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Oct 3, 2020 17 tweets 9 min read Read on X
@joncoopertweets is a fraud and a hack. He circulates bogus claims that “sources” supposedly tell him about doom and gloom so he can score attention on twitter.

A quick 🧵thread🧵
First, he claimed he would be the “final nail in the coffin” on some major story he was reportedly working on about Trump and impeachment.

That was in September of 2018. Any follow up, @joncoopertweets?
In November of 2018, his “GOP source” told him that Mike Pence was going to be indicted in Mueller’s investigation.

@joncoopertweets, remind me, did that ever happen?
Speaking of Mueller indictments that never happened, he said the same thing about @DonaldJTrumpJr.

How about it, @joncoopertweets? Did that one come to pass?
He smeared @LindseyGrahamSC as well. Same thing here. It’s been two years to the day.

No word from @joncoopertweets on a “story so huge that they (CNN) want to be extra careful” about.

Right.
In February of 2018, he said that the White House was frantically rushing to replace John Kelly, who was leaving as soon as that weekend.

Kelly left in December and was quickly and with little fanfare replaced
He does this often. Here’s more mystery staffers who were planning to leave.
Remember when there was going to be a serious Republican challenger to Trump, @joncoopertweets? The internet remembers.
Remember when the walls were closing in because of Michael Cohen? I have a hard time buying this one too, @joncoopertweets.
Of course, @joncoopertweets does the typical “the walls are closing in!” BS all the time, so I guess this isn’t anything new.
Perhaps my favorite @joncoopertweets predication was that Kushner was on the way out, back in May of 2017.

Kushner has since go on to broker multiple historic peace deals in the Middle East.
Part of me didn’t even want to give any attention to a guy like @joncoopertweets because his fraud survives in part because of attention, good or bad.

But he is among the most dishonest, slimy, self-serving grifters around today, so it needed to be said.
The only good thing about this app is that it creates ample opportunity to expose the frauds.

And @joncoopertweets is, without question, a fraud.
No class of people are more deserving of condemnation than people who spread lies to score clout.
I spend a lot of time looking at bad takes, often from people who disagree with me. I do my best to do it with some measure of humility & a recognition that everyone screws up & that lots of people often fall for the same things.

I don’t extend that courtesy to @joncoopertweets.
What he represents is obvious and unmitigated bad faith, at a time where we aren’t in need of any more of it.

He’s malicious and thoroughly deserving of contempt. Media outlets, candidates, and anyone else risk their reputations by working with him.
I will tolerate a lot on this website. I make suffering fools a daily habit. I do my best to not assume malice when idiocy is almost always the culprit.

But not frauds. That I won’t stand. And @joncoopertweets is a fraud.

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Jun 11
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The coverage of the anti-ICE riots in LA is perhaps the clearest example of advocacy “journalism” in Trump’s second term.

Reading the reporting, you would never know the most significant fact: the American people support Trump’s deportations.

Follow along ⤵️
First, the facts about the riots.

You’ve seen the burning cars, looting & clashes between police & protestors.

Demonstrators blocked the freeway, attacked ICE agents, all in an effort to prevent the deportations of illegal aliens. Trump deployed troops to allow ICE to operate. Image
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As @MarkHalperin and @seanspicer discussed, the situation in LA is so tranquil that the mayor has instituted a curfew for the city.
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May 29
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The new book “Original Sin” from Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson recounts the effort to cover up Biden’s cognitive decline ahead of the election. The authors point to many guilty parties.

The one glaring omission? Their colleagues in the corporate press. Follow along ⤵️ Image
There are numerous dramatic reveals. The Biden team considered condoning him to a wheelchair? Maybe in his fog he forgot about the border?

But as I worked on a review for @commonplc, the one thought that I kept coming back to was that you can’t tell this story without the press.
Perhaps no one was more vital to the continued fiction that Biden had it together than the media.

Tapper and Thompson even highlight some of the telling moments.

Did they forget what the media reported?
Read 21 tweets
May 20
🧵THREAD🧵

Biden’s cancer diagnosis is a tragedy I know first-hand.

But our sympathy can’t silence questions about Biden’s cognitive decline, clarified just days ago by the Hur tape.

The media tried to bury the story then. They’re trying again now.

I’ve got the receipts. ⤵️
When the report first came out in 2024, outlets rushed to demean Hur, accusing him of serving as a Republican hatchet man.

Just look at this take from @USATODAY, who assembled sympathetic voices to make the case that Hur “crossed the line.” They found an expert to call it a “disgrace” and then featured the obviously unbiased Eric Holder to lead a section titled “Way too many gratuitous remarks.”

The audio makes clear that Hur, if anything, played down how alarming the claims were.Image
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(If you haven’t listened to the Hur audio yet, you should.)
Read 26 tweets
May 15
It should go without saying, but the media cultivating this type of baseless hysteria about an admin for partisan reasons is much more of a threat to the underpinnings of our democracy than anything Trump has actually done.

Quick 🧵⤵️ Image
A couple quotes:

“If you think that there’s this thing out there called America, and it’s exceptional, that means you don’t have to do anything” to stop fascism.

What? What does that even mean??

That if you, like millions of Americans!, believe in American exceptionalism…you’re a fascist?

Really?
“The powers that be can do whatever they want to you”

Trump can’t even deport people who have deportation orders against them without a federal judge stepping in.

This is firmly out of touch with reality.
Read 13 tweets
May 13
Wow what a potentially valuable insight worth sharing with the American people when it mattered rather than saving for your book!
This conversation started in June *2023* so if you believe the media wasn’t aware of it before the election I have a bridge to sell you.
I’m going to write a book about this book.
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Apr 29
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Many in the media are trying to claim that the press was merely duped by Biden’s White House about the former president’s cognitive decline.

That simply isn’t true. The media actively took part in the coverup.

Don’t let them forget. I’ve got screenshots. ⤵️
I’ve done a number of threads on this but putting some of the most egregious stuff in one place.

Perhaps the most damming: Two weeks before the debate made Biden’s cognitive decline inescapable, @washingtonpost gave “Four Pinocchio’s” to allegedly edited videos showing Biden clearly displaying cognitive problems, dismissing them as “pernicious” efforts “to reinforce an existing stereotype” while quoting the White House to say the videos were “cheap fakes” — all to defend Biden against criticisms about his age and well-being.Image
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That story came four days after a previous effort from @washingtonpost to write off these videos as Republican efforts to mislead voters: proof, the Post claimed, that “the politics of misinformation and conspiracy theories do not stop at the waters edge.” Image
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