He's on tape. President Trump is responsible for the deaths of Americans. We can no longer call it negligent homicide, far less for criminal negligence. The lies were willful. The rallies without social distancing & anti-mask rhetoric were done knowingly. It was DELIBERATE.
Trump: It was a hoax. Then it was “We have it totally under control." There was also this beauty: “It’s one person coming in from China. We have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.” And who could forget "It will miraculously go away"?
Jan22:“We have it totally under control. It’s 1 person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
Jan30:“We have very little problem in this country at this moment-5 & those people are all recuperating successfully”
Feb27:“It’s going to disappear one day like a miracle”
Trump on Jan 24, 2020: “It will all work out well.”
Trump on Feb. 14, 2020: “We have a very small number of people in the country, right now, with it. It’s like around 12. Many of them are getting better. Some are fully recovered already. So we’re in very good shape.”
Trump on Feb. 19, 2020: “I think it’s going to work out fine. I think when we get into April, in the warmer weather, that has a very negative effect on that and that type of a virus. So let’s see what happens, but I think it’s going to work out fine.”
Trump on Feb. 25, 2020: “You may ask about the coronavirus, which is very well under control in our country. We have very few people with it, and the people that have it are … getting better. They’re all getting better.”
I can't even get to March, I am so outraged & horrified.
Trump isn't extorting foreign governments this time. This time his abuse of power is located right at home. He was willing to sacrifice lives to #coronavirus in order to boost the Stock Market & help his election prospects
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Other options to help Maui include
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If Trump is convicted of federal crimes, he will have to be incarcerated. The question arises as to how this would be done for a former president with Secret Service detail. I doubt he would be under house arrest at MAL where some federal crimes are alleged to have take place. 🧵
2. The Secret Service has no protocol for a protectee who has been convicted of a crime & imprisoned, so one would need to be developed if such a situation arose. One option? Shift agents in a secure federal facility.
Straight up Russian propaganda that benefits the GOP. This man is a useful idiot doing the work of Putin & the fools on the left will fall for it the same way they fell for the Russian asset, Jill Stein.
Imagine running for president & claiming NATO provoked Russia into genocidally attacking a sovereign country. Meanwhile, only tools of Russia propose peace talks since they will involve sacrificing Ukrainian territory.
This man in UNFIT for the presidency.
Every bit of that Cornel West tweet demonstrates an ideologue stuck in the past, who has not caught up with the present reality unfolding in Europe. It demonstrates how wholly unsuited he would be to any political leadership role. He would be as dangerous as Trump.
On this historic day when for the 1st time a former president has been charged with federal crimes, I have thoughts. A brief thread follows. /1
For more than 20 years (yes, that's going to age me, millennials - my favorite dating pool), I have written about the world for a living. /2
I have written about democracy and dictatorships, about democracy and coup d'etats. I have written about war and peace, about power and influence, about good governance and corruption, about legitimacy and authority. /3
Oh my God. Trump lawyer Parlatore is on tv flapping his lips about events in the grand jury. It is bloody shocking.
Andrew Weissmann wisely points out that there is no way Parlatore would not be in the room with the Grand Jury unless he was a witness. Parlatore goes onto explain why he had to be in the room. GO BACK to Weissmann, @MSNBC !!
Borrowing from Dostoevsky, Ogarkova calls Russia a culture where you have "crime without punishment, and punishment without crime." Indeed, "the powerful murder with impunity; the victims are punished for no reason." For Russia, war crimes ARE THE POINT. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Russia claims to be a powerful “pole” in the world to balance the West – but has failed to create a successful political model others would want to join. So it has nothing left to offer except to drag everyone down to its own depths.