You know you’re done with CNN when their response to a historic speech by the president defending democracy is to nit pick about the Marine guards in the background.
No, he didn’t “politicize” the Marines. Remember when the GOP held their convention at the WH? #BoycottCNN
Where was CNN’s outrage here?
HYPOCRITES! #BoycottCNN
“Mar-a-Lago is a counterintelligence nightmare.”
—Joel Brenner, former head of U.S. counterintelligence
Hundreds of people, including foreign nationals, could have drifted into the unsecured basement at any time
A person familiar with the club described regular movement from club facilities to the basement. “There’s a restaurant here. You see activity. A guy getting vodka to bring to the bar. A person going to get cupcakes to bring upstairs.”
Trump kept the secret files in the same storage room as the food and liquor the staff needed to access on a daily basis.
THREAD 1- When we marvel or roll our eyes at Trump supporters, we're often asking the wrong question. Instead of asking: "How can they believe this nonsense?" Better we ask: "What do they get out of being part of Trumpism that makes them so willing to suppress reasoned thought?"
2- There are a lot of answers to the question of what they get out of Trumpism. First and foremost is "the need to belong." They can dislike and defy the same people, share common grievances, do stuff TOGETHER. It's a brotherhood of purpose. It's easier to "believe" than think!
3 - We're often asked if Trumpism is a cult. The short answer: YES, it is. A cult is defined by an unusual, unwavering interest or belief in a particular personality or goal, where devotion transcends reasoned thought. And when you do that, you transcend science, math, and facts
Last year, every CIA base in the world received warning from counterintelligence officials that dozens of informants were being captured or killed.
Trump stole the identities of our agents and informants
Coincidence? Or has he been feeding Russia intelligence for years?
Karl Rove, on Fox: "It is beyond me" why Trump held on to docs "he had no legal authority to have." He went on to say: "He needs to let his lawyers handle things and stop speaking."
Trump CAN'T shut up. Asserting false narrative is pathological. It's not that he WON'T, he CAN'T!
If you're a Republican and even Karl Rove won't defend your actions, you've pretty much lost.
(1/3) FROWBACK FRIDAY: Donald Trump is a Malignant Narcissist. Incurable. Will continue to get worse. The syndrome includes: Narcissistic Personality Disorder; Sociopathy; Paranoia; Sadism. If challenged, he instinctively doubles down, even when his "facts" are demonstrably false
(2/3) A malignant narcissist is grandiose, with an inflated sense of accomplishment, an excessive need for admiration (adulation); he is boastful, hypersensitive to criticism, arrogant, and envious. He is always ready to raise hostility levels and uses deceit and manipulation.
(3/3) He transgresses social norms, lacks moral conscience, is preoccupied with perceived disloyalty, bears grudges, is quick to blame others, and is prone to conspiracy theories. He is also dehumanizing to people he perceives as weak, capable of taking glee in their misfortune.
The White House is using Twitter to expose the hypocrisy of Republican lawmakers who are denouncing student loan forgiveness when they have had their own large PPP loans forgiven.
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