After we learned Trump dangled a pardon to DHS chief Kevin McAleenan, Judiciary Dems requested a list of people who attended that meeting, to flesh out the truth.
A senior administration official is now claiming that Trump "winks" when he offers pardons to underlings, after instructing them to skirt laws and rules.
It's absolutely critical that Kamala Harris strongly emphasized that a Dem president and Congress will codify Roe nationally in her first speech as presumptive nominee.
This has huge political benefits that are going underappreciated. 1/
“If Trump gets the chance, he will sign a national abortion ban,” Harris said. By contrast, if voters elect a Dem Congress, it will pass a measure “to restore reproductive freedom," and "I will sign it into law.”
Trump isn't backing off his vow to pardon 1/6ers and says 1/6 was just fine. This is incompatible with being a "uniter." It embodies the ideas that MAGA is not subject to the law the rest of us are and that invalidating the votes of millions is *good.* 3/
Remarkable finding in new Marist poll: By 68-32, voters say they're more concerned about a president who doesn't tell the truth than one who is too old to serve.
Maybe we should cover Trump's lying as a sign of his unfitness for the presidency. 1/
The new Marist poll also finds that 56 percent say Trump lacks the character to be president.
Dishonesty is surely part of that. WaPo found that Trump told 30,000 lies/distortions as president. @ddale8 described his lies at the debate as "staggering." 2/
NEWS --> Ron Klain, a top Biden ally, acknowledges to me that polls showing Trump solidly ahead are "in the ballpark" of being right. But he insists there's still a path.
This is former WH chief of staff Ron Klain's first serious interview since the debate. Some highlights: I read him the latest polling that shows Biden in trouble and asked him if he acknowledges they're right. He basically concedes it is, with caveats:
Kate Bedingfield, a former top adviser to Biden, tweeted that the Biden camp has not demonstrated a serious path forward. I asked Ron Klain to respond to that claim. Here's our exchange:
NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.
"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"
Mark Robinson yelled that "some folks need killing" as a "matter of necessity" during an extended diatribe in Lake Church in southeast North Carolina, in which he attacked a wide range of unnamed enemies.
Interestingly, the Pastor at Lake Church confirmed to me in an email that he and Robinson expected that the "some folks need killing" line might be "scrutinized."
It's amazing that some corporate leaders are willing to support Trump for tax cuts and deregulation while shrugging about what Trump's threats to wreck democracy and the rule of law would do to the business climate. 1/
WH chief of staff Jeff Zients tells me he and other admin officials are making an expansive case to CEOs that a good business climate depends on stability and the rule of law. He talked to me about the case he made to the Business Roundtable recently. 2/