- 03:13:58 Reading – Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence (Schmidt/Mazzetti/Apuzzo) https://t.co/Re1IlNbb8f
- 03:37:11 Retweeted @jeneps 03:11:06 This was literally today https://t.co/oqLJMmK57F
- 03:41:58 Thread -> https://t.co/DFlySX7aCS
- 03:57:13 Reading – Trump aides were in constant touch with senior Russian officials during campaign (Brown/Sciutto/Perez) https://t.co/xgAVcHiepG
- 03:59:25 I was going to say “drip drip drip”, but this is more like a deluge at this point.
- 04:00:16 Retweeted @McFaul 03:39:53 Eventually (as Flynn learned yesterday) the truth comes out. Members of Congress, get on the right side of history… https://t.co/skhdFVD1Ux
- 04:06:18 Retweeted @YousefMunayyer 03:17:24 With every passing day, as the Trump debacle becomes more astounding, it becomes harder to believe how the Clinton campaign managed to lose.
- 04:14:28 Retweeted @kgosztola 03:38:55 Those in deep state challenging Trump almost certainly high-ranking. Leaks investigations may scapegoat a low-level employee. in reply to kgosztola
- 04:16:35 Retweeted @Max_Fisher 03:38:37 a senior official resigned in disgrace during the administration’s first month, and 24 hours later it’s not even the top story anymore
- 04:17:15 Retweeted @peterdaou 2017-02-14 15:04:48 QUESTION: How can you call yourself a patriot and support 33 Benghazi hearings but NOT ONE on whether Russia infiltrated the White House?
- 04:19:36 Retweeted @MikeGrunwald 2017-02-14 03:59:00 Who’s going to be the first Republican in Congress to see where this is going and bail?
- 04:24:16 Retweeted @7im 04:16:28 step back and consider the elephant in the room. ponder it. really let it sink in. holy shit.
- 04:26:00 Retweeted @NumbersMuncher 04:21:21 CNN reporting that they have the names of the Trump officials who were communicating with Russia. This is what a feeding frenzy looks like.
- 04:55:09 Reading – Jeff Sessions Resists Pressure to Remove Himself in Russia Inquiries (Eric Lichtblau) https://t.co/2JIKsOfyhO
- 05:11:38 Reading – Flynn Doesn’t Matter. This Is About Trump (Josh Marshall) https://t.co/f4jk3zpeys
- 05:12:07 Retweeted @AJentleson 04:06:19 When Trump goes down remember that Ryan and McConnell knew but stayed silent.They put America at risk to chase tax cuts for millionaires.
- 05:15:35 Retweeted @aravosis 04:30:40 A lot of credible people are finally openly asking if the president of United States is a traitor. I’m really blown away.
- 05:17:42 Retweeted @CatchaRUSSpy 05:09:19 .@LindseyGrahamSC statement on an investigation. This is unwinding faster then any of us could’ve imagined! https://t.co/7JZrSEOJ0T
- 05:18:14 Retweeted @mgsiegler 05:09:01 Past few weeks have been fascinating. But we haven’t yet learned the hard way why you don’t elect someone like Trump. I still fear we will.
- 05:18:27 Retweeted @ObsoleteDogma 02:57:10 Remember: Comey thought it was more important to break FBI protocol over Hillary’s non-scandalous emails than the Trump-Russia investigation
- 05:18:50 Retweeted @jamisonfoser 02:31:03 Hi @HillaryClinton I will donate $100 to a charity of your choice if you tweet “But my emails…” with a link to this… https://t.co/cgo4BgZ8AL
- 05:21:52 Retweeted @mattblaze 05:08:05 Increasingly amazed at the number of different recent (and important) news stories based on leaked NSA SIGINT.
- 05:22:27 Retweeted @ObsoleteDogma 02:50:50 Sure seems like somebody at the FBI was misleading the NYT before the election… https://t.co/WeUu2Z7Es0
- 05:22:35 Retweeted @MileHighBecky 05:07:48 Yet https://t.co/s7jCIRTBCU
- 05:28:08 Retweeted @katecrawford 03:45:23 Jaw-dropping list of trending stories on the NYT right now https://t.co/Fk756cmlaF
- 05:29:19 Retweeted @djrothkopf 05:04:51 You’d have to go back 4 decades to find a WH seeming remotely this dysfunctional, probably back more than 150 (Polk) to find one that was.
- 05:30:36 Retweeted @DavidOAtkins 05:04:10 The next person who says “this is a just a distraction from the REAL story”, please punch yourself in the face.
- 05:32:41 Retweeted @jeremyjojola 04:31:53 I can see Russia from my house. https://t.co/Z0HNwiND3B
- 05:36:22 Retweeted @bonniemalkin 04:58:20 Yes yes yes yes yes
Nokia 3310, beloved and ‘indestructible’ mobile phone, to be reborn https://t.co/LrNtuDriQ4 - 05:36:32 Retweeted @AuthorLMendez 04:39:34 People said if I voted for Hillary there would be scandal in the White House all the time. They were right
- 05:37:11 Retweeted @Ex_NihiloNihil 05:00:53 Impeachment is a cake walk, Presidents basically get a free pass, the underlings though are gonna love federal prison.
- 05:37:40 Retweeted @Jason 05:00:30 Breaking: Free speech means people can say really offensive things & you get to ignore, laugh at, rebut or protest… https://t.co/PpwZTf3U0D
- 05:39:16 Retweeted @RonaldKlain 03:24:56 It’s a shame that no one tried to warn us, before the election, of the blockbuster revelation from @nytimes tonight. https://t.co/luqPv0mgwJ
- 05:39:58 Retweeted @JimGoldgeier 03:09:42 Just keep in mind: complete chaos internally so far and they haven’t even had to deal with a crisis not of their own making
- 05:41:11 Retweeted @FranklinFoer 04:26:11 Let’s sum up: While a hostile foreign power was actively trying to elect Donald Trump, it communicated constantly with his top aides.
- 05:41:38 Retweeted @dansinker 04:13:45 In retrospect picking fights with journalists and the intelligence community simultaneously may have been a poorly considered move.
- 05:42:17 Retweeted @RadioFreeTom 05:35:25 If it’s proven that Trump’s campaign actively cooperated with the Russians, you may don the freakout pajamas https://t.co/gMMcZtJXIR
- 05:50:38 Retweeted @MichelleObama 2017-02-14 16:04:15 Happy Valentine’s Day to the love of my life and favorite island mate, @BarackObama. #valentines https://t.co/n3tEmSAJRT
- 05:51:27 Retweeted @ywxwy 05:29:33 imagine the job ahead for the Democrat that replaces Pence in 2021
- 05:52:34 Retweeted @poniewozik 03:14:37 Within two days Fox News is just going to be a video loop of an American flag and military-band music https://t.co/jZ1mjSaavT
- 05:52:51 Retweeted @Tyrangiel 2017-02-14 19:29:47 When the murder of the North Korean dictator’s half-brother by two women who stabbed him with poisoned needles isn’t the day’s top story
- 06:06:41 Reading – Flynn’s Downfall Sprang From вЂEroding Level of Trust’ (Baker/Thrush/Haberman/Goldman/Davis) https://t.co/04ZthSIBpT
- 06:10:06 Retweeted @mfg 05:37:24 $$$ thread https://t.co/zxEsM0HBbs
- 06:11:17 Retweeted @JustSchmeltzer 00:34:18 I am getting a very real sense that Pence is having his staff leak info on his innocence, in preparation for possible impeachment.
- 06:12:03 .@JustSchmeltzer Or the 25th. If things get really bad really quickly, the 25th is faster. in reply to JustSchmeltzer
- 06:16:16 Retweeted @goldengateblond 04:47:27 Flynn’s ties to Putin are shady, but Jill Stein’s should be checked out too. She undermined Clinton (thus helping T… https://t.co/XyNixdkJIu
- 06:17:36 Retweeted @mattmfm 02:24:19 Left: tonight’s breaking NYT headline
Right: NYT a week before the election https://t.co/PIMfvk0Hqm - 06:20:49 Reading – Following Trump, IRS Takes First Shots At Obamacare’s Individual Mandate (Jonathan Cohn) https://t.co/PaMFAkbUDn
- 06:21:00 Retweeted @jbarro 06:01:49 “We can’t investigate yet because we don’t have enough information” is an admission that cong investigations are punishment, not inquiry.
- 06:21:58 Retweeted @MarkHarrisNYC 06:01:30 Every GOP pol whose private calculus is “Doesn’t matter if he’s garbage because we can have 1-party rule”: We are going to GLUE him to you.
- 06:25:36 Retweeted @CaptainChaotika 2017-02-11 15:34:43 This is why you shouldn’t use a flash when photographing your sheep in the sunset. https://t.co/D5LqfcJSTi
- 06:29:15 Retweeted @FranklinFoer 02:55:34 Before Manafort worked for Trump, he worked for two oligarchs close to Putin. They paid him millions. But that’s surely coincidence.
- 06:29:28 Retweeted @fordm 02:23:59 It’s less of a “news cycle” these days and more of that BSG episode where the Cylons attack every 33 minutes.
- 06:37:42 Thread -> https://t.co/tqMBzzkfve
- 06:38:27 Retweeted @jonfavs 06:18:13 Trump will blame everything on the Obama Administration tomorrow, since that’s what all the tin hat crazies on the right are doing tonight.
- 06:38:46 Retweeted @DanRather 2017-02-14 21:11:43 Watergate is the biggest political scandal of my lifetime, until maybe now: https://t.co/9NCmordowo
- 06:38:59 Retweeted @ChrisMurphyCT 03:52:19 Your nightly reminder that at the center of this strengthening hurricane are the tax returns.
- 06:41:44 Retweeted @SarcasticRover 06:25:48 If a spaceship was leaking as bad as the White House, all the astronauts would be dead by now.
- 06:42:11 Retweeted @onlxn 06:25:06 love that the GOP keeps acting on the assumption there’ll be no further leaks if they stonewall — getting damn close to performance art
- 06:44:50 Retweeted @Evan_McMullin 2017-02-14 15:50:11 If the WH were under Dem control, Congressional Republicans would certainly investigate this with urgency. They sho… https://t.co/d8YM850CuF
- 07:02:17 Retweeted @zachjgreen 06:13:11 I’m increasingly excited to find out what blackmail Russia has had on Trump. The unraveling of his Presidency is going to huge. The biggest.
- 07:24:40 Retweeted @samsteinhp 02:33:55 Not to pour some cold water on this. but the NYTs notes that there’s no evidence, yet, that Trump’s campaign was topic of discussion
- 14:26:54 Retweeted @20committee 14:08:44 Keep going, Don, keep going….I told you how going to war with the spooks would work out.https://t.co/JjdSszFbFP
- 16:53:38 Reading – Paul reportedly leaves meeting with House Republicans on ObamaCare (Edmund DeMarche) https://t.co/fwmSdAlZoE
- 17:14:54 Retweeted @JohnBrownlow 14:31:21 A corker of a letter to the NYT from the guy who (literally) wrote the book on narcissism. https://t.co/FvrReoJQpy
- 17:57:02 Retweeted @20committee 14:27:00 Now we go nuclear. IC war going to new levels. Just got an EM fm senior IC friend, it began: “He will die in jail.”https://t.co/e6FxCclVqT
- 19:18:12 Retweeted @MajorCBS 18:49:45 News: Source very close to Labor Secretary nominee Andy Puzder tells me he expects Puzder to withdraw. “He’s very tired of the abuse.”
- 19:23:40 Only interest in Dec Flynn calls is if it leads 2 other things. Flynn told Russians Trump would reconsider sanctions? Duh. Public knowledge.
- 19:25:37 Of course, it does seem to be leading to lots of other things. But the calls on day of sanctions, while breaking protocol, are unsurprising. in reply to abulsme
- 19:27:13 Now, may have still violated Logan act and been bad. But again, the actual content, “don’t worry about this, we will reconsider”. Duh. in reply to abulsme
- 19:29:39 Also, despite surge in attention, very little in last 48 hrs is “new”. Reports on Flynn and other campaign/Russia contacts go back months. in reply to abulsme
- 19:35:09 Retweeted @iDudeness 19:34:24 @abulsme important to note that sources said several campaign staffers and associates were in contact with Russian intelligence. Drip, drip! in reply to abulsme
- 19:40:22 .@iDudeness Which the Russians said openly Nov 10. “Obviously we know most of the people fr his entourage”. Not new. https://t.co/rL3PkBgxdb in reply to iDudeness
- 19:43:15 Retweeted @iDudeness 19:42:44 @abulsme @washingtonpost what’s new is their kompromat will soon be worthless. That’s important. in reply to abulsme
- 19:45:08 .@iDudeness Maybe. Everybody smells blood in the water. They are all trying to connect the dots that seem obvious. But we are not there yet. in reply to iDudeness
- 19:47:47 Retweeted @iDudeness 19:47:40 @abulsme patience grasshopper… in reply to abulsme
- 19:48:40 Retweeted @weaselingaround 03:21:15 Tr*mp only needs to last until next Monday 2/20 (President’s Day!) to have a longer term than William Henry Harrison
- 19:54:34 Retweeted @Rosie 19:42:41 not going on SNL i will be watching in bed as usual – this is my whole impression – start to finish – i think its p… https://t.co/BklmdW9JKT in reply to momedykirsty
- 19:56:54 Retweeted @DanAmira 17:44:33 did anyone do this yet https://t.co/SvduMxnN4g
- 20:17:00 Retweeted @CBSNews 20:01:00 JUST IN: Pres. Trump offers national security adviser job to Vice Admiral Robert Harward, according to sources close to the situation.
- 20:41:57 Retweeted @imbou 20:40:21 @abulsme while having lunch I watched this fiasco live. Every time I think he can’t sink lower in my eyes, he does… https://t.co/vsUnG4680C
- 20:45:37 Retweeted @ZekeJMiller 20:42:16 WASHINGTON (AP) – In statement, Andrew Puzder says he’s withdrawing his nomination for labor secretary.
- 21:21:56 Reading – First Bad Idea of 2017 (Kyle L.) https://t.co/vjwh8JQ9VY
- 21:35:55 Retweeted @natsecHeather 21:09:52 Sample responses from anonymous CT analysts sitting near me: “Oh.” “Takes attn off turmoil in WH.” “That’s pretty i… https://t.co/ED6mlhz953
- 22:17:51 Reading – U.S. Allies Conduct Intelligence Operation Against Trump Staff and Associates (Kurt Eichenwald) https://t.co/rAmpwAI2xq
- 22:47:48 Retweeted @dog_rates 17:02:36 Meet Kuyu. He was trapped in a well for 10 days. Rescued yesterday using a device designed by a local robotics team… https://t.co/qHzbzFI7ui
- 22:48:21 Retweeted @NickMiroff 22:38:39 Oh to be in the room when DHS tells the President the $22 billion border wall is vulnerable to medieval technology… https://t.co/UI9PTjNCnf
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