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@Lawrence
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5 years
Trump: “When I can, I tell the truth.” That’s a lie. @TheLastWord 10pm
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The president of the United States is a sociopath.
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They are NOT militia. They are TERRORISTS. They are criminals.
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What kind of pathological liar lies about his lies to people who have video recordings of the lies he’s lying about and who actually read his previous lies to him word for word as he tries to lie about those lies?
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Best convention I’ve ever seen. 1st time I’ve ever been able to listen to every speaker. Please don’t ever fill up another convention hall. Please don’t waste $millions on plane tickets & hotels. Please don’t burn all that jet fuel. Make this the new normal.
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Vaccinate teachers.
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I mailed a birthday card with a 1st class stamp at a Post Office on July 28 hoping for delivery on August 1. It arrived today August 15. It took 18 days to travel 3 miles. Last year’s birthday card arrived the day after I mailed it at the same Post Office. Vote early.
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Dear World, President Trump was not elected by a majority vote. President Trump does not have the support of a majority of Americans. Thank you for your patience
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2 women reporters @weijia & @kaitlancollins just scared @realDonaldTrump off the stage.
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The 49 Senators who lost the vote on witnesses represent 19 million MORE people than the 51 Senators who won.
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Your vote counts. Everything that happens in that hearing room today with Michael Cohen is only happening because Democrats won the House. Your vote counts.
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Trump announces that he spoke to Putin today and no reporter asks what he said to Putin. No reporter asks what he said to Putin about intelligence reports that Putin is paying to kill American soldiers.
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The 48 Senators who found Trump GUILTY represent 18 million MORE people than the 52 who voted not guilty.
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Richard Nixon is finally going to prison. On Roger Stone’s back.
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3 years
There is no video that House Managers can show that will make Joshua Hawley feel anything.
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5 years
I've been in a lot of presidential meetings in that room and I never saw anyone literally stand up to a president like that because no one ever had to. Only Trump would tweet this perfect picture of his weakness & humiliation. @SpeakerPelosi finest moment.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Nervous Nancy's unhinged meltdown!
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Trump just now: “I think I would’ve been a great general but who knows?” Everyone knows.
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Mathew McConaughey has just delivered the most important speech ever given by an actor.
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4 years
It is INSANE for the Debate Commission to force @KamalaHarris & Mike Pence to fly to a debate next week. Debate should be in DC with absolutely no audience allowed in the room.
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Not a single question about Putin paying to kill American soldiers. Not one question.
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5 years
You stand for nothing. Absolutely nothing.
@LindseyGrahamSC
Lindsey Graham
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I stand firmly behind President Trump’s decision to use executive powers to build the wall-barriers we desperately need.
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Lying to the FBI is a crime. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford wants to talk to the FBI. Brett Kavanaugh doesn’t want to talk to the FBI. Kavanaugh’s friend & witness Mark Judge doesn’t want to talk to the FBI. They all know lying to the FBI is a crime.
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PSA: IGNORE TRUMP Ignore every word @realDonaldTrump says about going back to work. Trump has no power to send anyone back to work or to reopen any business anywhere. The governors are in charge now, not Trump.
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The only thing you need to know about Melania is ... she’s a Trump. A Trump by choice.
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People who make up stories don’t ask the FBI to investigate those stories.
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The final day of the Democratic Convention begins with Steve Bannon getting arrested for fraud.
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When a 12 yr old girl gets raped by her father who legally has a gun concealed in his pocket, the Supreme Court says the child must give birth to her sister.
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3 years
Biden is going to win millions more votes than Trump. Millions. No one doubts that, not even Trump. The only reason there’s suspense is the thing that doesn’t exist in any other democracy—Electoral College. The Electoral College is slavery’s revenge on the 21st century.
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When @realDonaldTrump said he “lost hundreds of friends on 9/11” I called that a lie. Then he changed it to “many friends” and I called that a lie. Trump didn’t attend a single 9/11 funeral. Trump lost zero friends on 9/11.
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"What faith are you?" is Graham's 1st question in a government that has no religious test for office.
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Trump's first line of defense to a rape accusation is "She's not my type." That's his first thought, not 'I would never rape anyone.'
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Every reporter must now ask @LindseyGrahamSC if he still believes in the standard he set for removing a president in the impeachment of Bill Clinton
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Wouldn’t it be great if government had the names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses of everyone over 65 who qualifies for vaccine?!!! It does. It’s called Medicare & it has no role in vaccination appointments.
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3 years
Trump is trying to create pardon outrage fatigue by the time he pardons himself and his children.
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Stop calling Fox "news." Stop comparing it to any other network. There has never been a fraud of this magnitude in the history of TV or news. It endangers the lives of its viewers willfully for money & to please @realDonaldTrump .
@washingtonpost
The Washington Post
4 years
How Fox News has shifted its coronavirus rhetoric
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6 years
You do NOT treat reporters “respectfully.” You lie to them and personally insult some of them in full public view.
@PressSec45
Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived
6 years
Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so
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Biden stays in the hall answering more questions after the show ends.
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3 years
Our long national nightmare is over.
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Well, the Constitution had a good run.
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Each day for the rest of his life @LindseyGrahamSC will live in enraged jealousy of @MittRomney 's courage.
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@Lawrence
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Trump attacked Ted Cruz's wife in 2016. Trump attacked Cruz's father. Ted Cruz has defended Trump much more than he defended his wife against Trump. Ted Cruz has defended Trump much more than he defended his father against Trump. I've never known a man like @tedcruz
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6 years
Ok men, it's time to answer this question. I'll start: I didn't do this in high school. Or any other time.
@thehill
The Hill
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Republican women defend Kavanaugh: "What boy hasn’t done this in high school?"
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The most terrified president in history is in the White House right now.
@betsy_klein
Betsy Klein
4 years
More fencing going up around the White House complex early this morning
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Is @realDonaldTrump tweet attack on msnbc during my show tonight because I exposed the fundraising emails he sent out before and after his Oval Office speech last night tricking his supporters into donating for “border security” when fine print said it’s for his campaign?
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If Trump gets dementia, how will we know?
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Note to “neutral” news media: If you choose to use the term “court packing” instead of “expanding the court” you have chosen sides.
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Just passed through customs at Heathrow. When the agent asked about my occupation I said “I work in TV news.” “Fox?” “No.” “Fox is horrible.” He still had my passport in his hand so I couldn’t disagree. True story. Word for word.
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Trump's silence about John Lewis is the truth about what he feels about the loss of John Lewis. Nothing. I prefer the truth of Trump's silence to lies of Trump staff in any White House statement written for Trump while he plays golf.
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If you want to elect a woman president ... but you don't think a woman can win ... so you won't vote for a woman ... YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.
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To every news anchor and commentator who discovered yesterday that Trump is a racist, please explain why you didn’t say that 6 years ago when he was lying about the Obama birth certificate. I called him a racist pathological liar then. You kept booking him for more interviews.
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When @BarackObama was president, he released his tax returns every year by April 15th while he was being audited. (IRS routinely audits every presidential tax return.)
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Trump has the lawyers he can afford.
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Donald Trump got impeached trying to prevent what @JoeBiden is doing tonight.
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Republican senators are lying when they say they are bored. They are terrified. They are terrified of Trump & terrified of Trump voters. They are terrified of the vast majority of Americans who want witnesses & the majority of voters who want Trump convicted & removed.
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If you watched @realDonaldTrump instead of @JoeBiden you missed the most substantive presidential policy discussion of the year.
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The pathological liar at the White House podium just said Trump was elected by “an overwhelming majority of voters.” The foundational lie of the Trump presidency.
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Robert Mueller is undefeated. Most prosecutors get convictions in most of their cases, but we’ve never seen a Special Prosecutor who gets guilty pleas in all of his cases.
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Trump, the “wartime president” just said, “We’re a backup.” Remember when Franklin Roosevelt said “We’re a backup” and states have to win WW2.
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Jim Jordan is trying to be who Michael Cohen used to be: Trump's fixer.
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By publicly tampering with a Senate witness, @LindseyGrahamSC violated his oath of office. In any previous Senate, the Ethics Committee would begin a Graham investigation today that would lead to his expulsion.
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An obscenely hateful man is standing in the well of the United States Senate lying in defense of an obscenely hateful man.
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Note to news media: there is no North Korea "deal." If you use the word "deal" you're spreading Trump propaganda. A deal has terms, requirements, dates, numbers, specific consequences for violations of the deal. The last time Trump made a deal was his deal with Stormy Daniels.
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Someone should tell this guy that any crimes involving the Postal Service are federal crimes & Joe Biden's Attorney General will start work on Jan. 20.
@Mikel_Jollett
Mikel Jollett
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This is Louis DeJoy. He is the huge Trump DONOR who Trump made the Postmaster General of the United States. He is trying to DESTROY the US Postal Service to help Trump steal an election. We need to make him famous.
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This white man with a gun has a lot to say to police, but he never has to say, "I can't breathe."
@shannonrwatts
Shannon Watts
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Grateful @Walmart is enforcing its new policy to prohibit open carry. It took five officers to get this man to leave the store. Last month, customers were allowed to shop while open carrying. Cultural change results in political change. #GroceriesNotGuns
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The president who did NOT run toward the sound of the guns in Vietnam 50 years ago, now labels an officer with a handgun a "coward" for not running toward the sound of an AR15. Trump is by far the most cowardly president in history.
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Why isn’t Brett Kavanaugh demanding an FBI investigation? WHY?
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When you invite Robert De Niro, do NOT try to direct him or edit him.
@oliverdarcy
Oliver Darcy
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@BrianStelter asks Robert De Niro about criticism he gets from Fox for speaking out against Trump. "Fuck em," De Niro replies. "Fuck em." Stelter reminds him, "This is cable, so it's not an FCC violation, but it is still a Sunday morning."
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The reason Republicans yield the balance of their time to Jim Jordan is not because they think he’s good at this; it’s because they’ve got nothing and they’d prefer to let him swing and miss instead of them.
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How many times will Trump’s doctor, who is actually not an MD, have to change his statements?
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Today @RepAdamSchiff is, among other things, giving a master class in how to chair a contentious Congressional hearing.
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Yes I will be saying hi to Rachel @maddow at 10pm for the foreseeable future.
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When you think of all the people Trump has betrayed in his presidency and his life including all of his wives, it’s all the more impressive that he has never betrayed Putin.
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The lawyers on the call supporting Trump are now criminal lawyers. Or lawyer criminals. They helped him commit a crime. Attorney-client privilege doesn’t protect lawyers who commit crimes with clients.
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Abortion saved Trump's life. Every Republican who opposed use of fetal tissue in medical research was lying. Every single one of them.
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Note to media: please stop treating @AndrewGillum like he’s a Bernie Sanders clone just because @SenSanders endorsed him while you ignore the fact that Mayor Gillum was a @HillaryClinton delegate who was on her list of possible VP candidates.
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Trump's withholding of $ for World Health Organization is illegal. It's exactly what he got impeached for.
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Please keep doing this, Andrew. Please. (Retweet if you want more reporters to do this.)
@AndrewFeinberg
Andrew Feinberg
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As @PressSec repeated the lie that “Democrats want open borders,” I called out “that’s not true!” She ignored me and kept on lying.
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FBI investigation is standard procedure. That’s what Anita Hill got. Dr Christine Blasey Ford wants standard procedure. Republican senators are lying when they say they can’t give Dr Ford standard procedure. Every Republican senator is lying about that.
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Trump lawyer actually told the Senate: “President Trump is a man of his word.” Most ridiculous thing ever said about Trump?
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Donald Trump is a state sponsor of terrorism.
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Thank you
@thehill
The Hill
7 years
Ruth Bader Ginsberg: I'll stay on the Supreme Court for as long as I can
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Follow the money: All retiring senators like Jeff Flake have multi-million dollar lobbying offers waiting for them. Republican lobbyists must be welcome in Republican senate offices. Jeff Flake is preserving his welcome as a lobbyist.
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No Trump election lawsuit will change the outcome. Probably no case will make it to the Supreme Court. Trump's next court appearance will be as a defendant next year.
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Is there any real proof that he donates his salary? Like a tax return?
@ABCPolitics
ABC News Politics
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Pres. Trump is donating his third-quarter salary to help tackle the opioid epidemic. He is required to be paid, but has pledged to donate his salary while in office to worthy causes. He donated his second-quarter salary to the surgeon general’s office.
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This is what’s wrong with police culture.
@therecount
The Recount
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Uncovered: Last October, the head of the Minneapolis police union — which days ago warned against a “rush to judgment” of the officers involved in George Floyd’s death — spoke at a Trump rally and praised him for ending the “handcuffing and oppression” of police under Obama.
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Breaking: CONGRESS HAS NOT PASSED A TAX BILL YET. House & Senate passed 2 different bills. Nothing to send to president yet. This is half time. Plenty of bills have gotten this far and never become law.
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Dr. Birx is now functioning as a Republican lawyer defending the reckless choices of Republican governors. She spins every question about Georgia.
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We knew he was insane before he said this. The disappointment is that the experts present didn’t have the courage to forcefully repudiate it. They didn’t jump up & warn America that what we just heard was homicidally insane.
@PodSaveAmerica
Pod Save America
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...WHAT
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Do you remember where you were on this night 10yrs ago? I was somewhere in that crowd.
@BeschlossDC
Michael Beschloss
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Barack Obama was elected President ten years ago today:
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No police academy has ever trained a bad person to be a good person.
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“Was violence predictable?” Yes, from the day he came down the escalator.
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House Republicans impeached Bill Clinton. Then Republicans won the House again in next election. And Republicans won the Senate again. And Republicans won the White House. It’s a political myth that the Clinton impeachment hurt Republicans.
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Trump broke the law and would be fired from any federal job except the one he has.
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A new era of presidential tweeting ...
@JoeBiden
Joe Biden
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Be patient, folks. Votes are being counted, and we feel good about where we are.
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No very intelligent person ever says "I'm a very intelligent person."
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Tonight @realDonaldTrump is tweeting like a man on steroids who will be a criminal defendant on the afternoon of January 20.
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When Trump flies to France and then drops out of the ceremony at a military cemetery because of “rain” we must remember he’s a liar. It could just be that he’s having a bad hair day that could be made much worse by the weather.
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"I don't respect a porn star the way I respect a career woman." Rudy Giuliani respects career women so much he's divorced 3 of them. While married to the 2nd career woman, he had a public affair with another respectable career woman who he was paying on City Hall payroll.
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The Director of the FBI—which is currently raiding Donald Trump’s home—was appointed by Donald Trump.
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Campaigning on federal property is against the law. That’s why we’ve never heard a president do this before Trump.
@davidaxelrod
David Axelrod
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I have never heard a @POTUS deliver as nakedly political speech from the Rose Garden. It started as an official announcement and then just devolved into a meandering anti-Biden screed.
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