1. This week in Trump: a thread.
AG Bill Barr, acting as Trump's consigliere, moved to fire US SDNY Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who is involved in investigations & prosecutions of key Trump allies. Berman refused. JOD pushing forward regardless. A purge.
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AG Bill Barr, acting as Trump's consigliere, moved to fire US SDNY Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who is involved in investigations & prosecutions of key Trump allies. Berman refused. JOD pushing forward regardless. A purge.
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2. Buzzfeed got ahold of unredacted portions of the Mueller Report. Roger Stone told Trump in advance that Wikileaks would be releasing internal Clinton campaign communications. Trump later lied & claimed not to know.
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3. Remember Trump's idiotic sharpie stunt? When he doubled down on something dumb he'd said & then forced NOAA to issue a statement backing him? An internal investigation has found that the agency's scientific integrity standards were violated. (Duh.)
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4. Purple Heart-winner Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was selected for promotion to full colonel this year. But Army brass are hesitant to sign off, because they fear Trump retribution. (Vindman was involved in the impeachment inquiry.) washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
5. Kathryn Wheelbarger, "one of the Pentagon's most prominent and respected policy officials," was in line for a promotion, but she used to work w/ McCain & was seen as insufficiently loyal, so she was passed over. She subsequently resigned. cnbc.com/amp/2020/06/18…
6. Mary Elizabeth Taylor, a top State Dept. official who has been with Trump since the beginning, resigned in the wake of his reaction to recent racial tensions, saying his actions "cut sharply against my core values and convictions." washingtonpost.com/politics/top-s…
7. After his West Point speech (during which he had challenges drinking water), Trump took a self-evidently doddering, hesitant walk down a ramp, raising questions about his physical condition -- which he amplified by tweeting defensively. nytimes.com/2020/06/14/us/…
8. John Bolton, after being fired by Trump, has written a tell-all book. Among other things, it reveals that Trump gave Chinese premier Xi the thumbs-up for Xiughur concentration camps & begged him to buy US farm goods to help Trump's reelection. washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
9. Speaking of tell-all books, Trump's niece Mary is releasing one next month. It will include "conversations with Trump’s sister, retired federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, that contain intimate and damning thoughts about her brother." 🍿 thedailybeast.com/mary-trump-don…
10. Facebook has taken down dozens of Trump campaign ads that use "a symbol once used by the Nazis to designate political prisoners in concentration camps." washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
11. 120,000 deaths in, the Trump admin. has basically given up doing anything about Covid-19, now framing 750 dead Americans a day as a *success*. Trump says it's "dying out," making it more difficult for state leaders to sustain public health measures. statnews.com/2020/06/18/tru…
12. In reality, the Trump admin. has delivered 7% as much virus-related medical equipment as Mike Pence claimed in a recent op-ed. wsj.com/articles/pence…
13. FEMA struck a deal w/ Fillakit "just 6 days after the company was formed by an ex-telemarketer repeatedly accused of fraudulent practices over the past 2 decades." The agency has paid $7.3M so far for test tubes; it has receive unusable plastic junk. propublica.org/article/the-tr…
14. Between 70-99% of American deaths from Covid-19 could have been prevented if the US had taken measures demonstrated as feasible by other countries. statnews.com/2020/06/19/fas…
15. Members of Trump's own coronavirus task force -- along with sane people across the country -- pleaded with Trump not to have a rally in the middle of a pandemic. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
16. Trump's EPA has refused to regulate the toxic chemical compound perchlorate, which pollutes water & affects fetal & infant brain development (among other things). In order to do so, it has twisted the science & defied a court order. nytimes.com/2020/06/18/cli…
17. "Hunters in Alaska will soon be allowed to use bacon grease & doughnuts to bait brown bears, spotlights to shoot hibernating mother bears & cubs in their dens & motorboats to shoot swimming caribou" -- thanks to Trump lifting Obama restrictions. cbsnews.com/news/trump-adm…
17.5 I guess that's enough for now. Gonna go take a walk in the sun & try to forget about all this doom.
