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Narratives that just died:
-- African Americans won't turn out
-- Trump's formidable last minute entry will swing election
-- Pro-choice stance doomed Jones
-- Bannon's use of Nazi/Soviet propaganda techniques was fiendishly brilliant
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New CNN poll:
51% of Americans say Trump should be *removed.* Only 45% say he shouldn't
69% say Senate trial should feature new witnesses
58% say Trump abused his power
57% say he obstructed House impeachment inquiry
So, no, his lies aren't "working"
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All the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee just wrote a letter to Vice President Pence, urging him to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump:
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It's time for news organizations to cover Trump's current moves as an effort to steal the election. No more euphemisms. That's what they're doing. And no, the fact that it is not going to work doesn't give you an escape clause from describing it clearly and accurately.
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It's a big deal that veteran journalist Mike Barnicle has now called out his media colleagues for failing to adequately cover Trump's visibly worsening mental state. It should spur a real discussion about how to do this, before it's too late. 1/
New piece
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1) As Trump ends the year with a flood of lies about his wall, we need to recapture a core truth about this presidency.
Trump isn't “twisting the truth” or “stubbornly refusing to admit error.”
Trump is engaged in *disinformation.*
This is a different thing entirely.
*THREAD*
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I think something big is happening here: Kamala Harris appears to be running precisely the kind of inspired, aggressive campaign that combatting the forces of rising authoritarianism requires.
She's running on the promise of a post-MAGA future. 1/
Link:
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In December, NYT revealed that Elon Musk and SpaceX were failing to meet govt reporting protocol designed to protect state secrets while they haul in billions in Pentagon contracts.
This triggered three reviews, per NYT. One was from the Defense Department inspector general. 1/
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A remarkable thing just happened in a deep red Florida county: For hours on end, teachers, parents, and kids pushed back ferociously against right wing attacks on "woke indoctrination" in their schools.
Ordinary parents everywhere are saying: Enough. 1/
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Big news out of Springfield: The Mayor has now confirmed that the emailed bomb threat did contain hateful language about immigrants.
Trump and Vance can no longer pretend not to know exactly what their vile demagoguery is accomplishing.
New piece from me
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When headlines echo Trump's false or dubious claims without signaling to readers that they are false or dubious, they are doing what Trump wants them to do.
This was the whole point of the lie in the first place -- and the lying is getting rewarded.
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New ABC/Ipsos poll:
51% of Americans say Trump should be impeached *and removed*
58% say they're following impeachment hearings closely
70% say it was wrong to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political rival (i.e., the call was not "perfect")
preview.abcnews.go.com/Polit…
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This is a very concise and well-argued case for voting for @JoeBiden.
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McConnell's vow of a rigged trial gives Dems an opening.
They can try to force votes on fairer rules, and call for admission of new evidence, putting vulnerable Rs in a tough spot.
Expert @mollyereynolds helps explain the process.
@paulwaldman1 and me:
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Don't let them memory-hole this:
* Trump spread propaganda about Ukraine interfering in 2016
* He withheld WH meeting from Zelensky after freezing military aid
* He ousted US ambassador to Ukraine
* He turned Ukraine policy over to Giuliani
More here:
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Josh Hawley's ludicrous clean-up act continues. He just claimed that by enabling Trump's lie about the election, he was "representing" his constituents. Nope. He deliberately misled them, in a cynical gamble on the radicalization of the GOP. New piece:
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The New York Post story some are tweeting about has a huge falsehood in it: Story claims Biden pushed for the ouster of the Ukrainian prosecutor when he was investigating Burisma.
Flatly false. And the ouster was backed by international institutions.
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If Kevin McCarthy is going to give 1/6 footage to Tucker Carlson, then Dems should make it available to real news organizations.
I've confirmed with the Capitol Police that House Dems can access the footage. This GOP propaganda stunt can't go unanswered:
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NEWS:
Today @GovernorShapiro will announce that Pennsylvania is switching to automatic voter registration, potentially adding tens of thousands of voters to the rolls.
"I see voter participation as key to strengthening democracy," Shapiro tells me.
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This is a huge tell. A GOP strategist tells Bloomberg that Senate Republicans don't want a big stimulus bill now because they want to pivot hard to austerity under a Biden presidency, which could cripple it. No wonder McConnell is laughing. New piece:
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Wow. The President of the United States just confirmed that he directly informed Vladimir Putin that he is not accepting the Mueller report's conclusion that Russia interfered in our 2016 election in "sweeping and systematic" fashion.
That seems problematic.
....We discussed Trade, Venezuela, Ukraine, North Korea, Nuclear Arms Control and even the “Russian Hoax.” Very productive talk!
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NEWS:
100 leading democracy scholars just issued a powerful new statement warning that our democracy is under dire threat, and that Democrats must pass sweeping federal voting rights protections, ending the filibuster to do so if necessary.
Details here:
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Ron DeSantis' ongoing disaster with Disney is getting worse for him. It turns out his own memoir repeatedly admits that he weaponized the state against Disney for criticizing "don't say gay." Disney extensively cites his book in its lawsuit against him:
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Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want some credit for it
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1) This is extraordinary.
Sinclair is now reportedly requiring dozens of local stations to air a segment that defends the tear-gassing of migrants and describes them as an “invasion of our country.”
I’m not sure we’ve figured out how to conceptualize this adequately.
*THREAD*
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Dems have found a measure that Rs buried in the stimulus that would restrict small business money from going to a range of health care providers that take Medicaid.
This includes providers for the disabled and even rape crisis centers.
New piece:
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As WaPo reported, top Obama officials asked McConnell to show a united front against Russian sabotage.
But McConnell refused, claiming "he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics.”
It's time to revisit that:
In light of the Mueller indictment, it's time to revisit that episode where leading Republicans refused to show a public, bipartisan united front against Russian sabotage.
By blasting Obama, Trump has unwittingly invited this inquiry.
My new post:
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NEWS:
Barack Obama is calling on TV stations to stop airing an ad from a pro-Trump super PAC that deceptively uses audio of Obama to make it sound like he's denouncing @JoeBiden for selling out black people.
It's rank, ugly disinformation.
New piece:
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Devastating.
Mueller just clearly declared that he didn't bring obstruction charges *not* because the evidence didn't point that way, but because of DOJ policy, and because there are other processes for holding a president accountable for misconduct.
Over to you, Democrats.
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Shockingly, Elon Musk's strategy of berating and coercing private companies into handing over advertising revenues, rather than making Twitter attractive to them, appears to be backfiring in remarkable new ways, according to the Financial Times:
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Huh, look what the internet found.
NEW — Senator Josh Hawley has written to Acting Secretary of Defense Miller in support @realDonaldTrump's plan for the prompt withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
"The time has come to end the war in Afghanistan." go.usa.gov/x7mhR
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New USA Today poll:
Americans support House *impeaching* Trump by 45-38
They support *Senate conviction and removal* by 44-35 (!)
Note: 30% of Republicans say pressure on Ukraine to smear Biden is an abuse of power.
And it's early. More will come out.
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You were offered $25 billion by Dems for your wall in exchange for legalizing Dreamers. You turned it down because you and Stephen Miller wanted deep cuts to legal immigration. Do you ever, ever, EVER stop lying?
For those that naively ask why didn’t the Republicans get approval to build the Wall over the last year, it is because IN THE SENATE WE NEED 10 DEMOCRAT VOTES, and they will gives us “NONE” for Border Security! Now we have to do it the hard way, with a Shutdown. Too bad! @FoxNews
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If you really think that Susan Collins would have voted against Kavanaugh if
1) Avenatti hadn't repped Swetnick;
or
2) Dems had made a bigger issue out of Ed Whelan
or
3) [INSERT PERSONAL OBSESSION HERE]
then you didn't listen to a syllable of Collins' speech.
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It's simply amazing that @SenJohnMcCain will vote for this after his allegedly heroic speech about regular order.
So here is pg 257 of the bill with handwritten changes...the tax bill is so last minute that they are scribbling on the margins. The issue? These scribbles (all 500 Pgs of them) will set the American tax system for a decade. #ThisIsYourTaxBillAndYouDon’tKnowWhat’sInIt #SpeakOut
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New post:
Trump's rage-tweets about LaVar Ball are part of a pattern.
Trump regularly attacks high-profile African Americans to feed his supporters' belief that the system is rigged for minorities:
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It's time for Democrats to let go of the idea that Trump's GOP defenders can be *shamed* into acknowledging Trump's criminality.
We need a deep reset.
It's time to rhetorically treat Trump's defenders like his *criminal accomplices.*
My new piece:
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Such a big moment: Sen. Brian Schatz erupted at Josh Hawley on the floor, delivering a brutal takedown of Hawley's bad faith.
I talked to Schatz about why Dems need to do this more often, to alert voters.
“Democrats need to make more noise," he told me:
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We are numb to this, but here the President of the United States is amplifying calls to jail U.S. law enforcement officials who are investigating a foreign power's sabotaging of our election on his behalf.
“These guys, the investigators, ought to be in jail. What they have done, working with the Obama intelligence agencies, is simply unprecedented. This is one of the greatest political hoaxes ever perpetrated on the people of this Country, and Mueller is a coverup.” Rush Limbaugh
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Kayleigh McEnany gave away the game today. She told reporters that the White House is operating safely, *because it has testing and tracing.* But Trump won't create the robust federal testing regime that would allow the rest of us to have that.
New piece:
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This is getting overlooked, but the whole premise of Trump's threat of tariffs is based on a lie. He's claiming Mexico must be bullied into stopping migrants. But Mexico is *already* doing this. That's a big reason crossings have dropped. 1/
(new piece)
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Just awful: One of the inspector generals that Trump fired was examining Elon Musk's failures to meet reporting protocol designed to safeguard national security as a major recipient of Pentagon contracts.
It's time to follow up on that. New from me:
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Mitch McConnell is falsifying the history of how we got the rescue package, all to save his Georgia senators. But he and Republicans were the chief obstacles all along, and only broke under political duress. Here's a look at the timeline. It's damning:
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Remarkable finding in new Marist poll: By 68-32, voters say they're more concerned about a president who doesn't tell the truth than one who is too old to serve.
Maybe we should cover Trump's lying as a sign of his unfitness for the presidency. 1/
(link)
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This seems like a big moment in the campaign. Trump explicitly told the nation that he should be trusted over his own CDC on the vaccine. That's headline news. It unequivocally confirms what critics -- including scientists inside the administration -- have warned of.
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Trump is now attacking Biden as mentally unfit. Meanwhile, Trump's towering pathologies are impairing our response to a public health emergency. This absurdity is made possible by the massive media failure to reckon with Trump's own unfitness. New piece:
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I'm going to keep saying this until you listen to it.
Every time Trump makes this claim, it invites a new round of media scrutiny of the times in 2016 that *Mitch McConnell and Republicans* refused the intel services' request for a united front against Russian sabotage;
President Obama thought that Crooked Hillary was going to win the election, so when he was informed by the FBI about Russian Meddling, he said it couldn’t happen, was no big deal, & did NOTHING about it. When I won it became a big deal and the Rigged Witch Hunt headed by Strzok!
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Gavin Newsom's new TV ad slamming Ron DeSantis is best understood as an effort to fill a serious vacuum in the Democratic Party: The lack of leaders making a comprehensive case about right wing radicalization degrading our national life on so many fronts.
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Numerous House Dems are privately pushing to hear testimony from the prosecutors who quit the Roger Stone case in protest against Bill Barr's meddling, aides tell me.
This would ratchet up the response to Barr big time.
Lots more in my new piece:
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Trump has now publicly admitted that his attorney general intervened in the case of his own longtime adviser -- who obstructed an investigation into an attack on our political system -- for the express purpose of undermining DOJ's own investigative conclusions about himself.
Congratulations to Attorney General Bill Barr for taking charge of a case that was totally out of control and perhaps should not have even been brought. Evidence now clearly shows that the Mueller Scam was improperly brought & tainted. Even Bob Mueller lied to Congress!
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In the end, Dems remained united behind an enormous package nearly three times the 2009 stimulus that will help untold numbers of people. Amid two of the biggest US crises of modern times, it's sobering to imagine what we'd be seeing now if it weren't for the Georgia runoffs.
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We need to cut through the baloney. Until Republicans forthrightly admit that Biden *legitimately* won the election and that Trump's lies about it are the cause of the violence, their phony calls for unity deserve nothing but contempt and derision.
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Wait, so *this* is the big Susan Rice smoking gun email? Seriously???
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The Boston Globe editorial board comes out for impeachment:
bostonglobe.com/2019/12/06/o…
Has any other major metropolitan newspaper done so? Serious question.
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This is really something.
@RepAdamSchiff said on CBS today that the Director of National Intelligence has told the Intel Committee that he was instructed not to turn over the whistleblower's complaint by a "higher authority":
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Utterly shameless: Ron DeSantis is lashing out at the media for reporting on the removal of the Amanda Gorman book, calling it a "poem hoax." Again, *one single objector* got this poem removed, simply by slapping the label "hate" on it. Just preposterous:
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Here @RepAdamSchiff is explicitly confirming a really important point: Anything the White House and the administration do to stonewall at this point will be considered for an article of impeachment for obstruction of Congress.
This is the box Trump is in.
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Dems have secured a provision in the deal that prohibits businesses controlled by Trump, Pence, members of Congress and heads of exec departments from getting loans or investments from the new slush fund.
Also their children. Dems announced it early this AM.
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New Post/ABC poll:
53% of Americans blame Trump and Republicans for the shutdown, versus only 29% who blame Democrats.
Importantly, among independents it's 53-23 (!)
54% oppose the wall, versus only 42% who support it.
Trump lost the argument.
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This has gone under the radar, but it's a huge deal: John Eastman is facing disbarment proceedings for his role as key architect of Trump's coup.
And Eastman really might lose. When it comes to elite accountability for Jan 6, this is a big moment. 1/
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Why are smart people pretending not to grasp difference between
1) "covering" a presidential rally, which media should of course do
and
2) giving unfiltered, endless airtime to Trump's nonstop attacks, including on *them*?
Defend latter if you want, but why conflate the two?
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Holy crap. This is from the new DHS whistleblower complaint. He says he was ordered to "modify" a threat assessment, particularly "the section on White Supremacy" to make "the threat appear less severe," and "include information on the prominence of violent 'left-wing' groups."
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"Paul Ryan leaves Washington as the architect of the GOP’s biggest loss of House seats in any election since Watergate."
Good @RonBrownstein look at the price the GOP paid for the party's embrace of Trump:
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In light of blockbuster revelations about Trump and Russia, it's time to intensify scrutiny of McConnell's role:
* Refused united front against Russian interference
* Scuttled efforts to protect Mueller
* Won't hold votes to reopen govt
My new piece:
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Don't overlook this: At least 4 of the 5 swing states that decided 2020 won't have election-denying governors or secretaries of state. It may soon be 5. That's a huge step toward averting a 2024 crisis. Voters put MAGA authoritarianism on the defensive.
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Rep @tedlieu tells me House Dems must be prepared to launch impeachment inquiry in direct response to Trump's total resistance to oversight.
Lieu also says House should quickly hold William Barr in contempt if he keeps stonewalling.
My piece:
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@ProjectLincoln is launching a TV and social media campaign targeting @JonesDay for any role it plays in enabling Trump's efforts to overturn the election, I'm told.
Jones Day clients will also be targets, @TheRickWilson tells me. New details here:
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Here's a shocker. It turns out the lurid story William Barr told on CNN about mail-vote fraud in Texas was riddled with falsehoods and misinformation. The prosecutor in the case just shot down Barr's account:
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Mallory McMorrow's epic takedown displayed something you rarely hear from Dems: A willingness to forcefully call out right wing degeneracy for what it truly is.
James Carville tells me this is a good way forward for Dems to address the "wokeness" problem:
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Dems are not obliged to bail out Republicans when the MAGA monster they created comes for them. The idea is absurd. It presumes Republicans can't be asked to take responsibility for the messes they've made with their own malignant bad acting.
Free link:
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Joe Biden just pointed out that Trump won a fluke-like victory by a handful of votes in a few states, while losing the popular vote by 3 million.
Dems should point this out constantly. They should regularly talk about how deeply unpopular Trump is.
New:
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The Ginni Thomas texts with Meadows also rip the lid off another big story: The hidden role of Christian nationalism in Trump's coup effort. Their talk about Jesus delivering the election for Trump invoked right wing tropes that deserve way more attention:
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Republicans are throwing Giuliani under the bus by claiming he freelanced the extortion plot.
But there's a small problem with this argument.
Trump directly told Zelensky that Giuliani was his henchman for carrying out the whole scheme.
New piece:
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As always, Trump gets rewarded for his absurdities and lies by headlines and tweets that don't inform readers when his claim is baseless -- which was exactly the point of the claim in the first place.
BREAKING: Trump tweets North Korea no longer nuclear threat. apne.ws/d0WwaO9
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A big deal: The coal miners' union just ratcheted up pressure on Manchin to support BBB. This is a seminal moment: The divergence in interests between workers and mine owners who oppose BBB has been exposed. Manchin must choose one or the other. My latest:
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It's so weird the way smart people are pretending not to understand that the problem people have with the media and Trump rallies is with the wall-to-wall broadcasting of his unfiltered lies.
The argument isn't that legitimate news at Trump rallies shouldn't be covered at all.
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Mark Judge's girlfriend is prepared to speak to FBI about what Judge told her about group sex episodes as part of a renewed background check investigation, her lawyer has informed the Judiciary Committee.
I've obtained the letter to the committee:
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Why aren't we getting these front page headlines today:
*Trump threatens to jail election workers if elected
*Trump's vow of mass prosecutions of political foes puts spotlight on his authoritarianism
*Republicans refuse to condemn Trump threat to imprison public servants
These would be fully in line with real Biden age headlines:
To imagine what real coverage of Trump's mental unfitness might look like, I took 10 real Biden age headlines and rewrote them around Trump's unfitness for the presidency.
Read them below; the effect is striking. Why don't we see saturation like this? 6/
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Don't overlook this. Trump's Ohio rally was unhinged, but he also delivered a clear message: He fully expects a GOP Congress to shut down any/all investigations into him. The bargain with the GOP is this: I give you my base, you place me above the law.
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So richly deserved: Now that Musk suspended Ye for sharing a swastika, Musk is getting slaughtered by his fans, who are finally realizing his "free speech absolutism" was always the scam we told you it would be:
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House Dems have learned that the State Department IG fired by Trump had mostly completed an investigation into the decision by @SecPompeo to fast track $8 billion in arms to the Saudis, I'm told.
Dems are looking at a possible link.
New piece:
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Shame on those who treat helping the poor as solely a matter of charity, rather than one of societal obligation. nitter.app/ewerickson/status/9371…
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Only one 2020 Democrat fully grasps the threat that Trump poses.
And only one of them has offered a suitably detailed and comprehensive response to *all* the challenges and perils of this particular moment.
It's @ewarren.
My new piece:
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GOP Senators know Trump's claims about Biden in Ukraine are lies.
Here's proof.
In a 2016 hearing, numerous GOP Senators were briefed on the *Obama administration policy* of pursuing Shokin's ouster. There was zero controversy.
I have new details here:
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Now that Fox News has been decisively exposed as rank propaganda, Dems need to fundamentally adjust their posture. No more treating Fox as a news outlet in any sense at all.
"This is a seminal moment in the history of mass media," @ChrisMurphyCT tells me:
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A big development: After John Roberts told Congress to pound sand, Senators just introduced a bill *requiring* SCOTUS to adopt an ethics code, and requiring full disclosure of internal probes of violations. It's time to act on the Clarence Thomas fiasco:
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A strange thing about media coverage of Trump and the border: It largely erases his term as president. He didn't fix anything. He too released many migrants. He couldn't get his own plan passed *with unified GOP control.* My new piece gets into this:
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An important development: Trump's criminality is becoming a genuine wedge issue against Republicans.
Don't be fooled by GOP's outward shows of unity behind Dear Leader. The cracks in the facade are very clear.
Here's some evidence. 1/
(Link to piece)
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It's hard to overstate how deranged this is. And the deafening cheers from the rally crowd demonstrate once again how heavily Trump's petty, adolescent abusiveness figures as a factor in his appeal.
"We've got him lined up Adam! You little pencil neck. He has the smallest shirt collar you can get, and it is loose." -- Trump heaps abuse on Adam Schiff while mocking him for demanding congressional oversight of military strikes
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Stop saying the indictment "tests our democracy."
The actual "test" we face is Trump's apparent crimes and the unhinged GOP defense of him, which effectively posits that any/all law enforcement activity involving Trump is inherently illegitimate, no matter what the facts show.
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There's a weird framing in the media right now: "Has the impeachment inquiry *changed the minds* of any Republicans?"
The problem with this is it furthers the assumption that Rs are making an actual good faith evaluation of emerging evidence.
We need to forget about that idea.
It's time for Democrats to let go of the idea that Trump's GOP defenders can be *shamed* into acknowledging Trump's criminality.
We need a deep reset.
It's time to rhetorically treat Trump's defenders like his *criminal accomplices.*
My new piece:
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The White House's attacks on Dr. Fauci have blown up in Trump's face. They've highlighted that Fauci tries to learn from mistakes and prioritizes public health over Trump's political needs -- precisely the things Trump himself *will not* do. New piece:
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This private letter to the head of the CDC from one of his predecessors is just shattering.
It says: "the biggest challenge in a century and we let the country down"
It adds that his role is "servant to the public," not "servant to a corrupt president"
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The new Post poll has some awful findings among Republicans:
51% say GOP leaders didn't go far enough in nullifying election
56% say Trump bears zero blame for the insurrection
66% say he has acted responsibly
Behold the GOP's authoritarian core:
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