TRUMP JUSTICE STANDARD
*Guilty Until Proven Innocent*
(Gillum, Clinton, Obama, Feinstein, FBI Officials)
*Innocent Until Proven Guilty*
(Moore, Saudi killers, Collins, Hunter)
*Innocent When Proven Guilty*
(Putin, Manafort, Arpaio)
*Guilty When Proven Innocent*
(Central Park 5)— Rob Goblin (@RobGeorge) October 29, 2018
Month: October 2018
Trump lies about Gillum
He calls him a thief with no basis for the attack. How about all the money Trump stole from people like the Trump U folks? Trump is a liar and bigot. Sad!
Trump repeatedly calls Gillum, who hasn't been charged with anything, a "thief." Says he should drop out of the race.
Apparently the presumption of innocence from Kavanaugh days is over. pic.twitter.com/JF41aYJteP
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) October 30, 2018
>@AprilDRyan brings desperately needed questions to WH press briefings. She just asked @presssec about Trump's calling Gillum a "thief" and also about voting rights in North Dakota.
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) October 29, 2018
Well, that didn’t take long. Trump is now calling Andrew Gillum a “stone cold thief” who would turn Florida into Venezuela. No dog whistles there, no sir President “Nationalist.” pic.twitter.com/yayqA0IQoe
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) October 30, 2018
Andrew Gillum on Trump “thief” attack: “never wrestle with a pig” https://t.co/mhmq3wSkQI
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 30, 2018
Trump has never called a candidate a “thief” before. Question for @PressSec: what, precisely, does the president believe that Florida gubernatorial candidate @AndrewGillum stole? His nomination? His station in life? His education? His lead in the polls? https://t.co/IDEbyrJ6SV
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) October 29, 2018
Anti-Semitism on Instragram
This is terrible.
A search on Instagram produced a torrent of anti-Semitic images and videos uploaded in the wake of Saturday’s shooting. A search for the word “Jews” displayed 11,696 posts with the hashtag “#jewsdid911.” https://t.co/eFIhqZ89d0
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 30, 2018
The Pittsburgh shooter's anti-semitic posts looked familiar to Jewish Instagrammers, reports @taylorlorenz https://t.co/HVFcVwbbwK
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) October 30, 2018
Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh
Damned if he did, damned if he didn’t. He’s a hypocrite if he goes, but we would criticize him if he didn’t.
I think Trump should not go to Pittsburgh now since the mayor said it would be better to wait. I also agree with the people who think he should do more to renounce white supremacism and tone down his rhetoric first.
Notice that no government leaders would to go with him and that he lied to them.
Further: @realDonaldTrump WH called the top #PA and #Pittsburgh officials one at a time and lied to each that the others had agreed. WH did the same to #Schumer and #Pelosi. No one bit. WH also trying to push #Trump into hospital rooms of victims but most want no part of him.
— Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) October 30, 2018
Congressional leaders decline to join Trump in visit to Pittsburgh after massacre Via @seungminkim and @jdawsey1 https://t.co/xJwMzFHvg6
— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) October 30, 2018
Good Lord. https://t.co/fUmooQUTxL
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) October 30, 2018
New: Pittsburgh Mayor, Pittsburgh County Exec, Senate Majority Leader McConnell, House Speaker Ryan, Senate Minority Schumer, and House Minority Leader Pelosi all tell CNN they have declined WH invite to join Pres Trump in Pittsburgh today.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 30, 2018
2018 elections update – 10/30/18
Some defense here and there but overall this is a pretty ambitious list.
7 Likely R districts
6 Lean R
11 Toss-up
3 Lean D
7 Likely D
(classifications per 538 "Deluxe" forecast) https://t.co/Ng1V3kiXHD— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 30, 2018
Former Virginia Gov. McAuliffe: "The big news is we're gonna win the house, but we're gonna pick up a lot of governorships and will set the future of this party very strongly." https://t.co/CGvAhI4gNX
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 30, 2018
Democrats have about a 6 in 7 chance of winning control of the House, while Republicans have a 1 in 7 chance of keeping control of the House. https://t.co/lyNh30TEIw pic.twitter.com/OIEC1OrreA
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) October 30, 2018
Some young people aren’t voting because the process seems confusing and pointless. They’re not entirely wrong: https://t.co/V7PjIiNvwC pic.twitter.com/d59WceCXge
— Slate (@Slate) October 30, 2018
TENNESSEE
U.S. Senate:
Marsha Blackburn (R) 51%
Phil Bredesen (D) 46%
(NBC News/Marist Poll, LV, 10/23-27/18)— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) October 30, 2018
In Minnesota, two Senate candidates try to avoid being dragged down by the men of their party https://t.co/YDphdrhO5Z
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) October 30, 2018
FLORIDA
Question #4: To restore voting rights of Floridians with felony convictions after they complete all terms of their sentence including parole or probation. Would not apply to those convicted of murder or sexual offenses.
Support 70%
Oppose 21%
(Suffolk U/USAT, LV 10/25-28)— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) October 30, 2018
BREAKING: @Purina ends financial support for Steve King https://t.co/GTj97X5NmW
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 30, 2018
I wish I had this type of money to spend on a race where I had at best a 1/10 shot of winning. https://t.co/wq4FBrx60b
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) October 30, 2018
FLORIDA
Question #9 would ban offshore oil and gas drilling and ban vaping in enclosed indoor workplaces …
Support 46%
Oppose 35%
(Suffolk U./USA Today Network, LV, 10/25-28/18)— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) October 30, 2018
I wish I had this type of money to spend on a race where I had at best a 1/10 shot of winning. https://t.co/wq4FBrx60b
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) October 30, 2018
Analysis: A good sign Republicans have bailed on the House? Look where Trump’s going. https://t.co/UHQ9mUWc5K
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 30, 2018
Arizona Senate race: Democrat Kyrsten Sinema leads Republican Martha McSally, fueled by support from Latinos, independents and women (@mmurraypolitics) details: https://t.co/bvm7mqaQ56 pic.twitter.com/at9FUVR9df
— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) October 30, 2018
The only 2 in right races are MacArthur and Rohrabacher, who both spent their big bucks with Trump back in 2017. https://t.co/wDRUPWX4Vv
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 30, 2018
New at @CookPolitical: #IA04 Rep. Steve King (R) moves from Likely R to Lean R. This is the first serious challenge he's faced in his R+11 CD since '12, except this time he's almost broke & not running a real campaign.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) October 30, 2018
Probably of GOP maintaining House control:
Ladbrokes: 40%
Paddy power: 35%
Betfair: 37%
PredictIt: 37%
Iowa EM: 26%
Predictwise: 37%538: 14%
— Adrian Gray (@adrian_gray) October 30, 2018
Just about everything in this tweet is wrong. Riggleman is not an incumbent, so he's not a congressman. He didn't help on tax cuts or the military or with vets (because he isn't in Congress), and that's also not his Twitter account pic.twitter.com/7GIRtyL6Is
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) October 30, 2018
ARIZONA
The job Donald Trump is doing as president:
Approve 44%
Disapprove 49%
(NBC News/Marist Poll, LV, 10/23-27/18)— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) October 30, 2018
The Midwest is, by some measures, the region where Democrats are likely to make their biggest gains this November. https://t.co/bDCAMaf3ws pic.twitter.com/qVKHH9IbfR
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) October 30, 2018
Trump whines that the media didn’t implicate Obama in the Charleston church murders
This is nonsense. I think it’s clear that Trump strongly influenced the alleged bomber. Without Trump’s frequent criticism of Maxine Waters, do you think a guy in Florida would even know the name of a House member in California. I think Fox and Trump both influence the Pittsburgh killer. We don’t know the motives of the Kentucky killer yet.
How on earth does Trump think Obama should be blamed for an attack by a white supremacist on black people? Sad!
In his first television interview since a mail bomb scare and a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, Trump said that journalists did not seek to implicate Obama in a racially motivated shooting at an African-American church in Charleston in 2015 https://t.co/CspSDuudwU
— POLITICO (@politico) October 30, 2018
The context for this was Trump's unhappiness with the Washington Post front page that mentioned him in connection with the attacks this month. Trump said this was unfair, that they didn't do this for Obama and Charleston. https://t.co/PMmLxidl8B
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 30, 2018
Genuinely puzzled— what Obama rhetoric would have inspired the Charleston killer? (Trump just complained Obama didn’t get blamed for that)
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) October 30, 2018
Haley rips critics blaming Trump for synagogue shooting: “We didn’t once blame Obama” for Charleston church shooting https://t.co/DRqroJxObX pic.twitter.com/XGzM2MajFH
— The Hill (@thehill) October 30, 2018
Amb Haley, I genuinely respect you but this is just false. Obama didn’t go rally after Charleston or send shitty sports tweets. He called community leaders. I was there for days like this. Even if you can’t change what happened, you can choose how you respond. Empathy not chaos.
— alyssa “please vote” mastromonaco (@AlyssaMastro44) October 30, 2018
I thought President Obama after Charleston shooting was extraordinary. https://t.co/98mpMJlxGG
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) October 29, 2018
Donald Trump once again links Bernie Sanders to the Congressional baseball practice shooting, but throws in a new twist: President Obama unfairly evaded blame for the shooting of Black Americans inside a church in Charleston. pic.twitter.com/ZCe5gbKion
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 30, 2018
Trump and others wonder why Bernie Sanders wasn’t blamed for the shootings of Congressional Republicans. Sanders did not criticize specific people like Trump does. It’s not the same thing.
Longer quote about Obama: "Bernie Sanders had a fan who shot a very good friend of ours, Steve Scalise, and other people. He was a total maniac. Nobody puts his name in the headline…*I* was in the headline…they didn't do that with President Obama with the church."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 30, 2018
Trump wants to end birthright citizenship by executive order
This won’t happen – it’s just a way to get his bigots riled up for the midterms.
The founders set up the constitution so the president can’t do what he’s proposing to do with birthright citizenship. It’s a stunt, like sending the troops to a border for a non-existent invasion.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 30, 2018
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday broke with Donald Trump and contested his claims that he could circumvent the 14th Amendment https://t.co/gGFGHXuclg
— POLITICO (@politico) October 30, 2018
House Speaker Paul Ryan rejects President Trump’s idea of ending birthright citizenship by executive order – The Washington Post https://t.co/bOPLUhENyw
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 30, 2018
Clarification: Legal scholars broadly agree the 14th Amendment's language covers children of undocumented immigrants, and the Supreme Court addressed it in a footnote to a 1982 casehttps://t.co/2DhM3q1Nrp
— POLITICO (@politico) October 30, 2018
GOP lobbyist just told me this birthright issue was raised by Trump so Republicans in leadership and in tough districts can attack him. It makes a lot of sense. The GOP can fight the message that they’re all Trump pawns. A message that has resonated nationwide, because it’s true.
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) October 30, 2018
Trump says no other country has birthright citizenship. He’s wrong. https://t.co/8wPZhJAgsD
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 30, 2018
Can Donald Trump end birthright citizenship with an executive order? Probably not https://t.co/3ZelOoXppU pic.twitter.com/tmwSzbef5r
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) October 30, 2018
Opinion | Steve Vladeck: No, Trump can't reverse birthright citizenship. Here's why. https://t.co/8HBSz2Kje3
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 30, 2018
"With this court, you never know." https://t.co/Hq2GQgJURh
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) October 30, 2018
May 5, 2016 https://t.co/uYRDqkeumN
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) October 30, 2018
Trump wants to end birthright citizenship. A judge he appointed says he can’t. https://t.co/v1SQ1cJnVp
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 30, 2018
Another reason why the Trump's attack on birthright citizenship is not just a "distraction"…
As @JamilSmith tweeted, the 14th Amendment gave citizenship to former slaves in 1868. This is not just an immigration issue, its about the historical place of black people in the U.S.
— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) October 30, 2018
Russians Flock to Trump Properties to Give Birth to U.S. Citizens
Scheme to discredit Mueller
One of rare times the special counsel’s office has given a public statement at length https://t.co/7GO9WcW3pk
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 30, 2018
A woman who worked as a paralegal with Robert Mueller in the 1970s said someone offered to pay her a significant amount of money if she accused Mueller of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment https://t.co/relG5Ccm4k
— POLITICO (@politico) October 30, 2018
NEW: The Special Counsel's office was made aware of a scheme to pay off women to make up sexual harassment claims against Mueller. It has referred the scheme to the FBI. STORY: https://t.co/LXVGfIgZaj
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) October 30, 2018
New from me + @brandyzadrozny + @tom_winter:
A company called “Surefire Intelligence” has ties to this Mueller smear.
Jacob Wohl denied having ties to Surefire.
Surefire’s official phone number redirects to a voicemail box registered to Jacob's mom.https://t.co/aVPzVDjGR4
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 30, 2018
So when I suggested that Trump was vapor-waring the 14th amendment to distract from healthcare/stock market declines/gun massacre … I overlooked that Trump might be distracting from key supporters being investigated for major crimes against the Mueller investigation
— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 30, 2018
This will implode. I can already hear this hitjob lobbyist’s attorney standing on the front steps of the courthouse insisting his client will be cleared of all charges…. https://t.co/CLuhndL9AF
— J🎃sh Campbell (@joshscampbell) October 30, 2018
They did. https://t.co/7y3YvssaJK
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) October 31, 2018
Climate change roundup 10/29/18
This is a lot of bad news here. Trump’s ignorance will cause major damage to our country.
The only good news:
Maybe more people finally understand that climate change is real when it affects them.
Climate change is driving animals farther up mountains. The ones whose homes don't stretch as high will eventually be "shit out of luck." A sobering report from @edyong209 https://t.co/373yuRcYvT
— Rachel Gutman (@rachgutman) October 29, 2018
The internet is NOT prepared for what's to come https://t.co/QnwMhNoIag pic.twitter.com/sEubudBRQm
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) October 28, 2018
World hunger has risen for three straight years, and climate change is a cause https://t.co/L5uNwm1Cmv
— Salon (@Salon) October 28, 2018
This essential @fivefifths piece draws a straight line between 3 of the most pressing concerns of our time: climate change, social inequality, and the threat of autocracy. https://t.co/hksrAXrCBa
— Ed Yong (@edyong209) October 24, 2018
Two farmers in Georgia, husband and wife, face a cotton crop ruined by Hurricane Michael, the third year of bad storms. Climate change, says the wife. No it wasn't, says the husband. At that point, the wife just shrugs: "House divided," she says. https://t.co/5bYRg5ewhm
— Kim Murphy (@kimmurphy) October 19, 2018
Yet more evidence that we need to act now on climate change. The only rational response is massive, global action. There are so many critical issues today, but this is the big one. https://t.co/11mUWfhwGg
— Daniel Ornstein (@danielornstein) October 20, 2018
“I always thought climate change was a bunch of nonsense, but now I really do think it is happening,” said White, a 65-year-old Trump supporter, as she and her young grandson watched workers haul away downed trees and other debris lining the streets https://t.co/xYxSIbkvpj
— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) October 18, 2018
If true, it's sad this is what it takes for belief change to occur on climate. And personal experience is both not scalable (most places won't be hit by hurricanes) and not fast enough (most severe climate impacts come after we pass various dangerous thresholds of warming). https://t.co/pGj3wDddkh
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) October 18, 2018
Trump’s claim about climate scientists is ‘misleading and very damaging,’ weather group says
Fun fact: @JeffFlake has voted for every judge Trump has nominated, all of whom are devoted to ending environmental regulations. https://t.co/SXVpRdRFSr
— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) October 17, 2018
in other words, Trump and the Republican Party remain in denial about what the entire rest of the world considers not only a proven fact but also a crisis requiring immediate action https://t.co/S90RmVwSIN
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 15, 2018
Wisconsin’s Foxconn scam
update 11/6/18
The $3-billion Foxconn deal, meanwhile, won't make Wisconsin money for 25 years, according to the state’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau: https://t.co/Q9m0cXkVfR
— Danielle Paquette (@DPAQreport) November 6, 2018
Foxconn promised to create 13,000 "permanent" Wisconsin jobs. But the company changed the type of factory it will build, downsizing to an automated plant that will only require 3,000 employees.
Taxpayers will pay between $220,000 and +$1,000,000 per job. https://t.co/fllXF6A7UD
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 5, 2018
update 11/2/18
No Wisconsin Republican seems willing to talk about Foxconn.https://t.co/pdfcwUzJbI via @CharlesPPierce
— Esquire (@esquire) November 2, 2018
The price tag (in the form of tax incentives) for Foxconn's big Wisconsin factory keeps getting steeper.
The promises for job creation keep getting fuzzier.
Interesting reporting from @TheVerge @BruceMurphyMKEhttps://t.co/wLIWORCSTP— Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) October 29, 2018
Sad! 