NOW: @realDonaldTrump says he's reimposing all pre-JCPOA sanctions on Iran whether the UN Security Council approves or not.
.@realDonaldTrump is repeating his frequently told lie that Iran got $1.8bn in cash as part of the JCPOA.
The funds in question were owed for military equipment the Shah bought and were paid as a settlement to avoid an even larger judgment from the Iran-US Claims Tribunal.
.@realDonaldTrump talks as if he personally killed Gen. #Soleimani and ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
.@realDonaldTrump now ranting about "Democrat-run American cities" as if he's the leader of another country.
CONTEXT ALERT: The money @HouseDemocrats want included for state/local governments in a COVID relief bill that @realDonaldTrump calls "bailout money" for "Democrat-run cities and states" would go to things like police departments. He does not want to fund their police.
.@realDonaldTrump now making up a ridiculous claim about other countries using COVID-19 case statistics to make the US look bad.
.@realDonaldTrump now blaming COVID deaths on pre-existing conditions, which are the things his administration is suing to end coverage of.
"a computer board"
.@realDonaldTrump now downplaying risk of COVID, calling it no worse than "a seasonal few," which he corrects to "a seasonal flu."
He's now claiming ending in-person instruction because of COVID outbreaks will kill people and implying school shutdowns are political.
"We have tremendous unused testing capacity," @realDonaldTrump claims, even as people can't get test results back fast enough to make a difference.
.@realDonaldTrump falsely claims his administration is using a "science-based approach" to dealing with COVID and brags about the stock market.
"I don't know much about [QAnon] other than they like me very much," @realDonaldTrump says.
"These are people who don't like what's going on...these are people that love our country," he says.
He's endorsing QAnon.
Holy shit.
Told what QAnon believes, @realDonaldTrump responds: "Is that a bad thing?"
.@realDonaldTrump falsely claims that the FDA's decision to hold off on approving convalescent plasma "could be a political decision."
"I can guarantee you I poll very well with those workers" at @goodyear, @realDonaldTrump says of the workers whose jobs he is threatening by telling people to boycott their employer's products.
In response to a crackpot question about Iraq from OAN, @realDonaldTrump mocks people who correctly predicted that abandoning US' Kurdish allies would result in ethnic cleansing.
.@realDonaldTrump still appears to think the F-35 is actually invisible, is boasting of American male pilots' physical attractiveness
Loudest cheers of the night so far for convicted criminal Peter Navarro, who was released from federal custody earlier today.
Navarro opens with a joke: "I think you folks just want to know if you can see my MAGA tattoo I got there."
Navarro says GOP needs to have control of the entire government to prevent Republicans from being charged with crimes: "If we don't control all three branches of our government...their government will put some of us like me and Steve Bannon in prison and control the rest of us."
NEW: Federal prosecutors are prepared to seek indictments against multiple figures in former president Donald Trump’s orbit and may yet bring additional charges against the ex-president in the coming weeks, The @Independent has learned independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Per sources familiar, the Justice Department has made preparations to bring a superseding indictment against Mr Trump and could do so in several different venues, depending on how prosecutors feel the case against him in Florida is going. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Prosecutors are now prepared to “stack” an “additional 30 to 45 charges” on top of the indictment brought against Mr Trump on 8 June, using evidence that has not been publicly acknowledged, including other recordings prosecutors have obtained of Mr Trump. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
The agent, Gary Shapley, cancelled a meeting with SFC staff and has cut off communication with the panel ahead of planned House testimony on Friday. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Shapley says DOJ officials have slow-walked the Hunter probe and retaliated against him by removing his team. But law enforcement veterans say the removal is standard when an investigation reaches the stage where prosecutors decide whether to indict. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Trump’s lawyers are probably not enjoying these remarks, as he’s going on and on about how declassifying things is “automatic” when he took things from the White House.
Now he’s ranting about @NewYorkStateAG’s lawsuit and how he’s “under leveraged”
It is accurate for him to describe his youngest son as “tall”.
"The story of America is a story of progress and resilience…We are the only country that has emerged from every crisis stronger than when we entered it. That is what we are doing again. Two years ago our economy...
... was reeling. As I stand here tonight, we have created a record 12 million new jobs – more jobs created in two years than any president has ever created in four years. Two years ago, COVID had shut down our businesses, closed our schools, and robbed us of so much...
....Today, COVID no longer controls our lives. And two years ago, our democracy faced its greatest threat since the Civil War. Today, though bruised, our democracy remains unbowed and unbroken."
"My economic plan is about investing in places and people that have been forgotten...
…to see if there were *more* documents that would’ve been a crime for him to look at.
Instead, he called someone who is permitted to look at such things without risk prison time.
That person finished the job and found five more pages, allowing the search to be finished… 2/
…without anyone committing a felony.
Generally, lawyers prefer to get through their day without doing crimes, which is why (per @jdawsey1 / @JaxAlemany) even a Trump lawyer, Alex Cannon, told Trump aides not to go through the boxes stashed at Mar-a-Lago because they… 3/