@danielsgoldman I hope people know that this isn’t the first time that Trump has tried to overturn a lawful election through revolution. He did it in 2012, but failed to get anybody killed that time. This time he did get people killed.
That time the “lie” was that Romney won the popular vote:
🔹“We should have a revolution in this country!”
🔹“Let’s fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice!”
🔹“revolution!”
🔹“We should march on Washington and stop this travesty.”
Sick that Republican Senators will help Trump do more.
@danielsgoldman 3/ How many coup attempts is too many for a Democrat? How many coup attempts is too many for a Republican?
Trump has already tried 2 coup attempts (the 1st failing because he couldn’t get it off the ground). How many coup attempts before there should be consequences?
@danielsgoldman 4/ Note that Trump’s first attempt to achieve a coup (in 2012) also failed because Romney was a decent enough American to not go along with Trump’s calls for revolution and for people to march on Washington to do what they could to flip the election. Romney is not a seditionist.
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1/ I would love it if the Democratic prosecutors for Trump’s impeachment trial went full bore on offense right out of the gate with something like:
2/ “We will be presenting our case to you, the American people. Technically the jury is in this room, but when this is over you are likely to see that the majority of the Republican Senators here are spineless people who don’t care if Trump is guilty.”
3/ “You, the American people, will get to see the evidence showing that Trump is guilty. If the Republican Senators choose to ignore the evidence and vote to acquit Trump because that is what they would do no matter what, you get to be their jury when they run for re-election.”
A group of rich businessmen are driving through the desert when they happen upon a man dying of thirst.
Some want to leave the man, some want to take him with them and nurse him back to health. but the majority agrees to give him 3 bottles of water.
2/ When the thirsty man hears he is getting 3 bottles of water, and sees them, he knows it isn’t enough, but he is so looking forward to that water, as he had thought he was going to die any minute.
3/ Then 1 rich businessmen decides to upstage the others. He tells the thirsty man that he will get 10 bottles of water, not 3.
2/ @JonathanTurley then took that and decided to make a whole thread attacking @PreetBharara based on Turley cutting off the “reasonable conclusion” and replacing it with his own “now clear”:
3/ Notice that in his 2nd tweet in his thread Professor Turley relies on his apparent lie in his first tweet to do it again, falsely claiming that @PreetBharara declared “Period” with no room for doubt. Clearly not true:
(THREAD) I see that Trumpsters still don’t understand how the OLC memo saying presidents cannot be indicted was relevant to the Mueller Report, or they fake that they don’t understand. I think the report was clear about this for part 2.
1/ Paraphrasing, the explanation in the Mueller Report comes down to:
“If we determine there clearly was no crime we will say so. If there was a crime, we will not say that, because the OLC memo means that we will not determine there was a crime, regardless of evidence.”
2/ That does not contradict Mueller explaining that he was not saying that, but for the OLC memo, they would say Trump committed a crime. The OLC memo created a barrier, such that they would not say Trump committed a crime, even if the evidence was overwhelming.
@SunshineNikki4@RickkidtchThoer 92/ Another example of the kind of people Trump has to get support from. @pax4pax responded (but not directly) to a tweet I made mentioning that there was a quid pro quo by Trump's team, by claiming that this was not reality. I responded here:
93/ That response from me included a pic of Trump ogling a minor child. @pax4pax claims to be a Christian, and they criticize people, yet @pax4pax decided that they wanted to defend Trump's pedophilic actions. That is above my response here:
@pax4pax 94/ Later @pax4pax claimed to be a Constitutionalist, even as they do whatever they can for a guy who falsely claims that article 2 allows him to do whatever he wants. @pax4pax tried similar, claiming that Trump did nothing wrong because he makes policy:
I was thinking about why Trump's poll numbers have stayed above 35% pretty much no matter what, and one way to look at it is that there is a Trump Privilege.
1/ With Trump Privilege, Trump can be an embarrassment just giving candy to children on Halloween, while Obama can interact and connect with kids, but many will claim that Trump is the normal one who cares about people.
2/ With Trump Privilege, Trump can have much slower job creation than Obama was doing, not achieve the 3% yearly GDP he and Fox pounded Obama for, and blow out the deficit during good times, while whining his economy needs stimulus, and many will claim Trump has a magic wand.