Trump has now attacked Jemele Hill, Colin Kaepernick, & Stephen Curry. All have something in common but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
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I re-read all the speeches from McCain’s funeral. Nobody attacked Trump. They *praised* honor, decency, character, bipartisanship, and placing country over party. What does it say about Trump that so many people interpreted this as an assault on him personally?
If this CNN report is accurate, that would mean that Nunes and his colleagues sat there every day accusing Schiff of meeting with the whistleblower (he didn’t) and never disclosed that Nunes met with Shokin to get dirt on Biden.
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The President’s Twitter feed currently has more warnings than a pack of cigarettes.
Everyone is numb and in shock. We can’t believe what we just witnessed, but for me it’s this simple: The President of the United States openly colluded with Putin to undermine our democracy.
Today is by far the most disgraceful day of Donald Trump's presidency.
12-year-old explaining social media to his younger brother: “Twitter is where famous people yell at each other and Facebook is just for old people”
Barack Obama just delivered the finest convention speech in modern history (again). Spell-binding, chilling, optimistic, beautifully written, and expertly delivered. Incredible moment.
Another grim COVID milestone today: the United States has passed 117,000 deaths, more than the total number of Americans killed in World War I.
The president elect has started the Martin Luther King holiday weekend by attacking John Lewis, one of the great heros of civil rights era.
Think about the implications here. Essentiallly: "I condemned Nazis against my will to appease the media and they're still not happy."
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Made additional remarks on Charlottesville and realize once again that the #Fake News Media will never be satisfied...truly bad people!
Seems like a moment when Obama, Clinton, the Bushes, and Carter should be speaking up.
Mark Meadows’s role in this scheme and his comments in the full audio are pretty damning.
This is why presidents divest. It is crazy that a president is making national security decisions like the one tonight when he has lucrative business relationships at stake in the country that will benefit.
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Thank you Prime Minister Erdogan for joining us yesterday to celebrate the launch of #TrumpTowers Istanbul!
Trump, 1965: applying for student deferments to stay out of Vietnam
Lewis, 1965: having head split open by police while leading Selma march
There are people on here, including members of Congress, complaining more loudly about losing Twitter followers than about losing a Capitol police officer after the president’s supporters stormed Congress.
Former Defense Secretary William Cohen just said this on :
"All of us [10 living defense secretaries] came to the same conclusion that we are in danger, that we have a commander-in-chief who is not above trying to use the military in order to achieve a political objective."
Trump advisers on Trump, per various reports over last 2 years:
Tillerson: “a fucking moron”
McMaster: “idiot,” “dope”
Kelly: “unhinged,” “idiot”
Barrack: “crazy,” “stupid”
Cohn: “dumb as shit,” “a professional liar”
Mattis: like a “fifth- or sixth-grader”
Dowd: “a fucking liar”
As several polling experts have pointed out nobody can find a poll with this purported 52% approval. The president apparently just made up something and tweeted it to millions of people (also known as Monday).
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Over 90% approval rating for your all time favorite (I hope) President within the Republican Party and 52% overall. This despite all of the made up stories by the Fake News Media trying endlessly to make me look as bad and evil as possible. Look at the real villains please!
I was at the protest, genius, not watching it on TV. Please correct your erroneous reporting. twitter.com/RichardGrenell
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A comment like this from Obama would have defined him on the right for his entire presidency and would have been endlessly repeated as evidence of his naïveté and stupidity. For Trump it’s just Monday.
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President Trump says he got North Korea to commit to destroying a major missile testing site but "we didn't put it in the agreement because we didn't have time."
From 60 Minutes tonight:
NORAH O'DONNELL: But President Trump says Russian interference is a hoax.
JOE BIDEN: He's an idiot
Two devastating details from Holmes’s testimony, just read on air by CNN: 1. He personally heard Trump demand investigation of Biden. 2. Sondland said Trump didn’t care about the war with Russia because he only cared about things that benefited him, like the Biden investigation.
We are a few months away from “the wall has been completed and it is invisible”
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Mexico is paying for the Wall through the new USMCA Trade Deal. Much of the Wall has already been fully renovated or built. We have done a lot of work. $5.6 Billion Dollars that House has approved is very little in comparison to the benefits of National Security. Quick payback!
This is my candidate for the most historically important Trump tweet.
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China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!
In saner times pressuring the attorney general to quash criminal investigations of political allies might have been considered an impeachable offense. How many GOP elected officials will raise an objection to this?
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Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff......
In case there's any ambiguity in his tweet I can confirm that Scaramucci wants the FBI to investigate Reince for leaking.
Devin Nunes has a secret. I went to Iowa to investigate it. Things got weird.
A total of 13 GOP senators--including 10 men--have voted no on one or both of these bills, but only the female senators are being attacked.
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In the last three days, Republican men in the house have threatened their female senate colleagues with shooting and beating. twitter.com/mattizcoop/sta
The way that William Barr mischaracterized the Mueller Report is appalling and scandalous.
If you haven’t already looked at the side-by-side comparisons of the Barr letter to Congress and the actual language in the report, it’s really worth your time
This is objectively insane. There is no other way to describe it. It does not matter whether you’re a reporter, a conservative, a liberal, a Republican, a Democrat. This is simply insane.
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As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over...
News items today:
-Putin personally oversaw anti-US cyber campaign
-Vanity Fair gave Trump restaurant bad review
Guess who Trump attacked?
This is part of the first article of impeachment drawn up during Watergate...
Just watched Trump’s Fox interview. Nixon talked like a crime boss behind closed doors. Trump talks like one out in the open.
An American President attacking American reporters is always awful but doing it on foreign soil is especially disgusting
The President openly declares he is above the law. This statement alone would have led to calls for impeachment in a previous era.
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As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong? In the meantime, the never ending Witch Hunt, led by 13 very Angry and Conflicted Democrats (& others) continues into the mid-terms!
What exactly did Trump’s Senate trial lawyers know about what Bolton wrote in his manuscript and did they say anything to the Senate that contradicted what they knew?
This is a bizarre, pathological, obscene, enormous, mind-numbing, frightening lie. The IG report had absolutely nothing to do with the investigation into Russian collusion or Trump’s alleged obstruction of justice.
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"I think that the report yesterday ... totally exonerates me. There was no collusion, there was no obstruction," President Trump says of the Justice Department IG report snappytv.com/tc/8223592
The correlation between the collapse of Trump’s legislative agenda & his heightened interest in Twitter culture war fights is pretty strong.
One of the Giuliani/Ukraine guys arrested today had a company called Fraud Guarantee and the other had a club called Mafia Rave. I am not making this up. Google it.
The seriousness of Trump's condition has been escalating all day: "mild symptoms" >> is given an experimental treatment >> "fever" >> now being flown to Walter Reed hospital for a "few days"
At time of pivotal Comey letter on Clinton email, FBI had been investigating Trump campaign links to Russia for three months.
Think about what it says about the information environment in America right now that in 48 hours Trump can convince his supporters that Trudeau is a backstabbing enemy and Kim is a heroic statesman.
Today so far:
-Trump called EU a “foe”
-Trump called American media “enemy of the people”
-Trump congratulated Putin, who kills journalists at home & assassinates foes in Europe, for putting on a soccer tournament
What would Trump do differently if he were a paid Russian agent?
Dem decision here was: Biden agenda is more important than Trump trial.
Wow. From one of the most thoughtful and measured journalists around... twitter.com/davidmaraniss/
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Upending the lives of DACA recipients and then using them as hostages for an absurd and useless wall as hundreds of thousands of government workers go unpaid is one of the most immoral polices any modern president has pursued. Can’t dance around this. It’s just awful.
One thing that makes the whistleblower’s report seem extraordinarily credible is that his account of the Trump-Zelensky phone call, which he did not listen to, is 100% accurate.
In 1 tweet Trump contradicts his spokesman, shows lack of basic knowledge about our constitutional structure, and misstates immigration law.
This interview with the former prosecutor is stunning.
“‘[Giuliani] was wondering why the case was closed...I had to tell him how law enforcement functions here.’ He said his hands were tied and he could not reopen the case just because Trump wanted it.”
My takeaway from the NYT interview, in which he mows down Sessions--Sessions!--is that Putin remains the only ally Trump has never betrayed.
Trump has expressed more concerns about Congress's Russia sanctions bill than about Putin's expulsion of US diplomats.
Woodward has receipts. For instance he publishes the draft letter Cohn swiped from Trump’s desk:
Imagine being an Iraqi soldier fighting ISIS, America's enemy. Trump has banned you from US and said he wants to steal your country's oil.
White House tax debate has started with two outright—no other word for it—lies: wealthy don’t get a tax cut and cuts will pay for themselves
These dueling opinions from Kavanaugh and Kagan on mail-in ballots may be the most important story of the day:
Kavanaugh: late ballots could “flip the results of an election”
Kagan: “there are no results to ‘flip’ until all valid votes are counted”
Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake announces support for impeachment of Trump (with some reservations) and calls on Republicans not to back Trump’s re-election: “Trust me when I say that you can go elsewhere for a job. But you cannot go elsewhere for a soul.”
I was on the fence about this, but how can journalists go to WHCA dinner and toast somebody who has branded them an "enemy" of the state?
I asked Roger Stone in March if Randy Credico was his Wikileaks contact and he lied to me and said no. He just texted me, “A misguided effort to protect Credico who I felt had helped me on an off the record basis. Sorry.” Many reporters use Stone as a Trump source. Beware.
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A New York radio personality was Roger Stone's Wikileaks contact cnn.it/2ByjhAL
Happy two-year anniversary (and a day) to this tweet...
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Just talked to GOP congressman who said most under-covered story of convention is how Trump aides changed GOP platform to be more pro-Putin.
Unlike Manafort, who was forced out last year, Gates continued to work on the Trump campaign and even the inaugural committee
We are in an unprecedented situation: a president that 54% of voters opposed elected with the help of a Russian intelligence operation.
History will record that President-elect Donald J. Trump's first substantive public statement was an attack on the First Amendment.
This is what dictators do. They try to silence independent outlets by encouraging rich friends to buy or close them. We are in a scary place
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Somebody with aptitude and conviction should buy the FAKE NEWS and failing @nytimes and either run it correctly or let it fold with dignity!
I would love to read the psychological profiles of Trump that are prepared by foreign governments to guide their relationships with him
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PM Shinzo Abe of Japan to Trump just now at G20: "I want to congratulate you on your historic victory in the midterm election in the United States."
This is disgraceful. White House spokesperson using COS’s military background to shield him from criticism after making false comments.
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Sanders: "If you want to go after General Kelly, if you want to go after a four-star Marine General, that’s highly inappropriate."
It was Mark Meadows.
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The White House needs to clarify this immediately. On the record. Who gave the pool this comment — put your name on it and tell the public what is going on. twitter.com/jonathanvswan/…
Trump, who announced a new America First policy, has awarded the first major US infrastructure project (Keystone XL) to a Canadian company.
Nunes essentially blew up the investigation because he realized the scope of what he negotiated with Schiff could actually threaten Trump.
Press: nobody will top Scaramucci's performance in the briefing room.
Miller: Hold my beer.
How can House vote on a bill tomorrow when GOP's "Pledge to America" promised all bills would be public for 3 days before a vote?
Goes to sleep threatening nuclear war. Wakes up suggesting boycott of NFL.
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If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!
Michael Hayden: every case officer he's talked to thinks the meeting at Trump Tower was a Russian intel operation.
Trump children who Trump promised would be running his company as blind trust will be running transition. Massive/unprecedented conflict.
A not insane theory of what happened today is that Trump is still mad at Ryan and McConnell and sided with Schumer and Pelosi to spite them.
The death of Brian D. Sicknick, the US Capitol Police Officer reportedly bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher during the siege of the Capitol, will be investigated as a homicide.
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BREAKING: United States Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick passed away due to injuries sustained while on-duty. He was responding to the riots at the Capitol when he was injured by rioters/domestic terrorists.
He had returned to his office when he collapsed.
The Times properly uses the F-word in a headline reporting a Trump statement. Other news orgs should take note.
This clip is stunning and bizarre. The Vice President of the United States won't say whether America is morally superior to Russia.
Seems like this sworn testimony from Sondland could be a problem for him:
Two tweets in one morning that would lead to calls for impeachment in normal times
The Nazis are celebrating Trump's reaction to Charlottesville. "God bless him."
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Daily Stormer: "We are now at war" & "Trump comments were good...no condemnation at all" dailystormer.com/unitetheright-
Trey Gowdy leading an inquiry into whether partisanship influenced an investigation is just perfect.
This is false. Pure propaganda. Every journalist (or anyone else) who was down there tonight saw what happened. The police attacked peaceful protesters so the president could have a photo op at St. John’s. There was basically no property to destroy. They were assembled in a park. twitter.com/RichardGrenell
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That's not a thing
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BREAKING: Trump lawyer accuses Comey of `unauthorized disclosures' of `privileged communications' he had with the president.
Trump this morning: one tweet insisting there's no deal and two tweets outlining the exact deal Pelosi and Schumer announced last night.
Not new. Bill Clinton’s Secret Service agents were forced to testify to grand jury investigating him in 1998.
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Pres. Trump's Secret Service agents could be required to testify against him. We shouldn't take that lightly, given the need for trust between presidents and their security detail--but we're only in this place because of the President's outrageous abuses.
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Imagine if Hillary Clinton spent two days attacking the mother of the American killed in Benghazi who spoke at Trump's convention