Trump is already casting doubt on validity of the 2020 election

This is very dangerous and another sign that Trump will not accept a loss.

Will Trump go for a coup or a peaceful transition if he loses in 2020? Needs to be taken seriously. ⁦@JoyAnnReid⁩ ⁦@mtomasky⁩ ⁦@JoeConason⁩ https://t.co/tmdOW8lFV8
— Jerry Goldfeder (@JerryGoldfeder) March 17, 2019

Don't be surprised if Trump runs in 2020 on the idea that if he loses the vote was rigged against him somehow pic.twitter.com/WbCekY4q4i
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) March 5, 2019

Our statement on House Democrats launching their desperate witch hunt: pic.twitter.com/Q3h8AB743X
— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) March 5, 2019

see the last sentence

Brian Stelter Slams GOP Spox Kayleigh McEnany for Already Undermining 2020 Results: ‘Shameful' https://t.co/jONtqvWLos pic.twitter.com/yscJRyL9pX
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 5, 2019

It is no longer outside the realm of possibility that Trump could refuse to leave if he loses the 2020 election. And if he does not accept an election defeat — he will have a virtual army on social media to defend him. Where does this stop? https://t.co/WKhFugPFXA
— Juan Williams (@TheJuanWilliams) March 4, 2019

Trump lied about Kushner’s top secret security clearance

Trump lied. He did order the security clearance for Kushner, ignoring the advice of his advisers. (He’s legally entitled to do it but it was bad for our security.) The new revelations have hung Kushner’s lawyer, Lowell, out to dry and he is distancing himself from the actions by implying he didn’t know what happened.

Jared Kushner’s clearance is more of a national security threat than Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 3, 2019

Clinton was wrong but as far as I know, no harm was done. It’s not like Trump giving classified intelligence to the Russians in the White House.

ICYMI: @AshaRangappa_ breaks down why it's so concerning that Trump lied about Jared Kushner's security clearance. pic.twitter.com/MXEvKDpmVb
— Protect the Investigation (@NoOneIsAboveLaw) March 2, 2019

If he simply took Jared and Trump’s handlers word that this was done on the up and up, it doesn’t reflect well on him https://t.co/VEF8yQF83Z
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) March 2, 2019

I am not trying to get "top level security clearance" for my children. This was a typically false news story.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2016

This is a lie if you count his son-in-law.

Lowell’s statement means Kushner not only failed to tell him of Trump’s intervention but failed to do so even after Lowell publicly vouched for the lack of presidential intervention. If Kushner knew of Lowell’s statement (how could he not?), it says volumes about his character. https://t.co/6z7MieFcGQ
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) March 2, 2019

You're not kidding it's remarkable. Kushner's attorney Abbe Lowell is essentially telling the world that his client lied to him. I have never seen anything like this. https://t.co/wStXSHRW9t
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) March 2, 2019

Abbe Lowell is (as far as I'm aware) a well-respected lawyer. And no (good) lawyer would — or ethically can — go out and repeat things about their client that they know to be false. This only reveals how deep the deception goes in this circle. https://t.co/O7LE5IdpOg
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) March 2, 2019

Trump's corrupt, nepotistic grant of security clearance to Kushner may blow up in his face.

House Dems can subpoena memos from John Kelly and Don McGahn arguing against the move.

I spoke to legal experts about this. It's a ticking time bomb.

My piece: https://t.co/mpPGz3HcaJ
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 1, 2019

A good foreign intel officer could own Kushner in months. His financial vulnerabilities, greed, situational ignorance, dubious foreign contacts, ethical disregard, self-importance and dismissal by more seasoned officials make it too easy. That’s why he shouldn’t have a clearance.
— Evan McMullin (@EvanMcMullin) March 1, 2019

BREAKING: @RepCummings staff just asked WH staff if the Kelly and McGahn memos on #Kushner security clearance exist. WH staff refused to confirm or deny—three times. https://t.co/OGKRIpAsQm
— Oversight Committee (@OversightDems) March 1, 2019

A key point: not only are the facts of the decision to override important, but so is the reason why security professionals were so reluctant to grant Kushner the clearance in the first place. https://t.co/VMqRlTdObN
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) March 2, 2019

To remind: Here's why Jared Kushner was never supposed to get a clearance

"Officials in at least 4 countries privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner..using his financial difficulties and lack of experience."
Me W @shaneharris @jdawsey1 https://t.co/cejnYVT4qm
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) March 1, 2019

Republican hypocrisy about the investigations of Trump

Republicans spent years investigating Benghazi and found nothing criminal.

Republicans would have had endless investigations of Clinton if she had won.

Democrats are doing what Republicans should have been doing. These investigations should have been started in 2017. Republicans want to cover up the facts and protect their lying, corrupt leader.

If you're watching GOP outrage at Dems demanding documents from the Trump admin, please check out my October 2016 piece about the GOP's plans to probe Hillary if she won. https://t.co/Oyn9AVWZEo
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) March 4, 2019

The Benghazi investigations lasted longer than Congressional probes into 9/11, Watergate, the JFK assassination & Pearl Harbor. They found nothing. Conversely, the leaders of Trump’s campaign are now felons, as are his lawyer, national security adviser, and foreign policy adviser https://t.co/bCwOPzRpko
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 3, 2019

81 subpoenas issued yesterday vs. 1200 in the Clinton White Water investigation. https://t.co/3v0GwU5VQ1
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 5, 2019

As someone who was there, working for @GOPoversight, I can tell you this statement is 100% false. https://t.co/0wdvxvoNpU
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) March 5, 2019

time for everyone to dig out Trump's tweets on Benghazi, on Fast & Furious, etc. etc. https://t.co/e7VMBidMN7
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) February 7, 2019

The man who led 2015’s infamous 11-hour Hillary Clinton hearing on Benghazi now calls hearings "utterly useless" https://t.co/mBLHBOG67m
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 4, 2019

Lol because five years investigating Benghazi found so much on her. pic.twitter.com/zMWeqGNj7M
— bennyboy51773 🎯 (@bennyboy51773) February 27, 2019

Republicans who held 33 hearings on Benghazi complain that Cohen’s testimony was a waste of time https://t.co/ophUoAP3ne pic.twitter.com/FgS80BqmXl
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) March 1, 2019

From 2011 – 2016 the Obama White House produced hundreds of thousands of documents to Congress on Solyndra, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, CAFE standards rule, Deep Water Horizon spill, ACA, ACA website, Clean Water Rule, and Ft Hood shooting. https://t.co/V3qA99TBxm
— Eric Schultz (@EricSchultz) March 5, 2019

American consumers are paying the costs of tariffs

Trump either lies or misunderstands tariffs. The American public is paying the costs.

New study from economists at NYFed, Princeton, & Columbia: "using standard economic methods, we find that the full incidence of [Trump's tariff policy] falls on domestic consumers, with a reduction in U.S. real income of $1.4B per month by the end of 2018" https://t.co/MPoSJTGipQ pic.twitter.com/4Xgfuzu8yb
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) March 2, 2019

Another just-updated trade war paper by leading economists also finds 100% pass-through of US tariffs to consumer prices, slightly smaller DWL https://t.co/aG3b4gZ3Gh HT: @tylercowen pic.twitter.com/T6gctJUUwu
— Douglas Irwin (@D_A_Irwin) March 4, 2019

Why, it's almost as if tariffs not only impose immense economic costs but also fail to achieve their primary policy aims and foster political dysfunction along the way. https://t.co/1gNVSG69hN
— Peter Suderman (@petersuderman) March 5, 2019

Yep. But honestly China’s slowdown would have happened anyway. And this still would’ve generated a similar trend in results. The bigger lesson is that a structural readjustment of the US-China trade balance requires far more than silver bullet mega purchases of soybeans https://t.co/I4Hp2ByEwN
— Steve Clemons (@SCClemons) March 7, 2019

The “race vs class” debate

The framing of the "race vs class" debate that resurfaces on here every few months feels incredibly reductive. It's both. It's those things & more. Racism, capitalism, sexism all engage with one another & have unique material impacts on the how different ppl experience the world.
— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) March 4, 2019

Excellent summary. Here’s a great list of questions and some tweets on specific issues.

I see the Bernie bros have come into my timeline. So if class is black people’s primary barrier and not race answer the following questions:
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) March 3, 2019

great thread

African-Americans face wide-ranging educational, economic and health disadvantages — lasting effects from the Jim Crow era, says @NCNWHQ. To uplift communities, the nonprofit champions STEAM education: https://t.co/fIgUYxZZVZ pic.twitter.com/Ku3BXl5niV
— Comcast Newsmakers (@ComcastNewsmkrs) March 4, 2019

In 2006, amid the real estate run-up, black families earning more than $200,000 annually were more likely on average to be given a subprime loan than a white family making $30,000 a year. Most important story you’ll read today:https://t.co/56LqFOuJJk
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) March 2, 2019

School districts that predominantly serve students of color received $23 billion less in funding than mostly white school districts in the U.S. in 2016, despite serving the same number of students, a new report found https://t.co/4dZI0WHJPh
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 2, 2019

This is data visualization done right. https://t.co/0e411lqp7X
— Trevon D Logan (@TrevonDLogan) March 4, 2019

Specifically notes the racial disparities. Crucial. https://t.co/OYZMFaPDBv
— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) March 5, 2019

Trump’s false statements – I call them lies

CNN anchor counts @RealDonadTrump's LIES using gumballs @CNNPolitics https://t.co/FvHruikKYM
— DeanLeh🌊💙🌊 (@DeanLeh) March 9, 2019

Trump is now over 9,000 false or misleading claims as president https://t.co/UB1REqIKKY
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) March 4, 2019

In summer, President Trump blamed “bad environmental laws” for worsening California's wildfires and diverting water to the ocean. No one knew what he was talking about. https://t.co/P9PR4CQ9qb @CAPolitiFact
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) December 23, 2018

Real stories are fake, fake stories are real, up is down and right is left https://t.co/Osz27JgVeV
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 4, 2019

On Jan. 24, Trump boasted he'd gotten India to lower motorcycle tariffs to 50%: "India: 50%. It was 100%. I got them down to 50% just by talking for about 2 minutes." At CPAC, he said, "They charge us a lot. When we send a motorcycle to India, it's 100% tariff. They charge 100%."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 5, 2019

Multiple lies in one tweet.

1) Dossier wasn't basis for launching probe.

2) Repeated instances of collusion have already been established. This will remain true even if Mueller doesn't see criminal conspiracy.

3) Cohen is not a fake witness. Mueller deemed him "credible." https://t.co/D39TPC1Q0W
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 3, 2019

It should be noted that the president appears to be making up his own unemployment rate. It's 4.0%. Trump said last week that "with a 3.7" the U.S. needs immigrants. Today: "We’re going to let a lot of people come in because we need workers…Unemployment at 3.7 – 3.6, probably."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 7, 2019

Remember when he said the government statistics were fake?

Trump made 27 false claims in his 29-minute speech to governors last week. Here's a rough visualization of how much of the speech was: true or just not an assertion of facts (grey); false (red); an unverifiable story or a questionable-to-dubious opinion or prediction (yellow). pic.twitter.com/DrUFoUeccz
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 6, 2019

On Friday morning, Donald Trump accused the media of "out of control" dishonesty…then tweeted four consecutive false claims over the course of 28 minutes. https://t.co/LVFwBm9IxQ pic.twitter.com/sISCAUcMAI
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 13, 2019

Fox is state TV

They covered up the payoff to Daniels.

Trump lied about interfering with the AT&T merger. He took a position that would help his pals at Fox.

Trump has hired people from Fox and Fox has hired people who left his administration. This is not an appropriate relationship between a president and a news organization.

Trump promised publicly he wouldn't interfere in DOJ's handling of the TimeWarner AT&T deal – but in Oval Office he ordered Nat.'l Economic Council head Gary Cohn to get DOJ to block it, which would hurt CNN & help Fox. Soon after, DOJ filed suit to block it, and lost in court.
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) March 4, 2019

Another Trump lie.

"I used to think Fox News was an arm of the Republican Party, now I think the White House is an arm of Fox… it’s paying off for [Trump & FOX] now… whatever may happen with Mueller, these investigations… where does Fox News go from there?" – @dthornell w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/SH60WeJ97p
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) March 4, 2019

Did Trump use the Justice Department to punish CNN? https://t.co/l66amxookO
— Slate (@Slate) March 7, 2019

NEW: Cicilline, @RepJerryNadler Press for Answers on Whether White House Interfered with AT&T-Time Warner Merger to Help Fox News, Hurt CNN pic.twitter.com/Frkr7bztGb
— Cicilline Press Office (@RepCicilline) March 7, 2019

Remember when the Obama WH briefly tried to treat Fox News like the arm of the GOP they are rather than a real journalistic outlet and mainstream journalists rallied to their defense? I hope people realize the cover they give Fox when they pretend journalism is practiced there.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) March 4, 2019

There are a few people at Fox who are journalists but it’s primarily a propaganda machine for Trump.

Report on Fox News’ editorial decisions about Trump administration may give insight into GOP’s approval of president https://t.co/0G2EwEV0P8
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) March 4, 2019

Yep, I wrote this during 2016 election: "Fox News Gives Donald Trump A Pass On Birther Crusade It Helped Fuel" https://t.co/R00zsfL3Jo https://t.co/s0zKmj30Sh
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) March 4, 2019

Ex Fox News host Abby Huntsman thinks the network crossed a red line by reportedly spiking the Stormy Daniels hush money story before Trump was elected in 2016 https://t.co/PApLqSfIUu
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 4, 2019

An abuse of power by Trump, who wanted to use his power as president to retaliate against a network for its coverage.

This explains why the DOJ pressed forward with an aggressive antitrust challenge that was uncharacteristic for a GOP administration. https://t.co/GU7MQgmNJU
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) March 4, 2019

This is an incredibly important piece from @JaneMayerNYer that puts to bed forever the myth that Fox is a journalistic institution https://t.co/xCgOILna1D
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) March 4, 2019

This is one of the worst scandals of this presidency. Trump directly intervened with the Justice Department to pursue his personal vendetta against CNN. He lied about it. DOJ officials likely lied too.
I wrote about it at the time. Column holds up well: https://t.co/JNWmtHqEmS https://t.co/5KYgSQeAHg
— Bret Stephens (@BretStephensNYT) March 4, 2019

So far, Trump got help winning the election in the form of information distortion from Russia, The National Enquirer, and Fox News. Anyone else?

(Also, is he capable of doing anything without cheating???) https://t.co/uILB80RkO7
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) March 4, 2019

CNN’s Stelter: Fox News Does Disservice to Viewers by Covering for Trump and Promoting ‘A Bunch of BS’ https://t.co/GF1LG6WXrv pic.twitter.com/TjKlLsGH0K
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 4, 2019

Analysis: Report on Fox News’s editorial decisions about Trump administration may give insight into GOP’s approval of president https://t.co/vbF8Eby6tv
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 5, 2019

It's awful to watch commentators miss the point about Fox News. They refuse to acknowledge the degree to which Trump allies are spreading *disinformation,* the deep asymmetry of this moment, and the role of Fox/WH merger in making it happen.

Me, on this:https://t.co/Aj9rZfQF1D pic.twitter.com/QQc5bsxriC
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 7, 2019

In this NBC/WSJ poll, the vast majority of self-identified Fox watchers said Trump has been honest and truthful about Russia. Virtually all CNN watchers said he hasn't been honest. pic.twitter.com/dFHHX85Htf
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 5, 2019

"Like many conservatives, I once believed that Fox News provided a much-needed service… Unfortunately, these alternative outlets gave way to alternative realities, and eventually, to Donald Trump." —@MattKLewis https://t.co/M5HKeT1b9l
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 5, 2019

"At the highest levels of Fox News, they're not playing it straight."

— DNC Chair Perez explains a Democratic National Cmte. decision to bar Fox News from hosting 2020 Democratic primary debates. https://t.co/lVIqb7D4cv
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 7, 2019

Fox News made an ideological and financial decision to become Trump's propaganda arm. Obviously that forecloses the chance to host a DNC primary debate. How is anyone surprised by this?
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) March 7, 2019

“Unlike most news organizations, Fox News doesn’t seem to have a department in charge of ethics and standards…

So, yes, Fox News can continue to function as something close to Trump TV… But everyone ought to see it for what it is.” https://t.co/gxCNozJBwv
— Priyanka Aribindi (@priaribi) March 7, 2019

so for b-roll for a story about american millenials saying they are socialist, fox news used footage from a demonstration in moscow pic.twitter.com/B65Z6bOSh3
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) March 7, 2019

To be clear, the RNC did just this in 2016 for their own primary debates. No one seems to remember thathttps://t.co/Kdkduudotw https://t.co/txekIM9Upo
— Sam Stein (@samstein) March 7, 2019

Republican position on climate change is outside of the mainstream

This is similar to universal gun purchase background checks. Republicans are out of step with the majority (and almost all scientists). They will prevent meaningful action on climate change and we will all suffer.

63% of Americans believe the GOP position on climate change is outside of the mainstream. That's up from 54% in 2015. https://t.co/pNmHMx3TAk
— Axios (@axios) March 4, 2019

Republicans lost the public debate on climate change. Science won — 60% of Americans believe in man-made climate change.

So now they're making up absurd claims and lies about the #GreenNewDeal to undermine it. Just like they do w/ immigration & healthcarehttps://t.co/OSv7SMLTEC
— Nate Lerner (@NathanLerner) March 4, 2019

More recent climate change tweets:

We polled the idea (that @AOC voiced last week) that some young people don't want to have kids because of the threat of climate change.

Turns out 38% of 18-29 year-olds are factoring the Earth's hot future into their decision about whether to have kids.https://t.co/AsQzonkzg4
— Eliza Relman (@eliza_relman) March 4, 2019

Stop freaking out about the future of climate change and start worrying about the present https://t.co/t2zX8wcL70
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 4, 2019

When deadly heat waves hit on land, we hear about them. But the oceans can have heat waves, too. https://t.co/kPuyhiSAFL
— NYT Science (@NYTScience) March 4, 2019

This is precisely the point I made when the proposal was introduced. https://t.co/PLZ8jlLmwL https://t.co/Q4p91wZxD1
— Philip Bump (@pbump) March 4, 2019

Climate science itself is often complex and abstract. But a brutal heat wave or a heavy storm is visceral, and both climate advocates and deniers are increasingly using bouts of extreme weather as a weapon to try to win people to their side.https://t.co/9PhxAte56d
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 3, 2019

Stanley Donen

Film director Stanley Donen passed away this week. He is best known for musicals he did with Gene Kelly such as Singing in the Rain but he also directed Charade, the last film I saw at Radio City Music Hall before we moved away from New York.

An appreciation of Stanley Donen’s movie magic: https://t.co/E3tw3gYDFI pic.twitter.com/C5oqBSM7uK
— The Daily (@CriterionDaily) February 26, 2019

For more on Stanley Donen's remarkable career, please see my Twitter Moment of 10 of his greatest scenes:https://t.co/4lqdZg84s9
— Ben Zauzmer (@BensOscarMath) February 25, 2019

Celebrate the legendary director/choreographer in Remembering Stanley Donen with a showcase of his work during 40s-50s. https://t.co/0WmsF8U5RJ pic.twitter.com/L9VwjIfwa1
— Warner Archive (@WarnerArchive) March 1, 2019

.@tcm to celebrate legendary director #StanleyDonen with programming tribute on March 18 – learn more here: https://t.co/WdnmXP2wY4 pic.twitter.com/YY9fQPii5k
— TCM News (@TCMPR) February 26, 2019

https://t.co/xXCU4iOzF3 pic.twitter.com/DvK3aOC9nX
— Jonathan Rosenbaum (@JonathanRosenba) March 2, 2019

This is an excellent film – much less upbeat than most musicals. Andre Previn also died recently.

Royal Wedding (1951) has Fred Astaire defying gravity. #StanleyDonen constructed a huge rotating steel cage room with all the furniture bolted down. The camera and cameraman were strapped down as well to create the illusion.
RT @coenesqued pic.twitter.com/RnPZiywQ0E
— Stéphane Bergès (@Revizorsb) March 1, 2019

Stanley Donen directed Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling, Gene Kelly singing in the rain and a host of other sparkling moments https://t.co/jbIE5k4CaK
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 23, 2019

From ON THE TOWN (‘49) and SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (‘52), to SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (‘54) and CHARADE ('63), Stanley Donen’s legacy will never be forgotten. Here are our memories of him. #TCMRemembers. pic.twitter.com/bvo1RVcGtn
— TCM (@tcm) February 24, 2019

DONEN and RED pic.twitter.com/0oeKd5DWBg
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) February 23, 2019

Baragon!

Movie monster from the 1960s

Baragon!!! https://t.co/ijDWHJjoqp
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) March 2, 2019

Rie Ôta as Baragon in "Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack" #WomenInFilm #Godzilla https://t.co/UtIlPA5whT
— Son of Karas (ラの息子) (@QuandaryMan) February 28, 2019

The movie monster from the 1960s.

In case you people want more wholesome Rie Ôta as Baragon, here is her in the suit without the head practicing pic.twitter.com/J367QlVsOc
— Chloe (@ColossalChloe) March 1, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baragon