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Washington Post reporter, MSNBC contributor, finder of fact. If you have a story tip, email me at carol.leonnig@washpost.com

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    22 Aug 2017

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  2. 1 hour ago

    This was a touching event. Glad to have witnessed these two tough-as-nails/softies getting a bit of their due. - friends, fierce competitors, pretty funny guys when they get a brief break from the helm.

    The 46th honorees of tonight’s Fourth Estate Awards Gala.
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  3. 3 hours ago

    "You're not going to believe this... Matt Whitaker is now chief of staff to the Attorney General. Of the United States. " The FTC did a double take when they found out a paid adviser to a sham company who was ducking their subpoena had top DOJ job.

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    6 hours ago

    Shot of the day? G20

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  5. 4 hours ago

    Word of caution: The records I have reviewed do not show Whitaker writing to a consumer -- but to a former business partner of the company CEO.

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  6. 4 hours ago

    NEWS : Whitaker fielded several complaints from angry consumers claiming they were being cheated by the company he was advising. One visited his office. Several, like the one below, emailed him.

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  7. 4 hours ago

    NEWWWW: AG Whitaker was on early alert to fraud complaints from customers at sham patent company -- but remained avid and promoter for years, records show Me with :

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  8. 8 hours ago

    Former prosecutor tells me Cohen's confession is a harbinger of something bigger: "We tend not to lie about things that aren't important."

    Oh, I get it! I am a very good developer, happily living my life, when I see our Country going in the wrong direction (to put it mildly). Against all odds, I decide to run for President & continue to run my business-very legal & very cool, talked about it on the campaign trail...
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  9. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    The current state of play on Mueller, Trump, and collusion, neatly summed up by and :

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  10. 17 hours ago

    Weirdly , I dont think this is hyperbole at all.

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    .: "I think we very well could look back on this day...as the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency"
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  11. 17 hours ago

    NEW “This is part of the fact pattern that gets to the heart of whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin during the campaign,” 

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  12. 17 hours ago

    Well, damn.

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  13. Retweeted
    21 hours ago

    Unreal. The NYT knows full well and I first reported this seven months ago. But you won't find a link or citation to our scoop.

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  14. 20 hours ago

    President is reduced to Individual 1 -- a man in the crosshairs as Mueller builds a case of collusion with his campaign and Russia. Me and the great

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    23 hours ago

    NEW: 'We will be in Moscow’: The story of Trump’s 30-year quest to expand his brand to Russia.

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  16. Retweeted
    Nov 29

    JUST IN: Pres. Trump responds to Michael Cohen plea deal: "He's a weak person, and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence."

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  17. Retweeted
    Nov 29

    1) this morning reaffirmed what he said last July 2 and told me many times since — that he decided to put his wife, daughter, son and country first. Today he again told the truth and nothing but the truth. called him a liar. Who do you believe?

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  18. Nov 29

    One thing I'm struck by this morning... Man, a lot of Trump Tower leads we chased and that people told us were phony were not. Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, pleads guilty to lying to Congress

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  19. Nov 29

    Our Aug 2017 story foreshadowed a lot about Michael Cohen's guilty plea today - that he lied in denying he and pursued a Trump Tower in Moscow deep into the 2016 campaign. me w/

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  20. Nov 29

    Three hours before his ex- lawyer plead guilty to lying about Trump's pusuit of a Moscow Trump Tower during 2016 campaign

    Did you ever see an investigation more in search of a crime? At the same time Mueller and the Angry Democrats aren’t even looking at the atrocious, and perhaps subversive, crimes that were committed by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. A total disgrace!
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    Nov 29

    : Michael Cohen, President 's former attorney, is making a surprise appearance in federal court in New York; It's believed he's reached a plea deal with investigation ()

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