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Seth Abramson
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GOP attacks on Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and other Democratic candidates confirm something we all knew: Republicans are just going to *pretend that Donald Trump never happened* and that the standards for mistakes, hypocrisy, bad behavior, gaffes, and so on haven't changed.
1/ And the best part of all? American media, bewildered by Trump's twisting of political culture, will not just permit but *enable* Republicans' double-standard for candidate conduct—letting Trump's outrages stand only lightly commented on while Dems must campaign like it's 2007.
2/ I don't care how much pot Kamala smoked or if she liked Snoop, I mean *Jesus*. She's gotten right on legalization. Warren made a gaffe and apologized—so *let it go already*. Media is fueling this right-wing double-standard that gives Trump a pass on everything and no one else.
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Seth Abramson
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This is *not* what "direct evidence" is. An email, text or testimony excerpt is "direct evidence" *only* if it directly supports or refutes the matter in dispute (e.g., if the defendant committed the crime charged). This wildly broad definition makes Ken's misreporting *worse*.
1/ So Ken is now saying *Burr* says the Senate has no "emails, texts, or testimony" suggesting collusion. But even had Ken correctly interpreted the sum of Burr's remarks, we would say Burr says there's no *confession or eyewitness accusation* in email, text, or testimonial form.
2/ The *overwhelming majority" of "emails, texts, or testimony" from co-conspirators in any conspiracy case is what's called *circumstantial evidence*—which Burr's full interview *acknowledges exists*. So, for instance, Manafort agreeing to meet Kilimnik is not "direct evidence."
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(THREAD) This person has hate-read my feed via a dummy account for a year-plus. She has 100,000 YouTube followers and uses my name to raise cash. Real-time test: to see if I can find 100 lies in her 23-minute video to make a point about far-right grifters.
1/ I don't care about this person; I assume her name is fake and for the purposes of this real-time test I watched 60 seconds of this video to gauge if a random big number I came up with (100) was a reasonable test of how many lies she tells. The purpose of this exercise is this:
2/ I want media to see how badly misinformed the Right has become about the Mueller probe and take at least a little responsibility for it—as people like "Tracey Beanz" do claim to read major media. I also want to show how when major-media misreports, these people are emboldened.
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This. A hundred times this. We're in a moment when our politicians and our media need to be *educators* as well as advocates. This is the sort of thread that media outlets themselves could and should be doing when they're reporting on complex stories involving technical terms. 👇
1/ I'd add to this that, per POLITICO, Kremlin agent Konstantin Kilimnik told political operatives in Europe that his negotiations with the Trump team got the RNC platform changed after (per Trump aides) Trump directed that it be changed. That's a confession regarding collusion.
2/ THE NEW YORKER reports Israeli Joel Zamel, introduced to Team Trump by Netanyahu's longtime Chief of Staff, not only offered the Trumps collusive pre-election help on August 2, 2016—to which offer Jr. said *yes*—post-election he said the collusion happened. Another confession.
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