James Hohmann

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RT @PhilipRucker: Trump says John Kerry should be prosecuted —> https://t.co/a5XEkIa9Kp — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidNakamura: I spent Wednesday interviewing Red Sox players ahead of their game against the Orioles in Baltimore. After the game, a R… — PolitiTweet.org

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From the Republican facing a primary challenger in North Carolina. The state’s senior senator, who is a Republican but retiring in 2022, is who issued the subpoena. — PolitiTweet.org

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The world is on fire. Today's 202 has what you need to know about escalations and brinkmanship from North Korea and Venezuela to Iran and China. In the past, any of these four crises would be leading the news today. But a constitutional crisis looms. https://t.co/0uRNzAHyZ8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Chris Hughes doesn’t fault Mark Zuckerberg for trying to conquer the world: “Yet he's created a leviathan that crowds out entrepreneurship and restricts consumer choice. It’s on our government to ensure that we never lose the magic of the invisible hand.” https://t.co/0uRNzAHyZ8 — PolitiTweet.org

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A bipartisan group of senators expressed frustration this week with the slow-going federal probe into Facebook’s privacy practices, pushing the FTC to move more swiftly and consider imposing tough punishments that target the company’s top executives. https://t.co/0uRNzAHyZ8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Amy Klobuchar, the top Democrat on the Senate's antitrust subcommittee, talks constantly about the danger of monopolies on the campaign trail. This is not some obscure debate for law school faculty lounges any longer. Crowds eat it up – in rural Iowa. https://t.co/0uRNzAHyZ8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Facebook isn’t afraid of “a few more rules,” Chris Hughes says, because it can afford to comply. Facebook raked in $15 billion during Q1. When FB said it expects a fine as high as $5 billion from the FTC for mishandling user data, the stock went UP. https://t.co/0uRNzAHyZ8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to get out front of growing calls to break up his company by calling for new regulations, expressing openness to more oversight and promising users recently that the social network will reorient itself to prioritize privacy. https://t.co/0uRNzAHyZ8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Mark Zuckerberg’s got 99 problems, and Chris Hughes is now one. "Mark’s power is unprecedented and un-American,” he writes in the New York Times. This adds to the squeeze from left & right -- and shows how Facebook will be a boogeyman in 2020. https://t.co/0uRNzAHyZ8 — PolitiTweet.org

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The Daily 202: Facebook’s political problems grow as its co-founder calls for breaking up the social network. https://t.co/ulvaLD6QAx — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GlennKesslerWP: Revolting behavior by this administration ---> The White House revoked my press pass. It’s not just me — it’s curtailin… — PolitiTweet.org

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Another irony: Elizabeth Warren is not actually even a sponsor of the bill in question, even though that was used to get Trump to intervene. She co-sponsored similar legislation in the last Congress, but there’s no pending Senate bill pertaining to the tribe. — PolitiTweet.org

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"In a brief phone interview, Schlapp asked for questions to be texted to him but did not respond to a text or a subsequent phone call." A great story on how the sausage is made in Trump's DC. By @mikedebonis, @feliciasonmez & @jdawsey1: https://t.co/bOAZkvuGXX #followthemoney — PolitiTweet.org

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The singular focus on Warren appeared to reflect a strategy embraced by Schlapp, who focused on the senator in a Wednesday morning tweet and an email he sent to Republicans on Capitol Hill on Tuesday: “Potentially giving her a win on such an issue is a real head scratcher." — PolitiTweet.org

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“A lobbyist for the Rhode Island casino seems to have a very tight relationship with the WH,” said @joekennedy, who represents the area eyed for the casino. “The consequence of this is going to be that the tribe that greeted the Pilgrims gets hurt once again by the U.S. govt.” — PolitiTweet.org

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The bill would confirm the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe’s sovereignty over 321 acres of land — including the Taunton, Mass., site eyed for a casino project. It was scheduled for a House vote today under expedited procedures requiring 2/3 to pass, reflecting its broad support. — PolitiTweet.org

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A key Trump ally, CPAC organizer and ACU chairman Matt Schlapp, is lobbying for Twin River Management Group, which operates Rhode Island casinos that don't want the competition from a new casino in Mass. Schlapp’s wife, Mercedes, is White House strategic communications director. — PolitiTweet.org

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How Wa$hington work$? It appears that a lobbyist married to a WH staffer might have convinced Trump that he should intervene to derail a bipartisan casino bill because Elizabeth Warren supported it, catching everyone in the House off guard hours ahead of its expected passage. — PolitiTweet.org

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What are they trying to hide? Why are they using government email accounts to conduct personal business? They’re on the taxpayer dime. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cathleendecker: Enough to break your heart: “My wife and I are in a haze,” Castillo said. “He was everything to us.” Kendrick Castillo,… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LennyMBernstein: Tax records show how Trump profited off spreading rumors — until investors stopped believing him, @jameshohmann writes… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @joanegreve: "President Trump is the personification of the new Gilded Age," @jameshohmann writes in the Daily 202 after newly obtained… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cathleendecker: Tax records show how Trump profited off spreading rumors — until investors stopped believing him, @jameshohmann writes… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jlemonsk: "His $418 million of losses in 1991 alone represented 1 percent of all losses declared by individual taxpayers in the entire… — PolitiTweet.org

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@scobro54 @patg00 @bellwak One of the many things that could be cleared up if he released his subsequent tax returns. — PolitiTweet.org

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In this era of Theranos, the Fyre Festival and Trump University, this story is another reminder that not all that glitters is gold. https://t.co/Tjz50PmpWQ — PolitiTweet.org

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An overlooked nugget from the NYT tax story: Trump made no itemized deductions for charitable giving in the 10 years of tax transcripts obtained by the paper. https://t.co/Tjz50PmpWQ — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump never faced the personal consequences that most people would for losing so much money -- repeatedly. Lenders were left holding the bag, and he could always count on his father for a bailout. Is this why he's running up the national debt so much now? https://t.co/Tjz50PmpWQ — PolitiTweet.org

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But investors eventually got wise to Trump's game -- and he eventually overplayed his hand. The result was he got badly burned when he floated @AmericanAir takeover rumors. He lost $35 million in 1990, wiping out gains of previous years. A cautionary tale: https://t.co/Tjz50PmpWQ — PolitiTweet.org