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RT @RonBrownstein: The entire top of the ticket for Republicans in MI & AZ, two key swing states, are now election deniers who reject Biden… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @WSJ: Breaking: Pelosi said the U.S. won’t allow China to isolate Taiwan, as Beijing encircled the island with rocket and ballistic-miss… — PolitiTweet.org

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Also (CNN): 1️⃣ Members of Trump’s inner circle say he’s far more scared about being indicted than he’s letting on either with the public or his lawyers. 2️⃣ Trump’s lawyers told him not to contact federal witnesses in the January 6 investigation—and he’s defied that legal advice. — PolitiTweet.org

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BREAKING NEWS (CNN): “Trump’s Legal Defense Team Has Warned Him That Indictments Are Possible” https://t.co/doWaXTNpxi — PolitiTweet.org

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PS3/ I’m working 8 hours/day, every day, on this report. There’s no question it’ll be out soon, i.e. in under a week, but I can’t give an exact time yet. I will give everyone a heads up when it’s about to drop. I’m sorry I can’t be more exact; this is just a massive undertaking. — PolitiTweet.org

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PS2/ I should’ve published a report about the Pentagon a year ago. I meant to. But in a way I’m glad I didn’t—as the amount of info now available for a comprehensive report on the complicity of the Pentagon in the January 6 coup plot outstrips what we had in 2021 *exponentially*. — PolitiTweet.org

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PS/ I know I keep saying this but it keeps being true each time I say it: this will almost certainly be the longest report PROOF has ever filed—and the most complex. I anticipate that it’ll be at least the length of a novella. It may also be the most important thing I’ve written. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (📢) Candidly—and no hyperbole here—now would be a *really* good time to subscribe to PROOF for $5/month. PROOF is shortly… — PolitiTweet.org

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PS3/ I would urge people to read the comments on the first post in this thread to see how prevalent sympathizing with the Kremlin has become on social media. I don’t know how many of the commenters are American, but I certainly suspect many of the ones who are are also Trumpists. — PolitiTweet.org

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PS2/ I’d add that Griner is gay, and Russia is a nation so governed by the toxic masculinity of its bloodthirsty leader that it’s become one of the most anti-gay countries in the world. I don’t *trust* its justice system to not more harshly punish LGBTQIA+ defendants than others. — PolitiTweet.org

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PS/ In other words, the folks in this thread blithely saying “She broke the law!”are blindly trusting Russian “justice” against a Black woman in a way I’m thinking they wouldn’t trust a court in Zimbabwe, Thailand, or Honduras that quickly convicted a white man in a show trial. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: She is a hostage, not a defendant. — PolitiTweet.org

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CONCLUSION/ I’m suspicious of anyone on my feed telling me a Black woman should be sentenced to 9 years of hard labor for a nonviolent firsttime offense in a Christofascist dictatorship currently committing war crimes and genocide in Europe. Candidly I’m inclined to swear at you. — PolitiTweet.org

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10/ There are shameless Kremlin sympathizers throughout the federal government, the Republican Party and social media. Much of this has to do with white supremacy; bigots see Putin as a white savior and Russia as a perfect Christofascist state. I find this perspective disgusting. — PolitiTweet.org

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9/ With all this in mind, I candidly don’t really want to hear anyone telling me that if I really support equal justice under law in the *United States*—which I do and always have—I’ll support Griner being sentenced to 9 years for a firsttime nonviolent offense by Vladimir Putin. — PolitiTweet.org

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8/ Russia is a rogue state in the midst of launching World War III. It’s a dictatorship that’s systematically committing war crimes and genocide in Ukraine. No matter what Griner did or did not do, no American should want her submitted to Russian “justice” at this moment in time. — PolitiTweet.org

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7/ The Kremlin has a history of charging Americans with weak cases, quickly convicting them, and handing down jaw-droppingly preposterous sentences. So there’s no reason whatsoever for any American to trust a Russian prosecutor or judge or investigator or jailer or state witness. — PolitiTweet.org

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6/ Given her lack of a criminal record and the mild nature of the nonviolent offense she’s charged with, the nine-year sentence she’s been given is absolutely preposterous and was clearly delivered for the purpose of increasing the Kremlin’s political leverage in a prisoner swap. — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ Griner wanted to maintain her innocence, and has said she doesn’t know how the drug got in her luggage—which may or may not be true, but raises a concern about Kremlin agents framing her, something far more plausible in Russia because Russia is a dictatorship angry at the U.S. — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ The nature of the drug in question and its quantity is such that this would be considered a minor offense in the United States. By any reasonable international measure this case has been wildly overcharged. The evidence suggests that the overcharging was for political reasons. — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ Russia has already made clear that it sees this case in political terms, inasmuch as it is seeking to have the West release both a murderer and a spy in exchange for letting a firsttime nonviolent offender be sent home to her country. It has thereby lost the moral high ground. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ There’s ample evidence in the public record to suggest that there were irregularities in this investigation that would’ve led to the case being tossed out in the United States—including the defendant being asked to sign forms in a language investigators knew she did not speak. — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ Russia has a 99% conviction rate at trial, which is a clear indication that its justice system does not meet international standards. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Dr__Spaceman_ Happy to explain. Russia has a 99% conviction rate—which is only possible if its trials don’t meet international standards. It appears she was asked to sign docs in Russian. But even if she did what she’s been accused of, with no prior record this sentence is absolutely insane. — PolitiTweet.org

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She is a hostage, not a defendant. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytimes: Even after President Biden was sworn in, John Eastman, an architect of the Jan. 6 strategy, wanted to hunt for election fraud… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ABC: BREAKING: Attorney General Merrick Garland announces that the Justice Department has charged four current and former Louisville Me… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @seth_hettena: Great reporting by @WRashbaum and @benprotess reveals that Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch described by US prosecuto… — PolitiTweet.org