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Sep 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
“I don’t think Obama’s smart,” Trump told Woodward. “I think he’s highly overrated. And I don’t think he’s a great speaker.” Trump added that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un thought Obama was “an asshole.” washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-w…
“Mattis quietly went to Washington National Cathedral to pray about his concern for the nation’s fate under Trump’s command and, according to Woodward, told Coats, ‘There may come a time when we have to take collective action. (he’s) dangerous. He’s unfit.’ “
“Kushner was a frequent target of ire among Trump’s Cabinet members, who saw him as untrustworthy and weak in dealing with heads of states. Tillerson found Kushner’s warm dealings with Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu ‘nauseating to watch. stomach churning,’ according to Woodward.”
“In their final interview, on July 21, Trump vented to Woodward: ‘The virus has nothing to do with me. It’s not my fault.’ “

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Mar 27
new ⁦@jonathanchait⁩:

"The (GOP) project was based on a delusion that Obamacare was a 'train wreck' and some conservative alternative could supply a better system without horrific costs. when you set out to brainwash others, you brainwash yourself." nymag.com/intelligencer/…
"Conservatives spent years attacking Obamacare for a series of mostly imagined design flaws - death panels, higher costs, failure to reduce the number of uninsured.

"None of these predictions came true.

"The cost of health care has come in significantly lower than forecast."
"This has been a recurring conservative pattern on social policy.

"Every new advance of the welfare state is met with hysterical doomsday predictions.

"When those fail to come true, conservatives skip any self-examination and move on to their next doomsday predictions."
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Feb 19
no one has explained the mindless (and pointless) irresponsibility of current press coverage as well as this from ⁦@Dahlialithwick⁩,
so it requires a 🧵 slate.com/news-and-polit…
"ask yourself why Biden, who is stipulated #Old, has managed to helm the most successful presidency in modern history.

"the reason: he has for the most part surrounded himself with experts, genuine scientists, respected economists, effective governmental actors and advisers."
"Governance is not an action film.

"There is no psychodrama w/someone in a black T-shirt mincing along the ledge of a skyscraper, ninja-kicking his way down to the stairwell, where he karate-chops the baddies and then crawls his way into a vault where the nuclear reactor sits."
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Feb 6
.⁦@davidfrum⁩:

"if no deal results, what'll we learn?

"First, Republicans don’t much care about the border. A real 'existential threat' can't wait.

"People who perceive one don’t delay. Many Republicans are happy to let laborers cross the border." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"A 2nd truth concerns what Republican priorities really are.

"Speaker Johnson told Biden Dec 5 that Ukraine aid depended on 'transformative border security laws.'

"When Senate negotiators produced them, Johnson reversed his demands.

"No aid to Ukraine is the true priority."
"A 3rd truth: the very act of negotiation is mistrusted.

"House Republicans radically altered their position from 'new law' to 'no new law,' from Biden 'must sign our bill as we wrote it” to 'must act by executive authority only.'

"The true goal revealed is failure and chaos."
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Nov 15, 2023
important point below:

the overwhelming majority of dysfunction in Congress - the extremism, the childish immaturity, the detachment from reality, the lack of interest in basic governance much less active problem-solving - comes from Republicans in Congress
and this, as @NormOrnstein and Tom Mann detailed a decade ago before the American political community was ready to deal with it, has been true for a long time
@NormOrnstein an influential chunk of the political world - rich individuals and business executives - has been willing to look past this fact because they crave tax cuts and reduced regulations
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Sep 23, 2023
"What Trump did was select (AG Sessions) on the basis of loyalty, fired him failing to pay obeisance, replaced him w/the more pliant Barr, drove Barr away w/demands to help overturn election results, and sought to replace him w/(an active participant)." nymag.com/intelligencer/…
"What Biden did was to appoint an attorney general, Merrick Garland, who had a legal rather than a political background and was widely respected by both parties, and proceed to studiously refrain from influencing his decisions.

"It is the literal opposite of Trump’s behavior."
"The reality staring Republicans in the face is that Biden is making a good-faith effort to respect DOJ independence in the most painful possible circumstance — at the expense of a son whose drug addiction led him into a series of incidental criminal offenses."
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Aug 26, 2023
"The July 25 story relied on an account from GOP Rep. Cory Mills, who stated that the family of Sgt. Nicole Gee had shouldered 'a heavy financial burden' of $60,000 to retrieve her body from Afghanistan."

/1 FoxNews.com
washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/…
"The story’s reporter, Michael Lee, quoted Mills calling the family’s supposed expenditures an 'egregious injustice.'

"Neither Pentagon officials nor Gee’s family were quoted in the original story."
"Marine Corps officials say the family did not face any financial burdens to have Gee’s body shipped to Arlington National Cemetery.

"They disputed the story to Fox News president and executive editor Jay Wallace and editor Porter Berry — shortly after the story was published."
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