Cleveland, per usual, is the center of the universe.
Case Western & Cleveland Clinic shout-out!
Chris Wallace says he has not shared any of the questions with the presidential debate commission or with either candidate or campaign.
No handshake between Trump & Biden due to the coronavirus — is this a debate first?
Topic #1 is ACB
Trump’s answer about ACB never mentioned ACB’s name. He did mention Merrick Garland by name tho.
Trump referenced RBG’s 2016 quote that presidents are elected to four years, not three years.
Biden: “I am the Democratic Party right now.”
Trump quips that he’s debating Chris Wallace instead of Biden.
Joe Biden is doing what he did in his debate with Paul Ryan where he chuckles at his opponent’s answers.
Trump doing that thing where he constantly interrupts with little digs — seems to be throwing Biden off a bit.
Biden refused to answer Chris Wallace’s question about whether he would pack the Supreme Court.
Biden to Trump on the coronavirus: “It is what it is because you are who you are.”
Trump says that Biden shouldn’t trust China’s numbers and says (as he’s said multiple times tonight) that Biden opposed the China travel ban. Trump said the coronavirus is China’s fault.
The debate has been going on for half an hour. One hour to go.
Trump: “I brought back Big Ten football.”
Trump says he paid millions of dollars in federal income taxes in 2016 & 2017.
Trump going after Hunter Biden. Joe Biden says the allegations are "discredited." Lots of talking over eachother. The debate threatened to veer into an interesting debate over Ukraine but Chris Wallace moved on. Wallace says Trump has been talking over Biden more than vice versa.
Charlottesville Debate
The debate has been going on for one hour. Half an hour left.
Biden says that there is systemic injustice in law enforcement and that there are a few bad apples.
Joe Biden & Chris Wallace both acting shocked that Trump is arguing like Trump throughout the debate
Trump says that Antifa might overthrow Joe Biden.
Chris Wallace bailed Biden out on the police endorsement question.
Climate Change
I don't think Trump & Biden like eachother
Biden promises to create "hard good jobs."
Wallace: Answer his final question.
Biden: The final question is - I can't remember which of all his rantings -
Wallace: <Laughs> I'm having a little trouble myself.
Even if you think Trump is being annoying as hell you shouldn't side w/ someone like that if you're moderating.
Overall, a very odd debate. Somehow even less substantive than the Clinton-Trump debate.
Let's do that again. Then again.
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DOJ just let McKinsey avoid criminal charges for colluding with Purdue Pharma to unleash the opioid epidemic. McKinsey will now try to sneak into the Trump Admin
— but should a company that turbocharged an epidemic, lied about its work in China, & more be let in? Let’s explore.🧵
After Biden DOJ let them off the hook for opioid scandal, should Trump DOJ consider charges vs. McKinsey for working with CCP while advising the DOD & IC? McKinsey’s pattern of bad behavior during opioid crisis appears to be repeating with U.S. national security implications. 2/x
(I’ll get into all this in the thread, but beyond lying re: China work & colluding w/ Big Pharma during the opioid epidemic— while profiting off of pushing painkillers to vets while working with VA— McKinsey consults w/ fed agencies & pushed DEI into gov’t & orgs nationwide!) 3/x
🚨Grassley to Wray: “I must express my vote of no confidence in your continued leadership of the FBI. President Trump has already announced his intention to nominate a candidate to replace you, & the Senate will carefully consider that choice. For my part, I’ve also seen enough.”
Grassley to Wray: “I reminded you that an FBI Director’s ten-year term is a ceiling not a floor… Rather than turn over a new leaf at the FBI, you’ve continued to read from the old playbook of weaponization, double standards, & a relentless game of hide-&-seek with the Congress.”
Grassley to Wray: “One of the most egregious examples is the FBI’s failure to provide basic information I requested more than two years ago related to the FBI’s ongoing mishandling of sexual harassment claims made by the FBI’s female employees.”
I’m reading Hegseth’s book “The War on Warriors” & this section on the debacle in Afghanistan and the failures by Pentagon leadership & by generals is the clearest & most passionate articulation by any high-profile figure about the need for accountability at DOD. Read every word.
In 2018, as Nunes pushed to release his FISA Memo (authored partly by Kash Patel who’s reportedly being considered for FBI Director) which exposed big flaws in the FBI’s Trump-Russia inquiry, Mike Rogers (also reportedly being considered for FBI) went on NPR to fight its release.
My own thoughts in January 2018 FWIW
Here is Mike Rogers on CNN criticizing the decision by Nunes & HPSCI GOP to release the FISA Memo (authored by Kash Patel & revealed deep flaws with the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation).
Rogers & Patel both reportedly being considered for FBI Director.
Happy eight-year anniversary of Jake Sullivan assisting Hillary Clinton in pushing the bullshit Alfa Bank Trump-Russia collusion claims as a last-ditch effort to generate an October Surprise. Sullivan went on to be the Biden-Harris Admin’s disastrous national security adviser.
Amazing. Loretta Lynch — the Obama AG whom Bill Clinton tried to secretly meet with in the middle of a DOJ investigation into Hillary — is now working for China’s largest drone company.
Everyone can see Lynch’s court filing on behalf of CCP’s DJI here:
DJI and Chinese drone dominance in the United States is a serious problem — one that some policymakers & lawmakers have unsuccessfully tried to solve for years. And now you have a former Obama attorney general throwing her support behind China in its fight against the Pentagon…
It’s long been my view that leaders who hold important positions of trust in the federal government — especially in law enforcement & the national security arena — should be banned by law from doing future work for foreign foes (like China) as part of their agreement to serve.