gangreen
Top Notch
I swear this guy is on drugs
@cnnbrk
President Trump says he will award Rush Limbaugh with the Medal of Freedom https://cnn.it/2vLbhxD
Acosta
Trump complained about Bolton at lunch today with anchors. Also said war with Iran was closer than public knew. He told attendees that Venezuelan opp leader Guaido would be at tonight's speech. Also said he would participate in gen election debates... CNN WH team learning.
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6:36 PM - Feb 4, 2020
anniekarni
Re that Super Bowl ad —
Kushner has been advising Trump that black voters can be converted into supporters if they are simply educated on his policies.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/us/politics/trump-super-bowl-ad.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share … via me and @maggieNYT
MZanona
I just asked Speaker Pelosi her reaction to the #SOTU speech.
“I tore it up,” she said.
Why?
“It was the courteous thing to do,” she said.
Dan Linden
✔@DanLinden
Pelosi rips up copy of Trump’s speech right after he finished. State of the Union live updates: Trump triumphant as Dems sit in silence #SOTU
@ChristopherJM
NEW: A story about ANOTHER Ukraine campaign. A letter passed to Mike Pompeo from an evangelical US pastor/lobbyist and dozens of Ukrainian Christian groups in fall 2018 demanded then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch be fired for supporting LGBTQ rights. Marie Yovanovitch: US Pastor Also Wanted To Get Rid Of Ambassador To Ukraine — And Told Mike Pompeo …
@Marmel
“The image tweeted by Pompeo is from a Simpsons episode titled "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington," in which Lisa tears up her prize-winning essay about American values after witnessing a corrupt congressman accepting a bribe, shattering her faith in democracy.”
08:00 - 5 Feb 2020
New: Haspel’s attendance at SOTU—where she stood at Trump’s comments about abortion and immigration and clapped at his line about infrastructure—has rankled intel vets. “I never did that,” said @GenMhayden. “That wouldn’t be right.” W/@dlippman: 'I never did that': Haspel's clapping for Trump rankles intel veterans …
@atrupar
Stephanie Grisham previews Trump's post-impeachment trial speech: "I think he's gonna also talk about how just horribly he was treated and that maybe people should pay for that."
@thedailybeast
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump White House is apparently still reeling because the president didn’t get anything to eat at the soup-and-sole lunch he hosted for television personalities before the State of the Union addresshttps://trib.al/84LQC6t
@RobbieGramer
SCOOP: Trump's South Africa ambassador, a successful handbag designer, forced out her top career diplomat at the embassy as she tried to elevate her son to a senior embassy post, officials tell me. Part of a trend of Trump envoys pushing out their #2's At Embassies Abroad, Trump Envoys Are Quietly Pushing Out Career Diplomats …
"Applying a blatant double standard, Trump administration agencies like the Treasury Department are rapidly complying with Senate Republican requests—no subpoenas necessary—and producing ‘evidence’ of questionable origin," writes @AshleySchapitl, spokesperson for @RonWyden https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1225458445979176962 …
11:52 - 6 Feb 2020southpaw@nycsouthpaw
Replying to @nycsouthpaw
Through his spokesperson, Sen. Wyden, the ranking member on the Finance Committee, criticized the administration for exercising a double standard in its responses to the GOP Senate's investigation and the impeachment inquiry. Full statement from @AshleySchapitl:
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1225458445979176962