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5 years
@rachaelmbade @Rocket4410 @SecPompeo @karoun @John_Hudson It sounds as if the career employees at the State Department have no intention of letting themselves be dragged off to jail for obstructing the House's attempt to hold Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo accountable for their criminal activities.
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@SethAbramson The UAE may want the US at war with Iran, but the truth is, nobody wants it more than Benjamin Netanyahu. He has been lobbying for the US to attack Iran since 1996. Until now there’s never been a president stupid enough, not even Bush II, to do Bibi’s bidding.
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@ByronYork In fact Mr York, what Robert Mueller found was evidence of conspiracy, but was not able to prove it rose to a criminal level. BTW, Mueller also documented 10 instances of obstruction. So let's not re-write history.
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@AynRandPaulRyan @casualcactii @ByronTau I for one am tired of the what aboutism that passes as a justification of abhorrent behaviour amongst right wing journalists.
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@kylegriffin1 @JamieOGrady How does a guy who has been on the golf course most of his presidency qualify for a vacation?
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@JRubinBlogger The USPS enjoys the support of 91% of Americans polled on the subject. Even a moron like Kevin McCarthy and a weasel like Donald Trump can figure out it is not a good target for them.
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@CREWcrew @fergy621 That Duncan Hunter has not been forced to resign by his peers is the epitome of all that is wrong with the Republican Party.
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@KFILE @ProgressDems @seanhannity @TuckerCarlson Not that I am in any way excusing the ilk of Hannity and Carlson, but it seems to me this young man's father owes an apology to the Parkland survivors for altering the email as well.
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@rmc031 @theintercept I always remained amazed by working class folks who vote themselves out of union protection. Supporting politicians who advocate for “right to work” legislation is akin to handing 20% of your pay check back to your employer each week.
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@CheriJacobus @mccompass40 @RepSwalwell @jaketapper @NicolleDWallace @JoeNBC @AriMelber My guess is that the idea of the Taliban paying Afghan Security Forces to lay down their arms was an idea that came from the Trump regime. Not that it was an idea of Trump’s; it would have been suggested to him by Vladimir Putin, but Pompeo was most likely the messenger.
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@tomgara @santafeez You just have to wonder how Israel is exercising its “right of self defence” by blowing up the building that holds the regional offices of al-Jazeera and the AP.
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@ktumulty Donald Trump was clearly trying to hide the fact that one of his closest advisers had been infected. By going to NJ on Thursday, Trump once again proved that he is unfit to be president.
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@jbf1755 @cld1205 I can help but notice the inherent ant-semitism in Trump’s remark. It is akin to exactly what he and Fox News where accusing Ilhan Omar of two weeks ago; suggesting that American Jews are loyal to Israel over the US. Where is the outrage today?
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6 years
@TPM Let me translate for Senator Graham: "My big money donors told me to vote for Kavanaugh or find another job."
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@ByronYork @JudicialWatch First: We already know that the Steele Dossier was not the only evidence used at the FISA application. Second: Your own quotations says that it is not unusual to not have oral questioning when supporting documents make a strong case. Stop with the nonsense conspiracy theories.
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@AndrewFeinberg @SurlySheela @BillClinton Is it possible that after reading the Mueller Report and actually spending time with Trump that Emmett Flood developed a conscience??
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@BillKristol The problem is that Nixon’s crimes took place when there was still integrity in government. As Mitch McConnell’s little deal with Dereg Olepaska showed this week, the only thing that matters too Republicans now is money.
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@ladiesgun That would go a long way to explaining Lindsey Graham’s behaviour over the past twelve months.
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@SenKamalaHarris The problem is that in Donald Trump you have a cross between a petulant two year old and a bull in a china shop. The only way to stop him from abusing his office is to get him out of it.
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@ThePlumLineGS This in addition to Trump actively campaigning from the White House this week just shows the depths he has taken the office of president to. It will take a generation to repair the damage of one term of this buffoon.
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@marcgoldstein_ @J0ann3 @mkraju My understanding is that Rick Scott made his money defrauding the Florida health care system. Misrepresenting the results seems par for the course for him.
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@TomArnold @Mcatlady54 If you look at his role in the Starr investigation, it is clear that Brett Kavanaugh has always been entitled, mean and vindictive. Alcohol may or may not have anything to do with it, but basically Kavanaugh simply wants what he wants and cares nothing about who that hurts.
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@MichaelSctMoore @deathtocrazy Somali pirates have more respect for people of different races than does the Trump regime.
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4 years
@maggieNYT Because what the world needs at this time of extraordinary uncertainty is Donald Trump as interpreted by Rudy Giuliani.
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@RadioFreeTom The giveaway on ACB's confirmation was when every Republican Senator announced that they were going to vote in favor of Trump's nominee before they even knew who it was. A bunch of lickspittles, one and all.
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7 years
@davidfrum This is the time that you have to give special thanks to the NRA for its efforts in allowing thugs to parade around with assault rifles.
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6 years
@essenviews Trump fans are just reacting badly to the fact that after nearly two years, even they are having to admit that their emperor has no clothes.
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5 years
@maddow @GottaLaff The fact that one of the two major political parties openly admits that it can't get elected without cheating really ought to scare the Hell out people. Even members of that party.
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@KellyCanuckTO The biggest difference between Justin and Pierre is that Justin is facing a concerted effort by the Canadian media to discredit him. I have never seen anything quite like it, it is collusion on a grand scale.
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@JohnJHarwood I for one am sick of hearing about what two adults did 25 years ago. Clinton was impeached. It is time that some one went after the current president for his abuses of office.
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@MontyBoa99 @MarkDavidAnder9 I cannot believe this doesn’t come up every week on the Sunday talk shows. Trump’s blackmail of Qatar to get Jared his bailout ought to by itself be grounds for impeachment.
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@PoliticusSarah The House Republican conference really is a scraping of the bottom of the barrel.
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6 years
@WilDonnelly Donald Trump isn't even bothering to pretend any more. Its almost as if he knows that Mueller is coming, and he is going to grab everything he can get from the Oval Office while the getting is good.
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@aravosis @AnnieSage I’ve read several article saying that Trump’s trip went so badly, that even he knows he’s gone too far with his racism and hate filled invective. Yelling at his staff in public is a sign he’s worried.
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@joncoopertweets @RepAdamSchiff I strongly urge the Senator to get a big pot of coffee and read the Democratic memo several times over, preferably while Trump is having his “executive time” watching news stories about himself on TV.
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@ddiamond @WhitfordBradley @RepCarolMiller Carol Miller lied to the American public in order to advance a party agenda, rather than search for the truth. That just makes her a Republican.
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@NewYorker George W Bush may not have been the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he had a sense of duty to his country, however misguided. Trump has nothing but greed and a power lust. The endgame of his administration will make Iraq/2008 recession look tame by comparison.
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5 years
@DerekCressman All the Supreme Court did with their idiotic Citizens United decision was to legalize the bribery of politicians.
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@TopherSpiro @SenatorCollins Susan Collins demonstrated extreme naivete in believing the promises of Mitch McConnell for a single minute. The only difference between Mitch and Donald Trump is that Mitch is less obvious.
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@DriscollBrad @mdcolliM @VP @POTUS Actually if you read the analysis, the Trump tax plan does quite a lot for the middle class. It raises their taxes right across the board.
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Well, if I had to blow an 82 day streak, at least it was on a word Wordlebot didn't get too. #Wordle675 Wordle 675 X/6* 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
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There has not been a federal Conservative government in 60 years that “lived within its means”. A government under Andrew Scheer will not be the first.
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My Conservative government will live within its means and put more money in your pockets. It’s time for you to get ahead.
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@thehill As it should be. Read the man's history, his rulings and his writing on the law. He will set back the rights of women, minorities and workers in general by seventy years given half a chance.
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@TeaPainUSA Personally, I believe Sarah Palin is unvaccinated as much as I believe Tucker Carlson is unvaccinated. Which is to say: "Not at all".
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@paulkrugman In the great political scheme of things, you can always count on Ted Cruz to run as fast as he can, once he's realized where they are going, to get in front of the crowd.
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I'm willing to bet there will be more than a few streaks ending with this nonsense word today. #Wordle375 Wordle 375 X/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩
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@ianbassin @deathtocrazy @FBI I've said it before and I will say it again. In the end it Donald Trump's own big mouth that will bring him down.
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@nedprice @politico No doubt there were purges in the State Department and Commerce as well. Nobody who actually has an understanding of foreign affairs or macro-economics would allow their boss to run around spouting the nonsense Trump talks.
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@gtconway3d @deathtocrazy @AmbassadorRice Actually I’m very much okay with the likes of Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Matt Gaetz, Devin Nunes and Sean Hannity ending up in the trash heap of history. Not one of them has done a single worthy thing in their useless lives of elite privilege anyway.
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I have to admit. It really is time to give up my subscription to The Globe and Mail.
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We went from HAN DONG! - CHINA INTERFERENCE! back to $6000 hotel rooms, literally overnight. Something isn’t going as planned for the Globe and the Conservatives.
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@TimRunsHisMouth @megynkelly You are correct on two accounts. 1. People shouldn't make ad hominem attacks against anybody, no matter how uninformed their arguments. 2. Megan Kelly's "facts" cannot be debated. They are plain and simply wrong. Had she read the article she is citing, she would know that.
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@nytimes What is it that the Trump administration hates so much about freedom of speech?
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@SenKamalaHarris The public will never get transparency from the Trump regime. If that were ever to happen, Donny would be behind bars for the rest of his life.
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@thehill I’m going to go ahead and say that Kemp’s internal polling has him losing ground to Stacy Abrams.
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@jonfavs As Donald Trump becomes more and more desperate over the next two weeks, we can expect him to pull out the stops on his lying. After all, if the GOP loses on Nov 6, Trump most likely will end up in jail where he belongs.
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@KevinMKruse @EricTrump I'm just shocked that Eric Trump actually knows who JFK was.
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@JJGass @marshstars @esaagar @FoxNews Fox News is so desperate to protect Donald Trump right now, that they will soon have Herb the local Dog Catcher on for his opinions on Constitutional Law.
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"Trump is the unfaithful spouse who constantly accuses the other of infidelity because the guilt of his own sins."
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@BillKristol The time has come to stop calling the GOP "The Party of Lincoln". Even as a reference to what it once represented. It is just an insult to history.
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@GlennKesslerWP @jaketapper The American public should use this as a wake up call. No matter what Republicans tell you, business cannot be trusted to act in the best interests of the public. There is a reason for government regulation, and this mess with the 737 Max is example number one.
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@itsJeffTiedrich Its the rule of the cult. Never blame Dear Leader for his crimes when you can blame somebody with no connection at all.
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@igorvolsky @kharyp @NRA The truth is that the NRA ought to be renamed the National Death Merchants.
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@RadioFreeTom Best analysis I've seen anywhere. Political gratification is never a winning strategy when it comes to the military.
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@tribelaw @SethAbramson Somebody Tweeted the other day that the marriage of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump was an arranged one, between two New York crime families. With each passing day, the joke becomes less and less humorous.
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@kylegriffin1 Funny, I seem to recall that back when he was perjuring himself in front the the Senate confirmation panel, Sessions insisted that he wasn't a racist....
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@tribelaw @SenMajLdr @RepAdamSchiff Is it possible for Nancy Pelosi to cut off funding for GOP House members until they stop this nonsense?
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@cmclymer On the positive side, if you're a woman who has graduated high school, you won't attract any unwanted attention from Matt Gaetz.
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@KirstenPowers @finneyk I wouldn’t waste my valuable time on stage talking to Tulsi Gabbard either.
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@TeaPainUSA "Somebody didn't think this through" will be the epitaph for the entire Trump regime.
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That was a pleasant surprise. #Wordle1102 Wordle 1,102 2/6* 🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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@Scribulatora This past week, the main US apologist for Putin was not only allowed into this country, but feted by the premier of one our largest provinces. We're in a worse place than we thought.
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@downtownrob88 I’ve been following Canadian politics for years and have never seen a collective effort of the country’s media to get a sitting prime minister like the one we are watching now.
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@JohnJHarwood Mental lightweights like Republican Tom Cole are the most glaring examples of why Citizens United needs to be over turned as quickly as possible.
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I think Wordle added a new rule about what words are eligible. #Wordle1023 Wordle 1,023 5/6* 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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@Redpainter1 This explains so much about the last two federal budgets.
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@shannonrwatts @Jen_C_ @NRA When the New York State Attorney General gets through with them for funneling foreign money to the Trump campaign, the NRA won't be picking on anyone anymore.
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@politico The people truly benefitting from the US health care system are insurance company CEOs, lobbyists and Republican politicians. That’s the only reason that Medicare for all is so “dangerous and misguided”.
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That went well. #Wordle1092 Wordle 1,092 2/6* ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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So that went well... #Wordle995 Wordle 995 2/6* 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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@gtconway3d Donald Trump has a reptilian instinct for survival. It is his only real talent. That said, Trump is an example of what Descartes meant when he said you can teach a dog to walk on its hind legs, but it remains a dog.
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I think I'm going to enjoy this Trend. And it couldn't happen to a more deserving guy. #CruzSexScandal
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@TheDailyEdge Donald Trump is simply jealous. After all these years, people still like and respect Jerry Brown. As for Jeff Bezos, he has been more successful that Donald Trump could ever have dreamed of being, and that just won't do.
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@EdKrassen @realDonaldTrump @BarackObama Just goes to show. Great leadership is about getting things done, not bragging about how fantastic you are at every opportunity.
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@tomiahonen I for one, still can't get over the fact that as many people voted for Donald Trump as did.
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@suzannedimaggio @davidfrum Mike Pompeo is probably the least respected Secretary of State in my lifetime. Even though I disagreed with Condolesa Rice, she at least had a sense of dignity and integrity that Pompeo can't even pretend to attain.
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Have to admit, I thought I was going down on this one. #Wordle1119 Wordle 1,119 5/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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@JenniferJJacobs @StephenMoore @SalehaMohsin One of those guys who believes in deficit reduction until its time for a tax cut for the wealthy, a Republican is in the White House, or both, no doubt.
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A two for the second time in two days. #Wordle1182 Wordle 1,182 2/6* 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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And the streak starts again. #Wordle1143 Wordle 1,143 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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An easy one this morning #Wordle1195 Wordle 1,195 3/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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@davidfrum And despite all this in cash spending on properties, Rudy Giuliani implied that Donald Trump had to borrow the $130,000 to pay off Stormy Daniels. Which of course raises even more questions.
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@thedailybeast This is the next member of Congress who needs to be stripped of his committee appointments.
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Seriously Wordle? It seems we are starting to plumb the depths for new five letter words. #Wordle786 Wordle 786 5/6* ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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@waltshaub @tomasrabago1 The House of Trump is the quintessential Den of Thieves. I doubt very much that anybody in the current White House can be trusted for anything.
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I won't be boasting about how I played this game, but I got there. #Wordle928 Wordle 928 6/6* ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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A couple of options on row three, but I chose right. #Wordle1172 Wordle 1,172 3/6* ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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@peterbakernyt @maggieNYT @GlennThrush That being the case, at least one Trump lawyer is going to need legal representation of his own very soon.
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@thehill Obama is able to go out and credibly say what Congressional Republicans should have been saying about Trump for months; that the emperor has no clothes. I bet Mike Pence is drowning in his own tears.
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That was close #Wordle1128 Wordle 1,128 6/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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A so-so result. #Wordle1165 Wordle 1,165 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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