Tim O'Brien
@TimOBrien
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On the other app: https://t.co/7g85wVhTIx Senior Executive Editor, @Opinion. Political Analyst, @MSNBC. Author: “TrumpNation.”
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Joined February 2009
“The riches Trump is harvesting as president represent a raw financial conflict of interest that shreds the integrity of his office and the bona fides of some of his core policy goals.” My column today:
bloomberg.com
Whether directly peddling products or not, the president is a walking financial conflict of interest who routinely enriches himself.
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The FBI is searching the Maryland home of former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton as part of an investigation into the handling of classified documents. Bolton, of course, is also a longstanding Trump critic.
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Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | Aug. 22, 2025
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An appeals court has thrown out the massive civil fraud penalty against Trump, ruling on New York state’s lawsuit that accused him of exaggerating his wealth and misleading banks. Penalties had risen to more than $515 million.
newsday.com
An appeals court has thrown out the massive civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump.
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"Harbaugh and his past don’t suggest a league that’s invested in upholding rules."
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New details of the University of Michigan’s sign-stealing scandal and the coach’s role in it make it hard for the league to stay quiet.
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There isn’t lofty political and economic theory or three-dimensional chess at work here. It’s neither liberal nor conservative, either. It’s medieval and it’s monarchical. My column on Trump, Putin and Ukraine as a sacrificial lamb:
bloomberg.com
All of the energy that goes into speculating about the president’s grand designs or philosophy about Putin or anything else is a distraction.
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RT @atrupar: BARTIROMO: What have you leaned about January 6?. ED MARTIN: The federal government, the DOJ, targeted these citizens. The FBI….
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RT @DanRosZiff: On 14th & R this morning in DC, officers with vests that said only police detained a man who seemed to have been riding a m….
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Joining the @weeknightmsnbc on @MSNBC at the top of the 8PM ET hour to talk about Trump’s takeover of the DC police and streets.
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Of course Trump is now claiming that the job numbers are rigged (after pushing a bonkers trade policy that has helped set this in motion).
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Strong “massage the Covid-19 fatalities data” vibe here. The authoritarian way.
Trump wants to fire the federal government’s chief labor statistician — Erika McEntarfar — because he doesn’t like reality: A weakening job market is threatening the economy.
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“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” — Sherlock Holmes.
Trump wants to fire the federal government’s chief labor statistician — Erika McEntarfar — because he doesn’t like reality: A weakening job market is threatening the economy.
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Trump wants to fire the federal government’s chief labor statistician — Erika McEntarfar — because he doesn’t like reality: A weakening job market is threatening the economy.
bloomberg.com
President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after a report showed weak job growth, prompting outcries from economists to lawmakers and raising concerns over the...
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Even as Trump threatens to increase tariffs yet again on any country that won’t sign on to a deal with the US by Friday, another dynamic is emerging: He has been letting plenty of companies—and entire industries—off the hook, often with no explanation.
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Exclusions reflect conflicting goals: to rip up the rules of global trade while cushioning US consumers. But the process isn’t transparent, and not everybody wins.
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Unbelievable:. “The Senate confirmed former Trump lawyer Emil Bove 50-49 for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge Tuesday as Republicans dismissed whistleblower complaints about his conduct at the Justice Department.”
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The Senate has confirmed former Trump lawyer Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge.
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“He stole her.”. Trump saw it as a property transfer. Like a real estate deal. The late Virginia Giuffre was a teenager at the time, about 17 years-old. And Epstein began sexually abusing and trafficking her.
Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here. Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?. Trump: I think so. He stole her.
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Translation: “I’m worried.”.
Reporter: You had said you had not been briefed that your name was in the Epstein files, doesn’t the AG have to tell you?. Trump: It’s a hoax. Those files were run by the worst scum on earth. They run by Garland, Comey… They can easily put something in the files that’s a phony.
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“Privilege” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
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Is there famine in Gaza? Let’s not wait to find out, says @MarcChampion1 . Enough is clear to know that a ceasefire should be the only priority.
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RT @theweekendprime: TONIGHT AT 6: @EmmaVigeland and @TimOBrien join to discuss the Republican lawmaker suggesting he would be open to Trum….
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