Holy crap. This is from the new DHS whistleblower complaint. He says he was ordered to "modify" a threat assessment, particularly "the section on White Supremacy" to make "the threat appear less severe," and "include information on the prominence of violent 'left-wing' groups."
Please remember that *many* of Trump's top national security and law enforcement officials publicly echoed Trump's propaganda on this, essentially fabricating a leftist domestic terror threat. This included Barr, NSA Robert O'Brien, and CBP chief Morgan:

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Remarkable. Whistleblower directly implicates DHS chief Chad Wolf & National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien in an effort to hype China and Iran as threats to the election, to false-equivalence away Russia's electoral sabotage.

Whistleblower said this would endanger the country:
It's important to understand that the whole Trump cabal is implicated here. The whistleblower also claims both Wolf and Cuccinelli ordered changes to intelligence assessments in order to support Trump's ongoing propaganda fabricating a leftist domestic terror threat:

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10 Sep
Trump and his spinners have a new excuse for him downplaying coronavirus: He sagely wanted to avoid "panic." But I looked at the timeline, and it's pure BS: He mainly wanted to avoid panicking *the markets,* because he feared for his reelection. New piece:
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Trump's efforts to avoid "panic" were all about doing what was in *his* perceived interests, not the country's.

Throughout that time, Trump said this in his own words. He claimed efforts to stoke panic over the virus were a media/Dem plot against *him.*

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It gets even worse. Trump's efforts to avoid a "panic" -- in the markets, that is -- badly hampered the governmental response to coronavirus as well.

He literally delayed in acting because business leaders were telling him it would spook the markets:

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9 Sep
Now that Kayleigh McEnany is claiming Trump never downplayed the virus, that's a good excuse to repost my timeline of Trump downplaying the virus. This will come in numerous tweets:

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4 Sep
1) Some extraordinary polls came out today.

CNN finds 58% of Americans say Trump's response to protests has been "more harmful."

Ipsos finds 59% say Biden would do better at reducing violence.

This strategy is failing Trump. But what's driving this?

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2) The polling all tells a story: That majorities see Trump's blustery threats of overwhelming force and incitement of more hatred and violence as a clear and present *danger* to the country.

Look at these numbers:

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3) Trump keeps telling us the only answer is overwhelming brute force. Local officials working to balance safety and civil liberties are "anarchists." Trump, by contrast, could solve the violence "in 15 minutes."

What if majorities are rejecting *that*?

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3 Sep
William Barr's latest moves on Trump's behalf are extraordinary.

They again confirm that only one of the candidates is a lawless extremist. And it isn't Joe Biden.

But Barr and Trump are operating from a genuine worldview. I tried to engage it here:

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This new Trump effort to deny funding to "anarchist" cities is based on the idea that officials are *deliberately* allowing violence.

That's disgusting: Officials are balancing competing imperatives. But the Barr/Trump worldview doesn't permit for this:

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Both Trump and William Barr have delivered major speeches declaring open war on the left.

By painting the leftist enemy as an existential threat, they lay the groundwork to justify extraordinary and extralegal means of their own to crush that enemy:

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31 Aug
"Law and order" without rule of law is neither "law" nor "order." Any news org that says Trump is running on "law and order" is carrying his propaganda. He is the candidate of corruption, lawlessness, arbitrary violence, and civil breakdown. New piece:

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Trump's "law and order" appeals as a candidate, and his open contempt for the rule of law as president, are often treated as separate things.

But they are part of the same story: Trump is running on "law and order" without rule of law. That's explicit:

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Trump is openly inciting *political* violence, and we need to say that clearly.

When Trump says the only way to control "Democrat run cities" is with "strength," he's explicitly declaring himself the candidate of arbitrary, lawless political violence:

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26 Aug
The extraordinary juxtaposition on Tuesday night -- open lawbreaking combined with an invented narrative in which Biden and Dems are the corrupt party -- showed a GOP that has unshakable confidence in its ability to act with utter impunity.

New piece:

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Dear media:

If your conclusion is that voters won't care about serial lawbreaking and corruption, then perhaps that's grounds for introspection, not for validating the idea that this is a savvy and realistic calculation on the perpetrators' part.

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Trump is using levers of government to illicitly hold power:

* Lawbreaking at convention

* Senate Rs manufacturing fake Hunter/Ukraine probe

* Bill Barr downplaying 2016 Russian sabotage

* Intel officials muting truth about Russian meddling right now

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