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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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Mar 14
Folks @Reuters made clear, graphic evidence of the collapse of US Congress : in both houses it's seen its productivity plummet by more than half in the 21st Century. At the rate they're going, soon, no laws of significance will pass. MORE
reuters.com/graphics/USA-C…
Since the Reagan Era Congressional legislation has fallen by 2/3rds -- not to mention its failure to pass a full, on-time budget.
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In this Century, Congress has proven most capable of legislating -- doing its job -- when #Democrats controlled the House and Senate. Conversely, its performance and productivity plummeted when under #Republican control. Just the facts, Ma'am.
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Feb 11
With so much political news this week -- today's top one being #PakistanElection2024 results! -- I fear I gave short shrift to some key elements of #climate science.
Starting with: New studies suggest that the heating of the #AtlanticOcean is so severe...
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we may being heading into a collapse of AMOC -- the key ocean circulation system.

&

If it happened, the movements of deep, cold H20 vs warmer surface H20 across the entire Atlantic wld shift or stop, w/huge impact on Africa, Europe & the Americas.
ANDrealclimate.org/index.php/arch…
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Ocean heating now in all of the 7 Seas is so severe that coral reefs are sickening (bleaching) & dying. And this has so accelerated in recent months that @NOAA added 3 new alert levels for reefs.

And, many climatologists say a new alert level ---
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Feb 9
"Monday, Monday.
Can't trust that day.
Monday, Monday.
Seems like it just turns out that way."
DC appeals court ruled against #Trump claims of immunity from fedl prosecution for crimes committed while he was #POTUS w/a Monday deadline for him to ask #SCOTUS to put his case on its docket.
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I have so many questions that I fantasize #SCOTUS Justices asking, such as:
1. Is this immunity inviolable? (#Trump lawyers say only impeachment can remove immunity.)
2. Trump is the only federal official to ever have been impeached 2Xs – is that enough to lift his --
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-- alleged immunity? (Trump lawyers say he’s immune unless BOTH HOUSES impeached him, following a Senate trial.)
3. How would this “immunity” have applied to Richard Nixon and Watergate activities? To Bill Clinton and the famous blue dress? To George Bush?
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Feb 6
If you've been watching #CliveOwen in "Monsieur Spade" you may have realized it's about a whole lot more than your average murder whodunit. And you may be confused. Except for flashbacks, the story is set in 1961, in a French village. But a lot of it is about #Algeria .
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To understand what's going on, and learn about the French/Algerian war, and France's Nazi collaboration legacy, here you go -- can't really follow the Sam Spade saga without:

With Sam Spade as a foil, the show is diving into France's ugliest saga.
MORE whattowatch.com/watching-guide…
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There are characters in "Monsieur Spade" who are in the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a far-right French 1960s dissident group inside the Army, battling Algeria's FLN -- Front for National Liberation.
Refs to "the Mehdi" are probably Mehdi Ben Barka. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Ben…
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Dec 15, 2023
Biden @NIH today :
"You can have the exact same drug made by the exact same company in the United States, and you buy it in America for one price. You go to Toronto, Paris, Berlin, or any other major capital in the world, you’ll find they’re paying 2 to 3 times less..."
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"...than the American is paying at an American drugstore. Folks, it’s wrong. The results? Seniors are skipping doses, cutting pills in half, foregoing prescriptions entirely because they simply can’t afford their prescription drugs."
Announced 48 more drugs on new...
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#Medicare list for price negotiations & rebates.
"And we’re not only working to slow price hikes, we’re also working to bring drug prices, period -- just bring them down."
In August #BidenAdministration targeted 10 drugs, saving Medicare $160 billion over next 10 yrs.
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Nov 29, 2023
Last night #JoeBiden gave a speech in Denver: a few quotes:
-This month in local elections, "The American people voted to protect the fundamental freedoms, like the right to choose. They voted to protect democracy. They voted against the extremism of our opponents."
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2/#Biden
-"Democrats up & down the ticket ran on our record. They're proud of that Biden-Harris agenda...each of the people who won this off-year election cited the record they ran on. And it's a winning election."
-"the only reason there's a ban on #abortion --"
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3/#Biden
-"...& the circumstances in many places is because of #DonaldTrump ."
-New #Democrat election victories are, "just because the #Republican friends found out the power of women in America. Well, Donald Trump is about to find out about the power of women in 2024."
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