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Nov 9, 2017 15 tweets 3 min read Read on X
"It was 40 years ago," Alabama Marion County GOP chair David Hall tells me. "I really don't see the relevance of it. He was 32. She was supposedly 14. She's not saying that anything happened other than they kissed."
Me: "The story said she said he tried to get her to touch his genitals." Hall: "Well, she said he may have TRIED to. But we're talking something that somebody SAID happened, 40 years ago. It wouldn't affect whether or not I'd vote for him."

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Nov 2, 2022
That’s quite the spin. The size of Social Security checks is linked, by law, to inflation (ssa.gov/cola/#:~:text=…). This year’s increase is unusually big because the inflation rate is unusually big.
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Thread: The FBI's newly released criminal complaint against the man charged with attacking Pelosi features a summary of a Mirandized interview in which, per the FBI summary, *the man himself* essentially debunks the conspiracy theories about the incident.
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Motive: "DEPAPE stated that he was going to hold Nancy hostage...DEPAPE articulated he viewed Nancy as the 'leader of the pack' of lies told by the Democratic Party...DEPAPE also later explained that by breaking Nancy’s kneecaps, she would then have to be wheeled into Congress.."
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When NBC’s Welker reminded Herschel Walker he’d earlier in the campaign opposed all exceptions on abortion, he said, “No no no. I said I’m for life. I never said I didn’t have any exception.”

Walker in May: “There’s no exception in my mind…No exceptions, I believe in life.” 1/
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