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+ The Justice Department during the Tr*mp administration sought records from Apple, Inc., relating to communications by House Intelligence Committee members as well as some of their aides and family members, a committee official said. + Apple in May notified individuals associated with the committee that the Justice Department had issued grand-jury subpoenas for their information in February 2018, the official said. + The committee immediately contacted the Justice Department for clarification and additional information, the official said, adding that the department informed the committee last month (May 2021) that the matter had been closed. + In 2018, Tr*mp administration officials had complained about leaks to the media regarding alleged ties between Russia and the Tr*mp presidential campaign.
+ Apple didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. + House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, both California Democrats, called for an investigation into the Justice Department’s pursuit of the communications data, first reported by the New York Times.  That newspaper reported that the records of at least a dozen people connected to the panel in 2017 and early 2018, including Mr. Schiff’s, were seized in the probe. + At the time of the subpoenas, then-pres-ident Donald Tr*mp and officials in his administration, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, were trying to locate the source of leaks about contacts between Russia and figures in Mr. Tr*mp’s 2016 election campaign.  Mr. Tr*mp’s second attorney general,          William Barr, renewed the leak investigations after taking office in 2019, directing a federal prosecutor from New Jersey to work on about a half-dozen cases, according to a person familiar with the matter. + Mr. Sessions, who had recused himself from the Russia investigation, declined to comment Mr. Barr also declined to discuss any subpoenas of lawmakers’ communications records. 
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ralfmaximus · 3 years
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Okay, here’s some wild ass speculation for ya:
Let’s say Trump drops dead between now (October 8, 2020) and the November 3rd election. What happens next?
Conventional wisdom -- and the 25th Amendment -- tells us that Pence moves up into the Presidential spot, and the Speaker of the House moves into the Vice-Presidential slot. 
Cool, cool, cool. So who’s Speaker of the House?
NANCY PELOSI
Yeah. Not making this up. The RNC is suddenly running a Pence/Pelosi ticket against their will, the stuff of nightmares. Oh sure, they’ll fight it. They’ll try to strong-arm McConnell in there or something, but the 25th is pretty clear on the lines of succession. And they do not have time to litigate their way out of this, even with an accelerated emergency SCOTUS schedule. Because no matter what else happens, come noon on January 20, 2021 the existing administration is over.
But if Pence dies too? 
Because, y’know, he’s also at tremendous risk for COVID infection... then they’re running Pelosi as their presidential nominee.
So if all the GOP election-stealing nonsense works out, and Russia hacks some voting machines, and a few red states “lose” millions of Biden/Harris votes? All that happens and an Electoral College victory hands them... President Pelosi.
GOD to see Mitch McConnell’s face on the day that happens. It’d probably straight up kill him.
This GOP/RNC nightmare scenario is precisely why nobody has tried invoking the 25th Amendment yet. In fact, Trump could die and they’d probably DENY IT and try to Weekend At Bernies their way through things until at least January 20th.
Imagine badly impersonated Trump tweets.
Imagine Lindsay Graham loudly screeching THE PRESIDENT IS NOT DEAD
Imagine Rachel Maddow pounding her desk asking WHERE’S THE PRESIDENT’S BODY
Imagine Walter Reed Doctors standing on the hospital steps politely declining to remark on the President’s condition, only stating that his temperature & respiration is “in the expected normal range for his condition” and that his cognitive functions are “unchanging”.
Imagine Melania Trump smiling for the first time in recent memory.
Yeah, this is all basically science fiction but... not impossible.
And with every day it becomes a teeny bit more possible.
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theliterateape · 3 years
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There Are FOUR Lights, Douchebag!
By Don Hall
For those who love Star Trek: The Next Generation, the two episodes during the sixth season that puts Gul Madred (David Warner) and Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in a battle of wills is notable.
"Chain of Command" has Madred use sensory deprivation, sensory bombardment, forced nakedness, stress positions, dehydration, starvation, physical pain, and cultural humiliation to try to gain knowledge of the Federation's plans for Minos Korva. Picard resists. Madred attempts another tactic to break Picard's will: he shows his captive four bright lights, and demands that Picard answer that there are five, inflicting intense pain on Picard if he does not agree.
Listening to Trump's recorded phone solicitation to the Georgia Secretary of State reminded me of those episodes.
TRUMP: The other thing, dead people. So dead people voted, and I think the number is close to 5,000 people. And they went to obituaries. They went to all sorts of methods to come up with an accurate number, and a minimum is close to about 5,000 voters.
RAFFENSPERGER: Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong. We talked to the congressmen, and they were surprised.
But they — I guess there was a person named Mr. Braynard that came to these meetings and presented data, and he said that there was dead people, I believe it was upward of 5,000. The actual number were two. Two. Two people that were dead that voted. And so that’s wrong. That was two.
TRUMP: So Brad, there can be no justification for that. And I, you know, I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. But that was — and Brad, why did they put the votes in three times? You know, they put ’em in three times.
RAFFENSEBERGER: Mr. President, they did not put that. We did an audit of that, and we proved conclusively that they were not scanned three times.
TRUMP: Do you think it’s possible that they shredded ballots in Fulton County? Because that’s what the rumor is. And also that Dominion took out machines. That Dominion is really moving fast to get rid of their, uh, machinery.
Do you know anything about that? Because that’s illegal.
GERMANY: This is Ryan Germany. No, Dominion has not moved any machinery out of Fulton County.
TRUMP: But have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other parts?
GERMANY: No.
TRUMP: Are you sure, Ryan?
GERMANY: I’m sure. I’m sure, Mr. President.
Like Madred, Trump simply keeps repeating his completely unfounded conclusions as fact over and over. I wonder if Rattensperger at some point in the conversation started to believe that maybe there were five lights. I wonder how tempting it would be to cave in just to get the man to stop talking.
Trump, with the help of a slew of GOP operatives and legislators, has managed to convince 68 percent of Republicans that he actually won the race. No evidence of fraud. No proof of the allegation. Thrown out of court over fifty times. Simply repeat the lie over and over until people agree that there are five lights.
The results were seen yesterday as a couple thousand dipshits literally stormed the Capitol. I’d be alarmed rather than disgusted except that instead of the staunch seriousness of revolutionaries with a cause they stopped to pilfer items and take selfies in Nancy Pelosi’s office. These idiots, like the Antifa in Oregon, are merely bored, unemployed assholes who see the burning down of the government as a great way to spend a weekend. Given the photos, it looks more like Animal House than Les Miserables.
Through it all, Trump continued hammering home the Big Lies he’s been spewing forth since November 3rd and the red meat was just too enticing for several thousand wannabe revolutionaries to ignore. If they’d been black, they’d be dead but they were white and managed to storm the Capitol for the first time in over 200 years. Those Big Lies have power.
On a sidenote, did you really expect the police, after being castigated for nearly a year for being fascist, racists monsters, would really step up to stop these buffoons? Are you kidding? And be honest — you are either in favor of violent protest or you are not. I’m not in favor of violent protest without regard to ideological bent.
Expanding out, it seems that Trump is not the only one using this bizarre brainwashing technique to convince people of factless realities devoid of substance but filled with emotional heft. While Trump's version of this game is almost cartoonish (and I'm not one to lightly compare the man to Der Führer) the playbook was written over half a century ago:
All this was inspired by the principle—which is quite true within itself—that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X
Like Picard, we are bound and subjected to this constant refrain of Big Lies and like Rattensperger we need to hold the line. There are four, not five, lights.
The presidential election was not stolen. There was no voter fraud. You cannot lose a substantial amount of weight in seven minutes a day. What holds you back in America is not your race or sex but your economic class. The customer is not always right. The scientific method is not biased. Merit is a better metric for success than identity. Equality is more important than equity.
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!
Another sidetone. After watching yesterday’s ridiculous melodrama unfold, I decided to drink rye whiskey and beer and watch the arguments of the Senate to confirm Joe Biden’s electoral victory. And while there were a few I reacted with a simple “Oh. Go fuck yourself you partisan piece of shit.” I also found myself openly weeping at the words of so many of our elected legislators and their love for and belief in this country’s ideals.
God bless America, man. Four fucking lights.
Can we now impeach this motherfucker this week?
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Trump utilizes State of Union to campaign; Pelosi rips up speech
Trump utilizes State of Union to campaign; Pelosi rips up speech
5 February 2020 | 14:29
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President Donald Trump provides their State of this Union target to a joint session of congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. (AP Picture)
WASHINGTON: Standing before a Congress and a country sharply split by impeachment, President Donald Trump used his State regarding the Union target to extol A american that is“great comeback on their view, simply three years after he took workplace decrying a land of “American carnage” under his predecessor.
The partisan discord ended up being on vivid display Tuesday given that first president to campaign for reelection after being impeached made their instance for the next term: Republican legislators chanted “Four More Years. ” Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up her content of Trump’s message as he finished their target.
“America’s enemies are away from home, America’s fortunes are from the rise and America’s future is blazing bright, ” Trump declared. “In simply three years that are short we now have shattered the mindset of American decrease so we have actually refused the downsizing of America’s destiny. We have been continue at a speed that has been unimaginable merely a time that is short, and we also should never be heading back. ”
Keeping out of the nation’s financial success as the principle rationale for an additional term, Trump’s message resembled a lower-volume form of their campaign rallies, supplying one thing for each and every area of their governmental base.
But as he tweets daily assailing their impeachment, Trump never talked about the “i-word” in the 78-minute message. That observed the lead of Bill Clinton, whom would not reference their current impeachment as he delivered his State regarding the Union in 1999. Trump talked through the House of Representatives, regarding the side that is opposite of Capitol from in which the Senate 1 day later on ended up being likely to acquit him mostly along celebration lines.
Pelosi, a thorn that is frequent Trump’s side, created a viral image together with her apparently sarcastic applause for the president last year. This time around, she ended up being much more explicit together with her really rebuke that is text-ripping.
Trump showed up forget about cordial. He did not take her outstretched hand though it was not clear he had seen her gesture when he climbed to the House rostrum. Later on, as Republicans usually cheered, she stayed inside her chair, every so often shaking her head at their remarks.
When Pelosi left, she told reporters that tearing within the message ended up being “the courteous move to make taking into consideration the alternative. ” Republicans denounced her action as disrespectful.
Trump, the reality that is former celebrity, included a showbiz taste to your staid occasion: he’d spouse Melania present the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s greatest civilian honor, to your divisive conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, whom recently announced he has got advanced level lung cancer tumors.
He stunned a new pupil in the gallery with title loans open near me a scholarship. In which he orchestrated the shock tearful reunion of a soldie r from international with their family members into the balcony.
Also for the Trump-era news period that appears forever set to hyper-speed, the breakneck rate of occasions dominating the initial week of February offered a backdrop that is singular the president’s address.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who has got presided when you look at the Senate over just the 3rd impeachment test into the nation’s history, had been readily available once again Tuesday evening — this time around in the more customary chair when you look at the market. Trump endured prior to the lawmakers that are very have actually voted to eliminate him from office — and people that are likely to acquit him as soon as the Senate test involves a detailed.
The leading Senate Democrats hoping to unseat him in November had been off campaigning in brand brand New Hampshire. Prior to their target, Trump tweeted that the chaos in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses showed Democrats were incompetent and should not be trusted to run the government monday.
Among Trump’s visitors within the chamber: Venezuelan opposition frontrunner Juan Guaido, that has been wanting to win face time with Trump, their most critical worldwide ally.
Tuesday venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido waves as President Donald Trump mentions him during his State of the Union address. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
The president offered Guaido precisely the type of recommendation he’s been hunting for while he struggles to oust President Nicolas Maduro from energy. Trump called Guaido “the real and legitimate president of Venezuela. ”
“Socialism destroys countries, ” Trump declared.
The president joined the night for a roll, together with his impeachment acquittal imminent, their work approval figures ticking upward and Wall Street searching strong. He hit a tone that is largely optimistic. However in previous moments whenever Trump has struck a tone of bipartisanship and cooperation, he’s got consistently came back to harsher rhetoric within days.
Trump invested a lot of the speech showcasing the economy’s power, including unemployment that is low stressing just how this has aided blue-collar employees together with middle income, although the amount of development started under his predecessor, Barack Obama. And just what Trump calls a boom that is unprecedented, by many people measures, only a few that distinctive from the solid economy he inherited from President Barack Obama. Financial growth had been 2.3% in 2019, matching the typical rate because the Great Recession finished about ten years ago in the 1st 12 months of Obama’s eight-year presidency
Trump stressed the latest trade agreements he’s got negotiated, including their phase-one deal with Asia as well as the United States-Mexico-Canada contract he finalized month that is last.
As the White home stated the president ended up being providing an email of unity, he also invested time on conditions that have actually produced great division and resonated along with his governmental base. He attacked Democrats’ healthcare proposals to be too intrusive and once once again highlighted their signature issue — immigration — trumpeting the kilometers of edge wall which were built.
He additionally devoted a part to “American values, ” discussing efforts to guard “religious liberties” and limit usage of abortion while he will continue to court the evangelical and conservative Christian voters who form a part that is crucial of base.
The Democrats had been providing a great amount of counter-programming, concentrating on medical care — the issue key for their takeover of the home a year ago. Trump, for their part, vowed not to allow a “socialist takeover of our health and wellness care system” a swipe during the Medicare for many proposition endorsed by a number of their challengers that are democratic.
Many feminine Democrats had been using white as tribute towards the suffragettes, while lots when you look at the celebration had been wearing red, white and blue-striped lapel pins to highlight weather modification, saying Trump has rolled straight back ecological safeguards and provided free rein to polluters.
A few Democratic lawmakers, including Ca Rep. Maxine Waters and nyc Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, announced in advance of the message while other Democrats walked out early that they would be skipping it.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivered her party’s official reaction and received a comparison between actions taken by Democrats while the president’s rhetoric.
“It does not make a difference just just what the president claims in regards to the stock exchange, ” Whitmer stated. “What matters is thousands of people find it difficult to get by or don’t have enough money at the conclusion of this thirty days right after paying for transport, figuratively speaking, or prescription medications. ”
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The Worst Political Predictions of 2019
How broad was the gulf between what really happened in 2019 and the paths imagined by our experts and political leaders? Drawing from ratings of op-eds, tweets, news stories and other initial drafts of not-yet-history, here’s POLITICO Publication’s sixth annual Worst Predictions list.
17 “By the end of 2019, the president of the United States will be Nancy Pelosi”
Forecasted by: Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe
Even as Pelosi flexed her power this year– deftly browsing impeachment with limited public blowback versus Democrats (at least up until now)– she stays third in line for the Oval Workplace, no closer to ending up being president than she was at the start of 2019.
16 “The Syria withdrawal probably will not take place in anything more than a cosmetic sense”
Forecasted by: Damir Marusic, The American Interest
The U.S. withdrawal from Syria in 2019– allowing Turkey to decimate the Kurdish population and Russia to make major advances in the country, consisting of taking over American military setups– marked a more than cosmetic change in Middle East policy.
15 Trump will “resign from workplace prior to he can be impeached, mentioning health factors”
Predicted by: Jon Cooper
Cooper, a Democratic fundraiser and popular #resistance Twitter personality, is vulnerable to extravagant declarations that rack up retweets from his fellow partisans. A specific subgenre of this type of tweet is requiring the resignation of Republican officeholders (retweet if you agree!) and after that forecasting that they will resign. With Trump, Cooper has actually done both, repeatedly requiring his resignation and forecasting that the resignation is coming quickly.
14 “Beto O’Rourke will be the next president of the United States”
Forecasted by: Lee Drutman( several times) and a fantastic numerous others
For a time in late 2018 and early 2019, it plausibly looked like Beto O’Rourke was the future of the Democratic Party. CNN’s S.E. Cupp, James Gagliano, Joey Jackson, Scott Jennings, Roxanne Jones, Peniel Joseph, Jen Psaki and Alice Sewart each predicted that he would be leading the surveys of Democratic presidential candidates at the end of this year. Less than eight months later, O’Rourke dropped out of the presidential race completely.
13 Joe Biden won’t run for president
Forecasted by: Ari Fleischer
Biden went into the Democratic primary in April, and he has actually regularly led national surveys since.
12 House Democrats and Senate Republicans will “protect a variety of legal success … [and] satisfy on middle ground”
Forecasted by: Orrin Hatch
At the start of 2019, with a brand-new Democratic bulk in the Home and the Republicans securely in control of the Senate, retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch saw the possibility of bipartisan compromise on the horizon. The actual story of Congress this year was not one of conference “on middle ground,” but of party-line accomplishments– Home Democrats impeaching Trump, and Senate Republicans setting up ever more conservatives into the federal judiciary.
11 Mueller will “exonerate Trump,” “link the Deep State” and “permanently legitimize his presidency”
Forecasted by: Costs Mitchell( here, too)
Not just did unique counsel Robert Mueller not exonerate Trump, he said, “If we had actually had confidence that the president plainly did not dedicate a criminal offense, we would have stated so.”
10 Kamala Harris will win the Democratic governmental nomination
Predicted by: Myra Adams
This wasn’t implausible when it was forecasted in January, throughout Harris’ extremely related to presidential project rollout, but the California senator didn’t even make it to the end of 2019 as a candidate, leaving of the race on Dec. 3.
9. “Buttigieg will drop [in the polls] quickly, and a number of his supporters will move to Warren”
Anticipated by: Noah Smith, June 25, 2019
Leading the fourth-largest city in Indiana hasn’t historically been an introducing pad for the Oval Workplace, but in late December, Pete Buttigieg remains at or near the top of the Democratic pack in Iowa and New Hampshire.
8. Trump will choose Jared Kushner for attorney general of the United States
Forecasted by: Carl P. Leubsdorf, Dallas Early Morning News, Dec. 27, 2018
When Trump set about finding a follower for Attorney General Jeff Sessions, he might have picked Kushner, a graduate of NYU Law whose legal experience mainly includes two internships. Instead, Trump selected former Attorney General Costs Barr.
7. House Democrats will not impeach Trump
Anticipated by (among others): Peter Daou, Kai Ryssdal and Stephen L. Carter
They did.
6. House Dems and the Senate GOP will work together to enact migration reform
Forecasted by: Fortune Publication
In its annual “Crystal Ball” forecast for the year ahead, Fortune imagined Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi collaborating to pass a “farm bill, immigration reform, and a facilities bill that President Trump has actually long wanted to see on his desk.” Migration reform reveals no signs of life, and significant investments in infrastructure– regardless of the apparent support of both Trump and Home Democrats– remain unrealized.
5. Mueller will reveal that Trump’s 2016 project received millions of dollars from Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar
Forecasted by: Previous Rep. John Leboutillier
Leboutillier, a former Republican congressman from New York, began 2019 with an op-ed in the Hill that audaciously predicted, “The Mueller examination will reveal evidence of Trump putting himself out to the highest bidder in return for project assistance and funding: Russians, Saudis, Emiratis, Qataris– there will be proof that countless foreign dollars unlawfully streamed into the Trump project coffers in 2016.” There was no such evidence, Mueller unveiled no such thing, and there is no accurate basis upon which to declare that “countless foreign dollars illegally flowed into the Trump campaign.”
4. In 2019, there will be a “approach forcing African-Americans to protect 19 th century Black Codes-type passes that they need to bring in public”
Anticipated by: Dr. Ricky L. Jones
It was an alarming, eye-popping prediction from Jones, a professor at the University of Louisville and a factor to the Carrier Journal: “We will see a relocation toward requiring African-Americans to secure 19 th century Black Codes-type passes that they need to carry in public.
3. British Prime Minister Theresa May “will see out Brexit and after that depart on her own terms and timing”
Predicted by: Nick Williams
May announced that she would resign as prime minister in Might, after the Brexit plans she negotiated were beat in Parliament for the 3rd time in as numerous months. The House of Commons declined her Brexit plan for a fourth time 2 days later on. She officially stepped down as prime minister in July and was prospered by Boris Johnson. In December, Johnson won a large parliamentary bulk, and, since this writing, it appears likely that Brexit will lastly happen in January 2020, practically 4 years after British voters first authorized the idea.
2. Republican politicians will break ranks with a progressively irregular Trump
Forecasted by: Patti Solis Doyle
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At the end of 2018, Solis Doyle, who managed Hillary Clinton’s 2008 governmental project, forecasted that “Republicans, who have actually supported the trouble and chaos up to now, will be looking down the barrel of a 2020 governmental cycle with abysmal numbers with women, suburban voters and independents. They’re going to break.”
Not a single Home Republican politician supported either of the 2 articles of impeachment that passed your home in December, and Congressman Justin Amash was drummed out of the Republican Party for suggesting that Trump must be impeached over Mueller’s findings (now an independent, he elected both short articles of impeachment).
1. Alabama will be hit by Typhoon Dorian, never mind what the National Weather condition Service says
Predicted by: President Donald Trump
In the record of post-Watergate governmental “scandals,” the “Sharpiegate” brouhaha is among the most unusual.
Instead of confess an error, Trump produced a map of the hurricane’s path– and apparently used a marker to draw over the professional forecast and change the course of Dorian’s forecasted fallout location to consist of Alabama. The cyclone never ever did hit the state.
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+ Republican leaders object to the makeup and the scope of Pelosi's proposed commission, which would comprise seven Democrats and four Republicans, with only the Democratic members having subpoena power. + House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said the proposal by Pelosi, D-Calif., was "politically driven," adding that "it seems she is actually setting up a system to fail." And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said it was "partisan by design." ... + Republican leaders say they would support an investigation modeled after the 9/11 Commission, which was formed to investigate the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It was equally divided between Republican and Democratic appointees — co-chaired by former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, a Republican, and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind. — with both parties having subpoena power.Democrats insisted that Pelosi's proposal was only a starting point.
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+ Pelosi first announced Monday that a commission will probe the events of Jan. 6, when a pro-Tr*mp mob stormed the Capitol in an effort to prevent Congress's certification of the 2020 Electoral College vote. + The panel will be based on the one that investigated the origins of and security failures surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.  The Speaker said Monday in a "Dear Colleague" letter that the impeachment trial and a review by Ret. Gen. Russel Honoré into how to prevent another riot make it “clear” that “we must get to the truth of how this happened.” 
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