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Jan 12, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Former President Trump is pushing Republicans to keep up his false election fraud claims, even as some want to move on.
In an NPR interview, Trump shifts his arguments in real time as @NPRinskeep confronts him with proof he lost. Listen now. (🧵)
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Trump, whose admin. oversaw the development of the COVID vaccines, recommended that people get vaccinated, but said he's firmly against mandating they do so.
"[T]he mandate is really hurting our country. A lot of Americans aren't standing for it, and it's hurting our country."
Jun 19, 2020 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
NPR is celebrating this Juneteenth with a new tradition — a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.
1/ An unusually early visit, a live bullet and a dead cat.
These were scare tactics used on Vanity Fair’s editor Graydon Carter, after reporter Vicky Ward investigated sex abuse allegations against financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.
2/ Ward’s reporting included accounts from two accusers and their mother — Maria, Annie and Janice Farmer — who confirmed publicly they spoke on the record.
Carter claimed the story couldn't be published legally. The sources said they were heartbroken.
Aug 13, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1/ "Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet," @USCIS head Ken Cuccinelli tells @rachelnpr.
A new Trump administration rule would penalize immigrants likely to need public benefits like nutrition or housing aid.
2/ The "public charge" rule could deny green cards and visas to immigrants who rely on welfare.
Ken Cuccinelli says American citizenship is a "privilege" not a "right" for anyone not born in America.
