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BREAKING: There’s going to be a massive protest outside of the White House at noon tomorrow. Hundreds of other cities are also holding protests to call out Trump for his rampant abuse of power. It’s a terrible look for Trump on President’s Day.

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Trump’s gone full dictator on President’s Day. Praising his tv network Fox News, calling the DoJ & FBI traitors, calling McCabe deranged, attacking Rosenstein, attacking Sessions and lying saying that there was an illegal coup attempted by the DoJ. Trump’s lost his fricking mind.

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Renato Mariotti Retweeted Jeet Heer
Anyone who thinks Trump’s call to imprison the people investigating him is not a threat to our system of government and the rule of law is disingenuous or foolish. It is corrupt for a president to call for the people who are investigating him to be imprisoned based on falsehoods.
Jeet Heer
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1. Trump is promoting a call for "the investigators" (i.e. Mueller & his team) to be arrested. This is why I can't go along with @CoreyRobin's argument that Trump is not an authoritarian threat. These are dangerous words even if not acted on. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1097247455006068738 …

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David Corn Retweeted Donald J. Trump
This is a threat from the president against Justice Department officials. It is a brazen abuse of power. It should be denounced and investigated. But Republicans will ignore this. They will normalize authoritarianism to appease their Trump-cult bade
Donald J. Trump Verified account @realDonaldTrump
“These guys, the investigators, ought to be in jail. What they have done, working with the Obama intelligence agencies, is simply unprecedented. This is one of the greatest political hoaxes ever perpetrated on the people of this Country, and Mueller is a coverup.” Rush Limbaugh

Chris Murphy Verified account ChrisMurphyCT
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Spare us.

No modern President has waged a more consistent assault on democratic movements abroad than Donald Trump. Lavished affection on dictator after dictator, pushed to gut democracy promotion budgets by 40%.
Donald J. Trump
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The people of Venezuela are standing for FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY – and the United States of America is standing right by their side!

LOL

Dan Rather
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20h20 hours ago
"I didn't need to do this" is something I occasionally say after ordering dessert, not after ordering national emergencies.

I see no way any patriotic American citizen can disagree with this statement by Senator Merkley. We are near a danger point in America if Trump lasts much longer as president.

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Let’s be very clear: I will ALWAYS trust our intelligence officials over the word of a hostile foreign dictator who murders his own citizens and imprisons & assassinates journalists who search for the truth.

So he believed them when they said Iraq had WMDs. Good to know. Not to bright is he?

Seth Abramson
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Seth Abramson Retweeted Laura Jarrett
BREAKING: Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and the Rest of the Gang of Eight Had No Factual, Legal, or Constitutional Objections to the FBI's Criminal and Counterintelligence Investigations of Trump

Please retweet the heck out of this so America understands Mitch KNOWS what Trump is.
Laura Jarrett
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McCabe confirms for first time to @SavannahGuthrie on Today that the FBI informed the Gang 8 in May 2017 the FBI had opened a counterintelligence investigation into Trump and "no one objected. Not on legal grounds, not on constitutional grounds, and not based on the facts."

Most of congress was fooled on this topic. I sure you knew that.

Tea Pain
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Ooooeee! This is a nasty one, folks! Trump was goin' to use the U.S. military to safeguard the sites while Russia supplied components and construction.
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Breaking News: House Democrats vowed to investigate a proposed U.S. nuclear venture in Saudi Arabia that could expose White House conflicts of interest https://nyti.ms/2SIRUQC
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Rob Reiner
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1h1 hour ago
One man stands in the way of the survival of our Democracy. That man is Mitch McConnell. Long ago The Pathological Liar crossed the line when he conspired with Russia to steal the ‘16 election. McConnell has the power to stop the slide towards Autocracy. History is watching.

Perhaps they will investigate the sale of us Uranium to Russia.

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Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan knew the FBI was pursuing a counterintelligence investigation of Trump as a potential national security threat to the US. McCabe says they didn’t reject it on legal, constitutional or factual grounds. Yet they continued to blithely support Trump.

Please Provide evidence Ben. I know you just like to cut and paste lies, You really should provide the truth on occasion.

Mitch stopped the Obama pick to be on the supreme court for over a year.

He refuses to let the senate vote on many things that should be voted on. He is a little dictator of the senate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/opinion/mitch-mcconnell-trump-emergency.html

How Mitch McConnell Enables Trump
He’s not an institutionalist. He’s the man who surrendered the Senate to the president.

Among the casualties of President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to build his border wall is the reputation of the majority leader Mitch McConnell as a Senate institutionalist. The evidence of the last few days has confirmed, if there were still any doubt, that he is no such thing.

First, he helped prolong the longest government shutdown in American history by insisting that the Senate would act only with explicit approval from the president. Now Mr. McConnell has fully acquiesced in President Trump’s power grab by supporting an emergency declaration, which he opposed just weeks before, aimed at addressing a crisis that Senate Republicans know does not exist.

Last week, Mr. McConnell had a choice. He didn’t have to acquiesce to the emergency declaration — he could have asserted the Senate’s independence at a critical time by passing the spending bill without validating Mr. Trump’s emergency declaration. If that prompted a veto, Mr. McConnell could have overridden it. That would be real leadership, and a clear assertion of the Senate’s independence. Instead, he meekly acquiesced in another presidential power grab.

In the months ahead, our institutions are likely to be tested as rarely before. Under a strong leader, the Senate could provide a critical counterweight to an out-of-control executive. Instead, we have a man who will put his self-interest first, every single time. We should enter this chapter with clarity and finally see Mr. McConnell for what he is. He’s not an institutionalist. He is the man who surrendered the Senate to Donald Trump.

LOL

Asha Rangappa
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Feb 18
Asha Rangappa Retweeted Bill Mitchell
OMG you must be right. The indictments of 6 members of Trump’s campaign including his Chairman, Deputy Chairman, National Security Advisor, Foreign Policy Advisor, bff, and personal lawyer is all a cover.

Bill Mitchell
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Huh, is Trump hinting at the REAL reason for the Mueller investigation? To out Democrat collusion? https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1097280840156020736 …

Palmer Report
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7m7 minutes ago
Donald Trump’s day so far:

- Totally incoherent meltdown
- Thinks California is a city
- “I never called his wife a loser”
- Misspells “where”
- Judge schedules hearing on revoking Roger Stone’s bail
- Stone is going to prison
- Trump is going to prison
- It’s still only noon