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[View here as a Twitter thread] Joe Walsh wants to know what happened to the GOP. He doesn’t understand how the “Law and Order” GOP morphed into the attack-the-FBI & obstruct justice GOP. twitter.com/WalshFreedom/s… I can explain. The problem is how he’s defining Law and Order. 1/ Remember Watergate? Iran-Contra? Nixon’s obstruction of justice? Scooter Libby’s perjury? …

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[View here as a Twitter thread] What I learned about Manafort from these docs: justice.gov/file/1094156/d… justice.gov/file/1094146/d… Spoiler: He has no scruples & he’s a brilliant strategist. And of course, and his guilty plea poses a real danger for Trump. 1/ We already knew that Manafort worked directly for Viktor Yanukovych, the Putin-backed puppet-President of Ukraine. (Yanukovych was ousted …

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[View here as a Twitter thread] Trump and Manafort are not the top of the international criminal enterprise. In a 1-27-2011 lecture—given while Mueller was FBI director—he talked about a new kind of organized crime threatening the US. https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/speeches/the-evolving-organized-crime-threat 1/ Today’s mobsters have gone international. Their organizations are fluid, with global reach. They are the …

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[View here as a Twitter thread] A new doc has been filed in the Manafort case: A criminal information The opening is explosive, and contains a few subtle changes from the previous indictment. The Guilty Plea is here 1/ Opening: Manafort conspired with Gates and Konstantin Kilimnik to act (and acted) as an agent of …

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[View here as a Twitter thread]  I’m still hearing Witch Hunt I’m not sure facts matter when someone says “witch hunt” but here are a few taken from the Mueller docs* & public statements. russia-investigation-summary.com*meaning Mueller believes he has evidence to prove them beyond a reasonable doubt. 1/ Michael Cohen’s guilty plea. Pleaded guilty to 8 federal …

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[View here as a Twitter thread] To understand how Lincoln’s anti-slavery, strong federal government party morphed into the party of the Koch brothers & the KKK, I did some reading The Democratic Party was the pro-slavery party of the Confederacy & rural America. 2/ The Democrats wanted a limited federal government because they knew the North, …

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