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BREAKING: Trump Organization convicted in N.Y. criminal tax fraud trial
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Special counsel Jack Smith subpoenas Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin officials for Trump communications in Jan. 6 probe
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New: That fake verified Eli Lilly account sparked a panic inside the pharma giant, and senior execs decided they'd had enough, freezing all Twitter ad campaigns in a huge blow to . "For $8," they lost out on "millions of dollars in ad revenue"
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Despite GOP claims, Arizona precincts with voting problems were not overwhelmingly Republican, a analysis shows
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Kevin McCarthy "joked" last yr that if he became speaker, “it will be hard not to hit” Nancy Pelosi w/ the gavel -- just one example of how the GOP demonized her for yrs, culminating in attack on her husband.
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Here's the story of how suspicions about voting machines in rural Coffee County, Georgia, spiraled into an alleged security breach that was organized by Trump allies and enabled by the county elections supervisor. w/
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Inside the secretive effort by Trump allies to access voting machines — new from and me
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Arizona election crimes unit found 20 mostly small-bore cases in 3 years in state of 4 million voters - while sapping govt resources and deepening suspicions among election deniers. W/
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Jan. 6 committee hearing will use clips from Roger Stone documentary during Wednesdays hearing. Lil bit of news from , & me:
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Trump's PAC, which raises money by promising donors they're defending the former president's legacy, is still paying Melania Trump's fashion designer, most recently $18,000 last month for "strategy consulting"
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New: Fake Trump elector and former Georgia GOP official said she did not go into a county elections office the day voting machine data was copied there.
Surveillance video shows she was there for four hours and posed for a selfie with one of the copiers.
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Scoop: Gaetz sought pardon related to Justice Department sex trafficking probe. With :
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Election denier Mike Lindell gets served in Hardee's drive-through as part of FBI investigation into alleged breach of Colorado county's voting machines.
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Police search county official’s home in connection with reporter’s killing
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New: Pair who sought proof 2020 vote was rigged repeatedly visited Georgia elections office now at center of criminal probe, video shows
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Local GOP leader and Trump “fake elector” said in sworn deposition she worked a full day as school teacher on 1/7/21 and had no involvement in the copying of Coffee County elections systems. Here she is on video at 11:42am, greeting the copiers. wapo.st/3qlapZz
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New: Security video shows two GOP tech consultants repeatedly visiting a Georgia elections office in the weeks after a Jan. 2021 breach of voting equipment there that’s now under criminal investigation
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Florida let them vote. Then DeSantis’s election police arrested them.
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"Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German, one of Nevada’s most accomplished and trusted journalists, was found dead with stab wounds outside his home Saturday morning."
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Special grand jury in Georgia subpoenas forensics firm hired by Trump-allied lawyers to copy election machine data in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada
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New: Ginni Thomas pressed Wisconsin lawmakers to overturn Biden’s 2020 victory, according to emails obtained by and
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Facebook and Twitter dismantle a U.S. influence campaign about Ukraine
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SullivanStrickler, the $26k-a-day data forensics firm hired by Trump’s campaign and Sidney Powell to handle voting machines, did not properly redact documents it turned over for a lawsuit. Read what the text revealed:
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Elections systems data obtained by pro-Trump attorneys was shared with a meteorologist who appeared on Hannity’s radio show, the far-right podcaster Joe Oltmann, and a former professional pickup artist who authored “How To Talk To Hot Women.”
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New: Sensitive data copied from county elections systems by the pro-Trump legal effort was shared with election deniers and conspiracy theorists, company records reveal
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Judge Reinhart: "I'm not prepared to find the affidavit should be fully sealed. I believe based on my initial careful review of the affidavit many times that there are portions that could preemptively be unsealed."
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This threat targeted Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, his office confirms to me.
Days before Walter Hoornstra phoned in the threat, Richer had gone on Twitter to rebuke a statement from Trump that falsely claimed Maricopa's entire voting database was deleted.
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Missouri man indicted for threatening a Maricopa County, AZ election official during the Cyber Ninjas’ sham election audit. justice.gov/opa/press-rele
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“Kushner’s fealty to Trump remains absolute. Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo.”
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Saudi woman given 34-year prison sentence for using Twitter
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New: Forensic experts directed by Trump-allied lawyers copied sensitive data from election systems in Ga. as part of a multistate effort to access voting equipment that was broader and more organized than was previously known
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Trump's Fox News interview inside Lincoln Memorial: Scratches + gouges left in marble floor. Nearly $150,000 spent on Park Service security. Secret Service official apologized to colleagues for “$#!t show” planning process. Records obtained by :
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Republican lawmakers on Sunday successfully stripped a $35 price cap on the cost of insulin for many patients from the ambitious legislative package Democrats are moving through Congress this weekend, invoking arcane Senate rules to jettison the measure.
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The Gaetz hot mic footage comes from “A Storm Foretold,” a forthcoming documentary on Roger Stone by the Danish filmmakers and
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“Since there are many, many recording devices around right now, I do not feel in a position to speak freely about the work I’ve already done on that subject,” Gaetz said, into a hot mic.
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Gaetz also spoke with Stone about redacted parts of the Mueller report that DOJ showed House Judiciary members in a secure room under a confidentiality agreement: “There was a lot on you in the full redact that came out in the skinny redact.”
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New: Rep. Matt Gaetz was caught on a hot mic assuring Roger Stone that Trump would likely pardon him shortly before Stone’s criminal trial in 2019. “The boss still has a very favorable view of you … he said it directly.”
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5/ In total, the wealthiest Americans have avoided $649 billion over the past two decades thanks to the 2001 and 2017 estate tax law changes, the Wharton folks estimate.
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NEW: I spoke w/ the local journalists who tuned out the national noise and just kept reporting, uncovering one of the first major post-Roe era stories. The saga shows how much we’ll rely on local journalists to shed light on the consequences of Roe’s fall:
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In Jared Kushner’s new memoir, he recounts White House chief of staff John Kelly shoving Ivanka Trump after a contentious meeting. Kelly says it never happened. My story:
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