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12 Nov, 5 tweets, 3 min read
🚨 BIG #Jan6 #coup news—from the depraved horse's mouth, as it were

Trump admits that he knew—at the time—that the angry mob he directed to go to the Capitol to fight were hunting to kill Mike Pence in the Capitol. And Trump defends it—on tape: "Well, the people were very angry"
Trump's all-consuming self-promoting depravity is shocking tho not surprising.

Also pretty shocking: Trump admits in @JonKarl audio that what he wanted Pence to do on Jan6—what he directed his angry mob to get Pence to do on 1/6—was only 50/50 legal, according to HIS own lawyers
@jonkarl Trump's "50/50" remark shows he knew his harebrained coup using Pence to stop Biden's election certification—cementing his loss—was unconstitutional. His own kraken "constitutional scholars" told him 50/50. Yet he sicced a violent mob on lawmakers anyway. And watched it on TV.
@jonkarl 50/50 are pretty good odds for a conman, right? Trump understood his harebrained coup was unconstitutional. His own "constitutional scholars" told him. And he knew his "people" were angry & hunting Pence. He knew his actions threatened his VP's life. Truly sociopathic depravity.
Trump knew his coup was unconstitutional & he knew his angry mob would be violent. But the conman saw 50/50 as good odds—worth risking Pence's life if there's a chance he isn't certified a loser. By January he'd already caused 400000 deaths from botching COVID. What's a few more?

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🤯What an insane story (and world!) >> Fugitive U.S. Capitol Rioter Who Thinks Biden Stole Presidential Election Seeks Asylum in … #Belarus

Who's gonna tell him?😅 themoscowtimes.com/2021/11/08/us-…
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🧵on Evan Neumann from upscale Marin County, CA. He's seeking asylum in Belarus & fleeing a 6-count indictment for attacking police in 1/6 Capitol siege.

Russian media's all over the MAGA line calling rioters "political prisoners". So prepare for lots more Evan on propaganda TV.
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Democrats don't have a branding problem in rural America. They have a GOP media monopoly problem. The key fact in this story: white rural voters are fueled by a conservative media bubble that speaks in apocalyptic terms, convincing ppl that America's on the brink b/c of Dems.
Democrats can have the best branding, but if voters only consume right-wing radio & TV, right-wing propagandists are defining Dems. Dems' message can't reach voters living in GOP propaganda media bubble. That's what's gotten progressively worse. We're seeing it in these numbers.
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🤨#Durham's indictment of #Danchenko on 5 counts of lying to the FBI suggests in ¶5 that both Crossfire Hurricane & the Mueller probe "relied substantially" on the Steele Dossier ("Company Report"). But really this is only about the Carter Page FISAs. Don't write like this, kids.
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🧵Nobel laureate journalist @MariaRessa explains succinctly the existential threat @Facebook poses to democracies around the world:

Facebook is the world's largest distributor of news. Yet how it distributes news is governed by algorithms that amplify anger & hate and divide us.
@mariaressa @Facebook .@MariaRessa: Research shows that lies laced with anger & hate spread faster and further than facts. By spreading lies in this way, @Facebook divides society & radicalizes users.

If you say a lie 1000 times, it becomes a fact. If we don't have facts, we can't have truth.
@mariaressa @Facebook .@MariaRessa: Research shows that lies laced with anger & hate spread faster and further than facts. By spreading lies in this way, @Facebook divides society & radicalizes users.

If you say a lie 1000 times, it becomes a fact. If we don't have facts, we can't have truth.
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Of course, Fox: 2 months after he appeared on Foxnews railing against the Russia investigation, Eastman was sitting in the Oval Office with Trump.

The Lawyer Behind the Coup Memo on How Trump Could Stay in Office Despite Losing Election (better headline)
nytimes.com/2021/10/02/us/…
😳“Soon, Mr. Eastman was meeting face to face at Mr. Trump’s urging with the attorney general, William P. Barr, and telling him how Mr. Trump could unilaterally impose limits on birthright citizenship.”

Eastman is just chock full of fringe far-right autocratic ideas, isn’t he?
Shocker: fascist AND racist. Eastman got on the Trump campaign’s radar with a birther-y article he wrote questioning @KamalaHarris’ legitimacy to be POTUS b/c her parents were immigrants. Jenna Ellis—another disbarment waiting to happen—brought it to Trump’s attention in a tweet.
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😳"Moderate" GOP Toomey just pushed Trump's fringe coup theory @CNNSotu, saying "lawless" PA Supreme Court "took powers that belong to the state legislature" & changed 2020 election rules.

Uh NO. PA SCt rejected bad-faith GOP effort to toss millions of votes to overturn DT loss.
@CNNSotu Maybe @PatToomey should go to law school after he retires from the Senate? Because he doesn't understand the branches of govt. OR he's just another GOP partisan throwing democracy under the bus.

Here's what the PA Supreme Court did—properly & thankfully npr.org/sections/biden…
@CNNSotu @PatToomey What PA GOP did in 2020 is outrageous & another prong in their long coup. GOP called 2.5 MILLION votes illegal b/c PA Supreme Court agreed w Dem lawsuit to count mail votes 3 days aft Election Day b/c of slow PO & COVID.

Making legal votes illegal is now GOP strategy everywhere. Image
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