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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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More from @DrewHolden360

Feb 5
I know it’s been a few days, but the entire legacy media ran with the claim that Don Lemon was arrested for doing journalism, when he was actually indicted because a grand jury found he violated worshippers’ freedom of expression.

Quick live🧵thread🧵, starting with @nytimes. ⤵️ Image
Same thing at @NBCNews.

Omitted from the headline is what the actual charges are: interfering with these churchgoers rights. Image
Predictably, @CNN has gone to bat for Lemon.

What’s at issue isn’t “reporting” of a “protest,” and claiming to the contrary is pretty obviously misleading. Image
Read 15 tweets
Jan 22
🧵THREAD🧵

There’s another media hoax from Minnesota. Legacy outlets churned out headlines about a 5-year-old child used as “bait” by ICE.

The reality? The kid’s father, an illegal immigrant, abandoned him when he saw the agents. As even these outlets later concede.

Look ⤵️
Here’s how these hoaxes start. @washingtonpost alleges ICE used a 5-year-old kid as “bait” to arrest his father.

Not until five paragraphs into the piece do they acknowledge what really happened: the child’s father, an illegal immigrant, abandoned him when he saw ICE. Image
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But this allegation was everywhere. We saw the same thing from @AP.

Explosive claim in the headline: “used as ‘bait’” (from the school, no less)

Reality: six paragraphs down, father abandoned child. Image
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Read 15 tweets
Jan 21
🧵Thread🧵

This is insane. Remember the story of an innocent family hit with tear gas by ICE amid violent protests in Minnesota, with their baby hospitalized?

Turns out, the parents went to the riot…and may have left the baby in the car.

Media-induced conspiracy theory ⤵️
The legacy media ran with this fake story.

Here’s @nytimes — the family was “trying to escape a clash” when “ICE agents gassed them.” Image
@nytimes Same from @CNN — “gassed after they were caught in clash” when in reality they took their baby to a violent protest.

Insane reporting. Image
Read 19 tweets
Jan 20
🧵Thread🧵

Do you remember, all of four weeks ago, when democracy was imperiled by CBS News, under new management, delaying a 60 Minutes segment about a prison in El Salvador?

The segment aired last weekend.

Democracy survived. The takes haven’t.

Just look. Screenshots ⤵️
I usually start with the media but I’ve gotta flip that here, because the dumbest voices came from the halls of Congress.

@ChrisMurphyCT, as someone “warning about democracy’s potential disintegration” (his words) called it proof that the media has been “coopted by the regime.” Image
For @SenMarkey, delaying a segment was “what government censorship looks like.”

I mean. Cmon. Image
Read 26 tweets
Jan 16
With an ambitious new health care plan proposed by the Trump administration, you should read some of the recent pieces on the subject at @commonplc. Quick 🧵👇

First, @oren_cass explains how our system of health care got so bad: commonplace.org/p/oren-cass-ho…
And out this week is @Chris_Griz on why market concentration looms over the health care industry, undercutting more a more hands-off approach: commonplace.org/p/chris-griswo…
For a real and much-needed alternative to Obamacare, dive into @ChrisEmper’s explanation of community health centers, and why they could unlock better outcomes for patients: commonplace.org/p/chris-emper-…
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Jan 5
Quick 🧵thread🧵

With the news that Walz’s reelection campaign won’t survive the spiraling child care center fraud scandal in his state, I wanted to reup some of the worst legacy media efforts to put lipstick on this particular pig.

Follow along: ⤵️
I have to start with @nytimes, who seemed positively incensed that a video from @nickshirleyy caught fire, accusing him of being “in search of politically charged footage,” while burying whether there were any kids at these child care centers in the first place. Image
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This from the same @nytimes who a few weeks ago wrote an extensive piece about “how fraud swamped Minnesota’s social services system on Tim Walz’s watch.”

But now, it was just the video that caused this?

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