#NATOSummit2018 <Thread>
Jul 10: 1/ "NATO heads of state are due to meet Wednesday in Brussels beneath the disinterested gaze of President Donald Trump before he jets off to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki." (con't)
2/ Continuation of previous quote from @MollyMcKew:
"British🇬🇧 PM Theresa May... faces a pending collision with the brick wall of #Brexit..." in "what would usually be staid diplomatic photo-ops that could... seriously disrupt the int'l order... (con't) politico.com/magazine/story…
3/ More on Estonian🇪🇪 resolve (yes, true patriotism):
4/ Previously @MollyMcKew set the stage for #NATOSummit2018 in this Jun 24 article: "Our allies are unnerved. In the midst of starting trade wars (and personality wars) with Canada and Europe, Trump stormed out of the G7 in Charlevoix..." (con't) latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/…
5/ that has made the United States🇺🇸 a global superpower since the end of World War II."
Compare the photo from G7 in Canada🇨🇦, tweeted by spokesman for German🇩🇪 chancellor Angela Merkel to...
@ALT_uscis@metaquest@SpicyFiles@equalandallied1@rkfatheree@ThomasS4217 2/ Conveniently enough, Congress is "working" to keep the gov't open with "a 'continuing resolution' that would fund federal agencies through Dec. 7. ICE asked Congress to include the $1 billion increase in the continuing resolution." (more...)
@ALT_uscis@metaquest@SpicyFiles@equalandallied1@rkfatheree@ThomasS4217 3/ "... immigration officials said they need the extra money to cover rising costs associated with arrests and deportations. Officials say this year they’ve detained an average of 43,000 immigrants a day, slightly more than Congress authorized in the current budget. (con't)
@ninaandtito@dwinfrey72@Peaceful_411@ThomasS4217@MsMariaT@BenWinslow 3/ "One witness stated that Defendant Jacob Kingston said that if the government moved to arrest and prosecute him, he would flee to Turkey. This witness also heard that Defendant Jacob Kingston built a home in Turkey. (con't)
3/ At this outdoor photo-op, @RepJeffDenham said "Congress is looking at one agency, one decision," and "called the state’s water conservation proposal a 'disastrous plan to flush water from valley rivers to the ocean,' foreshadowing twitterfingers-in-chief Aug 5th tweet.
@lrozen@ThomasS4217 This 7.10.14 article shows *how* tight Sheriff Israel is w/ Roger Stone.
<thread> 1/ Despite being sentenced to 1 yr in prison in '02, Suereth served 60 days house arrest & 5 yrs probation. Also in '02, Suereth married Thorne (who became Sheriff Israel's AsstChiefOfStaff in '14).
@lrozen@ThomasS4217 2/ In 2002, "Thorne was already working for Stone and Suereth and his son Andrew Miller would soon join the political operative's coterie."
Thorne was officially referred for the BSO job by Israel's campaign strategist, Ron Gunzburger, a close friend and associate of Stone's...
@lrozen@ThomasS4217 3/ … whom Israel installed at BSO as his $205,000-a-year general counsel. Not including Gunzburger, Thorne is one of at least three Stone cohorts whom Israel hired on the public payroll after the election."