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Feb 27 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
This thread attacking me is super interesting, well researched, but a few points (1) Attack hinges on my "lying" by saying @SenatorCollins was "concerned" about Trump blackmailing Ukraine/Zelensky before voting that blackmailing Ukraine/Zelensky for political favors was cool ...
@SenatorCollins So, here is the quote, where she says it politico.com/news/2020/02/0…. Super cool that person attacking me went through Collins' congressional testimony, but that is not limit of her public comments ...
(2) More important, as I clearly laid out in my original thread: @SenatorCollins has no credibility, at all, and her words are meaningless. What matters is her actions, she constantly has "concerns" about things, then votes to make them happen to US (hi Justice Kavanaugh!) ...
(3) But, what I really *love* about this thread attacking me, is that it is all built on assumptions about how people *could* interpret me, or literally direct assumptions about things I could think, then meticulously proving these things *I did not say or believe* wrong ...
What follows is great details of spending on Ukraine military aid under different presidents, w/ different coalitions of political party support, a great read. All of it culminating in Trump blocking *bipartisan* appropriated spending on military aid in order to blackmail Ukraine
I never did debate, but I assume this must be some sort of style to get people confused and twisted? Accuse them of saying something, then attacking that. Quite frankly, it is fascinating to read, and work through!
Also: imagine hinging a debate on @SenatorCollins having credibility 😁🤣

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@truescotsman7 Sorry, should have said right-wing and/or Russian trolls ... You guys are so good at catching technical details, thanks for keeping me on my toes!
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