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7 years

A great way to show respect for the flag is to refuse offers of clandestine election assistance from hostile foreign espionage agencies

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4 years

We need to see the stock trades of President Trump and his family in the month of February.

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5 years

A female friend just lost a job for being "difficult." As she narrated what had happened, it struck me: a difficult woman is one who asks for the things I get without having to ask for them.

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A way to make the impeachment process less divisive is for Republicans to join it.

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3 years

Impeach. Remove. Indict. Incarcerate.

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3 years

Plotting a military coup seems like the kind of behaviour that impeachment and removal were invented for

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4 years

I'm worried by a judge who'd accept a nomination under these circumstances.

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3 years

There's a legend building among the non-deadend Trumpers, that Trump had a decent record before some arbitrary date: before the election, before the pandemic. It needs to be stressed that Trump was a crook, charlatan, bigot, thug, and incompetent from the start to the end.

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3 years

Jeff Epstein should have hung in there, he’d be a free man tonight

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4 years

For once in his life, Donald Trump has got something he earned

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6 years

The president actually had a press conference to deny being stupid?

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5 years

1. A truck of TVs is hijacked. 2. Your son meets with the hijackers. 3. Your campaign manager shares route information with them. 4. You are recorded on video saying, "I love truck hijacking." 5. The TVs are in your house. Happy No Collusion Day.

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5 years

I'm ashamed to explain this to a state attorney general ... but when a prosecutor says he lacks jurisdiction to prosecute an offense and so refers the offense to the body that he believes does have jurisdiction ... that's not a finding of innocence.

Jeff Landry

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5 years

Let me be CLEAR: in this nation, when a court doesn’t find you guilty, you’re found INNOCENT! @realDonaldTrump was exonerated and Dems need to move on!

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4 years

It's not easy to design a voting system that creates 11 hour lines. Nobody else in the developed world has managed anything like it. Generating delays like this requires only-in-America careful planning and sustained commitment.

Johnta Austin

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4 years

Now at 11hrs in line but we are next! A long journey but wouldn’t be anywhere else! Please vote everyone!

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5 years

When this is all over, nobody will admit to ever having supported it

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6 years

They knew they would be meeting with representatives of the Russian state. They knew they were being offered Russian state intelligence. They intended to use Russian intelligence offered by Russian agents against an American opponents. They did not alert the FBI.

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5 years

Every country has mentally ill. Every country has video games. Every country has people who don’t pray. Every country has racists. Only America has near-daily mass shootings. It’s the guns

The American Exception

The United States is not the only nation to suffer from white supremacism, but in America, it has proved uniquely deadly.

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5 years

Original deleted, so I saved you a screen shot

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3 years

It would make a lot more sense to vaccinate the incoming administration first.

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6 years

So much was weird in 2017, but perhaps the weirdest was that people who nearly triggered a pizzeria gun massacre to stop imaginary child molesters rallied to support an actual child molester’s campaign for US Senate

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4 years

Mary Trump's allegation that Donald Trump cheated on the SAT to enter a more prestigious college would certainly explain Trump's fixation on Barack Obama's test scores and grades.

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6 years

It's been a while since I formally studied law, but as best I recollect, an innocent person can always defeat a perjury trap by telling the truth

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6 years

Many people question this president, but it’s no small achievement to write the grossest, most inappropriate, most self-flattering Memorial Day message in the history of the US presidency

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

6 years

Happy Memorial Day! Those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today. Best economy in decades, lowest unemployment numbers for Blacks and Hispanics EVER (& women in 18years), rebuilding our Military and so much more. Nice!

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5 years

If Trump now reopens Govt, he visibly surrenders to Pelosi. If Trump keeps Govt closed, he bleeds support faster. Workers miss next paycheck, air travel delays, govt services fail, and economy stalls. Trump built the trap and walked into it. Pelosi just locked it behind him.

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4 years

President of the White People of the Red States of America.

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4 years

"Obama-gate" is basically Al Capone trying to indict the IRS for tax evasion.

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5 years

The VP is staying a 3 hour drive from Irish capital, necessitating costly helicopters, all so that his visit to Ireland can put cash in the boss’s pocket. Normal federal employees go to prison for such schemes

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6 years

At this point, disclosure of Trump's tax returns has become a crucial national security/counter-intelligence concern

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4 years

You can read Trump's tax returns two ways: either Donald Trump is the greatest tax cheat in US history - or he is a financial desperado hopelessly in debt to God knows who & needs every dollar he scams from Secret Service golf car rentals just to pay the electricity bill

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3 years

Impeach. Remove. Indict. Incarcerate. Now.

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4 years

"Could we get a list of all the drugs the president currently is taking?"

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4 years

President Trump won the 2016 election by accepting clandestine foreign help. He was caught trying to win the 2020 election by extorting clandestine foreign help. If unchecked, he will do it again. He's likely doing it right now.

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6 years

Time should give it to Hillary, just to mess with him

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2 years

No Russian leader since Tsar Nicholas II has done his country so much harm, so fast, as Vladimir Putin. He has isolated Russia from world trade, made the ruble worthless, destroyed 25 years of economic gains in a a week. 1/x

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4 years

The senators thought: This news is really bad. Perhaps I should speak out, urge immediate action, save thousands of lives? Then they thought: No, speaking out would only upset Trump. I'll call my broker instead.

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6 years

Obama/Bush/Clinton/ etc. would have already visited California, toured as near disaster as feasible. Press conference in Sacramento w governor. National attention to those who have lost homes, etc etc etc. Trump might as well borrow Melania's "I dont care Do U?" jacket

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4 years

Trump was not "democratically elected" - he lost by 2.9 million votes. He was "constitutionally elected," by an 18th century constitutional design that includes a ban on foreign bribes to the president and that offers impeachment and removal as a remedy for bribe-seeking

Mickey Kaus

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4 years

I suppose if the Respectable Interagency Consensus on Ukraine is willing to righteously remove a democratically elected president -- in Ukraine (2014) -- it's not such a big step to justify doing the same thing in the US.

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4 years

It says right in the prayerbook that Yom Kippur is the day that God smites deceivers, wrongdoers, and criminals.

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5 years

The Kavanaugh defense was not "Yes, I drank too much in my last year of high school and first year of college, misbehaved in ways that embarrass me now, I am sincerely sorry, and have never done anything like it since." His defense was: It's all lies, every word.

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4 years

Here's hoping that a year from now, we are reporting on the distinguished Americans being appointed to new positions in an administration headed by a psychologically normal president who has disclosed his honest finances and owes nothing to any foreign thug or dictator

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4 years

The rule about presidential children being off-limits should not apply when they are 40, were offered and refused the vice presidency, and were and are participants in and profiteers from the president's massive financial corruption.

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1 year

Not many world leaders have defied both Donald Trump's blackmail and Vladimir Putin's aggression. Zelensky is that rare hero.

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4 years

Rage-tweeting all afternoon is one way to spend your wife's 50th birthday.

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4 years

Who is curious about the Trump/Kushner-Saudi Crown Prince call records?

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2 years

The sure way to avoid nuclear war is for Russia not to start one. If they don't do it, nobody else will. Likewise, the sure way to end the invasion of Ukraine is for Russia to withdraw from Ukraine. The war is all of Russia's making. The war stops when Russia stops it.

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7 years

The president should resign.

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5 years

Didn't Donald Trump promise that if elected president, the world would stop laughing at us?

Fiona Bateman

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5 years

The Finnish people have taken to their rakes en masse this weekend! Click on #haravointi (raking) to see their posts! A new Olympic sport to consider for 2020? 🤣

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3 years

Now onto the corrupt pardons phase of the presidential transition

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7 years

This isn’t remotely like Watergate. During Watergate, Congress cared whether laws had been broken.

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5 years

This is literally the “I am not a crook” tweet

Donald J. Trump

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5 years

Oh, I get it! I am a very good developer, happily living my life, when I see our Country going in the wrong direction (to put it mildly). Against all odds, I decide to run for President & continue to run my business-very legal & very cool, talked about it on the campaign trail...

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David Frum

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4 years

Trump was made president by the rules of the constitutional system, not by "the American people," who voted against him by a margin of 2.7 million. A president who owes his job to the rules of the game is poorly positioned to complain about the *other* rules of the game

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4 years

Failed shoe bomber got life in prison. Failed underwear bomber got 4x life in prison + 50 years. Failed plot to blow up fuel tanks at JFK airport in 2007: life in prison. Failed plot vs Fort Dix in 2007: life in prison Failed plot to blow up NYSE in 2004: life in prison. ETC

Brit Hume

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4 years

@Mimirocah1 Dumb answer. Failed crimes don’t get the ultimate penalties. Impeachment is the ultimate penalty.

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4 years

It’s quite scary to think what would happen if the US were struck by a crisis that required a real president on the job instead of a sock puppet insult dog

Donald J. Trump

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4 years

Come on Crazy Nancy, do it!

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David Frum

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6 years

Not in a mood for Twitter jokes. This is dark & dangerous. I shudder for every parent of a son or daughter in uniform - and for us all.

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3 years

I've often wondered whether a reason Canadian politics has been more moderate in the 21st c than UK, US, or Australian politics is that there are no Murdoch-owned media properties in Canada.

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5 years

Possible Trump motives 1) Protecting income flow from Trump Towers Istanbul 2) Payoff to Turkey to cover up recording of Khashoggi murder by Trump allies 3) Obeisance to Putin 4) Warning to House: if you impeach me, Ill burn every American alliance and interest before I go

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4 years

My takeaway from this evening: moms and grandmoms of all backgrounds, creeds, ethnicities, and races really really really want Trump gone

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6 years

Risk-averse corporate entities making highly visible contributions to formerly controversial causes is exactly what profound cultural change looks like

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The New England Patriots loaned its team plane to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students and their families traveling to Washington, D.C., for the #MarchforOurLives rally.

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David Frum

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5 years

The US military is not briefing the US president on major cyber warfare operations against a hostile foreign power because they do not trust the president not to betray those operations to that hostile foreign power.

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7 years

Regular reminder that Donald Trump’s core competency is not dealmaking with powerful counter-parties. It is duping gullible victims.

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5 years

But if those parents had bought their children a security clearance over the objections of every high-level professional to enable their children to use the most precious secrets of the United States to advance their business interests ... totally no problem

Kellyanne Conway

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. @LoriLoughlin & @FelicityHuffman indicted for lying and buying spots in college. They worried their daughters are as stupid as their mothers.

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David Frum

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4 years

If Ron DeSantis loses Florida for Trump, as looks increasingly likely, then the loss of any ONE of Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin ends the ballgame for Trump. And right now, Trump looks likely to lose all *five* of those states.

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David Frum

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6 years

The lives of Americans and the peace of the world are in hands you wouldn't trust with your beer money.

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6 years

Senator McCain's cue to reply, "I like the presidents who don't need pardons."

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6 years

I still want to know how much money the Trump Organization has been paid by Saudi entities since Election Day 2016

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4 years

The people on far right and far left who publicized the obviously bogus @nypost story were not dupes. They were accomplices. The story could not have been more obviously fake if it had been wearing dollar-store spectacles and attached plastic mustache.

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3 years

Rand Paul goes unmasked to make it clear that for him, disregard for others is not merely a matter of ideology, but a lived personal commitment.

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5 years

And this is why House needs to see those Trump tax returns. Trump has green-lit a new Middle Eastern war by a dictator who controls some unknown percent of Trump's global licensing income. We cannot begin to assess US Middle East policy without knowing who's paying what to Trump

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6 years

Don Jr. claims Obama "killed growth for his entire 8 years." Tough to run a business if you cannot read a chart.

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2 years

Coming soon: "It's outrageous that anybody would hold me responsible for this heinous act just because I starred in a campaign ad firing hundreds of rounds from a machine gun at a photo of Nancy Pelosi."

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4 years

Kind of amazing that anybody thinks this video makes Biden look anything other than terrific. He shushes the aide who wants to lead him away - and then engages a hostile critic face to face, fact to fact. Impressive.

Matt Wolking

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4 years

Detroit auto worker: "You are actively trying to diminish our Second Amendment right and take away our guns." Joe Biden: "You're full of shit." Biden staffer: "Alright, thank you guys--" Biden: "No, shush! Shush!"

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5 years

Hi good morning it's Monday, CNN is reporting that the CIA had to extract its top intelligence source in Russia because it could not trust the president to protect his identity

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5 years

Mueller statement: "Can't any of you people read?"

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3 years

"President Donald J. Trump ran out of non-violent options to retain power." - Rep. Ted Lieu.

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6 years

The claim that Trump is honest despite his lies because he did what he promised to do is itself another lie. Trump promised better healthcare, more roads, less illegal immigration, higher taxes on super wealthy, plan to reduce opioid deaths. He’s done the opposite in every case

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"That audio recording of my own exact words in my own voice is totally false and wrong. Only the biased liberal media would report on what I said, rather than relying on what my PR team says I said. To play my own words in my own voice to a TV audience is fake news at its worst."

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Matt Gaetz argues that with the time consumed by this impeachment process, Congress could do things that Republicans declined to do when they controlled all three elected branches of the federal government

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4 years

Since his first bankruptcies at end of 1980s, Trump's life has been dominated by one idea: what scheme/scam will keep his creditors at bay for the next 24 hours? That's the approach he's brought to coronavirus too.

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It's the Republican senators who are on trial now

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500,000 Americans sick. 20,000 Americans dead. New York State alone has more confirmed cases than Italy. 18% of the NYPD out sick. As the nation mourns, the president of the United States has spent 2 hours of Easter evening retweeting congratulations to himself.

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BREAKING NEWS: "China offered to resume buying US agriculture products at 2017 levels if US agreed to reduce US tariffs to 2017 levels." $28 billion in bailout funds to farmers, hundreds of billions of damage to world financial markets, all to restore the status quo ante

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3 years

President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will commit many crimes and have many delusions.

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5 years

This is the Kremlin's cute way of reminding Trump who owns whom

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5 years

Russia has voiced hope that the U.S. administration wouldn't publish private conversations between the two nations' presidents, like it did with Ukraine.

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5 years

There's something quite beautiful about Trump bidding farewell to Sarah Sanders with a false statement about her length of service

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5 years

President's first tweet of the morning: "I'm not a liar." President's second tweet of the morning: "I'm not lazy." I'm authentically curious what is the third charge he'll feel the need to deny

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7 years

This is no longer about Trump. We know what he is. It's about Congress and specifically Republicans in Congress. Who are they?

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5 years

Mitt Romney succeeded at everything he did in life: academics, business, family life. The presidency eluded him, but he can gain a place in history greater than many presidents by his actions over the next 12 months.

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Obama in PA intentionally stoking a Trump psychic meltdown in tomorrow night debate.

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3 years

Next thing you know, the government will require parents to send their children to school.

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5 years

Free speech to malign poor murdered Seth Rich. Free speech to persuade parents to expose their children to infectious diseases. Free speech to harass the parents of the children slaughtered at Sandy Hook. But kneel at an NFL game? You're a "whiny little virtue-signaling bitch."

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Hi, look sorry your country is being invaded, but before I release the military aid Congress voted for you to defend yourselves against the adversary that also helped make me president, I need you to fabricate a smear against my probable presidential election opponent

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David Frum

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5 years

In fairness, it's tough to devise good talking points for the defense when you are a) not very smart and b) very, very guilty

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Is this a first time in history that a House committee has had to issue a subpoena to compel someone to release a report that fully and totally exonerates & vindicates him?

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6 years

There were sound reasons why the authors of the Constitution sought to forbid the president of the United States from accepting payments from foreign states

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4 years

Successful real estate entrepreneur sees no reason to go to prison for unsuccessful real estate entrepreneur

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David Frum

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4 years

It might help if we stopped calling them "militia," an honorable term for the legal armed force of state governments. A group of armed men who answer to no civil authority are a "gang" As in: "Armed gang members march up 7th St. in downtown Louisville."

Chad K. Mills

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A militia group marches up 7th St. in downtown Louisville. They wouldn’t identify their group, but I know I’ve seen some here before. #BreonnaTaylor #Louisville @WDRBNews

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David Frum

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5 years

If Richard Nixon had accused LBJ of the Kennedy assassination - that would have been the biggest story on earth That Trump could accuse Clinton of murder to shrugs ... reveals how even Trump's own party does not think of Trump as the real president

The Shame and Disgrace Will Linger

On Saturday, President Trump spread a conspiracy theory accusing the Clintons of murdering Jeffrey Epstein.

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6 years

Worth noting that Trump also inherited the growing US economy he keeps boasting about

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4 years

The @pagesix story makes clear Don Jr. didn't bulk-purchase his book to push it up the NYT list. The Republican National Committee did, using donor money contributed to win elections to salve Don Jr's ego.

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If a gunman in a school is too difficult and dangerous for a typical local police force to handle, the right response is not to condemn local police forces as cowardly. The right response is to discredit the "good guy with a gun" fantasy.

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