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Philip Bump

@pbump

Nov 19, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X

Guys, believe it or not, it just got more insane.

The vote for President Trump was 'so overwhelming' that it 'broke the algortihm' that had been programmed, we are told by ... Michael Flynn's attorney. This was a function of 'communist money.'

Totally bonkers and nonsensical.

As I was typing this, Soros was looped in.

If your goal is to present a believable case for how the election results are suspect, you should not have Sidney Powell offering up theories that would make Alex Jones be like "maybe dial it back".

These are the people who Trump specifically winnowed his legal team down to. This is what's left.

Jenna Ellis now trying to shame the media into treating this discussion as something other than the robust pile of nonsense that it is.

Also that Trump's legal representation is "an elite strike force team."

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Philip Bump

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Aug 28, 2023

So Jonathan Turley wrote over the weekend that "Bump has repeatedly spread false stories and then refused to accept the falsity of his own earlier claims, even after most of the media have admitted the errors."

His examples? 1/

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2. A 2017 piece I wrote about how the right tried to spin a former Obama official's comments into proof Trump was wiretapped, which he wasn't.

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Philip Bump

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Aug 3, 2023

The just-released transcript of the Devon Archer testimony just completely eviscerates what Comer and Jordan were saying on TV. Totally embarrassing.

Here's how it works. In the headline, Fox suggests that Hunter used Joe Biden. In the copy, they accurately indicate that he used "the name," which was Archer's point. But people don't read the copy.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1687098927739293696

Whether or not Archer was sworn in, he was testifying under penalty of perjury because you can't lie when giving testimony to Congress.

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Philip Bump

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Jun 14, 2023

A particularly shoddy effort to undermine fact-checkers — a thread

So you remember Stephen Miller. Out of the White House, he is now the president of something called America First Legal. This afternoon, he hyped some of its work. 1/

The group obtained a list of fact-checkers with whom the State Department was apparently consulting. These people are scare-quoted as "journalists." 2/

Then each is disparaged separately, starting with Politifact's Angie Holan. She is described as being "deeply intertwined in the Poynter network and lectures and teaches others the ways of censorship" — Millerspeak for pointing out the falseness of false information. 3/

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Philip Bump

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Jun 9, 2023

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Philip Bump

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Apr 22, 2023

They thought the checkmark was the cachet, not the celebrity status that warranted the checkmark. Then Musk obliterated the connection between celebrity and cachet.

Now they want celebrities back because they realize the cachet is gone.

But to make it stupider, they think celebrities won’t come back out of spite, because they don’t want to share their cachet — a recognition that the cachet was never inherent to the checkmark!

It’s like a club invited celebs to drink free to boost business and they did and then the club owner was like “now everyone pays” so the celebs bounced. Now the club is just people who are mad they paid for a membership but they’re mad at the celebs for leaving not the owner.

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