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24 Sep, 8 tweets, 4 min read
NEW -- Donald Trump tried to overthrow American democracy.

But 112 businesses and nearly three dozen people have taken $21 million from him anyway -- AFTER Jan. 6 -- to help him spread his lies about the election.

huffpost.com/entry/trump-mo…
Here are the individuals:
And here are the businesses (True, some, like Uber drivers or online hotel sites, would have no way of knowing their customer was actively undermining our democracy. But most of them knew exactly who they were helping and did it anyway.):
Here are the links to the lists in the story (from FEC data for the time period Jan. 7 - June 30):

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HuffPost reached out to dozens of those on these lists to ask why they were taking Trump's money despite what he did and what he continues to do to undermine democracy.

Not one responded on the record -- with a single exception: Trump's new spokesperson, Liz Harrington.
AEI's Norm Ornstein, who has been warning of the authoritarian drift in the GOP for years, says this about those taking Trump's money now:

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25 Sep
CONTEXT ALERT: With all the information that is already out there, it should be clear to everyone that if Donald Trump had had his way, he'd be sitting in the White House right now, the US military having enforced his decision to seize voting machines ...
and hold new elections in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan in, oh, perhaps a couple of weeks.

It was the refusal of military leaders to go along with his autocratic tendencies that safeguarded our democracy, and the reason why he was left with the absurd...
scheme to use his mob to intimidate Vice President Mike Pence into stealing the election for him on Jan. 6.

Trump is staging a rally tomorrow, and will get lots of coverage, and almost none of it will mention any of the above.

So, once again, here is that missing background:
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15 Sep
NEW -- Republicans want to talk about Gen. Milley and what he did at the end of the Trump presidency -- and the Biden White House is absolutely thrilled to have that conversation.

huffpost.com/entry/joe-bide…
Biden and his staff have been facing tough questions about his chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, a Kabul drone strike that appears to have killed seven children and zero terrorists, a slowdown in the economic recovery and falling approval numbers.
Republican attacks on Milley ― led by Trump himself ― have allowed Biden, at least temporarily, to change the subject to the former president’s attempt to overthrow American democracy following his failure to win reelection.
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15 Sep
NEW -- Republican officer holders are now embracing a vocal minority whose macabre willingness to get sick and even die rather than get vaccinated also happens to be hurting the economy and Biden.

One former top GOP strategist says it's no coincidence.

huffpost.com/entry/republic…
Exhibit A? Ron DeSantis, who aggressively pushed Florida’s elderly population to get vaccinated late last year and early this year, in recent months has instead been emphasizing monoclonal antibodies for those who contract the disease.
At one such event Monday, DeSantis stood beside a Gainesville utility employee as he falsely claimed from behind a lectern bearing Florida’s official seal that the vaccines alter your RNA and that people should not get them.
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10 Sep
NEW -- Florida kids have to get 16 -- count 'em -- 16 separate shots to go school. Dress codes tell them what they can and can't wear, down to the the width of tank top straps.

But COVID shot mandates? Masks?

Absolutely not, says Ron DeSantis.

huffpost.com/entry/ron-desa…
Here are the diseases you need shots for to attend a public OR private school in Florida (most require multiple boosters):

diphtheria
tetanus
acellular pertussis
polio
measles
mumps
rubella
chicken pox
hepatitis B
For pre-schoolers? Public and private?

You also need these:

haemophilus influenzae type b
pneumococcal conjugate
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9 Sep
Donald Trump discussed using the military to remain in power despite losing his election.

Is America okay that?

The political press sure seems to be.

So, yet again, some context to remember whenever you see a story about the most recent former president and Jan. 6:
No, military leaders were not going to do this, as they had already made clear months earlier.

Still, every single living former defense secretary felt compelled to sign onto a letter warning active military about the consequences for getting involved in an election dispute.
Not in 232 years of elections had a losing president tried to do this. Until Trump.

So without any hope of military backing, he incited his mob instead, and kept riling them up, even after they had breached the Capitol and were threatening his vice president's life.
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9 Sep
Biden saying he understood why Americans are frustrated with the 80 million who still are not vaccinated.

Also says elected officials are actively undermining efforts to get people vaccinated.
Points out that even Fox News is already requiring vaccinations of their employees.
“Our patience is wearing thin.”
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