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John Nichols Profile picture
@NicholsUprising
Sep 10, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
When he was called upon to answer a threat to Americans so severe that it would in barely three months leave more dead than were killed in World War I, Trump deliberately lied.

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Trump downplayed the danger in the critical early stages of the fight—which the president would eventually describe as “our big war”—and he has continued to lie as the death toll has ticked upward, past 100,000, past 150,000, past 175,000.

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Tens of thousands of those deaths were preventable. But Trump’s lies made them inevitable.

#TrumpLiedPeopleDied

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John Nichols Profile picture
Aug 4, 2022
"In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump."
— Dick Cheney

As someone who once thought Dick Cheney was the greatest threat, I have to agree with him on this one.

Here’s my take for @thenation on Liz Cheney’s reelection run in Wyoming:

thenation.com/article/politi…
I still don’t believe in letting Dick Cheney off the hook. I thought he should be impeached and removed for high crimes and misdemeanors when he was Vice President. Indeed, if he had been impeached and removed, I believe the Republican Party’s degeneration would have been slowed.
Read 6 tweets
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Jun 8, 2022
Liz Cheney is a right winger who—despite her feud with Trump—has a record of defending conservative assaults on democracy.

On the #January6th Committee, she’ll determine how to respond to conservative assaults on democracy.

What could possibly go wrong?

thenation.com/article/politi…
Already, Cheney has signaled that she wants to narrow the response to evidence that the January 6th committee has gathered. She does not favor the reforms that would prevent the next assault on democracy. If she gets her way, the committee’s months of work will produce a report.
But it will not produce meaningful change. In other words, while Cheney seems to favor is a rebuke to Trump, she is not prepared to address the systemic issues that will continue to allow Trump and Trumpism to threaten democracy.
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May 24, 2022
If you’re measuring the GOP’s degeneration, forget about the #Georgia governor’s race, where master voter-suppressionist Brian Kemp is likely to beat Trump-endorsed voter-suppressionist David Perdue. Perdue was always likely to do what he does best: lose.

Look instead to:

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Texas: Where George P. Bush is likely to lose the GOP runoff to scandal-plagued Attorney General Ken Paxton. A decade ago, a well-funded, well-connected Bush would have been a sure bet against a crooked AG. But Paxton, a top-tier Big Liar appears to have the upper hand.

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Arkansas: Sarah Huckabee Sanders has never held elected office and has never shown baseline competence as a political operative. But the logical GOP contenders for governor — the LG and AG — stood aside for Sanders. Why? She’s a tried-and-true Trumper.

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Mar 21, 2022
"Using the powers of his high office, President Trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, in the 2020 United States Presidential election."
-- Article of Impeachment Against Donald John Trump, 2019

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 thenation.com/article/politi…
"President Trump also sought to pressure the Government of Ukraine to take these steps by conditioning official United States Government acts of significant value to Ukraine on its public announcement of the investigations."

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 thenation.com/article/politi…
"President Trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct for corrupt purposes in pursuit of personal political benefit."

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Oct 2, 2020
I will join @democracynow this morning to discuss the news that President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19, and what this means for an election campaign in which Americans are already voting.
One thing to note is that Donald Trump is not the first president to face a serious health issue as he seeks re-election. FDR was clearly ailing in 1944. Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack on the eve of 1956 campaign and considered quitting. Both were popular. Both won.
One view from the @nytimes:

“It’s hard to imagine this doesn’t end his hopes of re-election,” said Rob Stutzman, a Republican consultant, pointing to Mr. Trump’s “flouting of obvious precautions.”
Read 4 tweets
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Sep 27, 2020
Senator @BernieSanders has a 5-point plan to defeat Trump’s assault on American democracy:

“First, it is absolutely imperative that we have, by far, the largest voter turnout in American history and that people vote as early as possible...”

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 thenation.com/article/politi…
“Second, with the pandemic and a massive increase in mail-in voting, state legislatures must take immediate action now to allow mail-in votes to be counted before Election Day—as they come in...”

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“Third, the news media needs to prepare the American people to understand there is no longer a single election day and that it is very possible that we may not know the results on November 3rd...”

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