The NRA-Russia connection

EXCLUSIVE: Emails sent by NRA officials before the now-infamous 2015 trip to Moscow, as well as photos taken during the visit, reveal the gun group’s significant role in arranging the excursion. https://t.co/vSnwmrXmb3

— Pete Madden (@pamadden) January 30, 2019

The NRA is trying to create distance between CEO Wayne LaPierre and the NRA officers who traveled to Moscow in 2015 at the invite of criminal Russian influence agent Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin, when NRA members met with top Putin officials.https://t.co/SwSVwhFHPA

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 30, 2019

As the NRA now tries to distance itself from the 2015 Moscow trip where its leaders spent time with Russian operatives Maria Butina & Alexander Torshin, a reminder that NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch confirmed the trip last year, as I reported here https://t.co/Fn4f8l3luQ @RonWyden

— Mark Follman (@markfollman) January 29, 2019

Trump believes Putin and Kim Jun Un instead of the intelligence agencies

Putin must be thrilled with Trump’s disregard of American intelligence. Trump keeps helping Putin accomplish his goals.

Trump is wrong on Russia, Iran, North Korea and the border with Mexico.

Dear @realDonaldTrump: Here is the written statement submitted by DNI Coates. I suggest you read it. https://t.co/NlKbj5SM0B

His testimony, both in writing and in person, shows that you are lying. https://t.co/7ym2Wajek5
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 31, 2019

Your refusal to accept the unanimous assessment of U.S. Intelligence on Iran, No. Korea, ISIS, Russia, & so much more shows the extent of your intellectual bankruptcy. All Americans, especially members of Congress, need to understand the danger you pose to our national security. https://t.co/9iV3BTKiEv
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) January 30, 2019

The president is trashing his intelligence leaders in response to their decision to tell the truth yesterday.
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) January 30, 2019

Trump, believer in the reassurances he receives from Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, calls US intelligence professionals ‘naive’

Ah, 2019.
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) January 30, 2019

Notice also that the intelligence officials did not repeat Trump’s nonsense about the border with Mexico such as the caravans, women who are taped up and his stupid border wall.

Everything Trump has been doing post-shutdown is to hold on to his base. Blasting intel chiefs on Iran, denying climate change, it's his greatest hits. https://t.co/m8MkpVRgMy
— Chris Matthews (@HardballChris) January 30, 2019

"Perhaps the strongest rebuke of Mr. Trump’s security priorities comes in what is missing from the report: Any rationale for building a wall along the southwest border, which Mr. Trump has advertised as among the most critical security threats facing the United States."
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) January 29, 2019

One big picture takeaway from this intelligence hearing: There are huge new challenges to the U.S. The president isn't talking about any of them. He's focused on the southern border, which doesn't come up in the threats assessment as a significant security issue.
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) January 29, 2019

Now would be a great moment for the President to thank the hard working members of the intelligence community who just delivered an important annual threat briefing.
— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) January 29, 2019

Let me get this straight:

Trump makes up shit like "ISIS has been defeated" & "North Korea is giving up their nukes."

Then yesterday under oath, Trump's own Intel Chiefs tell the truth about ISIS & North Korea.

So this morning, Trump trashes his own Intel Chiefs.

Normal, huh?
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 30, 2019

Turns out the real audience for the intelligence community's new Threat Assessment report is our conspiracy-addled commander in chief: @maxboot https://t.co/8gSFObYSmU
— Jonathan Rauch (@jon_rauch) January 30, 2019

Polls show people favor the Democrats on border security and oppose Trump’s wall

In 2010, Americans preferred the GOP to Dems on "border security" by 20 points.

Before the shutdown, the GOP led by double digits.

Today, Democrats lead Trump by 9 points.https://t.co/pWsPVYGvBr

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) January 29, 2019

American voters oppose 55 – 41 percent building a wall along the border with Mexico, compared to 55 – 43 percent opposition January 14.
https://t.co/rOoXEjxwYN

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) January 29, 2019

Trump is ignorant about climate change

Donald Trump says it's cold in the Midwest so global warming isn't a thing.

Meanwhile, the last 4 years have been the hottest in the history of the planet.https://t.co/EvCRVeWrsL

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) January 29, 2019

Trump’s climate-trolling is such obvious outrage bait that you almost want to ignore it, but it’s also self-provided evidence of one of the most significant ignorance crises of his presidency, so I dunno. pic.twitter.com/oK5qGic5Dh

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 29, 2019

On climate change and local cold weather:

“This myth is like arguing that nighttime proves the sun doesn’t exist,” Cook said.https://t.co/lpVDwsmzYm

— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) January 29, 2019

“There are many reasons Trump may be against addressing climate change, but one thing is clear: he doesn’t understand the science behind it” https://t.co/JXDGIigdrv

— TIME (@TIME) January 29, 2019

The president tweets, for the umpteenth time, that climate change is not real because it's cold outside. https://t.co/v2whyZF3uZ

— Esquire (@esquire) January 29, 2019

“People who should (or do) know better keep confusing weather with climate. Weather is what happens day to day in one place. Climate is what happens over many years to a large geographic area, or the planet as a whole.”

— Bill Nye pic.twitter.com/Nd5hzJ8gvb

— David Priess (@DavidPriess) January 29, 2019

Fourteen hours in the U.S. government, 2019 pic.twitter.com/1Q8rCBo33P

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 29, 2019

Kushner shouldn’t have a Top Secret security clearance

Two House Democrats asked acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to immediately revoke senior White House adviser Jared Kushner's security clearance https://t.co/tIuSNoSXEf pic.twitter.com/FSBctIXFr9
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 31, 2019

If you’re not paying attention to this story, you should be. Our intelligence and national security professionals recommended that Kushner and others should not receive a Top Secret clearance and they were overruled by the White House.

Our national security is at stake. https://t.co/L26eNwrV40
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) January 29, 2019

Officials rejected Jared Kushner for top secret security clearance, but were overruled https://t.co/4afEJbyEig
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 25, 2019

In May 2018, Kushner’s criminal defense lawyer said he’d received permanent clearance. What he didn’t say was that a Trump hire overruled two career adjudicators to grant the clearance & the CIA denied him a higher level clearance. https://t.co/QHL6mSYzue
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) January 25, 2019

Agreed. Anyone familiar with the process knows it's virtually impossibly Jared—or Ivanka for that matter—would be approved for a TS/SCI considering the known issues. To have it confirmed is still the makings of a massive scandal.

Get them out of the White House, immediately. https://t.co/tXfQwfUUOL
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) January 25, 2019

1/ Having worked on security clearance issues at the White House, this story is terrifying. It is not normal for the head of the Personal Security Office to ever overrule the career employees who adjudicate clearances. This says it's happened 30 times in the last 1.5 years! https://t.co/aO3hF9LDwZ
— Daniel Jacobson (@Dan_F_Jacobson) January 25, 2019

In other words, they got overrruled on determining Kushner was denied clearance. https://t.co/yCCJ01t6M8
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) January 29, 2019

Trump organization fired undocumented workers who worked at Trump golf club for years

.@realDonaldTrump's golf club in NY state employed undocumented workers for years — then fired 12 of them, en masse, during the shutdown.
Trump Org. said it had just discovered their papers were fake.https://t.co/skvSEuGwRe

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) January 28, 2019

Hear from Margarita Cruz, who was fired for being undocumented after working for Trump's Westchester golf course for eight years. And hear the audio she recorded of her own firing, in this amazing video from @DDaltonBennett and @jnebraska https://t.co/PCBUyxe88d

— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) January 26, 2019

He could have joined e-verify. But he didn’t. https://t.co/gQgKDAkN82 https://t.co/9VFgKD6Qif

— Maria Sacchetti (@mariasacchetti) January 29, 2019

Trump has described them as rapists and thugs, but his golf courses have relied on undocumented migrants for years. "I'd never done anything wrong, only work and work," said one who worked 15 yrs at NJ course — until he was fired amid wall showdown. "I started to cry." @partlowj https://t.co/eJblLwCA1E

— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) January 27, 2019

7 questions about Trump’s use of undocumented workers at his golf courses, answered by the reporters who broke the story, @fahrenthold and @partlowj. Starting with, "How did The Post find these workers?" https://t.co/gemX4OQ9BJ

— Peter Wallsten (@peterwallsten) January 28, 2019

Until Trump’s NY golf course fired a dozen undocumented workers in recent days, the odds of encountering an illegal immigrant there were much greater than at the one on the border https://t.co/5FDxKCk9FU

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 29, 2019

Undocumented workers get no gov’t benefits, yet many pay taxes. Today I met some of the undocumented women you hired at your golf club in my district. Your people arranged their fake papers and then withheld their Social Security taxes. https://t.co/bwbSCGhcv8

— Tom Malinowski (@Malinowski) January 29, 2019

Um….?

Eric Trump: It’s ‘truly heartbreaking’ that NBC made Trump golf course look bad for firing undocumented workershttps://t.co/255S3lVltz

— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 29, 2019

Trump lies all the time

He lies about big things.

He lies about small things.

He uses numbers and provides no evidence that they are true.

He lies all the time – he’s a liar! Sad!

He lies about Obama:

You have to be really obsessed with black people to dream up this nonsense https://t.co/EGHae3BvbF

— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) January 28, 2019

He lies about the number of illegal immigrants and their cost to the country:

President Trump shared disputed figures about the number of undocumented immigrants, what they cost the country and how many had illegally voted in elections. “There’s a long history of these numbers being inaccurate." https://t.co/EUJmDKEx0u

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 28, 2019

Please note: the numbers @realDonaldTrump provides below are completely fabricated and should not be taken as true in any way. https://t.co/qmYdQvtHD4

— House Homeland Security Committee (@HomelandDems) January 27, 2019

What a crock of BS! Trump must think his followers are dumb enough to think these absurdly exact-looking strings of digits actually measure something. It’d be like saying everything Trump utters is approximately 97.46321954780214347% likely to be false. https://t.co/OmcR1FniPL

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 27, 2019

Nothing screams fake numbers than false precision (ie, the exact number to the dollar or illegal immigrant) in what can only be rough, disputed estimates https://t.co/G6ikOhlb0d

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 27, 2019

If these ludicrous figures are from the Department of Homeland Security, as the president seems to claim, shouldn't Secretary Nielsen be called before the relevant congressional oversight committees ASAP to explain where they come from and if they're correct? https://t.co/QYJiXwUN3h

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 27, 2019

He lies when he said women were taped:

After Trump repeatedly said, without evidence, that women were gagged with tape to cross border, @kmettler wrote about it. Then Border Patrol sent a message to agents asking if anyone had seen evidence of Trump’s claim. No evidence has been presented. https://t.co/8sPAdx7KqO

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 27, 2019

His soul is diseased and every once in a while we're forced to peer inside https://t.co/CWicFQyfZ2

— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 27, 2019

He lies about voter fraud:

This is not true.

Read the facts here, from @TexasTribune: https://t.co/GPQHqFu9UM https://t.co/yUnMpL203s

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 27, 2019

He lies about Democrats:

The Democrats are named Jim. They do not have last names. They are big, strong Democrats who never cried in their lives, not even when they were babies, but cried when they made these calls to the White House.. https://t.co/TJetxke0nW

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 25, 2019

Trump says of Dems: "Almost all of them are breaking, saying walls are good, walls are good." 🤔 None have said that, and his bill got fewer votes than the Dem version after more Rs bolted from his side.

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 24, 2019

Tariff update 1/29/19

Domestic manufacturers like Whirlpool had hoped that President Trump's tariffs on washing machines would help them. It hasn't worked out that way. https://t.co/n7uq7jH2Mi

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 26, 2019

60 Second Fact Check: Is America actually getting rich off President Trump's tariffs as he claims? https://t.co/Xbhy2v4WLF

— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 9, 2019

Trump and His Associates Had More Than 100 Contacts With Russians Before the Inauguration

and they lied about the contacts over and over, even under oath. Why?

Remember when the Trump campaign used to insist that it had had no contact whatsoever with Russia? Here's an illuminating @nytimes graphic noting more than 100 such contacts: https://t.co/4RMNlaQmlV

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) January 26, 2019

Except that Michael Cohen had spoken to the Russians, too, about a Trump Tower Moscow—and testified to Mueller that he kept Trump and his family in the loop about it in 2016. https://t.co/XAHcSRjd9F

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 29, 2019

Republicans want to eliminate the estate tax

Wealthy people got enormous benefits from the Trump tax cut but that’s not enough for Republicans. Trump keeps lying and saying the estate tax was already completely eliminated. Sad!

Ending the estate tax would give a tax break of up to:
– $63.6B for the Walton family, the owners of Walmart
– $39.1B for the Koch brothers
– $27.8B for the Mars candy bar family
– $13.4B for the Cox cable family
– $0 for more than 99.8% of Americans https://t.co/QCtAlcjzZ3
— Warren Gunnels (@GunnelsWarren) January 28, 2019

Since Trump's tax cuts went into law:
1) Wages have remained flat, adjusted for inflation.
2) The deficit has exploded.
3) Businesses didn't reinvest their savings.

Mitch McConnell's solution: Eliminate the estate tax for America's super rich, sending us deeper into debt.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 28, 2019

Almost every time Trump talks about the estate tax, he lies that he's already eliminated it. "We got rid of it, folks," he told the American Farm Bureau convention two weeks ago. https://t.co/DHEUaIKvPN
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 29, 2019

Stunning. Estate tax is ZERO for about 99.9%. ZERO. Only hits 1700 couples yearly who leave estates OVER $22.4 million to heirs. Yet, Senate GOP calls for repeal – at cost of over $100 Billion for these wealthiest estates. Poor children can just eat cake. https://t.co/0YgdEzGviC
— Gene Sperling (@genebsperling) January 28, 2019

Why wasn't the estate tax fully eliminated in the Trump tax bill? Here's why –> two words in the GOP tax bill mean tens of billions for the superwealthy https://t.co/sHcm0R4omS
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 29, 2019

How many columns were written asking how Senators Thune and Grassley plan to pay for their estate tax repeal and questioning whether the GOP has become unrealistic?
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 31, 2019