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22 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
“It would be wrong to think about Trump on the same spectrum as predecessors. you have to look on his presidency in a different way — seeing his possibly criminal conduct not as a byproduct of a political agenda but a central feature of his tenure”
/1 nytimes.com/2020/11/17/mag…
“In this light, Trump’s potential criminality becomes a kind of throughline, the dots that connect his life as a businessman to his entry into politics and then onward across his four years as president.”

/2
“One potentially illegal act led Trump to the next: from law-bending moves as a businessman, to questionable campaign-finance, to willingness to interfere with investigations into his conduct, to public corruption and the seemingly illegal abuse of powers to remain in office”

/3
“The stakes of prosecuting Donald Trump may be high; but so are the costs of not prosecuting him, which would send a dangerous message, one that transcends even the presidency, about the country’s commitment to the rule of law.”

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23 Oct
one big journalistic challenge in covering Trump is simply keeping pace with the large number of things he says that are, not just false, but obviously, wildly, fundamentally false.

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were this true, the actual toll of 220+K would be a 90% reduction

but it's ridiculous

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“Even when invited by the moderator to speak directly to racial-minority families, President Trump could talk only about himself—boast that he had done more for African Americans than all previous presidents except maybe Abraham Lincoln, maybe.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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“The very idea of it irked Trump.”
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“But those supporters might consider: Trump showed on that stage why he has so often failed at the job of being president.”
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“I don’t think Obama’s smart,” Trump told Woodward. “I think he’s highly overrated. And I don’t think he’s a great speaker.” Trump added that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un thought Obama was “an asshole.” washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-w…
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“Kushner was a frequent target of ire among Trump’s Cabinet members, who saw him as untrustworthy and weak in dealing with heads of states. Tillerson found Kushner’s warm dealings with Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu ‘nauseating to watch. stomach churning,’ according to Woodward.”
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“ ‘The big contrast you’ll see between the Democrats’ doom and gloom, Donald Trump-obsessed convention will be a convention focused on real people, their stories, how the Trump administration policies has (sic) lifted their lives,’ RNC chair McDaniel said” washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
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“ ‘They did a convention that didn’t balance health and safety with what most Americans are dealing with,’ McDaniel said, pointing out that many people are back at work.”
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“As one intelligence veteran who occasionally briefed Trump told me: “On a visceral level, his view was, ‘You all are supposed to be helping me.’ But when you’d bring in evidence that Russia interfered, that’s what he’d refer to as not helpful.” /1 nytimes.com/2020/08/08/mag…
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it does not takes courage to have federal officers with riot shields and tear gas and rubber bullets clear a path for a heavily-guarded president to walk across the street, hold up a Bible and scowl for the cameras

that’s what President Trump did yesterday 1/
it took courage for a white politician to address a black crowd in an American city in 1968, give them the news that Martin Luther King had been assassinated, and speak to them extemporaneously

that’s what Robert F. Kennedy did in April 1968

RFK delivered this message:

“what we need in the United States is not division, not hatred, not violence and lawlessness, but love and wisdom and compassion toward one another

“a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer in our country, whether they be white or black”
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