On April 2, 2012, Donald Trump smeared Barack Obama by saying Russia loves him... Oh, how the tables turned.
April 2, 2013: "With Dr. Dror Paley & Dr. Ben Carson with two wonderful children at Mar-a-Lago."
April 2, 2015 - Two months before he announced his candidacy.
"Politicians are all talk and no action. Washington can only be fixed by an outsider. Let’s make America great again!"
The tweet included a link to his website, which was already collecting info from future donors.
April 2, 2016 - Trump was pissed that Fox brought experts on to talk about nuclear war instead of him.
Today in 2018, Trump tweeted six times about the Mexico border and caravans. He also defended Sinclair Broadcasting, the conservative news company that made headlines for having news hosts around the country read the same script about fake news.
Today in 2020, Gov. Cuomo was worried that the government wasn't doing enough to help New York against #COVID. Trump responded by tweeting that he's sending "massive amounts of supplies, EVEN HOSPITALS," and that states have to protect themselves.
This is the first time I've done a "today in" thread of Trump tweets. Should I do this more often?
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Chaos. Distrust. Scientific disinformation. Intentionally harming our mental health. These are traits that could be attributed to Trump, the GOP, and QAnon.
They are also part of "psychopolitics," Russia's longtime strategy for weakening its enemies.
Lavrentiy Beria, 1933
For nearly 100 years, our enemies have seen our mental health as a flaw in the US, something that can be manipulated to make us unable to function as a society over time.
But now, many of our own officials know this, too.
The speech I'm sharing in this thread was read aloud in Congress by Rep. Usher Burdick in 1957. That's how long the federal government has known that mental health services are necessary to prevent us from being taken down by foreign influence. From "Chaos. Distrust. Etc."
2. On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that Trump can't enforce a nondisclosure agreement signed by a 2016 campaign staffer. Other staffers who signed the same NDA may join the lawsuit. trumpfile.org/judge-trump-ca…
3. In July 1987, a political intelligence magazine available to anyone who could afford it ($400/year) reported a story they had no idea would be relevant 30 years later:
Sometime in April
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Many known events in Trump's life don't have a specific date, so I file them randomly in the correct month or year.
Here are posts that happened "sometime in" or around April throughout the years.
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Sometime in the spring of 1986, Donald Trump grilled a Nobel Peace Prize winner about Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Why?
1998: Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko reveals that his government is owned by the mafia.
1999: Former FBI agent Bob Levinson goes on TV to warn that the Russian mafia is operating globally.
2006: Litvinenko is poisoned in London.
2007: Levinson is captured in Iran.
The mafia boss Levinson was most worried about was Putin friend Semion Mogilevich, whose crimes have been aided by two FBI directors and whose associates lived in Trump Tower. Another associate was Trump friend Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell's father. trumpfile.org/bob-levinson-t…
1. Throughout March and April last year, Trump adviser Peter Navarro pressured federal agencies to direct over $1.1 billion for drug manufacturing....... to companies that don't do that. trumpfile.org/navarro-starts…
2. In 2014, Russian intelligence hackers infiltrated federal agencies. It was considered the "worst ever" cybersecurity breach of the US government until the SolarWinds breach last year. trumpfile.org/russian-hacker…
3. In January, the Trump Administration lifted sanctions on an Israeli billionaire whose crimes devastated the economy of an African nation and kept a corrupt leader in power.