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Laurie Garrett Profile picture
@Laurie_Garrett
Sep 28, 2020 • 12 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
It's pouring on now:
"#Trump's Taxes Show He's a National Security Threat
What trade-offs would a president with this level of indebtedness be willing to make to save face?"
(His financial needs mean he will sell out the nation motif)
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bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Pouring/2
"It was the moment when Donald #Trump's 'Art of the Deal' fabulism, billionaire tycoon bluster and populist standard-bearing for forgotten Americans was revealed to be what it always looked like: a sham."
(Emperor has no clothes motif) MORE
cnn.com/2020/09/28/pol…
Pouring/3
"But the eyes that really matter are the federal and state tax authorities charged with reviewing whether or not Trump and the Trump Organization broke tax laws.
And whether the President could possibly go to prison."
(The lock-him-up motif)
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forbes.com/sites/sethcohe…
Pouring/4
"Pres. #Trump earned $73M from his interests in foreign countries during the first 2 yrs of his presidency alone...dealings represent an unprecedented level of foreign business entanglements for a sitting US president."
(They own him motif)
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businessinsider.com/trump-earned-7…
Pouring/5
@WhiteHouse PressSec #KayleighMcEnany on @FoxFriendsFirst
“What do you make of the timing...coming out a day b4 the debate? This is the same playbook they tried in 2016 & the same playbook that the American ppl rejected & will do so again”
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nytimes.com/2020/09/28/bus…
Pouring/6
"A payment of $747,622 to an unnamed Trump Org consultant is the exact amount #Ivanka declared in her own public disclosure filings when she joined the @WhiteHouse as an adviser in 2017."
(The it-ain't-just-POTUS motif)
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dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
Pouring/7
"The president is personally responsible for 'loans & other debts totaling $421 million, with most of it coming due within four years.' Who are his creditors? What will Trump do to stave them off in coming years?"
(The he-owes-more motif)
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marketwatch.com/story/trump-do…
Pouring/8
"He was in dire financial straits...Running for president was one of the last cards #Trump had to play. His candidacy was borne of desperation, not of a desire to serve. Which we kind of always knew."
(The he-never-wanted-to-be-#POTUS motif)
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cnn.com/2020/09/28/pol…
Pouring/9
He's a lousy businessman, in debt up to his eyeballs. (watch video)
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and washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
cnn.com/2020/09/28/pol…
Pouring/10
"#Trump's odds lengthened frm +110 to +120 since the [taxes] story broke...his [election win] probability drifted from 47.60% to 45.50%.
#JoeBiden's odds shortened...boosted his chance from 54.50% to 56.53%."
(The Betting odds motif)
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newsweek.com/trump-election…
Pouring/11
In taxes, "Teachers paid $7,239
Firefighters paid $5,283
Nurses paid $10,216
Donald Trump paid $750"
(The @JoeBiden campaign motif)
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Pouring/Final
"The Fake News Media...is bringing up my Taxes & all sorts of other nonsense with illegally obtained information & only bad intent. I paid many millions of $s in taxes but was entitled, like everyone else, to depreciation & tax credits."

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As #JoeBiden hunkered down in Delaware & Party leaders scrambled to figure out how #Democrats can win the election, I kept thinking of March 31, 1968. On that day the White House put out word of a mysterious speech LBJ would give from the Oval Office.
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2/
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 "Good evening, my fellow Americans:
Tonight, I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
No other question so preoccupies our people. No other dream so absorbs the 250 million human beings who live in that part of the world."
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While #Trump claims no direct connection to #Project2025 it's clear han no #Republican in national power has denounced the Heritage Foundation 887-page manifesto. I put a few hours into scrutinizing the Project's plans for @HHSGov & health agencies. (pages 449-502)
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When a society attacks its toiling scientists, ranking the opinions of quacks, religions & charlatans above those of scientific insight and discovery, it is a sorrowful time.
Scientists who have been persecuted for their work...
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2/
 -Muhammad ibn Zakariyā Rāzī or Rhazes of Baghdad (860 - 932 AD) beaten into blindness for introducing medical advances from non-Arab countries
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In 4 earth-shattering decisions this term, #SCOTUS gutted authority from all federal regulatory agencies. These are very radical decisions – essentially overturning all the sentiments of our nation’s founders debated in The Federalist Papers.
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2/Today, w/Corner Post v Federal Reserve #SCOTUS decided that anybody can sue a fedl agcy, over anything, w/no statute of limitations.
Dissenting, Justice Jackson: “The majority throws caution to the wind & engages in...misguided reasoning about statutory limitations periods..."
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3/Jackson: "The far-reaching results of the Court’s ruling in this case are staggering.”
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This utterly reprehensible Pentagon disinfo campaign executed by the #Trump admin to create Asian suspicion of the Chinese #COVID #vaccine is reminiscent of the CIA's use of a fake #polio vax effort in Pakistan to obtain...
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csis.org/blogs/smart-gl…
reuters.com/investigates/s…
...DNA samples from children living in the Osama bin Laden compound in 2011. In both cases, geopolitics trumped public health, leading to countless deaths, assaults on health workers and vaccinators and undermining the credibility of #vaccines . This is appalling.
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In resp to angry public health leaders who later learned of the 2011 #CIA/#polio/binLaden effort, the #Obama admin on May16, 2014 stated that since Aug2013 a policy was in place forbidding the CIA from using #vaccination progs, workers, or genetic materials obtained...for intell.
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Trump’s deal to Big Oil [give my campaign $1B & all #Biden climate & green policies will be void] echoes the Teapot Dome Scandal in another #Republican #POTUS race 100 yrs ago. Until now, it was the biggest presidential corruption case in US history.
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In 1920, the US Navy was converting its fleet from coal to oil and wanted oil on federal lands reserved for military needs. Republican Warren Harding was running for POTUS: he told oil execs to back him & he would let them drill those reserves. When he became President...
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Harding appointed mining bigwig & Big Oil ally Alfred Fall as Sec. of Interior. Fall handed over prime oil drilling rights to Sinclair's Mammoth Oil & 1 other company, without competitive bidding. By 1923 Sinclair was sucking so much oil out of Teapot Dome WY that...
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