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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jul 12, 2022

The committee`s dragnet has been so methodical that it has exposed the potential criminal liability of individuals who aided and abetted Trump`s coup.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jul 12, 2022

The only reason Richard Nixon didn’t go to prison is because Gerald Ford pardoned him.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jul 11, 2022

To whatever extent the Donald Trump White House was trying to use those paramilitary groups to their purpose, trying to use them as a physical force that will be need to physically blocked a finalization of the election results.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jul 6, 2022

This happened under Trump. And his family tried to go to the Trump administration, who didn’t want to hear anything with the word Russia in it.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jul 6, 2022

They got money from Donald Trump, this sort of slush fund that he created, the $250 million that we have discovered through the committee.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jul 6, 2022

It turns out Cleta Mitchell is still working to disrupt the next election and the one after that.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jul 5, 2022

Republicans do everything they can every day to make sure America's mass murderers are the best equipped mass murderers in the world.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jul 5, 2022

Donald Trump actually did one thing legislatively when he was president. He passed a giant tax cut for the super rich.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jun 30, 2022

This chilling reality is part of a wave of blatant attacks on education.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jun 29, 2022

Republicans in North Carolina want the court to grant state legislators immutable authority to gerrymander electoral maps.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jun 29, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson is going to become an associate justice of that court tomorrow, and I think that`s a big deal.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jun 28, 2022

This is yet another signal that the conservative majority on this Supreme Court seems eager and ready to invalidate the seminal civil rights era Voting Rights Act.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jun 28, 2022

The conservative justices put on hold a lower court ruling that said the state had to draw new congressional districts, because the map that the Republican legislature drew and will now use was racially gerrymandered.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jun 28, 2022

We'd be charged with quote every crime imaginable if the White House staff in any way facilitated Trump himself, going to Congress going up to the Capitol Building to try to stop the count that day.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jun 24, 2022

This is not one of those decisions. The current Supreme Court is not reflexively worthy of respect. They have not earned it.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jun 24, 2022

The current Supreme Court is not a product of democracy. It is a product of minority rule.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jun 22, 2022

Hopefully, one of the subjects of this criminal investigation is Donald Trump, who kept pushing this big election conspiracy, even after being advised that it was illegal, and unconstitutional.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jun 21, 2022

And I think you heard the answer today. They took an oath to the Constitution. And they are taking it seriously. Something clearly Donald Trump did not do.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jun 20, 2022

All of the public officials involved in trying to hide this information from you, and from the people of Texas, and from the parents of the murdered children in Uvalde, and the families of the murdered teachers in Uvalde, are Republicans…

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jun 20, 2022

It shows another falsehood in the story told by Governor Greg Abbott, a day after the shooting, when he praised the police officers involved, and did not say that they had waited for an over an hour, before doing anything.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jun 20, 2022

I think tomorrow, Rachel, the case about what happened in Georgia is going to be clearer than ever to this country. And I long felt that that is where the clearest case of criminal conduct is to be found.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jun 20, 2022

We rebuke Senators John Cornyn, and the other eight Republican senators who joined them.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jun 19, 2022

Texas Republicans show just how far to the right their party is willing to go to please its base, embracing guns, Trump’s big lie, and ugly anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jun 16, 2022

For the first time in American history, it is a national Juneteenth holiday weekend.

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