When Trump knowingly accepted Russian help and obstructed the doj investigation and lied to the American people about who attacked our elections or extorting Ukraine the republicans didn't provide a valid counter argument

they asked "who unmasked?" or leaked or whistleblew

when Trump gave his acting officials and son-in-law and cabinet members security clearances that they didn't get cleared for Republicans look the other way

When he sided with Putin in Helsinki Republicans were in Moscow in secret meetings they voted not to release the transcript
When handed election security bills the Republicans voted against all but one of them which would strengthen funding for the machines that McConnell uses in his state
They helped Trump rail against the special counsel investigation into interference in our election

When a federal judge said Bill Barr had misrepresented that report they ignored it
When their own senate Intel report came out and said that Trump Associates were actively working to disseminate Russian misinformation into our public discourse during the election

And Ratcliffe said he wouldn't breathe the Intel committee on the interference

GOP ignored it.
They attacked any Witness of Trumps obstruction and or the obstruction of his associates and cabinet and staff during both the Russia investigation and the impeachment hearing

They attacked American heroes and our own ambassadors
They ignored when Rudy Giuliani was stalking a Russian Ambassador with men who have since been indicted for dumping millions of dollars into Republican campaign, whom they know on a first-name basis, they lied about it even though Nunes was in direct contact
Over the course of the four years that we had a president controlled by Russia and protected by Republicans and Aggro-progs refer to the attack on our election as a hoax

The same lawyers and PR people who got in trouble for showing anti magnitsky films at the Newseum the night
Of the Don Jr collusion conspiracy meeting, to which he invited Jared Kushner, worked as Tulsi's PR cleanup guys also (see Chris Cooper, Potomac Square)

Bannon tried to bring her aboard Trump's cabinet early on also
I had long hoped to see even one piece of Fallout surrounding the Russian infiltration and the mob money going into Republican campaigns from different places, just one law enforcement body question Marco Rubio making a video trying to discredit his own committee Intel report
Just one investigation into the obvious stuff that we could all see with our own eyes, everyone who watched the gates hearings and the Comey hearings and the sessions hearings where he had like 15 recusal violations, and have a feeling of relief knowing that they won't
be as Intrepid to do this again but the reality is the Republicans have been showing people like Alexander Torshin are polling stations since like 2010 and nobody has done shit to stop them

The reality is that Rosenstein and Mueller put the ball down and walked away
Accountability is going to be hard-fought and we may never see it, today they're thinking about letting some of the insurrectionists from the capitol go

Yesterday Donald Trump left office and I didn't see a single sealed indictment for any of his extortion or bribery or treason
The government accountability office and a federal judge respectively found that Mike Pompeo and William Barr had both violated the law

Pompeo for his role the Ukraine bribery and Ambassador stalking

William Barr for how he appointed an oversight committee

Where are charges?
And yes I know that there were some people held to account and there would have been some accountability for other people like Bannon had Trump not issued a bunch of Pardons and he wouldn't have had to issue pardons if there was no account
It's not good enough, 4 years we've watched as Republicans obviously defrauded the people of the United States of America in a conspiracy to conceal Donald Trump's crimes

They didn't just conceal his crimes they helped him murder us with this information about a deadly virus
Some of them participated in inciting an Insurrection and the rest of them are fine with it

Some of them asked other state election officials to throw a democratic vote and some of them put out fake drop boxes so people couldn't mail their ballots

None of them denounced his
Attempt to overthrow the free and fair election or all of his disinformation until a terrorist mob was sent to congress and on their way

By people like Giuliani who was actually stalking an American ambassador and falsifying State Department docs... who is still free
And we saw what happened at the Capitol, we saw them saying that they wanted to start a second Civil War here since 2018 and we saw things ramp up for over 2 years and especially in the weeks leading up to the insurrection

Where. were. the. helpers?
Giuliani was stalking an *American Ambassador in Ukraine*... for Russian made Oligarchs and Trump

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It’s not clear how Dr. Sean Conley has determined Trump will no longer need to isolate only 10 days after symptom onset.

Looks like the CDC Guidelines say Trump should be in the category that needs to isolate for 20 days after symptom onset.👇

Plus ...



2. Fauci on Thursday used a (test-based) approach, in which case, per Fauci:

Trump needs to isolate for 10 days after symptoms RESOLVE (not symptoms onset) and then two negative tests.

Note: based on his coughing on Hannity last night, Trump’s symptoms haven’t resolved yet.


3. Here’s a longer quote from Fauci (via @MarionRenault):

https://t.co/oRdrtxQe80


4. Also noteworthy: on Hannity last night, Trump wouldn’t say he’s tested negative.👇

Thus failing one of the conditions required by Fauci for Trump to be considered no longer contagious.


5/5. This resource on coronavirus (UpToDate) has been specially made available to the public. It describes the test-based and non-test-based approaches.
OK, #Squidigation fans, I think we need to talk about the new Wisconsin suit Donald Trump filed - personally - in Federal Court last night. The suit is (as usual) meritless. But it's meritless in new and disturbing ways. This thread will be


Not, I hope, Seth Abramson long. But will see.

I apologize in advance to my wife, who would very much prefer I be billing time (today's a light day, though) and to my assistant, to whom I owe some administrative stuff this will likely keep me from 😃

First, some background. Trump's suit essentially tries to Federalize the Wisconsin Supreme Court complaint his campaign filed, which we discussed here.


If you haven't already, go read that thread. I'm not going to be re-doing the same analysis, and I'm not going to be cross-linking to that discussion as we go. (Sorry, I like you guys, and I see this as public service, but there are limits)

Also, @5DollarFeminist has a good stand-alone thread analyzing the new Federal complaint - it's worth reading as well, though some of the analysis will overlap.

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The entire discussion around Facebook’s disclosures of what happened in 2016 is very frustrating. No exec stopped any investigations, but there were a lot of heated discussions about what to publish and when.


In the spring and summer of 2016, as reported by the Times, activity we traced to GRU was reported to the FBI. This was the standard model of interaction companies used for nation-state attacks against likely US targeted.

In the Spring of 2017, after a deep dive into the Fake News phenomena, the security team wanted to publish an update that covered what we had learned. At this point, we didn’t have any advertising content or the big IRA cluster, but we did know about the GRU model.

This report when through dozens of edits as different equities were represented. I did not have any meetings with Sheryl on the paper, but I can’t speak to whether she was in the loop with my higher-ups.

In the end, the difficult question of attribution was settled by us pointing to the DNI report instead of saying Russia or GRU directly. In my pre-briefs with members of Congress, I made it clear that we believed this action was GRU.