Legal Affairs Editor, Condé Nast, longtime/former Research Director @GQMagazine Head of fact-checking ‘The Resistance’ #truthhurts
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Feb 13, 2024 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Here’s the abbreviated story of trump. Born to a father with money who was detained at a klan rally. Learns business from mob lawyer Roy Cohn. Got famous for penning letter saying Central Park five should be executed. They are later exonerated. Tabloid divorce, accused of rape(1)
Many more affairs and marriages and rape allegations follow. As do six bankruptcies and lots of time spent with Epstein. Donates more money to dems than republicans. Son tells crowd gets “disproportionate” funding from Russians as real estate empire wains amid bank refusals to
Aug 30, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The 2016 election was interfered with on a massive scale through social media from an aggressive combination of Putin’s GRU attack and rightwing-media manipulators like Bannon/Manafort (no one ever mentions Cambridge Analytica anymore—maybe cause it disbanded quickly after 16?)/1
The 2020 election happened after Mueller/US and other intelligence agencies and the press documented the 2016 campaign against America and democracy—which trump publicly solicited/accepted and then lied about—that helped him take power AND after his attempt to enlist Ukraine in/2
Mar 19, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
“Trump has now pulled his framed 2016 electoral-college map off the wall and is snorting meatloaf and crushed adderrall off of it while screaming at his speakerphone to Rudy, who is wearing his Mussolini uniform and a blonde wig and heels and smoking a cigar laced with asbestos.”
“Hannity has turned off the ringer on his phone and is in his garage in a pair of boxing shorts Stallone gave him at the premiere of Rocky 3 pacing and smashing Keurig coffeemakers and screaming about how that ‘fucking half-a-wasp fishboy Tucker doesn’t have to do the real work!”
Feb 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@elonmusk There is nothing anyone can say or do to confront this level of gaslighting.
Nothing. That’s the loop we’re in. That’s the gaslighting paradox of Elon pretending he’s some savior of free speech and the victim of powerful invisible forces on his own personal social media platform
@elonmusk Elon’s con is trying to get you to think he’s objective while also platforming every MAGA election-and-vaccine denier and that open/out-sourcing the accuracy/moderation of his $44 billion baby absolves him of responsibility for any bias, but Twitter is Elon. This is a closed loop
Jan 28, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The 2016 election was interfered with on a massive scale through social media from an aggressive combination of Putin’s GRU attack and rightwing-media manipulators like Bannon/Manafort (why one ever mentions Cambridge Analytica anymore—which disbanded quickly after 2016 maybe?)/1
The 2020 election happened after Mueller/US and other intelligence agencies and the press documented the 2016 campaign against America and democracy—which trump publicly solicited/accepted and then lied about—that helped him take power AND after his attempt to enlist Ukraine in/2
Nov 23, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
What if it was as simple as Russian mob money controls the Republican Party and trump and they’ve sold us out and are traitors to the United States of America and the free world?
news.yahoo.com/gop-operative-…
Oct 26, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Covid was a national security issue and Trump’s failure in 2020 was the worst national security FAIL in US history—and then he and republicans in congress/red-state governors’ offices did everything they could to perpetuate and prolong the spread and death in order to blame Biden
thehill.com/policy/healthc…
Oct 26, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Republicans pretend democrats “shut down the economy” but trump was president and Covid was first and foremost a national security issue. The damage his failure did to travel and education and the economy and culture and the mental/physical health of Americans is entirely on them
There needs to be accountability for the folks who blew the Covid response. From Trump, to pence, to Kushner on down. It was the greatest national security and public health failure in American history. And we need justice to heal and honor the lost.
Oct 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
You couldn’t leave the house. You couldn’t find toilet paper. Food was scarce. People were scared. Trump took over the airwaves every day and lied, made up stuff and blamed everyone else. No one knew what was happening. Millions were out of jobs. Thousands dying. We can’t go back
This happened nytimes.com/2020/09/30/us/…
Aug 9, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Trump is not the victim and neither are you. You’ve just bought the conspiracy you were fed by trump and rightwing propagandists designed to convince you everyone is out to get you and him. The truth is trump is a bad guy who does bad things and lies all the time about everything
And if when you read this you’re thinking I’m just making this up. Ask yourself why? And then if you decide it’s to get paid (often an accusation) I can tell you it’s not. I’d make more working for Fox etc. and it’s a cynical take on a fellow citizen to think so frankly. I’m lazy
Jun 11, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
we REALLY dont talk enough about how COMPLETELY BONKERS trump pretending he actually won the election is. and how that repeated lie, propaganda, and conspiracy theory is tantamount to nazi-level disinformation and just happens to be the basis of his campaign and national disgrace
forbes.com/sites/alisondu…
Jun 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Scenes from watching #January6thCommitteeHearings
“Trump has now pulled his framed 2016 electoral-college map off the wall and is snorting meatloaf and crushed adderrall off of it while screaming at his speakerphone to Rudy, who is wearing his Mussolini uniform and a blonde wig and heels and smoking a cigar laced with asbestos.”
Jun 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The keystone pipeline XL project wasn’t pumping oil. It wasn’t shut down like a faucet. It was shut down like a potential future superfund site. There is another southern keystone pipeline that is pumping oil right now bbc.com/news/world-us-…
Fwiw en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_…
Jun 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
It’s almost like a pandemic shutdown the world in 2020 and there are related shortages and pipeline issues and the oil industry is price gouging and the Republican Party is pretending it never happened and trump didn’t crap the bed and attack the country and now we’re digging out
“Trump has now pulled his framed 2016 electoral-college map off the wall and is snorting meatloaf and crushed adderrall off of it while screaming at his speakerphone to Rudy, who is wearing his Mussolini uniform and a blonde wig and heels and smoking a cigar laced with asbestos.”
“Hannity has turned off the ringer on his phone and is in his garage in a pair of boxing shorts Stallone gave him at the premiere of Rocky 3 pacing and smashing Keurig coffeemakers and screaming about how that ‘fucking half-a-wasp fishboy Tucker doesn’t have to do the real work!”
Mar 13, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The eight stages of Trump’s guilt: 1. “I didn’t do it” 2. “I didn’t do anything wrong” 3. “I didn’t do anything illegal” 4. “The people accusing me are guilty” 5. “The law is illegal” 6. “Prove it!” 7. “What happened didn’t happen” 8. “It’s fine, I did it and I’ll do it again...”
We’re living through an endless cycle of republican abuse of power and obstruction of justice that has seen two impeachments and an ongoing insurrection so far. There is no end, no bottom, they simply will not comply with the imperatives of government or institutions of justice
Mar 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Trump and Putin have played Biden into a righteous corner with Ukraine. Gas prices and forever war will play badly at home and US House will fall to the republicans who will use it to protect trump from consequences and hamstring Dems with specious propaganda/phony investigations
This is because right wing propaganda worked hard to blame Biden for Putin’s war and because we are tolerating an anti-party of traitors led by trump. And they have a common interest, purpose and worldview with Putin: take power through any means—and elections and truth be damned
Mar 9, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
There needs to be accountability for the folks who blew the Covid response. From Trump, to pence, to Kushner on down. It was the greatest national security and public health failure in American history. And we need justice to heal and honor the lost.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans died unnecessarily after free effective vaccines were available in red states because they were lied to by their leaders in order to become a statistic those republican politicians could use as a sick talking point in order to try to blame Biden
Mar 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Here’s the abbreviated story of trump. Born to a father with money who was detained at a klan rally. Learns business from mob lawyer Roy Cohn. Got famous for penning letter saying Central Park five should be executed. They are later exonerated. Tabloid divorce, accused of rape(1)
Many more affairs and marriages and rape allegations follow. As do six bankruptcies and lots of time spent with Epstein. Donates more money to dems than republicans. Son tells crowd gets “disproportionate” funding from Russians as real estate empire wains amid bank refusals to
Mar 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Here’s the abbreviated story of trump. Born to a father with money who was detained at a klan rally. Learns business from mob lawyer Roy Cohn. Got famous for penning letter saying Central Park five should be executed. They are later exonerated. Tabloid divorce, accused of rape 1
Many more affairs and marriages and rape allegations follow. As do six bankruptcies and lots of time spent with Epstein. Donates more money to dems than republicans. Son tells crowd gets “disproportionate” funding from Russians as real estate empire wains amid bank refusals to
Jan 24, 2022 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
@Malinowski@justinhendrix But no incitement and no COUPlusion 🙃
@Malinowski@justinhendrix it should trouble every american that the right wing and trump are in absolute sync (and have been) with putin. their talking points and anti-democratic actions and agendas are antagonistic to the rule of law and ongoing--and have led to two impeachments and an attack on congress
