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Jun 24, 2018, 51 tweets

Trump: Day 519
-Hasn't Released Location of Minors
-Mocks John McCain at Nevada Rally
-Calls Dem Nominee "Wacky Jacky"
-V.A. Nursing Homes Poorly Rated
-Manafort Tries 2 Distance Himself
-Sanders Booted From VA Restaurant
-Avenatti Has "Explosive Information"

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Day 624 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office

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Day 476 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama. #fakenews #TrumpLies

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Day 263 since the deadliest mass shooting on U.S soil in Las Vegas that killed 58, injured 546 and Congress has taken NO action to prevent future mass shootings. #NeverForget

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5 Days remain to help ban bump stocks by submitting a comment to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).

Add your voice now! #BanBumpStocks
giffords.org/banbumpstocks

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Day 85 without Trump publicly offering his condolences for Master Sgt. Johnathan Dunbar, the fallen American service member who lost his life after an IED bombing in Syria. Why?

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Day 85 Since Hope Hicks left as Trump’s 4th Communications Director after testifying to a Congressional committee that she had told "white lies" on Trump's behalf.

Trump has since been directing all White House messaging and communication.

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Putting the owner of a little restaurant in a small town in rural Virginia on blast with your official, government-owned account followed by 3 million people is very polite and respectful.

Not petty and vengeful at all, Sarah, I agree.

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Ex-White House Ethics Chief: Sarah Sanders tweet about being kicked out of restaurant violates ethics laws hill.cm/X6Dhnhk

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Red Hen restaurant owner:

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These tweets are two hours apart

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Flashback: “If someone is looking for a president who is going to have a mean spirit toward other human beings, I’m not their guy.”
—Mike Huckabee, 2007

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Day 12 since Trump made specific commitments to end military exercises with South Korea & eventually withdraw US forces from the peninsula without NO specific commitments on timing or verification of denuclearization from Kim Jong-un.

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Pretty unreal to see it laid out like this.

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The administration has not released a full listing of the facilities which house the separated children.
usatoday.com/story/news/201…

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Republicans are preparing a bill allowing migrant children to be detained longer than 20 days, as an extension to Trump's EO. Per WH officials, Trump is inclined to sign it.

So he wants to detain children indefinitely. abcn.ws/2KbMbKK

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Remarkable reaction from an immigration judge: "He slammed his hand...'I can’t understand this,' the judge said. 'If someone at the jail takes your wallet, they give you a receipt. They take your kids & you get nothing? Not even a slip of paper?'"
washingtonpost.com/outlook/famili…

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Texas judge can't promise migrant families they'll be reunited: "As a judge began sentencing...immigrants for illegal entry, one woman spoke up to ask: 'What's going to happen to my daughter?' 'Hopefully, they'll get you to her,' he replied."
politico.com/story/2018/06/…

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New emails show Trump's "zero-tolerance" approach to border control is diverting resources away from drug-smuggling cases.

Prosecutors are so overwhelmed w/ cases involving minor immigration charges that they've had to decline major drug cases.
shareblue.com/trump-family-s…

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The Red Cross says that they've offered assistance to federal authorities on the border, but they can’t help unless the government gives them permission.

"The American Red Cross does not regularly have access to places of detention for migrants."
thedailybeast.com/red-cross-we-w…

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California Senator Kamala Harris says Trump is guilty of "crimes against humanity" after border visit
bloom.bg/2tmShBG

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Michael Avenatti says he's representing five children who are being held in Phoenix after being separated from their mothers by immigration officials.

One boy, 6-year-old Samir, hasn't seen or talked with his mother since June 2.
azcentral.com/story/news/pol…

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Three parents separated from their children after being detained at the border have filed a lawsuit, asking the federal government to provide access to basic info about their kids' whereabouts & to offer opportunities to see and hear their children. abcn.ws/2Mgha9j

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At least 10 newborns and toddlers taken away from their parents after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border are being housed in "tender-age shelters" near Miami, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has told the Miami Herald. miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo…

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Budget cuts from the Trump administration have required some prisons to use teachers, nurses and secretaries as backup security guards. nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/…

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Yahoo News has identified 5 co's making millions off of Trump's child separation policies—including two that haven't been publicly tied to the program.

In response to inquiries, one of the companies said it would cease working with the government.
yahoo.com/news/businesse…

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Tweet from July 12, 2015.

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Trump took Corey Lewandowski along with him on his trip to Nevada, despite Lewandowski just this week mocking reports of a 10-year-old migrant girl with Down syndrome being separated from her family.
thebea.st/2tow4TD

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Trump privately told advisers that he believes Trump voters "love" his policy of separating children from their parents.

"My people love it."

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In other words: “Preserving the white race’s majority is not fascism; it’s conservative.”

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Trump admin official's resume included work for anti-Muslim show, conspiracy site: report hill.cm/FzkZjHr

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Dozens of interviews across the country found how the furor over Trump's migrant policy actually bonds him closer to many Republicans. nyti.ms/2MS7Edj

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Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown are asking about Trump's zero-tolerance border policy.

"The American people deserve to know what role you have played in developing and implementing this appalling process."

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Wilbur Ross filed an unexpected memo revealing that he was already considering adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census when he began his job in February 2017.

The statement contradicts his earlier testimony to Congress.
washingtonpost.com/local/social-i…

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Trump claimed credit this week for creating 3.4-M new jobs in the 19 months since his election, a feat “nobody would have believed” in Nov 2016

Since 4.1-M jobs were created under Obama in the 19 months before that, the claim makes no sense
cnbc.com/2018/06/22/pre…

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Manufacturing exec who voted for Trump blames him for layoffs, asks Dems for help hill.cm/QfeHp2Z

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The VA has tracked detailed quality statistics on its nursing homes for years but has kept them from public view, depriving vets of crucial care info.

Nearly half of VA nursing homes nationwide received the lowest ranking as of Dec. 31, 2017.
usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

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Ryan Zinke met at department headquarters in August with the chair of Halliburton and other developers involved in a Montana real estate deal that relied on help from a foundation Zinke established, Politico reports. politico.com/story/2018/06/…

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Adam Waldman, a longtime U.S. lobbyist for the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, visited Julian Assange nine times at the Ecuadorian embassy in London last year, according to visitor logs seen by the Guardian. theguardian.com/media/2018/jun…

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FBI hands House GOP thousands of documents on Russia probe.
politico.com/story/2018/06/…

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Manafort's attorney asks judge to ban any mention of his ties to Trump during trial hill.cm/ZftJvij

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LOL. This poll that Don Jr. is tweeting about shows Tester up 9 points

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Trump in Las Vegas:
-Praises Sen. Heller
-Asks if he should mention opponent’s name. "I have a great nickname for her, by the way…”
-Pauses for dramatic effect
-Crowd shouts out guesses
-“Alright, I won’t do it.”
-Then he does it: “Wacky Jacky!"

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Trump talk about "f--e news" in city where Sheldon Adelson's newspaper had a front-page column from his wife, has a conservative columnist as a WH "reporter," a GOP operative as a columnist and a conspiracy theorist as a columnist.

This is irony.

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Trump again mocks John McCain while at Nevada rally hill.cm/JljE2mO

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Bill Maher defends call for a "recession" to get rid of Trump: A recession is "survivable," Trump is not hill.cm/xSyCI4G

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T-shirt makers are riffing on Melania Trump's jacket and donating the proceeds to refugee services cnn.it/2toSMLH

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Brace yourselves, folks.

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