Senior Foreign Service Officer (Ret.) Six foreign assignments. Negotiated with Soviets. Author 2 non-fiction books, many articles. UCLA degrees. Army vet.

Joined May 2019
Hitler was supported by German conservatives and major industrialists who thought they could control him. Soon after he became Chancellor, he used the Reichstag fire to suspend civil liberties. He made that permanent within a month.
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Thank you for all you do, Senator Kelly.
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I fear trump and putin are now in full blown attack mode and the worst is yet to come.
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Trump needs to go. Stop tweeting about it and start legislating it. Trump was never fit to be President. #MAGA #Trump
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There’s always money for what Trump and his allies want, but never enough to make life better for working families. That’s a decision. It’s the job of Congress to hold this corrupt administration accountable, and I won’t stop working until we do.
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One million percent.
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Don’t think it’s some strategic move. It’s only about the money trump and his friends will now make selling Russian diesel. It’s that simple
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This is treason.
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Arrest this guy on sight, as a Russian Spy. This is a sad day in America. A American president bending over to get screwed by Russia. History books will not be kind to Trump. I would like the name Trump, be like the most offending words, ever. Cu.t, etc… Trump wants a legacy. Worst president EVER. IMO
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North Carolina A&T students marched an hour each way to vote on the first day of early voting after their campus polling site was removed by the Guilford County Elections Board. Proud 👏🏽
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"How'd you get 15 homes on a $153K salary?!" Ken Paxton PANICKED. His handler jumped in. He ran. 🏃‍♂️💨 This is the guy hiding rental income, 3 undisclosed mortgages & $9M in property while Texans pay his $1.9M travel bills. Corruption isn't a bug—it's his brand. 🤡💰
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Time for other American and European companies to accelerate their plans to compete with Starlink. @JeffBezos , I'm talking to you especially. Monopolies are always bad. Monopolies in critical technologies, where lives can be lost with the flip of a switch, are especially bad.
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Immigrants are not the problem; the Russian asset president is.
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That’s a fact! 💙
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First. The narrative that diesel prices in America are heavily impacted by Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries is completely fabricated. ​Second. The sanctions waiver Trump just granted to Russia is using the fabricated narrative above to make it look like it's in America's national interest. It is not. ​Third. It was planned, and the narrative was constructed to make it happen, which took time. Fourth. This offers Russia's economy a necessary lifeline it desperately needs. ​Fifth. this is happening during one of the largest Russian bombing campaigns targeting the civilian population of Ukraine, and right before winter, a season the Russians proudly and loudly plan to make the hardest and deadliest for Ukraine yet by bombing our civilian infrastructure and causing a humanitarian disaster. ​This is well planned and played. A masterclass in betrayal, executed at the hardest possible time. I can almost feel a physical knife between my shoulder blades...
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There are very few things that Democrats, Republicans, and Independents all agree on - but one is definitely that Donald Trump should stop covering for criminal predators (and whatever else he is scared of) and release ALL of the Epstein files. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
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