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20 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
"Believe me, when it comes to great frauds, I am the expert. I defrauded students at Trump University. I defrauded my lenders. I defrauded the IRS. And now I'm so excited about this new offer.

Call now to arrange 3 easy payments. You won't want to miss out on my ... "
I borrowed the script for my Trump ad from this 2007 ad for Trump steaks. @MirandaFrum overheard the noise, and remarked: "It's amazing that anybody who heard that low-quality sound ever believed Trump was rich."
Each frame of this George Clooney tequila ad has a higher budget than the entirety of the Trump steaks ad.
It's as if the United States elected this guy president

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David Frum Profile picture
20 Dec
I'm experimenting with threaded notes on books I've enjoyed recently
First was Barbara Amiel's "Friends and Enemies"; second, "Silencing the Past" by Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Future items I'll hashtag #FrumReads
Amiel:
Trouillot:
Next up in #FrumReads Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie penguinrandomhouse.com/books/108892/c…
Relations are often testy between academic and non-academic historians. But the best qualities of each should claim respect from the other: the academic's original research and analytic rigor; the non-academic's zeal to hold the interest of the non-specialist reader. 1/x
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17 Dec
A big personal project through this year of COVID has been digitizing and then organizing a vast library of family photos, audio, and video dating back to the 1960s. For Hanukkah, I gave each child a G-drive with the entire collection. 1/x
It was a profoundly poignant, emotional project - finally completed just about a week ago. Among the thoughts I was left with ... 2/x
My wife and I have been together since 1987, married since 1988. We've lived in the same house since 1996. On paper, nothing has much changed in our lives. But when you review the video, you see ... 3/x
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15 Dec
Devoted my reading time over past two days to "Silencing the Past," challenging collection of essays by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, a historian of Haiti who died in 2012. 1/x beacon.org/Silencing-the-…
Early in the book, Trouillot declares:

"First, facts are never meaningless; indeed they become facts only because they matter in some sense, however minimal. Second, facts are not created equal: the production of traces is always also the creation of silences." (p. 29) 2/x
The silence that most concerns Trouillot is the silencing of the history of the Haitian revolution, 1791-1804: the only successful slave revolt in human history. How have these events receded from the shared memory of non-Haitian humanity?

He offers a telling example: 3/x
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12 Dec
Over past few days, I've been transfixed by memoir by Barbara Amiel, "Friends and Enemies." A story of downfall, not a comfortable read at all. But vivid about what it feels like to haver everything - then suffer near total loss. 1/x simonandschuster.com/books/Friends-…
A mutual friend compared the book to the memoirs of the court of Versailles by the duke of Saint-Simon: another unsparing look at ugly realities behind the glitter or high life. 2/x
Amiel is merciless on herself too. She bares herself as she was and is - and is the first to remark when what she has to reveal is not a pretty sight. 3/x
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11 Dec
I got overnight via email a query from @briansflood at Fox News, the principal part of which I reproduce below. I answered by email too. I'll append that reply in the next threaded tweet:
@briansflood My reply:
Hunter Biden's dubious business activities have been reported for years. Here for example is @TheAtlantic in September 2019, year *before* @nypost theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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10 Dec
Always be grifting. But as we prepare to welcome first female VP, it is time to rethink the role of first/second spouses. Doug Emhoff is nobly resigning from his law firm. But he didn't have to do that. It's easy to imagine a different VP spouse instead raising his hourly rate
The Jill Biden model - spouse continues to work, but in a way that raises no conflicts of interests - is lovely, but cannot be expected to recur, especially once there's a first female president.

2/x
The Trumps were an extreme case of abuse of office for private gain. But even more normal people will be exposed to undue temptation in the first/second spouse role. 3/x
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