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In Twitter Thread, Rep. Jayapal Rips Trump's "Wild Claims and Lies" on Manufactured Border Crisis

Democratic lawmaker's criticism comes on heels of House hearing in which she butted heads with acting attorney general over administration's "horror of family separations"

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) took to social media on Monday to debunk President Donald Trump's "wild claims and lies" about asylum-seekers at the southern border.

The congresswoman's morning Twitter thread comes as another Democrat--California Gov. Gavin Newsom--refuses to be part of Trump's "political theater" and is set to order the withdrawal of the majority of the state's National Guard troops now at the border.

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In Contentious Hearing, Defiant Whitaker Tells House Judiciary Chair, 'Your Five Minutes Are Up'

"There have been witnesses hauled out of committee rooms in irons for being far less arrogant."

Moments into his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Friday, acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker helped set the tone for the hearing by refusing to directly answer questions from Democrats and drew audible gasps when he told committee chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) that his "five minutes were up."

Nadler called the hearing to provide oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice, which Whitaker has overseen since former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was fired in November. Whitaker agreed to testify at the hearing where Democrats' questioning largely focused on his oversight of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

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In One Wretched Day, All You Need to Know About Donald J. Trump

Until Republicans renounce their putrescent Piped Piper, we are all in for it.

As the hero croons in that classic old musical Brigadoon, what a day this has been, what a rare mood I'm in.

But that guy was singing that his mood was almost like being in love. On Thursday night, the mood I was in was almost like being in complete frustration and despair, reeling at the feckless, foolish witlessness of the monumental blockhead we have in the White House. He and his apparatchiks despoil the country and democracy like the Vandals sacked Rome.

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In Twitter Thread, Rep. Jayapal Rips Trump's "Wild Claims and Lies" on Manufactured Border Crisis

Democratic lawmaker's criticism comes on heels of House hearing in which she butted heads with acting attorney general over administration's "horror of family separations"

In Contentious Hearing, Defiant Whitaker Tells House Judiciary Chair, 'Your Five Minutes Are Up'

"There have been witnesses hauled out of committee rooms in irons for being far less arrogant."

In One Wretched Day, All You Need to Know About Donald J. Trump

Until Republicans renounce their putrescent Piped Piper, we are all in for it.

Clinging to Trumpian Lies, Wisconsin GOP Tries to 'Illegally Fire' Election Chief

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Study Exposes Forest Carbon Credit Schemes to Offset Fossil Fuels as 'Pipe Dream'

Demanding an End to 'Deadly Fossil Fuels,' Tens of Thousands Take the Streets in NYC

'There's No Economy on a Dead Planet': Activists Blockade HQ of Oil Financier Citibank

'War Is Good for Business,' Declares Executive at London's Global Arms Fair

Progressive Groups Unveil 'Rural New Deal' to 'Reverse Decades of Economic Decline'