Carl Bernstein
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist. Proud Father of Jacob & Max. New Book, Chasing History: A Kid In The Newsroom, Available Now. Purchase Below ⬇
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I'm not violating any pledge of journalistic confidentially in reporting this: 21 Republican Sens–in convos w/ colleagues, staff members, lobbyists, W. House aides–have repeatedly expressed extreme contempt for Trump & his fitness to be POTUS. (1/3)
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@realdonaIdtrump
- I have spent my life as a journalist bringing the truth to light, through administrations of both parties. No taunt will diminish my commitment to that mission, which is the essential role of a free press.
@CNN
stands by its story, and I stand by my reporting.
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The 21 GOP Senators who have privately expressed their disdain for Trump are: Portman, Alexander, Sasse, Blunt, Collins, Murkowski, Cornyn, Thune, Romney, Braun, Young, Tim Scott, Rick Scott, Rubio, Grassley, Burr, Toomey, McSally, Moran, Roberts, Shelby. (2/3)
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With few exceptions, their craven public silence has helped enable Trump’s most grievous conduct—including undermining and discrediting the US the electoral system.
More from my appearance earlier on
@cnn
: (3/3)
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How is that NBC News has allowed itself to get conned by Donald Trump and (as of 11 pm Wednesday) continues to abrogate the public trust by not re-scheduling or taping-and-delaying broadcast, or canceling if Trump continues to demand the network’s obeisance? (1/7)
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In any other conceivable moment in US history, this tape would result in the leadership of both parties demanding the immediate resignation of the President of the United States.
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We have now watched an armed attack, instigated by the president of the United States, on peaceful, law-abiding demonstrators exercising their Constitutional rights. All of Trump’s actions and words have etched today as a grim moment in American history.
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"This is worse than Watergate, because the system worked in Watergate."
"I think it's time to recognize that what we are watching in the Trump presidency is worse than Watergate," says Carl Bernstein
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Where are the 10, 20, 30, 40 Republicans in The Senate and House who will condemn unequivocally the most despicable public utterances and embrace of evil ideology by a president in the experience of all living Americans?
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The most dangerous 'enemy of the people' is presidential lying--always. Attacks on press by
@realDonaldTrump
more treacherous than Nixon's.
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I can state w/confidence that many intel members now decrying 'leaks' of classified info have themselves 'leaked' classified info knowingly
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We may look back on tonight as the Monday Night Slaughter of the administration of justice in the United States.
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The problem is not the chief of staff. The problem--dangerous beyond any modern presidency--is the president.
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Point being that our networks would not let even the President dictate how and when we covered him: and we resisted being manipulated. Forty years after we established the principle, NBC has been manipulated and conned. (7/7)
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Since JFK v. Nixon, the idea of televised presidential debates [and Town Halls] is to serve the voters—not the whims or wishes of the candidates. And to get the largest possible audience of voters/viewers. (4/7)
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Woodward & Bernstein: Donald Trump attempted a coup on January 6th to overthrow the United States Government.
@realBobWoodward
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But inexcusably, NBC schedules its Town Hall with Trump at exact time Biden is on ABC (reportedly at Trump’s insistence), cutting Biden’s audience and setting up a ratings war tailored for Trump to win and crow about. Esp. bc ABC has no cable outlets, like MSNBC + CNBC. (3/7)
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(1/3) Important Republicans/conservs/Intel-military hi-ups increasingly saying in private that
@realDonaldTrump
is unfit to be president.
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I was Washington Bureau Chief for ABC in 1980-1981 when myself and CBS/NBC bureau chiefs made decisions that neither POTUS Carter nor POTUS Reagan could get free airtime from the White House for slyly political broadcasts. (6/7)
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Not bifurcate the audience to the obvious advantage of one candidate and capitulate to that candidate’s demands. If that candidate threatens to walk away over something like this, he should be shown the door. (5/7)
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What’s happened here?
First Trump evades debate commission rules and protocols; then NBC allows him a town hall on equal footing with Biden, who has agreed to and followed the commission’s rules [ok, perhaps barely defensible this part]; (2/7)
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This factless madness shows
@realDonaldTrump
to be unhinged. If PresNixon had a Twitter account it would not reflect this much paranoia.
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Great work by
@SavannahGuthrie
under most difficult of circumstances, none of her making.
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No president, including Nixon, so ignorant of fact and disdains fact in way
@realDonaldTrump
does. PEOTUS creates/thrives in truth-free zone
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@realDonaldTrump
@ChuckGrassley
et al.
Once again, bottom line is contempt for truth-seeking, wherever it leads: Hence opposition to FBI investigation (despite many precedents) of
#ProfessorFord
's allegations-- with witnesses prosecutable for lying to FBI.
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No way HRC emails 'bigger than watergate' -or close. Watergate was about a criminal Potus & 48 aides/co-conspirators found guilty.
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The time for invocation of the 25th Amendment is NOW.
Members of Trump’s own staff from the top down know he's been talking & acting like a madman-despot for weeks, including his remarks today to the mob he brought to DC for his own provocative & seditious purposes.
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Real news (not fake) is that
@realDonaldTrump
trying to make conduct of press the issue instead of egregious (and unhinged)conduct of POTUS.
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Journalists need to google #
@kellyannePolls
' repeated attacks on trump before she became his propaganda minister--and air/publish them now.
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(2/3) BC of lack of ethics, competence, ‘temperament/stability.’
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(3/3)—Reporters should find out how pervasive such talk may be.
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Prime example of wholesale classified 'leaking' to press by members of congress (and hypocrisy): Gowdy Committee Benghazi investigation.
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The president of the United States has just advocated shutting down the US government. Republicans in DC need to ponder this dereliction.
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Craven Repub silence is now enabling a Mad King in the Final Days of his reign to scorch the earth of his country to bring down the whole system, sabotaging USA and its people thru madness of his tweets & willingness to undermine the electoral system at heart of our democracy.
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What the Manhattan DA's investigation means: demonstrably, The Trump Organization is a criminal enterprise from the top down.
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"All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes..."
The numbers he ought to be looking at are the 350,000 Americans who have died from COVID– for which his homicidal negligence is responsible for so many.
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Time for an investigation of Justice Clarence Thomas & his wife, Ginni, after
@realBobWoodward
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@costareports
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Woodward and Bernstein at The Washington Post today, June 17, 2022, the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in.
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“The Trump presidency has been no nightmare. It has been daylight delinquency...corruption, and cruelty and deadly incompetence….Republicans did not sleep through all of this. They saw it all and let it happen."
@fotoole
’s brilliant article in NYRB:
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John McCain was a truly remarkable American. Please see my profile of him, from a Vanity Fair cover story during the 2000 election campaign, at .
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If there was ever any doubt, the coverup continues: Trump pardons Manafort and Stone, among others.
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Journalists need to google
@kellyannePolls
'repeated attacks on trump before she became his propaganda minister--and air/publish them now.
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When focus of press was on Hillary's server--by same 'fake news' orgs/'enemies of the people' cited by
@realDonaldTrump
--he saw patriots.
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Birthday breakfast (mine) with BW. Till March 26, we’re the same age. (He’s older.) Been going on like this for 51 years. Lucky us.
@realBobWoodward
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As noted for weeks now, potus has impeded and obstructed and demeaned legit investigation at every turn
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Chris Wallace needs to shut trump down and insist he follow rules...and , as moderator, enforce them...stop the debate for 60 secs and lay down the rules.
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@realDonaldTrump
Trump has done everything in his power--including working with these enablers on Capitol Hill--to make sure that this investigation of him, his family, his aides, his campaign, his transition does not come to fruition, and this was part and parcel of it tonight
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Extraordinary rebuke to
@realDonaldTrump
and GOP enablers of coverup --via his own FBI director: “As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about the material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy,”
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Mourning Pete Hamill today, my friend & an incomparable mentor for nearly half-century. Pete stood for things--real principles. Pete’s prose was his person. Always he knew his work was about getting to the deepest truth. Because he succeeded we are a better city, people & nation.
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Important Republicans perhaps not so private anymore re:
@realDonaldTrump
’s “stability” and fitness to be POTUS.
Republican Sen. Corker: Trump has not demonstrated "stability" or "competence" to lead effectively
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Happy Birthday BW (78!) Glad you're a year older than me again. - CB
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Woodward and Bernstein: Are we watching the lead-up to another Saturday Night Massacre?
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Because of the people— not the system— justice has been done.
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Impt to note #
@realDonaldTrump
has for decades been major anon source promoting himself,his biz activities & pov and attacking 'enemies'
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WE DID NOT ELECT KING & ROYAL FAMILY. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST OF
@realDonaldTrump
& princelings are breathtaking: Merger of WH &Trumpiz.
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Is
@realDonaldTrump
signaling potential suspects-family, Flynn, Sessions, etc-'Do Not Cooperate w/Mueller, Congres spardons ahead if needed
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I first met John Lewis in 1965: There has been no greater hero in America in my lifetime, and it was grace that I was able to know and revere him through those 55 years.
#JohnLewis
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Essential for citizens/Congress to know holdings and debts and partners in Russia (especially) of
@realDonaldTrump
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Richard Lewis lived a life of courage... A great soul, a great talent, a great friend. 💔
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Donald John Trump is doing to Republican senators what he did to President Zelensky and Ukraine: threatening them and hanging them out to dry for his personal gain; at the expense of the national security interests of the United States.
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"Trump is guilty of Crimes Against Democracy... An ongoing conspiracy by Trump and the hierarchy of the Republican party" to undermine democracy.
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Explosive Manafort/AP story:Now essential for special prosecutor re
@realDonaldTrump
campaign+independent commission or Select Sen Committee
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Finally Mattis has said publicly what he’s been saying in private. It’s no secret that McMaster, Kelly & Tillerson have said much the same in private – and that they believe Trump is a threat to nat’l security & unfit by temperament to be POTUS. Maybe they too will now go public.
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In these 187 minutes, we’re seeing something unique in American history– an out of control seditious, criminal, mad president.
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Follow the money, follow the lies (con't).
CNN - Carl Bernstein:
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As opposed to the Putin–Trump alliance?
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Little Trump princes/princesses &
@realDonaldTrump
conducting affairs of state & parlaying family biz interests? Must be total divestiture.
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As Cruz aide,
@kellyannePolls
reamed DJT on-air for cons stiffing contractors, building empire on 'backs of little guy,' hiding tax returns+
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Hypocrisy re these members --from both parties-- decrying classified 'leaks' in context of this hearing remarkable.
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ReTrump-Hamilton: painfully clear last 24 hrs trump doesn't comprehend the American idea and is sadly ignorant of our history & its meaning.
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"Russia, Putin— THAT'S whose interests have been served in this presidency... We never had a president before whose aides said, 'Oh, the president is the primary danger to the national security of the US.' What the hell have we been through here?"
Listen:
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Essential now Select congressional committee (probably from Sen. Intel) obtain transcripts/summaries/voice-printouts (like Nixon tapes) of Trump calls w/ Erdogan, Putin, Xi, et al. Already much unequivocal evidence POTUS undermined natl security for personal & political gain.
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"He's a seditious, out-of-control madman.... They're trying to put him in a constitutional straitjacket in these last days because of his total inability to govern as the president of the United States with sanity, with sensibility."
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I was dangerously close to becoming a high school dropout when I was hired as a copyboy at the Washington Star in 1960. The moment I saw this newsroom, I knew I wanted to be a reporter. For the next 5 years, I had the greatest seat in the country learning my trade. It was amazing
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Supposedly, Mike Pence “knows better.”
If so, perhaps tonight he'll make clear to House & Senate that his calculation to play along w/ Trump’s lies & delusions about a “stolen election” proved disastrous; that Biden & Harris won definitively and fairly; AND congratulate them.
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“Evil has come to be the agenda of a president, and the Republican Party has gone along with it.”
That is the meaning of Trump’s Senate trial. HE DOES NOT CARE: about democracy or loss of life— whether at the Capitol or in his homicidal negligence during the time of COVID.
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“It’s about a different kind of crime, in which the humanity of the people of the United States was relegated to the floor by the president of the United States, who uplifted only his own narrow political, financial and personal interests.”
Carl Bernstein: "[Trump] is our own American war criminal of a kind we’ve never experienced before."
Brian Stelter: "You just said war criminal. What do you mean, war criminal?"
Bernstein: "I did."
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It's official: I'm finally on Instagram & a copy of my new book has finally arrived! (here in my kitchen)
Follow along, I'll be sharing never-before-seen photos & videos from throughout my career, from my early days to rock reviews, Watergate & beyond.
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Bill Weld could be a hero--instead of a Nader--if he renounces his own Libertarian candidacy and endorses/campaigns for HRC. Stay tuned.
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FACT: The party of Lincoln & the Emancipation has become the party of disenfranchisement, voter suppression & electoral racism.
It seeks daily to subvert the will of the majority & undermine the bedrock of US democracy: Every citizen's right to vote.
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I am reading a great book – Fiona Hill’s memoir, “There is Nothing for You Here.” Like de Tocqueville, also born on the other side of the Atlantic, her observations about the condition of the American experiment surpass the conventional thinking of almost all our native “experts.
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It’s past time for the American press to focus laser-like on American corporations who are still doing business in Russia, especially huge enterprises like Halliburton; and Koch Industries, which operates 3 major companies in Russia.
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Trump takes a page from the Stalinist-purge playbook.
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This while Trump & his allies vowed to ask the Supreme Court to negate the election results.
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Hello, Twitter. After all this time, finally surrendering to being less wordy. Looking forward.
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Bolton firing is latest evidence of dire crisis: in which US nat'l security is destabilized by conduct of POTUS, as recognized by our allies and enemies. Trump has shown he is incapable of a coherent presidency, or coherent governance. Only self-interest.
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My new piece with
@realBobWoodward
comparing the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump — published as a new foreword in the 50th Anniversary edition of All The President’s Men.
@simonschuster
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Not to minimize her reckless and mendacious handling of email-server matters --but altogether different league than watergate.
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See my Vanity Fair cover profile of John McCain
@carlbernstein
.com--from 1999, as he prepared to run for Potus: especially relevant now.
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"We've been in a cold civil war for a long time in this country. Trump poured the flames & ignited it. The Republicans are embracing the evil of Donald Trump & Trumpism at a moment in history when they had the chance to absolutely repudiate it."
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