Bill Carter
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Author of 4 books including The Late Shift+ War for Late Night. NYT Media reporter for 25+ yrs. Exec Prod of doc series "Story of Late Night"
New York, New York
Joined July 2008
I was watching as he fired off these slurs, thinking: No other president would talk like this, and yet nobody will even make a peep about this because he's doing so many other offensive, reprehensible things numbness has set it.
Donald Trump referring to human beings as “garbage.”
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Has anyone who didn't need a cognitive test ever taken one and decided it was "really hard?" And that it started to get hard only 10 questions in? Isn't the point of the test that if you have no loss of cognition you can easily understand and answer all the questions?
Trump: "I took my physical. I got all As. Everything. But they said to me, 'would you like to take a cognitive test?' I said, 'Is it hard?' They said, 'yes.' I said, 'Well, I'm a very smart person. Who was the last president to take one?' 'No president has ever agreed to take
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I’m starting to wonder if one of those turkeys is a drug trafficker.
@JonLemire @AVindman Former drug trafficker, Alice Marie Johnson is the pardon czar. You can’t make this stuff up. https://t.co/s4AJi9ZOFW
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So, you can blow ppl out of the water - then slaughter any survivors in the water- for being SUSPECTED drug traffickers, while at same time pardoning CONVICTED drug traffickers — and then put them in charge of the pardon process. This isn’t government, it’s theater of the absurd.
@JonLemire @AVindman Former drug trafficker, Alice Marie Johnson is the pardon czar. You can’t make this stuff up. https://t.co/s4AJi9ZOFW
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Why are ppl not outraged, disgusted and ready to run this guy out of town for his shameless exonerations of heartless grifters like this? We now have a govt of the grifters, by the fraudsters, for the con men.
SCOOP: David Gentile reported to prison on Nov. 14 to begin a 7-year sentence for what prosecutors described as a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of victims. Trump commuted Gentile's sentence 12 days later, freeing him from prison.
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This is plausible and they would lie and claim bullet, not flying debris of some sort, hit him. But any “proof” they would deny maniacally, and it would be so-whatted anyway. “Somebody DID try to kill him!”
@nick_field90 It's "he didn't get shot, the bullet hit his prompter and a piece of it hit his ear".
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Probably should not put anything past Trump + Co. but for Butler to be faked,they would have to kill/fake kill two ppl, plus get blood capsule onto Trump’s ear all in precisely timed coordination. Bigger q than would they do something like this: would they have the competence?
If the Nuzzi "Butler" question isn't top of mind for reporters, I don't know if journalism can be saved. There's a Pulitzer in there.
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Within few days, Trump has: Pardoned convicted drug kingpin. Advocated denaturalizing citizens. Called Gov of Minn “retarded.” Overseen murder of survivors of boat bombing. Announced wipeout of 4 yrs of exec orders, including pardons bc of autopen. America at its best, right ppl?
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In a fictional context this scene is the central laugh riot of satirizing a regime hooked on tone deafness. But it’s too OTT. Critics say some element of believability has to be preserved or it doesn’t work. In real life: oh Trump did that? Yeah, that tracks.
Trump entered the Mar-a-Lago ballroom for his Thanksgiving feast to the song “We Are the World,” a song used to raise money to help starving children. Trump himself has cut aid to address global famine and has fought for the right to cut food stamps from American families.
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Unaware of this scam til saw this; surely bc it falls into that shadowland of Trump-adjacent grift schemes on his resume for decades. If true + $60 million was raised fraudulently shouldn’t it be SOME kind of nat’l story? Of course it won’t have legs bc 1)corrupt DOJ; 2)immunity.
The Trump Phone didn’t “fail.” It never existed. Supporters paid deposits for a product that was nothing more than a photoshopped mockup and a disconnected hotline. And the explanation customer service gave makes this story even darker. The real question isn’t where the
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Dont think he can pass Pujols. Only has 35.4; he’s 30 now. He’s averaged 5.6 per yr. Seems crazy low. Best was 9.2 in 24. This season, 7.7. Judge likely won’t catch him either. He’s averaged 8.8 but he’s 34 next season. Pujols averaged abt same as ohtani, 5.3 but played 22 yrs!
How many years till #shohei tops this list? 25 best MLB players of the past 25 years, ranked by WAR - USA TODAY
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Why the hell did he imply there was more than one person involved in committing this act? He used “ they” even police chief immediately said lone gunman.
BREAKING: FBI director Kash Patel has described the shooting of two National Guardsmen as "brazen" and "heinous" and vows that those responsible will be brought to justice. https://t.co/b3qnwDaM6I 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
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Dude, don’t do this until you’re sure. Really didn’t need your input on this story until details were confirmed.
It is with great sorrow that we can confirm both members of the West Virginia National Guard who were shot earlier today in Washington, DC have passed away from their injuries. These brave West Virginians lost their lives in the service of their country. We are in ongoing contact
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I’m sure we’ll hear the usual “ justifications” but the pepper-spraying of the disabled, cane-dependent grandma is so egregiously over the top the outrageousness is as hilarious as it is enraging. What’s next? Running over strollers w babies on board?
ICE pepper spray disabled woman using a cane—directly at her face from point blank range. Agents then shove her down hard to the ground—after she was already incapacitated and stumbling backwards. This is second incident of excessive force in St. Paul, Minnesota this past week.
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Amid personal slurs, more complete bilge abt poll numbers. In real world they’re objectively dreadful. In Trump fantasyland they’re best ever! Same as no murders in DC, Portland in ashes +2 buck gas. W any other near octogenarian, the family would find rampant delusion alarming.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
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Are there no other decent Repub senators left? How could they support- or say nothing- about this grotesque effort to smear a sitting senator and vet?
Senator Kelly valiantly served our country as an aviator in the U.S. Navy before later completing four space shuttle missions as a NASA astronaut. To accuse him and other lawmakers of treason and sedition for rightfully pointing out that servicemembers can refuse illegal orders
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How believable is a guy who says there have been no murders in DC since he sent Guard in ( there have been over 50); and that the city of Portland has burned to the ground? His lies are so routine and ridiculous how could anyone trust anything he says?
Question: Do US allies believe a US Security guarantee under Trump means what it says? @RepMikeQuigley “Why would anyone believe this president? He has said there are six deadlines now that he let Putin pass on. This notion of bringing up the tomahawk missiles, it never
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This shit has really got to stop.
🚨ICE agents stormed an apartment at gunpoint and held a U.S. citizen mother and her four children, ages 2, 6, 10, and 13, hostage, in a Queens apartment. They spent 20 minutes pounding on the door before finally breaking it down… only to discover the person they were looking
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“Countless” may stand in here for “ a lot.” But Jake could count them if he wanted. Probably wise to be inexact. But a range could convey better the breadth of this sentiment. More than 10? More than 25?
since this ran this morning -- 4 hours ago? -- ive gotten countless text messages from House Republicans agreeing with this sentiment. and saying why the hell should we stay in congress if all we're going to do is vote on censures and be a potted plant.
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