Philip Bump
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Washington Post national columnist. How To Read This Chart newsletter. Author of The Aftermath, NYT editor’s pick. If closing replies annoys you, it's working.
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True to form, even when attempting to disparage me, James Comer gets the facts wrong. A badge of honor nonetheless.
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Today someone sent me hate email in all caps so I told him that I had a disorder where I couldn't read capital letters and he retyped the whole thing in lowercase.
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Trump says the pandemic of 1918 which he says occurred in 1917 ended the Second World War, which ended in 1945.
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"If there's global warming why is it still cold in winter??" is the rhetorical equivalent of "if there was evolution why are there still monkeys??"
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A notable shift downward in projected deaths from coronavirus is already being spun as "experts were wrong!!" instead of "hey, the thing experts said would drive down deaths might be driving down deaths."
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Remember the ballots found in a river? Didn't happen.
The military ballots in the trash? Not fraud.
Over and over, Trump and his allies hype allegations to create a cloud of suspicion and over and over they don't hold up.
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We're inured to it, but the president publicly calling someone a drugged-up loser while heading to the golf course he owns as past presidents head to a former first lady's memorial service is something.
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Counting ballots isn't a change in the election results. It *is* the election results.
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A dark day: If they can indict Trump for taking classified documents to his house that he knew were classified and that he refused to give back and that he lied about giving back then they can indict ANYONE for doing that.
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Also, Biden didn't actually "take the lead." These votes were always cast. Assuming nothing wild happens, Biden led the whole time. It just looked like he didn't because of the order in which the votes were counted.
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Not only is Trump not Person of the Year, he is mentioned in the piece as both a harasser and a motivation to speak out.
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Five years ago this morning.
Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?
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It's never good news when a bunch of people learn the name of a boat.
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Two years ago this evening.
Crooked Hillary said that I want guns brought into the school classroom. Wrong!
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Sharing this with deep sorrow.
The only regret I have about adopting Lucy almost 12 years ago is that we didn't do so sooner.
A truly wonderful, sweet dog who brought nothing but joy to our lives. I hope more than anything that she will rest in peace.
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If you earned $50,000 a year and then took a pay cut to $20,000 and then got a raise to $30,000, would you celebrate your 50 percent pay raise?
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The just-released transcript of the Devon Archer testimony just completely eviscerates what Comer and Jordan were saying on TV. Totally embarrassing.
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Gorsuch and Kavanaugh both voted to release Trump's financial records.
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The thing about Peter Alexander's question to Trump about Americans being frightened? The one that prompted Trump to lash out at him as a terrible reporter?
A colleague of Alexander's at NBC News just died of covid-19.
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A remarkably bad new poll for Trump: A quarter of his supporters aren't committed to voting for him in 2020 and among independents, who he won in 2016, 62 percent plan to vote against him.
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I missed this last month: The New York Public Library lets people check out ties, briefcases and handbags for important meetings and job interviews.
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Here's the percentage of your life that the U.S. has been at war.
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Credit where it’s due: He nailed this one. (Five years ago to the minute.)
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A quarter of the Republicans who joined Matt Gaetz's semi-demonstration today could have attended the hearing anyway.
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If you think Strzok wanted to use the Russia investigation to hamper Trump's political chances, it's very hard to explain why Strzok didn't use the investigation to hamper Trump's political chances.
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"2000 Mules" in no way proves — or even shows — any real voter or election fraud.
A long thread.
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My dad is the official scorer for the World Series game tonight, which I hesitated to share because people are terrible but so be it. It’s cool as hell.
I’ll just delete this in a bit.
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Again: Trump's campaign launch included paid attendees and the campaign didn't pay the firm that hired them for months.
The paid D.C. protesters are now ready to REALLY protest because they haven’t gotten their checks - in other words, they weren’t paid! Screamers in Congress, and outside, were far too obvious - less professional than anticipated by those paying (or not paying) the bills!
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Pew asked Americans if the U.S. had a responsibility to accept refugees.
No group -- racial, by age, religious or political -- was less supportive of that idea than white evangelical Protestants.
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This report makes clear that the vast amount of reporting by mainstream outlets about Trump and Russia was on the mark.
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Currently 53,000 people watching a livestream of a battle at a nuclear power plant.
Remember when we were like "how could 2022 be more 2020 than 2021"?
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Standing outside the Super Bowl, the NFL spokesman asks sports reporters why they keep wanting to talk about football.
Kellyanne Conway: "Why is everybody so obsessed with the President of the United States that they can't even begin or finish a sentence without mentioning his name five times. It's kind of weird."
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Contrary to Trump’s attempt at deflection, most coronavirus deaths since mid-June have been in red states. Now, nearly three-quarters are.
Take out blue state deaths and we still have the second-highest death toll globally.
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I wrote about the Trump Sharpie-hurricane map and, more broadly, how it reinforces Trump's refusal to concede to reality.
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Honest to God, Trump tweeted this three years ago this morning.
The new joke in town is that Russia leaked the disastrous DNC e-mails, which should never have been written (stupid), because Putin likes me
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I believe I tracked down the building where Donald Trump's father was born. It's now home to a bodega run by a family of Muslim immigrants from Africa, who are aware of the irony.
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Trump said he had nothing to do with Pence's Ireland trip or the USAF stops at Turnberry.
He's also said that about the National Enquirer, eminent domain, the 2018 election losses, Stormy Daniels, soybean price drops and all things Russia.
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Trump not answering a direct question on whether he disavows QAnon is something.
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It was six months ago today that Trump said the country's 15 cases would go down to zero. They instead went up to 5.7 million.
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Millennials and Gen Z have no idea that the most bonkers social network is actually Nextdoor.
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Rep. Gianforte was mad that Ben Jacobs asked him about the Republican health care bill, so he physically threw Jacobs to the ground. He and his campaign lied about what happened until the votes were in, then he admitted guilt.
The president praised this tonight.
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"He inherited the longest economic expansion in history from Barack Obama and Joe Biden. And then, like everything else he inherited, he ran it straight into the ground."
I think that line from Harris right there is the official start of the general election.
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The sheer, unadulterated derangement of the "groomer" discourse is hard to overstate.
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As Tucker Carlson was ranting that Ilhan Omar hated America and was a "fire alarm" about the dangers of immigration, Megan Rapinoe was on CNN arguing for a better, more inclusive America.
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Trump's former personal attorney is going to prison today in part for federal crimes in which Trump is implicated.
Also, there are “No High Crimes & Misdemeanors,” No Collusion, No Conspiracy, No Obstruction. ALL THE CRIMES ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE, and that’s what the Dems should be looking at, but they won’t. Nevertheless, the tables are turning!
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Why *wasn’t* the centennial coin created a long time ago? No one knows.
"I'm curious why wasn't it done a long time ago? And also, I guess the answer to that is because now I'm president, we get things done."
President Trump signs the Woman's Suffrage Centennial Coin Act.
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Imagine if Obama lost in 2012 by 6,000,000 votes, spent weeks claiming he won but the race was stolen, flirted with seizing electors in states he lost and then someone who’d tweeted “the right is crazy” helped try to block vote certification in a heavily red county.
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That Trump hasn't actively come out to condemn the violence at the Capitol reveals both how he feels about it and how sincere his insistences about law and order have been.
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Two-thirds of non-religious Americans believe the country has a duty to accept refugees.
Only a quarter of evangelicals do.
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So OAN promised a pro-Trump poll to counteract the CNN one. It published the poll. It had bad numbers. It tried to frame them in remarkably bad ways. It then unpublished the poll.
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People are misreading this as a claim that the ratings are the highest. Wrong! He's saying that, in history, mathematicians have never identified a number higher than 45.6 million.
Thank you for all of the nice compliments and reviews on the State of the Union speech. 45.6 million people watched, the highest number in history.
@FoxNews
beat every other Network, for the first time ever, with 11.7 million people tuning in. Delivered from the heart!
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Honestly this Robert Mueller seems like he's pretty adept at his job.
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I saw a lot of coverage of how Trump cast Biden as being a far-left candidate.
I saw very little mention of the fact that nearly every position Trump attributed to Biden was invented or false.
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Trump says his polls "went up 17 points in the last two or three days".
That is completely untrue.
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George H.W. Bush was alive while Taft was alive who was alive while Van Buren was alive who was alive while Washington was president.
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Five years ago this morning.
One of the hardest jobs in politics must be cleaning up after
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gaffes. I feel sorry for his spokespeople.
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Rush Limbaugh claimed on "Fox and Friends" that Obama took the citizenship question off the Census. Guess what! He's entirely wrong.
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It's crazy to think that if 20 people decided to make it happen, Pence could be president by sundown.
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"If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation." - Trump's SOTU, 2019
"I believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. One year of Watergate is enough." - Nixon's SOTU, 1974
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Ending the election cycle by attacking Lesley Stahl as fake news — as is almost inevitable — is a wonderful Chekov's gun moment.
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A while back, Twitter made a UI change so if you hit the "new tweet" button while viewing a tweet, your new tweet was a reply to the tweet you were viewing.
Thanks for checking out Post reporting, Mr. President.
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Remarkable percentage of the coverage of this FBI agent allegedly linked to Deripaska not mentioning the Manafort-Deripaska relationship.
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"I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous. It’s actually an important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it." - Trump to WSJ
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In case you missed it yesterday, a government reported strongly indicated that Giuliani was an unwitting ally of a Russian interference effort in last year's election.
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Didn’t watch the interview so maybe I’m missing something, but how are you going to tee Greene up with the pedophile stuff and not be willing or able to quickly dismantle it?
If you’re new to it and find it disdainful, OK, sure, but you owe viewers more.
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Incidentally the last time Trump held a press conference, 136 days ago, was when he encouraged Russia to hack Clinton's emails.
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Nielsen argued that a 314% increase in accused smugglers at the border necessitated separating parents from children.
DHS gave me hard numbers: After the increase, 0.61% of families from October through February included alleged smugglers.
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Guys, I went back to put together a timeline of Giuliani's questionable interactions and you really forget how central he was to ~90% of the scandals in Trump's last three years in office. It's really amazing.
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Powerful editorial in support of a wealth tax.
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Guys I crunched the numbers and I think that maybe Trump's TV-watching, resort-visiting, golf-playing and tweet-tweeting disqualifies him from contention as the "hardest-working president in history."
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This is *such* a tell. The beauty of Twitter (and of blogging for that matter) was that random interesting things might be elevated, might *become* popular.
It is not a how-cool-am-I popularity contest.
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Worth remembering that the two seats tonight that are both running close were won by GOP candidates 7 months ago by 23.4 and 20.5 points.
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With the Stone trial over, time to declassify a big chunk of the Mueller report!
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"Do your job, Sarah!" one member of the White House press corps yells out after Sanders curtails the first press briefing of the month after about 20 minutes.
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As everyone knows, one of the hallmarks of being homeless is spending a lot of time indoors.
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“Trump will go home by Monday” has a very “let’s fully reopen by Easter” vibe to it, with the obvious exception that the former is almost entirely in Trump’s control.
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Also today, new evidence that:
- Trump made false statements to Mueller
- Stephen Miller spread white nationalist rhetoric
- Trump was closer to indicted Giuliani aides than he claimed
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Every single thing about this is incredibly idiotic but none mores than the idea that North Korea would head to the East Coast.
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The worst, laziest argument about the whistleblower complaint is that it’s inaccurate. It’s been shown to be quite accurate — by the White House.
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CNN running a special on overwhelmed hospitals in Brooklyn.
Fox running a special on how companies are giving away free greeting cards and pizzas to hospitals.
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Putting untrue Trump claims in headlines helps spread untrue Trump claims.
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