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"The biggest reason they cannot break with the fetid mess of late-stage Trumpism is that Republicans cannot hold Trump accountable without holding themselves accountable, as well."
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The problem for Trump is that his presidency has no point. It is as devoid of purpose as his days are of work. He doesn’t want to make America great. He wants America to make him feel great.
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Watch: All the President’s false promises regarding the tests for COVID-19
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"None of us knew what kind of president he really would be or not," said Chris Christie. Literally tens of millions of Americans knew *exactly* what kind of president Trump would be.
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Why did Trump supporters march to the Capitol?
@barubin
asked them. Here is the Trump mob in their own words
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Anatomy of a Viral Lie: Watch the President’s public statements downplaying and pointing blame for COVID-19
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"For Graham, being a United States senator isn’t about helping Americans or advancing principles. It’s about swimming in the pool of power and feeding off the scraps the big fish leave behind."
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If you believed what George W. Bush said, then you cannot support Donald Trump.
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Trump’s Rose Garden press conference today was an act of Presidential cowardice.
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"It’s time for Jack Smith and his team of prosecutors to read the writing on the wall: Judge Cannon is going to kill your case. Smith should move now to get Judge Cannon thrown off the case. Whatever the risk, it has to be taken, and fast."
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"The biggest reason they cannot break with the fetid mess of late-stage Trumpism is that Republicans cannot hold Trump accountable without holding themselves accountable, as well."
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Maybe stop worrying about the Never Trumpers and start worrying about the guy actually blowing up the GOP?
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Trumpism won’t go away on its own. It will have to be actively repudiated.
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Trump’s Syria Cut-and-Run Is an Act of Unimaginable Weakness
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"Truthfully I kind of bristle every time I see, when I hear, people say it's all about the Western technology...there are so many other complexities involved."
@MarkHertling
joins
@SykesCharlie
on The Bulwark Podcast to talk the war and the Russian Army:
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All of the people Trump alienated/who are now aligned against him
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Why Is Mitch McConnell Afraid of This Man?
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Trump's Personal Pathology Is America's Foreign Policy
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"Stephanopoulos spent the entire rest of the interview pinning him down on this one matter. Nine full minutes. It’s excruciating. And it’s This what every broadcast journalist should be willing to do."
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A Kurdish official told NBC news: “The Americans are traitors. They have abandoned us to a Turkish massacre. We can no longer fight against ISIS and have to defend ourselves. This could allow ISIS to return to the region.”
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There is mounting evidence confirming long simmering suspicions: Trump’s top brass was either involved in or had knowledge of what he was doing. If Trump’s conduct is impeachable, these individuals on the federal payroll should be held accountable, too.
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Hiding Trump's COVID diagnosis was, literally, a lie that could kill. That's a lie that hangs not only on Trump, but everyone else involved in that big cover up.
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To understand what Parscale is doing, you have to flip the telescope around 180 degrees and realize that he didn’t build a Death Star. He built the biggest Nigerian prince scam in the history of the world.
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Romney: One Man Alone
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@billlueders
: “This is the level that the presidency of Donald Trump has taken us to: schoolyard taunts and the dehumanization of political opponents, open contempt for common decency as well as for the institutions of democracy.”
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Justice Alito's interpretation is that he can accept gifts if they wouldn't otherwise go to use. "I'd love to see that in a bribery case."
@AWeissmann_
joins The Bulwark Podcast today with
@SykesCharlie
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"Critics had worried that giving the indicted, twice-impeached, coup-plotting, chronically-lying sexual predator an unedited, live television forum might turn out badly. The reality, however, was far ghastlier."
Today's Morning Shots from
@SykesCharlie
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Tommy Tuberville got himself in the running with his response to the E. Jean Carroll verdict, but it was his defense of white nationalists in the military that won him the top spot in this week's Deplorables of the Week.
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Have you ever in your life described a conversation as “beautiful” and “perfect”?
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"A collective amnesia sets in. We ask ourselves, 'Do you remember that time when Trump got impeached, said that super-racist thing, cozied up to dictators, threatened our elections, or oh, whatever that was?' Well, we at The Bulwark do."
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"With the Cannon debacle out of the way, the FBI can now proceed apace with identifying how much damage Trump did to national security, and DOJ can determine whether and how he should be prosecuted."
@kimwehle
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Marco Rubio used to be the future of the Republican party. Now he’s desperately hunting for new principles.
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"Will Hurd is not a hollow man. And neither is Chris Christie or Asa Hutchinson. None of them will win the GOP nomination; and none of them may ever get out of the single digits in the GOP primary. But what they are doing is still of immense value."
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"It’s like crack. They’ve addicted themselves to these lies. They live off of these lies, the conservative media profits off of these lies, the political consultants profit off of these lies. The congressmen basically make a living selling these lies."
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"Manchin would be remembered as a spoiler in the mold of Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, and Jill Stein. His role enabling Trump to reclaim the office, amid indictments and trials, would be in the first sentence of his obituary."
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The right mocked Biden for correctly predicting Trump might seek to delay the election.
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TIM MILLER: Biden at age 77 was in the prime risk category for COVID-19, Trump spent an entire evening screaming and spittling in his general direction—remember, this was that debate—indoors, from a few feet away, without a mask.
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"Tucker Carlson says he went to Moscow because he’s a journalist. He isn’t. He’s a tool. Putin has kidnapped and jailed two real American journalists."
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The reason many have been so alarmed by Trump’s presidency isn’t because they’re obsessed with partisan politics. It’s because they understood that he was manifestly unfit for office and that if a major crisis struck, he would be a danger to the country.
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They don’t dare speak the truth because they’re afraid of their voters.
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Eric Trump once said that nepotism is “a beautiful thing.” Let’s see just how beautiful it is—and what it has to do with China.
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We should have known January 6 was coming, because Trumpism’s “intellectual” wing called for it, for weeks.
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"To treat this as a normal political negotiation, or as one where both sides are equally at fault, is to distort reality." ICYMI
@NormOrnstein
on the GOP's reckless debt ceiling fight:
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#No2IR
is a peaceful, rational, secular, humanist call to win a future of democratic freedom for Iranians of different backgrounds and beliefs.
It is a call to join the world.
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Even if they don't like him, every Republican and conservative in Washington knows that Bolton doesn't make things up. What will they do now?
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In key swing states, "there is little interest, at least at this early date, in Trump’s antics and his angry insistence that his legal prosecution is really a political persecution. Mainly there’s silence."
@DanMcGraw1
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"Fox News has mentioned the story literally hundreds of times. But it turns out the tapes may not exist, and Rudy Giuliani (!) is now saying that the confidential source is *dead*."
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"It's important to remember today that Trump's desire to manipulate Zelensky and the security of Ukraine for his personal ends was deemed entirely acceptable by Republican officeholders and elites."
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The new speaker of the House has deep ties to proponents of the New Apostolic Reformation, a movement that helped fuel the January 6th insurrection.
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"As inconceivable as it seems to viewers of CNN and readers of the New York Times, millions of Americans do not know a fraction of the offenses Trump committed." A trial might be the one way to break through those information bubbles.
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"The United States is on the verge of making one of the most—if not *the* most—self-defeating foreign policy decisions in its history."
@PhillipsPOBrien
on Europe without America:
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"The right has a deep psychological need for the Hunter Biden story. They desperately want Joe Biden to be corrupt and for the whole family to be, in Stefanik's words, 'a crime family.'" What's it we say about Trumpism and projection?
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Robert Spindell is a member of the Wisconsin Election Commission, the state body that is supposed to oversee election integrity in the state. He bragged about suppressing black votes. In writing.
Today's Morning Shots from
@SykesCharlie
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When National Review sounds kind of like us, you know Trump is really in trouble.
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"It doesn’t matter if Sununu is a mountebank, a coward or a fool. Those three characters are equally pernicious. What matters is that the rest of us understand that it is the Chris Sununus of the world who make this ongoing authoritarian attempt possible."
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"President Biden is hardly the first president to have troubled family members. But Joe Biden didn’t hire Hunter at the White House."
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@Timodc
: “Saying someone is less of an existential threat to democracy than Donald Trump might be the faintest praise ever uttered in American politics.”
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DeSantis's surgeon general is planning to ban *all* youth transgender care, even social transitioning. What happened to parents' rights?
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"The United States recovered from previous demagogic and authoritarian episodes because, after their turns in the spotlight, men like Joe McCarthy and George Wallace were no longer respectable even in their own parties." Trump is his party's nominee.
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John Roberts is concerned about judicial independence from *Congress*. Never mind independence from powerful dark-money interests, which is precisely what the Senate Judiciary Committee inquiry is all about.
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Her support for impeachment is a late but welcome act of leadership.
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The great tragedy of this moment is not that Trump attempted what he did, but that so few Republicans tried to stop him when it would have made a difference.
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We've added quotes made by the President today, as well as the numbers for the largest jump in confirmed cases to date in America. Watch and follow
@barubin
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"It’s like crack. They’ve addicted themselves to these lies. They live off of these lies, the conservative media profits off of these lies, the political consultants profit off of these lies. The congressmen basically make a living selling these lies."
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@JVLast
"Those planes were filled with actual human beings. People with dignity. People with hopes and dreams, problems and challenges. People with names and families.
And this Christian man used them as props."
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"Why focus on Graham? First, because he was a central player in the Republican party’s capitulation to Trump. And second, because he talked constantly. We can see how he changed, week to week and month to month. We can watch the poison work."
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"Over the weekend, a viral snarky tweet made the point: While some claim that the problem of Christianity is that it’s not taught in schools; the real problem...is that it is not, apparently, taught in churches."
Today's Morning Shots from
@SykesCharlie
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"Finally, a note of gratitude: I’ve been deeply moved and overwhelmed by the sheer volume of responses. Please understand if I am not able to respond personally to all of you but know that they mean a great deal to me."
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The needs of Ukraine's military are well known. And their resolve is, if anything, hardened. It's up to us to expedite the victory we now know they can achieve.
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Baier asked "'Are you worried?' And there was a noticeable two-beat pause for Trump...."
"I think he was off balance."
From last night,
@Timodc
and
@RadioFreeTom
react to Donald Trump's interview with Bret Baier:
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It looks like we're leaving the "Trump didn't attempt a coup you RINOs" stage and arriving at the "Sure Trump attempted a coup and promises to do it again, what of it?" stage.
Today's Morning Shots from
@SykesCharlie
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Our leaders need to pass a COVID relief package—now. Or be judged by history.
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"Donald Trump’s own vice president refuses to endorse his candidacy because he believes Trump is a traitor to the Constitution and a danger to America." This is or should be just about the story of the year.
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"I think a lot of people got sort of distracted by the violence...That was almost an aftereffect of the fundamental crimes that he committed, which was an attempt to manipulate the electoral process in a way was not permitted by law."
@gtconway3d
:
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This timeline provides a look at the key inflection points in the crucial ten-week period where the United States lost the ability to effectively respond to the virus that is causing unprecedented death and economic destruction.
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“Please rise,” booms the announcer, “for the horribly and unfairly treated January 6 hostages.” Then Trump salute the insurrectionists. *This*, at least, should still shock.
Today's Morning Shots from
@BillKristol
and
@EggerDC
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"Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter is forcing us to come to terms with a new reality: a social media platform where the person running it is himself spreading the misinformation." ICYMI
@donmoyn
on Elon Musk's Twitter:
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The most critical question that congressional committee members should ask of Michael Cohen: “In your opinion, are the American people safe with this man in office?”
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"From more than fifteen different judges, in no fewer than seven different courts, in opinions joined by judges appointed by Democrats, by Republicans, and even by Trump himself, Trump's arguments for immunity have been rejected."
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"This is somebody whose judgment on cases affects the course of the nation." But he thinks you don't have to disclose a seat on a private jet if it wasn't going to be filled anyway?
@AWeissmann_
and
@SykesCharlie
talk Alito and more on The Bulwark Pod:
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Many Americans seem to believe that the Trump era is an interregnum. An aberration. An accident of history that will undo itself—soon—as norms and the old equilibrium return.
Here's
@SarahLongwell25
to burst your bubble:
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Support for insurrection has not evaporated. If anything, activists have been emboldened.
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The scheme to use fake elector certifications to throw out Biden’s electors and replace them with phony Trump electors on January 6 was reportedly led by Rudy Giuliani and other Trump campaign officials.
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"I will not practice strategic silence while he exhibits every single behavior of enablement and collaboration with the crazy that got us to Donald Trump in the first place."
@Timodc
lays the ground rules for NeverTrumpers and DeSantis:
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"The indignation in Newt's voice, as if he had just landed here as a first-term member of Congress and not a guy who ran seminars in political bomb-throwing..."
@RadioFreeTom
joins
@SykesCharlie
on The Bulwark Podcast:
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"It's hard to imagine anything less conservative than defaulting on the debt you are obligated to pay and shutting down the government you are entrusted to run." But, you know. Today's Morning Shots from
@SykesCharlie
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Trump has a history of provocation, including incidents during the 2016 campaign, Charlottesville, and the invasion of the Michigan capitol in April 2020. This is not just a pattern of violence, Trump knew how his encouraging words directly related to violent results.
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"Maggie Haberman reported this back in 2020. He ran in 2020 in part to avoid prison because he deep down, he knows he's a criminal." Now? Even more so.
@gtconway3d
joins
@SykesCharlie
on today's Bulwark Podcast:
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