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Chris Murphy 🟧 Profile picture
@ChrisMurphyCT
Apr 30 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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I went to the Senate floor to tell a story about Trump’s first 100 days - a story of daily, norm shattering corruption.

I laid out 40 different corrupt acts - each one alone could have taken down previous presidents.

1/ A 🧵 of my speech. People need to know this story.
2/ The Trump crypto coin - the biggest scandal in the history of the American presidency.
3/ Trump ends enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, so that his staff can more easily get paid on the side by foreign governments and companies seeking to bribe the Trump Administration.
4/ The most brazen abuse of prosecutorial power in a generation - the quid pro quo with Mayor Eric Adams.
5/ Trump’s new U.S. Attorney for Washington DC begins his campaign of harassment against Trump and Musk critics. DoJ is now just doing full time political enforcement for Trump.
6/ Trump starts selling meetings with him to CEOs. For $5 million.
7/ Trump turns the White House into a Tesla showroom to make clear he will boost the profit of any CEO who collaborates with him.
8/ Now, Trump thinks he can get away with ANYTHING. He starts selling access to the White House for people who buy his crypto coin.
9/ Trump launches a new private club in DC with a $500,000 buy in to allow corporations and oligarchs the chance to pay money to have access to Trump’s inner circle.
10/ These are just a small handful of the dozens of mind blowingly corrupt acts in Trump’s first 100 days. And this corruption is a big part of the reason his approval ratings are cratering. The American people refuse to let him normalize this level of graft.

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Apr 17
The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis.

The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall.

1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.
2/ First, just know that MAGA has given up on democracy. Wish it weren't true but it is. They would rather MAGA rule forever than run a fair election where a Democrat might win.

This isn't some vengeance campaign. It's a brazen effort to end democracy.
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
3/ MAGA doesn't want democracy because they want power forever. But also to get away with the thievery and corruption.

A true democracy would hold Trump accountable for the mass scale corruption - the crypto coin, the insider trading, the Musk self dealing etc. Image
Read 16 tweets
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Apr 14
Bone chilling.

A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0.

1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.
2/ Abrego Garcia came to the U.S. over 10 years ago. He married a U.S. citizen and has three U.S. citizen children.

But he put in removal proceedings because he didn't apply for asylum in time and because of alleged ties to drug gangs. He denies any gang affiliation.
3/ You can think whatever you want about the merits of him staying (his U.S. family, his steady job) or being deported (the alleged gang affiliation), there's really only one key fact:

A court ruled he CANNOT be deported to El Salvador bc he would face threat of death there.
Read 8 tweets
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Apr 11
In the wake of the stunning news that Trump is planning to take over Columbia University, I hope you’ll watch this speech I gave yesterday.

It details Trump’s plan to destroy democracy’s organs of accountability and dissent: the press, universities and lawyers.

1/ Intro
2/ The press is always the first target of an elected leader who wants to destroy dissent and stay in power forever. But Trump doesn’t just harass journalists; he tries to destroy the very idea of objective truth.
3/ The universities are next. Columbia is just the first target. Trump is trying to suppress student protest by forcing the universities to control campus speech. A key tool of autocrats.
Read 6 tweets
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Apr 3
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense.

That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
3/ You see, our founders created a President with limited and checked powers. They specifically put the power of spending and taxation in the hands of the legislature.

Why? Because they watched how kings and despots used spending and taxes to control their subjects.
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Mar 20
The fight for our democracy is not coming. It is here.

When I say that we have months, not a year, to save democracy, I'm talking about this coordinated, relentless legal assault on political dissent.

1/ Let me explain a few elements of Trump's plan:
nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/…
2/ It started with the endorsement of political violence. By pardoning the Jan 6th protesters, Trump sent a clear signal that violence on his behalf would be protected.

Of course this quells citizens' enthusiasm to join the opposition - if there is a chance they could get hurt.
3/ Trump put his political fixers in charge of DoJ to hunt his political opposition. For instance, the D.C. U.S. Attorney is trolling critics online threatening arrest and pledging to arrest anyone who "interferes" (not a crime btw) with DOGE. newrepublic.com/post/191087/us…
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Mar 15
Another unconstitutional power grab by Trump. And in invoking "wartime authority", we get closer to the collapse of our democracy.

1/ A short 🧵on why this declaration should put us high alert, and cause our opposition tactics to stop being bound by dead "norms".
2/ The 1798 Alien Enemies Act allows the President to detain and remove - without due process - all non citizens (student, tourists, long term green card holders, spouses of citizens).

It's to be used against citizens of a nation that's at war with the U.S.. A "wartime" power.
3/ That's why it's only been invoked 3 times:

- The War of 1812
- World War One
- World War Two

It's never been used during peacetime and is not allowed to be used during peacetime.
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