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YOU DON’T THANK THE KIDNAPPER FOR RELEASING THE HOSTAGES
Thank you @POTUS for taking critical action ending family separation at our border. Congress must now act + find a lasting solution that is consistent with our shared values;the same values that so many come here seeking as they endeavor to create a better life for their families
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Only 8 months into the Trump Presidency we are on the brink of nuclear war and Nazis are in streets of an American city. Seems about right
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Mitch McConnell in 2016: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."
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Rand Paul - a doctor - going to the Senate gym while awaiting results of a COVID test is about 1000 times more irresponsible than the very irresponsible spring breakers everyone is dunking on
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Not for nothing, but Trump using the Rose Garden to give a campaign speech assailing Biden is definitely illegal and his campaign owes the taxpayers a lot of money for this event.
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Donald Trump is raising YOUR prices, because HIS feelings got hurt
Trump announces 10% tariff hike on Canada as fury over ‘hostile act’ Reagan ad reaches boiling point trib.al/8zNc0GV
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The fact that Mitch McConnell can use the filibuster to prevent the majority from taking control of the Senate is a pretty good argument against the filibuster.
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I have seen a lot of Obama speeches in my life, but I have never seen him deliver one like this.
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It is worth noting that the Russians believed that the best way to damage America was help elect Donald Trump.
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It's worth remembering that the reason the vote counting is taking so long is that in many of these states the Republicans blocked laws that would have allowed the counting to start earlier
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The collective yawn of the media to the revelation that Trump may have faked his medical records especially after he made Clinton's health an issue is the latest reminder that he gets to play by different rules than any other politician.
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SAD TWEETS ARE NOT CHECKS OR BALANCES
Fellow Republicans, this is not who we are. This cannot be our party. politico.com/story/2018/06/1…
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This is like picking your airplane pilot because he has experience crashing
“He has experience now fighting the coronavirus as an individual... Joe Biden doesn’t have that.” — Trump campaign spokesperson @ErinMPerrine, trying to make Joe Biden’s lack of infectious disease a strike against him.
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If ISIS had claimed responsibility for the three mass shootings in the last week, U.S. Troops would be on the way to Syria right now. Instead, the Republicans are talking about violent video games.
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1. Russia interfered
2. They did it to help Trump
3. Trump wanted their help
4. Trump's campaign met with the Russians to seek out that help
5. Trump and his campaign repeatedly lied about those contacts
6. Trump fired the FBI Director to stop an investigation into the matter
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Things Republicans could do instead of send sad tweets
1. Pass legislation to protect the Mueller investigation
2. Subpoena Trump's tax and business records to see what leverage Russia may have on him
3. Pass a tougher sanctions law that doesn't let Trump wriggle out of them
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That debate was painful and it was entirely Trump's fault and if you can't say that, you shouldn't be in journalism.
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Two of Donald Trump’s nominees lied under oath about their views on Roe in order to secure confirmation.
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Every single person that works at the networks and the AP knows that Joe Biden has won the election. Their reticence is creating a vacuum that Trump is filling with dangerous misinformation.
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Fauci just admitted that if the Trump Administration had not fumbled the ball so badly on testing many fewer Americans would die from coronavirus.
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1. Trump fired the pandemic response unit created by Obama after Ebola.
2. Trump cut CDC funding
3. During H1N1, 1 million people were tested within a month of the first diagnosis.
4. Stop Tweeting and do your job
For decades the @CDCgov looked at, and studied, its testing system, but did nothing about it. It would always be inadequate and slow for a large scale pandemic, but a pandemic would never happen, they hoped. President Obama made changes that only complicated things further.....
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Vote for me or Donald Trump will invade the city is quite the closing message
If you want President Trump to try to take over the city - national guard on streets, choking federal funding - vote for @ZohranKMamdani because Trump just said he will be coming and this poser @ZohranKMamdani won’t be able to stop him.
That is a fact. The next Mayor has to be able to get us more, not ensure our demise. I am the only person in this race who can do that.
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If I were a network exec, I would counter the White House request for airtime with an offer to air it on a 5 minute delay so that they can fact check his comments in real time.
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Who wants to tell him that the central premise of Game of Thrones is that walls don’t work?
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We should just take a moment at some point tonight and reflect on just how fucking stupid it is that we know who is going to get the most votes, but we don't know who will be President
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Finally a potential championship team that would be willing to visit Trump at the White House
Russia has defeated Spain on penalty kicks. The stadium in Moscow goes crazy! nyti.ms/2tJLGS9
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This Tweet is so sad. Imagine being super rich, President of the United States, and still being so needy for approval
Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year,” like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!
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A President instructing a subordinate to break the law with the promise of a pardon is a textbook example of an impeachable offense and should be the biggest story in the country for months.
BREAKING: In Calexico, CA last week, where POTUS told border agents to block asylum-seekers from entering the US contrary to law, Trump told CBP head McAleenan if he were sent to jail as a result, the president would pardon him, 2 Sr admin officials tell me.
More on @CNN...
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If I was a Maine Democrat with Senatorial ambition, I would announce my 2020 campaign in the next couple of hours
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There is going to be a lot of debate on this website about the politics and optics of what @BetoORourke did today, but I will say that the traditional political ways of responding have not yielded any results or prevented future shootings
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Coverage of Biden making a gaffe and apologizing is 100x coverage of Trump making a worse gaffe and not apologizing
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Repeat after me: The President's son, son-in-law, and campaign manager met with Russian operatives who promised dirt on Clinton and then the President dictated a knowingly false statement cover up the purpose of the meeting.
Case Closed.
It's fairly incredible the degree to which the notion that there's been "no collusion" revealed has taken hold. Pointing to the Trump Tower meeting alone would be an effective rejoinder (even if debatable). But few Democrats actually make that point.
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This is a crime.
NYT reports that NRA could be willing to bankroll some of Trump's impeachment defense if Trump opposes gun control legislation. nytimes.com/2019/09/27/us/po…
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Trump in 2016: “I alone can fix it.”
Trump just now: “I don't take responsibility at all"
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Someone really has to ask Trump about the asylum process bc it’s pretty clear he thinks it’s related to insane asylums
O'DONNELL: Are we going to war against Venezuela?
TRUMP: I doubt it. They emptied their mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States of America
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The White House Press Secretary releasing to the public a doctored video from a group that claims the Newtown massacre was faked is something we shouldn’t gloss over
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Trump is really committing multiple Watergates a week at this point
BREAKING: President Trump’s handpicked U.S. attorney in Virginia is planning to ask a grand jury in the coming days to indict former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress, despite prosecutors finding no probable cause, sources said. abcnews.link/2CVUf94
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I think this will end up being one of the most impactful and important speeches Barack Obama has ever given and that is a very appropriate way to honor the legacy of John Lewis
"You want to honor John, let's honor him by revitalizing the law that he was willing to die for." — @BarackObama calls on Congress to expand the Voting Rights Act
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This is really a special class of assholes that cuts taxes for the wealthy and pays for it by eliminating funding for the Special Olympics
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Somewhere Donald Trump is breathing a sigh of relief that he doesn't have to debate Elizabeth Warren this fall.
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It would be cool to see Zuckerberg questioned by people who know how Facebook works
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Ivanka announcing that she isn't attending events to which she is not invited is good practice for the rest of her life
Ivanka Trump is not expected to attend Biden’s inauguration next week, according to a WH official.
While she respects his transition to power, according to this official, the official notes children of outgoing president’s do not traditionally attend.
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This goes without saying but if this had been Barack Obama, it would have been wall to wall coverage on Fox for the next three years
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A senior White House official is caught on tape accepting $50K in cash in a paper bag in exchange for steering contracts, and that person will go to work on Monday, and the entire GOP will be fine with it.
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.@ewarren swearing off fundraisers was a risky campaign gambit, but if she is elected President with that strategy, she will fundamentally change the relationship between moneyed interests and politicians forever.
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Paul Ryan can retire now or in 2018, but he will always be the guy who enabled Trump's worst behavior, lied about health care and taxes, and coddled racist clowns like Steve King to maintain power.
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Ted Cruz is the least likable person in all of politics past, present, and future
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When it comes to the Supreme Court, the balance of media attention between something Democrats could possibly, maybe do one day if 10 different things line up and something Republicans are doing right fucking now, seems a bit off.
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Paul Ryan will go down as perhaps the worst Speaker in American history
"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:
theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
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If we lived in a functioning democracy with a Republican Party that cared more about their country than their party, Trump would be getting on Marine One to leave the White House for the last time by dinner based in today’s testimony alone.
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The fact that Obama’s last 30 months outperformed Trump’s first 30 months is fact that should be in every story about the economy AND a devastating fact for the supply side dead enders who swear by tax cuts for the rich
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Hypothetically - bear with me for a moment - what if someone - say a reality TV star - spent years slandering an American President with a batshit crazy conspiracy theory about where that President was born?
Democrats and their liberal media allies for two years slandered President @realDonaldTrump for “conspiring with Russia.” It was all a malicious, preposterous lie given wall to wall media coverage despite zero evidence. This should never again happen to an American President.
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If you work for Fox News, advertise on Fox News, or support Fox News in any way, you are enabling the spread of White Nationalism in America and probably making a pretty penny doing so. mediamatters.org/fox-news/yo…
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Here's how we know this isn't a real crisis:
- Trump's solution would take years to build
- Half the Cabinet is headed to Davos to drink Hot Chocolate with bankers
- Trump supported a bill w/out wall funding until Sean Hannity yelled at him
- Trump lies about everything
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Imagine her reaction if someone had falsely accused Trump of not being a citizen of this country
At WH podium, @PressSec Sanders says @JemeleHill's comments calling POTUS a white supremacist were "outrageous" and "a fireable offense"
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Just spitballing here, but you could withhold your vote on th tax bill until CHIP is funded
The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is a high priority of mine, as I’m a cosponsor of the KIDS Act, legislation that reauthorizes CHIP and extends funding through 2022. I will do everything I can to ensure CHIP is funded.
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This tweet is bananas. The President is attacking the Attorney General for not covering up Republican crimes.
There will be silence from the entire Republican Party because they are as corrupt as he is.
Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff......
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The DNC, the Biden Campaign, and the convention staff did an amazing job under impossible circumstances.
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As a nation we have spent far too much time this weekend talking about Sarah Huckabee Sanders' access to primo farm to table cuisine and not enough time talking about the President's proposal to eliminate due process for people accused of a crime.
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Ivanka Trump pleading ignorance to the rules against using personal after her Dad ran an entire campaign attacking Hillary Clinton for doing that exact thing is proof she is either the most entitled or the dumbest person on the planet washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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This should be the biggest story in the land. A foreign adversary launches a cyber attack on America and the President refuses to protect the country because he is likely to benefit from another such attack
Explain: @NSA chief Mike Rogers told lawmakers he would need to be granted authority to “disrupt Russian cyber threats where they originate” by President or SecDef. Asked if he has been directed by President to do so, Rogers said “No, I have not.”
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To be fair, offering well wishes to someone who was charged for sex trafficking is a new tone of sorts.
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Mitt Romney's position is that Donald Trump is a corrupt President guilty of high crimes worthy of removal AND he should make a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court moments before the voters weigh in on who should be President.
Totally logical and morally consistent
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This email from @BetoORourke is one of the most human and inspiring things I have read in a long time.
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If there was a daily White House Briefing, the Trump White House would have to explain why Alex Acosta still has job, but since there isn’t, there will be no accountability and the media will move on to something else by dinner
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Super Tuesday is a reminder that generally America is terrible at democracy. Every state should have vote by mail, same day registration, automatic voter registration, and polls should be open from midnight to midnight on Election Day.
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The constitutional crisis won’t come when Trump fires Mueller, it will be when Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell let him do it
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No matter what comes next, let’s not forget that Trump’s campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, foreign policy advisor, fixer, political strategist and national security advisor have been indicted, convicted, or plead guilty of serious crimes.
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Let’s make sure Paul Ryan has a worse seat or no seat at next year’s State of the Union
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This is a devastating indictment of the Republican Party in the Trump era. This is a U.S. Senator with a platform and power who knows a crisis is coming, but says and does nothing because it might upset Trump. Vote them all out. They are not fit to govern. npr.org/2020/03/19/818192535…
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We are averaging like 3 new impeachable offenses a day
BREAKING: Trump pressed then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to help persuade the Justice Department to drop a criminal case against an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who was a client of Rudy Giuliani, according to three people familiar with the 2017 meeting bloom.bg/2Own9uK
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Being more upset at the people yelling about the President’s crimes than the President that committed those crimes is an odd take.
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Canceling town halls to avoid voter backlash is the thing you do, right before you lose the majority
No more town halls, NRCC chief tells House Republicans ow.ly/LINQ1061i9B
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Democrats cannot allow the emotional trauma of 2016 (and last night) to force us into hiding as Trump spreads misinformation like a firehose. Joe Biden is winning. We should act like it. messagebox.substack.com/p/bi…
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I look forward to coverage of this on Fox News, who cares passionately about taxpayer funded travel (or at least Obama's travel)
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It's very notable that Brett Kavanaugh's close friend and key witness is refusing to testify under oath
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I don't really expect Senate Republicans to be motivated by anything other than narrow self-interest, but how many of them realize that they can take one vote and clear Trump from the 2024 primary field?
This must seem appealing to a number of them.
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