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Come to think of it I've met both of them. I was on a Star Trek cruise with George (who was fantastic) and I bumped into Mark Hammil at SDCC in a way that's a fun story. I should write about it for the newsletter. It was like 10 years ago and it still makes me smile.
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Anyone who covers politics and works in DC should be working on the question of which foreigners linked to Trump in business/politics—or agents of same—attended the secret, hours-long, prewar negotiation-cum-White House war council Trump and his team *hid*, and which Team Trump personnel were there.
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Of course this scandal is so massive in its potential scope we would assume American major media has 100-200 investigative journalists working on it right now, but in fact it has already been 100% buried.
News of it appeared in a random CNN article and no attention whatsoever was drawn to it.
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Did you wonder why Trump said publicly a day before his secret negotiation that he could decide to attack—or not—at any time, and would wait until the last moment to choose?
We assumed he was negotiating with Iran.
More likely, his words were aimed at men who can pay in crypto.
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We know, moreover—though CNN seems inexplicably unbothered by this—that not only did these negotiations run for longer than almost any meeting we're aware of in Trump 2.0, and were *specifically* kept "secret," but also held inside the White House. Presumably so Trump and other bigwigs could attend.
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So now we know why Trump left the G7 early—and why he lied about it. We were specifically told that he left early to talk to members of his intelligence community; now we know he refused to talk to those folks, and spent hours negotiating with foreigners he has financial ties to.
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And should it not also be noted that the man representing Trump in these hours of secret negotiations inside the White House—assuming Trump wasn't there himself, which I suspect he was for part of the time—is a man (Witkoff) with financial ties to parties he was negotiating with?
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This is beyond journalistic malpractice.
We're talking about matters of war and peace—historic lies told by a POTUS to push America into a pointless war—and CNN is burying the lede that the attack was a byproduct of secret negotiations with those who've supported Trump financially and politically?
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You'll recall a judge in Tennessee ordered that DoJ can't hold him in pre-trial detention on the bogus criminal charges - but once he's released - he could be picked up by ICE and deported again.
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Breyer also declined the government’s request to transfer the case to the central district of California.
Read the order here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...