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4 Oct, 11 tweets, 5 min read
This #SundayMorning we're asking the question everyone is asking. How sick is Trump REALLY & who's in charge?

There are mixed messages coming from the White House but reading between the lines is fairly easy.

Signs point to Trump being seriously, perhaps critically ill
(THREAD)
(2) Clumsily staged photos aside, we have some conclusive information about treatments and drugs being administered to the President from Trump's doctor, Conley.

Dexamethasone indicates the President has severe respiratory complications from COVID-19.

(3) All of which is to be expected given Trump's age and health risks like obesity. So why is the White House rushing to leak that a critically ill Trump might be released from the hospital as soon as tomorrow?

This is perhaps the biggest tell of all.
(4) The longer Trump stays in the hospital and evidence continues to leak that he's been cycling on and off supplemental oxygen, the more precarious his opportunity to hold onto power.

While he can voluntarily transfer power according to the 25th, it can also be taken from him.
(5) Trump prizes loyalty & he's gone to great pains to stack his cabinet with sycophants, but movements from folks like Meadows leaking to the press that Trump is more critically ill than portrayed may indicate allegiances being formed behind closed doors.
(6) If Trump believes he is capable of executing the duties of office, both the VP and at least 8 of his cabinet members (half or the majority) have to disagree in order to wield the fourth section of the 25th amendment and transfer his power to Pence.

vox.com/21498576/trump…
(7) However, unlike if Trump transfers power willingly, his ability to get his presidential powers back isn't automatic under the 4th section of the 25th.

Pence could continue to declare him unfit & Congress would have to vote to resolve the dispute.

cnn.com/2020/10/02/pol…
(8) In many ways, Trump is on shaky grounds here and he needs to portray the strongman image not only for his ego.

An image of vigorous health helps fend off insurrection from within as the White House rages against a leader who repeatedly placed them and their families at risk.
(9) As the list of WH staff and senators testing positive grows, the outbreak threatens the line of presidential succession, a SCOTUS nomination & a rapidly approaching election.

Pence has already assumed campaign responsibilities for hospitalized Trump.

usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
(10) Donald Trump desperately wants the American people and his own administration to believe he's capable of executing his duties as President.

Which may be the clearest indication we have that Trump is more critically ill than he's willing to admit.

(END) Thanks to @MajikaZulJin for the #SundayMorning thread suggestion. Come back next week and we'll do this again.

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I’m grateful when women share about their miscarriages because too often these tragedies happen in silence.

1 in 5 pregnancies end in miscarriage.

You are not alone
You didn’t do anything wrong
There are no right words for this kind of loss
When I had mine it was my 35th birthday. I was on a business trip in Indianapolis. I remember being in the bathroom, bleeding and crying and thinking it was the worst moment of my life. And it was. I’d never felt so alone.
For weeks afterward I struggled with this bizarre idea that I’d done something wrong. Even though I had a perfectly healthy five year old boy, I felt ashamed. As if I was broken somehow.

For days, as women comforted me with their own stories of loss, I kept wondering why.
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Last week we covered Democrats' options to obstruct a nomination, but this #SundayMorning as a schedule and a plan to push the Senate confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett before the election has emerged, we're looking for clues of exactly what the Democrats are planning.

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(2) Because the filibuster is gone, Democrats are going to have to get creative in their efforts to slow down the nomination process. At this point, the hope is the election results will dramatically change the calculus for the GOP.

We need 37 days.

cbc.ca/news/world/sup…
(3) Previously we'd discussed what the House could throw in front of the Senate to slow confirmation & keep them busy. Impeachment is a possibility, but legal experts are skeptical.

The Senate could refuse to hear witnesses & dismiss with a majority vote

msn.com/en-us/news/pol…
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What happens when a small red, mostly rural state of three million refuses to take coronavirus seriously and doesn’t issue a mask mandate?

Exactly what you’d expect.

sltrib.com/news/2020/09/2…
This will rapidly become a problem because while Utah’s death rate has been small compared to other states due to a younger, healthier population, they also have a tiny hospital capacity. One of the smallest per capita in the country.
Utah’s daily positive rate is now 14%. Since late August, the rate of new cases among patients ages 15 to 24 has more than tripled. As that group’s share of infections began to drop last week, cases among other age groups began to rise sharply.

Schools are seeding outbreaks.
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21 Sep
I am fine with the DOJ intervening and cutting off funding for these jurisdictions with the highest rate of violent crime in the US according to FBI crime data.

Alaska
Tennessee
Arkansas
Louisiana
South Carolina
Alabama
Missouri

Guess who isn’t in the top 10?
NY, OR, and WA
Source below. These numbers are based on the most recent violent crime and murder data from the FBI.

moneywise.com/a/the-worst-st…
Oh. You want most violent anarchistic cities with the highest rates of both violent and property crime? Fine.

Anchorage
Memphis
Wichita
Lubbock
Spokane
Shreveport
Corpus Christi
Mobile

It’s the FBI’s data not mine.
No NYC or Seattle or Portland to be found.
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20 Sep
This #SundayMorning we're asking what Dems have in their back pocket that they can use to slow down or block the Senate from rubber stamping another conservative Trump nominee for the Supreme Court.

How do we plan to honor RBG's dying wish?
There are several options.
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(2) First and foremost is to get the senators who committed on the record to not supporting a nominee during an election year to keep their word. So far we have 2: Collins and Murkowski. We need 2 more.

Several of these senators are up for re-election.

(3) Once we've explored any possible allies across the aisle, then we need to start considering other options. A normal nomination process takes 70 days of extensive vetting, interviews, and hearings.

Shortening that to 45 days will be quite the feat.
apnews.com/07785358a408ed…
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19 Sep
RBG NEVER GAVE UP.
Don’t you give up either.

This is bad but it isn’t hopeless. We need to hound GOP senators who promised not to nominate a justice in 2020 and hold them to their word.

Grassley, Graham, Murkowski.
Collins, Romney, Gardner.
Start now.

thehill.com/business-a-lob…
Graham is the head of judiciary so I’d focus there. He’s in a tough election fight.

Make him own this comment:

"If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump's term, and the primary process has started, we'll wait until the next election," Sen. Lindsey Graham, 2018
Collins is also in a tough election fight. Make her own this.
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