This is so irresponsible and truly deplorable. Jim & others got exactly the reaction they wanted with these tweets, thereby putting real people in danger by trying to misportray what happened to anger Trump/Trump allies and make it seem like DoD was ignoring the POTUS.
If you read the actual article, the person they are quoting, Jim Jeffrey, is actually very complimentary of Trump's FP (despite being anti-Trump in 2016). Jeffrey explains how they convinced Trump admin to leave slightly more troops there. He does not claim they fooled Trump.
"Jeffrey now says that Trump’s “modest” and transactional approach to the Middle East has yielded a more stable region than either of his predecessors’ more transformational policies."
They kept the number of troops they felt was needed to maintain stability. Those decisions don't go to POTUS. It ended up being more than 200 officially announced, but that's not about undermining Trump (despite what some reporters and Trump fans want to pretend).

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14 Nov
It speaks volumes that this receives so little coverage and has been normalized. Also, note there were a lot more Trump protesters in DC, but they aren’t attacking random people eating dinner.
Sickening assault. Also, notice they steal his phone as he lays unconscious. The police should be tracking down the perpetrators and then loudly advertising their arrest. This stuff will keep happening until it becomes clear there are consequences.

WTF are @DCPoliceDept doing?

Unbelievable. There should be firings over this. They forced these people into a hostile crowd.

Also, the same woman is clearly on video committing assault multiple times here. Are police planning to track her down?
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7 Nov
A bunch of reports today regarding huge spikes in Covid-19 cases, barely a mask in sight, and yet the same people who will shame others for doing casual activities and soon insist on further restrictions will say nothing about this.
No one should ever take any of the Covid commentary from these guys seriously.

People had to cancel weddings, skip funerals, leave loved ones to die alone. All while being lectured by Hayes and crew about need for such restrictions.

But election dance party? “People need this”
I mean....
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5 Nov
All false.

1) There was a batch of 169K absentee ballots counted at once from Milwaukee that ran about 75-25 Biden.

2) In MI that was an input error that added a 0 and was fixed in 30 min.

3) PA rules didn't allow them to count mail-in ballots until after. Were not all Biden.
I get that people are desperate to create a narrative, but spreading blatant falsehoods to undermine trust in our institutions is harmful garbage. It won't help Trump win, but it will hurt your credibility.
This is another claim/video that went viral claiming to show someone burning ballots. It is false.

The video is actually of someone burning sample ballots: vbgov.com/news/pages/sel…

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4 Nov
So it's time for a bit of a rant that will upset some of my followers. I have been intentionally biting my tongue until the polls close (outside a few still open), but have to be honest about what I have wanted to say.

First, to come clean on my election prediction:
Here was my intentionally cryptic tweet representing electoral votes and Senate seats:



and here was my map (I screwed up NE by mistake):
I stayed quiet until the polls were closed for one major reason: Trump was already an anchor on at-risk Senate candidates that are desperately needed to keep Dems in check and I didn’t want to add to that.
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31 Oct
Another dishonest quote goes viral on resistance Twitter and is promoted by several members of the media. This feels like it happens daily now.

The context of this was Trump actually complaining about the Supreme Court decision to allow votes to be counted after the election.
You know it's bad when even Aaron Rupar has to point out you're misleading people about a Trump quote.
And it's the same exact people who fall for and spread this stuff every time, without any consequences.
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30 Oct
According to Politifact, the basis for this false rating is that a board member for a company is not the company boss.
As I was saying, Dems get leeway for partisan framing...

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