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Associate Editor, Washington Post. Host "Capehart." Anchor @PostLive "First Look." Anchor MSNBC @WeekendCapehart . Contributor PBS @NewsHour "Brooks & Capehart"

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Jonathan Capehart
5 years
You misspelled USA.
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Donald J. Trump
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I’ve done more damage to ISIS than all recent presidents....not even close!
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I *am* American. #mitchplease
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
Y'allllllll.......This is what you needed to see that you didn't know you needed to see.
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One of my favorite @sesamestreet moments of all time...
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Happy birthday, Mr. President!
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4 years
“My father was a healthy 65-year-old. His only preexisting condition was trusting Donald Trump.” 🔥🔥🔥
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
The Attorney General failed to acknowledge the white nationalists involved in the protests, as warned by every Minnesota official who has spoken today.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
Remember what it was like?
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In case you wanted to remember the reception when a real president walked through a park near the @WhiteHouse .
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I swear, Joe Biden's empathy and decency alone are like a balm for a battered soul.
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Jonathan Capehart
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Sen. Cory Booker might be going on, but EVERY Black person, especially Black women, knows what those tears are that Judge Brown Jackson just dabbed away.
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I pray no governor of any party listens to the President of the United States.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
"You're a snake-oil salesman," Anderson Cooper says to My Pillow guy.
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4 years
Just a reminder of what standing up to power looks like.....
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
He tried to get a reporter to remove his mask. The reporter refused.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
Why can't Bill Barr say "White supremacist groups" the way he says "Antifa"?
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3 years
On this date, a star was born.
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How to medical
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When America was great....
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3 years
Wow
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Fuck MAGA/Vote Blue
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Started/Going
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Dear @MittRomney , I have written many unflattering things about you over the years, esp during the '12 prez campaign. But your speech announcing your vote to convict Pres. Trump was the most important, moving and patriotic of your life. History will honor you. America thanks you.
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Jonathan Capehart
7 years
Transgender Americans now in the military have already displayed more courage than their current commander in chief, who never served.
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Jonathan Capehart
2 years
Miss Lady is officially 80! Happy Birthday, Mom!
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Jonathan Capehart
3 years
If the humanity shown by @maddow talking about Susan’s COVID infection doesn’t grab you in the heart AND make you take this pandemic seriously you’re beyond reach.
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3 years
For those who have forgotten, what @JoeBiden just did is called "presidential."
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Jonathan Capehart
5 years
Every time President Trump attacks April Ryan, she gets death threats. His unsolicited attack on her is characteristically unpresidential, reprehensible and beneath contempt. #unfit #threattodemocracy
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Jonathan Capehart
2 years
BREAKING: President Biden officially comes out for getting rid of the filibuster to get voting rights passed.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
Y’all!!!! President Obama is mad with a righteous anger. He seems on the verge of tears over where we are as a nation.
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Jonathan Capehart
3 years
His hair is silver. Anyone else notice that his hair is silver?
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Jonathan Capehart
3 years
Whether you like it or not, President Biden’s strong speech was in line with where the majority of the American people are.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
HISTORIC! @repjohnlewis visits BLACK LIVES MATTER Plaza with @MayorBowser . An honor to witness it.
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Jonathan Capehart
2 years
I’m gay, and I’m Black, and I’m a city slicker with no children. But listening to McMorrow’s roar of moral indignation, I felt like she saw me and anyone who looks like and loves like me.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
The President's doctor said Trump's diagnosis was 72 hours ago. That was Wednesday around 11:30a.m., which makes Trump's actions all the more alarming.
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Jonathan Capehart
2 years
One helluva speech, @POTUS Biden!
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
You've probably seen this before. But, damn, it does the heart good to see it again. (And, yes, I'm crying. So what?!)
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TJ Ducklo
4 years
My president
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Jonathan Capehart
3 years
A President with empathy. Thank God we now have a President overflowing with it.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
Black Lives Matter and "antifa" are not the same thing. Please make a note of it.
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Jonathan Capehart
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Miss Lady is 82 today! HBD, Mom!❤️
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
“Once my absentee ballot arrives, I’m going to complete it, drive to the elections office, put on a mask, go inside, and hand-deliver it to the elections clerk.”
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Jonathan Capehart
3 years
Just sit with this image and ponder the exponential power it holds.
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Peter Velz
3 years
The @VP finishes up her joint visit to Atlanta with @POTUS and boards AF2 on her way back Washington, DC.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
There is so much goodness and decency in this @JoeBiden speech.
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Jonathan Capehart
3 years
Waking up to Biden in the lead in Georgia like....
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Jonathan Capehart
3 years
"If he is elected, the stock market will crash," Trump said at the Oct. 22 debate. As of 9:38 a.m., on Nov. 9, the first day of trading since Joe Biden became President-elect, the stock market is up +1,400.....
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Jonathan Capehart
2 years
This MTG hearing is bonkers.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
President George W. Bush just delivered a truly special speech. He deserved the standing ovation he received.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
"Obamagate" = Birtherism
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
I hope I look this fly at 78. Happy birthday, Mom! #gohead
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Jonathan Capehart
3 years
Repeat after me: Derek Chauvin is on trial.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
Diamond and Silk?
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Baron Damm
4 years
Who are these two? Wrong answers only.
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Jonathan Capehart
5 years
I stand with #NathanPhillips , Elder of the Omaha Nation.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
Then resign.
@NBCPolitics
NBC Politics
4 years
NEW: Multiple White House officials are asserting privately that they are frustrated over Pres. Trump’s latest embrace of a message stoking racial and cultural divisions. The president is “going with his gut” and “relying on instinct,” two officials say.
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Wait....Wright was stopped bc of an expired tag. Questioner asks the police chief if he was aware of a months-long backlog in getting new license tags. He said he was and said he told his police officers. So, then, um.....
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
Oh snap! My mother via txt to me on Tulsi Gabbard: Who is this democratic Trump? #DemocraticDebate
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
This was the worst presidential debate I have EVER watched. EVER.
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Jonathan Capehart
5 years
It's also a day to think about all those mothers who've been separated from their children at the border and may never see them again -- by order of your father.
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Ivanka Trump
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While every day for you should be Mother’s Day, it’s great to have a day for us to slow down, reflect and express to you how much we appreciate you and all that you do for our family. Thank you mom! xx ❤️
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
As poll come out, keep this salient fact front of mind: No Democrat running for President has won the white vote since 1964.
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Jonathan Capehart
5 years
President Trump accomplished something President Obama never did: Legitimize a murderous dictator by visiting him on his home turf.
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Jonathan Capehart
7 years
Too many of y'all are acting like Watergate was one big reveal. It took months of rigorous and boring reporting. Journalism takes time.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
If only we had a President who not only knew how to lead this nation, but also knew how to heal this nation.
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Jonathan Capehart
3 years
Did SNL put this together?
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Jonathan Capehart
5 years
Kevin McCarthy (and Jordan and Meadows and the rest) should stop insulting our collective intelligence by trying to convince us that we haven’t seen and heard what we have seen and heard.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
REMINDER.... Democrats, listen to me. Who cares if the eventual nominee only meets 80 percent — heck, 50.1 percent — of your checklist? Evicting Trump should be the most important item on that checklist.
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Jonathan Capehart
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"My mother is 82 and as a teen in the 1950s...she spent her summers picking somebody else's tobacco, somebody else's cotton. And the other day she got to help pick her youngest son to be next Senator from great state of Georgia" @ReverendWarnock LISTEN👉🏾
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
President Obama is preachin’, y’all!
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Jonathan Capehart
3 years
Tell your grandkids these defenders of democracy were The Fanstastic Four. #heroes #Jan6th
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Jonathan Capehart
3 years
You didn't know you needed to see this, but you do. When law and order returned to the front office of the DOJ.
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Ricky Davila
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Attorney General Merrick Garland arriving at work at the DOJ. Watching this is quite therapeutic.
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Jonathan Capehart
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. @JoyAnnReid just took America to church! @MSNBC
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
Imma just say it: not a fan of Jim Carey's Joe Biden....
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
Ladies and Gentlemen, a President of the United States.
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Jonathan Capehart
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Joe Biden’s reaction to President Obama bestowing the Medal of Freedom to him is everything.
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Jonathan Capehart
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Vice President Pence has mastered the breathy earnestness of saying nothing and doing less.
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4 years
OMG....Gabby Giffords was wow! So powerful.
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Jonathan Capehart
3 years
Reliving Jan. 6 is breaking my heart all over again.
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2 years
President Biden points something out that I forgot in my piece: 16 of the Republicans who voted to extend the Voting Rights Act in 2006 are still serving in the Senate.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
In case you missed the clapback of the day.
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Jonathan Capehart
3 years
BREAKING NEWS, Y'ALL! 😀
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Brian Steinberg
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After competing to succeed Joy Reid on weekends, Tiffany Cross and Jonathan Capehart will share her former MSNBC slot - with each getting their own program.....
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
Waiting on Republicans to thunder with patriotic indignation over this. 🤭🤔
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Jonathan Capehart
6 years
Ask any African American how they feel about being called “articulate.” I hate it. Column coming soon.....
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Jonathan Capehart
2 years
🚨 HISTORIC: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is now JUSTICE Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Jonathan Capehart
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"No. We are down to Kool-Aid drinkers and next of kin," said @acosta in response to question from @andersoncooper about whether there is anyone in the White House who could tell the President to not say/do what he did today. 🤭
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With each passing moment, he’s proving Rachel Maddow’s point from last night.
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Jonathan Capehart
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Am I wrong to not believe that President Trump is taking hydrowhatyoucallit?
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
The content you didn't know you needed to see.... 😂😂😂
@LeGateauChoc
Le Gateau Chocolat
4 years
Dad - 1 arm cartwheel. Baby - 🤡
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Jonathan Capehart
3 years
So, um, if President Trump resigns so that Vice President Pence assumes the office and then pardons Trump.....wouldn't that be an admission of guilt by Trump?
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2 years
“What are Republicans for?” @POTUS Biden
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Jonathan Capehart
2 years
Me looking at Florida right now....
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Jonathan Capehart
5 years
The Constitution is being shredded. America's reputation is being pummeled. Our standing as a beacon of hope and stability has been decimated. I'm old enough to remember when the Republican Party defended all three with abandon. Now, it has abandoned our republic.
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Jonathan Capehart
2 years
More McCarthy audio just dropped on CNN!
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Jonathan Capehart
6 years
And with that handshake, President Trump has done something no other President has done: Legitimize the brutal dictator of North Korea, the most repressive regime in the world.
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"That’s the one thing they don’t understand about Joe Biden. His wife was killed, and he still came to work. His son was an addict, and he still came to work. His son died from cancer, he still got up, and he came to work." @MitchLandrieu46
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
Just watch this ad..... 🔥
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
Y'all......
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Hillary Clinton
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Just imagine Donald Trump in the Oval Office facing a real crisis. We can’t afford that kind of risk.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
The Dow. He talks about the Dow. Meanwhile, the dead? How about a moment of condolence for the dead?
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Jonathan Capehart
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I’m tired of the calls for dumping the team that WON and is doing great work. But, sure, cede the field to the 2x impeached, 4x indicted on 91 counts, out on bail/bond in 4 jurisdictions former prez and frontrunner for the GOP nomination.
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Jonathan Capehart
3 years
It feels damn good to have a President who has real human emotions and isn't afraid to show them.
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Jonathan Capehart
4 years
Want to be an ally? Do not do this.
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Fredrick Kunkle
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1) In a scene that played out several times Monday, a Black Lives Matter protest that began in Columbia Heights confronted White diners outside D.C. restaurants,  chanting “White silence is violence!” and demanding White diners show their solidarity. #DCProtests
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Jonathan Capehart
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Kevin McCarthy should stop insulting our collective intelligence by trying to convince us that we haven’t seen and heard what we have seen and heard.
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Jonathan Capehart
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People, and by people, I mean Democrats, do NOT lose your damn minds if/when the Mueller Report/conclusions do not lead to your desired frog-march outcome for President Trump. Keep your eyes on SDNY. That is all.
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Jonathan Capehart
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. @NicolleDWallace The rioters feel comfortable and at ease right now because they have NEVER had to fear law enforcement or fear the full force of law enforcement against them the way Black Americans have since before the founding of the republic.
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Jonathan Capehart
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Breaking!!! Sen. Amy Klobuchar tells @Lawrence that Biden should choose a woman of color as his VP running mate.
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Jonathan Capehart
5 years
The Shade is strong with this one.
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Scott Dworkin
5 years
Justin Trudeau coughing in front of Trump in the Oval Office is all you need to see today
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