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Laura Rozen
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Reporting on foreign policy. Current: Diplomatic Substack, Just Security ed bd. Al-Monitor Politico Foreign Policy alum. lkrozen threads, lkrozen.bsky, at gmail
🧵US Senior Admin Official, in call with reporters, said in addition to disconnecting key Russian banks from SWIFT, the US & Europeans agreed to launch a mutlilateral transatlantic task force to identify, hunt down and seize the assets of sanctioned Russian officials & oligarchs,- Don’t make her pull over the carPelosi: Did I hear a laugh over there? Did I hear a laugh from those who added two trillion in tax cuts for the richest people in America?
00:00 - did anyone figure out who planted this brainworm in trump’s mind about canada?
- NPR: Trump says Mike Waltz will lead Signal chat probe, the same man who Atlantic editor Jeff Goldberg reported added him to the group.
- Trump has no public events scheduled all weekend. Don’t believe he was seen today either.
- this is really disturbing. House tours canceled even by members because of covid, so she was shocked to see groups of people walking around with Republican members and staff on Jan. 5, day before capitol attack. so shocked her chief of staff called sergeant at arms jan.5Rep. Sherrill describes how her military training taught her to "look for things that were out of place, look for things that were odd, and look at them with an eye toward security," and how that led her to raise questions about visitors to the Capitol the day before the attack.
00:00 - 🧵 “The messages reveal that Pres. Trump was not part of the discussion of whether to make the airstrikes, a deeply troubling revelation that raises the question of who is in charge at the White House. …
- Retroactively classified. Think about that. Getting prosecuted for something that was legal but specifically changed later for the purpose of selectively prosecuting it
- “Woodward writes that [Saudi crown prince] bin Salman had an aide bring over a bag with about 50 burner phones, pulling out one labeled ‘TRUMP 45.’”
- Barr lied about tear gassing people on camera in the capital of the free world. he lied about the Mueller report. He lied about dropping the Flynn case. He lied about Ukraine. He lied about the US attorney resigning. But the US attorney called him on itIt's worth not losing sight of the fact that the Attorney General of the United States out-and-out *lied* in a written statement—and in a context in which there could have been little question to him that Berman would publicly call him out for doing so. And he did it anyway.
- Trump should not use Melania’s bronzer. He needs something more matte.“We are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream. It was called ... Las Vegas.”
00:00 - “Four of Maga’s most influential voices are fiftysomething white men with formative experiences in apartheid South Africa. This probably isn’t a coincidence.” gift link on.ft.com/3XtHLpzA must read from @KuperSimon: "Musk, Thiel and the shadow of apartheid South Africa" ft.com/content/cfbfa1… via @FT
- 🧵Jake Sullivan: And while I'm standing at this podium, the President is reaching out to give personal thanks to the leaders of Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway and Turkey. and honestly guys, I can just say this was vintage Joe Biden, rallying American allies.
