#NEW
Trump health update:
▪no fever today
▪no shortness of breath today
▪2nd dose of experimental Ebola drug #Remdesivir
▪1st dose of dexamethasone
▪able to walk w/o limits
▪oxygen sats have dropped episodically
▪could be released Monday if stable to treatment at WH
It would be a mistake to release Trump from #WalterReed too soon. There is no way to protect him from himself or others at the irresponsibility site that is the White House. COVID really takes hold 7-10 days in. Also, he is still contagious.
#COVID symptoms recede and recur. Trump should be monitored carefully for that over the next week at least. Also, his doctors have lied to minimize the extent of his illness all along. But he was so sick Friday he needed to be airlifted to ##WalterReed.
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Stephen Colbert just skewered the way the administration tried to hide the president's condition and keep it not just from America, but "unethically" from all the people Trump exposed to the virus. #COVID19 @colbertlateshow
.@StephenAtHome reiterates what I wrote when the news broke: That Trump put the nation's security at risk.
CBS News medical expert Dr. John La Pook says when he was treating #COVID19 patients at NYU he saw many people who were doing okay the first few days and then took a bad turn suddenly. He says we need more transparency about Trump's status and his co-morbidities. @colbertlateshow
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This may be too personal, but I think anyone who has ever been in an abusive relationship--with a parent, relative, partner, friend--has experienced what happened tonight many times. It is impossible to fight back against such violence. Trump's behavior was abuse.
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I think America has been in the thrall of an abusive leader for the past four years. The non-stop bullying and goading. The name-calling: Even in the #PresidentialDebate Trump referenced "Pochahontas," "Crying Chuck Schumer" and "Crooked Hillary." We hear this all the time.
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In 2016 Hillary had an ad with small children watching Trump on TV. It was just clip after clip of him name-calling and cursing. It's abuse. And then he denies it. Gaslighting. When you have experienced this, you recognize it for what it is. But it is toxic. And dangerous.
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Every time McConnell's lips move, he lies. McConnell himself has voted SIXTY SEVEN TIMES to overturn the #ACA. His state is among those petitioning to end the #ACA as an unjust law. The law protects #PreExistingConditions. It comes before #SCOTUS mid-November. Barrett will vote.
Trump filed to have #ACA struck down on June 25, with specific attention to the #PreExistingConditions clause of the law. If Trump thought #AmyConeyBarrett would vote against him, he would never have nominated her. This is how a 6-3 #SCOTUS begins: ending healthcare for millions.
Go to one of the satellite centers--there are 17 in #Philly. The big one is at the @LiacourasCenter at @TempleUniv campus. Ask for a ballot. They will run your registration and print one out. YOU MUST FILL IT OUT THEN AND THERE.
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Then you turn over that ballot and it will be opened on #ElectionDay.
The other satellite centers are at public schools. Check Google for a site near you. These sites opened Monday and the system has had some bugs, so be prepared to wait. YOU MUST HAVE PA PHOTO ID.
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The only office that was open Monday was @LiacourasCenter at @TempleUniv. You might want to wait until next week for the bugs to shake out if you are worried about being around a lot of people indoors.
"Controversial" is the word @CBSNews uses for "manipulated" in Minnesota. All O'Keefe shows is a sideways video of people allegedly speaking Somali and a claim Al Queada is funding Ilhan Omar.
The right has previously v
claimed Rep. Omar married her brother. And Trump has targeted her repeatedly.
#JamesOKeefe/Project Veritas tried to smear Hillary in 2016 with a doctored Planned Parenthood expose. Carly Fiorina even claimed in a debate that Hillary supported killing live babies for their organs. Suburban voters repeated this to me in interviews about why they voted Trump.
Why is anyone investigating Black voters--90% of whom voted for Hillary Clinton--rather than, say, white Bernie voters, 25% of whom voted for Trump & 5% of whom voted 3rd party? They seem more likely to have been seduced by Russian influencers. Jill Stein hosted Wikileaks and RT.
Since some are missing my point--BLACK voters WEREN'T "deterred" from voting for Hillary. WHITE Bernie voters--who were also targeted--were. 25% voted for Trump; 5% for Stein. They absolutely were hoodwinked into voting to put Trump in office. THAT is a story. THIS is not.
What actually happened in 2016 is 3d party voters threw the election to Trump in PA, WI and MI. Hillary lost by a mere 77k votes; 3rd party votes were 800k. EVERYONE who worked on Bernie's 2020 campaign voted 3rd party & say so often. Let's stop ignoring the actual facts of 2016.