Reporting on foreign policy. Current: Diplomatic Substack, Just Security ed bd. Al-Monitor Politico Foreign Policy alum. lkrozen threads, lkrozen.bsky, at gmail
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🧵US Senior Admin Official, in call with reporters, said in addition to disconnecting key Russian banks from SWIFT, the US & Europeans agreed to launch a mutlilateral transatlantic task force to identify, hunt down and seize the assets of sanctioned Russian officials & oligarchs,
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did anyone figure out who planted this brainworm in trump’s mind about canada?
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NPR: Trump says Mike Waltz will lead Signal chat probe, the same man who Atlantic editor Jeff Goldberg reported added him to the group.
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Trump has no public events scheduled all weekend. Don’t believe he was seen today either.
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this is really disturbing. House tours canceled even by members because of covid, so she was shocked to see groups of people walking around with Republican members and staff on Jan. 5, day before capitol attack. so shocked her chief of staff called sergeant at arms jan.5
Rep. Sherrill describes how her military training taught her to "look for things that were out of place, look for things that were odd, and look at them with an eye toward security," and how that led her to raise questions about visitors to the Capitol the day before the attack.
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🧵 “The messages reveal that Pres. Trump was not part of the discussion of whether to make the airstrikes, a deeply troubling revelation that raises the question of who is in charge at the White House. …
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Retroactively classified. Think about that. Getting prosecuted for something that was legal but specifically changed later for the purpose of selectively prosecuting it
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“Woodward writes that [Saudi crown prince] bin Salman had an aide bring over a bag with about 50 burner phones, pulling out one labeled ‘TRUMP 45.’”
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Barr lied about tear gassing people on camera in the capital of the free world. he lied about the Mueller report. He lied about dropping the Flynn case. He lied about Ukraine. He lied about the US attorney resigning. But the US attorney called him on it
It's worth not losing sight of the fact that the Attorney General of the United States out-and-out *lied* in a written statement—and in a context in which there could have been little question to him that Berman would publicly call him out for doing so.
And he did it anyway.
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“Four of Maga’s most influential voices are fiftysomething white men with formative experiences in apartheid South Africa. This probably isn’t a coincidence.”
gift link on.ft.com/3XtHLpz
A must read from @KuperSimon: "Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid South Africa" ft.com/content/cfbfa1e8-d8f8… via @ft
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🧵Jake Sullivan: And while I'm standing at this podium, the President is reaching out to give personal thanks to the leaders of Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway and Turkey. and honestly guys, I can just say this was vintage Joe Biden, rallying American allies.
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WH Pool reporter @agearan notes crowd was muted when Trump railed against mail-in voting in over 75 min speech in Arizona: “Arizona uses mail-in ballots and some 80 percent of voters use the option.”
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Kaitlin Collins playing clip that shows exact moment Vance blows it up. and it is not because Zelenskyy said anything disrespectful.
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“Trump did not sit with the Lerner family, the principal owners of the Nationals. A representative for the Lerner family put in a request to MLB to not be put in position to turn down a request from the White House to sit with Trump, according to WUSA.”
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How you know TrumpUkrainegate is really bad. Pompeo pretends not to have heard about it
"You just gave me a report... none of which I've seen," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells @martharaddatz when asked about a report that President Trump pressed the President of Ukraine to work with Rudy Giuliani to investigate Joe Biden's son. abcn.ws/2kML9O2
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“The changes will leave Hegseth without a chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, or senior adviser in his front office.
‘There is a complete meltdown in the building, and this is really reflecting on the secretary’s leadership,’ politico.com/news/2025/04/18…
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Louis DeJoy today: “I would suggest we are on a death spiral.”
Gee whiz, what company would keep a ceo who says/thinks this? Get rid of him before he breaks it more
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know what endangers journalists? Assange working with Russian intelligence to elect a US president who calls journalists enemy of the people
#Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson: “This sets a dangerous precedent for all media organizations and journalists around the world.”
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In June 2021, Six months into Biden’s term, Trump pressured Mo Brooks to call for a special election to reinstate Trump as president, according to Woodward’s new book. Brooks refused, leading to their split.
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A US official writes me on Grenell memo: “I wish this would get stressed more as folks cover the Grenell list...Nobody ‘unmasked Flynn.’ You don’t know who it is when you request. You read a report that notes an American citizen (hence the masking, since American citizens 1/
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House Foreign Affairs chair @RepEliotEngel: “I have learned that the Office of the Inspector General had opened an investigation into Sec. Pompeo. Mr. Linick’s firing amid such a probe strongly suggests that this is an unlawful act of retaliation.” foreignaffairs.house.gov/202…
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🧵President Biden, via WH pool: “One of the reasons why I was late for you all was I was dealing with the ceasefire effort in the Middle East. And we are closer than we’ve ever been. I don’t want to jinx anything. 1/
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🧵truly unbelievable.
“US special envoy Steve Witkoff misunderstood Putin's statements & took them for a concession. .. 1/
unn.ua/en/news/trumps-specia…
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Remember that Pompeo had US ambassador to Ukraine recalled to fire her because Giuliani thought she was in the way of Trump blackmailing ukraine
Pompeo kicks off his speech addressing Ukraine and Afghanistan: “We've seen a Russian dictator now terrorize the Ukrainian people because America didn't demonstrate the resolve that we did for the four years prior.”
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👉🏼So, Stone was closely coordinating with Trump, Trump campaign chairman, dep. chairman, & CEO on cordinating with Wikileaks/Assange on material stolen by Russian govt it had & would release to damage Trump rival, & Trump lied to Mueller about it & Stone lied to Congress about it
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wow.
was thinking about the date of Trump call w Zelensky,
July 25.
wondering when Mueller testimony was:
July 24.
Trump felt liberated
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as well as those of their families and enablers. We will take their yachts, their luxury apartments, their money, their ability to send their kids to college abroad, the US official said.
also cracking down on entities that sell citizenship to wealthy russians to bypass sanctions
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He’s been on vacation in Palm Beach for half a month
As hard as I work, & as successful as our Country has become with our Economy, our Military & everything else, it is ashame that the Democrats make us spend so much time & money on this ridiculous Impeachment Lite Hoax. I should be able to devote all of my time to the REAL USA!
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🧵Masha Gessen to @WNYC: Putin obsessively talked about Poland in his interview with Carlson. He mentioned Poland more than 30 times. He blamed Poland for starting WWII, for…inciting Hitler’s aggression against Poland, using the exact same words as he uses when he talks about
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Garland to Hawley: I can tell you how angry judges get when they learn someone has not told them the truth or has spun the truth
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More than 90 minutes after Capitol Police chief Sund at 2:22pm had formally requested help, Miller still would not approve.
Miller & his aides need to be interrogated under oath to explain their extended delay in approving national guard forces, and any White House role in delay
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Sessions wrote the letter to get US ambassdor to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch fired, at behest of Giuliani et al, under direction of ukrainian officials working for Russia
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I remember being struck that after the Whitmer kidnap plot revealed, not only did Trump keep up his incitement against her. But Bill Barr did not say a single word about it.
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🧵The AP’s review found at least 3 Trump campaign aides named on the permit for the Jan. 6 event. Megan Powers was listed as one of two operations managers for the Jan. 6 event, and her LinkedIn profile says she was the Trump campaign’s director of operations into January 2021.
Records: Trump allies behind rally that ignited Capitol riot
By @AP’s @rplardner and @MRSmithAP apnews.com/article/d14c78d53…
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Schiff’s letter is among the most furious documents ever seen, and disturbing. intelligence.house.gov/uploa…
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“Mr. Cohen’s father urged him not to protect the president, saying he didn’t survive the Holocaust to have his name sullied by Mr. Trump.”
Under pressure: The inside story of how Michael Cohen turned on his former boss. Great read from @rebeccadobrien @nicole_hong @joe_palazzolo wsj.com/articles/why-michael…
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wow, Trump adviser tells @svdate why trump hasn’t fired parscale yet. Parscale is paying 1 trump daughter in law and don jr’s girlfriend $180k a year campaign money thru his businesses. “he’s the paymaster.”
Because he continues secretly paying the wife of one Trump son and the girlfriend of another $180,000 per year using campaign money funneled through his personal business.
“They can’t fire Brad,” the adviser said. “He’s the paymaster.”
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Klobuchar says White House made calls to stop bipartisan legislation to secure elections from foreign interference, incl. paper ballots
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Kremlin “documents showed that Kremlin 1st deputy chief of staff Sergei Kiriyenko had directed a network of political strategists to promote American isolationism, stir fear over the United States’ border security & attempt to amplify U.S. economic & racial tension.”washingtonpost.com/national-…
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“At this point, the president and senior people around him have violated all five core principles of the country’s coronavirus strategy,” former Trump homeland security advisor Tom Bossert.
Infectious Trump briefly leaves hospital to greet fans as confusion continues over his health @ToluseO @jdawsey1 @goldsteinamy washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Tillis, Ernst and Bacon all retiring
GOP Sen. Tom Hills: Russia is playing us like a piano. He’s got everything he wants. He got access to the president, red carpet…
GOP Sen. Joni Ernst: Putin is playing Trump right now
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: Trump is terrible on Russia. He’s unable to call Putin out as the invader
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Marie Yovanovitch retired last week, Kurt Volker turned over texts and quit, Sondland testified now fired, Taylor testified removed Jan 2., Morrison left week after testified, Vindman testified, escorted out today along w twin brother, Pence aide Williams left OVP for Centcom
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Doesn’t everyone at some level get that the reason for Trump’s announced decision to pull US forces from Germany is because Merkel doesn’t kiss his ass. The stated reason, that Germany should spend more on defense, is analogous to Trump saying quid pro quo with Ukraine 1/
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“A third marriage has fallen into divorce court ruins, revealing monthly expenses of $230,000 for six homes and 11 country club memberships.”
monthly expenses of $230k. what a vulnerability to potentially corrupt and foreign interests does that represent alone
“Mr. Giuliani has been the voice in Mr. Trump’s ear when others could not be heard, and served as the voice of Mr. Trump in places where presidents dare not go” nytimes.com/2019/12/08/us/po…
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“I was actually on the phone with Leader Hoyer who was pleading with us to send the guard,” Maryland Gov. Hogan.
But Hogan said Maj. Gen. Timothy Gowen, head of the Maryland National Guard, was *repeatedly rebuffed by the head of the National Guard on the federal level.*
Why?
NEW: How the U.S. Capitol Police were overrun in a ‘monumental’ security failure, by @phscoop @CarolLeonnig @byaaroncdavis and @Fahrenthold washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Trump not firing Flynn suggests that Flynn was acting with Trump's consent. including in denying to the elected VP the nature of the calls
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Saw a man standing on the corner across from VP Kamala Harris’ naval observatory residence with a posterboard sign saying, “It wasn’t your fault.”
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Biden says Trump has been calling Republican members of the House and Senate the last 24 hours and threatening them and trying to intimidate them to vote against proposal. It looks like they’re caving.
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think it was the Iran protests in the summer of 2009 that got me on twitter. the glimpses of the protests now also riveting. was struck in 60 min interview with Raisi Sunday with the few scenes of street life in Tehran…how little we see of Iran at all on our TV, even with all
In Kerman city centre, protesters directly confront riot police and plainclothes officers, preventing them from beating and arresting fellow protesters, on the fifth day of unrest in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in morality police custody.
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🧵Sen. Angus King: something you said has sort of puzzled me. …on the morning of March 15, Sec. Hegseth put into this group text a detailed operation plan, inc. targets, the weapons we were going to be using, attack sequences and timing.
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Do you think he will explain what is up with not being able to fully bring a glass of water to his mouth with his right hand, needing to use his left one to help?
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Parnas on Nunes: we met several times. relationship expanded when i was introduced to his aide derek harvey. nunes gave me derek harvey to deal with, because he was under ethics investigation.
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Am old enough to remember when Trump sued CBS for editing a 60 minutes interview with Kamala Harris. And CBS paid him off. Think Schiff can sue Hannity for editing this?
Highlight reel from Hannity of the Schiff/Bondi exchange. Notice how the mention of the allegation against Homan is edited out.
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so the banning of Chinese students was apparently just a bargaining chip in trade negotiations. no national security basis after all.
OUR DEAL WITH CHINA IS DONE, SUBJECT TO FINAL APPROVAL WITH PRESIDENT XI AND ME. FULL MAGNETS, AND ANY NECESSARY RARE EARTHS, WILL BE SUPPLIED, UP FRONT, BY CHINA. LIKEWISE, WE WILL PROVIDE TO CHINA WHAT WAS AGREED TO, INCLUDING CHINESE STUDENTS USING OUR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOOD WITH ME!). WE ARE GETTING A TOTAL OF 55% TARIFFS, CHINA IS GETTING 10%. RELATIONSHIP IS EXCELLENT! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! (TS: 11 Jun 12:04 UTC)
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Hillary Clinton barn burner: The future is here. It’s in our grasp. Lets go win it.
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why didn’t Bolton go to the FBI? he waited to speak til he was fired more than two months later
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🧵Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), a member of Senate Armed Services Comm., noted to reporters on a call tonight that the committee held only one hearing on Afghanistan all last year, the year the Trump admin struck the deal with the Taliban to pull all US troops out of Afghanistan
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🧵NYT on why Trump pulled the plug. After 30 days of US bombing:
“the results were not there. The US had not even established air superiority over the Houthis. Instead, what was emerging…was another expensive but inconclusive American military engagement in the region.
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Biden on the importance of allies: Everybody stepped up. Poland stepped up. Slovenia stepped up. Turkey stepped up. And it matters to have relationships, it really does, these things matter.
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“In 2018, the Trump administration fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House management infrastructure.” One of Bolton’s/Trump’s legacies
As it improvises its way through a public health crisis, the United States has never been less prepared for a pandemic. foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31…
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two $500,000 payments from Russian national in Sept & oct 2018 to funnel thru parnas and fruman in illegal donations to US pol entities
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every Trump event is turning into a coronavirus PR catastrophe
NEW - Kim Guilfoyle, girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr. and a top campaign official, tested positive for coronavirus in SD ahead of attending Mt Rushmore event, according to a person familiar w what happened. She was never was with POTUS, and neither was Don Jr., who tested negative.
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Former French Amb. Gerard Araud: “For Europeans, I'm convinced that the election of November the 3rd will be maybe the most important election since the election of Roosevelt in 1932...Pres. Trump doesn't care about alliances, doesn't care about the West.”
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Am coming to agree. House should impeach Barr. Could do it fairly quickly. He has not bothered to show up for a hearing for a year. This Senate won’t remove him but maybe next one can do something to validate it and it will be in the title of all of Barr’s obituaries.
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12 hours. beyond shameful
Night has fallen, but voting lines continue in Marietta, Georgia. The @WCKitchen team just finished serving dinner. They met someone walking out who arrived at 8am — he waited 12 hours to vote today. We must do better! Until then, #ChefsForThePolls will try to keep everyone fed.
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as many remarked at time, there was something aggressively weird about parscale days ago proclaiming 800,000, then
a million ticket requests, & bragging abt data haul from the scheme. seems even more perplexing tonight. when maybe closer to 10k showed up. what *was* he doing?
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When Nader’s phones were seized by FBI at Dulles in Jan. 2018 with porn of a 3yo child, he was en route from UAE to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
this accused pervert was helping advise the Trump brain trust on how to prostitute US foreign policy to UAE & KSA courtlistener.com/recap/gov.…
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Blinken, asked what kind of Trump admin planning it received for the May 1 Afghanistan withdrawal the Trump admin agreed to, suggests almost none: “We inherited a deadline. We did not inherit a plan.”
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Helsinki was one of the low points of his presidency.
Trump remembers it fondly, in one of his more psychotic statements
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(sounds like those countries and institutions that sell foreign citizenship to wealthy Russians will become the target of sanctions).
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Former Twitter executive: “The numbers are totally and completely bogus,” she said. “It’s all completely made up. It really feels like they’re arbitrarily writing checks to people they like, which is not a sustainable creator strategy.” washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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“Dershowitz in an interview said executing a search warrant against a lawyer was a violation of the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits ‘unreasonable searches and seizures,’” oh. so lawyers are never subject to a search warrant? who knew? what about michael cohen & avennati?
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A spokeswoman for Ms. Loeffler said federal authorities had not contacted the senator. ...Burr is in the final stages of completing a nearly 1,000-page report on Russia’s 2016 election interference...that is expected to roughly mirror the findings of the special counsel, Mueller
Breaking News: The FBI seized Sen. Richard Burr’s phone for an inquiry into stock sales that followed briefings for lawmakers about the emerging coronavirus pandemic nyti.ms/2zEW6rK
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There were Trump Putin phone calls on:
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Trump and Putin also issued a joint statement on April 25
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Am sure it is not lost on anyone that he seems to exclusively use this phrase about Black women
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One day, Trump asked his sister Maryanne Trump Barry if she watches Fox.
Barry: No. [...]
Trump: What do you do?
Barry: I read.
Trump: What do you read?
Barry: Books
Trump was incredulous. “You don’t watch Fox?”
“I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit.”
This is an extraordinary read:
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Please think before posting the stupid things WH press sec utters so all can marvel at the stupidity. at some point it is just pollution, not serving the public
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Pretty unseemly for Pompeo to falsely claim he was a soldier who “fought” in Europe when he did not in fact see combat, no?
Here's Mike Pompeo claiming "I fought on the border of East Germany" (there was no fighting on the border of East Germany)
h/t @julianborger
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.@Yamiche on @AliVelshi says her WH sources say Trump has lost it. drunk on power. wants to hold onto power by any means.
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Vance clarifies his problem is not with cats, but with women.
Vance to Megyn Kelly on "childless cat ladies": "Obviously it was a sarcastic comment. I’ve got nothing against cats. ... People are focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance … and the substance of what I said, Megyn — I’m sorry, it is true."
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