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Earlier this month I talked to @onthemedia about how Donald Trump's Twitter feed helped fuel a panic over similar cases in 2014. This could get really bad really fast. wnycstudios.org/story/ebola-ca…
@onthemedia Hopefully this person doesn't actually have Ebola. When two Americans who had contracted the disease were coming back for treatment in 2014, Trump demanded that they not be allowed in the country. thehill.com/homenews/state…
@onthemedia Basically reduced to hoping that the president's favorite Fox News programs don't cover the story.
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1. Trump’s Fox cabinet returned from vacation yesterday and urged him to “stay strong” on the shutdown. mm4a.org/4Qt
2. For the first 10 days, Trump had to watch the B-team cover his shutdown. But now Hannity, Dobbs, and company are back, and they are continuing to egg him on.
3. Trump's Fox cabinet has been a problem for a while. But we are now moving toward a dynamic where they possess real veto power over government actions.
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Alright. Time to identify all of the Trump-Fox livetweets that I missed while I was off for the holidays.
I've nailed down around 20 Trump tweets that appear to respond to Fox programming. There are certainly more, but there are a few factors making it more complicated -- lots of tweets about the wall and Syria and the economy that could be, but are not definitively, live-tweets.
I'll start with 12/21.

Left, Fox & Friends, 7:06 am

Doocy: Will McConnell use the nuclear option to get the wall?
Earhartdt: "So far the president has not tweeted about that."

Right, Trump, 8:02 am
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Anybody else remember a story about soldiers in three European countries getting arrested for planning coups? Whatever happened with that?

Did I dream it?
2018, boy, I dunno.
Somebody help me out here, this is driving me crazy.
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So there's a lot of news going on right now, but something that's continuing to get lost in the noise is the Ebola outbreak happening in a WAR ZONE along with the election turmoil in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Buckle in for my thread.
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1/ Let’s talk about Trump and his history with casinos, shall we?

This thread will be completed over a period of time and will be sourced only with publicly available information.

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2/ Before going back historically, let’s review a few more recent events:

In 2015, Trump casino officials admitted to “willful and repeated” violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and were fined $10 million.

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Who funds the IEA, the TPA, the ASI &co?
You know, the RW 'free trade' thick tanks advocating tax havens, "freedom" (no regulations like workers' rights or environmental protection), no welfare (no tax & no free healthcare).
Basically, "Only the wealthier survive" philosophy?
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*Could it be* that it has something to do with defending their funders' interests?
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Take a seat: It's a long story, with a lot of players, including politicians, pretty ladies squatting your TV, the climate change denial's network, the global fascist movement, Silicon Valley/multiname data-stealing/misusing company & private companies' involved in elections.
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Blaming Trump for the fact hurricanes exist is some next level media shit from the Washington Post.
“Donald Trump’s Twitter feed causes hurricanes. Here’s how we know.”
Today is going to be really fucking stupid.
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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