OMG: Woodward's new book....
Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed US coronavirus death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and "more deadly than even your strenuous flus," and that he repeatedly played it down publicly

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"This is deadly stuff," Trump told Woodward on February 7.

"I wanted to always play it down," Trump told Woodward on March 19, even as he had declared a national emergency. "I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic."
cnn.com/2020/09/09/pol…
Lordy there finally *are* tapes.
March 19:

"Now it’s turning out it’s not just old people, Bob. Just today and yesterday, some startling facts came out. It’s not just old- older."

OMG.
I hope all these tapes will be played when Trump faces trial for crimes against humanity.

Tiny hands covered in American blood.
#TrumpKnew

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30 Aug
Portland started in the mall of a suburb, where armed Trump militia gathered and terrorized locals. They then rolled as a caravan to PDX, shot paintballs and pepper spray at passerby’s from their pick up trucks. Now someone is dead.
Trump militia gathered in a mall parking lot in the suburbs of Portland. A have friends there and they felt terrorized. This is Trump’s America in the suburbs.

They were heavily armed.
Read 6 tweets
29 Aug
Some folks are leaving rather worried and frankly dystopian comments on my posts about the upcoming election. There are valid reasons to be concerned, but know you are doing precisely what Trump wants you to do, and what has worked throughout the history of uprising

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of authoritarian regimes. It makes sense to pause to stop and consider your actions.

Fear is one of the oldest tools of authoritarians to make people feel helpless and paralyzed. When the facts present a different case - that the overwhelming majority hate Trump,

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you are empowering his minority and giving them undeserving power, when the data shows the opposite of true. Even Nate Silver noted yesterday that Biden is likely the one with the ‘silent majority.’

So before you post, consider what purpose it serves. Are you helping

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21 Aug
David Williams, former USPS Inspector General and former Vice Chair of the USPS Board of Governors testified that Mnuchin and the White House were behind the slowdown in mail. This is the exact opposite of what DeJoy said today under oath!

cbsnews.com/news/former-to…
Williams said he resigned "when it became clear to me that the administration was politicizing the Postal Service with the treasury secretary as the lead figure for the White House in that effort."
Williams: Trump "was determined that the Postal Service should inflict harm on Amazon delivery by sharply raising parcel shipping prices on everyone by 400% or more."
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28 Jul
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Mothers in Portland who have been peacefully protesting in Portland for #BlackLivesMatter have been subjected to violence by Trump’s storm troopers.

Here is a compilation so far.

3 troopers gang tackle

2/ mothers in Portland marching with their arms linked were shoved and tear-gassed by Trump storm troopers

3/ a woman says repeatedly

“I cannot breathe”

as 4 Trump assault her - one with his knee on her back

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3 Jul
What does Trump want to be re-elected to do? He doesn’t do anything.
Literally all he does is watch cable TV, tweet crap and golf. And lie a damn lot. That is all in his 3 1/2 years.
He’s even stopped using “Keep America Great” - an admission he did not make it great it. He made America a shithole country and a laughing stock of the world.
Read 4 tweets
4 May
NYT has internal Trump documents, and they project more than 3,000 Americans will die EACH DAY starting June 1 if states reopen. Trump knows this, and yet is lying and encouraging reopening because he thinks it will help with re-election. Unforgivable! nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/…
We needed a national lockdown in March - and now reopening will lead to tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths. Leadership comes from the top. The American people will sacrifice if they are told to and supported. Damn malice tweeting to LIBERATE!
“The projections, based on government modeling pulled together in chart form by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, forecast about 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month, up from about 25,000 cases now.”
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