@williegarson was not just a great actor and person, but a patriot. He was one of our celeb readers for "America Reads The Mueller Report" we aired on local TV in key battleground states to reach persuadable voters. He joined @morgfair@MrJonCryer@Montel_Williams@TomArnold 1/6
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2016: Manafort gives Kiliminik internal campaign polling data to lay out where to prepare to "move" on election night.
ABC's Chris Vlasto gives Trump camp secret media consortium exit polling data at 5:01 election night showing he'd lost (and in which states) while polls were still open. Pretty sure Team Trump (Manafort) got it to Team Putin.
77k votes perfectly spread across 3 battleground states then showed up, giving Trump the Electoral College win.
Whistleblower once testified that Karl Rove told her if a state is within 3% on election night, you can cheat undetected. It's why Trump freaked out about mail-in voting in 2020 (due to pandemic) and had Louis Dejoy rip mailboxes out of the ground in heavily Dem neighborhoods, then dismantle $2 million mail sorting machines just before the election. Panic. Harder to cheat with mailed paper ballots. And it's why Trump lost.
As outlined in The Mueller Report, Manfort gave internal Trump campaign polling data to Kiliminik, who then shared it with Russia/Putin. Russia knew where Trump might need "help" on election night. apnews.com/article/donald…
ABC News' Chris Vlasto (in line to be Trump's White House Communications Director), gave secret exit polling data to Trump deputy campaign manager, Dave Bossie, on election night at 5:01 showing he'd lost -- and where. So "if" Putin was generally set up to "act" based on what Manafort have Kilimnik, this info would enable them to be surgical in battleground states on eelction night while polls were still open. rawstory.com/2017/12/top-pr…
An olf friend of mine in politics told me of a night decades ago when Sen. Biden was in New Orleans visiting (pre-Jill, he was dating a women from there) and they were at someone's home for a dinner party. They talked politics well into the night -- policy, foreign policy, 1/5
foreign policy, state and local politics, federal budget -- literally everything you could think of. Some of the men went and even sat napping on sofas in this large home as Biden and the serious folk got deeper into it.2/5
The sun starts coming up, but the conversation was still going on -- serious smart people who loved thier country, and were steeped in the details of solving our problems, setting priorities, even if they disagreed on how to do both. 3/5
In 2008 I was a GOP strategist and pundit on TV several times a week. Things were different then. GOP and Dems were not "enemies". On inauguration day I did some TV. That night I was at an inauguration party at a neighbor's home to celebrate the first Black President -- Obama 1/6
I was one of only 2 or 3 white people. The older Black people struggled to walk to the Capitol that day but would not have missed it for the world. It was so deeply moving for them. Some of them went to bed early that night. The youngers were heading out to late parties. 2/6
The rest of us partied at the house. I was struck at the difference between the oldsters who had fought the civil rights fight, and how deeply meaningful this was, and the youngsters who understood, but who had it better than their grandparents because of how they had fought.3/6
h/t Fred M. Baer
History You Should Know (must read thread)
It was late at night in the Jersey City railroad station in 1864, and Robert Todd Lincoln, the president’s son, was in a crowd of people trying to buy tickets for a berth in a sleeping car. 1/8
Robert, a student at Harvard Law School at the time, was jostled against the side of the railroad car and when the train began to move, he was pulled off his feet and over a crevice that would drop him onto the tracks. 2/8
Suddenly someone in the crowd grabbed Robert by the collar and pulled him to safety. When Robert composed himself and turned to thank the man who had saved him, he saw that it was Edwin Booth.
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Real TV and movie stars are a dying breed (literally). With so many viewing options to opt in or out, the days of "everyone" knowing "all" the actors/stars are pretty much are gone. If you don't get Netflix, you don't know who half the winners are at the awards shows. 1/5
Same with every subscriber TV channel. In fact, the Netflix's, Starz, HBOMax, etc all need to plug in at least one or two "stars" from the era of 3 TV networks and movie theaters to pull it together. Anchor it. To pull us in w/ familiar faces from TV/movie era we grew up on.2/5
Because many Americans have never heard of many of the actors on top shows winning Golden Globes. The balkanization of TV entertainment was inevitable, but presents a problem for the industry. I expect they'll cross-pollenize" across services or find a way thru social media.3/5