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Warren Shakes Up Campaign Style

December 23, 2019 at 11:03 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“As she slips in state and national polls, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is shaking up her campaign style in Iowa — a move that paves the way for more candid, sometimes personal events,” the Des Moines Register reports.

“Instead of a 45-minute stump speech followed by three audience questions, Warren is speaking for fewer than 10 minutes and opening the rest of the hour to questions. The new format gets in at least a dozen audience questions, allowing for more crowd interaction than she’s had in her nearly yearlong campaign in Iowa.”

Tulsi Gabbard Leads the Anti-Anti-Trump Left

December 23, 2019 at 10:34 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jonathan Chait: “Left-wing anti-anti-Trumpism played an important role in the bizarre 2016 outcome. Die-hard Bernie activists, fired up with anger at the release of DNC emails stolen by Russians that purportedly showed the party had rigged the primary, demonstrated against the party outside its convention hall and tried to drown out the speakers inside with boos. Stein attacked Hillary Clinton from the left, then audaciously staged a grift-y fundraising scheme supposedly to hold recounts in the states she had labored to flip to Trump. Trump’s election appeared to deliver the same shock of reality that had vaporized Ralph Nader’s 2000 support.”

“But Gabbard’s emergence is another indication that the disaffection that drove these events has not disappeared. Anti-anti-Trumpism has maintained a small but durable intellectual infrastructure. The sentiments that first registered as dissent from the Russia investigation transferred to impeachment, and a chorus of left-wing voices is attacking the effort to remove Trump from office as at best a misguided diversion and at worst a deep-state coup.”

For members: What Is Tulsi Gabbard Up To?

Trump Complains About Delay of Senate Trial

December 23, 2019 at 10:08 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump complained about Speaker Nancy Pelosi refusing to immediately send articles of impeachment to the U.S. Senate.

Said Trump: “Pelosi gives us the most unfair trial in the history of the U.S. Congress, and now she is crying for fairness in the Senate, and breaking all rules while doing so. She lost Congress once, she will do it again!””


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Giuliani Pals Leveraged Access to Seek Ukraine Gas Deal

December 23, 2019 at 10:02 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Associated Press: “The Associated Press reported some details in October of the brash pitch that Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman made to Andrew Favorov in Houston. But in a recent series of interviews with the AP in Kyiv, Favorov painted a more complete picture of his dealings with Giuliani’s associates.”

“His tale, corroborated by interviews with other key witnesses, reveals that the pair continued to pursue a deal for months. The campaign culminated in May, at a meeting at the Trump International Hotel in Washington that included a lobbyist with deep ties to U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry and a Republican fundraiser from Texas close to Donald Trump Jr.”

“The maneuvering over Naftogaz came at the same time that Giuliani, with the help of Parnas and Fruman, were trying to get Yovanovitch out of the way and persuade Ukraine’s leaders to launch an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s work with Burisma, a rival Ukrainian gas company.”

Trump Fights Legislation to Help Kurdish Refugees

December 23, 2019 at 9:38 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Daily Beast: “In a detailed memo to senators, the Trump administration is fighting a bill that would punish Turkey for buying Russian missiles, arguing it would drive the countries closer together. Of note, Team Trump opposes a provision in the bill that would help Syrian Kurdish refugees immigrate to the United States.”

McConnell Defends Not Being an Impartial Juror

December 23, 2019 at 9:17 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told Fox and Friends that few senators are “impartial” in an impeachment trial.

Said McConnell: “Do you think Chuck Schumer is impartial? Do you think Elizabeth Warren is impartial? Bernie Sanders is impartial? So let’s quit the charade. This is a political exercise. … All I’m asking of Schumer is that we treat Trump the same way we treated Clinton.”

He continued: “We had a procedure that was approved 100 to nothing — Schumer voted for it, to go through the opening arguments, to have a written question period, and then, based upon that, deciding what witnesses to call. We haven’t ruled out witnesses. We’ve said let’s handle this case just like we did with President Clinton. Fair is fair.”

He added that he spoke to Democratic leader Chuck Schumer before they left town: “Look, we’re at an impasse. We can’t do anything until the speaker sends the papers over, so everybody enjoy the holidays.”

‘McConnell Has Destroyed Senate Norms’

December 23, 2019 at 8:49 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) told NBC News that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has destroyed Senate norms.

Said McCaskill: “McConnell has presided over absolutely destroying Senate norms, from Merrick Garland to killing legislative debate. The Senate is no longer what it was, and the people of this country are gonna have to be the ones politically to put pressure on this dysfunction and say we want unity, we want stuff to get done, we want you to quit the partisan food fight.”

Democrats Fret Over Post-Impeachment Trump

December 23, 2019 at 8:22 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Democrats have spent the last three months trying to rein in what they see as President Trump’s flagrant and latest abuse of power,” Politico reports.

“But they concede it’s not likely to work. The president, they say, is not going to change. Not because of a legacy-tarring rebuke. Not because of an expected impeachment acquittal. And, in their eyes, he may even get worse. Democrats are expecting a post-impeachment Trump who is unburdened, feeling immune from penalty — exactly how they feel he’s always behaved.”

Outside Groups Raising Money In Trump’s Name

December 23, 2019 at 8:20 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“As President Trump raises money for his reelection campaign, he’s competing for cash with a growing mass of pro-Trump PACs, dark money groups and off-brand Facebook advertisers neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Trump’s campaign, which have pulled in over $46 million so far,” Politico reports.

It’s Putin’s World

December 23, 2019 at 8:18 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “The United States, an implacable foe during the Cold War but now presided over by a president determined to ‘get along with Russia,’ is convulsed and distracted by impeachment; Britain, the other main pillar of a trans-Atlantic alliance that Mr. Putin has worked for years to undermine, is also turning inward and just voted for a government that vows to exit the European Union by the end of January.”

“The Middle East, where American and British influence once reigned supreme, has increasingly tilted toward Moscow as it turned the tide of war in Syria, provided Turkey, a member of NATO, with advanced missile systems, and signed contracts worth billions of dollar with Saudi Arabia, America’s closest ally in the Arab world. Russia has also drawn close to Egypt, another longtime American ally, become a key player in Libya’s civil war, and moved toward what looks more and more like an alliance with China.”

Leahy Slams Two GOP Senators

December 23, 2019 at 8:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) writes in the New York Times that two senior Republican senators — Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham — have abandoned the commitment to impartial impeachment trials.

Said Leahy: “This is tantamount to a criminal defendant being allowed to set the rules for his own trial, while the judge and jury promise him a quick acquittal. That is a far cry from the ‘impartial justice’ required by our oaths and the Constitution.”

Evangelical Magazine Has Gained Subscribers

December 23, 2019 at 8:10 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Christianity Today editor Mark Galli told MSNBC that his evangelical magazine has seen a surge in new subscriptions since it published his scathing editorial calling for President Trump’s removal from office.

Said Galli: “A stereotypical response is ‘thank you, thank you, thank you’ with a string of a hundred exclamation points — ‘you’ve said what I’ve been thinking but haven’t been able to articulate, I’m not crazy.‘ We have lost subscribers, but we’ve had 3 times as many people start to subscribe.”

Five Sentenced to Death for Khashoggi’s Killing

December 23, 2019 at 6:49 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death on Monday for the killing of Washington Post columnist and royal family critic Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year by a team of Saudi agents,” the AP reports.

“The killing of Khashoggi stunned the international community and also many Saudi citizens, who were deeply shocked that a Saudi national could be killed by 15 government agents inside one of the kingdom’s consulates.”

Obama Talks Up Warren to Wealthy Donors

December 23, 2019 at 6:43 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Sen. Elizabeth Warren has spent her campaign railing against the donor class, making it known she doesn’t want their help,” The Hill reports.

“But behind the scenes in recent months, former President Obama has gone to bat for Warren (Mass.) when speaking to donors reluctant to support her given her knocks on Wall Street and the wealthy.”

“And if Warren becomes the nominee, Obama has said they must throw the entirety of their support behind her.”

Buttigieg Fundraiser Dangles Influence for Cash

December 22, 2019 at 11:18 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“In a recent email exchange with a wealthy prospective donor, a top fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg made an offer that was unusually blunt — even by modern pay-to-play standards,” Axios reports.

Wrote fundraiser H.K. Park: “If you want to get on the campaign’s radar now before he is flooded with donations after winning Iowa and New Hampshire, you can use the link below for donations.”

‘I Never Understood Wind’

December 22, 2019 at 11:14 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump lashed out again at wind farms on Saturday, claiming that the production of wind turbines causes a large carbon footprint, The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “I never understood wind. I know windmills very much, I have studied it better than anybody. I know it is very expensive. They are made in China and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous — if you are into this — tremendous fumes and gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right?”

He went on: “So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint, fumes are spewing into the air, right spewing, whether it is China or Germany, is going into the air.”

Chat App Is Secretly a Spy Tool

December 22, 2019 at 3:50 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“It is billed as an easy and secure way to chat by video or text message with friends and family, even in a country that has restricted popular messaging services like WhatsApp and Skype,” the New York Times reports.

“But the service, ToTok, is actually a spying tool, according to American officials familiar with a classified intelligence assessment and a New York Times investigation into the app and its developers. It is used by the government of the United Arab Emirates to try to track every conversation, movement, relationship, appointment, sound and image of those who install it on their phones.”

Key Democrat Undecided on Removing Trump

December 22, 2019 at 1:56 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL), who won a stunning special election victory in 2017 and faces a difficult reelection campaign next year, said Sunday that he remains undecided on whether President Trump should be removed from office,” the Washington Post reports.

“Jones — a former prosecutor and moderate Democrat representing a deeply conservative state that overwhelming backed Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 — said he is keeping his mind open ahead of the pending Senate trial, following the House’s vote to impeach the president last week.”

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