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    20 Jun 2018

    "...the only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted, when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary to keep the waters pure..." - Thomas Jefferson, 1823

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Wow. Duncan Hunter argues that one affair (of the alleged many) was BECAUSE he’s a big powerful congressman and so therefore prosecutors can’t say it wasn’t business related. The congressman’s defense is that pimping himself and access to his office is fine if he’s doing it.

    Duncan Hunter’s attorneys on using campaign funds on affairs: The congressman was just “mixing business with pleasure,” however “unpopular” that defense might be for a married man. h/t …
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  3. 3 hours ago

    Trump will visit DMZ.

    So Trump will visit the DMZ tomorrow. I was in the pool for visits by Obama and Biden. Amazing experience, flying in presidential helicopter-cade out of megaloplis of Seoul to barren war zone. Here are photos from Obama's visit to Observation Post Ouelette
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    7 hours ago

    Trump says he was “extremely angry” about the Khashoggi killing but “nobody has has directly pointed a finger” at MBS. Except, of course, the CIA and the UN.

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    3 hours ago

    On Khashoggi, Turkey’s Erdogan says what Trump will not: “I listened to recordings of Khashoggi’s murder. Our intelligence service made the recordings, listen to people who are sent by MBS. They listened to it and said it is savagery.”

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  6. 4 hours ago

    Caught between security and humanity.

    Trump lavishes praise on MBS at breakfast, telling him he has done a "spectacular job." He makes no mention of Khashoggi murder, which the US has concluded the crown prince ordered.
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    6 hours ago

    Peter Baker asks Trump if he agrees with Putin about demise of "Western-style liberalism." Trump then criticizes LA and SF run which are "sad to look at" because they are run by "liberal people" ... which was not the question.

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  8. Retweeted
    5 hours ago

    What a confusing messages for our companies and our allies.

    Trump says not off US Entity List but will have conversation about that in coming days. Then -when asked- he stresses he is indeed worried about national security risks of tech like ZTE and Huawei. Then says buying American is also important to him.
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    4 hours ago

    Spotlight at now on and how we can respond with Ambassador Deborah Birx, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator

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  10. 4 hours ago

    Say wha?

    😮 Trump to let U.S. firms to sell technology to Huawei…
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  11. 4 hours ago

    Glad to get an update on PEPFAR and Global HIV. Used to work on these issues before I was a journalist. Hard to believe how far we’ve come since the 90s.

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    "We are making progress because we joined together as bilaterals in a multilateral space." - Ambassador Deborah Birx
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  12. 5 hours ago

    During a cyber panel at , moderator (Microsoft's cybersecurity field CTO) notes there were Huawei charging stations at the airport and "no one was hesitating to go and plug in cause it's power."

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  13. Retweeted
    14 hours ago

    JUST IN: President Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman at G-20 in Japan, calls him "a friend of mine" and says that he's done "really a spectacular job" and that it's a "great honor" to meet with him.

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  14. 6 hours ago

    *you’re

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  15. 6 hours ago

    Here is US President Trump openly siding with rogue Turkey and adversary Russia on a military weapons system against US and . Trump says Turkey was treated "unfairly," was not allowed to buy Patriot, so then they sought Russian similar, and then were told no.

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  16. 6 hours ago

    ...and then... Trump defends Turkey and blames Obama for I don't know what, he kind of rambles. Sounds like Turkey complained they were allowed to buy Russian missile system then told then cant, or something? "You can't treat people that way, like the Obama administration did."

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  17. 6 hours ago

    Trump in Japan: "It's my honor to be with a friend of mine, somebody I've become very close to, in many respects, and he's doing a very good job: the President of Turkey." REMINDER: Erdogan threatened to kill US troops in last year.

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    13 hours ago

    Appreciate that interviewed Amb Jim Jeffrey on this Q. I’ve benefited from talking w/ him myself. Note his differentiating the current Iraq war and Vietnam from limited operations.

    “You start pulling the threads on that by claiming that every single time we threaten to fire a Tomahawk missile we are getting another Vietnam or another Iraq — please indicate that I’m stamping my fist on the table as I’m doing this — “
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    8 hours ago

    This G-20 family photo on front page of the Japan Times is kind of amazing. Wait for it.

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  20. Retweeted
    14 hours ago

    SECURITY CONCERNS? On Monday, TRUMP told he was headed to DMZ & might meet KIM JONG UN there, but the asked not to publish because of security concerns. Fast forward a few days, & TRUMP himself tweets the very info was asked not to publish.

    In Monday interview, Trump acknowledged likely visit to the DMZ and said he "might" want to meet KJU there. WH asked we delay publication, citing security concerns. We agreed. Then he just tweeted it out
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  21. 14 hours ago

    Time to upgrade my Explorer! (Keep the Bible, gimme a Talmud?)

    "We're going to be celebrating July Fourth a little bit differently this year" From now until July 31, a Ford dealership in Alabama is offering customers a Bible, American flag and a 12-gauge shotgun when they purchase any…
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