The greatest danger is not realizing the greatest danger. I wrote "The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Democracy to Autocracy" as a plea to grasp the true danger facing America.
I hope you will consider pre-ordering to help spread this warning.…
If Mike Pence is going to be praised for not stealing an election, I’d like to get some acknowledgement that I drove by 11 banks today and didn’t rob a single one.
So when your daughter comes home from school crying because boys called her names the president routinely uses to denigrate women, just explain to her that we cut marginal tax rates for corporations and everything will be fine.
Mike Pence was surrounded by a conspiracy to end democracy in America. He didn’t call the FBI. He didn’t alert the public. He waited to see if it would succeed. When it was clear it would fail, at the last minute he threw in with the winning side.
Dow is over 36,000, unemployment has dropped from 6.3 in Jan. to 4.8. Over 5 million jobs added, a record. 220m vaccines in 10 months. And only 30% of country think US is on right track. The Democratic Party has a huge messaging problem.
To my new Dem pals, I’m begging you, be happy. Please.
@JoeBiden
is racking up more votes than any candidate in history. You flipped Az, Mi, Wi, NE2. You’re going to flip Pa. & probably Ga. You beat an incumbent president. You elected first Black woman VP. Savor it. You won.
Still remember when Trump addressed the national Boy Scout Jamboree and talked about an orgy on a yacht, so, yeah, kind of refreshing to hear Barack Obama talk to kids.
If Mike Pence deserves praise for asserting that he didn’t have authority to overthrow the American government, I’d like to be recognized for the character it took not to rob a single bank I passed on the way to the grocery store.
His campaign manager is a felon. His deputy campaign manager is a felon. His personal lawyer is a felon. His foreign policy advisor is a felon. His national security advisor is a felon. The Trump campaign was run by criminals.
All my Republican friends who still don’t get it:
@vp
is the past. Odds are good
@KamalaHarris
will dominate American politics for the next decade. You had a chance to fight for a decent version of conservatism and you failed. Now you’ll live with the consequences.
Just remember: almost every Republican didn’t want America to learn what we are learning. And no Republican leader has said they will not support Trump if he is the nominee. These are not patriots. These are men - and they are mostly men - who care about power, not their country.
Every one of the lawyers who Trump uses in effort to suppress the vote should be exposed. Their firms should be held accountable. Corporate clients should be asked why they are working with lawyers who are trying to derail democracy. Hold them responsible.
President Trump denies he’ll declare victory early but says, “I don’t think it’s fair that we have to wait for a long period of time after the election...We’re going in the night of — as soon as the election is over — we’re going in with our lawyers.”
My one Tom Hanks story. Was out West skiing. Ended up on road connecting 2 areas. Snowing like hell. Had flat tire. Get out, start doing usual. SUV pulls over, guy gets out. Damn near white out now. Both of us freezing. We get it done. At end introduce ourselves. Tom Hanks.
In 2004 when we were making convention film for President Bush, we were explicitly prohibited from using official White House shot video. Now Trump WH is not only using video but paying for full production. This is probably $500,000 of your tax dollars.
On a personal level, what haunts me about Jan. 6th Committee is that for years I actually believed I was working for a party that cared about rule of law. That’s been exposed as a monstrous fraud. I was so naive. It was all a lie.
2008. Sarah Pallin: “Barack Obama is palling around with terrorists.”
2019. Donald Trump invites Taliban to hang out at Camp David on anniversary of 9/11.
As a former R. consultant I bear responsibility for the democracy eating monster the party became, so I get Dems don’t want to hear this from me. But I’d plead with Dems to rally around
@POTUS
. He’s your guy. You’re going to win with him or lose with him. Make the choice to win.
If the US was a country having an election under UN supervision, the UN would be putting out a statement calling the president’s statement illegal and undemocratic. That’s where we are, folks. From a shining city on a hill to a thug trying to stop democracy.
Guys, it’s Trump or Biden. Live in the real world. If you saw Donald Trump tonight and aren’t supporting Biden, you are helping elect Trump. It’s not complicated.
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
- Atticus Finch
To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee
People close to her say one reason - perhaps not only one - is that she was aware how awful life would/will be for her on the outside after defending his policies for a long tome.
Can you imagine Bill Clinton saying he and Saddam Hussein are in agreement in their shared criticism of George Bush? A President is using credibility of a dictator who tortured an American to death & runs a prison camp country to help his campaign. So anti-American. Disgrace.
What
@POTUS
is doing is very methodically saving the world. This is a moment he has prepared for his entire life. The 2020 election should be regarded as most consequential since WW2. That will hold true until 2024. Democracy was and is very much on the ballot
I don’t really get how Republicans believe Bill Clinton lying about sex is impeachable but Michael Flynn lying about his contacts with a hostile foreign power makes him a martyr.
WATCH Hillary at Oct 19, 2016 debate warning Trump will try to break up NATO because it's on "Putin's wish list." She also predicts Putin was hacking 2016 election to help Trump win which was just confirmed by GOP led Senate Intel Committee. Like today Trump denies Russia did it:
What is most striking about the Republican Party is the total abandonment of any pretense that kindness or compassion are admirable human qualities. Donald Trump has spent decades proving he sees these as weakness and now the Republican Party has eagerly embraced the same.
Republicans who support Trump know he is degrading office of presidency & harming America’s security. But they are willing to go along with hurting their country because they think it keeps them in power. Which is pretty much the definition of what it means not to be a patriot.
Trump is moving into the Late Elvis stage of presidency. Everyone around him trying to make as much money as they can fast and doctor giving him whatever he orders up.
His campaign manager is a felon. His deputy campaign manager is a felon. His NSA is a felon. His foreign policy advisor is a felon. His longtime personal lawyer is a felon. But the defense is he cares about corruption?
This is guy who had sex with porn star ten days after his youngest son was born and sent best wishes from the WH to a woman arrested for being at center of international child rape ring.
Didn’t take long for Mueller to once again vindicate President
@realDonaldTrump
. No collusion. No obstruction. And now Mueller all but admits it was all along a total witch hunt
In 2000, it took 29 days for Bush to win. In 2004, it took an extra day. President Bush moved forward as if he had won large mandate. President Biden should do the same. Be bold, be big. More Americans will have voted for him than any president in US history.
The problem with basing your campaign on the other guy having dementia, when he shows up and is sharp as hell, you don’t have a message. Your campaign just collapsed. Trump is a moron.
Just a reminder that it was Black voters in Alabama who saved their state from an accused child molester as Senator. Close to 70% of whites voted for the accused child molester.
I’d blame Senator Warren if she had been using violent rhetoric and trying to score political points and raise money stoking fears about an invasion. She’s not. You know the difference. Why carry water for Donald Trump, a man you know is an idiot?
Trump Trade War In Four Acts:
—Act One: Threaten to burn down your own house.
-Act Two: Your family tells you it’s a really bad idea to burn down the house.
-Act Three: Agree Not to burn house down
-Act Four: Put out press release demanding praise from family for saving home
I am pleased to inform you that The United States of America has reached a signed agreement with Mexico. The Tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the U.S. on Monday, against Mexico, are hereby indefinitely suspended. Mexico, in turn, has agreed to take strong measures to....
I appreciate Pence could have hurt America more than he did but let’s get real. He was surrounded by a plot to end democracy & called Dan Quayle, not the FBI. He didn’t hold a press conference to warn. He waited to see who was going to win & threw in with them at last moment.
I fought a lot of battles for Republicans. Helped elect governors or Senator in over half the country. But Republicans defending Wikileaks & defending Russian attacks on American democracy crosses line from partisan warfare to unAmerican. It’s a violation of their oath of office.
As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the....
The Tx. GOP is largest state GOP in country. Every Tx. statewide elected official is member. Their official position is Biden is illegal president. This is 1860. Let’s not pretend that
@GOP
isn’t an anti-democratic radical group. Listen to what they are saying. They believe it.
As someone who spent years working for Republicans, what has really struck me about this whole impeachment process, starting with House hearings, is just how much goddamn smarter the Democrats come across. It’s not even close.
I expected this post-Nov 3rd but in last 24 hours hearing from some prominent R’s supporting Trump -and one top Trump staffer - asking how best to find the exit ramp. My answer is simple: never too early or too late to do the right thing. How it’s done won’t mater after it’s done
Keep pointing out that Gore 2000 campaign received stolen Bush debate book, which would have helped tremendously in prep. (I had one of few copies; it was well done.) They turned it over to FBI. That stolen info came from Austin, not Russia. What Rudy is saying is so absurd.
Stunned by the number of people, including Rudy Giuliani, who confess the belief that anyone in politics would take stolen information from an adversarial foreign government to win an election. In this view, there are no means to victory that are not justified by victory.
There have been 116 Justices of the Supreme Court. Only 5 have been confirmed by Senators not representing a majority of the voters. All 5 are on Court today.
Look,
@NikkiHaley
, you supported Trump after he mocked John McCain, attacked a Gold Star family, called fallen military heroes “losers and suckers,” and tried to order military to attack Americans.
You said you’d support Trump if he was convicted of a felony.
So now he mocks…
Michael is deployed serving our country, something you know nothing about. Someone who continually disrespects the sacrifices of military families has no business being commander in chief.
This is basically a Rico indictment of the Republican Party. As it should be. Every Republican elected official who refused to acknowledge the winner of the 2020 election is an unindicted co-conspirator.
So the Republican
#PASen
R primary will likely be decided by the late mail votes that all the Republican candidates say should not have been counted in 2020 and were the illegal votes Biden used to steal Pa.
Got it.
This actually says a lot about Trump campaign & why Trump is losing. When a campaign has such little control that it can’t stop a president’s son with obvious addiction issues from repeatedly going on TV while under the influence, there is little to be done to save a campaign.
It is really something to see Republicans lining up to attack a man who was wounded in Vietnam saving a fellow Marine, dedicated his life to service, all in defense of a draft dodger elected with help of Russians. It’s like they are auditioning to be the dog Trump doesn’t want.
I have no desire to understand or compromise with the people who laugh about an 82 year old man attacked with a hammer. I don’t care about their motivation or what happened to them to make them enthusiastically support a rapist. I just want to defeat their candidates and stop…
Trump sneers about Nancy Pelosi, whose husband was assaulted by a deranged MAGA: "How's her husband doing, anybody know?"
He adds that the wall around her house "didn't do a very good job."
How is it Republicans can pretend the country is threatened by four freshman Congresswomen because they want universal healthcare but ignore a Republican president who is undoing a half-century of foreign policy stability because he gets love letters from a mass murderer.
Trump lauds new "very beautiful letter" from Kim Jong un in which Kim tells Trump he "wasn't happy" with US war games with South Korea. Trump agrees they shouldn't happen. Says South Korea should reimburse US.
One point on 2016 campaign. It’s impossible to overstate the utter insanity & treachery of a major American campaign being contacted by Russians & not immediately calling FBI. Trump campaign had over 100 contacts. No previous R or D campaign in history would have done this. 1/2
South Carolina is a socialist state. It gets more money back from Fed gov compared to taxes paid than any state in country. Over 30% of entire state budget is paid by hard working taxpayers in more successful states.
It is impossible to watch Trump’s two hour meltdown at CPAC and think this person is of sound mind. Republicans are now in Weekend At Bernie’s territory.
I’m a 7th gen Mississippian. I’ve helped elect Gov’s and Senators in Ms., Al., Ga, Tx, Ok. , NC. , Fl. Trump will lose more white voters with his Confederate defense than gain. Majority very much want to move past Civil War & hatred, not relive it. NASCAR gets it. Trump doesn’t.
How can anyone question
@TheAtlantic
story when Trump said what he said about John McCain in public? Does anyone seriously think he doesn’t say worse in private?
Republicans who are asking why they keep losing elections are like the guy who walks into the ER with a nail in his head, asking why he has a headache.
A party led by a rapist that believes it can fix its problem with women by attacking Taylor Swift, with weird little creeps…
I will donate $10K to
@NikkiHaley
PAC if she can name one kindergarten in America “under CRT” or one that tells white kindergartners “they are bad because they are white.” She’s a liar.
Haley: 90% of our American kids are now under CRT and what that means is that a little girl goes into kindergarten, if she’s white, you’re telling her she’s bad..
If West holds firm & actually cripples the lifestyles of Russian oligarchs, seize yachts, jets and bank accounts, throw their kids out of fancy private schools, maybe their actually is a chance they turn on Putin. Hard to imagine they care more about Ukraine than their lifestyle.
Over last three years, watching Republicans blow fifty years of self-definition as the strong, realistic party on foreign policy leads to only one conclusion: they never believed what they said. It was all a lie.
.
@ChuckTodd
says Kennedy's accusations about Ukraine sound like "an active propaganda campaign by Russia to get people like you to say these things."
"You apparently were briefed about this [in the Senate]. ... You didn't attend that briefing?"
@SenJohnKennedy
: "No."
#MTP
It’s painful to look at a party you worked for & see it as a threat to most of the values we once claimed to hold. But when in
@ProjectLincoln
we say “America or Trump,” that is the realistic choice. I wish it was different. But it’s not.
@JoeBiden
Former GOP Strategist tells Jake Tapper, "I spent decades working in this party and the only way I can look at it now is say burn it down. Just burn it down and start over"
@stuartpstevens
discusses
For every former Trump official clingingto “I’m proud of what we accomplished,” quit lying to yourself. Every day you worked for Trump you helped destroy decency, civility & democracy. That others were worse means nothing. You aided & abetted & defended a monster. That’s on you.
I’ve help elect 30-something Republican Senators and governors, five presidential campaigns and seeing the RNC tweeting about “winning”hours after a massacre of Jews in America makes me sick. What is worth this?