Pedro da Costa
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Fed reporter. Head of Policy for the Americas at @MNIMarketNews. Ex-Reuters, WSJ, Peterson Institute. Host of FedSpeak podcast. Opinions my own.
Washington, DC
Joined August 2009
If Donald Trump resigned tonight, the Dow would open 4,000 points higher in the morning.
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"We're working on mass distribution of the virus," Treasury Secretary Mnuchin tells CNBC, presumably meaning the vaccine.
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Dear troops: You do not have to follow illegal orders. History will remember your actions.
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“No one took the memo separating children from their parents away from Trump’s desk.” - @chrislhayes.
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What if Donald Trump shut down the U.S. government because he’s working on behalf of a foreign one?.
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Macron, playing toddler-level reverse psychology, gets Trump to defend NATO.
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Trump on the man he picked to be ambassador to the world’s largest economic bloc: “I hardly knew the gentleman.”.
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Suddenly Ivanka's voting machine trademarks start to make a whole lot more sense.
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Trump called the warrant-backed FBI raid of his lawyer’s home and office “an attack on our country.” He has never referred to the Kremlin’s attack on our country as an attack on our country.
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"By 2013, 79 of Obama’s nominees had been blocked by filibusters, compared with 68 in the entire history of the US."
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To be clear: Trump was impeachable on his first day in office because his failure to divest created an insurmountable conflict of interest that is expressly forbidden in the constitution. #ImpeachmentHearingsNOW.
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Shouldn’t Donald Trump’s 19 accusers get FBI investigations as well?.
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"We will be the world's richest nation once again," says Trump, apparently unaware the United States is in fact the world's richest nation.
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"Do not drink soap, detergent or bleach," doctor is forced to tell children on CNN/Sesame Street town hall. 🤦🏻♂️.
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Pence thanks Capitol police for defending the Capitol from his supporters. Surreal left the station.
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"His government was constantly in chaos, with officials having no idea what he wanted them to do. Nobody was clear who was actually in charge of what. He procrastinated wildly when asked to make difficult decisions, and would often rely on gut feeling."
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Cable networks that gave Rudy Giuliani unlimited airtime to bash the criminal investigation into the president remain silent on news that he's actually an unregistered foreign agent, like the fired former NSA chief Michael Flynn.
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Putin cancels meeting with Kremlin asset as said asset looks increasingly compromised.
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There is no immigration crisis. There is no surge in crime. It's just racist politics.
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Fascism sucks. #TrumpVirus.
Government health officials and scientists will have to clear statements about the coronavirus outbreak with the office of Vice President Mike Pence, in an effort to tighten the White House’s control of messaging about the virus.
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Lanny Davis just said Michael Cohen and his family feel threatened by the Russian mob via Trump. (MSNBC).
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"The Panama Papers showed Trump allies were using a network of tax havens to quietly stash their wealth offshore. They included the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Robert Kraft, and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross."
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How are you still in Congress?
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Can we stop calling people who criminally breach legal and reasonable physical distancing measures thereby endangering public health and safety 'protesters'?.
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Trump says he does not need to read extensively because he reaches the right decisions “with very little knowledge"
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"We're not just a law firm. We're the Department of Justice." - #SallyYates defends her decision to reject travel ban.
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Trump shreds Constitution: Silence. Pelosi shreds Trump: Gasps!.
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It feels so yucky to live in a country where an alleged rapist president names an alleged rapist judge to the highest court.
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Why isn’t this on TV all day?
House majority leader told colleagues last year "I think Putin pays" Trump. Paul Ryan told them not to leak remarks.
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Grand Old Puppets: "Russiagate isn’t just the narrow story of a few corrupt officials. It isn’t even the story of a corrupt president. It’s the story of a corrupt political party."
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There is nothing ok with this.
Bernie Sanders’ wife went on Russian TV to explain why open primaries — like the SC Democratic primary on Saturday — are more “democratic” because they allow REPUBLICANS to vote for who the Democratic nominee should be. Sorry, Jane — THIS IS JUST WRONG! 😡.
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ICE HAS MORE PEOPLE IN ITS CONCENTRATION CAMPS THAN CANADA HAS IN PRISON!!!
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RUSSIA STATE TV: "WE'RE STARTING TO ELECT TRUMP FOR A SECOND TERM."
#Russia's state TV concludes the #MuellerReport findings cemented Trump's odds of being re-elected in 2020. State TV host Evgeny Popov: "Trump will win in this election, with or without our help.".State TV host Olga Skabeeva: "We're starting to elect Trump for the second term."
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Planting a Russian spy as US president probably does qualify as the biggest scandal in history.
SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!.
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"At one modeling event, Trump allegedly went down a line of women feeling their bodies to guess their dress size. Backstage at a lingerie show, he is said to have moved his hands all over a model’s breasts under the guise of inspecting the bra’s fabric."
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There is no deal with the EU. There is no deal with Mexico and Canada. There is no deal with North Korea. There are no deals.
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Why does everyone assume Trump's Cabinet's reverence for him emanates from duty or respect, rather than Kompromat?.
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Newsrooms around the country are having to spend additional money on security for staff because of the president's anti-media incitement.
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The sharpie is not a joke. Just like Greenland wasn’t a joke. There is no humor in fascism.
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They put a bankrupt casino owner in charge. He gambled it all away.
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"A Reuters investigation found that 63 people with Russian addresses or passports have purchased $98.4 million of property in Trump-branded condos in South Florida."
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Leahy: "Can the president pardon someone in exchange for a bribe?".#Kavanaugh: It depends.
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Seeing Lavrov strut around the White House like he owns it, because for now he sort of does, makes me angrily patriotic.
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Jared is going to be disappointed when he discovers prison reform won’t apply to RICO cases.
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THREAD: Trump and #DeutscheBank: "Trump’s financial malfeasance has always been the crux of his deep-seated core of corruption. And many of the questions raised by Trump's finances lie within his longstanding and dubious relationship with Deutsche Bank."
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You know who Trump won't *ever* say is dumb? His real Secretary of State, Lavrov.
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AG's ties to Russia: "Barr’s previous employers are connected to key subjects in the probe."
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Trump: Declares utterly bogus national emergency to bypass Congress. Cable News: Are Democrats moving too far left?.
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Thanks Aaron, for always coming up with the clip.
On CNN, Larry Kudlow defends his ludicrously false Feb 25 claim that the coronavirus was "contained": "At the time, there were only 40 or 50 cases, and it was contained, particularly after President Trump boldly put up travel restrictions in China." (It was not contained.)
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July 4: Republican senators hold closed door meeting with top Kremlin officials. July 5, TV “news”: ‘Democrats divided over abolishing ICE.’.
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"The meeting was about adoptions." . "The call was about corruption.". "The women are all lying." . "Mexico is going to pay for the wall.".
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Remember when Mike Pompeo was going to restore morale to a State Department shaken by Rex Tillerson?.
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“The Putin surrogate who allegedly set up the key meeting between Trump’s people and the Russians two years ago is the same guy Rand Paul met with in Moscow this past summer.”
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“The @FederalReserve knew.”.
Deutsche Bank has had some Russian money laundering problems. Compliance officers knew. The Fed knew. The problems continued.
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What is the legal basis for the failure to arrest every insurgent that illegally breached the U.S. Capitol building?.
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CNN makes it clear Minneapolis cops inexplicably arrested clearly identified Hispanic reporter, while treating white reporter covering separate part of protest like a buddy.
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Trump's ties to organized crime were fundamental to his business
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Yesterday evening, Trump took the longest walk of his entire life.
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"-Did any of your bankers visit the properties for which Trump was requesting loans?. - Can you produce the documents, plans, and pictures Trump gave you?. - Did Deutsche bankers ask for the methodology Trump used to determine the value of his assets?".
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