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Mehdi Hasan Profile picture
@mehdirhasan
Sep 16, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I see lots of people on here saying the ABC townhall was a disaster for Trump. Whether it was or not, given what he’s said & done since 2017, there were nowhere near enough tough questions, holding his feet to the fire, or challenging his lies & deranged statements & open racism.
It’s so weird, we spend all our time rightly getting exercised by mad stuff Trump says or does, the insane lies, and yet at the same time we set the bar so low that when he gets a mild question or two suddenly we’re celebrating that he somehow was held to account. He wasn’t.
On the (rare) occasions that Trump steps outside of his Fox News comfort zone, journalists really have to ask him tough questions about his lies, his racist remarks, his incitement of violence, and the rest. There’s really no excuse not to. None whatsoever.
Stop normalizing Trump! There’s nothing normal about this presidency and I wish a lot of top journalists would stop pretending that it is.
FYI, from @JamesFallows:
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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May 5
You really wanna do this? I accept many pro-Israel people have said 'if Hamas releases the hostages *and* surrenders' but plenty of people have ALSO only claimed 'if Hamas releases the hostages' then the war could be over.
*You* are lying if you say otherwise.
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Let's start with the president of the United States, who said "the release of hostages held by Hamas" is "now the only obstacle to an immediate ceasefire"
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Then there's AIPAC, which quote-tweeted and echoed Biden's words, with no 'surrender' caveat.
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Mar 12
"It comes across as a racist double standard."

My response to @piersmorgan's classic 'Do you condemn Hamas?' question to Palestinian/pro-Palestinian/brown guests.
Me: "Hamas is a symptom of the problem...& now you have 10s of 1000s of orphans, people who've lost their kids...what you think they're not going to fight back?"
Piers: "I feel the same way."
Me: "Then we agree."

Watch @piersmorgan agree with me on the futility of Israel's war:
@piersmorgan Watch the full interview that @piersmorgan did with me for @PiersUncensored, on Gaza, Biden, Trump, culture wars, and more, here:
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Jan 18
Irony is dead. For months now, American politicians & pundits, Jewish community leaders & students, have obsessed over ‘from the river to the sea’; censuring Rashida Talib & accusing pro-Palestinian activists of genocidal language.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of Israel says:
To be clear btw: when @RashidaTlaib said ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’, and when @marclamonthill said it, theirs was a call for *freedom* in that space

Netanyahu’s ’from the river to the sea’ is much worse - it’s a call for permanent military *occupation*.
@RashidaTlaib @marclamonthill I would love for every member of Congress. Democratic and Republican, every single person who voted to censure Tlaib, to be asked to comment on Netanyahu’s ‘from the river to the sea’ remarks. Do they condemn them? If not, why not?
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Nov 7, 2023
Gaza:

More kids killed than the annual number of kids killed across all conflict zones since 2019 (Save the Children)

More UN workers killed than in any comparable period in the UN’s history (UN)

More journalists killed than in any conflict period since 1992 (CPJ)
Save the Children:
savethechildren.net/news/gaza-3195…
UN:
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May 11, 2023
Last night, Trump brought his own (fake) receipts, stuff on a piece of paper.
Had it not been for the town hall format, Kaitlan Collins could have come armed with her own receipts.
E.g. when he denied asking Raffensperger for votes, she could have played the audio!
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E.g. when Collins asked Trump about the violence and injuries inflicted on police officers on January 6th, and Trump immediately deflected to Ashley Babbitt, Collins could have played video of the horrific violence and made Trump watch it with her and respond to it.
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E.g. when Trump was falsely claiming he gave the order on the National Guard on Jan 6th, and denying his acting SecDef Christopher Miller later said otherwise, Collins could have played the relevant Miller audio from the January 6th Committee.
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May 10, 2023
So ahead of Trump's appearance on CNN, we get to watch JD Vance - a man who has pushed conspiracy theories and the white supremacist 'Great Replacement' - come on live and do a friendly, pre-game chat.

The normalization of extremism and conspiracism continues.
Anyone watching this interview with Vance on CNN right now would have no idea how extreme Vance is.

Doesn't bode well for the actual interview with Trump.
Vance just said on CNN that the Carroll case was a 'he said she said' issue - even though Carroll produced 2 witnesses to back her claims from the time, & 2 women who also claimed they were assaulted by Trump. That's: he said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said.
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