Now that Trump is openly calling to "OVERTURN" the election, I'm wondering where this leaves the Republicans who said he was merely pursuing his legitimate legal options after the election that he lost...
How will ever explain to the future that it's 5 pm on the last Friday of Trump's presidency, and he is in the White House meeting with the MyPillow guy to discuss martial law while an actual army is deployed to the capital Green Zone to protect against Trump's violent supporters?
Make no mistake: the applause ringing out at the Cathedral when Meghan McCain says 'America has no need to be made great again because America was always great' is not standard. Never heard applause at a funeral here before.
The very worrisome question is why all 10 living former Secretaries of Defense, including Trump officials Esper and Mattis, chose to speak out now. What is the scenario they are worried about?
Perhaps worth recalling that it was Mick Mulvaney who set up the infamous July 25, 2019, phone call between Trump and President Zelensky -- because John Bolton, the national security adviser, wouldn't touch 'whatever drug deal' Mulvaney & co. were cooking up...
To my money, best question so far comes from GOP Sens Collins and Murkowski: Before Joe Biden started running for President, did Trump ever raise the issue of corruption and Biden to Ukraine's previous president or others?
White House counsel: I have nothing for you on that.
The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!
Am thinking tonight as a high school mom of those grieving parents in Michigan who lost their children… and wondering for the millionth time how we can live in a country that has somehow normalized these shootings and does essentially NOTHING to stop them.
To recap: Jared Kushner washed his hands of trying to stop Trump's coup, bought a $32 million lot in Florida in December 2020 and dismissed threats by the WH counsel to quit as "whining"
As Trump prepares to leave the White House for St. John's Church, a reminder: he appears to have just ordered the gasing of peaceful American protesters in order to stage a photo op.
This is incoherent, rambling, and very very worrisome.
The President cannot even articulate a single sentence that makes sense or is passingly true.
I know we're inured to a lot, but still...
@Ocasio2018
Lindsey Graham on removing Bill Clinton from office: “You don’t even have to be convicted of a crime to lose your job in this constitutional republic if this body determines your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role.”
The President is asking the Supreme Court to throw out millions of American votes. Millions. More than a month after the election he lost. With no evidence.
The reason that it's so important to show the images of looting and destruction and terror in the Capitol yesterday is because the campaign to lie about what happened and rewrite history has already begun.
Trump: "Russia used to be the Soviet Union. Afghanistan made it Russia because they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan. Russia."
Trump then goes on to endorse the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Via Fox.
Going to be a long day of Republicans lecturing Dems over rushed impeachment with no due process — after same Republicans acquitted Trump in a trial with no witnesses
Reminder: last year John Bolton called the Russian election interference "an act of war."
Now as national security adviser he puts out an official statement calling investigation of said act of war "witch hunt."
It turns out that the guy who praises Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, exchanges love letters with Kim Jong Un, and welcomes favorite dictators to the Oval Office is not a big fan of counting votes.
Who'd have guessed it?
I still have such a hard time with the mask hysteria. A nation that can comply with no shoes no shirt no service at 7-11 should not be so torn apart by this, no?
The Washington National Cathedral, church of presidents, takes on the President. Everything about this is extraordinary.
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Did I miss the part of the last 24 hours where the Republican leaders on Capitol Hill said no they do not in fact want Russia to rejoin the G7 they led the way in kicking them out of? Or hostile relations with Canada?
Cassidy Hutchinson notably praised for coming forward when so many powerful men in Trump’s orbit have refused. A running theme and enduring mystery throughout his tenure: so many men so scared of him they left it to aides to speak out.
How odd to listen to Tulsi Gabbard mouthing Syrian and Russian talking points on the Democratic debate stage...sorry but no one thinks US troops withdrawn by Trump were there as part of a 'regime change war' by the US. It's as untruthful as anything from POTUS.
So now Russia believes it can dictate the national security policy of Sweden and Finland. Clear that Putin does not recognize the sovereign right of nations in his neighborhood to self government.
This war is not just about Ukraine.
Spare a thought tonight for the families of more than 200,000 Americans who died in this pandemic, many of them, according to public health experts, unnecessarily because of America's botched response.
The doctors owe the American people a full and complete accounting of the kind of mental impairment that can come with the massive amount of drugs they have pumped the President with.
Who is the brilliant strategist who decided to attack peaceful protesters during a presidential event in the Rose Garden? Is this the split screen message to America and the world that Donald Trump wants to send?
As VP Pence lists American security concerns at Munich, note that he leaves out invasion by caravans at US southern border, a ‘national emergency’ according to the boss
I don't want to alarm anyone but the President is now reading off "poll" after "poll" at his campaign rally to prove he won the debates in 2016. He is also complaining about Brad Pitt and that a South Korean movie won the Oscars and that he didn't win Time Man of the Year.
Latest: Trump White House chief Mark Meadows turned over to Jan. 6 committee an email that referred to a PowerPoint calling for Trump to declare a NatSec emergency and have VP Pence delay Biden’s certification
Once again, shocking that a dem debate goes this far and does NOT mention Trump post impeachment purge, attacks on independent justice and intelligence, and just today Supreme Court justices...
One point I keep coming back to: Cities that Trump does not like are not ‘Democrat’ cities. They are American cities. He spent his whole life living in one.
To recap: It was ok for the President to tweet racist things from the White House, but not for the Speaker to condemn the racism from the floor of the House. Wonder why Americans are down on Washington?
I know it's been hours but I'm still absorbing this news that Trump was still trying to make a business deal in Russia with Putin's help even after sealing GOP nod - and amid the Russian hacking on his behalf, Trump Tower meeting, etc. How did they think this was not coming out?
Watching Trump 'interview' with Hannity, at first it seemed to me it should be an in-kind contribution to the Trump campaign from Fox.
The more Trump talks the more I realize it should be an in-kind contribution to the Biden campaign.
It is literally inconceivable that any rational person can read this and accept that this is the President of the United States saying it. Find me a defender, a single defender, who can make the case for this...
It is SO very Washington right now that the exit of 29yo press aide is being treated as a bigger deal than President of the US public attack on his own attorney general. Again.
Kurt Volker out. Lots of former officials — John Bolton, Fiona Hill, Dan Coats, Sue Gordon, the ousted US ambassador to name a few — who are very aware of Trump and Giuliani’s Ukraine pressure campaign. Look forward to their testimony.
Good morning from Minsk on the Potomac, where the leader is holed up in the presidential palace, refusing to accept the election results and surrounded by an entire political party of enablers.
You know that study about how people’s anger fades starting three days after one of these shootings?
Anger not fading. Horror not fading. Ending the week still with true nauseous feeling.
What does the sergeant at arms say about Rand Paul reportedly having a press conference when he is supposed to be in his seat at the trial on pain of imprisonment?
Obama: "The president said he'd pass a middle-class tax cut before the next election. Congress isn't even in session. He just makes it up ... That is not spin ... That's lying." (via CBS)
John Bolton tells
@washingtonpost
Trump was just waiting for 2nd term before pulling out of NATO and destroying the alliance now trying to counter Putin’s war…
Trumpists in denial, but Trump record on Putin, NATO, Ukraine is clear:
Trump is like an American tourist abroad. He says the same thing over and over again, just getting louder each time, entirely unable to speak the language of his interlocutor or even trying.
Hannity asks Trump about Bolton book. Suggests it is false re China but also that NSC has determined it releases classified info.
How can it be false and a classified leak at the same time?
'That election will go down as the crime of the century' -- Trump, this weekend
'We are witnessing the greatest election fraud in the history of the country' -- Netanyahu, this weekend
Two defeated politicians, two countries, one playbook
Still cannot believe this is the White House press secretary saying this. Been a professional journalist since 1990. Aside from DC the only other place I have lived is Russia, which is where the ‘enemy of the people’ phrase comes from. It doesn’t belong in the USA.
Here's the video. Sarah Sanders is asked multiple times if she believes the media is the enemy of the people. She refuses each time to respond. (via Yahoo)
"Human scum" is quite simply the language of tyrants and those who aspire to be tyrants. Hitler called his enemies human scum, and so did Stalin. So did Jair Bolsonaro, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un. And Donald Trump.
Obamagate, a crime so heinous Trump cannot name it but "it's been going on for a long time."
It's "very obvious to everybody."
This, to say the least, is not the statement of the president of a rule-of-law country.
It’s only Monday and Trump has accused Obama of a terrible but unnamed crime. And apparently everyone is going to just shrug because, well, that’s what the president now does...
Donald Trump wanted this. He unleashed this mob. Their goal is to stop Congress from ratifying the election results.
This is the actual definition of a coup.
That time your husband asked the President of the United States about attacks on ‘Western-style liberalism’ and it turns out the President does not know what it is...
Peter Baker asks Trump if he agrees with Putin about demise of "Western-style liberalism." Trump then criticizes LA and SF run which are "sad to look at" because they are run by "liberal people" ... which was not the question.
Forget the smear campaign against Lt.Col. Vindman. Read his testimony about Trump’s shadow foreign policy with Ukraine. It’s specific, powerful, damning, and firsthand.
Spoiler alert: Germany is not ‘delinquent’. There is no ‘fee.’ And he’s moving the troops to other European countries that also do not spend 2 percent of gdp on defense (a threshold they have until 2024 to meet).
Germany pays Russia billions of dollars a year for Energy, and we are supposed to protect Germany from Russia. What’s that all about? Also, Germany is very delinquent in their 2% fee to NATO. We are therefore moving some troops out of Germany!
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Trying hard to understand what it must be like to be a Republican senator preparing to acquit Trump and listening to this evidence of how he lied to the public and undermined the election for months... ? What is the justification for this conduct that runs through your head?
Breathtaking crowds in Belarus today, protesting a truly rigged election in Europe’s longest running post Soviet dictatorship. Amid our dysfunction and division, take a minute to admire their bravery.
Immense crowds,tens of thousands are gathering right now in
#Minsk
. People are still coming. They are protesting against
#Lukashenko
and police brutality. There's no leader but people are self-organised and peaceful. The plan was changed last-minute,but people knew where to come
So America right now has: deadly pandemic, massive unemployment and recession, schools unable to open, protests over racial injustice, a killer hurricane bearing down on the South...
And I am watching Mike Pence talk about how bad things would be in Joe Biden’s America.
This call is what happens when you enable and empower and excuse illegal, irrational, unconstitutional, antidemocratic behavior for years.
It is the culmination of Trump -- and Trumpism.
Note that Trump has done away with all Russia expertise. No Amb Huntsman or Fiona Hill, but Pompeo, Mnuchin, Mulvaney, Bolton, Kushner (!) & Ivanka (!). Who needs experts? Not Trump.
Yovanovitch has just given the strongest statement I have heard yet on why it matters that the President of the United States succumbed to a foreign disinformation campaign to fire an American ambassador with no basis.