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S.V. Dáte
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White House correspondent at HuffPost. Author of THE USEFUL IDIOT -- Now fully updated post-January 6. https://t.co/88HnBbA8a7
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Oct 26 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
NEW -- Trump went to Valdosta days after Helene hit and claimed he had brought truckloads of food, water and gasoline.

Turns out the only thing he brought that day was traffic from his motorcade, which pulled dozens of cops away from storm cleanup.
huffpost.com/entry/donald-t… “Today I’ve come to Valdosta with large semi-trucks, many of them filled with relief aid, and a tanker truck filled up with gasoline," the coup-attempting former president said, wearing his campaign hat in front of a wrecked furniture store.
Aug 14 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
The coup-attempting criminal former president is laser focused on the economy, as his campaign aides want, as he talked about Gov. Tim Walz and tampons in boys bathrooms. Image And then claims that VP Harris "crackled" while inflation increased.

(Ed note: He's talking about her laugh, so maybe he meant "cackle.")
Aug 8 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
If this actually is a news conference, in that he takes questions, rather than just ramble on endlessly and leave, here are some the reporters down there should be asking: Image 1) Given that your campaign is attacking Gov. Walz's military record, can you explain your choice to fake bone spurs to avoid the Vietnam War?

1a) Was it appropriate to compare your having unprotected sex with random women to what US soldiers were facing overseas?
May 18 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
The coup-attempting former president, who is also a court-adjudicated sexual abuser*, did not get two minutes into his speech before he introduced a new lie: That he had won Minnesota in 2020.

(Fact check: Uh, yeah. No.)

*Rape, in the common parlance, per a federal judge. Image Trump is claiming that inflation was high only because of higher oil costs, which he blamed on Biden.

No.

Do people really believe this?
May 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
If Trump is elected, why do people believe he will ever leave?

This time he goes in having learned his lessons from Jan 6 — that he needs to fill the top military and nat sec positions with people personally loyal to him from the start, not just in the final weeks. Reminder that if Trump wins, there is a 99 pct chance he will have a GOP run Senate.

Which will confirm whomever he wants for whatever job he wants. Count on it.
May 11 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
NEW -- Biden's running against a guy who tried to end our democracy last time and talks about ruling as an autocrat next time, so why isn't that the message all day, every day?

Well ... maybe because a scary number of Americans would be okay with that?

huffpost.com/entry/biden-tr… Per Pew:

26% of Americans believe that an autocracy is a “very good” or “somewhat good” form of government, while another 28% think it’s only “somewhat bad.”
15% surveyed said they think military rule would be good, and another 23% believe it would be only “somewhat bad.”
Jan 7 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
COLLEAGUES -- If you were covering county government, and a deputy you had personally witnessed shoot an unarmed suspect in the back were running for sheriff, you'd mention that killing in every story, correct? If you were covering state government, and someone who had been caught embezzling were running for treasurer, surely that background would make it into every story, yes?
Dec 30, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
If America allows a person who attempted a violent coup on the ballot in contravention of the U.S. Constitution mainly because he and his followers are threatening to burn it all down, it seems like we’ve already given up on the rule of law and democracy. This argument can be applied to pretty much every measure of accountability against Trump.

Can’t impeach him. His followers won’t accept it.

Can’t serve a search warrant. His followers won’t accept it.

Can’t prosecute him. His followers won’t accept it.
Oct 28, 2023 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
A candidates forum at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas.

Trump to speak around noon PDT.

1) will he praise Hezbollah here?
2) will he disparage Netanyahu?
3) will he pronounce Hamas as Hamas? Or like the chickpea/olive oil spread? Image RJC chair Norm Coleman kicks it off, says any Republican appearing on stage will be better than Joe Biden.

Also says the Democratic House members who call themselves “The Squad” need a new name.

“I call them the Hamas Caucus.”
Aug 13, 2023 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
NEW -- Donald Trump attempted a coup the first time he was president because he couldn't handle the humiliation of losing.

Why does anything think he will willingly leave the White House, ever, if he is elected a second time?

huffpost.com/entry/trump-se… People who study autocrats and coups for a living worry that he won't. If Americans put him in the Oval Office, he will find a way to remain there for life.
Aug 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Since it’s now fashionable to write about Devon Archer and Biden’s corruption….

Is Biden operating a hotel/bar five blocks from the White House where he accepts tens of thousands of dollars from foreign and domestic lobbyists currying favor with his administration?

No? Does Biden own country clubs where foreign nationals are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in initiation fees to join?

No?
Jun 15, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
NEW -- Lost in all the noise Donald Trump generates with WITCH HUNT and THUG and WEAPONIZATION is this simple fact:

His recklessness could have already put the lives of both American intel officers and their foreign sources in danger.

w/ @jbendery

huffpost.com/entry/donald-t… So much of the discussion of all this, going back to the FBI search, has used phrases like "national security" about things like nuclear capabilities and war plans and so on.

Missing has been the source of that information, particularly from abroad.
Jun 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Trump was barely six feet from Jack Smith, but didn’t call him a thug or a maniac or deranged to his face.

Weird. Image Trump in Bedminster now again calling Smith all the names he was too afraid to call him to his face.
Jun 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
NEW -- Chris Christie is going after Trump hammer and tong on the secret documents indictment on CNN's town hall.

huffpost.com/entry/chris-ch… “He is voluntarily putting our country through this."

“This is vanity run amok. Ego run amok. ... Everyone is blaming the prosecutors. He did this.”
Jun 10, 2023 • 16 tweets • 2 min read
Trump now at the North Carolina GOP convention, where he’s giving (so far) the same speech this afternoon in Georgia. Image Right at the point where he starts complaining about getting indicted, he has veered off script to attack Ron DeSantis for a while.

"I got this guy in, so you think he'd have some loyalty."
Jun 10, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
NEW — Trump in Georgia, hinting at violence:

“Our people are angry.”

“And sometimes you need strength. You have to have strength, more than just normal strength. And we have to get a change because we’re not going to have a country left.”

huffpost.com/entry/trump-ja… Trump on Friday told his millions of followers on his social media site: “SEE YOU IN MIAMI ON TUESDAY!!!” ― reminiscent of his Dec. 19, 2020, Twitter post urging his followers to converge on Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6: “Be there, will be wild!”
May 10, 2023 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
In case CNN is looking for questions to ask the coup-attempting former president tonight, here are a few they can use: After your own campaign’s top staff and your own White House staff told you that you had lost the 2020 election, why did you continue to lie and claim that it was “stolen?”
May 7, 2023 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
NEW -- AND IMPORTANT -- If a serial killer or a child molester ran for president, we'd expect to see that fact in every news story about him, right?

So why do we almost never read of Trump's attempted coup in stories about *his* presidential campaign?

huffpost.com/entry/donald-t… Donald Trump is the only president who used the threat of violence and then actual violence in an attempt to remain in power — the very definition of a coup.
May 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Reminder that the number one of cause of death for children today is guns.

Congrats, America. Well done. The gun fetishists get their way because they are single issue and vote in every single Republican primary to make sure that the winner will be afraid to do anything about guns.
May 6, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Trimming your sails means adjusting the sheets to keep air flowing past them without turbulence.

What he meant to say was “shorten sail.” Btw the Navy uses an excellent sloop to train its midshipmen. The McCurdy & Rhodes Navy 44.

Don’t know if they offer refresher courses.
Apr 24, 2023 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
I usually ignore taunts and insults, but as this is coming from someone who could very well have an office in the West Wing two years from now, I decided it’s worth responding to.
Let me begin with a couple of anecdotes from my two decades as a reporter in Florida. In 2002, Charlie Crist was the sitting education commissioner and running for attorney general. I came to notice that he had official travel all over the state, for what seemed to be pretty minor things. Visits with school principals, delivering state grants personally, so on.