. is asked what he'd do if Trump calls election a hoax and refuses to leave the White House if Buttigieg wins.
"I guess if he’s willing to do chores we can work something out,'' he says.
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CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
‘Dr Oz has never stopped reminding me that I had a stroke,’ says at top of a rally in Bucks County. ‘I guarantee there’s at least one person here filing me hoping to catch me missing some words. What kind of a doctor roots for somebody who was sick, stay sick?’
To accommodate Trump’s sudden decision to speak at West Point, cadets will be called back, tested off campus, then isolated for 14 days in rooms with masks. They’ll eat in segregated groups. No decision on whether family members may attend.
Opposing $600 benefits to those who lost work in the pandemic, Sen. Kelly Loeffler said people "needed to get back to work and limit gov't dependency."
Since 1995, her family's farms have collected $3.2 million in federal subsidies.
230 years later the President retweeted a fantasy of driving a golf ball into the back of his defeated female opponent
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The United States Constitution was signed #OnThisDay in 1787 in Philadelphia. #ConstitutionDay
From a disillusioned GOP operative: ‘The Trump campaign is well aware of the organized participation of Proud Boys rallies merging into Trump events. They dont care. Staff are to treat it like a coalition they can’t talk about.’
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It was Stephen Miller who pushed the Trump admin to use the ‘nuclear option’ of separating children from parents at the border.
. points out Trump & Giuliani called senators during the riot to get them to use the delay to prevent the Senate from reconvening. "Trump’s lawyers have argued that none of the violence is connected to him." In fact, he tried to use the violence to his advantage.
McSally: ‘Mark, do you agree with the president’s decision to ban travel from China?’
Kelly: ‘Yes, but Martha you would understand this as a pilot: the president did step one of the emergency procedure, but then didn’t do anything else.’
A NYT fact check you may have been waiting for: "According to Richard Alles, a retired deputy chief with the New York Fire Department, Mr. Trump was not a presence at ground zero."
Full page in NYT quoting people closest to Trump:
‘A mobster’ - his ex-lawyer
‘Stunningly uninformed’ - ex Nat Security Advisor
‘Made America profoundly less safe’ -ex chief of staff, DHS
‘The honest people in the room know he is crazy’ - ex communications director
‘We have plenty of water to fight these fires,’ Cal Fire says in response to Trump’s misleading statements. ‘Let’s be clear, it is the changing climate that’s leading to more severe fires.’
Biggs voted against awarding Congressional Gold Medals to police officers who responded on 1/6 to the violent attack on the Capitol by rioters seeking to overturn the 2020 election.
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Today is Law Enforcement Appreciation Day.
I am eternally grateful for the courageous men and women who protect our American communities at the expense of their own lives.
I will always Back the Blue.
At an evangelical forum in Iowa in 2014, Matt Whitaker said he would only support judges who have a ‘Biblical’ view of justice, specifically New Testament, which would bar Jewish, Hindu, Muslims or atheists from the bench.
Nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggest Covid-19 after Falwell called them back to campus. “Liberty will be notifying the community as deemed appropriate and required by law,” Falwell said when confronted with the numbers.
‘I want to be very clear’ that when people target Philly later tonight for being slow to count ballots, it’s because Rs sued to force a procedure no other PA county follows, says the *GOP* member of the Phillly voting board.
The most damning thing Haugen said tonight, which might break through to the non-techy majority, is that FB changed its algorithm to serve up to its billions of users more angry, hateful content -- bc that pushed engagement, and profits, up.
‘Biden 2020...he’s not a whiney b*tch’ is quite a tag line.
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This is art. twitter.com/FindAClearTrut
An American president reportedly considered martial law to overturn a democratic election. A day that should live in infamy.
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During the meeting, the president asked about Flynn’s suggestion of deploying the military, those briefed said. That was also shot down.
Based on a drop of 13,121 mail ballots in Erie County, PA showing Biden winning them 5:1, it looks like he will win back this swing county that Trump carried. There are abut 37k mail ballots still to be counted in coming days. Dems believe Biden wins them 3 or 4 to 1.
DeVry, a for-profit college that paid $100 million for defrauding students in 2016, was under further investigation by Dept of Ed pre-Trump. Betsy DeVos ended that & put a former DeVry dean in charge of looking into for-profits.
"It's like watching the decline of the Roman Empire" - Canada
"It reminds me of Belarus" - Belarus
"We used to look to the US for inspiration. Sadly that is not the case anymore" - Mexico
"The world sees the dismantling of social cohesion" - Indonesia
NEW: Bolton, Pompeo and Defense Secy Esper met w Trump in the Oval Office in August to try to convince him it was in US interests to release military aid to Ukraine. Trump refused. nytimes.com/2019/12/29/us/ via
In Iowa, a state he lost by 8 points, Biden’s favorability has climbed to 51% from 43% in September 2020.
Everyone I spoke to in this town hall identified themselves as TN-7 voter. Town restricted RSVP's to locals and checked ID's.
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.@MarshaBlackburn: We know there's organizing going on from the left. Less than a third were my constituents snpy.tv/2lHuwkA
‘The spouse of a sitting Supreme Court justice played an active role in an effort to overturn a presidential election, hand victory to the loser and unravel American democracy’ is summary of this story. ‘The justice seemed to endorse’ it. nytimes.com/2022/02/22/mag
Rise in coronavirus cases in states without stay-home orders, in the past week:
OK +53%
AR +60%
NB. +74%
IA. +82%
SD. +205% cnn.com/2020/04/17/pol
Last one to do this got elected to public office
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A woman raises her middle finger at Trump's motorcade as it passes through Sterling, Virginia, on its way to the Trump National Golf Course. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
Of 17 Repubican attorneys general who endorsed the Texas lawsuit, none agreed to be interviewed by the NYT after its one-paragraph dismissal.
‘He always hits first, no matter who won the last hole, then jumps in his cart w his caddie even before you’ve hit, the better to be 150 yards ahead so the two of them can foozle, fudge and foot-wedge in private.’
The president is a full-on climate change denier.
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"It'll start getting cooler, you just watch." - President Trump.
"I wish science agreed with you" - CA Natural Resources Secretary.
"I don't think science knows actually."- President Trump.
#NBC7.
No. 1 story of the night:
No. 2 story of the night (so far): coming closer to than expected.
Hello fellow IA caucus nerds. Tonight the IDP chair sent an internal email that the party attorney says any re-examination of precinct results *cannot* change the results on caucus math worksheets, even if they are wrong. 1/2
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NEW from Iowa Dems:
DES MOINES — Today the Iowa Democratic Party announced it is reviewing reports of 95 precincts – 5% of the 1,765 precincts...any corrections will be released before Monday at 12pm CST in a single update – prior to the allocation of national delegates.
National debt contributions (FYs)
Biden $1.84T
Trump (4 years) $8.2T
Obama (8 years) $8.3T
Bush (8 years) $6.1T
Clinton (8 years) $1.4T
sounddollar.com/national-debt-
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If you have teenagers, and they spend past the limit on a credit card—you pay for it.
But you don’t allow their bad spending habits to continue. You change their behavior so it never happens again.
Now it’s time for Washington to change its behavior too.
BREAKING: A criminal fraud investigation by the Manhattan D.A., Cyrus R. Vance Jr., and a civil one by the state A.G., Letitia James, are underway into tax write offs for consulting fees, including to Ivanka Trump. Both offices issued subpoenas recently. nytimes.com/2020/11/19/nyr
Gaetz was the only member of Congress who voted against a bill that gave the federal government more power to fight sex trafficking nytimes.com/2021/03/30/us/
What a great quote from Mattis: "If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you.”
Harvard admit rate, non-legacy applicants: 6%
Harvard admit rate, legacy applicants: 33%
‘A form of property transfer from one generation to the another,’
Data: No immigrant from the 7 countries on the travel ban list has killed an American in act of terrorism on US soil since 9/11.
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I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!
"Many authorities in Texas say they have seen an increase in spur-of-the-moment gunfire since September 2021, when the state began to allow most adults to carry a handgun without a license" (NYT)
Flashback to 2017 when Whirlpool cheered the Trump administration for putting tariffs on imported washers. What goes around comes around when it comes to protectionism.
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Whirlpool posted their worst day in over 30 yrs as execs blamed rising steel & aluminum costs for diminished earnings.
"Global steel cost has risen substantially &, particularly in the US, they have reached unexplainable levels”
Whirlpool stock fell 14.5% worst day since 10-19-87
A brave young woman silent protester at the Wilkes-Barre, PA Trump rally is wearing a home-made T-shirt: "Grab my pussy. I dare you.''
After RBG said she has cancer, - in a tight re-election race - says GOP Senate should hold hearings on any SCOTUS opening even if Trump loses. Four years ago, Ernst opposed this very thing when Obama tried to fill a seat in early 2016
Sen. Ron Johnson:
"Getting coronavirus is not a death sentence except for maybe no more than 3.4 percent of our population...probably far less."
"We don’t shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways"
jsonline.com/story/news/pol via
Trump says if he wanted, he could raise $1 billion for his campaign by trading government favors for corporations for large contributions. twitter.com/atrupar/status
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Personal anecdote: Candidate Trump once said he had taped a call with me, after disputing how he was quoted. I asked to hear it. Never did.
Very glad to work in a newsroom that never in 100 years would hire a political operative of either party to help ‘guide’ or ‘coordinate’ coverage of a presidential election.
A ‘Frankenstein’s monster,’ and ‘unhinged’ are just a couple of the terms a federal judge in PA used in resoundingly rejecting Giuliani’s arguments to overturn election results.
NEW: A major deal to lower drug costs collapsed when drug companies balked at a WH demand they pay for $100 cash cards (aka Trump Cards) to be mailed to seniors before November.
Via @jmartNYT &
Pompeo ‘signed a surrender agreement with the Taliban,’ said H.R. McMaster, a former national security adviser under Trump. ‘The Taliban didn’t defeat us. We defeated ourselves.’
PA’s GOP is unhappy with the State Supreme Court whose judges are elected statewide. Rs want a constitutional amendment to draw gerrymandered districts to ensure a GOP majority on the court. It could be on the May ballot, drawing torrents of dark money.
Peter Brimelow, a white nationalist whose website VDARE was cited by Stephen Miller, lost a $5 million libel suit against The New York Times for identifying him as a white nationalist. Federal District Court judge dismissed his claims in full Dec. 17.
Now that Trump rally is over, here is picture of this bold young protester's message
As Bondi accuses the Bidens of corruption, here's NYT's look at the $25,000 donation from Trump to a PAC supporting Bondi's 2014 re-election, who announced she would not pursue complaints against Trump University.
“I’m going back to my Democrats" -- one of numerous Trump voters in PA-18 who told me they regretted their choice & support Conor Lamb in March 13 special election
NEWS : GOP House Steering Committee agreed to strip of all committees: Judiciary, Ag, Small Business. Story TK
"Blackface and KKK imagery tweeted by Falwell has spurred staff resignations, demands for his firing by influential alumni, an incipient boycott and a raucous protest in the university’s home of Lynchburg, Va., over the past week."
Trump wildly, falsely reels off votes he says he's "certified" that were invalid:
"4502" unregistered voters
"18,325" voters w/o addresses
"904" only had PO box "and that's not allowed"
etc
Raffensperger: 'Mr President, the challenge you have is that the data you have is wrong'
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A POTUS in the full grip of debunked, groundless conspiracies. The full tape is more extraordinary than the excerpts. twitter.com/AmyEGardner/st…
The NYT asked GOP leaders of state legislatures in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina if they would appoint electors for Trump. Their unanimous answer: No.
There are no credible public sources for this, only Trump's assertions. And he seems not to have checked w 17 Intel agencies-just Breitbart
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The White House asks Congress to look into whether the Obama administration abused its investigative powers cnn.it/2lLrrwo
Meanwhile, a Dem on House Judiciary says many colleagues including Pelosi allies are concluding impeachment proceedings are called for, reports Glenn Thrush
nytimes.com/2019/05/18/us/ via
And the blue wall goes back up
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‘You know that shot you hit on the par 5? It was about 10 feet from the hole. Trump threw it into the bunker. I watched him do it. - Trump’s caddy to one of Trump’s golf partners nypost.com/2019/03/30/tru
POTUS willfully sowing confusion about mail ballots. The source of the ‘millions of ballots’ is no mystery. Millions of registered voters get ballots or ballot applications from election officials. There is no evidence of wide fraud in mail voting.
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Trump says he would not veto funding for the post office, but says the problem is “all these millions of ballots coming from nobody knows where”
Then he goes back to the Carolyn Maloney story
College Board's new statement on Black studies course is a mea culpa:
"We deeply regret not immediately denouncing the Florida Department of Education’s slander, magnified by the DeSantis administration’s subsequent comments...”
allaccess.collegeboard.org/our-commitment
Positivity rate in Texas is now over 13%, compared to 4.2% one month ago, says - that is, cases are up not only because of more testing, as Trump repeatedly, falsely claims.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the coronavirus "has taken a very swift and very dangerous turn in Texas over just the past few weeks" cnn.it/2Zkyj9F
‘If No Labels runs a Joe Manchin against Donald Trump and Joe Biden, I think it will be a historic disaster. And I speak for just about every moderate Democrat and frankly most of my moderate Republican friends.’ -Rep. Dean Phillips of MN.
NASCAR -- yes, NASCAR -- parting ways with Trump on Confederate "heritage"
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NASCAR: “The display of the confederate flag will be prohibited from all NASCAR events and properties.”
Hell is actually losing a child to gun violence/.
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Alex Jones on his show just now, learning he owes over $1 billion in damages to Sandy Hook victims:
"This must be what Hell's like, they just read out the damages. Even though you don't got the money."
POTUS is spending the holiday at his private club, which costs $200,000 to join. He has named four of its members to be US Ambassadors. The latest is a handbag designer.
The elections staff is apparently addressing some of these issues in its "administrative work" today. 3/3
. asks Trump about why he disbanded the WH office for pandemics: "I think it's a nasty question...When you say me...I don't know that we did that..."
Here's a piece by the former head:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/nsc-pa
Whoa: "Interviews with more than 50 Dem elected officials, DNC members and party activists found an overwhelming consensus toward holding Trump personally accountable and launching congressional and DOJ investigations into him, his family and top aides"
Drop boxes: OK for babies, but not votes
The ‘delusion’ was Trump’s that he’d won election and he spread that message and inspired the mob that resulted in deaths and an attempted coup. ‘He called us all to the Capitol and he wants us to make it WILD!!! Sir Yes Sir!!!’ wrote leader of the Oath Keepers after Trump tweet
She rode the subway to work, walked across Brooklyn Bridge on 9/11, married a NYC firefighter turned teacher. Quietly saved and left $8.2 million for scholarships. RIP Sylvia Bloom.
Man, what a week for the French. twitter.com/suzanne_moore/
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Per email from county to elex board, those 35,413 include about 29,000 ballots sent to voters who first got wrong ballots (they have to be double-checked to ensure no one voted twice). Also, unscannable ballots & some missing dates or illegible signatures...2/
University of Virginia disenrolls 238 students for not complying with vaccine requirement - The Virginian-Pilot
Via :
Trump advisers are thrilled at how this is going so far for him. They can’t believe he is getting an hour on CNN with an audience that cheers his every line and laughs at his every joke.
Gov Sununu said it was ‘embarrassing’ when the audience laughed at Trump’s dismissal of the E. Jean Carroll verdict. And when the camera panned the supposedly undecided crowd, he says: ‘I knew pretty much everyone in there, they’re all Trump supporters.’
Quoting the opinion of the IDP attorney:
"The incorrect math on the Caucus Math Worksheets must not be changed to ensure the integrity of the process...."
2/r
Let this sink in: the Pentagon held back the promotions of two accomplished women generals out of fear Trump would block them because they were women.
Now, under a new president, they are moving ahead.
nytimes.com/2021/03/07/us/
. on the 1/6 rioters: "I knew those were people that loved this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law."
Really?
140 officers injured, 1 dead. washingtonpost.com/local/public-s
55 arrestees from extremist groups
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Blatant racism from @RonJohnsonWI here. He says he wasn’t worried on 1/6 because the majority-white insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol “love this country,” but says if they were Black Lives Matter protestors he would’ve been concerned for his safety. #WISen
"The footage appears to depict GOP lawmaker Doug Mastriano — seen as a leading contender for PA gov in 2022 — and his wife among a crowd passing through breached barricades set up by Capitol Police to keep rioters at bay" --
The details of Melania's citizenship, which she mentioned, inspire a lot of curiosity. She came on a so-called Einstein visa and has sponsored her parents as well, which Republicans disparage as "chain migration."
. tells Texans to stay home unless absolutely necessary as the state sets another record for new cases.
Texas was on of first states to *end* stay-home orders on April 30.
‘It tracks the communication you might see in any drug case or organized crime case,’ a former US Attorney says of Trump’s call to the GA Sec’y of State seeking to overturn the election there.
AZ's election was certified by its governor and attorney general, both Republicans. "We do elections well here in Arizona,'' said Gov. Doug Ducey.
Yet, driven by Trump's phony fraud, a stabbed-in-the-back narrative is in the making among elements of they party base.
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DO NOT CERTIFY
A FALSE ELECTION!
. of Cook Politico Report predicts to that Dems will win AZ and NV Senate races, clinching control of the Senate even before the GA runoff.
Two full pages of paid obits in tiny type in The Times today. Many mention Covid.
NEW Justice Dept. Seizes Phones of Top Trump Aides in Jan. 6 Inquiry - The New York Times
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‘How inspiring kind of a campaign is that, measuring it on how many words I miss?’
(In a 14-minute speech, was pretty fluent, clearly improved from his first appearances in August)
Trump has uttered countless lies and attacked his own Intel agencies when their conclusions don’t fit his worldview. Who will take him at his word now on a matter of war and peace with Iran? Via
Former chairman of the RNC>
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Sidney Powell please just shut the hell up and stop your damn lying. The only thing you’re going to clean up is the shit stain you and @realDonaldTrump are trying to leave on the Constitution. “Vote for freedom”...We voted for freedom—from Trump! twitter.com/GOP/status/132…
The not so secret secret to understanding POTUS: He likes you if you like him, even if you’re an unhinged conspiracy theorist, a white supremacist, or a brutal foreign tyrant who flatters him in ‘love letters.’ twitter.com/MollyJongFast/
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