BREAKING Dame Cressida Dick leaves Met Police after string of Scotland Yard scandalshttps://t.co/SoFwyFKrKn
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) February 10, 2022
As the IOPC report on Met police culture concluded: “these incidents are not isolated or simply the behaviour of a few ‘bad apples’”.
— Nadia Whittome MP (@NadiaWhittomeMP) February 10, 2022
Cressida Dick’s resignation won’t fix the Met’s institutional misogyny and racism.
We need an independent public statutory inquiry now. https://t.co/O8hvK8ASES
One Dick down
— Marina Purkiss (@MarinaPurkiss) February 10, 2022
A Govt more to go…https://t.co/6JvZ1KVNr0
Cressida Dick was right to resign (I’ve argued at least twice publicly that her position was untenable) but the contrast with govt refusals to resign is still pretty painful
— gabyhinsliff (@gabyhinsliff) February 10, 2022
How it started, etc etc pic.twitter.com/0HvWiocHez
— Kate Bevan (@katebevan) February 10, 2022
That point will shortly be in a revised version of my story: https://t.co/9f8W1XbRFy
— Robert Wright (@RKWinvisibleman) February 10, 2022
Sam Allardyce Appointed Caretaker Met Police Chief.
— Matt Owen (@MJowen174) February 10, 2022
NEW: Sir John Major accuses Boris Johnson of breaking lockdown laws.
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) February 10, 2022
"At No 10, the PM and officials broke lockdown laws. Brazen excuses were dreamed up. Day after day the public was asked to believe the unbelievable. Ministers were sent out to defend the indefensible…"
this is probably the most eviscerating extract of the John Major speech pic.twitter.com/5tCPYjoBib
— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) February 10, 2022
I think when a former Tory PM says of a current Tory MP that he has broken the law, lied in Parliament, enabled corruption and debased accepted norms and standards, Tory MPs should take note. https://t.co/DNvVglAO84
— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) February 10, 2022
The British people vote for local MPs, not a President. MPs have the power + responsibility to remove their leaders. 4 out of the 5 last Conservative Prime-Ministers were replaced within parliamentary terms. We're long past the point when Boris Johnson should have been the 6th. https://t.co/cufxtfWWaS
— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) February 10, 2022
John Major is opposed to democracy says Zac Goldsmith, who lost three elections in the space of four years and was then rewarded with a seat for life in the House Of Lords. pic.twitter.com/YUGzivOEKe
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) February 10, 2022
For all those who missed the last hour of hilarity, Johnson’s new comms chief just retweeted someone endorsing John Major’s diatribe against his boss, eventually unretweeted it, then changed his bio to tell people to dismiss any further tweets as not being sent by him pic.twitter.com/ALrAKpovus
— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) February 11, 2022
Master strategist Boris Johnson publicly announces the cunning plan of how to deflect & occupy Russia’s attention. pic.twitter.com/ZQAASZ5gFQ
— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) February 10, 2022
The public dressing-down Lavrov gave Liz Truss was so brutal, and the gap between them so yawning, you almost have to wonder why they even had the meeting – and Lavrov did indeed wonder that aloud during an excruciating press conference in Moscowhttps://t.co/iKlCoIv7X4
— max seddon (@maxseddon) February 10, 2022
Lavrov doesn't do diplomacy, he does insults. I don't understand why any Western politician would appear at a press conference with him, unless it is with the explicit intention to insult him back. And there's not much point to that either https://t.co/N0jSFX4j03
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) February 10, 2022
This presser has not gone well. Sergey Lavrov has just briskly walked off, leaving @trussliz on her own at the podium. He said talking to her was ‘like talking to a deaf person’ & said what Russia does in its own territory is ‘not her business.’ She’s now got lunch with him… pic.twitter.com/7w3xORhUdw
— Emma Burrows (@EJ_Burrows) February 10, 2022
Have just discovered that Liz Truss is now the second favourite to become Britain's next prime minister.
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) December 12, 2021
A reminder of some of her finest moments: pic.twitter.com/OhGCFPcO0N
I saw @Kevin_Maguire joke about Truss being the Instagram Secretary and then I fell down a rabbit hole and, well, of course she is, and it’s as ludicrous as you’d expect. #idiocracy pic.twitter.com/tGygOBVBAy
— Brendan May (@bmay) February 10, 2022
Liz Truss's Mission to Moscow – was not about peace in Ukraine, or standing up to the vile Putin regime – it was about Liz Truss wanting to be Prime Minister. We need serious politicians not X Factor Foreign Secretaries.
— Otto English (@Otto_English) February 10, 2022
Russia, Belarus, And Ukraine Have All Begun 10 Days Of Military Drills, Raising Concerns That War Is Near
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) February 10, 2022
My report from Kyiv: https://t.co/OEtc4FEnli via @BuzzFeedNews
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Trump in toilet shocker
A U.S. congressional committee is investigating Trump's handling of White House records after 15 boxes of documents were transferred from his Florida resort to a federal agency, House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney said https://t.co/bMheqP03kD pic.twitter.com/svr0QTs7Jl
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 10, 2022
Breaking WaPo: Some of the White House documents that Trump improperly took to Mar-a-Lago were clearly marked as classified, including documents at the "top secret" level, according to two people familiar with the matter. https://t.co/lYNNDLGwWG
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 10, 2022
Recap:
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) February 10, 2022
1) No, a president can't "verbally" declassify a document without further action.
2) No, a president can't declassify a document in his head.
3) No, a former president can't take classified documents with him outside of secure control mechanisms.
4) Indict him.
“The entire Trump presidency was a large criminal enterprise. He tried to steal democracy; why do you think he’s not going to steal documents? We have to quit being surprised by this stuff.”
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) February 10, 2022
– Lincoln Project Senior Advisor @StuartPStevens to CNN’s @DonLemon pic.twitter.com/5IcTjU1d3J
"What we believe may have happened is that Trump was using other people's cell phones or perhaps his own cell phone to communicate," Michael Schmidt says about gaps in records of former President Trump’s Jan. 6 calls. https://t.co/NbuzKmLjoS
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 11, 2022
Trump is denying he flushed documents down a White House toilet, but @maggieNYT’s reporting is 100% accurate. Staff did find clumped/torn/shredded papers and fished them out from blocked bathroom toilet—and believed it had been the president’s doing, sources told me at the time. pic.twitter.com/R1zxqX85lK
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) February 10, 2022
JUST NOW: "Staff in WH residence would periodically find the toilet clogged. The engineer would have to come and fix it. What the engineer would find would be wads of clumped up wet, printed paper." @maggieNYT on concerns of Trump flushing documents.pic.twitter.com/dertOPEXYm
— John Berman (@JohnBerman) February 10, 2022
Maggie Haberman put the Hillary Clinton email story on the front page day after day during the 2016 election…
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) February 10, 2022
…and then she covered up Trump destroying documents during the 2020 election.
How to water pic.twitter.com/1wCzqAlvMq
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) June 13, 2020
BREAKING: Va. deputy AG overseeing election issues resigns after The Washington Post uncovered Facebook posts by her claiming Jan. 6 rioters were "patriots" and the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump https://t.co/OqElLcCflY pic.twitter.com/QeP58PAmuV
— justin jouvenal (@jjouvenal) February 10, 2022
MN GOP Attorney General candidate Lynne Torgerson: "At least two people on my staff were participants in Jan. 6."
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) February 10, 2022
Calling the rioters "heroes," she adds, "It seemed … that the election of Joe Biden was somewhat of a coup and that the person who won was President Trump." pic.twitter.com/QfCqScVzDa
“Biden can't save us from Trump's Big Lie: Why the fight for democracy has to be a grassroots effort” https://t.co/0kFfkDwWLa
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) February 10, 2022
A nervous Navarro tries to distance himself from one of his own staff when asked if he or his staff ever attended or arranged meetings to discuss a plan to seize voting machines. He says he has no comment after being presented with video of the staff member pic.twitter.com/Ur75qTahHA
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 10, 2022
Just to clear things up, @RepMTG
— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) February 9, 2022
Gazpacho: a vegetable-based Spanish cold soup
Gestapo: Nazi Germany's secret police pic.twitter.com/T9q76r706G
The Overnight Note 