Greg Miller is an investigative foreign correspondent for The Washington Post based in London. He was among the Post reporters awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize.
I'm sure this is no big deal but multi-year Senate Intel report has found that Trump's campaign manager was in constant touch with Russian intel officer, and that Roger Stone learned in advance about WikiLeaks dumps at "tasking" of Trump campaign.
Pentagon leaders installed as part of Trump purge last month blocked DC National Guard from getting riot gear and ammunition as protesters descended on Capitol.
Signs of finality piling up:
- Biden 306, Trump 232 with all states called
- Trump ends AZ lawsuit, abandons 'voter fraud' hotline, tells Geraldo he'll do 'the right thing
- Trump law firm calls it quits
- PA won't do recount
- MI judge rejects GOP lawsuit
While some GOP House members complain about having to walk through metal detectors, National Guard troops spent night sleeping on marble floors of the Capitol.
Trump used his post-election address to spew falsehoods and air grievances, with no mention of nation's problems.
Biden spoke of those affected by coronavirus, economy, climate change, racial justice. Spoke not of votes, but of voters.
The Attorney General on CNN says he doesn't know whether it's illegal to vote twice (it is), that Jacob Blake was armed (he wasn't), and that counterfeit ballots from another country are real threat (no evidence).
"I don't know what the law in the particular state says" -- Wolf Blitzer has to explain to the Attorney General of the United States that it's actually illegal to vote twice
Yesterday Trump said the 2020 election "was virtually impenetrable by foreign powers."
Today his lawyers said the entire election was hijacked as part of a plot orchestrated from Venezuela.
So Trump lied to voters by telling them Mexico would pay for wall.
Then Bannon defrauded Trump voters in alleged 'Build the Wall' scam.
Then Trump pardoned Bannon for defrauding voters that Trump lied to at the start.
Secretary of State nominee Tony Blinken says arrest of Navalny shows "how terrified Mr. Putin seems to be of one man."
(and in one line exceeds # of times Trump challenged Putin on human rights or any other subject)
NEW: Russian FSB agents came to homes of top Google and Apple officials and threatened to take them to prison.
Part of a massive Kremlin pressure campaign against US tech now accelerating amid Ukraine war. Exclusive with
@josephmenn
Trump used to ask retired generals in his administration, including Kelly and Mattis, why they had ever served. Their stars were just signs of squandered earning potential. “You don’t make any money.”
An alleged affair with Putin.
A child born with no father listed. A shell company in Monaco.
A $4-million apartment.
Amazing story w/
@PaulSonne
.
@ICIJorg
The world class health care the president is getting at Walter Reed is grounded in science and expertise that he mocked and ignored through much of the pandemic.
Doctors, Nurses and ALL at the GREAT Walter Reed Medical Center, and others from likewise incredible institutions who have joined them, are AMAZING!!!Tremendous progress has been made over the last 6 months in fighting this PLAGUE. With their help, I am feeling well!
FBI/DOJ press conference makes it pretty clear that the Capitol dragnet is going to be massive - stretching across entire country, lasting months, with charges against hundreds or even thousands.
The 160 cases open now will expand 'geometrically' -- U.S. atty Michael Sherwin.
There is strong evidence in NYT tax story that
1) Trump's 2016 campaign was bid to revive his brand as $$ and attention from The Apprentice show dried up.
2) his unexpected win brought new streams of cash to Trump properties (but not near enough to stem mounting losses).
President Trump doesn't hesitate to accuse perceived adversaries of crimes - including Clinton, Mueller & Obama. But case of gruesome Russian poisoning apparently requires more deliberation.
Newly pardoned Mike Flynn calls right wing wvw-tv to say Trump 'has clear paths' to victory, covid was part of 'coup' plot against him, country will never accept Biden.
Flynn was once responsible for delivering sober, accurate intel to U.S. military leaders.
In < 24 hrs Trump has gone from no symptoms to mild symptoms to fever/fatigue to experimental drugs to admission to Walter Reed Medical Center for "several days."
Trump on tape trying to steal election. Former SecDefs warn him not to tap military for his scheme. Unused covid vaccines piling up on shelves. And Devin Nunes getting Medal of Freedom.
Years of chaos in one day.
“We’re in for a whole world of hurt." Fauci offers scathing assessment of Trump’s pandemic response, predicts rough winter, trashes Scott Atlas & praises Biden campaign for taking public health seriously.
@jdawsey1
@yabutaleb7
After Trump claimed that poor forest management was main cause of fires, Gov. Newsom politely noted that 57% of California's forest land is federally owned.
NEW: Trump has privately maintained that Blacks have themselves to blame in struggle for equality, that Jews are "only it it for themselves," and said he "could never understand" why the First Lady wanted to go to Africa.
BREAKING: Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has the coronavirus. Meadows informed a close circle of advisers after the election.
Story by me,
@tylerpager
and
@MarioDParker
out soon.
Pelosi taking no prisoners:
- tells Pence to invoke 25th amendment
- says impeachment coming if he doesn't
- demands Capitol Police chief be fired
- calls Trump dangerous, unfit and "complete tool of Putin"
BREAKING: China would prefer Trump not win reelection, seeing him as 'unpredictable,' while Russia is seeking to damage Biden candidacy, intelligence official says
Exclusive: Putin confronted by member of inner circle over disastrous direction of war in Ukraine. Details picked up by US spy agencies were presented to Biden in PDB.
W/
@PaulSonne
@shaneharris
@CatherineBelton
For the first time EVER, the US government said Russian agent Konstantin Kilimnik provided Russian intelligence agencies with the internal Trump campaign polling/strategy data he received from Manafort and Gates in 2016. Even Mueller didn't go that far.
So Biden is coughing and hacking and playing “fingers” with his mask, all over the place, and the Fake News doesn’t want to even think about discussing it. “Journalism” has reached the all time low in history. Sadly, Lamestream knows this and doesn’t even care!
Twitter is shadow banning like never before. A disgrace that our weak and ineffective political leadership refuses to do anything about Big Tech. They’re either afraid or stupid, nobody really knows!
Just mind-boggling: 4 sets of top secret docs, 7 sets of classified files, records labeled TS/SCI - one of highest classification levels that exists.
All dragged off to a Florida beach club by man who ran a 'lock-her-up' campaign over mishandled emails.
@atrupar
Mike, stop. Just stop. You are a former soldier. You know that leveraging the military to “rerun elections” is a totally inappropriate role for the profession. You are also undercutting the extraordinary trust and confidence America has in their military. Stop!
"Are you making a calculation that you can clean the Trump stink off of you faster than Marco Rubio and some of your other competitors?"
@NicolleDWallace
This is just staggering: North Dakota now has highest covid death rate in the world, and lowest U.S. rate of mask-wearing. The politicized pandemic.
@JoelAchenbach
…
'I may never see these places again,' Trump said of his resorts in 2016, 'because I’m going to be working for you.'
He has visited his properties 270 times, billing taxpayers >$900K.
@Fahrenthold
@jdawsey1
@partlowj
This bonkers VF story quotes Ezra Cohen-Watnick describing plot to install Kash Patel as director of CIA: "The idea was to put Kash in as the deputy, which doesn’t require Senate approval, and then to fire Gina the next day." via
@VanityFair
US intel released 2 reports in 2 days on election interference and domestic extremism.
And no one attacked the agencies, called the intel a hoax or fired any analysts.
Wow.
US intelligence on Iran missiles, espionage programs against China.
All stored in boxes by Trump at a beach resort that foreign spy services have been targeting since he became president.
@DevlinBarrett
Letter from
@GSAEmily
tells us a lot about what she personally endured while withholding certification, with not a word about what the country endured.
BREAKING: GSA’s Emily Murphy has ascertained the result of the election, declaring Joe Biden the winner and allowing him to begin the transition. Here is the letter she sent to Biden:
Since Trump’s almost out of office, I figured this would be a fun time to remind everyone of the weirdest & dumbest sh*t our failed dictator did in the last four years that we totally forgot about.
Starting with a classic:
STARING DIRECTLY INTO THE SUN DURING A SOLAR ECLIPSE
They cheered for Mike Flynn, marched with Alex Jones, knocked back White Claws, stomped on a Black Lives Matter banner. Trump honored them with a Marine One flyover. After nightfall, multiple stabbings.
WH statement on Flynn has some whoppers:
- says Flynn is 'innocent man' [he pleaded guilty 2x and was fired by Trump for lying]
- says 'multiple investigations' showed Flynn victim of plot to subvert 2016 election. [No investigation has shown this]
@josephmenn
Apple has yet to reinstate
@navalny
app months after it was yanked under Kremlin pressure, depriving dissident group of means of communicating with followers in Russia.
When forced to stand in courts under oath, Trump's lawyers "have repeatedly refused to actually allege grand fraud -- because there are legal consequences for lying to a judge." -- Sen.
@BenSasse
I am the Governor's Deputy Digital Director. I see everything that is said about and to her online.
Every single time the President does this at a rally, the violent rhetoric towards her immediately escalates on social media.
It has to stop. It just has to.
This exchange between
@nprfreshair
and
@bartongellman
captures perfectly the enormous stress on political journalism in a time of anti-truth, anti-democracy.
U.S. set new covid infection record today and lost 6 service members in a helicopter crash.
The president tweeted falsehoods about election, complaints about Fox News, praise to Scott Baio and something David Perdue said about covid vaccine.
@josephmenn
Google rushed its threatened executive to hotel and checked her in under assumed name.
Russian agents showed up there almost immediately and threatened prison again.
The president is hospitalized with virus he refused to treat as grave threat, in election whose results he will not pledge to accept, as nation confronts a struggling economy, unyielding pandemic & racial unrest. Other than that, things are fine.
NEW: Massive trove of financial docs exposes offshore accounts of world leaders, billionaires, oligarchs, celebs and criminals. Revelations about Putin, King of Jordan and rising role of US in offshore finance.
#pandorapapers
#icij
"The unmasking is a massive thing," Trump said earlier this year.
"Bigger than Watergate," said Sen. John Cornyn.
But the Barr probe that was supposed to back up these claims has instead folded without a peep.
I am a pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, small-government, strong-defense and a national-anthem-standing conservative, writes William McRaven. Here’s why I voted for Joe Biden.
Not the apocalypse, just 2020 America:
Category 4 hurricane to slam Gulf region. Two dead after armed 17-yr-old opens fire in Wisconsin. US and Russian military vehicles play bumper cars in Syria. And US covid infections approach 6 million.
Remarkably blunt language in this op-ed from Fiona Hill:
Putin has U.S. 'right where he wants it'. Sees America weakened by 'four years of Trump's disastrous presidency'
(a presidency she served)
That scary story the attorney general told on CNN yesterday about a man collecting 1,700 ballots and filling them out 'as he pleased' ?
Not what happened.
Statement from Pelosi and Schiff makes clear that Russia is much more aggressive player than China in trying to disrupt U.S. election, and that DNI statement does disservice to voters in suggesting otherwise.
Trump loved to mock rivals by saying they couldn't draw big crowds like him.
But celebrations that have burst forth today in DC, LA, Philadelphia and other cities are extraordinary - and unlike anything that followed Trump's election in 2016.