Trump’s urges a boycott of AT&T

I thought Republicans were big on free enterprise. They have been quiet as Trump suggests a boycott of AT&T because he doesn’t like the coverage he gets on their subsidiary CNN. This is how dictators act.

This is America. We don't have presidents who punish companies that don't flatter him. Nothing great again about taking America down the path of the despot. We have never had a President call for Americans to boycott a company he doesn't like. pic.twitter.com/U09NzyUzd5
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) June 4, 2019

This explains why the Trump Justice Department tried to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger, a very unusual move for a “vertical” merger.

Government retaliation against a media organization based on its viewpoint violates the First Amendment.

It’s what tyrants do, not presidents. https://t.co/B2wvHaPybc
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 4, 2019

"A president calling for an economic boycott of one of the largest telecommunications companies because he doesn't like their news network … is completely norm-shattering," says @Hadas_Gold, as President Trump suggests a boycott of AT&T for carrying CNN. https://t.co/JSCy2AGhhF pic.twitter.com/iNcP2W94dW
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) June 3, 2019

Conservatives are court packing now

Democrats would not suggest measures like term limits or expanding the size of the Supreme Court if Republicans had not abused the system. Biden thinks he could work with Republicans. I bet they would not approve any of his judicial nominees if he’s elected.

The numbers don't lie: GOP only allowed 2 Obama appointees in his final two years, but jammed through 30 judges in Trump's first two.https://t.co/8WyWqMGTxr
— Sam Berger (@SamBerger_DC) May 29, 2019

"Judicial appointments, especially to the Supreme Court, are a central pillar of the Republican agenda, and Republican voters will forgive any number of other transgressions if the Party delivers on the courts."
This is why Democrats need to catch up.https://t.co/JbMYNtRJYv
— Demand Justice (@WeDemandJustice) June 3, 2019

Trump company accused of evading taxes in Panama

At the former Trump Panama hotel, owners say they have evidence @realdonaldtrump’s co evaded taxes. Trump Org denies https://t.co/pgD51qSwN7
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) June 4, 2019

Trump’s company dodged millions of dollars in taxes on Panama hotel, lawsuit claims https://t.co/Es13ogHD2W
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) June 4, 2019

Russia likes Trump more than Obama – other countries don’t

Trump can do as many photo ops in white tie as he wants. But he is savaging our key alliances.

Change in confidence in US president from Obama in 2016 to Trump in 2018 (Pew)

Germany: -76%
Sweden: -76%
France: -75%
Canada: -58%
Australia: -52%
UK: -51%
Japan: -48%
Russia: +8%
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) June 4, 2019

To Trump’s critics, his denial of protests in a London showcased a president refusing to come to grips with the reality that he remains deeply unpopular around the world and that perceptions of U.S. global leadership have plummeted. W/⁦@ToluseO⁩ https://t.co/QdL1kuVEZF
— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) June 4, 2019

The Supreme Court will help Republicans rig the 2020 Census

I expect the Republican-controlled court to rule in favor of adding the citizenship question which will help Republicans by hurting Democrats. It won’t matter that the Trump administration has lied and that it was a blatantly political move that had nothing to do with enforcing the Voting Rights Act.

The Census case hinges on whether the Supreme Court will give its blessing to an overt effort to increase white political power, a dangerous step towards White Man’s Government by another name. https://t.co/WiUyGtjUpR
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) June 4, 2019

Read @JamilSmith on rigging the Census https://t.co/Y5BiUNs8Xl
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) June 4, 2019

Most important and overlooked story from last week: Why GOP wanted citizenship question on Census? To “be advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites,” or, rather, to disenfranchise voters of color https://t.co/Bir3p9f8g3
— Kevin B. Blackistone (@ProfBlackistone) June 1, 2019

Even more proof emerges that the Trump administration is adding a citizenship question to help white Republicans. Is the Supreme Court going to care? I'm not optimistic: https://t.co/0whhwUqZCb
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) May 30, 2019

This week the hood came off. The administration’s census citizenship question is racism justified with a lie: https://t.co/Ifc91QmQQQ
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) May 31, 2019

I know there's a lot going on these days, but the GOP trying to manipulate the census to undercount non-Whites and lying to the court about it is a political scandal that will massively impact this country for decades. Everyone should be paying attention. https://t.co/kuYxk938q8
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) May 31, 2019

It’s always been clear why the Trump Administration put a citizenship question on the 2020 Census:

To decrease political representation for immigrant communities for their own partisan advantage.

Now there are receipts. https://t.co/XgdPfONWzy
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) May 30, 2019

Over 1,000 former prosecutors say Trump would be indicted if he wasn’t president

There are now over 1,000 prior federal prosecutors of both parties who attest that the evidence in the Mueller report would’ve led to Trump’s indictment and conviction but for his immunity as president under DOJ policy.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 30, 2019

And now an important message from Robert Deniro. Please watch. Please share. pic.twitter.com/9RRDSzZK4C
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) May 30, 2019

I want indictments, not impeachment which will fail in the Senate. I don’t think Trump will go to jail but I think he belongs there.

Internal threats to our republic

Good thread by Walter Schaub

Heed the signs and don't underestimate the threat to our republic from within:

-Trump obstructed justice
-A McConnell-packed SCOTUS says precedent can be changed more easily than previously thought
-AG Barr is an open partisan and slow-motion Saturday Night Massacre beneficiary
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 1, 2019

Trump lies about the Mueller report and investigation

THREAD: Reeling after Mueller's press conference where he refused to exonerate Trump, the President unleashed an avalanche of lies and falsehoods about the Russia investigation. We tracked everything he said. Here are Trump's 21 false claims and lies. https://t.co/IrdxVYtViV
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) May 31, 2019

Mueller must testify publicly

Trump and Barr have totally outmaneuvered Mueller. They have lied and distorted his findings and he only objected behind the scenes until last week. His brief public statement was unsatisfactory. He was way too polite and not very blunt. He expects people to read his report – that’s not realistic. It’s over 400 pages. He allowed Trump and Barr to set the narrative and there are now millions of Trump cult members who believe Trump is innocent. I don’t blame Mueller for not wanting to make this political but it’s too late. Trump and Barr already have. Now, Mueller must answer questions in public.

Mueller "underestimated the dishonesty of Trump and Barr. He might have done well to follow Comey’s example" https://t.co/exBEhHwZaA
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 2, 2019

House Dems face a Mueller conundrum: What to do w/a reticent special counsel?

They ALL agree he has a duty to testify in public — so do most Americans. But how far will they go to push him into the witness chair?

W/⁦@nakashimae⁩ & ⁦@karoun⁩ https://t.co/RKcuDBpcHC
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) June 1, 2019

Opinion: Mueller went out like a lamb when the country needed a lion https://t.co/BRg4TaV9FA
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 2, 2019

“Mr. Mueller seemed to expect that the system would work as it had in the past, with Congress or perhaps voters making the decision about whether Mr. Trump had committed a crime, only to see the president’s handpicked attorney general” said he hadn’t. https://t.co/z9GwcAUgHU
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 31, 2019

Barr makes this clear today: he didn’t simply misinterpret Mueller, he overruled him- “WE DIDN’T AGREE WITH THE LEGAL ANALYSIS..IT DID NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE DEPARTMENT. IT WAS THE VIEWS OF PARTICULAR LAWYER OR LAWYERS, AND SO WE APPLIED WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS THE RIGHT LAW.”
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 31, 2019

Mueller spoke directly to America on Wednesday, hoping to cut through flawed analysis of what his report said.

Let's see how Fox News covered it! https://t.co/7rpWp7RZmD
— Philip Bump (@pbump) May 31, 2019

We need more of this – digestible, understandable breakdown of the most important points in the Mueller Report. Here ⁦@JRubinBlogger⁩ does it with Volume I. https://t.co/iEyFogryUb
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) May 31, 2019

ICYMI
Do you think that Special Counsel Robert Mueller conducted a fair investigation into any links or coordination between President Trump's campaign and the Russian government?
Yes 72%
No 18%
(Quinnipiac U. Poll, RV, 4/26-29/19)
see full wording: https://t.co/y7sFCxMUS3
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) May 30, 2019

The number of people who have NEVER HEARD that the Mueller report DIDN’T EXONERATE Trump of criminality is staggering.

Maybe we shouldn’t keep assuming that people in Trump’s base are unmovable by factual information. Maybe it’s all the silo effect of social media.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 30, 2019

Calling Mueller’s team “some of the worst human beings on Earth,” while saying he’s in love with Kim Jong-un, a dictator who murders people for sport, tosses thousands in gulags, and executes dissidents with anti-aircraft guns, tells you what you need to know about Trump. https://t.co/jHi98fbkcO
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) May 30, 2019

This critique of Mueller seems right to me. His well-born rectitude was from central casting. But the courage he showed as a marine would’ve been helpful. https://t.co/SEm97lAmDU
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 30, 2019

Trump needs to shut up about the UK

He said Meghan Markle was nasty and lied and said he didn’t say it. There is proof that he did.

He’s taking sides in their upcoming election and on Brexit. I am sure Putin appreciates all of the chaos and damage Trump is causing. He can’t run this country so he shouldn’t tell anyone else how to run theirs.

President Trump has sent Britain's political establishment into a spin, telling the UK it should "walk away" from Brexit talks if the European Union does not give it what it wants https://t.co/EfPQSgzzNH
— CNN (@CNN) June 2, 2019

Fox headline: "Donald Trump says he never called Meghan Markle 'nasty'"

Very last sentence in the story: "Despite his denial, there is an audio recording circulating of President Trump saying the exact quote about Duchess Meghan that had been reported."https://t.co/L4Fkz8uH5i
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 2, 2019

Dude is on video calling Meghan Markle "nasty" and he’s still denying it. This is not just another blatant Trump lie; this is some next level pathological disorder he’s dealing with. https://t.co/rHDibcpMwx
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) June 2, 2019

Trump Calls on Britain to ‘Walk Away’ if E.U. Does Not Concede to Its Demands via ⁦@katierogers⁩. Another time POTUS visited, he gave an interview to a Murdoch paper and was critical of May – something he had to apologize to her for in person https://t.co/LniNFtjNEz
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 2, 2019

Part of Trump's prep for his state visit: Interviews with two of Murdoch's papers https://t.co/VAQ7NWTDpV
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 1, 2019

All this is consistent w/ my piece on Trump undermining the democratically elected government of the UK https://t.co/tb3lliVsur https://t.co/p0BlR50gwc
— Tom Wright (@thomaswright08) June 1, 2019

What a jerk.
He insults the Royal Family and then he endorses a clown for PM.

Trump tells The Sun: Meghan Markle is 'nasty,' Boris Johnson would do a 'very good job' as Prime Minister @CNN https://t.co/C0NIJajDZy
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) June 1, 2019

Just the mayor of London saying our president is a modern day fascist. https://t.co/nnKHbnX59Z
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) June 2, 2019