Richard Stengel
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Former Under Secretary of State in Obama admin & Editor @TIME . Co-chair, @CARE . Political analyst @MSNBC . Book: "Information Wars." Threads: therickstengel
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I always told my journalists, there aren’t two sides to a lie. Yes, you should be non-partisan, but not neutral. Journalists must be biased in favor of the truth and facts. Biased in favor of democracy itself. We protect the press so the press can protect democracy. Let’s do that
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Mr. President, just to clarify things, I wanted to offer a few statistics. Number of times you were Person of the Year during the 7 years I was editor of Time: 0. Number of times you were on the cover: 0. Number of times you made the Time 100 influentials list: 0. Thanks anyway!
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We've had presidents who were competent but corrupt (Nixon) and presidents who were incompetent but not corrupt (Hoover), but we've never had a president who was utterly incompetent and utterly corrupt.
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Mr. President, when you've been in office for more than three years, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to blame the previous administration for not being prepared for something that happened on your watch.
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The great Jim Clyburn on Manchin's insistence that a voting rights bill be bipartisan.“I am a Black person, descended of people who were given the vote by the 15th Amendment. The 15th amendment was not a bipartisan vote, it was a single party vote that gave us the right to vote”
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Trump paid his daughter, who was a full-time employee of his company, $747,622 in consulting fees on three hotel deals, and then wrote off the consulting fees as a business expense. He's a fraud in every conceivable way possible.
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Why doesn't Chief Justice Roberts hold Trump in contempt for his disrespect of the Senate trial and his threatening of his chief prosecutor?
Shifty Adam Schiff is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and probably a very sick man. He has not paid the price, yet, for what he has done to our Country!
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PLEASE STOP TELEVISING THESE CORONA CAMPAIGN RALLIES LIVE. THEY ARE BAD FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
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The celebrations look a lot like those in countries that have just toppled a dictator.
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By the way, Trump now has the search warrant and the inventory of what was taken in his possession. If this raid was so egregious and unjustified, why not release them?
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Hate to tell you but that PROBABLY means you’re NOT Person of the Year. They just wanted a photo shoot. But I’m sure you still have that fake TIME cover somewhere in storage.
Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year,” like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!
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Blaming Biden for Afghanistan is like saying the last batter in a 9-inning 10-to-nothing rout was responsible for the loss.
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Let’s be clear, the Russians did not meddle in our election. They committed an act of cyber warfare against the very foundation of our democracy.
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The president of the United States reads Nielsen's weekly TV ratings more closely than he does his daily intelligence brief.
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Let's see, it's safe to mail Social Security checks, prescription drugs, and your driver's license, but not to vote? Undermining the USPS is the backdoor of undermining the election. Support USPS.
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"Obamagate" has zero substance and is simply a grotesque signal to Trump's own base that our culture will always be "Us against Them" and that somehow Trump supporters will always be conspired against by "Them." Sad and dangerous.
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If you preserve the filibuster and lose our democracy by not being able to pass voting rights legislation, what exactly is the point of preserving the filibuster?
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Republicans are complaining that states and officials who are trying to make it easier and more convenient for people to vote are "stealing our election." I think that's called democracy.
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If you ever needed an object lesson in why the stock market is not the economy, on the morning of historic levels of people filing for unemployment insurance, the market opens by going up hundreds of points.
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It's appalling and, frankly, disqualifying that the sitting vice president of the US and the person designated with leading America's response to the coronavirus cannot bring himself to say that, No, Democrats do not want millions of Americans to die from the coronavirus.
On CNN, Mike Pence not only refused to disagree with Donald Trump Jr's assertion that Democrats are rooting for coronavirus to kill millions of people to hurt Trump -- but Pence even characterized Don Jr's sentiment as "understandable"
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A head of state firing a prosecutor investigating him is something that we always criticize in authoritarian countries. Now it is happening here.
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What's clear is that from the moment the genome sequencing of the coronavirus was published in January, we should have started mass producing tests right away. South Korea did as well as other nations. Why didn't we? Without tests, we were driving at night with no headlights.
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My New Year's resolution: Let's save our democracy in 2022.
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Why aren't the reporters at these pseudo news-conferences prepared with questions with actual facts and dates and knowledge so they can push back on rampant misinformation from the president?
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Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says that Rupert Murdoch's media empire is a "cancer on democracy" in the U.S., U.K. and Australia.
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How comforting—and inspiring—it is to see a president of the United States we don't have to be embarrassed about, who has class and brains and empathy, who understands that a president needs to speak to every American, and not just some of us. Thank you, Obama.
#GraduateTogether
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Can’t think of anything better than this FDR quote to describe Lt Col Vindman today: “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
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Well, if we bail out the post office, at least we know they won’t spend it on stock buybacks.
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No separation of powers. No Congressional oversight. No checks and balances. This is how democracy dies.
Mitch McConnell: Everything I do during this, I’m coordinating with White House Counsel. There will be no difference between the President’s position and our position as to how to handle this
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I've always wondered why Trump, a supposed billionaire, doesn't seem to have a stand-alone house of his own, that he stays at his golf courses or lives above the stores at Trump Tower. Now we know: he writes off every single dollar of his living expenses as a business expense.
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Trump falsehood: "NY got off to a very late start." NY was far ahead of Trump and federal government, with quarantining and staying at home. Trump was still saying it would go away when Cuomo was ringing alarm bells.
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Under the Constitution, a sitting president has certain protections that an ordinary citizen does not, but an ex-president has none of those. An ex-president, under the constitution, is to be treated no differently than an ordinary citizen.
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Why is CNN televising a Trump campaign rally? This is a multi-million dollar contribution to his re-election campaign.
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Nothing quite says banana republic like a presidential candidate saying he will "go after" his predecessor if elected.
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Trump thought being president meant you could order the states around. He didn't understand that in a federal system, the governors have the power. Now he's pitting the states & governors against each other in a kind of reality TV contest that will be lethal for Americans.
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With all the revelations in Bolton's book, always remember that Jared, Ivanka, Pompeo, Mnuchin, Pence etc have all seen much much worse.
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Trump giving his convention speech on the South Lawn is the clearest conceivable violation of the Hatch Act. 100s of White House staffers would be violating it, not to mention charges of criminal appropriation of Congressional funds for political purposes.
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Lack of testing is the signature failure of the Trump administration. It is the key to everything—which the president never understood. They should have launched a Manhattan project for testing. That's what a federal govt does in wartime.
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This is the most chilling part of the interview. We need to be ready.
TRUMP: "I think mail-in voting is going to rig the election."
WALLACE: "Are you suggesting that you might not accept the results?"
TRUMP: "I have to see."
WALLACE: "Can you give a direct answer that you will accept the election?
TRUMP: "I have to see."
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Justice Kagan today: “The framers did not put an immunity clause into the Constitution. They knew how to; there were immunity clauses in some state constitutions. They didn’t provide immunity to the president. And, you know — not so surprising — they were reacting against a…
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Trump's twitter feed is a window into his mind and what a deeply unserious place it is, filled with grievance and insecurity and conspiracy theories and lack of any kind of rigorous thinking. That's the mind of the President of the United States.
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NATO is not a Queens NY apartment complex. There are no "dues," you can't be in "arears," they don't "owe" us anything. It's a military alliance where countries agree to spend 2% of their GDP for defense & to support each other against aggression.
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When Putin illegally annexed Crimea he used unmarked soldiers and unmarked vehicles.
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Just a stunningly corrupt conflict of interest: the president of the United States promoting the re-opening of his own golf club. Is it possible that he is just so extraordinarily ignorant that this is a wildly ethically inappropriate thing to do?
So great to see our Country starting to open up again!
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Congratulations, Mr. President, with one reckless move, you have ceded Iraq to Iran, put our soldiers and our allies at greater risk, given ISIS a reprieve, united a divided Iran which will now revive its nuclear weapons program. Well done, Sir.
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Remember, Biden's job was to fire the prosecutor who REFUSED to prosecute the firm that employed his son. A prosecutor that the EU, the IMF & others wanted fired because he refused to prosecute corruption. Biden was doing what was in the nation's interest, not his son's interest.
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It's still hard for me to fathom that a former president of the US, a former Secretary of State, and other members of the same party can take the side of the dictator who is attacking the foundations of the very system of int'l democracy that we shed blood and tears to create.
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Just saying, this is also from the guy who used to call reporters pretending to be his own publicist and expected them to print every word.
President Trump: "It's frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write, and people should look into it."
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What I don't understand about one-on-one interviews with the president is this: his answers are always predictable/the same, why doesn't the interviewer have actual FACTS to challenge Trump's disinformation? There's no actual information in what
@potus
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A big thank you to everyone who has sent condolences for my mother whom I mentioned last night on
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1. His "absolute authority" is bogus. No "absolute" authority under constitution.
2. No such thing as "re-opening" economy. It's his dumb phraseology which no one should repeat.
3. He's turning the "decision" into a game show moment which we shouldn't buy into.
4. We decide.
NEW: Trump spoke of his “absolute authority” to re-open the economy, calling it “the biggest decision I’ve ever had to make.”
Governors, mayors and economists are rolling their eyes:
“The government can’t force you to take risks you don’t want to take.”
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Here's a tip for the House Oversight Committee: A former US president is receiving unspecified millions from a foreign power which the US intelligence community says assassinated a journalist who wrote for a US newspaper. Surely worth investigating.
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Trump said that "80 million" mail-in ballots will overwhelm the system. In fact, the USPS delivers twice that amount of First Class mail a day, and they deliver 2.5 billion pieces of mail during Christmas week.
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OPEC is not our friend. The US now produces more crude oil than Saudi Arabia. We don't need them, or want them.
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I just don't think it's useful—or good journalism—to endlessly repeat Trump lies, accusations & conspiracy theories. He's exploiting the Liar's Dividend, which is that repeating the lie legitimizes the idea of debate around it, and leaves a lingering question in the reader's mind
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Regarding the "poisoning of the blood"—the whole point of America is that we do not have and never have had a common blood. We do not have and never have had a common religion, or a common ethnicity, or a common heritage. What we do have is an uncommon set of ideas, that all…
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Zero sentiments expressed for the people who were killed.
Zero criticism of the murderer.
Zero condemnation of anti-Semitism.
Zero recognition of need to change gun laws -- instead, he blames the victims.
Presidential rating: Zero.
President Trump says if Tree of Life Synagogue had "some kind of a protection inside the temple," the perpetrator of today's shooting could have been stopped: "They didn't, and he was able to do things that unfortunately he shouldn’t have been able to do.”
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You are Individual-1, an unindicted co-conspirator, in a felony case in the southern district of NY.
.....are there no “High Crimes and Misdemeanors,” there are no Crimes by me at all. All of the Crimes were committed by Crooked Hillary, the Dems, the DNC and Dirty Cops - and we caught them in the act! We waited for Mueller and WON, so now the Dems look to Congress as last hope!
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Ha, blaming the messenger, as usual. On Jan 31, WHO declared COVID-19 a global health emergency. On Feb. 26, 27 days later, you said, "The 15 cases within a couple of days is going to be down close to zero." You blew it.
The W.H.O. really blew it. For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China centric. We will be giving that a good look. Fortunately I rejected their advice on keeping our borders open to China early on. Why did they give us such a faulty recommendation?
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You wouldn’t visit the cemetery for American soldiers in France because it was drizzling.
Well, it happened again. Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)!
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There's no graceful departure from a war—especially a war that was never winnable. And there's no good explanation for how some people are using the tragedy of a terrorist attack against our troops for partisan purposes.
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The key to understanding Trump on any issue is that his reaction is based entirely on how the issue effects him personally: his wealth, his status, his popularity. Concerns about country are virtually non-existent. America Last.
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I’m kind of dumbfounded by the journalistic pivot away from the Mueller report. If someone gave you a brief synopsis of War and Peace written by a hostile critic, do you then think that you have read the book?
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Jared Kushner: "He's running on his track record of creating the greatest economy in our country." Trump will be first president since Herbert Hoover to lose jobs during his first term. 40 million people unemployed. 50 million people food insecure. The economy is a disaster.
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If Trump has a philosophy, I believe this is it. George Orwell, 1984: “I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don’t want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”
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The journalistic trope of saying we are “deeply divided” is a normalizing frame and a moral dodge. Yes, we were “deeply divided” during the Civil War, but the two sides were not equal: one was in favor of enslaving human beings. One candidate already has tried to overturn an…
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The payments went to a shell company called Trump Las Vegas Sales & Marketing. No employees, no payroll, very little revenue. Then Trump (illegally) wrote off at least $21 million of it and then (illegally) donated it to his own campaign.
#VOTE
—then prosecute.
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So, the government of the world's greatest dealmaker bends over backwards to make a deal with our enemy (the Taliban) without making a deal with our ally (the Afghan government) and then it blows up in our face. Who would have thought? Trump is dangerously incompetent.
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The two guys happiest with the Iowa results are Donald Trump and his pal Vladimir Putin. Please don't subscribe to conspiracy theories launched by either one of them. Simple human incompetence is almost always the right explanation.
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Journalists need to figure out different language to describe what's happening in Ukraine. When Putin razes Mariupol to the ground, that's not a "victory"—it's an obscenity. Let's not normalize it by saying he's "winning." These are criminal acts on a vast scale.
#StandWithUkraine
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Welcome to the Trump Economy. Dow is a 1000 points lower than when White House got its tax bill passed last year. Individual-1 likes unpredictability; Wall Street doesn't.
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The National Enquirer is to journalism what Donald Trump is to the presidency: a noxious, sleazy, corrupt imitation of the real thing.
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Modern democracies die by voting themselves out of power. They elect autocrats who unravel that democracy. Why would you ever vote to make your vote not matter?
#VoteBlueIn2022
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Shouldn't we have a system whereby bills passed in the House must be voted on in the Senate? Why should one man—the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell—prevent the Senate from voting on gun control, campaign finance reform, voting protection. Is that democratic? Is that fair?
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As Trump assassinates Soleimani and attacks Iran, a reminder that the Trump Org did a shady deal for a hotel in Baku with a massively corrupt family with ties to Iran's Revolutionary Guard, which Soleimani headed.
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This is a clear example of Russian disinformation happening in real time. A hashtag created & promoted by Russia Today against Kamala Harris & supporting Rep. Gabbard, who is an apologist for another Putin puppet, Bashar Assad. This is a sign that Harris is seen as a threat.
And what’s top story at RT (Russia Today) this morning after
#DemDebate
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Attention voters in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi: President Trump removed $44 billion from FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund just as hurricane Laura started bearing down on you. Please be safe.
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What he did was intentionally falsify business records to hide an unreported in-kind contribution to his presidential campaign. It's not a hush money case; it's an election interference case.
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In journalism, the pursuit of balance is very often a trap. (A trap that is exploited by bad actors.) Treating both sides of an argument as equal when one side is demonstrably false is not balanced—it’s wrong. Literally wrong, and morally wrong.
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It's always a good thing when an American president directly addresses the Russian people and says, You are not our enemy, but that your leaders are taking actions that are not worthy or representative of the Russian people.
#StandWithUkraine
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We still need a proper counter-intelligence investigation of Trump’s extensive 30-year ties to Russia and why he remains so beholden to them? Our democracy is at risk.
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When FDR saw gangsters with machine guns killing people & committing crimes with impunity, he proposed a law that taxed these weapons out of existence. And the NRA approved. Within a year, you couldn't even find a machine gun to buy in America. Get it done
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Once upon a time Republican leadership staged an intervention for Richard Nixon, they need to do another one now.
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Hard to get 75% of Americans to agree that the sky is blue. This is an overwhelming bi-partisan majority for witnesses. Americans want fairness—and know it when they don't see it.
75% of voters say allow witnesses in Senate impeachment trial, Poll finds; 53% say
#PresidentTrump
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#Impeachment
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Well, Mike, there was another president who stood before the American people and said other fellow countrymen were a threat to the nation and his name was Abraham Lincoln. And he, too, asked the nation to come together. Again and again.
Never before in the history of our nation has a President stood before the American people and accused millions of his own countrymen of being a “threat to this country.” To top it off, President Biden had the audacity to claim, “I’m asking our nation to come together, to unite.”
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"I took the oil...'The only troops I have are taking the oil." He doesn't think like the elected leader of a republic, but like a mob boss, a brigand, a racketeer. And the saddest—and most dangerous— part is that he doesn't know the difference.
Here’s a preposterously spray-tanned President of the United States bragging about war crimes on TV tonight. This is normal now.
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Question: What does Donald Trump have in common with Herbert Hoover? Answer: Trump will be the first president since Hoover in to end his term with a net job loss. (That's almost 90 years ago.) He's the worst jobs president since Hoover—also a one-term president.
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VOTER FRAUD is itself a fraud. The highest measured rate of voter fraud in our elections is 0.0003%. It is virtually non-existent. Not so with voter suppression, which you are leading around the country because you fear true democracy and the people's voice.
All levels of government and Law Enforcement are watching carefully for VOTER FRAUD, including during EARLY VOTING. Cheat at your own peril. Violators will be subject to maximum penalties, both civil and criminal!
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Can anyone imagine President Richard Nixon citing Russian president Brezhnev in his defense against impeachment? It's unimaginable, yet Donald Trump not only cites our principal adversary in his defense, but the adversary for whom he abused power in the first place.
#IMPOTUS
American president proudly showcasing Putin's endorsement.
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Noble prizes? First of all, it's Nobel prizes. Second of all, I think he means Pulitzers; reporters don't win Nobels. Third, at a time of a pandemic, why isn't this string of tweets prima facie evidence of the necessity of the 25th amendment being invoked?
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Mr. President, you know what rattles the markets? An incoherent head of state who has the wrong number of coronavirus patients, who underplays the threat, who doesn't know how many people die from the flu, and who has "acting" cabinet officers and wants to cut CDC/NIH budget.
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This tweet perfectly summarizes
@potus
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Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!
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This is a shame. The ambassador has been forced to resign for telling the truth about a president who lies constantly and reflexively.
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Almost 20 years ago when I was CEO of the wonderful National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, I hosted a talk with Sandra Day O'Connor who said to me, "Someday we're going to pay a terrible price for having stopped teaching civics in this country." She was right of course.
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Trump is the smallest man to ever occupy the presidency.
The first clip from Sean Hannity's big interview with the president features POTUS talking about Michael Bloomberg's height.
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