Donald Trump is having a busy day on Twitter, including going after the Democrats over their reaction to the assassination of Gen Qassem Suleimani.
The Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners are working hard to determine whether or not the future attack by terrorist Suleimani was ‘eminent’ [sic – he means “imminent”] or not, was my team in agreement, the 🍊 wrote, in a tweet that was deleted and reissued, spelling fixed
He was referring in part to a sticky Sunday for his defense secretary, Mike Esper, and national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, as they were asked about the intelligence behind the strike, which was carried out without Congress being informed.
“The answer to both is a strong YES,” Trump continued, “but it doesn’t really matter because of his horrible past!”
He added:The Democrats and the Fake News
He added:The Democrats and the Fake News
are trying to make terrorist Suleimani into a wonderful guy, only because I did what should have been done for 20 years. Anything I do, whether it’s the economy, military, or anything else, will be scorned by the Rafical [sic] Left, Do Nothing Democrats!
It seems obvious to note that the Democrats have not made the Iranian general out to have been “a wonderful guy”, but they have hit the administration hard over the background to the strike and the crisis it stoked with Iran.
Prior to his own tweets, Trump also re-tweeted a string of messages concerning the #NancyPelosiFakeNews hashtag, which has proliferated with video of the House Speaker discussing the Suleimani strike on ABC News on Sunday.
On ABC, Pelosi discussed protests in Iran after Tehran admitted to shooting down an airliner, killing 176 people. She said some protests were against “the fact that that plane went down and many students were on the plane and were out on the street”
and also said there were anti-regime protests before Trump ordered the strike which killed Suleimani. Republican sources picked up on the phrase “different reasons why people are in the street” and gleefully ran with it out of context.
Donald Trump weighed in on the escalating tensions between senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on Monday. In the process he misspelled his nickname for Warren – Pocahontas.
Bernie Sander’s volunteers are trashing Elizabeth “Pocahontus” Warren. Everybody knows her campaign is dead and want her potential voters. Mini Mike B is also trying, but getting tiny crowds which are all leaving fast. Elizabeth is very angry at Bernie. Do I see a feud brewing?
The tweet comes in the aftermath of a weekend in which Sanders and Warren began to take still-somewhat subtle jabs at each other. It started when Politico reported that the Sanders campaign is urging volunteers to describe Warren
as the preferred candidate of elite Democratic voters. “She’s bringing in no new bases to the Democratic Party,” the talking points suggested.
In response, Warren told reporters that she was disappointed that the Vermont senator was sending out supporters to “trash” her campaign.
Warren and Sanders, until now, had retained a pretty consistent detente with each other in the primary, refusing to openly attack each other. But now the gloves are coming off.
“Let’s be clear: As a party, and as a country, we can’t afford to repeat the factionalism of the 2016 primary,” Warren campaign manager Roger Lau wrote in a fundraising email to supporters.
“To win in November, we need a nominee who can unite a broad coalition of Democrats — who will excite every part of the Democratic party and inspires more people to join the fight.”
Former vice-president Joe Biden rolled out a set of endorsements Monday underscoring two aspects of the Democratic primary Biden’s campaign is focusing on in the final days before the Iowa caucuses.
First, Biden’s team announced that Representative Colin Allred had backed him. Allred is the tenth black member of Congress to back the former president.
The endorsement underscores the support Biden enjoys among the black Democratic community. But Biden isn’t the only one who’s been winning support among black lawmakers lately.
Last week Representative Anthony Brown endorsed former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, one of Biden’s chief rivals in the 2020 Democratic primary.
Biden’s campaign also announced on Monday that Iowa attorney general Tom Miller is now backing him. Miller was one of the few Democrats to support Montana Governor Steve Bullock before he dropped out of the Democratic primary.
Miller is the latest in a string of Iowa endorsements that Biden’s campaign has rolled out. He’s been endorsed by Representative Abby Finkenauer,
former agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack, and Cedar Rapids state Representative Kirsten Running-Marquardt. Such endorsements are coveted in the lead up to the Iowa caucuses.
Donald Trump dinged former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg on Twitter calling the 2020 Democratic candidate “Mini Mike Bloomberg,” and saying that he fought to keep the pre-existing conditions protections in Obamacare while also getting rid of the law’s individual mandate.
The justice department in the Trump administration is currently party to a lawsuit that would overturn the preexisting conditions protections.😡
