Parents fleeing violence and poverty with their children walked thousands of miles to our border.

Once there, they were given a choice:

Be dropped off somewhere in that same dangerous country with nothing; penniless and homeless; knowing no one; with their kids or without.

1/
They were being deported into even greater hardship and peril than they left.

Many people we have deported fled danger and were killed upon their return.

Our government asked them:

Do you love your kids so much, you’d leave them?

2/
What would you do?

Faced with a decision of taking my son into the deepest of dangers where I didn’t know if I could even feed him - or - let him go so he would at least be safe.

The cruelty of forcing that choice is immeasurable.

3/
The vulgarity of spinning it like these parents didn’t want their gets is so despicable, it is a new low for even an Admin with no bottom.

These parents risked their lives to try to take their kids somewhere better...

4/
...and when they were being forced to return to even more horrible circumstances, they chose to go back alone.

I cannot imagine how excruciating that is for those parents.

5/
I would spend every day of my life wondering:

Is my son okay?
Is he healthy?
Are people being kind to him?
Does he remember me?
Does he know how much I love him?
Did I do the right thing?
Will I ever see him again?
Will this pain ever abate?
Will it ever hurt less?

6/
The barbarity of what we have done is a crime against humanity.

We inflicted deliberate psychological trauma on children and families in an attempt to scare others.

That is torture. It is terrorism.

May the actors responsible someday be forced to face justice.

7/7

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24 Oct
The most important thing we can do in the remaining 10 days is get out the vote.

It is a well-established principle that people will keep a commitment made to someone else more often than ones made only to themselves.

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Don’t assume people who appear to oppose Trump will definitely make the time to go vote.

Some just don’t see it as important enough. Some will put it off and then not follow through.

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There are disarming ways to bring it up.

Could be no more than casually saying:

“Can’t believe the election is a week away. I need to get my vote in. You voted yet?”

3/
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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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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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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.

3/
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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.

2/
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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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...

2/
...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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