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Angus Johnston
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Thinking about this Watergate-era Doonesbury cartoon this morning.
One thing the Trump investigations have lacked so far is proven illegal conduct by Trump as president that can be summarized in a single clear stand-alone sentence.
“Trump ordered Michael Cohen to lie to investigators” is potentially a pretty good first draft of such a sentence.
One question the Buzzfeed story leaves tantalizingly unanswered is what proof there is of Trump’s order beyond Cohen’s testimony.
I gotta go teach, but I’ll have more on this later.
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With the Dems winning the House, for the first time in his presidency Trump has political opponents he can’t count on to take a dive before the final bell. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/0…
Trump has the powers of the presidency on his side, but on an interpersonal level, he's got nothing. He told Pelosi he was giving the SOTU, she said no, he said yes, she said no again...and he said "Okay, no it is, then."
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You know, if we’re complaining about the media wrecking teens’ lives, we should maybe add “putting them on national television and encouraging them to defend blackface” to the list of questionable practices. thedailybeast.com/covington-cath…
Got a bunch of conservatives in my mentions saying I clearly know nothing about American Sports Culture, because blackout makeup and blackface makeup have nothing in common. Couple quick things about that.
First: Welp. Okay.
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The Obama birther claim was a lie about Obama. The Harris birther claim is a lie about the constitution.
This is a big part of the reason why Chris Cuomo's tweets on the Kamala Harris claims were so wrongheaded—it makes no sense to ask for "proof" of a claim when that claim is grounded in a xenophobic lie about the text of the US Constitution.
Wohl didn't claim that Harris wasn't born in the US. He claimed that *even though she was born in the US* she's ineligible to be president because her parents were the wrong kind of immigrants. It's transparent bullshit. It's self-refuting.
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