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Aaron Fritschner Profile picture
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Jul 31 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
People should note what @rachelvscott said to Trump at the end of the exchange when he attacked her: “I repeated your statements.”

Every part of Scott’s question referred to specific public statements Donald Trump previously made.

Here’s a thread documenting each one:
1: SCOTT: "You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals, from Nikki Haley to former President Barack Obama, saying that they were born in the United States, which is not true"

NPR, 1/23/24: "Trump is spreading birtherism falsehoods again — this time about Nikki Haley" Image
[that NPR story linked here: ]

And re President Obama-- ABC: 9/16/16: "How Donald Trump Perpetuated the 'Birther' Movement for Years"
npr.org/2024/01/23/122…
abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/d…
Image
Scott: "You have told four congresswomen of color, who were American citizens, to 'go back to where they came from"

Politico, 7/14/19: "Trump tells Dem congresswomen: Go back where you came from"
politico.com/story/2019/07/…
Scott: "You have used words like 'animal' and 'rabid' to describe Black district attorneys"

Associated Press, 8/22/23: "Trump’s attacks on prosecutors echo long history of racist language"
pbs.org/newshour/amp/p…
Scott: "You've attacked Black journalists, calling them 'a loser,' saying the questions that they asked are 'stupid' and 'racist'"

Washington Post, 11/9/18: "‘What a stupid question’: Trump demeans three black female reporters in three days"
washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
Scott: "You've had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-A-Lago resort"

New York Times, 11/25/22: "Trump’s Latest Dinner Guest: Nick Fuentes, White Supremacist"
nytimes.com/2022/11/25/us/…
Trump called it "very rude" and "very nasty" but the person who unquestionably said and did each thing she listed is in fact himself, Donald Trump.
“not born in the United States” of course, that’s my transcription error made in haste. Apologies!

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Jul 12
Per the CSPAN archive, the last time Donald Trump took questions from reporters in a press conference was on February 8th. National and campaign reporters made an issue of the lack of press conferences with Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. To date, they have not done so with Trump.
If you google this you'll turn up a speech Trump (and some journalists who adopted his framing) called a "press conference" on May 31 after he was convicted, but as the expert on presidential press conferences noted at the time, he did not take questions
Just… you know… saying
Read 5 tweets
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Jul 5
Wade through endless paragraphs of vibes and you’ll find there isn’t even a thin attempt to support the “conspiracy of silence” headline with any factual reporting in the story. Compare dates and you’ll see that if there was such a conspiracy, the author was a participant in it
But of course, none of that matters right now because we don’t care about stuff like facts and sourcing! We don’t have time for things like that, this is a feeding frenzy and the sharks must have their flesh and blood
All these people shared it with comments about how great the writing was (I mean, really? Did we read the same piece? You guys must really love self indulgence! I do not) and how damning it was and like it is almost completely devoid of factual details. Do better folks!
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Jul 4
Something important, subtle, and largely un-discussed is shaping the way all of us perceive what's happening now. Shifts in editorial standards and a series of biases in reporting and especially amplification are herding the news in one direction.

I'll explain with examples– 1/
There are reasons why pretty much everything you see now describes panic, chaos, and backbiting. Reporters are looking for those things, they are getting print and headlines, and the other stuff is getting twisted, downplayed or cut. This works many ways in practice– 2/
Take the case of the secret letter and the 25 mysterious Democrats. Last night this appeared part way down a wire flash from Reuters. The source was a lone "House Democratic aide" described neither as senior nor as leadership. They didn't have the letter or know its provenance 3/ Image
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Jul 2
3 bad criticisms of Biden’s speech on the Supreme Court immunity ruling-

1) “Waited hours”
He spoke in prime time. Audience >>> impatience

2) “Words, no action”
Can’t fix SCOTUS rulings with presidential announcements

3) “Didn’t take questions”
They would’ve been insanely dumb
A frequent mistake politicians make (including in debates, where it is very harmful) is chasing what someone else said to argue with their point rather than strongly hitting your own message. You make YOUR point, not theirs. Arguing with press after a speech like that looks small
Setting aside feasibility, political will, and popularity, no proposal I’ve seen (ethics, impeachment, expansion, term limits) undoes *this* ruling. He rightly focused on how *this* ruling raises electoral stakes. A key message that’d be lost if he made headlines on court packing
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Jun 5
Stunningly bad. The purported news:

1) Biden spoke “softly” in a meeting in five months ago, sometimes referred to notes, and briefly closed his eyes
2) Republicans say he is old
3) Biden accurately described his LNG pause in ways Mike Johnson disagreed with

It’s just a hit job
You can’t make this up, literally the next phrase in the story after the quote below is “including administration officials and other Democrats who found no fault in the president’s handling of the meetings. Most of those who said Biden performed poorly were Republicans.”
Top/center on the WSJ splash page and the "news" is literally just Republicans saying "Biden's old" for the zillionth time with inexplicable anonymity.

It reads like the WSJ wanted an A1 about Biden's age, tried to get news reporting to back it up, failed, and ran it anyway Image
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May 28
Bob Good got here by defeating Denver Riggleman in a closed party convention that required in-person voting at the height of the pandemic at one location in a district that was 225 miles long. The location was Lynchburg, home to both Bob Good and his employer, Liberty University.
Riggleman lived 70 miles away in Charlottesville, the most populous area in VA-5 at the time. Just 2,517 people made the drive to vote in the convention that elected Good. Over 400,000 people voted in the general election that year in VA-5, and Good ran behind Donald Trump
Bob Good is not well-liked on Capitol Hill. He doesn't have friendships across the aisle or positive influence with GOP leadership (obviously he has influence in the form of threats). He endorsed against Trump and helped remove McCarthy, alienating huge swathes of the party.
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