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21 Oct, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Familiar theme:

“In 2017, [A Trump company] reported an unusually large spike in revenue — some $17.5 million, more than the previous five years’ combined. It was accompanied by a $15.1 million withdrawal by Mr. Trump”

Same thing happened with a Trump company in Vegas.

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Accountants and finance people would know better than I but it seems

- Trump needed vast amounts of cash in 2016-2017 (as his Apprentice revenue dried up)

- He “laundered it in” as revenue. Meaning, he fashioned sudden, large payments to his shell companies and then...

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...promptly paid himself out of the “revenue”.

The questions that raises:

1) What was the real source of those large payments? From who and for what?

Claiming he had massive outstanding arrears owed just when he needed money... nah. Doubt it.

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2) Why wasn’t that revenue collected earlier?

Not plausible he amassed tens of millions in earned fees which he never got around to seeking payment for... until he was running for President.

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The NYT isn’t answering these questions directly but is revealing a pattern in 2016-2017 of Trump using an opaque labyrinth of businesses to take in unexplained large payments which he then withdrew immediately.

Smells April fresh. Someone is doing laundry.

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23 Oct
Alright, let us begin.

The final debate of the 2020 election cycle.

My final live-tweet of an event in this presidential term.

There will be much drinking and little spell-checking.

Refresh your beverages. We have miles to go before we sleep.

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While tonight’s moderator, Kristen Welker, settles in...

It has been a long four years. I have done many of these. Debates, press conferences, rallies.

No matter what may come, tonight feels like the closing of a chapter.
We have been through much, I’m not going to lie, the realization that this was the last of these before the election left me a little wistful today.

For the youngsters, that’s an olde tyme word meaning “full of wist”.

I don’t know what “wist” means.
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22 Oct
I talk about Trump’s narcissism all the time. His dysfunction has never surprised me. Not once.

Still, sometimes it is just so glaring and so nakedly on display, it’s just.. wow.

Take the opening to this interview, his eventual storm out and handling after.

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Trump adamantly insists Stahl was “nasty” to him.

She was completely calm and emotionless. Never changed her tone. Was perfectly pleasant even when correcting false claims.

He truly experiences someone calmly not allowing him to lie as them being mean to him.

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He truly experiences someone not allowing him to put forward the facade he wish were true as them attacking him.

And that’s because it truly hurts him.

And if someone hurt him, it must be because they are bad.

And he believes that so fully, he thinks all will see it too.

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21 Oct
The total measure of the two men running for president can be taken by just watching their reactions to spontaneous things.

Joe Biden kisses a hurting young man on the forehead like I would with my son. No forethought. Just nurturing instinct.

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Trump is incapable of even faking empathy or caring or compassion.

Notice he never spontaneously laughs. You’ve never seen him suddenly react with any emotion at all - other than anger.

He can process injury alone.

He can only hope to fake everything else.

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He doesn’t feel any of those things.

He just attempts to mirror what they look like when other people appear to feel them.

And he can’t do that instantly because it isn’t reflexive; it is feigned.

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21 Oct
There was a reference in the Steele Dossier to Trump having secret dealings with China including efforts to use bribes to facilitate deals.

Now, news has broken of Trump having a bank account in China.

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For perspective, Trump apparently has known bank accounts in only two other countries: UK and Ireland.

It isn’t like the guy has foreign accounts all over the place. He generally uses Western banks.

So, we have a Steele Dossier item alleging Trump paid bribes in China.

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And we now have an undisclosed bank account in China.

And, lastly, we have reporting from earlier this year about Trump trying to have the law which makes it illegal for U.S. businesses to break U.S. bribery laws even in other countries.

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19 Oct
FBI and DOJ just announced a 7-count indictment against 6 Russian military intelligence officers for an array of cybercrimes.

Remarks single out Russia as the most destructive global cyber actor; paints picture of an unrelenting Russian attack on enemies and systems.

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The charges announced were not specific to election interference but the remarks pointedly called out Russian attacks on the 2017 French election.

Hard to imagine Trump will take this prosecution well. Will feel undermining to him.

Reminds people 2016 was tainted.

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Even though FBI Director Chris Wray wasn’t at the press conference, look for Trump to rant about him any minute now.

“Why isn’t the FBI attesting the people I want them to (instead of the people who help me)?!”

I dunno. Kinda interesting timing from the DOJ/FBI.

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18 Oct
A lot of people are going to hate this and immediately reject it but hear me out.

The biggest mistake Democrats have made for years and years is being too nice.

We have cared far too much about politeness and decorum. We have treated a bloodsport like it was a bridge game.

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Since at least when Obama took office (but more like the past forty years), we on the left and our elected representatives have clung to a suicidal fiction that ‘going high’ would save us.

Subconsciously, it is pleasing, at least partially, because it is self-inflating.

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“We are better than that! We would never stoop to the lows of those people!”

While the right endlessly works to personally destroy people on the left, we’ve clung to the mantra of “attacking ideas not people” as if it was a bible verse.

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