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Lauren Werner 🇺🇸
@LaurenWern
Writer. Friend and defender of democracy. Green energy enthusiast. Electrification is the future of mobility. A groundbreaker is a dreamer who never gives up.
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Oct 5, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Is that toilet paper stuck to his shoe? 🤣 Trump's toilet paper walk, with music.
Sep 13, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Sounds serious.

A letter, authored by someone affiliated with Stanford University, describes an incident involving Brett Kavanaugh and an anonymous woman.

"BuzzFeed News contacted the woman believed to be the subject of the letter at her home last week. She declined to comment" "Different sources provided different accounts of the contents of the letter ... but the one consistent theme was that it describes an incident involving Kavanaugh and a woman while they were in high school." theintercept.com/2018/09/12/bre…
Sep 13, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Expectations are low because this is the kind of president we're working with. An astronomic ignoramus. cnbc.com/2018/09/11/tru… Cohn pushes back against Woodward's reporting and denies exposing Trump's stupidity.

But Trump himself has repeatedly made similar ignorant statements in the press about national debt, etc.

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Aug 19, 2018 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
It's become clear that Rand Paul is the "Dana Rohrabacher" of the U.S. Senate.

And it's funny how we haven't heard from Rohrabacher lately... Might be because Rohrabacher is busy trying to fight for his seat by whipping up lies about his ties to suspected Russian agents. There's been countless Twitter threads speculating about wtf Rand Paul is doing, w/ regards to Russia. Paul voted against Russia sanctions last yr & voted against a non-binding motion to support/expand NATO in July as Trump attacked US alliances at the European summit in Brussels
Aug 15, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🍿 "Nobody knows who I am because of my husband,” she says. “People know of my husband because of me."

washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
Aug 10, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Donald Trump is president right now. So I understand that standards are so low that people are actually considering you. You have no legislative experience and don't have enough substance or experience in either domestic or foreign policy to earn public confidence. I'm concerned. I appreciate that you represent Stormy Daniels & you're fighting to hold Trump accountable, but it's a bad look for you to think that you can ride the Stormy Daniels scandal fame into the WH. Makes you look like you have an ulterior motive in representing Daniels @MichaelAvenatti
Aug 2, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Kremlin wants to radicalize Americans and turn Americans on both the left and the right of the political spectrums into extremists. They hope to create division to tear Americans apart and make us weaker as a country. They want us to be too distracted by our own infighting. The Kremlin isn't just impersonating Trump supporters. They're also impersonating American leftists. Why? Because they want to create trust in order to influence opinions. This is the kind of "Russian active measures" that experts are talking about.
Jul 17, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If you dunno what happened during the Cold War, it's going to be hard for you to understand what's happening now. I think it's odd, for me as a millennial, to explain why Russia isn't a friend to older people who literally had to "duck and cover" in school during the Cold War. Like, seriously... If you were trained to hide under a freaking desk to wait out a nuclear catastrophe, yet still don't know why... Wow.
Jul 17, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Putin was a KGB foreign intel officer for 16 years. He's no amateur.

The U.S. intelligence community determined that Putin personally ordered a covert cyberwar operation to help Trump win.

People think this sh*t is a joke. They dunno what Putin & the FSB & GRU are capable of. Ppl keep asking if Putin has a "pee pee tape" on Trump.

Trump is a serial philander who cheated on 3 wives (he paid hush money to silence a PORN STAR he cheated on his 3rd wife w); he was in Moscow in 2013. It's not improbable for a moron like him to be susceptible to blackmail
Jul 17, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I've already poked holes into this "mundane explanation."
Trump was DENYING Russian interference in our election *before* he even won. He was briefed about Russian hacking in his 1st briefing as a presidential nominee in Aug 2016, yet he kept denying & defending Russia in debates Despite being told in an intel briefing that Russia was to be blamed for the hacking, Trump claimed in a presidential debate that the culprit could have been anyone, including the Chinese or someone "sitting on their bed who weighs 400 pounds."
Jul 16, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Did Wallace pose a follow-up question or nah? Wallace: Why do your political opponents end up dead or poisoned?

Putin: What about your dead presidents? What about Dr King? They weren't killed in Russia.

Whataboutism:
Jul 10, 2018 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I'm going to sleep. You guys better vote in Nov. Btw, I didn't actually go to sleep. (My insomnia has gotten worse over the past few weeks.) I decided to read @JonathanChait's new piece on Trump-Russia collusion instead. I also read Nichols' thread. I suggest reading both.
Jul 9, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Republicans, in the tradition of Reagan, have traditionally supported neocon positions on Russia. If we look back at the two most recent GOP nominees (John McCain and Mitt Romney), we can see that they both took strong positions against Russia's goal of territorial expansion. Things changed for the Republican Party when Putin's number bitch (Donald Trump) hijacked the party; he normalized Putin w constant praises; the GOP base no longer sees Russia or Putin as an imminent threat to Western interests.

This is problematic.
Jul 7, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Let me just remind you guys that, in April, Donald Trump publicly declared victory against ISIS & entertained the idea of pulling us out of Syria. Military advisers were alarmed. Who talked Trump into this? Vladimir Putin, probably. We know now that Trump talks to Putin regularly Vladimir Putin is basically Donald Trump's unofficial foreign policy adviser.
Jul 6, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Honestly, I can't tell the difference. Without a script, Trump always acts this erratic and unhinged.

1) Trump has sent Pompeo back to North Korea because North Korea has yet to agree to denuclearize.
2) Cohen has retained Lanny Davis.
3) Pruitt "resigned" today. Every time Trump holds a rally, every news outlet covers it.

This has been happening for over 2 years now. We've already established that he's a gargantuan buffoon, so why is every1 acting surprised over the ridiculous things he says?

Media lets him distract from news coverage.
Jul 5, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
If Trump were president of another country without the checks & balances afforded by our Constitution, we'd openly call him a fascist. But guess what? Trump has compromised his party members controlling the legislative branch. He's stacking the courts in the judicial branch. I've often debated ppl about whether the checks & balances afforded by our Constitution can protect us against all of Trump's authoritarian+undemocratic tendencies/rhetoric. He's openly violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. Installed his family members into the WH.
Jul 2, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Ross had erroneously reported that it was Trump who directed Flynn to make contact w then Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn had promised Kislyak that Trump'd lift the sanctions that Obama imposed on Russia for meddling in election. He then lied to feds about having done so Btw, we still do not know whether Flynn acted alone. Or if he was directed.

I suspect that Robert Mueller and his team already know. Flynn agreed to a plea deal by cooperating w the feds; so, unless Flynn withheld information from Mueller, Mueller knows.
Jul 1, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
As I've continued to say, it doesn't who Trump's National Security Adviser is... Trump is the Putin puppet behind his regime's Russia-friendly policies.

Trump was praising Vladimir Putin during the GOP debates in 2015, even before Paul Manafort publicly joined his campaign. Michael Flynn, Trump's first National Security Adviser, got in trouble for lying to the feds about his discussions w then Russian Ambassador to the US Sergei Kislyak. Flynn reassured Kislyak that Trump would lift the sanctions Obama imposed on Russia for meddling in our election.
Jun 28, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The woman Elliott Broidy paid to get an abortion keeps tweeting about narcissism. People speculate that Broidy was covering up for Trump, because it's Trump who has an affinity for unprotected sex with playboy models and porn stars.

I feel like you journos aren't digging enough. She was promised $1.6M in hush money, to be paid out quarterly. That's more money than Stormy Daniels & Karen McDougal got in total.

So why did Briody, a freaking convicted felon, go thru Cohen to hide this from the public? Why would anyone care he impregnated a playboy model?
Jun 2, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The crowded CA primaries have me deeply concerned about Dems being locked out. I've been advised by my parents to keep my mouth shut about those primaries. For the past few months, I've been endorsing/supporting scientists in Congressional races. I still support scientists, but - But the situation appears to be dire.

California has a system that allows the top two vote getters, regardless of political affiliation, to advance into the general election. This rule has allowed Republicans to exploit the fact that so many Dems are running. The DCCC has also -
May 9, 2018 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I think Mueller's team knows whether Elliott Broidy took fall for Trump to cover-up affair w Playboy model Shera Bechard.

Broidy pleaded guilty in 2009 to bribing public officials; affair w/ Bechard fits Trump's M.O., not Broidy's. Broidy likely made $1.6M payment to bribe Trump Campos is onto something. I read this earlier today; the more I think about it, the more it makes sense.

Why would Broidy pay $1.6 million to cover up an affair? He's NOT a public official. With so many lawyers at his disposal, why would he go to Cohen? nymag.com/daily/intellig…