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Trump rushed into a deadly war with Iran without a complete game plan. Not a surprise — he’s done it this way his entire life — but still another reminder that his White House is inhabited by a wrecking crew: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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A humbling Herman Cain/coronavirus timeline:
6/24: Attends Trump rally, maskless
7/2: Tests positive for Covid-19
7/10: Says he’s improving
7/15: Says his doctors seem happy
7/27: Says he’s really getting better
7/30: Dies
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Russia’s stock market has lost nearly 40% of its value today — and at one point was down nearly 45%. It’s one of the biggest single-day meltdowns in modern market history.
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So much moaning about Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. I don’t remember hearing all of this whining when Senators John Cornyn, Mike Crapo, Mike Lee and Tommy Tuberville visited Taiwan last year.
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Yikes! According to reality, your father bankrupted six companies, cost tens of thousands of people their jobs, gutted Atlantic City, turned his back on New York, looted his own charity with your help, and has spent decades lying about how much money he has. 🤡
Yikes! According to Forbes, in 2006 Bloomberg was worth $5.3B (#44); in 2009, his net worth had balooned to $20B (#8).. so while people were losing their homes, Bloomberg made nearly $15B off Wall Street software.
Cc: @BernieSanders @ewarren
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“Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate...So the only way he figures he’s going to get reelected, and as sure as you’re sitting there, is to start a war with Iran.”
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USPS delivered about 800 million packages between Thanksgiving and New Year’s last year. It delivered about 2.5 billion pieces of first class mail the week before Christmas.
Even if *every one* of roughly 130 million voters mailed their ballots this fall, USPS could handle it.
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"He inherited the longest economic expansion in history from Barack Obama and Joe Biden. And then, like everything else he inherited, he ran it straight into the ground." - Harris
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Jared Kushner didn't get $2 billion from the Saudis because he's a world-class investor. It smelled of access then and it smells of access now. And it's a national security problem. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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I don’t recall Mitch McConnell, Laura Ingraham, or President Trump calling these folks a “mob.”
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Stephen Miller is the worst speech writer in modern White House history - incapable of embracing any thoughts other than carnage, conflict and chaos. Completely devoid of aspiration, hope, community and generosity. A reflection of him and the man he works for.
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Trump says he's losing as much as $5 billion being president. To be absolutely clear: the President doesn’t have $3 billion to $5 billion to lose. He’s...wait for it...wait for it...lying. nbcnews.com/politics/donald-…
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is blaming the Covid spike in Florida on migrants crossing the southern border.
Maps, people.
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Biden: Violence by anyone is bad.
Trump: Violence by anyone except my supporters is bad.
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Suddenly remembering that string of pledges by your father to Penn/Wharton in the 1990s — totaling at least $1.5 million — that coincided with the 1996 and 2000 enrollment there of you and Ivanka respectively: thedp.com/article/2016/11/tr…
Is it just me or is everyone in Hollywood strangely silent today? Come on guys you're always very vocal in forcing your opinions on everyone... What changed?
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Taxpayers have footed the bill for about $91,000,000 in expenses related to President Trump’s golf outings at his own clubs in Florida and NJ on at least 161 occasions since his inauguration. trumpgolfcount.com/
While the press doesn’t like writing about it, nor do I need them to, I donate my yearly Presidential salary of $400,000.00 to different agencies throughout the year, this to Homeland Security. If I didn’t do it there would be hell to pay from the FAKE NEWS MEDIA!
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Musk says that Twitter isn’t giving him the info he needs on spam and is in breach of the merger agreement — because he needed to try to find some slender reason to back out of a merger he couldn’t afford.
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Well, @JoeBiden, @MikeBloomberg and the rest of the @Mike2020 team are still here, Donald. And we’re going to beat you in November.
Mini Mike Bloomberg will now FIRE Tim O’Brien, and all of the fools and truly dumb people who got him into this MESS. This has been the worst, and most embarrassing, experience of his life...and now on to Sleepy Joe!
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Lara Trump says the thing that so impressed her upon meeting the Trump family was that “they were down to earth."
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Trump called on the UAW’s workers to join his campaign.
The UAW responded.
.@realDonaldTrump is a scab and a billionaire and that's who he represents.
We know which side we're on.
Not his.
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UFC president Dana White has praised Trump for backing the UFC early on—including agreeing to host fights at his venues and watching from the front row. “Nobody took us seriously. Nobody. Except Donald Trump. Donald was the first guy to recognize the potential we saw in the UFC”
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After saying the Emoluments Clause is "phony," Trump says that being president "cost me anywhere from $2 billion to $5 billion."
This is not remotely true. Trump doesn't have $5 billion to lose.
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I don’t have enough red stickies to flag everything that’s good in Mary Trump’s book.
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Why is Ivanka Trump -- who has absolutely no background or experience in international affairs and national security matters -- officially representing the United States at the Munich Security Conference to begin with?
Ivanka Trump is the only person in audience who doesn’t applaud after Angela Merkel points out the absurdity of Trump claiming German cars are a national security threat
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What we’re continuing to learn,from the latest news cycle: Trump was trying to turn the Pentagon, CIA and Justice Department into puppets to help him overturn the election.
While contemplating a coup, he fomented an insurrection that exploded into view at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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Trump is slurring his words, and is unable to clearly enunciate S-words, in unusually messy ways during this Musk interview. He had trouble hearing at the NABJ convention and at his Mar-a-Lago presser. He has declined and aged noticeably over the last year.
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“We’re not going anywhere. We will haunt your dreams...Making sure everyone knows what a disaster you are for America and for all of us.”
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Translation: “I’m so obsessed with Mike Bloomberg because he stands on a stack of accomplishments that makes him ten feet taller than I am. Unlike me, he hasn’t looted his own charity, bankrupted six businesses, or torched the Constitution. Mike also can read and add.”
Mini Mike Bloomberg is a LOSER who has money but can’t debate and has zero presence, you will see. He reminds me of a tiny version of Jeb “Low Energy” Bush, but Jeb has more political skill and has treated the Black community much better than Mini!
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Barr now says that his 4-page letter last weekend wasn't really a "summary" of Mueller's report and he never intended to summarize 400 pages because that wouldn't have been in the "public interest." The technical legal term for this is "walking back your story."
News from AG Barr - Mueller report coming mid-April if not sooner; report nearly 400 pages; no plans for WH privilege review
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“No matter what your views on Trump as a president, the guy’s a bad motherfucker man.” - Jorge Masvidal
Trump is attending a UFC cage-match in NYC tonight with Masvidal on the main card.
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Melania Trump is married to a 72 year-old man who has spent the better part of five decades leaking malicious and damaging rumors and information about friends, enemy and his own family members to gossip pages and reporters. So let's take her distaste under advisement.
First lady Melania Trump responds to the New York Times unnamed op-ed writer: "You are not protecting this country, you are sabotaging it with your cowardly actions." cnn.it/2MPetAd
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On Covid-19: “This should never have been allowed to happen,” said the man who alllowed it to happen. #TrumpPressConference
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“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” - Donald Trump, 2002
Jeffrey Epstein, the New York financier long accused of molesting dozens of young girls, has been charged by federal prosecutors with sex trafficking. Via @WRashbaum nytimes.com/2019/07/06/nyreg…
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Lewandowski is a congressional witness. If he refuses to testify fully -- and Republicans on the Judiciary Committee continue to run interference for him -- Nadler should cite him for contempt and get prosecutors and a judge involved.
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“Be kind. Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never get down. It’s all gonna be okay...We’re one people. We’re one family. We all live in the same house.” - John Lewis
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If a black guy walked into Kenosha from out of town with an assault rifle and killed two people while severely wounding another we would have had a very different verdict.
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Ivanka made $3.9 million from the family's DC hotel in 2017 -- the hotel that is supposed to remit profits to the Treasury, hosts foreign diplomats, and which is the target of lawsuits alleging POTUS is violating emoluments provisions of the Constitution politi.co/2t17OpG
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On Nov. 12, 2020, Trump, as part of his fact-free effort to spread the big lie about the election being rigged, tweeted that "Dominion deleted 2.7 million Trump votes nationwide.”
How long before Dominion sues Trump for defamation now that it’s sued Powell, et al?
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Is the DOJ planning to do anything today about Mark Meadows’ decision to ignore a Jan. 6 committee subpoena?
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Two years in, the Trump tax cuts are not on course to pay for themselves washingtonexaminer.com/news/…
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Translation: “I wake up thinking about Nancy Pelosi. I go to bed thinking about Nancy Pelosi.”
Nancy Pelosi’s District in California has rapidly become one of the worst anywhere in the U.S. when it come to the homeless & crime. It has gotten so bad, so fast - she has lost total control and, along with her equally incompetent governor, Gavin Newsom, it is a very sad sight!
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Trump now saying he only decided to run because Biden’s a bad president.
Trump’s running for president so he can try escaping multiple criminal prosecutions.
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As Don Jr. blathers about Trump "building the city of New York," a reminder that Trump was always a middling and minor developer whom most major Manhattan realtors regarded as a publicity hound and cartoon character.
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Why did it take Pompeo two weeks to admit he was on the Trump-Zelensky phone call if it was a "perfect call?" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Trump took $17 million in insurance for hurricane damage to Mar-a-Lago in 2005 that few remember. The @AP looked into it in 2016 and found little evidence of damage. Trump couldn't say how much he spent on repairs; acknowledged pocketing some of the money apnews.com/f4df8c9beb1740448…
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“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” - Donald Trump, arbiter of predation.
The president said he found sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden “convincing” and speculated that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee may face even more accusations. bit.ly/2WlmL4R
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To clarify: Barr has no evidence of improprieties in the FBI investigation, including “spying,” but wants to examine the matter anyway because he has "concerns" and because, as he said, he believes spying did occur (even if he hasn’t seen evidence of it) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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The great and sober-minded Chuck Rosenberg on Pompeo’s “abject cowardice” for not backing Yovanovitch and other diplomats who worked for him when Trump smeared and manipulated them. A “complete failure of leadership.”
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1/x Barr knows Berman’s investigations all involve sensitive matters touching Trump. With the presidential election less than five months away, cynics like me can be forgiven for thinking that this looks exactly like a housecleaning. Let's count the ways: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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President Trump’s golf outings have cost U.S. taxpayers about $106,000,000 to date. trumpgolfcount.com/
According to the pool report, Trump is starting his day at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ.
This is Trump's 207th day at a Trump golf club and 274th day at a Trump property as president.
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"And if my videos help some people who've mentally checked out of politics check back in again, I'm all for it. This is the year. Make sure you vote. Make sure you get involved and don't remain silent about the issues you care about." - @sarahcpr instyle.com/news/sarah-coope…
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Amy Coney Barrett makes her first mistake as a SCOTUS justice just moments after becoming a SCOTUS justice:
She takes part in an overly political proceeding affirming just how tawdry the process around her nomination and confirmation have been.
Pres Trump escorts Justice Barrett up the South Portico steps to the balcony outside the Blue Room as invited guests applaud on the South Lawn beneath.
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Two broad takeaways from Trump’s tax returns:
1) Average Americans pay taxes, but he doesn’t - and he’s laughing at the people who elected him.
2) Gorging on debt has left him financially vulnerable and that makes him a national security threat. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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Paging Joe Shapiro. On p. 72 of her new book, Mary Trump says Donald Trump paid Shapiro — “a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker” — to sit in for him during the SAT tests so he could get into Wharton. Donald “paid his buddy well,” Mary writes.
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Obstruction of justice witness in a major federal investigation travels with a primary subject of the probe.
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“Trump may emerge as a brazen grifter who, by aspiring to the White House like a wizened, soiled version of Icarus, flew beyond the boundaries of his own luck and abilities and delivered his business, children and well-being into the hands of prosecutors.” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." - Charles Bukowski
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Ty Cobb, who represented the White House as special counsel when Robert Mueller ramped up the Russia investigation, said he considers Mueller “an American hero” and does not share President Trump’s view that the Russia probe is a politically motivated hoax abcn.ws/2IRvDvt
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McConnell says the mob that laid siege to the Capitol was fed lies and provoked by Trump.
The break becomes deeper.
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"He lied even when he didn't have to lie. He lied in preposterous ways easily disproven by common sense." esquire.com/news-politics/po…
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Ruh roh.
The court says Fox knew exactly what it was doing when it defamed Dominion. The court is describing clear evidence of malice. And that’s the ballgame in lawsuits like this.
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Why haven't Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Lauren Boebert, Mo Brooks, Madison Cawthorn, Andy Biggs or Louie Gohmert issued any sweeping denials of Rolling Stone's reporting that they were in contact with the WH and others about events surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection?
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Stay classy, Jim Cramer.
He just called Nancy Pelosi, “Crazy Nancy” - to her face, during an interview.
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Translation: "I'll be golfing and fundraising. And watching TV."
Because of my strong focus on the China Virus, including scheduled meetings on Vaccines, our economy and much else, I won’t be able to be in New York to throw out the opening pitch for the @Yankees on August 15th. We will make it later in the season!
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Bannon, delays exhausted, will head off to prison on July 1. cnn.com/2024/06/20/politics/…
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Documents show stark differences in how Trump’s businesses reported some expenses, profits and occupancy figures for two NYC buildings -- making them appear more profitable to a lender and less profitable to officials who set the buildings’ property tax.
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He won’t be able to stop having these performances. He’ll be back.
What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately. They get record ratings, & the American people get nothing but Fake News. Not worth the time & effort!
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Swamped: When you can use political donations to purchase fancy steak dinners, limo rides, and nearly $15,000 in Boston Celtics basketball tickets and don’t appear to break any federal laws. abcnews.go.com/Politics/nune…
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If Trump’s tax returns were good enough for me over a decade ago, they're good enough for the American people now. The Supreme Court should help ensure all presidents are transparent about their finances and - as the Constitution demands - can't be bribed: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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1) Trump and his father ran a housing business that was sanctioned by the Justice Department in the 1970s for discriminating against prospective tenants of color. He hired Roy Cohn to defend the family.
Those Tweets were NOT Racist. I don’t have a Racist bone in my body! The so-called vote to be taken is a Democrat con game. Republicans should not show “weakness” and fall into their trap. This should be a vote on the filthy language, statements and lies told by the Democrat.....
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I read Mary Trump’s new book about her dysfunctional family and her troubled uncle, Donald Trump. It’s indelible, revealing and obvious why the family has tried to block it. A review: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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The anti-Trump: “I have no patience for toadies and sycophants,” Bloomberg said. “My ego doesn’t need the stroking. I hate to break this to you, but I’m not insecure about who I am – and I’m comfortable with people disagreeing with me and telling me so.” buzzfeednews.com/article/ros…
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Noted, George.
Imagine if this fall someone with @MikeBloomberg’s money did polling to figure out things Fox News viewers don’t know about Trump (because they watch Fox News) and then ran endless ads on Fox News to tell those viewers all that stuff.
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Translation: “If you’re a black woman born in the US and a member of Congress, I think you belong in Africa.”
So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly......
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“I had zero borrowings from the estate,” Donald Trump told me back in 2004. “I give you my word.”
That wasn’t true, of course.
As Trump’s tax returns show, he was kept afloat for years by his father’s money. And he still managed to mess up things. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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Trump doesn’t have “proposals.” He has complaints, rants and untethered notions. “Tariffs will pay for everything I want to fund” isn’t a policy. It’s “nonsense.”
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have been talking more about their plans for the economy in the days leading up to Tuesday’s presidential debate, where their dueling proposals are expected to take center stage.
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