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Judd Legum
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1. I looked at thousands of Trump's Facebook ads for 2020 and discovered the campaign is (again) exploiting the platform to manipulate and mislead voters popular.info/p/inside-trump…
2. The Trump campaign has run hundreds of ads featuring testimonials from voters. One features "Howard from New Mexico." He's depicted as an elderly African American man.

"Sir, you have really inspired me and brought back my faith in this great nation"

popular.info/p/inside-trump…
3. But in many other versions of the ad, "Howard" is no longer an older African-American man. He is a young African-American man, engrossed in his cell phone.

"Sir, you have really inspired me and brought back my faith in this great nation"

popular.info/p/inside-trump…
4. You can also look at the targeting information and it reveals what the Trump campaign is up to. The Trump campaign changes Howard's persona depending on how it is going to target the ad. Young people get "young Howard." Old people get "old Howard" popular.info/p/inside-trump…
5. Does Howard really exist? Unclear. But I am sure that Howard, a Trump-supporting African-American man, is not simultaneously 25-years-old and 70-years-old. (There is also a middle-aged Howard, BTW.) popular.info/p/inside-trump…
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The pricing scheme for @DollarCars exploits families. I paid MORE to rent a kids booster seat for three days than the ACTUAL COST OF RENTING A CAR.

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1. Mueller was actually pretty clear with what he thinks about Trump and obstruction but had to dance on the head of a pin to respect certain conventions.

I don’t have to so I’ll just state it plainly: Mueller thinks Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice
2. Mueller says that it’s not fair for him to say Trump is guilty of obstruction because of the DOJ policy against indicting a sitting president. So if Mueller said it there is not process for Trump to defend himself (i.e. a trial)
3. But Mueller says that if he believed Trump had NOT committed obstruction he would say. And Mueller is NOT saying that.

So as a matter of grammar & logic it’s clear Mueller thinks Trump is guilty of obstruction.

He just doesn’t think it’s appropriate for him to say explicitly
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A lot of elected Democrats seem concerned with how an impeachment inquiry would play politically.

I don't get it. Isn't the point of getting elected to do the right thing once you get there?

Who cares how it plays politically? This is much bigger than that.
Why a detailed examination of Trump's obstruction of justice, which Mueller just outlined in detail, would be damaging to Democrats politically is not something I understand either. But I also don't care. Just do the right thing.
Something I think that is politically damaging is when someone asks whether you believe the president committed an impeachable offense and your answer is it depends on how it might play in the next election.
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