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A producer on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, editor of The MaddowBlog, and author of THE IMPOSTORS https://t.co/OtPBKdAtdj
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Jun 5 11 tweets 4 min read
House Speaker Mike Johnson wants voters to believe the Republican Party is "the rule of law party." It'd be great if that were true. It's not. (1/11) msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-… A rule of law party wouldn’t nominate a felon for the nation’s highest office. (2/11)
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Oct 6, 2023 11 tweets 4 min read
Trump has been accused of disclosing national security secrets so many times that I've put together The Top 10 Instances In Which Donald Trump Allegedly Shared Sensitive Information For Reasons Unknown. (1/11) #10. In May 2017, Trump said a bit too much about nuclear submarines during a chat with then-Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. (2/11) buzzfeednews.com/article/nancyy…
May 18, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
In April 2017, the RNC introduced the members of its four-member finance team, which turned out to be a rather extraordinary quartet. Consider a short thread. The group included Michael Cohen, for example, who was at the center of multiple Trump-related scandals, and was even sentenced to prison before ultimately turning against the former president. on.msnbc.com/3Nn3n05
Nov 5, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
My tolerance for congressional drama is pretty high, but it's been an unusually exasperating day - and it didn't have to be. (1/7) The hope was that Dems might be able to pass both the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure bill (#BIF) and the Build Back Better (#BBB) package today. A triumph for everyone! But... (2/7)