David Axelrod
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Founder, @UChiPolitics . Sr. Political Commentator @CNN . Author, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics. Host of The Axe Files & Hacks on Tap podcasts.
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A kid buys two assault weapons, days apart, and 375 rounds of ammunition. Is that alone not a warning sign?
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This may be why
@realDonaldTrump
has potential legal problems. If you claim massive losses to avoid paying federal income taxes but inflate your revenues and assets on bank documents for loan purposes, wouldn’t that constitute fraud?
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.
@BarackObama
didn’t mention
@realDonaldTrump
. Yet when Obama referenced adults with fancy titles who act like children and do only what feels good, the president’s supporters immediately read it as a dastardly attack on HIM.
Why is that?🤔
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The president is receiving multiple medications. It’s noteworthy that none of them is hydroxychloroquine
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This scene of the president ripping off his mask, posing and saluting, is deranged.
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The shooter in Boulder bought an assault weapon a week before the massacre. He had a conviction for assault and a history of aggressive acts.
Explain to me how background checks wouldn’t help?
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One thing is very clear.
Garland would not have authorized this raid, and no federal judge would have signed off on it, if there weren't significant evidence to warrant it.
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My favorite part of the very good Chris Wallace interview with
@realDonaldTrump
:
TRUMP: “Now we have the 1619 project. What is THAT all about?”
WALLACE: “Slavery.”
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I've been taking an RX for a chronic condition for years. This week, I learned my insurance no longer covers it. Now the cost is $639-a-month! How many people can afford that?
"Your money or your life" is a hell of choice that people shouldn't have to face.
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This is not a convention speech so much as a presidential address.
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The stunning conclusion from the briefing today is that the
@POTUS
knew he had COVID-19 at least 3 days ago, did not disclose it, went to events and risked infecting others.
They thought they could hide this until the media outed Hope Hicks and the POTUS developed symptoms.
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So
@BarackObama
advised
@realDonaldTrump
not to hire Flynn as nat sec adviser.
Trump ignored the advice.
Flynn proceeded to lie to the
@FBI
and
@VP
about his call with the Russian ambassador, for which Trump fired him and Flynn pleaded guilty.
And this is Obama’s fault?!?
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Such a night.
TODAY IN HISTORY: On this day in 2008, Barack Obama told crowds that "change has come to America" after the U.S. elected its first black president.
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A friend took his kids to July 4th Parade in Highland Park today. His son has special needs.
When shots rang out, they ran for their lives, the dad pushing his grown son's wheelchair--which at one point tumbled over.
On America's day, what has become a sickeningly American story.
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Americans were treated to a profane, insult-laden, often inappropriate monologue last night.
But enough about the
@POTUS
.
How about the White House Correspondents Dinner?
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When the
@POTUS
wants to present a skewed picture of the virus and what it requires, he sends out Dr. Atlas, who has no background in public health or epidemiology, to parrot the party line.
When the POTUS requires treatment, he seeks out experts who know what they’re doing.
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Reporters should not allow the
@POTUS
to savage a fellow correspondent who is asking a legitimate question he finds uncomfortable and refuses to answer. They should serially repeat the question until they get one.
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It may be irrational but I don't want to turn the TV off and lose connection with what's going on in Ukraine--as if by going to sleep, I'm abandoning the valiant people, facing down a huge, invading army to save their country and democracy.
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I’ve heard some Rs say they find
@RepAdamSchiff
“irritating.” I suspect it is because he has made the case so powerfully.
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To state the obvious, denying federal workers a pay raise because you’ve lavished a trillion dollars of tax cuts on corporations and the wealthy, creating massive new deficits, is beyond outrageous.
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Interesting to hear
@realDonaldTrump
complain that the Mueller probe has “wasted millions of millions dollars.”
This from a president who sent 5,000 troops to the border as a campaign stunt.
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Memo to Gen. Kelly:
Stormy Daniels reports that the
@POTUS
became more compliant after been spanked.
Desperate times demand desperate measures.
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.
@RepLizCheney
reportedly is not able to campaign for re-election at open, public events in Wyoming because of threats to her safety.
This, in the United States of America, folks.
Think about that.
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I did 150 campaigns and did not accept “oppo” from ANY foreign government much less an adversary.
Let’s not pretend this is normal. Or legal. Or right.
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Trump Tower in Chicago aglow with Biden-Harris light.
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Is there any question that
@barackobama
would have delivered the eulogy at Heather Heyer's service today on behalf of a riven nation?
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This peculiar argument that gun safety laws won't work because criminals will just break them...Couldn't you make that argument against ANY law?!?
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The most interesting factoid is that the Proud Boys headed to the Capitol long before Trump spoke on the Ellipse. They didn't come for a rally. They came for an insurrection.
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If
@realDonaldTrump
and
@senatemajldr
ram thru a replacement now, the SCOTUS will have a majority of justices appointed by presidents who finished 2d in the popular vote, confirmed by senate majorities who represented less than half of the country.
A tyranny of the minority.
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This rash of new COVID-19 infections at the White House is stupidity unmasked.
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There was no conceivable political advantage for the 30 or so newly-elected Ds from districts
@realDonaldTrump
carried in 2016 who voted for impeachment today. None,
They voted their consciences and upheld their oaths, even at risk to their careers.
They deserve our respect.
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What a terrible legacy for
@realDonaldTrump
if Joe Arpaio gets a pardon while 800,000 young people, who have done no wrong, get the boot!
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Before
@JoeBiden
was selected VP by
@BarackObama
, vetters for the campaign scoured every aspect of his record, career and life. Tara Reade or complaints of sexual harassment or assault never came up. I know. I was there.
Here are my recollections:
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The latest release of ballots from Allegheny County were mostly military.
@JoeBiden
won them by something approaching four-to-one.
Probably rethinking the whole “suckers” and “losers” thing right now.
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Another question: Why did the WH ignore the pandemic playbook that sat on their shelves, and which would have triggered federal efforts to meet the demand for ventilators and other supplies two months ago?
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It turns out that Lysol kills self-serving, misleading press briefings 99.9 percent of the time!
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Bewildering when
@SenTedCruz
says universal background checks would deprive “law-abiding” citizens of guns.
If they’re law-abiding, what do they have to fear?
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We don’t know who sent the bombs. We do know this.
Words of incitement do incite.
Words of encouragement for acts of violence lead to more violence.
Words matter.
This is not a game.
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Strange principle is emerging:
If you admit misconduct, you resign. But if you deny it, however compelling or voluminous the testimony against you, you continue in office-or on to office-with impunity?
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Because I’m vaccinated & boosted & take precautions, I don’t fear the virus. What I DO fear is that I, or someone I love, might need emergency medical care for something else & can’t get it because hospitals are stuffed w/people who foolishly-& selfishly-refuse to be vaccinated!
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This almost certainly explains why
@realDonaldTrump
is fighting to vigorously to keep the Manhattan DA from obtaining Trump’s tax returns.
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.
@BarackObama
has given so many moving, meaningful speeches but perhaps none more than his message tonight.
It will be reported as an assault on his successor.
It will be remembered as a heartfelt and urgent plea for our democracy from a POTUS who palpably loves and values it.
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This was the most humiliating moments any leader has suffered on the floor of Congress. Ever.
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My flight from Chicago to NYC was just called back to the gate after a guy in a white supremacy tee shirt refused to wear his mask. “This is fucking America!” he shouted.
But mostly he’s fucking w/the rest of US, who are following the rules and now are going to be an hour late!
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I’m still adjusting to a
@POTUS
who, when he speaks, speaks about the country and not himself.
It’s nice.
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I’d love to see
@SenSchumer
put each, individual piece of the BBB bill on the floor for a vote. Let senators explain why they oppose universal pre-K; paid family leave; child tax credit; home health care for the elderly and the other popular elements of the bill.
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Probably rethinking the whole “suckers” and “losers” thing right now.
Where are the missing military ballots in Georgia? What happened to them?
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I have to believe that Republican candidates around the country are deeply nervous about
@realDonaldTrump
’s behavior and plummeting poll numbers. He could drag the whole party down.
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Do you have the same feeling I do that it’s a lot more peaceful online since Trump lost his social media privileges?
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This disastrous week for
@realDonaldTrump
is ending with the defeat of his candidate for Gov in LA, for whom he made three visits, including 48 hours ago.
Dem Gov.
@JohnBelforLA
wins.
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I'm proud to be included on the new list of Americans banned from Russia. As the son of a Jewish refugee from Ukraine, and a grateful American, I consider this an honor!
Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦
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I wonder what the world thinks when they hear the U.S. Secretary of State smugly dismiss the results of an American presidential election?
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Just a fact check. The economic expansion has been on for decade. The last three years of the
@BarackObama
admin produced more jobs than the first three years of
@realDonaldTrump
.
Unemployment fell from 10.2 to 4.7 under Obama. It’s fallen another 1.2 percent under Trump.
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Question: If the
@POTUS
is taking a steroid that sometimes produces wild mood swings, shouldn’t he surrender authority to the VP under the 25th Amendment?
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The critical battle today isn’t between Ds and Rs. It’s between those who believe in democracy and those who would dismantle it.
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.
@KamalaHarris
elicited what seemed to me to be a pretty astonishing admission from Barr that neither he nor Rosenstein or their staffs examined the underlying evidence gathered by the special counsel before deciding the president would not be charged for obstruction.
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So the Barr-led Bureau of Prisons frees Manafort to serve the REMAINING FOUR YEARS of his sentence at home despite the facts that there have been no COVID-19 cases at the prison where he was serving and he did not meet several of the bureau’s standards for COVID release.
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Your health care repeal lost 49-51, Mr.
@POTUS
. It's not like presidential elections, where you can get less votes than your opponent & win!
If the Senate Democrats ever got the chance, they would switch to a 51 majority vote in first minute. They are laughing at R's. MAKE CHANGE!
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You ever notice that when
@realDonaldTrump
is reading a speech, he often stops and considers the words that have been written for him and comments on them?
“So true.”
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So when acts of terror are committed by Muslims,
@POTUS
can't wait to Tweet. When they are committed AGAINST Muslims, nothing.
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I don’t know whether it was the bad results on Tuesday or what, but
@realDonaldTrump
has seemed particularly unhinged since.
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So under
@GovAbbott
’s new order, counties in Texas, regardless of size, are limited to ONE drop off box for ballots.
So Harris County (Houston), 1,777 square miles, has to close 11 of 12 drop off locations.
This is about as subtle as a screen door on a submarine.
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The whole
@RepLizCheney
saga has been so clarifying. She’s as conservative as they come. Her only sin was to call BS on Trump’s election fraud. For that, she will be expelled as a
@GOP
leader. The party is branding itself.
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Is anyone talking about the Mattis letter? About Cohen, Manafort or the probe?
@realDonaldTrump
is getting just what he wants out of this shutdown fight. He is the center of attention in his own, made up drama, for which he is getting high fives from his noisy base. For now.
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No American or the world can take confidence from what we just witnessed.
In the midst of an epic crisis-a moment that calls for calm, steady leadership, the
@POTUS
shows himself to be deeply unstable and erratic.
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If you’re not worried about our democracy, you’re not paying attention.
And that’s exactly what those who would undo it are counting on!
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Impossible to believe that as the Secret Service was evacuating Pence, Trump wasn’t informed.
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140,000 deaths couldn’t sway the
@POTUS
on masks; distancing.
But a spate of disastrous polls finally did.
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Love her or hate her, she's lookin' pretty darned good right about now, wouldn't you say?
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Mind-boggling to see Larry Kudlow, the POTUS’s chief economic adviser on
@CNN
today, saying that what we need are incentives to encourage people to go back to work, as if the problem is lack of desire on the part of American workers.
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The thing that struck me in going to one of these big vaccination mega-sites in a stadium parking lot is just how helpful, kind and joyful all the volunteers and medical personnel were.
Community is such a powerful thing.
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Powell; Mullen; Dempsey-three former chairs of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-have rebuked the
@POTUS
. So have Generals Mattes and Allen. America’s most highly respected former military leaders are speaking out.
This is unprecedented.
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Every state in the country should follow CT’s lead and position drop off boxes in every community for mail-in ballots to account for the obstacles being put up by USPS.
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The most jarring thing about this week has been how fundamentally submissive this
@POTUS
has been. For all his bluster bravado, what the world saw was a shockingly weak president.
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“Yes, the man pointed a gun at you and demanded your wallet. But did he ever say, ‘This is a robbery?’ And if he didn’t say ‘this is a robbery’ how, sir, could it be a robbery?!?
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Remarkable that we know
@realDonaldTrump
spoke with Putin yesterday only because the KREMLIN read out the call.
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My daughter is a Special Olympian. It has been a tremendous, enriching experience for her and millions of others. Zeroing out funding for the
@SpecialOlympics
is a heartless act that I hope and trust Congress will reject.
Cuts to autism funding and ending all for
@SpecialOlympics
is outrageous. When I was chair of the House Budget Cmte, we worked to balance the budget & these types of programs were off limits – for good reason. Hope ldrs in DC stop this ridiculous proposal.
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People who cooperate with prosecutors are “weak.” People who don’t are “brave.”
So says the President of the United States.
Think about that.
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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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What is really enraging about politics is the degree to which so many so-called leaders would sooner see the country fail than elected officials of the other party succeed.
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As one after another 5-4 rulings of this SCOTUS on voting rights, abortion rights, the travel ban and more are announced, the full meaning of
@SenMajLdr
‘s unconscionable, nearly year- long blockade against the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland is manifest.
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What Alex Jones did to the Sandy Hook families and the memory of their children is sick and depraved.
I hope they take him for every penny he’s got.
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Unless some better explanation surfaces, here’s the lesson of this weird turn in the Smollett case:
You can contrive a hate crime, make it a national news, get caught and-if you are a well-connected celebrity-get off for $10K and have your record expunged and files sealed.
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Jobs grew faster in the last three years of the
@BarackObama
administration than during the first three of of the Trump Administration.
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Apparently news directors have had their fill of
@realDonaldTrump
rallies posing as COVID-19 briefings. Only Fox News is carrying right now.
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We have completely jumped the shark as a nation. The world looks at us in absolute bewilderment as we slaughter each other with guns, and throw our hands up in resignation.
It's pathetic.
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Half century later,
@realDonaldTrump
finally is headed to Vietnam in the service of his country!
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
-The late, great Abraham Lincoln
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I never thought in my lifetime that America would divide into a pro-democracy party and another wedded to an autocrat but it appears that this is where we are.
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When you line up all of
@realDonaldTrump
’s flagrant lies about COVID-19 dating back to January, why would anyone have confidence in anything he says about it now?
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This is extraordinary. $600 BILLION in taxpayer money, directed to business loans. And they won’t say who got the money!?!
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It is jarring when the evening news begins with a disclaimer suggesting to Americans that they might want to excuse their kids lest they hear the vile, racist language the
@POTUS
used today.
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One question:
What the Mueller probe established, according to the AG, is that the Russians hacked the DNC and engaged in an aggressive, covert campaign to influence our election.
So why did
@realDonaldTrump
stand next to Putin in Helsinki and meekly accept his denials?
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.
@joebiden
is looking very good here. Strong. Command. Rising to the moment of crisis. Best he’s been in 11 debates.
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