JUST NOW: White House Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows tells @MariaBartiromo that remaining sticking points in stimulus negotiations are (still) a liability shield for businesses (e.g. restaurants) and assistance to state/local governments.
Now @MariaBartiromo is suggesting there’s a FBI coverup of something something Hunter Biden Burisma something.
@MarkMeadows, blatantly violating the Hatch Act, says there are more “documents” to come & suggests @JoeBiden must prove a bunch of negatives alleged in dubious docs.
.@MarkMeadows: “while this President, Donald Trump, was creating jobs in America, the only thing that Joe Biden was doing was creating wealth for him and his family.”
(@JoeBiden has been a private citizen since January 20, 2017)
PSA: The White House Chief of Staff is not supposed to be addressed as “chief so-and-so”
.@MarkMeadows accuses Leslie Stahl, who has been at @CBSNews since he was twelve years old, of “[coming] across more like an opinion journalist than like a real reporter.”
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NOW: @TeamTrump campaign manager @BillStepien says they're teaming up with the RNC for a $55 million ad buy over the next two weeks, in Arizona, Iowa, North Carolina, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Campaign spending directly on ads in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, ME-2, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
Stepien says outside pro-Trump groups' spending lets the campaign to "bob and weave and redirect" its' own funds.
NEW: Veterans of 2016 and past Republican campaigns say Trumpworld's push to turn @JoeBiden into @HillaryClinton by attacking his family and making baseless claims about his health is evidence that the Trump campaign is out of ideas and is doomed to fail. independent.co.uk/voices/hunter-…
One former Trump confidante and campaign official said the 2020 brain trust "has realized that nothing they’ve done has worked, so they’re going back to what they originally did, which was to create chaos and create distractions.” independent.co.uk/voices/hunter-…
The ex-Trump campaign official, who asked to remain anonymous because of Trump's tendency to sue people, said the president's obsession with Hunter Biden is "so bizarre" and is backfiring by making people feel empathy for the Biden family. independent.co.uk/voices/hunter-…
FYI: For those of you complaining about the various media fails happening this morning, please keep in mind:
Nearly every political reporter you see on TV or in major print publications was hired from an internship or FT gig at another major outlet, based on word of mouth. 1/
Nearly all the media job listings for political reporting positions are only posted publicly to satisfy legal requirements for doing so. They are almost always tailored to describe the person who the hiring manager plans on hiring. 2/
For all the talk about how so-and-so individual journalist relies on special access, the reality is that with some exceptions, reporters' ability to get information is heavily dependent on what outlet they work for. COVID-19 has made this even more true. 3/