emptywheel on Twitter: "Confused: Are Trump and the hoops players in a squabble because Tillerson has let all the consulate officials go and therefore the President has to get involved in stuff like this?"

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1. chinahand‏ @chinahand 19 Nov 2017
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1. Vote November 6th‏ @JRutstein 19 Nov 2017
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  Likely, the answer is the way Fox News, shortly before Trump's tweet, covered what Ball said to ESPN.
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1. Andrew Long‏ @andrewlong166 19 Nov 2017
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  No. I think it's highly unlikely China would've released them (soonish) *without* forcing Trump having to get involved. Simply to make it a thing. No puppet.
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1. Brian Anderson‏ @btanderson72 19 Nov 2017
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  Notice the deliberate dehumanization: They’re not students or teenagers. They might as well be robots with a round ball attached.
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1. SS7019‏ @sharmila819 19 Nov 2017
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  Nah!! Old man did not get his Sunday “dear leader” autocratic praise from s. So he’s on the longer than usual, just venting.
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1. Matthew Battle‏ @librab103 19 Nov 2017
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  I am glad. In most countries the PM or President is the one that gets involved in matters like this and not some paper pusher!
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1. Bonnie Hogue‏ @bonhogue 19 Nov 2017
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  ...and we *still* don't have an ambassador to South Korea? Oh well, not that there's much going on there...
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1. Lodestar Runner‏ @AaronSundance 19 Nov 2017
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  No, this definitely would have happened anyway.
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