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@GregTSargent
Aug 30, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
When Trump blasts Fox News for failing to "work for us," what's key is the *open and unabashed* assertion that he is entitled to a 24/7 propaganda outlet working on his behalf.

The open flaunting of Trump's corruption is a key feature of it.

New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
We should view Trump's demand that Fox News function as his personal propaganda network, along with his nonstop lying and attacks on legitimate news organizations, as its own form of insidious corruption:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
"All politicians shade the truth. But most hew to an underlying belief that gaslighting voters too shamelessly treats them with deep contempt; that at some point, factual reality has to matter; and that this is necessary for democracy to function."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

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Jul 28
Striking: Zohran Mamdani's video about returning to Uganda racked up 4.5 million Instagram views, 56% among nonfollowers, per data given to me.

He's offering a new answer to Dem digital woes. I talked to his team in depth about it. Fascinating. 1/

(link)
newrepublic.com/article/198482…
Zohran's campaign provided me with data on the reach of a number of his most recent videos on Instagram. We're talking millions and millions of views on content about things like traffic and city council bills impacting street vendors.

Details below. 2/

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National Dems are noticing.

“His campaign is putting digital practitioners in charge who understand what’s going to resonate online,” the exec director of a top Dem super PAC says. The secret? “Letting him speak authentically to what he believes." 3/

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Jul 23
NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Calls Bondi's bluff.

Read:
newrepublic.com/article/198247…
“I am convinced that DOJ ignored evidence found in the Treasury Department’s Epstein file [involving] mountains of cash Epstein received from prominent businessmen...to finance his criminal network,” Wyden says.

Wyden's investigators viewed these docs:

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This from Wyden is striking:

"Epstein clearly had access to enormous financing to operate his sex trafficking network, and the details on how he got the cash to pay for it are sitting in a Treasury Department filing cabinet."

Lays out roadmap for DOJ:

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Jul 17
The real story behind the new DOJ referral for Adam Schiff is *Trump's* corruption. It's based on the findings of an inspector general, but experts and a former IG looked at the details and they tell me the whole process is highly suspect.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/198074…
Trump's claim of fraud rests on a Fannie Mae memo resulting from an IG request for info on Schiff's loans. It's not clear what drove any of this or how WH got it.

“From beginning to end, this process is highly irregular,” former IG Michael Bromwich says.

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Another expert poses these good questions on the Schiff story:

"What drove this through the bureaucracy? What drove it to DOJ? How did the story find its way into the president’s social media feed?"

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Jul 14
Awful: Stephen Miller is urging red states to build their own versions of "Alligator Alcatraz." And buried in the budget bill is funding that states can try to tap for exactly that.

This could become a route to MAGA glory for young GOPers. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/197899…
“We want every governor of a red state: pick up the phone, call DHS, work with us to build facilities in your state,” Stephen Miller said on Fox.

Gubernatorial offices contacted by Fox were eager to boast of their plans for new detention centers. 2/

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Buried in Trump's budget bill is a fund that makes $3.5 billion available to “eligible states” for immigration purposes, like the “temporary detention of aliens.”

This can be tapped for states to build their own versions of "Alligator Alcatraz." 3/

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Jul 10
BREAKING: Emails given to Congress by DOJ whistleblower reveal new details about Abrego Garcia fiasco. They show how Trump officials searched for ways to paint him as dangerous criminal & gang "leader" and couldn't find any. But smears continued.

New:
newrepublic.com/article/197793…
DOJ insider Erez Reuveni filed whistleblower complaint in June which you read about. Buried in complaint is also damning info on Abrego Garcia case

Reuveni has now supplied emails. Here's an exchange about admin's effort to paint Abrego as MS-13 "leader"

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None of this stopped the smears. In one case, JD Vance told @DouthatNYT that Abrego Garcia was a "high-level" member of MS-13, long after top officials had internally debated this and knew they had no evidence he was a gang leader, as these emails show.

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Jul 3
For 50 years GOP has used 3 big scams:

*deficits pose dire threat only when Dem is in WH
*tax cuts for rich pay for themselves
*safety net cuts needed to purge welfare cheats

w/this bill, Trump's "working class GOP" is supercharging all three

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/197600…
You've heard of the GOP's "Three-Legged Stool."

Well I'm introducing the "Three-Legged Scam" to describe the three-part swindle the GOP has used to push plutocratic priorities for a half century.

Populist Trump has maximized all three of them.

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To see what a betrayal this is, recall that Trumpism was supposed to break with Reaganomics. It was supposedly a challenge to elites rigging the economy in their favor w/o it ever "trickling down" to working class. This bill is elite rigging maximized.

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