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Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

6 Jan

McConnell is rising to the historical occasion.

McConnell should have drawn this line against Trump long ago.

All through history, Presidents have been disciplined by courageous leaders of their own party in Congress, but, in defiance of this history, Trump has been allowed to run roughshod for four years.

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Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

4 Jan

White House just announced that Trump will give Congressman Devin Nunes the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his “unmatched talent, unassailable integrity, and unwavering resolve” and helping to “thwart a plot to take down a sitting United States president”:

What determines which ones get Presidential pardons and which ones get Presidential Medals?

Does the award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom now come with a free package of Trump Steaks and a free weekend at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas?

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Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

3 Jan

@AshleyRParker

Trump is planning to give Devin Nunes the Presidential Medal of Freedom tomorrow, reports @AshleyRParker.

Among recipients of first Presidential Medal of Freedom were Pope John XXIII and JFK.

@AshleyRParker

@AshleyRParker And another Presidential Medal of Freedom goes to Jim Jordan, says @Axios.

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Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

2 Jan

Any comment from Pence on the threat by twelve United States Senators to "reject the electors from disputed states” — or is he still on vacation and refusing to talk?

Mr. Vice President, any chance you could bother to express your reaction to the threat by twelve U.S. Senators to “reject" the Electoral College results?

Pence, we Americans don’t want to impose but it would be nice to hear at least something from you — sometime.

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Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

29 Dec 20

On this day in 1808 was born Andrew Johnson, whom many scholars consider to have been one of the most atrocious Presidents in American history:

Andrew Johnson (born today 1808) insisted that when he died (1875), he should be buried swaddled in an American flag, with his head on a copy of the Constitution. But as a lame-duck President leaving office, even Andrew Johnson never tweeted heroic videos about himself.