This is dangerous and inflammatory language. They’re all going to sound like Trump.
Month: March 2019
Brilliant tweet on guns and mosques
This is 100% correct. After mass shootings in a church and a synagogue, gun supporters said they should be armed. They’re not saying it about the mosques. This is hypocritical and inconsistent. Since Trump and many of his supporters hate Muslims, they won’t encourage them to get guns.
Is just me or are the #2A gun-rights folks not talking about arming the mosques?🧐
— Jeffrey Wright (@jfreewright) March 17, 2019
Trump continues to lie about McCain
Trump continues to attack McCain with lies. He has no decency. McCain on his worst day was a much better person than Trump on his best day. Trump’s friend Graham is unwilling to take Trump on – coward!
McCain wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. You often can know a man by—and respect a man for—the enemies he’s made. https://t.co/2xGrtuiWD6
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 19, 2019
Loves Kim Jong Un, adores Balsonaro, Duterte, Putin and Erdogan and what they stand for. Hates John McCain for what he stood for. Pretty clear what kind of president the United States has. https://t.co/BbvanAxssS
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) March 19, 2019
One of the more disturbing aspects of the Trump phenomenon is the way in which his movement has elevated reprehensible people. https://t.co/USf3lrlIFj
— David French (@DavidAFrench) March 19, 2019
mueller report this week please – maybe thursday 3/21 #ImpeachTrump pic.twitter.com/fLkaJb6brB
— ROSIE (@Rosie) March 18, 2019
The president is lying here about a dead Republican war hero. Every Republican member of Congress should be asked to comment on this.
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) March 17, 2019
For the record, McCain handed the dossier to Comey AFTER the election. And not that it matters, but McCain wasn’t last in his class. https://t.co/2HucQ1f48E
Silence would have been much better than this pathetic offering. If you aren't willing to call Trump out when he insults your best friend in the Senate, then it's hard to see how you could see this as anything but shameful. https://t.co/E0TnJV77iV
— Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) March 17, 2019
Trump’s nauseating, continuing attacks on the late Sen. John McCain are the latest manifestation of Trump’s incurable sickness—the inability to let anything go, the instinct not just to defeat but to destroy any opponent, a debilitating jealousy that continues beyond the grave.
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) March 17, 2019
Lindsey Graham. Shameful. He has lost every bit of his integrity. https://t.co/blLdmYmzGP
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) March 17, 2019
Two very, very, very dark stains on Kenneth Starr. Real ones, as opposed to the made-up one about John McCain. He should be sanctioned by the bar, if not disbarred https://t.co/iVVBSFTXm5
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) March 17, 2019
Exactly. Trump’s latest attacks on the heroic @SenJohnMcCain are beneath contempt and utterly unprecedented. Like so much of what this ghastly president says and does. A bottomless pit of inhumanity. https://t.co/IrZ3Czhn0j
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 17, 2019
Trump's obsession with tearing down John McCain is another demonstration of what a genuinely broken soul the president is. His resentment & utter lack of dignity/empathy for the family of a war hero who recently died is but one reminder of the president's disordered personality.
— Peter Wehner (@Peter_Wehner) March 17, 2019
So, you condemn Donald Trump then? https://t.co/oHdJKKf0bw
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) March 17, 2019
Re-upping this from May: "We should be clear about this. John McCain haunts the Trump White House, not because of his votes or policy disagreements, but because he represents the man that Donald Trump cannot ever be." https://t.co/7qsZHET1rF
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) March 17, 2019
Even here in good ol’ 2019, I did not expect to wake up to the President of the United States attacking a deceased veteran and Senator, again. https://t.co/KVD6Vp0Blt
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) March 17, 2019
'Weak' Lindsey Graham destroyed for staying silent about Trump's ugly attacks on his friend John McCain https://t.co/RVDteg6h7o
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) March 17, 2019
Trump now attacking the late senator’s grades at the Naval Academy before he went to Vietnam. Trump did everything he could to prevent his own school records from being released and lied about having bone spurs to avoid serving in Vietnam, per Michael Cohen’s testimony https://t.co/Ax3hyEUEkj
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 17, 2019
Trump slandering John McCain is expected. He earned respect that Trump will never have. That so few of McCain's fellow Republicans defend a recently passed hero against these attacks is even more pathetic.
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) March 17, 2019
Not only is this wrong (see @NatashaBertrand's TL), but once again, taking on a dead war hero and a man vastly more respected – as most men are – than himself. https://t.co/j0w6vjLbYN
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 17, 2019
Wrong. McCain’s associate David Kramer wasn’t briefed on the dossier until after the election, in late November 2016. Kramer then returned to the US and gave a copy to McCain, who then gave it to the FBI. Again, all well after the election. https://t.co/E4eaEnJ7eT
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) March 17, 2019
He doesn't consciously understand it, but I think what REALLY burns Trump about both of them is that both McCain and GHWB is that they were actual warriors.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 17, 2019
Trump is a cosseted, spoiled brat, a vain and weak man who is a slave to his impulses. https://t.co/xoVIRrzzPt
Trump hadn’t used this insult of McCain, who is dead, since 2015: pic.twitter.com/hw4mCHJHI9
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 17, 2019
Trump is extra-unhinged today
I wish he would shut up and play golf. His tweets were terrible today. Sad!
Donald Trump’s craziest day ever on Twitter | Analysis by CNN’s Chris Cillizza https://t.co/tj7qhXAG72 pic.twitter.com/vwJRIn0Kx7
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 19, 2019
We have a seriously dangerous normalcy bias, where we move on because we desperately want to pretend it’s okay. Trump’s Twitter meltdown today—which shows a deranged and unhinged person—will just be forgotten by Monday afternoon. But the deranged man will still control the nukes.
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 17, 2019
Today in presidential Twitter criticism (Twittercrism?):
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) March 18, 2019
—General Motors.
—Sat Night Live/late-night shows.
—Democrats.
—News media.
—Steele Dossier/Christopher Steele.
—Hillary Clinton.
—Mueller investigation.
—John McCain.
—United Auto Workers.
—Fox News. https://t.co/xO17igPtdp
"Asked by The Daily Beast on Sunday evening if Donald Trump's manic retweets and tweets over the past 12 hours 'speak for themselves,'" @PressSec replied "Yes." https://t.co/GiYMe0ZDj0
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 18, 2019
POTUS retweets are not meaningless, but function as a tacit encouragement of a right wing internet ecosystem that will stop at nothing to defend him. Chuck Johnson, of Holocaust denying Twitter infamy, once told me it's proof that "we're in his head."https://t.co/EEOCmLrS9D pic.twitter.com/iaNv6WjMfg
— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) March 18, 2019
The President is retweeting a bunch of conspiracy theorists. I am pointing this out because we shouldn’t accept it as normal.
— David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) March 17, 2019
Trump retweeted an account with a QAnon avatar today, and QAnon fans are thrilled. pic.twitter.com/uZauubWrNU
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) March 17, 2019
Democrat @RepRoKhanna responds to President Trump’s tweets over the weekend: “It’s completely unpresidential. Instead of assuring the nation about what happened in New Zealand and saying we condemn those kind of hate crimes, he’s tweeting" https://t.co/LUs1xaMd0g pic.twitter.com/A0Ux9clkQz
— CNN (@CNN) March 19, 2019
Trump’s evil lie about the 2016 election
So now he’s back to saying there were illegal votes. As always when he makes this claim, he has no proof. This is just a setup for him to cast doubt on the 2020 results. He’ll probably claim there were illegal votes even if he wins. Let’s see if any Republican defends our electoral process. I doubt it. They’ll just continue to put up with the lies and bigotry.
The President of United States is putting "ballot box" in scare quotes and attacking the legitimacy of an election he won. This is dangerous behavior, in every way, and Republicans have decided that they're going to accept it because of judges and tax cuts. https://t.co/3DyfImd272
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 18, 2019
There was no Democratic effort to "steal" the presidential election, at the ballot box or otherwise. This is a big lie. pic.twitter.com/9nn0a5cjje
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 17, 2019
Trump has never offered any proof for his false claim that 3 to 5 million votes were illegally cast in 2016 https://t.co/dOOMoXxXh6
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) March 17, 2019
Limbaugh says the New Zealand mass shooting may be a false flag
Disgusting
Limbaugh is a hateful piece of shit. With all due apologies to shit. https://t.co/zjsxanX8sQ
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 16, 2019
It's always worth remembering how sick these people are. And this isn't some random guy on the internet, he's still an important player in movement conservatism https://t.co/4y7jPcDI88
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) March 15, 2019
How the Right Continues to Lose Its Mind https://t.co/acHWiQWYfL
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) March 15, 2019
Rush Limbaugh suggests Christchurch shootings might be a false flag
— Media Matters (@mmfa) March 15, 2019
"There's an ongoing theory that the shooter himself may in fact be a leftist who writes the manifesto and then goes out and performs the deed purposely to smear his political enemies" https://t.co/3ja4K0wOUj pic.twitter.com/G4CAXczAhf
This is a man praised by the president of the United States. This is a man who is a media hero of the modern US conservative moment.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) March 15, 2019
Shame on them all.
Btw, imagine the reaction if Ilhan Omar had declared the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting a false flag… https://t.co/goZ6Ans9IZ
Didn't take long for ""truthers"" to start coming out with #FalseFlag conspiracy theories. pic.twitter.com/AFrPjR1QwY
— brendon m0ptp (@m0ptp) March 15, 2019
The Zervos defamation suit will proceed
Bad news for Trump!
In a 3-2 decision, a New York appellate court ruled that Donald Trump is not immune from a civil defamation suit just because he's President.https://t.co/3oybmNLfoJ
— Hardball (@hardball) March 16, 2019
N.Y. court allows Summer Zervos defamation suit against Trump to proceed, citing case involving Paula Jones and President Clinton https://t.co/p4nv4KQ2KQ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 14, 2019
New Ruling in Summer Zervos case: “We reject defendant President Trump’s argument that the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution prevents a New York State court- and every other state court in the country – from exercising its authority under its state constitution.”
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) March 14, 2019
I get it, @realDonaldTrump is under so much legal danger, it's hard to keep it all straight. It's ALL important.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 15, 2019
But his exposure from Summer Zervos's defamation lawsuit is not going away and continues to be the most likely thing to land him under oath. https://t.co/JgAB1AlPsE
Summer Zervos — who says Trump sexually molested her — filed the suit after Trump denied the claims during the 2016 presidential campaign https://t.co/FaEYtMH6pu
— POLITICO (@politico) March 14, 2019
Can Trump pardon himself?
President Trump says he has the right to “pardon himself." Is that true? @davidgura and his panel of guests answer that question. https://t.co/6OvDddYwCf
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 16, 2019
The 2020 Census citizenship question will go to the Supreme Court
Yup. We’re not even debating the citizenship question yet.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 15, 2019
There is a legal process for adding *any* Q to the US Census. That process takes ~5 years.
Changing a Census question, not reporting that proposed change to Congress, and possibly lying about *why* would = Big Trouble. https://t.co/Ipj68dPC4k
We made serious cracks in the citizenship question case, which seriously threatens the Census.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 14, 2019
You know the questioning is good when the GOP tries to challenge you into stopping, are unsuccessful, and an army of lawyers starts freaking out.
Chair @RepCummings saved the day. https://t.co/1OPDbyusRI
Damn it. This is bad.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) March 15, 2019
If Roberts thinks this is a constitutional dispute and not a case about administrative procedure, he's much more likely to vote with the other Republicans. https://t.co/hWLg9DPzoq
Wow, @AOC is the only one in the room (including Wilbur Ross and his lawyers) aware that 1) the proposed census citizenship question wording is substantively different from the previous version, and 2) such wording changes must be submitted to Congress https://t.co/AUtUItDUc4 https://t.co/wflov1XyHg
— Dana Nuccitelli (@dana1981) March 15, 2019
Wilbur Ross testifying before House today. He's already lied under oath about census citizenship question:
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) March 14, 2019
1. Said DOJ requested q when he did
2. Said didn’t discuss w/ Trump officials when Steve Bannon put him in touch with Kris Kobach to add questionhttps://t.co/L9HrfU9ANx
The latest turn of the Census citizenship question scandal, and more (literally) unbelievable testimony from Wilbur Ross: https://t.co/mUgVE2t9NJ
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) March 14, 2019
#1
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) March 14, 2019
3/22/18 Ross to Congress: “The Department of Justice, as you know, initiated the request for inclusion of the citizenship question.”
7/3/18 Judge: “It now appears that the idea of adding the citizenship question originated with Secretary Ross, not the Department of Justice"
This is @AOC just thrashing Mark Meadows here by citing section and subsection of the law being violated by the Executive Branch. I get the feeling that Meadows isn’t enjoying this minority thing too much. https://t.co/CcO0OUBNM3
— 🕷Dante Atkins🕷 (@DanteAtkins) March 14, 2019
For the second time, the courts have ruled against @realDonaldTrump's attempt to undermine the #2020census.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) March 7, 2019
The Trump citizenship question is unconstitutional.
Everyone deserves to be counted.https://t.co/EGZYngyeEc
Trump doesn’t think white nationalism is a big threat. He can’t offend his base.
Trump ignores the problem of white nationalist terrorism because he’s a white supremacist and many members of his base are too. He has encouraged violence and downplayed the threat of terrorists who are inspired by his bigotry. He offered sympathy to New Zealand but didn’t say the word Muslim. Trump’s rhetoric has encouraged anti-Muslim bigotry worldwide.
This is like “very fine people” after Charlottesville. It’s obvious he doesn’t want to deal with the problem and in fact is making it worse. I am much more concerned about white supremacist terrorists than I am about ISIS or immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
Fact-checking President Trump's notion that White Nationalism is not a rising threat https://t.co/fkd6kNduPu pic.twitter.com/lXn4rchyQW
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 16, 2019
Trump again punts on white supremacy after New Zealand attacks | Analysis by CNN's Stephen Collinson https://t.co/yBnLbr7oJL pic.twitter.com/WectfbTMPC
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 16, 2019
"What’s really reprehensible is what’s hiding in plain sight: There are no signs that Trump is troubled by the fact that the man who allegedly murdered 50 people because of their Muslim faith sees him as a symbol of the devotion to protecting white identity that drove this act." https://t.co/h7T0KKhd54
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 18, 2019
Trump is just plain wrong: white nationalist extremism is a growing threat; it's a major threat; and it's a violent threat. But Trump conditions his response to terrorism based on the demographics of the terrorist and the victims. My take with @AliVelshi last night: pic.twitter.com/CwBVAJIZAh
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 16, 2019
If a Muslim or a Mexican immigrant killed 49 people anywhere in the world, Trump would declare another fake national emergency. But from Charlottesville to Christchurch, he never misses an opportunity to excuse or minimize the rise of white nationalism. https://t.co/g2zwHs8inh
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) March 15, 2019
Trump has mainstreamed white nationalism, and his border wall is absolutely central to that, given its role as a white nationalist rallying cry.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 16, 2019
This is the view of the Department of Homeland Security analyst who predicted all this back in 2009:https://t.co/xToP9zjTsZ pic.twitter.com/qGHKNAIDf8
A fun thing to think about while we are all having a good time complaining about outrage mobs and political correctness is that conservatives flipped out and got a DHS analyst fired for writing a 2009 report warning of a rise in far right terrorism https://t.co/GjGcJdMcXy
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) March 16, 2019
Relative to population (NZ = 5m, USA = 320m), these 50 dead are like 3,200 dead in the US. So this was New Zealand’s 9/11. But this attack on Muslims was Trump-inspired White Nationalist terrorism. That’s worth thinking about. Think, then mobilize!
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 16, 2019
>> @KirstenPowers: "However Donald Trump identifies himself, all we know for sure is that the white supremacists SEE HIM as an ally. There's just no question about that." (https://t.co/hRFrSxdh51)
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 16, 2019
On this day where a white nationalist murdered 49 innocent Muslims, there is not a single non-white individual standing behind you in the Oval Office in this video.
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) March 15, 2019
The Supreme Court will Reject your fake "National Emergency".
Yes, we have a national emergency: His name is Donald Trump, threatening & inciting violence, empowering white nationalists around the world, attacking our allies & intel leaders, obstructing justice, backing dictators & exploiting his power to enrich himself.
— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) March 16, 2019
Do you ever notice that when it comes to the KKK, racists, white nationalists, etc., Trump always "doesn't know enough about it" to have an opinion?
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) March 15, 2019
Which is funny because he claims to know more than military generals, etymologists, nuclear physicists, scientists. and doctors.🤔 https://t.co/jeAcc9Cymt
Looking back at #Christchurch it’s worth noting how cutting funds to the DHS “Countering Violent Extremism” program to combat white supremacist terrorism was among the first acts of the @realDonaldTrump administration.
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) March 16, 2019
I asked him about it last November. His response was a lie. pic.twitter.com/RWRzZd1vrD
Sad! 