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Judd Legum
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This series of Trump tweets is racist and inaccurate.

Trump tells members of the squad to "go back" to the "crime infested" countries "from which they came."

Pressley was born in Chicago

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born in NYC

Rashida Tlaib was born in Detroit
Trump really shows all his cards with these tweets. Trump demonizes immigrants as a proxy for anyone who is not white. This is straight from the white nationalist playbook.

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Trump's entire schtick is claiming people who aren't white are foreigners and then using their alleged foreignness to attack them.

That's why he spent so much time claiming Obama was born in Africa.
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I went through the Twitter accounts of every Republican member of Congress and created a comprehensive list of every Republican member who has condemned Trump's blatantly racist attack on their colleague, Elijah Cummings
Recall that Mitt Romney wrote an op-ed promising he would stand up to Trump's racism. Guess he's busy today.

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Keep in mind that the last time Trump targeted members of Congress with a racist attack (10 days ago) most Republicans DEFENDED him. The official GOP line was that Trump wasn't being racist and, in fact, the people who he was targeting were the real racists.
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1. I'm very skeptical of these latest nods toward impeachment by Nadler.

Let me explain.

washingtonpost.com/politics/nadle…
2. Nadler says he's going to sue to compel McGahn and potentially others to testify. He also wants the grand jury information.

The premise to all of this is that there is not currently enough information to justify impeachment.
3. I think that's wrong but there is a bigger problem.

TIME.

Time is not on the Democrats' side.

There are 15 months until the next election.

Now we are setting up a process of lengthy litigation to see if we can get some witnesses before impeachment can be considered.
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1. The Trump campaign is paying Facebook to spread misinformation about several Democrats running for president

It's happening RIGHT NOW

It's 15 months before the general election.

Unless something is done, this will get much worse

popular.info/p/trump-using-…
2. The Trump campaign has an ad running now claiming @JoeBiden and @PeteButtigieg support eliminating private insurance.

It shows an image from the debate with both raising their hands.

Compare the Trump ad (left) to the actual show of hands (right) popular.info/p/trump-using-…
3. The point here isn't that supporting Medicare for All in place of private insurance is bad. (Sanders and Warren both hold this view).

The point is that Facebook is accepting cash to broadcast Trump's lies

This was not supposed to happen this time

popular.info/p/trump-using-…
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I don't typically spend much time acknowledging or responding to this man, but this series of tweets is so racist, and so problematic, that it must be addressed.

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