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5 Oct, 6 tweets, 3 min read
"The President of the United States is acting like a drunk driver, and the press needs to cover him that way."

That's the lede. The rest of my @CJR column is here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

cjr.org/political_pres…
Trump, knowing that his close aide (Hope Hicks) had tested positive, got on a chopper and a plane to New Jersey. There, he was unmasked while meeting w/ hundreds of people -- some indoors.

Here's how NJ civil law defines gross negligence:
It's not just the donors who risk COVID. It's the flight crews, the Secret Service, and Trump's own employees at Bedminster. And their families

Yet, as Bloomberg reported “there was never serious thought given to canceling the Bedminster fundraiser, expected to raise $5 million"
As I was finishing the column last night, this happened.

Which just reinforced the point, with the added detail of Trump literally being on the road, endangering people.

cjr.org/political_pres…
Now he's acting like the drunk driver who left the scene of the accident, knowing he'll never be prosecuted

cjr.org/political_pres…
.@ChrisCuomo ... Trump “is a drunk driver who tells other people to drive drunk”

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2 Oct
When an epidemiological crisis hits the highest level of government, Fox News is going to rely on the advice of a politically motivated *radiologist*

Meanwhile, has anyone heard from Drs. Fauci or Birx?
Chris Wallace points out that Scott Atlas has no specialized training in infectious diseases.

Atlas is a product of Stanford's Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank which isn't exactly what anyone else at the university would consider to be a source of research or expertise on infectious disease

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27 Sep
The first reporter to pose Trump a question at this press conference asks about ... the Supreme Court. Not taxes
3 straight questions from this gentleman and nothing on taxes Image
Four questions.
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23 Sep
Trump's favorite COVID advisor - Scott Atlas - threatened to sue his Stanford colleagues over their criticism of his theories.

So they fired back, with 🔥🔥🔥

insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/2… Image
Via @Acosta, Dr. Birx views Atlas "as an unhealthy influence on Trump's thinking .. Birx believes Atlas is feeding the President misleading information about the efficacy of face masks for controlling the spread of the virus"

cnn.com/2020/09/23/pol…
CDC’s Redfield, as overheard on an airplane, speaking about Atlas: “Everything he says is false.”

nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
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18 Sep
Biden is pushing this line, hard

“These are the guys that always thought they were better than me, better than us, because they had a lot of money.”
“It’s about time we start to pay essential workers for the fact that they’re essential” as he advocates a $15 minimum wage
Now Biden is re-enacting the anecdote of when Trump told his Mar-a-Lago friends that he just made them a lot richer.
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17 Sep
One of the interesting issues that ethicists will need to study a generation from now is, how these lower-level aides (Vindman, Taylor, Troye) have the courage to speak out and be willing to take incoming from Fox et al, while their bosses and their bosses' bosses stay quiet
From a new @sbg1 interview:

"This is what struck me most during my conversation with Troye: she is young, only 43, with a long career ahead of her, and she was willing to put it all on the line publicly, while people like Mattis and Kelly were not" ...

newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
... "Troye, with much more to lose—and with none of the stature of a former member of Congress or a former Marine general—had much more courage than all of them. She went ahead when they have not, knowing that she would be attacked"

newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
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17 Sep
We know Trump is going to lie (a lot!) at the upcoming debates.

So what should our moderators do about it?

Here are my thoughts, with a look back at the messy fact-checking attempt in the 2012 Obama/Romney debate.

Via @CJR

cjr.org/political_pres…
When an OAN sycophant asked Trump if “journalists are afraid they might lose their jobs if they don’t attack you," he admitted how he deals with hard questions:

“I’ll say, ‘Thank you very much. Bye-bye.’ And I leave.”

That will change with the debates.

cjr.org/political_pres…
So Fox's Chris Wallace has chosen as one of the debate topics, "Race and Violence in our Cities."

Not "Race and Protests" and not "in our Country"

So we can see where this is headed. Image
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