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Feb 27, 2022 14 tweets 4 min read Read on X
(BOOK EXCERPT) Trump is lying about supporting sending Javelin missiles to Ukraine in 2018. I can’t abide this, as I wrote the most comprehensive account of that sale in print. I’m releasing the uncorrected proof of that part of PROOF OF CORRUPTION in this thread. Please RETWEET. Image
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PS/ This isn’t the only text on the Javelins in the 576 pages of PROOF OF CORRUPTION, but it’s the primary one.

(Note: I don’t get money from sales of the book, as my advance far exceeded earnings. I link to it here only because I want people to read it.) amazon.com/Proof-Corrupti…
PS2/ For those counting at home, the 2018 episode marks the *third* time Trump screwed with military aid to Ukraine for personal gain: 2016, 2018, and 2019.

In *each* case he fought doing *anything at all* for Ukraine—and relented only when he saw a clandestine personal benefit.
PS3/ As noted, I am releasing uncorrected proofs here—something I would never do outside the current global emergency—so that’s what the yellow flags are (i.e., copy editor’s notes).

Needless to say, the final version in the book is fully corrected and has no yellow notations(!)
PS4/ I also want to note that the Javelin scandal Trump was at the heart of stretched from 2017 to 2018—so in fact Trump was engaged in *withholding key aid* to Ukraine in *every single year* from 2016 through 2019, with him relenting in 2020 only after he was *impeached* for it.
PS5/ Never—*ever*—believe that Trump aided Ukraine in *any way* during his presidency. On those few occasions he allowed military aid to flow, it was (a) following a clandestine shakedown that benefited him personally, and (b) included strings attached intended to *please Putin*.
MORE/ In the event you missed it yesterday, I published a thread (see below) that includes much of PROOF OF CORRUPTION for free: the Introduction; half the Epilogue; the first 4 chapters; and links to key excerpts from 12 other chapters (the book has 44).
MORE/ As a reader notes, Trump also did nothing in 2018 to ensure the INF remained in place. Indeed one of the reasons Trump hired Bolton—whose view of Iraq Trump detested—was Bolton’s views on *Europe*. Here’s an excerpt from what an expert told Stanford: news.stanford.edu/2019/02/01/u-s… Image

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Dec 15
Trump posted this without knowing Nick Reiner was under arrest. He posted it assuming one of his fans murdered Rob Reiner. So if you want to know how Trump will react if fans start murdering his enemies, now you know. He'll celebrate and blame the victims. Image
Those claiming Trump knew he was commenting on a family dispute are not reading the confirmed, universally reported on post above. Trump makes very clear *his* understanding at the time he composed his post—which may have been last night—was that Rob was killed over his politics.
The post above is far more dangerous, disgusting, and diabolical than anyone is yet realizing. This isn't just Donald Trump pissing on the grave of a critic, it's him signaling that those who do violence in his name are justified because they were—definitionally—provoked into it.
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Nov 9
(🧵) THREAD: I'm an Elon Musk biographer. Musk and/or his agents have programmed his AI to make false statements about me that the AI makes no effort to substantiate or correct. So here's a thread of the substantiated claims about Musk that Grok says it can make.

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Oct 28
(🧵) So many people have Trump wrong. What he wants is not Putin's Russia or Hitler's Germany. I've studied him for a decade and can tell you that if his plans come true, America will resemble the Hermit Kingdom—North Korea—with Trump as Kim Jong-un and the rest of us in poverty.
2/ Nazism holds some above others. Trump holds himself above everyone—that's the distinction he cares about.
Russia suffers an oligarch class to exist. Trump may do so for now—but his plan is for them to be his servants.
He wants the rest of us in pain and anonymous as pond scum.
To make Trump legible to the masses, we analogize him to a kleptocrat or a fascist. And he does contain those components. But what he wants—lusts for—is to be worshipped and never denied, to shape reality to suit his whims, to not be bothered with others’ welfare and our despair.
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Sep 12
I just woke up from a long nap, can someone tell me if Trump has already apologized to the nation for falsely blaming the Kirk assassination on the left when—as with both his assassination attempts and 85% of political violence this century per the data—it was a far-right nutjob?
He is a Groyper. The Groypers are a far-right, neo-Nazi cult made up of young far-right males who thought Kirk was insufficiently far-right. thedailybeast.com/charlie-kirk-s…
Read 15 tweets
Sep 12
Bomb threats against the Maryland General Assembly. Bomb threats against the Michigan lieutenant governor and his family. Bomb threats against 5 HBCUs. Two arrests for violent assaults in Idaho.

In 24 hours.

All Democratic/left-leaning victims.

All suspected MAGA perpetrators.
And that wasn't a full list—not even close.

Bomb threat against the Rhode Island Senate President. Bomb threat against the Rhode Island Majority Leader. Bomb threat against the New Mexico Senate Majority Leader. Once again all Democratic victims, all suspected MAGA perpetrators.
There's no reason to have a conversation about political violence based in rhetoric rather than data.

I don't need to note that every bomb threat on Election Day in 2024 was a MAGA bomb threat.

I don't need to mention January 6, Paul Pelosi, or the two dead Minnesota Democrats. Image
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Sep 11
There was significantly less political violence in America before the 2016 presidential campaign. We all know why.

That doesn’t change that what happened today—in both Utah and Colorado—were tragedies.

It just underscores that revisionist history won’t solve America's problems.
Donald Trump transformed politics into an ultraviolent Thunderdome.

He did it for his own advancement, and he didn’t care what the consequences would be.

It’s *also* true that since Trump poisoned our politics there’s been violence from both Left and Right, though mostly Right.
Both Trump assassination plots I condemned immediately and unreservedly. Both would-be assassins were Republicans. The assassin who killed Minnesota’s Speaker was also Republican. So was the man who plotted to kill Pelosi. But there have been leftist assassins too. I condemn all.
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