Senior Executive Editor, @Opinion. Political Analyst, @MSNBC. Priors: New York Times, Wall Street Journal. Author: “TrumpNation.”
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Oct 22 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
"The most underappreciated story this election year is happening everywhere and yet is completely overshadowed by the race for the White House." -- @MaryEllenKlas & Carolyn Silverman bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…
"No matter who wins the presidency, the nation is going in two different directions. That’s because more states have fallen under one-party control — either Republican or Democrat — than at any time in modern US history. The shifting dynamic is suppressing competition in elections, discouraging voter engagement and, in too many places, enabling the party in power to ignore perspectives outside of their base. In short, political choice is vanishing."
May 30 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Trump fought the law and the law won. Another verdict - from voters - needs to land on Election Day.
My column: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
“Congress impeached Trump twice, but Republican allies put the acquisition and retention of power ahead of civic duty and let him elude accountability. Three other criminal trials are still in motion against him, but they’ve been bogged down.”
May 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
After the 2020 presidential race, some Trump supporters spread the Big Lie that the election was stolen. They displayed upside-down American flags in protest. One home flying an inverted flag was the residence of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/…
"While the flag was up, the court was still contending with whether to hear a 2020 election case, with Justice Alito on the losing end of that decision."
Apr 23 • 28 tweets • 3 min read
At 100 Centre St awaiting the start of Trump criminal trial at 11 ET. First order of business at 9:30 tho: Judge Merchan is holding a hearing on whether Trump violated the court’s gag order with repeated statements and social media posts attacking likely witnesses and the court.
Trump will shrug off any relatively modest fines levied against him. He doesn’t care about several thousand dollars. He is likely to care about the prospect of jail time, however. Merchan runs a tight, sober-minded courtroom. We’ll see how he decides to rein in Trump.
Trump’s financial trap — he can’t come up with the cash to appeal his $454 million civil fraud judgment — may ravage his business. More directly: It intensifies his threat to national security by making him an easy mark for overseas interests. My column: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Dec 22, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Trump personally pressured two Republican members of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers in Michigan not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News. detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…
“It’s just shocking that the president of the United States was at the most minute level trying to stop the election process from happening," said one Wayne County commissioner.
New intelligence has prompted the Energy Department to conclude that an accidental laboratory leak in China most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic, though American spy agencies remain divided over the origins of the virus, American officials said. nytimes.com/2023/02/26/us/…
“In addition to the Energy Department, the F.B.I. has also concluded, with low confidence, that the virus first emerged accidentally from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese lab that worked on coronaviruses.”
“Carlson was one of several Fox News hosts who repeatedly took a different tone when speaking to viewers on air [about election fraud] than when they were talking privately. The private conversations pose a serious legal threat” to Fox. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Court filings showed that Sidney Powell forwarded an email about voter fraud to Maria Bartiromo “from the source, a woman who claimed, among other things, that ‘the Wind tells me I’m a ghost.’”
Jan 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Trump is suing journalist Bob Woodward for releasing recordings of interviews that he gave to the journalist in 2019 and 2020, claiming he never agreed to those tapes being shared with the public. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The bonkers piece of this: Trump claims that although he had given Woodward consent to record their conversations “for the sole purpose of a book,” that consent didn’t extend to packaging those recordings as an audiobook.
Jan 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Durham's probe had "some of the very same flaws — including a strained justification for opening it and its role in fueling partisan conspiracy theories that would never be charged in court — that Trump allies claim characterized the Russia investigation" nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/…
And yes: Bill Barr was just as unethical, partisan and thuggish throughout all of this as you might have suspected him to be.
Jan 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Russian oligarchs have been playing everyone for decades now: intelligence operatives and law enforcement; politicos and diplomats in Washington, London and Moscow; investors, the public -- everybody. The latest: justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/f…
“Charles McGonigal, a former high-level FBI official, and Sergey Shestakov, a Court interpreter, violated U.S. sanctions by agreeing to provide services to Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch. They both previously worked with Deripaska."
Dec 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“I think [Tesla’s] stock is only going to go down from here,” said Catherine Faddis, senior portfolio manager at Fernwood Investment Management. “Elon Musk has damaged his reputation with this Twitter business and all the negative news flow.” $TSLA bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Oct 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A Trump employee has told federal agents about moving boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago at the specific direction of the former president. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
“People familiar with the investigation said agents have gathered witness accounts indicating that, after Trump advisers received a subpoena in May for any classified documents that remained at Mar-a-Lago, Trump told people to move boxes to his residence.”
Aug 9, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Searching Mar-a-Lago for stolen federal records and breaking into Trump’s safe should just be Garland’s opening acts. He still needs to indict Trump and his advisers for trying to stage a coup. The American experiment is on the line. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…2/ Trump’s pied pipers at Fox News devoured his talking points about the FBI probe. “This is some Third World bullshit,” one of the network’s propagandists, Dan Bongino, said of the Mar-a-Lago search.
Jul 8, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Elon Musk says he’s walking away from his $44 billion Twitter bid. Expect lawsuits.
Musk's letter to Twitter: sec.gov/Archives/edgar…
Jun 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1/ Trump and I watched “Sunset Boulevard” on his jet together nearly 20 years ago. Silent film star Norma Desmond, bemoaning the arrival of the talkies and her loss of stature, rages: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…2/ “Those idiot producers. Those imbeciles! Haven’t they got any eyes? Have they forgotten what a star looks like? I’ll show them. I’ll be up there again, so help me!”
Jun 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Cassidy Hutchinson just shredded part of the script around Trump’s big lie — and he never likes anyone questioning his myths or his star power. Merrick Garland will need to make sure this horror show doesn’t have a sequel: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Sitting in his limo after his speech, Trump directed the Secret Service to take him to the Capitol. The agents refused - intruding on the theatrics Trump had so carefully engineered. “I’m the f-ing president, take me up to the Capitol now,” he insisted.
Jun 28, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
“Cass are you excited for the 6th? It’s going to be a great day,” Giuliani said to Hutchinson the evening of 1/2/21, per her testimony. She says that when she then asked Meadows about what was going to happen on Jan. 6, he replied that it could get “really, really bad.”
She also testifies that when she discussed this with Trump's DNI, John Ratcliffe, he told her he was deeply worried about Trump's plans to overturn the election results.
