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Trump seems more pathetic than usual today, as he bloviates his usual superlativesā"Great job" "incredible" "tremendousāas 10,524 Americans are dead.
He weirdly laughsāhe rarely even smilesāas he thx "special man" Pence for agreeing that ALL the governors are "extremely happy."
He weirdly laughsāhe rarely even smilesāas he thx "special man" Pence for agreeing that ALL the governors are "extremely happy."
The crazy thing about this sociopath is that although he was losing it a bit (having the whole stage to himself and having nothing much to say but the same old propaganda), he then uses reporters' questions as foils to prop himself back up. It's really creepy and sick imho.
Trump goes off, when asked about testing: "We're the federal govt. We're not supposed to stand on street corners and do testing. Hospitals can test too. States can test too."
Yup he's dissembling. What would happen If reporters stop directing questions to him & ask Qs of others?
Yup he's dissembling. What would happen If reporters stop directing questions to him & ask Qs of others?
š¦ @AP: Federal agencies only began placing purchase orders for the stockpile of medical equipment in mid-MARCHā2 MONTHS AFTER first alarms sounded of a #coronavirus pandemic in EARLY JANUARY.
2 months wasted. How many deaths that didnāt have to be?
apne.ws/IivILYY
2 months wasted. How many deaths that didnāt have to be?
apne.ws/IivILYY
By mid-Marchāwhen feds began placing ordersāhospitals in several states were treating 1000s of #COVID19 patients w/o adequate equipment & pleading for shipments from the Strategic Natl Stockpile; created 20+ yrs ago to bridge gaps in medical supply chains in a national emergency. 
Trumpās #coronavirus response: Too little, too late, too rotten:
āNow, three months into the crisis, that stockpile is nearly drained just as the numbers of patients needing critical care is surging. [States] report receiving broken ventilators & decade-old dry-rotted masks.ā
āNow, three months into the crisis, that stockpile is nearly drained just as the numbers of patients needing critical care is surging. [States] report receiving broken ventilators & decade-old dry-rotted masks.ā
ā ļøBeware of Russians bearing gifts. Putin's latest propaganda stunt or worse: #Russia sends "Humanitarian aid"ācomplete w/ hashtag, video & grateful Trump.
(NB 80% of Russian aid to Italy was useless: "Medical experts" were š·šŗArmy officers, so 20% sabotageš) #RussiaHelpsRussia
(NB 80% of Russian aid to Italy was useless: "Medical experts" were š·šŗArmy officers, so 20% sabotageš) #RussiaHelpsRussia
Beware Bad Samaritans: 80% of #Russiaās #coronavirus āhumanitarian aidā was ācompletely useless" to Italy. No ventilators, PPE or frontline medics. But plenty of senior biological, chemical & nuclear ARMY officersāsent from the Defense NOT Health Ministry foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/30/rusā¦
Yes, I'm cynical about Russia's propaganda stunt, having spent years watching Russia sabotage Ukraine w/ truckloads upon truckloads of Kremlin "humanitarian aid."
FACT: Russia is not a friend & won't be w/ Putin, who sabotages US by helping nightmare Trump get & GF keep power.
FACT: Russia is not a friend & won't be w/ Putin, who sabotages US by helping nightmare Trump get & GF keep power.
šNOW @realDonaldTrumpāACTIVATE Defense Production ActāDPAāNOW!
šORDER firms make med suppliesā#Masks #PPE #VentilatorsāNOW!
šMANDATE NO hoarding or price gouging NOW!
šPut trusted expert @RonaldKlain in charge to manage US #COVID19 response NOW!
Philanthropy won't cut it!
šORDER firms make med suppliesā#Masks #PPE #VentilatorsāNOW!
šMANDATE NO hoarding or price gouging NOW!
šPut trusted expert @RonaldKlain in charge to manage US #COVID19 response NOW!
Philanthropy won't cut it!
š½NY Governor Andrew Cuomo is the leader filling the chasm of incompetence under Trump.
Todayās briefing provided facts, reality, wisdom, hope.
āyoung ppl get & transfer #COVID19
ā15168 cases in NYā4812 newā13% hospitalized
ā29192 in US
āAmerica will overcome & be greater for it
Todayās briefing provided facts, reality, wisdom, hope.
āyoung ppl get & transfer #COVID19
ā15168 cases in NYā4812 newā13% hospitalized
ā29192 in US
āAmerica will overcome & be greater for it
This is Trumpās level of competence: A sharpie crossing out ācoronaā and writing in āChineseā virus.
All he knows is demagoguery & disinformation. Media must stop giving him airtimeāoxygen for both. Do it to save lives. #coronavirus #COVID19 #QuarantineTrumpsPropaganda
All he knows is demagoguery & disinformation. Media must stop giving him airtimeāoxygen for both. Do it to save lives. #coronavirus #COVID19 #QuarantineTrumpsPropaganda
šØU.S. intelligence reports from January & February issued ominous classified warning about likely #coronavirus pandemic. While Trump & lawmakers played down the threat and failed to take action that might have slowed the spread of the pathogen. washingtonpost.com/national-securā¦
āThe system was blinking redā¦Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were ā THEY JUST COULDNāT GET HIM TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.ā āUS official on intelligence reports warning of global #coronavirus pandemic ā back in JANUARYā¼ļø
š©Hogan GidleyāPOS propagandist for POS WH charlatanādoth protest too much: āPres Trump has taken historic, aggressive measuresā¦while the media & Democrats chose to only focus on the stupid politics of a sham illegitimate impeachmentā¦disgusting, despicableā¦disgracefulā šš
Trump was downright sociopathic during his CDC visit. In addition to calling the tests that donāt yet exist āperfect like the phone call & transcriptāš±, he went off on WA Gov Inslee, dealing w/ a deadly coronavirus outbreak. Trump called him a snake OMFG
š¤This why Trump called Inslee a āsnakeā?? After Parkland massacre the WA Governor told him arming classroom teachers was a stupid idea & suggested Trump lay off Twitter. Watch Trumpās body language. The foolās held that grudge for 2 yrs. (clip v @joshtpm)
@joshtpm This 2018 clip of competent Inslee confronting incompetent Trump w/ his own stupidity about public safety after the Parkland gun massacre should've been a wake-up call. One of so many damn wake-up calls ignored. Now we're literally hoping we can survive to vote out the nightmare.
š³Remember that mysterious Jan 2018 DC visit by Russiaās FSB & GRU intel chiefs w/ Pompeo? They mayāve been given FBI lab test results from Putin critic Kara-Murza blood sample from his 2nd suspected poisoning in Moscow. But FBI wonāt give it to HIMāa US resident still at risk.šØ
The possibility that Russiaās FSB & GRU chiefs were handed evidence confirming Kara-Murza poisoning is suggested by @JacksonDiehl, who rightly puts KaraMurza case squarely in the context of other Putin poisonings. Trump shouldnāt just let it happen.washingtonpost.com/opinions/globaā¦ #maddow
@JacksonDiehl Kara-Murza wonders if that mysterious DC visit of Russia's intel chiefs may be linked to FBI suppressing evidence of his poisoning. Given how Barr protects Trump who protects Putin, I wonder if FBI silence is to prevent calls for Russia sanctions?š¤ @maddow
"Vote Or Die"āBanner at Edmund Pettus Bridge annual crossing in Selma, Alabama, says it all. Suffering from pancreatic cancer, civil rights icon @repjohnlewis (whose skull was broken by white police during the 1965 march for voting rights) is there today. #NotGoingBack #VoteBlue
@repjohnlewis Rep. John Lewis will participate in todayās 55th commemoration of the #BloodySunday march across the Edmond Pettus Bridge. Voting rights activists, including Lewis, were beaten by police when they crossed the bridge to march to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. ajc.com/news/state--reā¦
@repjohnlewis š„"Vote like you've never ever voted before! Vote to redeem the soul of America"ācivil rights icon @RepJohnLewis, suffering from stage 4 cancer, doing more than his share to inspire Pettus Bridge marchers on #BloodySunday anniversary, to use our tremendous voting power or lose it
ā ļøThis bonkers DC Circuit Appeals Court opinion seems to have overruled Marbury v Madison, in refusing to adjudicate the "too political" dispute between Congress and Executive Branch over McGahn subpoena. Imperial presidency, people. It's nuts!
š±OK not overruled, but defied Marbury. Court won't enforce McGahn subpoena b/c it's political & means enforcing ALL subpoenas! Ct knows it's letting exec privilege be used to obstructā"seriously & even unlawfully hinder the Committeeās efforts to probe presidential wrongdoing"š¤Æ
š”GOP are such cons. They cheat, move goal posts, change rules, lie, play shell games. GOP literally argued Congress HAD to have courts decide on subpoenas. Now Court says, sorry, too political. Then guts Congress's power as an equal branch of govt w/ oversight authority. #Maddow
šØDid you know the FBI has had a blood sample from suspected Kremlin poisoning victim Vladimir Kara-Murza for 3 years, but now refuses to give him the toxicology results? So the Russian pro-democracy activist has just sued the bureau for their releaseĀ rferl.org/a/three-years-ā¦
š¤Here's the weird part: The FBI told GOP senators after 2ND Kara-Murza poisoning the FBI would help. That's presumably why the FBI took the blood samples his wife flew to the US from Russia. Things changed after McCain died. Did Barr step in here tooāfor Trump & Putin?? #Maddow
If the FBI finds Kara-Murza was poisoned, that could trigger new sanctions, which Trump would oppose. Bad look for "tough on Russia" Donald. Congress MUST investigate. Did Barr or another political hack interfere in this case? (ā¬ļøFYI: GRU hitmen assassinate Putin critics) #Maddow
šØJFC Information warfare on Americans by Americans. NSA O'Brien's on the Sunday news shows sowing doubt on report #Russia's helping Trumpāagain. "If the intelligence exists, I hasn't seen it." Claims it's "commonsense" Russia would NOT want Trumpāb/c he's so "tough on Russia."š¤Æ
Gaslighting clown O'Brien not only sounds like an idiot, he sounds like the idiot in Helsinki: "I highly doubt it [intelligence]. Why would Russia want him re-elected? It makes no sense." AND calls #Russia's sweeping 2016 attack "a very small amount of election interference."š¤”
Information warfare, courtesy of NSA. O'Brien denies intel Russia's helping Trump, but embellishes intel against Bernie. He said Russia wants Sanders as presidentāadding Trump rally line "honeymooned in Moscow"ābut intel says Russia's disrupting Dem primaries. Putin wants TrumpšÆ
š„#Russia is AGAIN interfering in our electionāsupporting Trumpās 2020 campaign, intelligence officials said in House briefing last week. Trump freaked & dumped DNI Maguire for unqualified FoxNews hack Grenell. Of course the cheat needs Putinās help again. nytimes.com/2020/02/20/us/ā¦
ā¼ļøGOP ally (Nunes?) told Trump an intel briefing to House Intelligence Cmte said #Russia was interfering in 2020 for Trump. Trump freaked, upset that Dems heard the truthāthat Russia's helping him cheat AGAIN!! So he named Grenell DNI to keep the truth from Congress & the public!
#Russia's already interfering for Trump, IC warns. But the guy who lied & covered up Putin's 2016 attack is shutting up the intelligence about 2020. And GOP refuse to secure our elections. This isn't about Trump's ego. This is about cheaters suppressing the truth, to cheat again.
šØ šØ>>> Trump 'offered Julian Assange a PARDON if he denied Russia link to hack' theguardian.com/media/2020/febā¦
š„Statement by #Wikileaks #Assange lawyer in UK courtroom today about Republican Dana "Rohrabacher going to see Mr Assange and sayingāon instructions from the presidentāhe was offering a pardon or some other way out, ifā¦Assangeā¦said Russia had nothing to do with the DNC leaksā
#BREAKING Softening the ground to pardon convicted felon Roger Stone? >> Trump to commute sentence of disgraced Ill Gov Rod Blagojevichāconvicted for a bribery extortion shakedown not unlike Trump's Ukraine scheme. Trump even called it just "a phonecall." chicago.suntimes.com/news/2020/2/18ā¦
Trumpāthe #FreeFelon POTUS: Blagojevich was impeached; SCOTUS upheld felony corruption convictions. But Trump likes that Blago wife linked Mueller & Comey to Blago prosecutor: āThis same cast of characters that did this to my family are out there trying to do it to the president"
All Trump's rants about "crooked cops" are now exposed as total totalitarian horseshit. He's perverting the law to help friends & hurt enemies. He just granted clemency to several felons convicted of corruption: NY police commissioner Kerik & Blagojevichāboth opposed impeachment.
š¤ What play are we watching?? AG Barr pushes back against Trumpās criticism of Justice Dept., says he wonāt be bullied, and tweets āmake it impossible for me to do my jobā washingtonpost.com/national-securā¦
āBarr Slams Trumpās Tweetsāāthe headline Barr wanted & gotā¦ to stop the bleeding at DOJāof morale, prosecutors & integrity. I believe Barr as far as I can throw him. Heās the guy who did more to undermine Mueller & the truth about this dangerous criminal president than we know.
OTOH Keep the "Barr's Public Rebuke of Trump" headlines coming! Theater or not, Trump will hate hearing its ring in his ear. And the propagandists may jump to Trump's rescue, only deepening the sting.
So please proceed. Tweet and retweet that AG Barr has rebuked Trump publicly.
So please proceed. Tweet and retweet that AG Barr has rebuked Trump publicly.
More precisely, the White House is a subsidiary of Murdoch's Fox propaganda media empire, sending Hope Hicks to hold down the fascist fort & soothe the savage beast inside. Promoted to "WH Counselor"āsame title as KellyAnne Conway. Ouch.šø
Fun fact: #HopeHicks helped Trump obstruct justice by creating a cover story for Don Jr's Trump Tower Collusion Meeting. WH lawyer Mark Corallo testified Hope even suggested destroying bombshell Goldstone email evidence admitting Russia was helping Trump.
+Fun Fact: Mark Corallo, who witnessed #HopeHicks obstruct justice of the Mueller investigation into Russia screwing our election & country, works for #Firtashāwith #FoxNews power tool couple, Toensing & DiGenova. Russian mafia state tentacles in WH & Fox.
Feds recommend 7-9 year prison sentence for #RogerStone: "Roger Stone obstructed Congress's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, lied under oath, and tampered with a witnessā¦ displayed contempt for this Court and the rule of law." cnn.com/2020/02/10/polā¦
Given Trump/GOP damaging smears of Biden, even risking impeachment, facts in #RogerStone sentencing memo is a good reminder that's *exactly* their 2016 playbook: smear Hillary Clinton as criminal, corrupt, sick etc AND use Wikileaks hacks to intimidate Dems "to drop HRC." Really.
#RogerStone sentencing memo facts upend Trump's "no collusion no obstruction" propaganda. Trump camp knew about Stone backchannel to Wikileaksālaundering Russia's criminal hacking to screw HRC & our election. The campaign was built around it, as they threw the scent off Putin.š”
Trump's post-impeachment "victory lap" was Trump unplugged. A vindictive, broken man, lashing out, needing to whip up more lies & fear to hold the line. The guy brought notes w/ Strzok & Page texts to read aloud FFS!! Like a man compelled to try to erase his guilt. Read & weepā¬ļø
Aside from lies, Trump's language was so jarring to hear in the East Room of the White House. Here's what he called Democrats, his critics & investigatorsāby name! Evil, sick, scum, corrupt, bullshit, sleazebag, liars, leakers, dirty cops, vicious, horrible. All self-owns really.
If he wasn't such an asshole, Trump would be a tragic figure. Desperate for legitimacy, he does all he knowsābrowbeat & destroy others to elevate himself. Classic insecure bully behavior, which he ramps up the more he wants to be legit. Which of course only sabotages his efforts.
Not to be conspiratorial, but this reminds me of a DDoS attack disruption by overloading digital lines: "The hotlines was flooded w/ some prank callsā¦They were not ready for the volume"ā@CNN @jeffzeleny & @jaketapper discuss #IACaucuses phone reporting problems after app failed.
@CNN @jeffzeleny @jaketapper So, I was right. MAGA trolls disrupted #IowaCaucuses election reporting by flooding the phone lines. Officials should never have publicly posted the number. Folks still don't get we're not in Kansas anymore. Trump is 150% sleazeball. (They're not called 'deplorable' for nothing!)
@CNN @jeffzeleny @jaketapper What's more predictable than Trump trolls disrupting elections, sowing doubt & discrediting Democrats?! Of COURSE they posted #IowaCaucus hotline on 4chan w/directions to "clog the lines." After 2016 we needed govt-wide response to find & close vulnerabilities. But GOP needs them
When a @BrownUniversity football coach spews disinformation about Ukraine, you know America has a major brainwashing problem. We need to call out & condemn the FoxNews propaganda media machine working with the White House to prop up Trump by spreading FALSE contentāoften Russian!
@BrownUniversity šŗšøFACTSšŗšø
ā Biden did his job. He helped Ukraine fire a corrupt prosecutor for NOT doing his.
ā Shokin FAILED to prosecute Burisma & corruption.
ā US policy helps Ukraine's democracy shed Russia's influence & corruption.
ā If nepotism were a crime, Trump family would be in jail.
ā Biden did his job. He helped Ukraine fire a corrupt prosecutor for NOT doing his.
ā Shokin FAILED to prosecute Burisma & corruption.
ā US policy helps Ukraine's democracy shed Russia's influence & corruption.
ā If nepotism were a crime, Trump family would be in jail.
@BrownUniversity Disinformation is psychological warfare. Republicans use Putin tactics to dupe voters already brainwashed by culture wars demagoguery on FoxNews & RW propaganda media. "Tribalism" normalizes the Soviet-style subversion of Trump's GOP. Folks who won't accept facts are brainwashed.
BREAKING: Lamar Alexander won't vote to hear witnesses or see documents in the Senate #ImpeachmentTrial, #Maddow reports.
@LamarAlexander's hero was Howard Baker. You sir, sadly, are no Howard Baker.
@LamarAlexander's hero was Howard Baker. You sir, sadly, are no Howard Baker.
@LamarAlexander šØRepublican @SenAlexander uses Dershowitz's šargument to justify no witnesses, acknowledging Trump did it all: "There is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does not meet the US Constitutionās high bar for an impeachable offense."
@LamarAlexander @SenAlexander There it is >> Republican Lamar Alexander is OK with a sham impeachment trial w/o witnesses b/c he prefers a lawless criminal in the White House to a Democrat. And he's a "swing" Republican! Shame on him and the rest of these fools lucky enough never to have lived under dictators
OY! Dershowitz literally starts davening (rocking in prayer) as he declares everyone who doesn't hold his fringe view is a biased political hack. And cowardly Republicans are going to cite this unhinged lunatic as the "scholarly" argument to protect Trump. #ImpeachmentTrial
Y'day Dershowitz was literally yucking it up with Trumpāpatting Pompeo's backāat the WH! Today, he declares only he can be trusted b/c others are biased!š
Toobin adds: Dersh argues "You can tell I'm right b/c no one has agreed with me in the last 150 years."š#ImpeachmentTrial
Toobin adds: Dersh argues "You can tell I'm right b/c no one has agreed with me in the last 150 years."š#ImpeachmentTrial
ICYM Dershowitz's insanely authoritarian & Orwellian gaslighting, arguing that Trump's cheating to benefit his re-electionāundermining US national security in Ukraine & Russia in the processāis actually IN the national interestā¦ b/c Trump thinks he's great. #ImpeachmentTrial
š š§Ø Boltonās Knives Out for Giuliani & Trump >> Trump Tied Ukraine Aid to Bogus Investigations, Rudy wanted to get rid of Yovanovitch for his own clients, Bolton says in explosive new book. šæ nytimes.com/2020/01/26/us/ā¦
Stunning deception & bad faith from Trump's lawyers, arguing before the Chief Justice, the Senate & the public to exclude witnesses, knowingāfor weeksāthat Bolton testimony crushes Trump defense. They're aiding obstruction & asking Senators to do the same! Bolton must testify now
Trump told Bolton he wanted to freeze aid til Ukraine investigated Biden & Crowdstrikeāboth bogus. Bolton is a direct fact witness to the QPQ. AND proves corruption & burden sharing were pretexts. WH had Bolton manuscript, so WH lawyers knowingly lied to Senate. #ImpeachmentTrial
Yikes! I'm beginning to think the people around Trump are ok w/ his mobster character & threats b/c they're pretty thuggish themselves.
Case in point: Mike Pompeo. If I were @NPRKelly, I'd feel threatened by his intimidating outburst about Ukraine, in a private State Dept room.
Case in point: Mike Pompeo. If I were @NPRKelly, I'd feel threatened by his intimidating outburst about Ukraine, in a private State Dept room.
@NPRKelly šØUS Secy of State, folks: "Pompeo shouted his displeasure at being questioned about Ukraine. He used repeated expletives, according to Kelly, and asked,
'Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?'
He then said, 'People will hear about this.'" npr.org/2020/01/24/799ā¦ #Maddow
'Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?'
He then said, 'People will hear about this.'" npr.org/2020/01/24/799ā¦ #Maddow
