Here's another way to think about these chairs at the White House — you could fill roughly all of them with the number of people who died of COVID-19 yesterday
The failing
@nytimes
wrote a Fake piece today implying that because White House Councel Don McGahn was giving hours of testimony to the Special Councel, he must be a John Dean type “RAT.” But I allowed him and all others to testify - I didn’t have to. I have nothing to hide......
"I don't want people to be frightened. I don't want to create panic," says a president who has tried to convince the country that rampaging mobs will be invading suburbs everywhere.
The White House announces that the president has withdrawn Chad Wolf's nomination to be the permanent Homeland Security secretary, hours after Wolf urged the president to denounce yesterday's violence.
So now we know that right-wing media circulated an unverified account purporting to be the president’s sister, and then the president himself shared the coverage rather than confirm that it was, in fact, his sister behind the tweets.
Rep. Schiff tells me tonight that House Intel wasn’t previously aware of the allegation involving Paul Manafort and polling data. He calls it “deeply alarming.”
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We are not prepared for a pandemic. Trump has rolled back progress President Obama and I made to strengthen global health security. We need leadership that builds public trust, focuses on real threats, and mobilizes the world to stop outbreaks before they reach our shores.
Democrats are the problem. They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13. They can’t win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!
...fight, and I believe we will prevail! Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same.
Tonight the president complained to Iowans that the news talked more about flooding in their state, which directly affected their lives, than his Nobel nominations, which did not
Trump tells his story about he how and Melania recently watched the evening news expecting to see coverage of his Nobel nominations, but were dismayed that the news was covering a hurricane in Florida and flooding in Iowa instead. This is supposed to make the media look bad.
President Trump personally called the two Republican canvassers in Wayne County,
@AP_Politics
reports. Now they’re trying to rescind their support for certifying the vote.
“OAN,” Trump says as he points to the reporter standing in the corner in violation of White House press corps rules after being invited by the administration
Kayleigh McEnany said no one from the campaign would be at the president's meeting with Michigan Republicans later today.
Rudy Giuliani told Fox 5 New York that he'll be there to "answer any questions that they have."
Quite the concurring opinion from Kavanaugh and Gorsuch —
"In our system of government, as this Court has often stated, no one is above the law. That principle applies, of course, to a President."
I’ve asked a spokesman for the Trump Organization whether this is actually the president’s sister.
But it appears that the president’s original tweet — thanking his sister for her support — was responding to a fake account that got picked up in the right-wing echo chamber.
It’s worth noting that “disband” does not mean “abolish.” Camden, New Jersey has been considered an example of police reform after disbanding its department and creating a new county force
BREAKING: A veto-proof majority of Minneapolis City Council members will announce today their commitment to disbanding the city’s embattled police department following the killing of George Floyd.
Speaking in a raspy baritone that hasn't been heard publicly in two years, Robert Mueller refused to clear the president and told Americans to guard against foreign election interference
Michael Moore: I‘m ‘Begging‘ Dems -- Don‘t Underestimate White Male Trump Supporter‘s ‘Rage,‘ ‘Emotion‘ via
@BreitbartNews
Well, he got it right in 2016?
“We’re trying to find out” who the whistleblower is, Trump told reporters just now.
The whistleblower is entitled to federal protections under the law.
A Border Patrol agent who was nearby when the Uvalde shooting began rushed into the school without waiting for backup and shot and killed the gunman, according to an
@AP
source
Two weeks before his term ends, the president is being deplatformed. He's indefinitely banned from Facebook and Instagram, his Twitter access is suspended and Shopify just shut down his campaign's online store.
A source close to the White House who is in touch with some of the rioters at the Capitol said it's the goal of those involved to stay inside the Capitol through the night.
I asked Rudy Giuliani how long he’s had the copy of this hard drive. He responded, “Your interested in the wrong thing. This time the truth will not be defeated by process. I’ve got a lot more to go. We just started. Print a headline saying Lyin’ Joe and we can talk.”
Carl Bernstein writes that President Trump's calls with foreign leaders convinced top administration officials that "the president himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States."
"We should impeach him for that. Why aren't we impeaching him?" -- Trump suggests Republican should impeach former President Obama for his comments about health care
Hey everyone, I have some news — my last day at the
@latimes
is Jan. 14, and I'll be joining the
@AP
's White House team on Jan. 31.
I'm very excited to get started soon.
Jenna Ellis, a Trump lawyer, said "the entire Giuliani-affiliated legal team was probably exposed" to COVID-19,
@jonathanvswan
reports.
Giuliani's son tested positive this morning and was at yesterday's news conference.
President Trump is silent about the daily tragedy of COVID-19, but families who lost loved ones are turning their obituaries into pleas for others to take the virus seriously
COVID-19 has entered the White House in a potentially significant way.
Doug Emhoff tested positive earlier today. Vice President Harris skipping this equal pay event that is about to start. She was with President Biden earlier for bill signing.
What did the president’s team think of the speech? One person called it a “disaster.”
“Our country is on fire, people are out of work and scared and he’s talking about ramps and water!!!!”
“Her account was also corroborated by several people she confided in about the incident. They include a friend in New York and Dorris’s mother, both of whom she called immediately after the alleged incident.”
What a strange time for the FBI.
Sometimes politicians imbue you with magical powers to uncover the truth and heal a divided nation.
And sometimes they call you corrupt, incompetent and treasonous.
It's startling how so many pieces of Donald Trump's universe are colliding in court today. The sex allegations, the Russia investigation, the conservative media world — all the pieces seem to be somehow connected.
A father and daughter, both dying from the coronavirus, talked one last time on the phone. “I’ll look for you in heaven,” he told her.
@PaightenHarkins
Rudy Giuliani met with Andrii Derkach while digging up dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine. Now the U.S. Treasury is sanctioning Derkach, saying he’s “been an active Russian agent for over a decade.”
So I clicked the link to the website run by conservative commentator Wayne Dupree to read the purported statement from Elizabeth. The article had this odd disclaimer at the top.
I was the ONLY reporter in the courtroom this morning as the man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl, impregnating her, leading to an abortion in Indiana, was arraigned.
This confirms that the case exists.
Laura Bush writes in the Washington Post: "I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart."
@wxdam
Here's an official White House photo that shows the map before it was altered to falsely suggest that Dorian was originally on track to hit Alabama.
President Biden and his family are at their church in Delaware on the anniversary of the 1972 death of his first wife and baby daughter in a car crash.
It’s extraordinary how many people close to President Trump have become felons.
Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone
Now Steve Bannon has been arrested and charged in a fundraising scheme.
For those just tuning into this saga, Trump tweeted that Alabama was one of the states in Dorian's path. Government officials were forced to correct him, and Trump has been defensive about it ever since.
Schiff wants to know whether the Russians could have used the data to guide their social media efforts. “If there was a benign explanation, why would he lie about it?”
Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before, & all their local politicians do is complain & ask for more money. The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA....
The issue with Sidney Powell may be as simple as Georgia — at the same time Republicans are desperately trying to hold onto two Senate seats there, she’s suggesting the state’s top Republicans are part of an election rigging conspiracy.
So the president's own team is portraying him as a genocidal villain that is defeated by the Avengers?
Not to mention that this clip comes right before Thanos realizes he's lost.
AMAZING!
More than one MILLION marchers for President
@realDonaldTrump
descend on the swamp in support.
Best base in political history — we LOVE you guys!!! ❤️🇺🇸
—
@Liz_Cheney
reads texts sent by Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Brian Kilmeade, and Donald Trump Jr. to Mark Meadows during the insurrection, imploring him to get Trump to do something.