James Hohmann

James Hohmann @jameshohmann

What Dr. Birx describes is both more malicious and dangerous than Sharpiegate. https://t.co/05tC5l65VS — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @FaceTheNation: Dr. Deborah Birx on #Covid19 #disinformation inside the #Trump White House: “I saw the president presenting graphs that… — PolitiTweet.org

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Jeffrey Clark invoked “legal privilege” to refuse to comment to NYT on contacts with Trump and claimed: “All my official communications were consistent with law.” Note the weasel words there: “Official” implies there were unofficial communications, which wouldn’t be protected. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jeffrey Clark’s multiple phone calls and secret meeting with the president as the acting chief of the DOJ civil division without notifying Jeff Rosen, the acting AG, would seem to clearly violate DOJ policy and raise a host of serious ethical questions that must be investigated. — PolitiTweet.org

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DOJ policy clearly states that the president may initially communicate with only the AG or deputy AG on all matters and then a lower-level official if authorized. This is designed to prevent politicization of law enforcement. Something Trump obviously never cared about as POTUS. — PolitiTweet.org

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Scott Perry refused to support a resolution condemning QAnon. He joined 125 other House Republicans in supporting the TX lawsuit aimed at overturning democracy. And he tried to tried to throw out election results from Pennsylvania, voting to disenfranchise his own constituents. — PolitiTweet.org

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Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), who introduced Trump to Jeffrey Clark as part of their conspiracy to use the Justice Department to overturn the election, baselessly claimed in 2017 that the Las Vegas shooter, who was White, could be “terrorist infiltration through the southern border.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Going to Gab seems like a way to narrow your coalition, not broaden it. “We are the storm” is also an apparent reference to QAnon. The Texas state party chairman is former Florida congressman Allen West. — PolitiTweet.org

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@posglen Bravo 👏 🥩 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @clairecmc: Oh come on. Federal prosecutors rarely break a sweat. The contrast between work loads for our federal vs state criminal just… — PolitiTweet.org

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Multiple people in Trump’s orbit say Trump has told people that the third party threat gives him leverage to prevent Republican senators from voting to convict him during the Senate impeachment trial. https://t.co/0eWugD9lVt — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RuthMarcus: Thanks very much, @NormOrnstein. I was very proud to edit the @PostOpinions essay by @gtconway3d. It took not just George… — PolitiTweet.org

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The new president recognizes that personnel is policy. The Biden transition team had 400 staff and 1,000 volunteers. They interviewed 8,000 job applicants before the inauguration. That enabled Biden to swear in more than a thousand officials on Day One. https://t.co/Zz6nLGypzv — PolitiTweet.org

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The technocrats are back. Biden’s team has been quietly preparing his opening week moves since April. ⁦@AnnieLinskey⁩ and ⁦@AshleyRParker⁩ go inside the deliberations over what to roll out and when, based on extensive interviews with insiders. https://t.co/Zz6nLGypzv — PolitiTweet.org

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Return of the technocrats: Biden aims for "normal" after four years of tumult, by @AnnieLinskey @AshleyRParker https://t.co/g7iQHo86Xq — PolitiTweet.org

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The politicians who incited the insurrection, and the people who participated, must suffer political, and legal, consequences. The takeaway from Jan. 6 must be that crime and sedition never pay. Otherwise it will happen again. — PolitiTweet.org

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On principled moral grounds, everyone who trespassed into the Capitol should be charged with unlawful entry. On more practical grounds, bringing every charge possible under the law might get some of the perpetrators to flip against their co-conspirators and turn state’s evidence. — PolitiTweet.org

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What kind of a message would it send to Americans to not fully prosecute everyone who was involved in the insurrection? There should not be two systems of justice. A crime is a crime. These extremists seized and soiled our most sacred temple of democracy. https://t.co/Ap3aG2hZlg — PolitiTweet.org

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Federal officials estimate that roughly 800 people surged into the building, though they caution that such numbers are imprecise, and the real figure could be 100 people or more in either direction. https://t.co/Ap3aG20otI — PolitiTweet.org

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Federal law enforcement officials are privately debating whether they should decline to charge some of the individuals who stormed the Capitol — a loaded proposition but one alert to practical concerns that hundreds of such cases could swamp courthouses. https://t.co/Ap3aG2hZlg — PolitiTweet.org

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@danbalz @pkcapitol @washingtonpost Thank you so much Dan. Your mentorship and friendship has meant the world to me. It is such an honor to get to work for the same newspaper as you do. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @harrispolitico: Anthony Clark, an expert on presidential libraries, has a convincing argument on why the performance artist formerly kn… — PolitiTweet.org

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@pkcapitol Thank you Paul for your friendship, collegiality, wisdom beyond your years, and invaluable daily insights from Capitol Hill. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @pkcapitol: In the madness of past week, I missed the chance to celebrate departure & arrival: @jameshohmann signed off from #Daily202,… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @whignewtons: @jameshohmann Don’t forget the best longform campaign piece of my lifetime by David Foster Wallace on the McCain 2000 camp… — PolitiTweet.org

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Rolling Stone ran some of Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe’s best work. Now the magazine is peddling paid content from a Las Vegas real estate broker who also has a business selling alcohol-infused cupcakes and others willing to pay to play. A sad day. https://t.co/0dBdTJPBSL — PolitiTweet.org

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Obama’s early days were full of legislative wins. Biden may not have that chance. Via @PKCapitol https://t.co/DYz3IduUhf — PolitiTweet.org

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Hank Aaron was a quiet but critical force for civil rights when the Braves moved from Milwaukee to Atlanta. As he closed in on Babe Ruth’s home run record, death threats poured in. He kept all the letters as a reminder of his dangerous pursuit. And he kept swinging. #hero 🇺🇸🪦⚾️ — PolitiTweet.org

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Hank Aaron is the 10th Hall of Famer to die since April. Never has so much athletic talent died in such a short span: Lou Brock, Tom Seaver, Bob Gibson, Al Kaline, Whitey Ford, Joe Morgan, etc. 🪦 ⚾️ — PolitiTweet.org

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Curt Simmons once said “throwing a fastball by Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster.” He would know because he was an opposing pitcher. 🌞 🐓 ⚾️ — PolitiTweet.org