Trump abandons another treaty

Trump delivers a gift to arms dealers, endangers civilians around the world and isolates the U.S. all for a cheap applause line at the NRA. We live in radical and dangerous times. https://t.co/1tVMCQRNYe
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) April 26, 2019

Trump told an #NRAAM crowd today that he intends to walk away from the 2014 Arms Trade Treaty https://t.co/om3iG2mNnb pic.twitter.com/1Wn2HT6W6y
— POLITICO (@politico) April 26, 2019

'We’re taking our signature back,' Trump announces U.S. withdrawal from U.N. arms treaty at the NRA's annual meeting https://t.co/Lkb1f1h3xD pic.twitter.com/DG6nSJIPUr
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) April 26, 2019

As reported, Trump announces he will revoke the US signature from the global arms-trade treaty. People cheer. He says he's impressed people here knew what it is. https://t.co/KtBg8LgW55
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 26, 2019

.@realDonaldTrump pulling the U.S. out of yet another arms control treaty undermines our national security and makes for a more dangerous world. Leaving the Arms Trade Treaty that limits global trafficking in lethal weapons to get applause from the @NRA is reckless and shameful.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) April 26, 2019

Trump’s hypocrisy on foreign workers

Trump resorts rejected dozens of U.S. workers so they could hire low-wage foreign workers https://t.co/dL7k68yLba
— Salon (@Salon) April 26, 2019

Background on Congressional subpoena power

This is a good backgrounder: https://t.co/xQtBkchD01
— Nick Schwellenbach (@schwellenbach) April 25, 2019

Subpoenas? Court Cases? Contempt of Congress? Things may soon get legally messy as House Democrats fight the Trump administration. @charlie_savage masterfully walks through what to expect. https://t.co/KJXVycjRN3
— Nicholas Fandos (@npfandos) May 2, 2019

Republicans won’t hold Trump accountable

“The Republican Party, and the Senate, is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Donald Trump"

– @TheRickWilson https://t.co/Sy9VWbWiW6
— Jesse Ferguson (@JesseFFerguson) April 26, 2019

Let’s be clear: The refusal of the Republicans to say or do anything despite the detailed evidence of obstruction in the Mueller report is dereliction of duty and a disservice to America on a massive scale.
— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) April 26, 2019

Even more striking is that all these Republicans will oppose any effort to impeach Trump (leaving them with a President Pence) and will doggedly support him for reelection, when they instead could have any other Republican https://t.co/HtucEQiiHM
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) April 26, 2019

Majority say Trump lied to us

However, the poll shows the public is also opposed to impeachment. I don’t want impeachment because I want indictments. Trump must be held accountable. Impeachment will fail in the Senate because Republicans have no interest in enforcing the law. They only care what the Trump cult thinks.

However, if Trump and his staff don’t respond to subpoenas, we may have to up the ante by going to impeachment.

A majority of Americans oppose impeachment, but a majority also say Trump lied to public, Post-ABC poll finds https://t.co/OYauHQBajQ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 26, 2019

BREAKING: Just three in 10 Americans accept Pres. Trump’s claim to have been exonerated following release of Mueller report, new @ABC News/WaPo poll finds; 47% say Trump obstructed justice. https://t.co/juRmnN1FgQ pic.twitter.com/VX8LMl0iES
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) April 26, 2019

Rosenstein talked with Trump about the Mueller investigation

Rosenstein’s behavior is wrong.

Unbelievable and unacceptable. The DAG should not be talking to Trump about this investigation under any circumstances, let alone making assurances while pleading for his job. https://t.co/ecWqt6c8Gl
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) April 26, 2019

Short summary of tonight's speech by Rod R:

1. It was awful that Obama – who publicly outed the Russian plot – didn't do more to stop it

2. It's no big deal that Trump, and his family, and his campaign, still deny that it ever happened.https://t.co/KjIt7UJ1gI
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) April 26, 2019

The big picture on Rod is extremely complicated. He played a thoroughly dishonorable role in the Comey firing. He then appointed Mueller. He protected Mueller from Congress. He also played both sides of the fence with respect to Trump. He gave far too much information to Congress
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) April 26, 2019

WOW. After the NYT reported last year that Rod Rosenstein was willing to wear a wire to record Trump, Rosenstein sought to defuse the situation by assuring Trump that he "was on his team," according to people familiar with the matter.

On. His. Team.https://t.co/xs12F40IYR
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) April 26, 2019

Fox News is State TV

Trump is pressuring them on who to broadcast and they are responding. He has tweeted many times about Fox News, praising shows that will be favorable to him. This is an unprecedented and inappropriate relationship between a network and a president.

The President controls a massive propaganda network that’s allowed to masquerade as the country’s biggest cable news outlet. https://t.co/0sQ7E9LSTz
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) April 26, 2019

Trump lies about Charlottesville

Trump lies about the white supremacists and his reaction to Charlottesville. His supporters try to say he didn’t defend white supremacists when he clearly did. Sad!

Trump defends his “very fine people” comments on Charlottesville: “People were there protesting the taking down of the monument of Robert E. Lee. Everybody knows that.” Fact check: There were many neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 26, 2019

Robert E. Lee owned 200 slaves (which he famously tortured) then led a rebellion to extend slavery which killed 620,000 people.

Saying you're not a racist, you just love Robert E. Lee is like saying you're not an antisemite, you just love Hitler. https://t.co/K3jEHpZFSD
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) April 26, 2019

Robert E. Lee owned slaves and brutalized them.

Lee led an armed revolt against the United States to preserve and expand slavery.

And during that armed revolt, Lee's army captured free blacks in the North and enslaved them. https://t.co/hYRFhcn0tq
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 26, 2019

So let me get this straight: When federal law enforcement investigates a foreign attack on our democracy it's "treason," but a rebel leader who tried to topple the nation in a civil war is a "great general"…
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 26, 2019

Fox News reporter goes off on colleagues, saying their comments about Charlottesville on an internal email thread were like "something you’d read on a White Supremacist chat room.”https://t.co/EqP7LtLJfZ
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) April 26, 2019

NEW: Fox News was set to claim Trump didn't say "both sides" about Charlottesville, until a White House reporter called them out for sound like a "white supremacist chat room." https://t.co/LvBqUjra9q
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) April 26, 2019

A must read in light of Trump’s comments on Charlottesville this morning. https://t.co/RLWDlkQyWW
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 26, 2019

Trump defends Charlottesville comments by praising a Confederate general https://t.co/ciQX9couB4
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 26, 2019

Today, President Trump said his Charlottesville comments referred to people who supported the “great general” Robert E. Lee. In 2017, @AdamSerwer wrote that “Lee’s elevation is a key part of a 150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery”: https://t.co/36Sr9cr6X1
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) April 26, 2019

No better guide than @AaronBlake on how this revisionist history makes no sense –> https://t.co/HcSrvAEEbF https://t.co/XHSRcmOOTh
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 26, 2019

"The 'fine people' the president defended in 2017 were the same people chanting 'Jews will not replace us' and 'blood and soil.' Is this really a debate #Trump is eager to engage in? Again?"
V-good piece @stevebenen https://t.co/1iRH6JgZYV
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) April 26, 2019

Robert E. Lee was a traitor and a slaver. And as @AdamSerwer reminded us in 2017, “Lee’s elevation is a key part of a 150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery as the cause of the war and whitewash the Confederate cause as a noble one.” https://t.co/mHx16L9IGn
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) April 26, 2019

I think about this exchange whenever people praise Lee and denigrate Grant. The Civil War did produce a brave, honorable general who fought for the right cause for the right reasons. That general was not Bobby Lee. https://t.co/kFh5bYvK1t pic.twitter.com/5w5l143z4o
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) April 26, 2019

Trump wanted Sessions to prosecute Hillary Clinton

This is a clear abuse of power. Will Republicans not even condemn this? https://t.co/ZOUr4LQGpV
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) April 24, 2019

They won’t. They let Trump do anything. They’re afraid of their voters who are more loyal to Trump than them.

The President asked his attorney general to prosecute Hillary Clinton.

Let that sink in.https://t.co/rZAarvkSQA
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) April 24, 2019

Trump tweets unfounded story from a known liar

No surprise that one liar would spread the lies of another one

Trump probably doesn’t care if it’s true or not – he just wants to make Obama look bad

This unfounded claim came up early in Trump admin. British officials angrily denied it. WH officials reportedly apologized, something Spicer denied at the briefing when he told me "I don't think we regret anything… we were just passing on news reports."https://t.co/JkWn67l48R https://t.co/yjE8XjNXdo
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 24, 2019

Wow. Just wow. Larry Johnson is the source of 3 major fake stories in the last 12 years. Now being cited as an authority by @POTUS. https://t.co/No5P594VUC
— Bret Stephens (@BretStephensNYT) April 24, 2019

The part of this insanity that won’t get enough attention, & will go right over the heads of #Cult45 is this…

He is president of the United States. If this nonsensical allegation was remotely true, he would have access to FAR better evidence/sourcing than Larry Johnson on OANN https://t.co/i9tR5a9N3E
— John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) April 24, 2019

Larry Johnson is the guy who pushed the lie that there was a Michelle Obama “whitey” tape back in 2008. https://t.co/y2TCQkT6Iv https://t.co/8wpSu3Lxsb
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) April 24, 2019

Considering Larry Johnson's track record of hoaxes, is this really who the president should be quoting? https://t.co/lZZXqsdNtS
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 24, 2019

Reliable source.https://t.co/x2mPcOjXR2
— Bob Young (@ryoung2332) April 24, 2019

This is the same conspiracy theory that spawned an international incident with the UK when Sean Spicer falsely said they helped Obama illegally spy on Trump, because he heard Andrew Napolitano say it on Fox News, who heard it from Larry Johnson on an RT clip. pic.twitter.com/d3F2YNWsTX
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) April 24, 2019

Here's how Twitter uses its platform a day after Trump summoned @jack to the White House to whine about his follower count. This debunked, fabricated conspiracy theory caused an international incident in 2017, and Larry Johnson is the racist sleaze behind the "whitey tape" lie. pic.twitter.com/DoOL4FpUHE
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) April 24, 2019

Trump promotes baseless accusation of British spying a day after accepting an invitation for a state visit from the queen https://t.co/bnKGCZ7aU9
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 24, 2019