Judge: Trump Said He’d Declassify Russia Probe Docs But Never Actually Did | Talking Points Memo

WHaT ? TRump lied? Unpossible.

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"It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham."

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Trump is now suing the Washington Post for defaming him by saying the Russians supported his election (trump’s first lawsuit was vs the New York Times).

I hope discovery on both these lawsuits goes very, very well!

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Which would make Leonard Zelig either the Carter Page of Kato Kaelins or the Kato Kaelin of Carter Pages.

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No, change it to:
“The White House lied about EVERYTHING!!!”

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You’re just jealous of that sweet headset mic.

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You can’t. It’s classified. Wall-building sources and methods are a critical matter of national security.

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They’re going to come up with a vaccine no one can afford, but then rely on democrats to fund its distribution anyway after lots of people die because of lack of access. Then they can blame democrats for delays in vaccine distribution and for wasting taxpayer dollars while passing a few extra billion to their pharma friends.

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Btw, along these lines it’s quite plausible that it will cost less to develop a covid-19 vaccine than to develop most big-ticket drugs. The compressed timeline will mean smaller studies before production (and not a lot of marketing costs to speak of) and the R&D investment will be spread over billions of doses. So maybe a few times the costs for developing a yearly flu vaccine.

(Not exactly analogous, but I remember a weapons-development story from the falklands war, where the contractor put three shifts of everyone they could find on the job to get something built in a couple of weeks, and later commented that the price was significantly less than if they’d developed on a regular schedule, because there’s only so much money you can spend that fast…)

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Is that the epi-pen guy?

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Is it classified because Trump commandeered military funds? They do have the best toys.

You Can’t Ever Get What You Want

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And I’m just trying to make a checklist here: tweets are official government directives (except when they’re not) but press releases never are…

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Martin Shkreli

Actually, their plan is to let the government pay to develop the vaccine and then price gouge us in actually selling it back to the government.

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the department never actually received a declassification order

Donald Trump lies all the time about everything to everyone, because he’s a sociopath who despises Christian values.

Because Trump has to have his cut of the profits.

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Yeah, he just says shit.

That’s not just the plan, its the business model US Drug makers have followed for decades.

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