Todd Zwillich
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Journalism in Washington, often heard hosting 1A & NPR. Former host of The Takeaway from WNYC and "Breaking the Vote" @ Vice News.
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Just so everyone's clear: This would mean that Russia successfully used Grassley, Comer, Fox News and others to damage the President of the United States and make fake info about him an article of faith on the right.
JUST IN: Alexander Smirnov told the feds during an interview after is arrest that "officials associated with Russian intelligence" were involved in passing a story about Hunter Biden.
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“When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” is a threat coined by Miami Police Chief Walter Headley, who promised violent reprisals on black protesters in 1967. He also said: “We don’t mind being accused of police brutality. They haven’t seen anything yet.”
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AG Barr says there may be cases where Blacks are treated differently in the criminal justice system, "I don't think that's necessarily racism."
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"Did the president refuse a request to be interviewed by you and your team?"
"Yes."
For more than a year?
"Yes"
Was that interview vital to your investigation?
"Yes."
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Former acting AG Sally Yates on Russian election interference: "This is not something that happened in the past, this is something that is happening right now, as we sit here today."
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- it was a perfect call
- actually yes I delayed the aid
- Yes I wanted them to investigate Biden
- The whistleblower is a spy
- and also partisan
- Schiff wrote the complaint
- it's all a hoax
- I only care about corruption
- not politics
- Rick Perry made me do it
SCOOP: Trump told House Republicans he made his now infamous phone call to Ukrainian president at the urging of Energy Secretary Rick Perry — a call Trump claimed he didn’t even want to make.
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Kelly Loeffler, a near-billionaire in her final Senate speech, attacks "elites" and the media. "I refuse to be intimidated by the cancel culture."
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Schiff asks if knowingly accepting foreign assistance in the midst of a presidential election is an "unethical thing to do."
MUELLER: "And a crime"
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Joe and Jill Biden paid $1.5 million in income tax on adjusted gross income of $4.580 million in 2018
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Pres Trump tonight:
- Wrongly told the world trade with Europe was suspended
-apparently wrongly said health insurers are waiving out of pocket for treatment
-exempted UK from travel ban (UK has 460 cases to date) unclear why
-detailed no new domestic public health measures
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President Trump, asked about the more than 80,000 Americans who've died of coronavirus:
"Dont ask me, ask China"
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This story actually undersells the bombshell: It’s not that Trump golfs more than the predecessor he attacked for golfing, or that it’s cost taxpayers $118M. It’s that “several million” in public money has gone into the president’s pocket and the WH refuses to tell you how much.
GOLF UPDATE -- 29 DEC 2019:
Trump is at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.
He has now spent 234 days on a golf course he owns in his 1,074 days in office.
It was his 69th day at his course in West Palm Beach.
Taxpayer-paid golf tab: $118.3 million.
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@JeffreyGoldberg
on CNN says his senior admin & military sources...apparently combat veterans and career senior military officers... refused to be named because "they don't want to be inundated with angry tweets and all the rest."
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Rudy Giuliani, on CNN: "I never said there was no collusion between people in the campaign" and Russians.
And on Trump, "He said *he* didn't (collude with Russians.) He didn't say nobody."
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@AOC
says she has received no outreach from
@GOPLeader
or any other Republican after Rep Yoho's insults. "Equally loud is the silence and the pin-drop in the Republican party."
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-Antibiotics don't work vs viruses, they work against bacteria
-the virus is not outpacing antibiotics because it's so brilliant
-There is no scenario under which antibiotics would've treated coronavirus
-if antibiotics worked vs coronaviruses, we would use them to treat colds
Trump calls the virus "a brilliant enemy." He adds, "Antibiotics used to solve every problem" but now "the germ has gotten so brilliant that the antibiotic can't keep up with it." He adds, "There's a whole genius to it." He adds of the virus, "It's hidden, but it's very smart."
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Rep Cummings asked if committee will subpoena Alan Weisselberg, Donald Trump Jr given what Cohen has alleged. "I think we probably will."
"I think there are still a number of shoes to drop."
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"Frankly, the testing has been going very smooth." - President Trump, today.
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WH press briefing: About 15 versions of the same q about WH cocaine, likely brought in by a tourist. It took until the 3rd row to get to a reporter asking about Russian explosives on a Ukr nuclear power plant.
Perfect example of upside down a beltway press priorities.
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@kaitlancollins
reports Trump stopped, went back outside, and re-entered the White House, maskless, appearing to reshoot his entrance for a camera crew inside, for campaign commercial.
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"Richard Burr sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $582,029 and $1.56 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 29 separate transactions."
NEW: After assuring the public about the government's coronavirus preparedness, Senate Intel chair Richard Burr, in one day, sold off up to $1.6 million is stock.
A week later, the market began its fall.
His committee was receiving daily briefings.
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The Trump campaign uses Brad Parscale's tragic personal struggle as an opportunity to attack Trump's political enemies...
Statement from the Trump campaign’s communications director Tim Murtaugh on tonight’s terrible news
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@AOC
got Cohen to implicate Trump in potentially more crimes (insurance fraud) and made a case for the committee to subpoena more documents and witnesses from the Trump Org. BTW did it under time.
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Did Don Jr invoke his 5th Amendment rights?
MUELLER: "I'm not going to answer that."
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Tony Fauci with more realtalk. Says he can't predict when the coronavirus epidemic will peak. Could be in the range of 8 or 9 weeks.
"I can't give you a number. It depends how successful we are."
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Sgt. Aquilino Gonell: "The rioters attempting to breach the Capitol were chanting, 'Trump sent us.'"
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Cant help but wonder who uttered this pearl to the president tonight before he made it his own and announced it to the world tonight.
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Everyone has fired off a tweet they regret, but Whelan had been hyping this *for days* before constructing a massive thread and posting it. Incredible
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My dad, a retired physician in Colorado, just got this letter telling him he could be reactivated and called to assist if the heath system gets overwhelmed.
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Bright: the worst moment was an email from Mike Bowen on N95 masks: "We're in deep shit." He says he raised it to the top levels of HHS, & got no response. "From that moment I knew we were going to have a crisis for our health care care workers bc we were not taking action."
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"I'm so fucking proud of you guys!" - Beto O Rourke in his TX concession speech.
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Pelosi gives a mean evil eye to her caucus to prevent applause breaking out as she drops the gavel on Donald Trump’s impreachment
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Acting AG Matt Whitaker: "There was no family separation policy."
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A WH telling senators not to debate strikes seems like a shocking insult to their imperatives. But if you remember senators pledging support for a SCOTUS pick before it was named (Kav) or having no interest in impeachment witnesses, maybe the WH assumed it was a reasonable ask.
JUST IN: GOP Sen. Mike Lee says classified briefing on Iran was "probably the worst briefing I've seen, at least on a military issue, in the nine years I've served in the United States Senate."
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Vindman is asked how he can be confident testifying contra what the President of the United States wants to hear.
"This is the country I've served and defended... and here, right matters."
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Make no mistake about the risk Capitol Hill reporters are taking to bring you to bear witness and bring you this story.
An armed mob of insurrectionists is loosed on the Capitol after being told today and for years that those journalists are the enemies of America.
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News outlets covering election night live should tell viewers/listeners/readers in advance how they plan to handle it. What the standards will be; how they'll treat premature victory claims; or claims of fraud w/out evidence; when they'll call a state. Transparency & expectations
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@jaketapper
on CNN tries cover Omorosa, Katrina Pierson, Sarah Sanders and Pres Trump:
"This is a challenge for us. We're dealing with a story where there are like 30 liars."
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While we were all busy 1,130 people died of Covid yesterday.
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You mean the thing every expert has been warning about for months.
The Dow is down 1,800 points, or nearly 7 percent, as coronavirus cases increase again, deflating recent optimism that the economy could recover quickly.
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The bright side for Thomas Farr is that as a man deemed too racist for the federal bench, he could still have a bright future as a US senator and Attorney General.
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The president sent a mob to Capitol Hill, now buildings are being evacuated and elected lawmakers are sheltering in their offices.
I’m sheltering in place in my office. The building next door has been evacuated. I can’t believe I have to write this.
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Someone figured out that
@tedcruz
drastically ramped up his use of “y’all” around election time in Texas (at least on twitter.)
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Rudy said this when Chris Cuomo confronted him with the Special Counsel’s claim that Manafort shared campaign polling data with Konstantin Kalimnik.
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Here’s a more detailed history of Miami Police Chief Robert Headley, who Trump quoted tonight. Protests against Headley’s stop and frisk policies erupted after his cops strip searched a black teenager and dangled him over a bridge.
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A very normal democracy tweet from Trump’s chief emissary to the main stream press. Trump literally told the nation he would not fight it fairly and would fight not to count it. When does this kind of laundering stop being acceptable?
At this hour, an uphill battle for
@realDonaldTrump
, which he and GOP will fight fairly and hard. Has to win back WI, or flip NV or AZ on recount, hold GA, PA, NC.
@senatemajldr
will remain,
@SpeakerPelosi
lost at least four but holds gavel. Stay calm and carry in with recounts.
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However the election turns out, future documentaries will show the president dancing in front of adoring crowds on the day 70,000 Americans got infected with coronavirus.
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People everywhere are suffering with the realities of Covid. I witnessed Hugo Chavez preen for a referendum while people suffered in Caracas and it was not as surreally authoritarian as what just happened on the South Lawn.
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Ken Buck on CNN goes further than just demanding the next speaker acknowledge Biden's 2020 win.
"I also want to make sure that we don't have someone who was involved with the activities around Jan. 6," he says, referring to Jim Jordan.
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@AyannaPressley
asks if a person can lead the birther movement, refer to the diaspora as "shithole countries", refer to white supremacists as "fine people", have black friend and still be racist.
Cohen: "yes"
Pressley: I agree
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@RashidaTlaib
just implied
@RepMarkMeadows
is racist for using an African American woman as a prop to prove Pres Trump is not racist. Meadows objects.
"I am not calling the gentleman a racist for doing so. I am saying it is a racist act."
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The authoritarianism now coursing through the GOP base does not privilege even a thought of playing on the level. Anything critical is fake. Anything not adulatory is unfair. Anything not ferverishly conspiratorial is biased. A debate with agreed upon rules must be debased.
The President goes after Kristen Welker and says he’s known her for a long time and she’s extraordinarily unfair
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🚨NEW: Trump's acting Defense Sec blames Trump for the Jan 6 Capitol riot: "I think it’s pretty much definitive that wouldn’t have happened” without Trump's incitement, says Chris Miller.
"It seems cause and effect." via
@sebwalker
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Ga election worker Ruby Freeman:
"There is nowhere I feel safe. Nowhere. Do you know how it feels to have the President of the United Stats target you?"
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Trump asked about projected deaths if Americans are "reasonably good" about mitigation.
TRUMP hands it off to his advisors. "I have numbers but I'd rather them say the numbers."
Birx: "About 100,000 to 200,000...we really hope we can do better than that."
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Periodic reminder: Leslie Stahl once asked Pres Trump about this attack, and he was very honest in his answer.
“so that when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.”
Advertising in the Failing New York Times is WAY down. Washington Post is not much better. I can’t say whether this is because they are Fake News sources of information, to a level that few can understand, or the Virus is just plain beating them up. Fake News is bad for America!
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Alito says the Court is returning abortion to the democratic process in the states. Wisconsin is so gerrymandered that Republicans control the Senate 21-12 & the House 61-38, in a state Biden won.
Real world, there is no option for Wisc voters to elect a pro-choice legislature.
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The obvious bottom line gets lost: The President of the United States spurred on multiple extremist groups to undertake sedition against the country. And he's running to be president again.
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@chrislhayes
touches on Rep Duncan Hunter's indictment on at the top of his show on MSNBC: "In a story we don't even have time for tonight."
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If you've forgotten, these Proud Boys just convicted of *seditious conspiracy* against the United States identified President Donald Trump's admonition for them to "stand back and stand by" as a major motivation for recruitment and action.
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“Look at me when I’m talking to you! You’re telling me that my assault doesn’t matter!”
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NEW: Fulton County judge denies Ken Chesebro and Sidney Powell's motions to sever their cases from one another. The two will be tried together under their requests for a speedy trial (in October)
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In 1997 VP Al Gore caused a major political scandal by making fundraising calls from his WH office. His political opponents were very very concerned about the Hatch Act and other statutes prohibiting use of federal resources for partisan purposes.
Per two sources, the campaign has a "war room" set up in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Trump is also going to be briefed in the residence and the Oval Office throughout the day by officials.
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If you've ever wanted to watch "care" vs. "pretending to care" in real time, just watch the coming wave of reactions to Biden swearing at a reporter.
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The moment Trump nearly gave it up
Trump: This Administration will not be going to a lockdown. Hopefully the uhh whatever happens in the future who knows which Administration will be, time will tell
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Did Troy McClure write this
VP Mike Pence: "Sen. Kamala Harris said she would change the dietary guidelines of this country to reduce the amount of red meat that Americans can eat."
Crowd boos.
VP: "Well I've got some red meat for you: We're not going to let Joe Biden & Kamala Harris cut America's meat!"
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Rep Rodney Davis is lamenting that he "doesn't get to" question witnesses on the Jan 6 committee today. It was GOP Leader McCarthy who pulled him off of the committee. Pelosi accepted his appointment.
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Smoke rises amid protests in front of the White House 30 minutes before a city wide curfew in Washington DC
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The worst thing about this, aside from the bullshit, is there is no downside. Instead of a loss of credibility for the GOP lawmakers and Fox hosts who pushed this bullshit, it’s just a reset. Like Seth Rich, Pizzagate, Death panels...no consequences. On to the next.
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@SarahLongwell25
, exec director of Republicans for the Rule of Law and other Never Trump groups responds to
@justinamash
’s decision not to mount a 3rd party presidential run: “This is good news for Joe Biden and for those of us working to defeat Trump and Trumpism.”
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Pres Biden on his place in the presidency: "I'm not Abraham Lincoln. I'm not Franklin Roosevelt. My god, how do I deal with these problems?"
It is still a bit disorienting to hear basic humility and adult perspective coming from the president.
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“By mid-June, seven weeks after the announcement of the merger, hotel records indicated that one T-Mobile executive was making his 10th visit to the hotel.”
T-Mobile announced a merger needing Trump administration approval. The next day, 9 executives had reservations at Trump’s hotel.
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"The vast majorities of each service have received their shots. The Army and Navy are each at about 98 percent, while the Air Force stands at 97.5 percent and the Marine Corps at 95 percent."
BREAKING: The Marine Corps has booted 103 of its members for refusing the Covid vaccine. The Army, meanwhile, announced it has fired six leaders, including two battalion commanders
@paulmcleary
@politico
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The Trump Campaign’s statement honoring 9/11 was provided by campaign advisor & former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerick, who was convicted on 8 felony counts of tax fraud & false statements in 2009, went away for 3 1/2 yrs, & was granted a full pardon by Pres Trump earlier this yr
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Started the day at
@CPAC
in Washington, ending it with
@ProjectLincoln
never Trump GOPs in NYC. Can report: It’s gonna be a summer, folks.
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Police moving protesters up 16th st. I just got hit in the head with a rubber bullet. My press credentials are out. I’m fine.
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Your regular reminder that Trump was very honest with CBS’s Leslie Stahl when she asked why he calls things “fake news.”
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While we were all busy yesterday, 1,616 Americans died of Covid. Up by nearly 500 recorded on Tuesday.
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@juliaioffe
The part where a WH official threatens to expose a reporter's personal life as retribution for a story to me seems newsworthy.
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This tweet has everything
President Trump: "Herman Cain, what a great man he is... He had a tax plan -- 9-9-9. Man did that capture everybody's attention. Nobody knew what it meant, but that's okay."
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Btwn now and Nov 24 the public will hear a lot of under-oath testimony about Trump's alleged criminality. He may be a convicted felon on election day. GOPs need voters to replace "Trumps corrupt" with "both guys are corrupt." Thats entirely the point of the impeachment inquiry
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IMPORTANT: The committee here has established Trump pre-planned a march to the Capitol.
The committee earlier established Trump KNEW the crowd was armed on Jan 6.
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Is there a precedent? Why yes: In '15, and w Kev McCarthy. He was questioned about the point of a 2-yr investigation finding essentially no wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton, the Dem nominee. His answer: It was a success. Look how we killed her poll numbers.
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At Washington Nationals - Dodgers game 3. That’s an investment
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Democrats spent Trump's term arguing that, outside narrow impeachment, the antidote to this authoritarianism was an election. Now that they've had one, what are they doing to reduce Republicans' incentive to do this again with slightly better conditions?
Joe Biden will still be the president, despite attempts to subvert the will of the electorate. But it's not so hard to imagine a slightly different world--a closer race, a few more Wayne-ish dissenters--where similar efforts could threaten continuity of constitutional government
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“Now we know it affects elderly people...with heart problems & other problems. If they have other problems, thats what it really affects. That’s it. In some states nobody young. They have a strong immune system - who knows...It affects virtually no one" - Pres Trump in OH tonight
TOMMY SEARCY, 45, a Houston Firefighter, died of COVID-19 in September.
The department's dispatch broadcasted a final farewell message at his funeral.
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Reminder that it was three weeks ago that a senior Trump campaign advisor RT'd, twice, a supporter yelling the n-word at protesters
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Biden attacks Trump for equating racists and white supremacisists with ordinary decent people, weeks after coming under fire for equating racists and white supremacists with ordinary decent people
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The inevitable thought experiment where you imagine a world where Chelsea Clinton or Barbara and Jenna Bush are sent to court-ordered training to prevent them ripping people off.
As part of the settlement regarding Trump’s misuse of funds from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, Eric, Don Jr., and Ivanka were ordered to undergo mandatory training “to ensure they do not engage in similar misconduct in the future.”
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Sterling says trying to push back against Trump's lies and misinformation about the Georgia results was "like a shovel trying to empty the ocean."
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If, in the end, it all seems like an overreaction, that's how we'll know it worked.
“It’s certainly going to get worse before it gets better.” NIH official Dr. Anthony Fauci says it could be up to “eight weeks or more” of shutdowns and working from home as COVID-19 cases continue to surge in the U.S.
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Trump returning from the golf course...
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The President of the United States is executing a disinformation campaign against the election and it's working.
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Trump, and the media apparatus tat supports him, howled that the Mar-a-Lago search was a shocking, sudden and aggressive move by the govt. In reality, his lawyer had warned him for months what his refusal to return documents meant.
NEWS - Trump was warned FBI could raid Mar-a-Lago as team feared he'd 'go ballistic' complying with subpoena, lawyer's notes show. Story w/
@MLevineReports
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The stages of ignoring incitement
2016: I don’t respond to tweets —> 2018: I havent seen the tweet —-> 2023: I literally can’t see the tweet
Asked Rep. Jim Jordan what he makes of Trump’s warning about “potential death & destruction” if indicted; Jordan said he hasn’t seen Trump’s post. When I showed this to him on my phone, he said he can’t read well without his glasses. He added he’s reviewing DA Bragg’s letter.
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