
Michael Orton
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Michael Orton
@MichaelOrton
Independent multimedia producer writer shooter and boffin; post CBS and ABC. ATAS. Annenberg.
The West Katılım Mart 2009
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The question at 0:54 and the President’s response is a historically significant moment for the nation. Today and many years from now, this will be used to explain the role of the #FourthEstate in governance. #journalism
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NEW: Jan. 6 committee members are increasingly pondering an explosive question: Did Donald Trump's actions — or lack thereof — as a mob stormed the Capitol amount to criminal obstruction of Congress?
w/ @nicholaswu12
politico.com/news/2021/12/1…
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@davidfrum It’s a game show with a carnival barker on the midway.
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Ask anti-vax media figures apart from Prager whether they themselves have been vaccinated, and they turn sly, evasive, even abusive - anything to avoid the hypocritical truth businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson…

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America's top anti-vax, pro-Putin TV host incited his audience against me last night, I see from the morning load of hate mail. Just remember everybody: the Fox hosts are all vaccinated themselves. It's only their audiences that they are urging toward illness and death.
@charlesgaba.com at Bluesky now@charles_gaba
Here’s the partisan breakout. The reddest tenth is still running 5.7x higher than the bluest tenth. The ratio has hovered between 5.5x to 6.0x since September.
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As it’s been observed, to implore #tfg to *do something* and call off the #j6 #insurrection …the clear implication is that 45 put it all together and SUPERVISED it. Damning stuff.
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.@RepLizCheney sees evidence of Pres. Trump’s supreme dereliction of duty” on #Jan6.
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@TheRealGWAL Then went on at 9:15! For what it's worth, there is a designated area where you can unlock the pouch and check your phone. Pro tip: wear a watch
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@navyjagpog @GeorgeCroner @steve_vladeck Neither did Gen George Washington’s troops. (He required it of them). Somehow, in this “Age of Entitlement,” people have lost their way toward civic duty, demanding rights w/o responsibilities.
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Imagine if this headline read: “Over 97% of active-duty servicemembers have been fully vaccinated.”
The Washington Post@washingtonpost
Vaccine holdouts in U.S. military approach 40,000 even as omicron variant fuels call for boosters wapo.st/3DT5fZu
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@ZcohenCNN @ryanobles @AnnieGrayerCNN “Direct link” is the same language used by the appeals court too. Time for some “direct prosecution,” now?? #DirectLink to 45
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Miller met w/ Trump in private dining room off of Oval Office on Jan. 4 to discuss Jan. 6 rally, per committee.
Katrina Pierson was also there, panel adds. Revelation draws a direct link between rally organizers & Trump. w/ @ryanobles & @AnnieGrayerCNN
cnn.com/2021/12/10/pol…
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NEW: It is becoming increasingly unlikely that several high profile witnesses will give the 1/6 Committee the information they are looking for.
But Members argue- they will still get to the bottom of what happened.
w/ @AnnieGrayerCNN & @ZcohenCNN
cnn.com/2021/12/10/pol…
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Jan. 6 committee tells @MarkMeadows to show up for his deposition tomorrow or they’ll have “no choice” but to refer him to the DOJ for criminal prosecution.

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