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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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White woman caught refusing to ride elevator with Essence writer’s son who lives in upscale apartments

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A white woman was caught on video refusing to ride the elevators at an upscale apartment building in Bethesda, Maryland after she saw that a black man was also on the lift.

Yesha Callahan, a writer for Essence magazine, shared video of the incident on Monday.

So my son lives in an upscale high rise in Bethesda...and he's started to keep track of the white people who refuse to get on the elevator w/him. pic.twitter.com/h6ceqIf8cn

— Yesha (@YeshaCallahan) February 3, 2020

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Arizona sex offender threatened to gun down Adam Schiff after watching Fox News: prosecutors

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An Arizona sex offender was charged with making a threatening phone call to Rep. Adam Schiff during the impeachment inquiry.

Jan Peter Meister, a registered sex offender from Tucson, was identified through phone records as the caller who left a threatening message on Schiff's office voicemail, according to court documents.

Police played the message for the 52-year-old Meister, who told investigators he did not remember making the call but admitted that he had gotten drunk, and agreed that must have been him on the recording.

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The Iowa caucus is a massive grift — and both Republicans and Democrats are in on it

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There is still no official winner in Iowa after the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) said they found "inconsistencies" in the three sets of results they were supposed to deliver. This Tuesday, the IDP said the problem was caused by a "coding issue" in its reporting system. Writing for the Daily Beast, Stuart Stevens says the Iowa caucus system is "a nutty system no school would sanction to choose a student body president."

"The Iowa caucus system is one of those ideas that seems sort of charming if you think about it for five minutes — a bunch of neighbors getting together in America’s most literate state, the one that gave us Jean Seberg and The Music Man – and utterly insane if you think about it for ten minutes," Stevens writes. "No secret ballot so you’re standing across from your boss when you vote, no early voting and doors close at 7 pm so if you stop for gas your vote doesn’t count, all in a state that doesn’t remotely resemble the American electorate as a whole."

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