The Real Bombshell: Papadopoulos' Guilty Plea

The Real Bombshell: Papadopoulos' Guilty Plea

By Michael Wolraich on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 11:48am |

Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos' guilty plea is a must, must, must read. He confesses to colluding with Russian agents to arrange a meeting between the Russian government and the Trump campaign. One of his contacts mentions "dirt" on Hillary Clinton in the form of "thousands of emails." This was not a rogue operation. Papadopoulos acknowledges communicating about this plan with at least three unnamed individuals referred to as "Campaign Supervisor," "Senior Policy Advisor," and "High-Ranking Campaign Official."

And there may be even more that Mueller has not disclosed in the guilty plea, which begins, "These facts do not constitute all of the facts known to the parties concerning the charged offense; they are being submitted to demonstrate that sufficient facts exist that the defendant committed the offense to which he is pleading guilty."

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https://static01.nyt.com/packages/pdf/politics/2017/statement_of_the_offense.filed_.pdf

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Mueller turned Papadopoulos.The collusion is documented. The first domino has fallen.

by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 11:50am

Seth Abramson's been talking about Papadopoulos for a while - his strange emergence and then disappearance.

The thread below now discusses the PAPADOPOULOS PLEA in great detail—please share the link below for more information on that breaking news. https://t.co/8LhZOL2G1U
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) October 30, 2017

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 1:05pm

Fwiw, WaPo speculates that "High-Ranking Campaign Official" is Lewandowski and "Campaign Supervisor" is Sam Clovis, Trump's controversial nominee for Under Secretary of the USDA.

by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 12:56pm

Yahoo News has a source claiming that high-ranker is Manafort and supervisor is Clovis. I wonder how this will play in his USDA nomination hearing. ;)

by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 5:59pm

Abramson speculates Papadoc was wired for months, and Clovis his most likely target.

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/925115577190010880

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 6:19pm

Aha, now that would make everything today make sense as savvy! Re: last chance to cooperate, too, everybody else!

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 6:27pm

With Sessions as Clovis' supervisor. Oops. "Southern Man, better keep your head..."

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 6:43pm

Axios.com recommended analysis, especially the "Be Smart" section.

And I note the Tweeter-in-Chief seems confident enough about the news that he's not bothering to shut up like lawyers would advise if anything dangerous was going to happen soon.

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 1:23pm

Breitbart right away early on picked up on the the same thing as Axios' "Be Smart:

…Indicted on 12 Counts Unrelated to 2016 Campaign

Nothing on 2016: there's still a long row to hoe.

I am actually thinking after reading Axios: this is to bait Trump into doing something impeachable from this day forward! As regards pardoning or firing someone else or saying something stupid....Jared is a problem...

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 1:39pm

Earth to AA. Click the link and read the plea. It's all 2016. That's why I titled it "The Real Bombshell."

by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 1:40pm

ok, so why is the first action to indict Manafort on other things? When you have this since July. And now let this out for public knowledge.That's the real question I have. It is all odd. Looks to me like they don't trust Papadopoulous to get them anything real, got to get someone else to corroborate.

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 1:59pm

Yes, Kristof sees this:

Will Manafort Sing?

If so, it may mark the beginning of the unraveling of this presidency.

Runs through several "what if's"

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 2:06pm

Any surprise "Lock her up" campaign was run by the guy who helped lock up Yulia Timoschenko on fake charges? Funny how Ukrainian misogyny and ols dschool patruiarchy travels - you'd almost think this was a universal trait. (just in case anyone feels sorry for Manafort)

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 8:09pm

The real question I have is if Manafort laundered $1 million in rugs, how come you couldn't get him to pony up for a sizeable art investment. I thought NY was a chummy place, but I guess inter-borough rivalries bog things down.

As for Papadoc vs Manafort, they serve different purposes. Papa shows criminal intent directly trading with Hillary's emails and knowledge even before her campaign knew she'd been hacked, along with playing Trump's Russian errand boy. Manafort is part of the command structure and the deep ties to Russia and its international political and financial web. Manafort quit early but Gates stayed on, thus a good set of ears at Command-and-Control.

BMaz @ EmptyWheel notes the strangeness that Manafort's wife wasn't charge with the tax evasion/money laundering, as she cosigned those tax filings.

Palmer notes some interesting connects between Gates and the RNC after the convention, and possibly Priebus being some kind of mole in the White House, which would certainly be bad news for Trump. (yes, Palmer fluffs up his news tidbits, but still worth considering)

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 2:35pm

Rug dealers infamously are own little sleazeball tribe totally separate from the antiques & art world.

For more than a century, notoriously always try to run a "ring" in every auction of rugs in every city worldwide. It is not a formalized mob in any way shape or form, it is simply a sub culture passed down from generation to generation.

Everybody at an antiques auction before the rugs go up (always at the end of the sale because they are often under the furniture) is from one world, everyone that filters in right before the rugs start is from rug world. Usually most from the first tribe leave before the rug games begin. Leaving the auctioneer alone to try to attempt to protect the few private buyers who might be so brave, or so naive, to bid against with "the rug dealers."

They will always be of this ethnic heritage if no longer citizens of same: Iranian, Arab, a smattering of assorted Caucasian "Stans", Russian, Israeli, Palestinian, Turkish, maybe maybe a French Jew or Chinese if he/she is really savvy...basically recreating a Silk Road bazaar of old every time and bringing along all the same sorts of activity that engenders.

Again, I can't stress this enough: it takes a very brave or very naive person to go up against "the rug dealers." And finally: never ever pay the asking price from a "rug dealer." When you visit one, you are entering into an eastern bazaar of old. In the antiques trade everyone would know what you mean when you say someone is "you know, a rug dealer type of guy": you can't trust him, he's from "that world."

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 3:48pm

Having hopped around the Silk Road, I can sympathize.The bazaar is in the blood, not learned. Already feel Sydney wasshisname from Maltese Falcon waddling in... (hmmm, Greenstreet only made his first film at 62, finished his career only 8 years later. Stunning.)

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 6:05pm

??? The Axios analysis is about Manafort, but this news link is about Papadopoulos. Plus Trump's tweets came before the Papadopoulos news broke. (Not that Trump necessarily listens to his lawyers.)

by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 1:39pm

Since July turning, Mueller got nothing from Papadopoulus about 2016 Trump campaign, or if he did, he's not using it now. Axios basically is pointing out the trick now would be to "turn" Manafort about 2016 campaign, whatever comes of starting the process against Manafort. No trial on the docket for at least six months. Manafort's lawyers will work to slow things for as long as possible, standard practice. Most likely scenario: nothing happening for a long time.

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 1:47pm

A. Your Axios analysis seems to have been written before the Papadopoulus news broke.

B. In his analysis of Papa's plea, another Axios analyst writes, "But unlike Paul Manafort's indictment, the charges against Papadopoulos are explicitly linked to attempts at collusion with Russia."

C. We know that Mueller got info from Papa about 2016 campaign collusion because it's all there in the guilty plea. We don't know how Mueller is exploiting the info, but I doubt that he's using it exclusively to pressure Manafort. There are three other campaign folks mentioned in the plea, and it's not clear that any of them are Manafort.

D. I make no claim as to how quickly this will roll out, only that this is big news, bigger than Manafort's indictment imho.

by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 2:07pm

Josh at TPM agrees.

by NCD on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 2:11pm

I'm struck by how it took most of the media a couple hours to realize the import and significance of Papadopolous' plea and doc.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 30, 2017

by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 2:49pm

I buy that, and you should be proud for pointing it out. Still, it doesn't change the general situation that this will not be a blockbuster hurting Trump unless Mueller himself explains what he's up to or someone from his circle leaks the same or someone else is indicted soon or the like. The point is that Mueller has not used the 2016 Papa doc stuff yet against anyone, has just let it be out there.

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 4:26pm

I feel like we're coming at this from different angles. It's not a blockbuster because of the political impact today. (Trump is still president and will continue to be for some time.) It's a blockbuster because it foretells where this is going.

by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 4:48pm

Yes but I am perhaps more negative than you about the possibility of this changing much of anything for the duration as to impeachment or resignation or even convincing a single congressperson to change his mind much less a single Trump supporter. Because: in most cases, a prosecutor puts a single turned guilty witness secret and puts him into witness protection in order to use him in the case. Here instead we have him uncovered as what: a liar, an admitted liar, pled guilty to lying. Can easily be smeared! Not going to change minds. Needs corraboration.

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 4:57pm

You've watched too many mobster movies. :) Witness protection is only for at-risk witnesses (regardless of whether there's a plea bargain involved).

I never suggested that the whole case will rest on Papadoc's testimony. It's just that he is the first campaign insider who has come clean about collusion (that we know of). And it's not just his testimony. There are emails and probably phone records--evidence which can be used against the unnamed campaign people he communicated with. The hope will obviously be to turn more of them.

by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 5:05pm

Also, I'm not sure what you mean when you say that Mueller has not used the 2016 Papa doc stuff against anyone. He has not used it publicly, but that doesn't mean that he hasn't used it and is not using it now. There was obviously a plea bargain, which means that Mueller finds Papa's testimony useful in building a case against someone else. How exactly he's using it, we can only speculate.

by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 4:53pm

see above.

I also got something out of reading the 11 legal experts @ Politico that I posted downthread about "Where is Mueller headed?" Only because:they are allover the map!

One thing I am sure of: Papadopoulos is gonna be heavily smeared by the right wing media. They can easily do that without smearing Mueller.

If your end game desire is getting rid of Trump, I don't see how any of this gets near that. He is the president and has certain protections while he's in office, you have to get Congress to want him to go.

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 5:03pm

Fox & Friends will smear anyone and everyone who testifies against Trump, but so what? A smear campaign doesn't hold up in court.

Honestly, I just don't get what you're trying to say. If Mueller drops the case tomorrow, and all we've got is Papadoc and Manafort and Gates, then of course Trump won't be impeached. Obviously, he would have to be implicated to be indicted or impeached, and this news doesn't implicate him. But it suggests that Mueller is building a case that could eventually implicate him.

by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 5:14pm

Watergate didnt lead to impeachment because of journalists - it was simply grand juries moving slowly forward.

Nevertheless, things are more hyper polarized these days, so there's a political slant and entrenched stubborn reaction to everything. Mueller will likely dot all his i's, but still the various media mouths will say otherwise. Joe/Joanna sixpack will have trouble keeping up. So there's some education that needs to happen, and even then20-30% will insist it was rigged and Dems stole their presidency.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 5:59pm

Email referenced in the guilty plea from Trump "campaign supervisor" calls Papadoc. the point man for Russia contacts, including contact with Russian government foreign office.

by NCD on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 1:23pm

Another tidbit (emphasis mine):

On or about March 31, 2016, defendant PAPADOPOULOS attended a "national security meeting" in Washington, D.C., with then-candidate Trump and other foreign policy advisors for the Campaign. When defendant PAPADOPOULOS introduced himself to the group, he stated, in sum and substance, that he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and President Putin.

We already know something about this meeting. It was here that Trump decided to fight to the Ukraine plank in the Republican platform:

On CNN, Jim Acosta reported more about his phone conversation with J.D. Gordon.

“Gordon said he was part of the effort pushed by the Trump campaign to put some language in the GOP platform that essentially said that the Republican Party did not advocate for arming the Ukrainians in their battle against pro-Russian separatists,” Acosta related. “He said that his is the language that Donald Trump himself wanted and advocated for back in March at a meeting at the unfinished Trump hotel here in Washington D.C. J.D. Gordon says then-candidate Trump said he did not want to ‘go to World War III over Ukraine,’ and J.D. Gordon says at the Republican convention in Cleveland he advocated for language in that Republican Party platform that reflected then-candidate Trump’s comment.”

Question: Why did Donald Trump suddenly care so much about the Ukraine?

by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 2:23pm

Russian orphans...?

by NCD on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 3:43pm

FWIW, tweeted 3 hrs. ago:

Must-read @anneapplebaum @washingtonpost: "#Russia is furious. That means the sanctions are working." https://t.co/IysHJ3swjf
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) October 30, 2017

and 7 hrs. ago:

Must-read @washingtonpost: "Trump administration stalled on whether to arm #Ukraine" https://t.co/1aIxgax0NE
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) October 30, 2017

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 4:03pm

Josh again http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-stuff-in-the-papadopolous-plea-deal

by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 5:27pm

Getting too messy real fast without Mueller willing to be talkative (much less having talking points). Breitbart headline right now

Podesta Resigns from Podesta Group as Mueller Probe Heats Up

Democratic “power lobbyist” Tony Podesta is resigning from the Podesta Group, after coming under investigation by FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Politico reported Monday.

I suspect the whole thing will be spun a thousand ways to Sunday, because it is so complex and unresolved, so that there will be zero political effect except for hardening of everyone's opinion of Trump.

One immediate effect might be more like that power people in Senate foreign relations like Corker and McCain will feel freer to force Trump admin to their will against Putin. And Trump admin will go along to look objective.

Edit to add: Here is the Politico link:

Tony Podesta stepping down from lobbying giant amid Mueller probe

Podesta announced his decision during a firm-wide meeting Monday morning and is alerting clients of his impending departure.

10/30/2017 01:02 PM EDT

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 4:31pm

The hope of the Republicans is to make things murky. At initial glance though, it doesn’t appear that the Podesta Group did anything illegal. Their only “crime” may have been agreeing to work with Manafort who may have lied about who was funding the project Manafort and Poseata were completing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/amid-swirl-of-controversy-democratic-power-lobbyist-podesta-steps-down/2017/10/30/14c4bb0a-bd97-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.00178f9cde55

So far it doesn’t appear to be both sides do it. Not paying attention to details is how we got Trump.

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 4:23pm

Where Is Bob Mueller Headed Next?

After charges against two Trump campaign members, and a guilty plea from a third, where will the special counsel’s investigation go from here? Eleven legal experts chart a course.

By POLITICO MAGAZINE October 30, 2017

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 4:32pm

The Politico article is overpromising with its title in so far as none of the participants forecast more than the obvious.
Lightfoot underlined something that struck me while reading the indictments:

Another interesting aspect of the indictment is the level of detail laying out the prosecution’s case against Manafort and Gates. There are approximately 23 pages of narrative before the substantive counts are set forth. This is not necessarily unusual in complex white-collar fraud cases, but the risk that every prosecutor takes in making such detailed disclosures is that they must be able to back up the detail with facts. Some prosecutors would opt to shrink the size of the target for the defense to attack by presenting a bare-bones true bill to the grand jury, but here, these very experienced prosecutors chose to lay out the scope of the fraud in expansive detail.

Lightfoot goes on to speculate why the charge is not more cautious but misses one sort of obvious possibility:
The prosecution can prove their case.
If this is true, the threat of future indictments stops being a thing that can be managed. You will be knocked out with the first punch.

by moat on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 6:08pm

good point. and synchs with the idea that today's events are a threat to cooperate asap.

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 7:21pm

CNN has that Mueller's office most definitely feared the Papadopoulos agreement being made public before today would hurt their investigation; they argued for the sealing, wanted more time:

Special counsel's office: Papadopoulos 'small part' of 'large scale investigation'

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Updated 6:22 PM ET, Mon October 30, 2017

[....] "The criminal justice interest being vindicated here is there's a large-scale ongoing investigation of which this case is a small part," Aaron Zelinsky of the special counsel's office said during Papadopoulos' October 5 plea agreement hearing, records of which were unsealed Monday.

The special counsel's office sought to keep Papadopoulos' plea agreement confidential because it didn't want to dissuade witnesses and persons of interest from sharing information with investigators.

"Although the government is moving expeditiously to interview individuals of immediate interest to the investigation, news that the defendant has been charged with and pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents may make those individuals reluctant to speak with investigators," the special counsel's office wrote on October 3.

Papadopoulos' court proceedings were unsealed Monday [....]

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/31/2017 - 12:00am

Weissman is a former top mob prosecutor, experienced at turning people state's evidence:

Andrew Weissmann, Legal Pit Bull, Is Unleashed in Inquiry

By MATT FLEGENHEIMER @ NYTimes.com, Nov. 1

Mr. Weissmann brings decades of experience prosecuting Mafia heads and white-collar crime to Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation

[....] He is a top lieutenant to Robert S. Mueller III on the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links to the Trump campaign. Significantly, Mr. Weissmann is an expert in converting defendants into collaborators — with either tactical brilliance or overzealousness, depending on one’s perspective. [....]

by artappraiser on Wed, 11/01/2017 - 2:20pm

I wonder if Weissman will be involved with inquiries of the Trump outfit itself as discussed in the New Yorker article: Business of Corruption
He certainly has the resume for the job.

by moat on Wed, 11/01/2017 - 6:29pm

I think you can take that surmise to the bank.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 11/01/2017 - 6:47pm

Knives out for Jared; whether the whole of this article is accurate or mostly gossip, the meme of make Jared the sacrifice is clearly being pushed in the following excerpt:

[....] Trump is like, When is that going to end?” According to two sources, Trump has complained to advisers about his legal team for letting the Mueller probe progress this far. Speaking to Steve Bannon on Tuesday, Trump blamed Jared Kushner for his role in decisions, specifically the firings of Mike Flynn and James Comey, that led to Mueller’s appointment, according to a source briefed on the call. When Roger Stone recently told Trump that Kushner was giving him bad political advice, Trump agreed, according to someone familiar with the conversation. “Jared is the worst political adviser in the White House in modern history,” Nunberg said. “I’m only saying publicly what everyone says behind the scenes at Fox News, in conservative media, and the Senate and Congress.” (The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment by deadline.) [....]

from

“You Can’t Go Any Lower”: Inside the West Wing, Trump Is Apoplectic as Allies Fear Impeachment

By Gabriel Sherman @ The Hive @ Vanity Fair.com, Nov. 1

After Monday’s indictments, the president blamed Jared Kushner in a call to Steve Bannon, while others are urging him to take off the gloves with Robert Mueller.

by artappraiser on Wed, 11/01/2017 - 6:05pm

Clovis out:

Sam Clovis withdraws his nomination for USDA’s top scientist post after being linked to Russia probe

@ WaPo, 11:08 am

by artappraiser on Thu, 11/02/2017 - 1:59pm

Geez, just noticed in above, creepy name from impeachments past:

Clovis’s attorney, Victoria Toensing, told The Washington Post on Monday that her client “always vigorously opposed any Russian trip for Donald Trump and/or the campaign.” She described his responses to Papadopoulos as a courtesy by “a polite gentleman from Iowa.”

It's probably just a case of all the good lawyers already taken!

by artappraiser on Thu, 11/02/2017 - 2:02pm

White House was unaware top adviser (Clovis) testified before grand jury

By John Santucci & James Meek @ ABCNews.com, Nov 2, 2017, 5:07 PM ET

Note the last line of my excerpt:

The White House first learned one of its senior staffers met with the grand jury hearing the case presented by the special counsel into alleged Russian meddling into the 2016 election not from the staffer but from media reports, sources with knowledge of the investigation tell ABC News.

Former Trump campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis recently testified before that grand jury into his role on President Donald Trump’s campaign. Clovis currently serves as the senior White House adviser to the Department of Agriculture.

Clovis’ testimony comes on the heels of another Trump campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, pleading guilty to lying to federal authorities. As part of Papadopoulos’ admission of guilt, details of emails were disclosed that showed him describing to top Trump campaign officials communications he had with contacts in Russia.

The correspondence between Papadopoulos and a group of foreign nationals detail that within weeks of being described by Trump as an important part of his national security team, Papadopoulos was in London meeting with people who said they could deliver “dirt” on rival candidate Hillary Clinton, including “thousands of emails.”

The emails indicate multiple top level campaign officials that Papadopoulos communicated with including one listed as a “campaign supervisor”.

Sources familiar with the emails tell ABC News the “campaign supervisor” was Sam Clovis.

Clovis appeared to encourage Papadopoulos to engage with Russian contacts; in one instance Clovis responded directly to Papadopoulos, hailing him for his “great work” and saying “I would encourage you” to “make the trip, if it is feasible”, referring to a trip the young campaign adviser pitched to go abroad.

An attorney for Clovis confirmed his role in the communications to ABC News, adding that he has not spoken to Papadopoulos since the 2016 election and any trip he would have taken would not have been authorized by the campaign and would have been done on his own personal time and money.

A White House source familiar with the investigation tells ABC News “the White House was surprised to learn Mr. Clovis had been contacted by the Special Counsel’s office as part of their separate probe of Mr. Papadopoulos’ activities.”

Clovis’ lawyer, Victoria Toensing, told ABC News he is not under investigation [.....]

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 2:43am

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[Where is the GOP headed?] Divisions leave Florida’s House...
[Where is the GOP headed?] Divisions leave Florida’s House Republicans powerless

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The lack of a cohesive delegation has allowed attention-seeking lawmakers to act on their own.

McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”

Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf

Read the article at https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/29/divisions-leave-floridas-house-republicans-powerless-00129200

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‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-...
‘She got so mad at me’: book on the ‘Squad’ details AOC-Pelosi clashes

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By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells Ryan Grim life in Congress ‘completely transformed’ after Democratic leader stepped down

Read the article at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/30/squad-book-aoc-nancy-pelosi?CMP=share_btn_tw

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US health insurers Humana, Cigna in talks to merge -source
US health insurers Humana, Cigna in talks to merge -source

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@ Reuters, Nov. 29

Read the article at https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/us-health-insurers-humana-cigna-talks-merge-wsj-2023-11-29/

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Central Africa’s dinosaur regimes and the art of coup-...
Central Africa’s dinosaur regimes and the art of coup-proofing

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"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023

Read the article at https://africanarguments.org/2023/11/central-africas-dinosaur-regimes-and-the-art-of-coup-proofing/

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