own White House can’t even open
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3 years
Legal reminder: I don’t know what destructive things Trump may try in the next 74 days, but the 25th amendment remains operative during transition
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In radical move, Joe Biden has chosen not to use the spotlight to rant about toilets and showers
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My mom is an immigrant My dad is an immigrant I am an immigrant My mother's 6 brothers came to America too It is a deeply interdependent family All successful All tax-paying (one is an accountant!) All proud & contributing Americans Call it #ChainMigration Or call it America
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I hereby claim Joe Biden as my President
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4 years
Trump: My authority is total but my responsibility is zero. What leadership.
@carlquintanilla
Carl Quintanilla
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Happy one-month anniversary to “I don’t take responsibility at all.” (March 13) (via @atrupar )
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The odds of Trump declaring a self pardon just went up a bunch
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2 years
SCOTUS read neither the room nor the Constitution correctly
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7 years
Is it just me or are we in America overdue for a real and thoughtful discussion about what patriotism is and what makes a real patriot?
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3 years
Hey in 74 days we rejoin the Paris climate agreement!
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5 years
If someone revels in chants about locking you up and repeatedly says you should be in prison, etiquette does not require that you shake his hand. Cc: Emily Post
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7 years
Much of the issue with Trump is not about party, policy or ideology, but lack of decency, honesty, character, temperament, adulthood, shame.
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Guess I don’t need to unfollow Trump
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Who will be the first Senator to call for an Inspector General investigation over the AG Barr memo that just prompted the head of the Election Crimes Branch at DOJ to step down?
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Shhh. The president is speaking.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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HE SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN, AND GOT CAUGHT!
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I’m late to politics tonight but I surmise two things 1. Tulsi Gabbard will not be President 2. Mike Pompeo will not be Senator
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4 years
Someone needs to retake that cognitive test
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6 years
Sometimes my personal lawyer will just pay my mortgage off. Without asking. Such a good guy. I'm lucky.
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3 years
That thing that is brewing for Jan 6 is so asinine and craven and un-American that I’m too angry to tweet about it.
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Oh, COVID relief can wait til AFTER the election but a conservative Supreme Court Justice must be confirmed BEFORE Election Day
@GarrettHaake
Garrett Haake
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BREAKING: The president just pulled the plug on COVID relief negotiations until after the election.
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Robert Mueller should testify publicly. Period.
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I don’t mind seeing an emotional and caring President
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I am angry and worried right now. As are tens of millions of Americans. I don’t know what will happen next but what I do know is this: Donald Trump is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on America
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After today, I stand by every word of this tweet thread
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Preet Bharara
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Donald Trump is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on America
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Reminder: Coming from this White House, neither transcripts nor weather maps can be trusted
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Tillerson was right. The president doesn’t read.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Totally clears the President. Thank you!
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Anyone blindly supporting this President can just fully shut up about “decorum”
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I wish SDNY well (in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell)
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Kamala 👊
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Mike Pence is a crisis actor
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The most powerful man in the world whines a lot
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Courts are not just ruling against Trump. Courts are mocking his lawyers’ arguments. As they should.
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God bless America
@BeschlossDC
Michael Beschloss
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Kamala Harris’s immigrant parents--Shyamala Gopalan and Donald Harris:
Tweet media one
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Is someone going to ask President Trump every day going forward whether he has read that morning’s PDB?
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So Trump can unilaterally pardon anyone, absolutely pardon himself, impose his will on DOJ, ban all Muslims, levy any tarrif, and start any war but he CANNOT tell Sessions, whom he slaps down daily, to ease up on separating infants from parents at the border? Ok
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. @RepAdamSchiff is excellent, just excellent. Especially at rebuttal.
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Preet Bharara
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Can anyone moderate a debate with a firm hand or no?
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Sondland is destroying virtually every Trump defense: Trump didn’t care about Ukraine; there was a quid pro quo; Trump & Rudy demanded the announcement of investigations; everyone was in the loop; Ukraine knew about the linkage; all was directed by Trump
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What’s tearing the country apart is the damn insurrection, not attempts to hold people accountable for it
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I think Bill Barr is shrewd, deliberate, smart, calculating, careful, and full of it
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Preet Bharara
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I would prefer my leaders to inspire, rather than demean, degrade, destroy, scare, slander, pander, bewilder and embarrass. I am not alone.
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Most frequent question I’m getting today, literally: “WTF is wrong with BIll Barr?”
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Preet Bharara
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It is all going to come out. All of it. The dam has broken.
@yashar
Yashar Ali 🐘
5 years
NEW: POTUS told Russian officials in an Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the election because the US did the same in other countries, an assertion that prompted alarmed officials to limit access to the remarks.
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The evidence shows: Donald Trump cannot retain an ally, keep a promise, uphold a principle, maintain a story, change a mind or show a heart.
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Preet Bharara
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If you post years of vile false divisive tweets you can be POTUS. But if you’re somewhat mean you can’t be OMB director. Ok.
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I had to explain to my kids just now that this is not the normal level of celebration after an election in America
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Preet Bharara
4 years
What a disgrace. Now make sure this election has consequences.
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Preet Bharara
5 years
Elected officials keep making casual, ignorant, idiotic accusations of “treason.” Trump does it. Just saw Liz Cheney do it. Read the Constitution and knock it the hell off.
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Preet Bharara
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Dr. Phil not only apparently has no last name, he also in fact has no medical license. Ignore quacks.
@Acyn
Acyn
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Dr. Phil appears on Laura Ingraham and says we don’t shut the country down for automobile deaths, cigarette related deaths, and swimming pool deaths
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