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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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The media are melting down about former FBI director Jim Comey’s indictment, calling it Trump’s “retribution.”

But if prosecuting a political rival is such an outrage, why’d they cheer along when Biden went after Trump, Bannon & Navarro?

Some side-by-sides ⤵️
I want you to help me spot the difference in tone.

With Comey, @CNN put five — five! — reporters on the byline to declare the indictment was an “escalation” in “Trump’s effort to prosecute his political enemies.”

Where was that when Biden’s DOJ indicted Bannon? “A victory” Image
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And @CNN wasn’t any better on Peter Navarro, another Trump aide indicted under Biden.

Rather than an “effort to prosecute…political enemies,” CNN quoted the prosecutor to tell the story.

Why is the claim of the government the framing of the piece under Biden? I have a guess. Image
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The outrage over Kimmel’s canning is incredibly stupid, but it’s also enormously rich coming from the same media outlets who have cheered the government actually censoring people, particularly during COVID.

Let me know if you can spot the difference in tone? ⤵️
This @CNN headline made me think this story needed a thread.

Kimmel’s suspension is “straight from a European strongman’s playbook,” per @CNN’s @brianstelter.

When Biden cracked down on free speech during Covid, CNN hyped up the effort. Image
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Few promoted the government’s actual attack on free speech more aggressively than the same @brianstelter now calling a comedian’s shelving evidence of autocracy, or something. Image
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Sep 3
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I know there’s a lot going on but we just had a media conspiracy implode that I think captures something important about the corporate press.

Did you hear about how Trump was allegedly going after John Bolton as retribution for his criticism?

Well…follow along ⤵️
We saw a week straight of media suggestions that Trump was abusing the powers of the state to deal out “retribution” to John Bolton following the news that the FBI (“Trump’s DOJ!” headlines rang out) raided his house.

We were in “unsettling” times, to hear @nytimes tell it. Image
The *Editorial Board* at @nytimes put out an even more dramatic statement, asking who Trump’s next payback victim after Bolton would be.

They dubbed the raid “revenge.”

Democracy was in truly troubled waters. Image
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Aug 26
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A single poll has bootstrapped a media narrative that DC residents are outraged by Trump’s takeover.

I poked around the cross tabs of the poll — of 600 or so of DC’s more comfortable residents — and I think it’s pretty suspect.

How come? Follow along: ⤵️
Let’s start with the poll. The @washingtonpost talked to 604 people, of whom 90% — 90%! — self-described as living in “very good” or “good” neighborhoods.

So, fine. 80% of people who like where they live in DC are upset. Image
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But even beyond that, it’s worth asking whether this poll really captures DC’s opinion.

In the poll, only 31% describe crime as a “serious” or “very serious” problem in DC.

When @washingtonpost asked this same question in May, *50%* said it was a serious problem.

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Jul 15
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I feel like I’m losing my mind about the Biden autopen pardons.

The former president said he made every decision. His staff says that he didn’t actually make the final call on thousands of them.

We’re supposed to treat this as normal?

I try to unpack. ⤵️
This got new life from a Biden interview w/ @nytimes.

NYT leads by repeating Biden’s claim that he made the calls…burying the admissions that 1) he really didn’t & 2) where he allegedly did, the aids sending details to the autopen weren’t in the room when the call was made… Image
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…instead, they relied on what senior staff had allegedly heard, which was then passed along.

The piece ends with the revelation that Biden’s then-chief of staff gave the final sign off.

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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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