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Trump lawyers admit they’re withholding White House emails on Ukraine scandal hours after Senate vote: CNN

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According to a report from CNN, following the Senate vote to block witnesses in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, lawyers for the White House admitted that they have been withholding emails related to the Ukraine quid pro quo scandal at the heart of the trial.

The reports states, “The Department of Justice revealed in a court filing late Friday that it has two dozen emails related to the President Donald Trump’s involvement in the withholding of millions in security assistance to Ukraine — a disclosure that came just hours after the Senate voted against subpoenaing additional documents and witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial, paving the way for his acquittal.”

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“The filing, released near midnight Friday, marks the first official acknowledgment from the Trump administration that emails about the President’s thinking related to the aid exist, and that he was directly involved in asking about and deciding on the aid as early as June. The administration is still blocking those emails from the public and has successfully kept them from Congress,” the report continues, before adding, “A lawyer with the Office of Management and Budget wrote to the court that 24 emails between June and September 2019 — including an internal discussion among DOD officials called ‘POTUS follow-up’ on June 24 — should stay confidential because the emails describe ‘communications by either the President, the Vice President, or the President’s immediate advisors regarding Presidential decision-making about the scope, duration, and purpose of the hold on military assistance to Ukraine.'”

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CNN anchor: It was ‘stupid’ to report rumor of campaign aides saying Biden might file injunction against Iowa results

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CNN’s John King Tuesday afternoon reported live on-air he was receiving messages from aides of rival campaigns that Vice President Joe Biden was considering filing an injunction against the release of the results from Monday’s Iowa Caucuses.

Citing the “the breaking news rush,” King is now calling his decision to report those rumors was “stupid.”

https://twitter.com/JohnKingCNN/status/1224771243393548288

King is correct.

The Biden campaign quickly denied the rumors:

https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1224762901422100480

But King’s irresponsible sharing of the rumors fueled articles in the right-wing media echo system. Also fueling the incorrect information was the GOP’s Rapid Response Director, Steve Guest, wrongly characterizing then amplifying the false – or at best, unproven – claim.

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First lesson of the Iowa meltdown: Don’t entrust democracy to the techies

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A few years ago, I was living in San Francisco and working on a local political organizing campaign as part of a national political advocacy group. Given that we were in the Bay Area, the local chapter of this advocacy group comprised a lot of well-meaning young people who worked in tech. So a group of them had decided that the best way to do political organizing was to put those tech skills to use.

The article originally appeared at Salon.This meant that we, as chapter members, would vote on local issues through a website they had developed, which required some kind of login code that we were given if we attended a certain number of meetings; those meetings also required us to log in via a computer. The laptop sign-in system was easy to miss as you entered a meeting, as I and others did many times — but missing that step made us ineligible to vote on the direction of the chapter. This is all to say the system was a headache and made what should have been a simple problem — how to discuss and debate marching orders for the chapters — into an overly complicated mess.

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The Republican Party’s delusional crusade against the whistleblower makes no sense

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Many Republicans and conservative media are desperate for revenge as President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial comes to a close, and one target for retribution looms large in their minds: the still officially unidentified whistleblower.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Tuesday continued his crusade against the whistleblower who sparked the Ukraine scandal at the heart of the impeachment. Paul read aloud a question on the Senate floor that included the name of the person some claim is the whistleblower, and he displayed a poster showing the name as well. Previously, when Paul had tried to ask a written question that included the name earlier in the trial, Chief Justice John Roberts refused to read the name on principle.

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