Taxpayers pay for Trump’s “political activity” at his club

He called it a political activity, not me. Taxpayers should not pay for this. Most of his club members who attended it did not wear masks initially. The media posted pictures of the lack of masks and then masks were passed out. They did not social distance. I hope the state of New Jersey investigates to see if the state’s coronavirus rules were broken. The whole thing is disgusting and corrupt.

The tweets below were from yesterday but Trump did it again today. At least his club members wore masks today.

Trump says members of his NJ club who are gathered maskless are complying with law bc it’s a “political activity” and “peaceful protest.” It’s unclear what they are protesting. Trump in recent days has said that wearing a mask is patriotic, but seems to be endorsing no masks now
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) August 8, 2020

I don’t think he was ever sincere about wearing masks.

A dispatch from the front lines:https://t.co/zLYCgWGbQs
— Toluse Olorunnipa (@ToluseO) August 8, 2020

Guests at Trump club join audience for president's press conference, appear to ignore social distancing https://t.co/ER76uU1ZID pic.twitter.com/PTN6bCd1xF
— The Hill (@thehill) August 8, 2020

So, on a day talks between the White House and Democrats break down over a coronavirus relief package (including enhanced unemployment benefits), the President of the United States holds a press briefing FROM HIS COUNTRY CLUB!?!?! Is there no WH communications director? https://t.co/r3Bb44jQiH
— Robert A George (@RobGeorge) August 7, 2020

His spirits lifted after a difficult week during which aides warned one another about his foul mood, Trump put on a show for his club at Bedminster earlier tonight @anniekarni and me https://t.co/WPTt3FvUEu
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 8, 2020

Suppose they also don’t need to wear seatbelts or wash their hands in the bathroom. https://t.co/zp4fqmNbL9
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 8, 2020

Trump and his cult support law and order but don’t think rules apply to them.

Trump says this *taxpayer-funded and organized event* event is excepted from NJ COVID-19 regulations as a "political activity."
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) August 8, 2020

This completely unreal moment about masks in Bedminster as Trump spins up the crowd against the reporter is why the media SHOULD NOT CUT AWAY FROM THESE THINGS
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 8, 2020

This is in blatant violation of New Jersey's COVID-19 reopening protocols, which *require* golf clubs to limit the number of patrons at any indoor premises to 25% capacity and decline entry to anyone refusing to wear a face mask.

cc: @PhilMurphyNJ https://t.co/bHs6SZWNcr https://t.co/b5d5wocu7i
— Chris Sommerfeldt (@C_Sommerfeldt) August 7, 2020

Trump on intelligence assessment that Russia still interfering in 2020 election on his behalf: “I don’t care what anybody says.”
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) August 8, 2020

Trump is fine with Russia interfering in the election to help him.

Trump: “We’re doing very well.”

Coronavirus deaths over the last 7 days:

Australia: 70
Canada: 37
France: 51
Germany: 49
Italy: 55
Japan: 27
Spain: 57
Sweden: 27
UK: 414

US: 7,189
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) August 8, 2020

Pres Trump's presser is a campaign style event where he has touted what he sees as his accomplishments, attacked Democrats on issues, and discussed everything from healthcare to policing. All with country club members watching, some not socially distancing and without masks.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) August 8, 2020

Trump keeps lying about Veterans Choice

He has told this lie over 100 times. I am glad someone said something to him about it. It was passed in 2014 and signed by Obama.

Trump said again that he’s done more for veterans than John McCain did.

Like by getting the Veterans Choice law.

Which was signed in 2014.

And co-authored by John McCain. https://t.co/MQRgQXEwNR
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 4, 2020

Trump again tonight in comments to the pool: My way of dealing with vets is “much more successful” than John McCain’s, “with Choice and Accountability and all the things I've got.”

He is taking credit for *McCain’s own bill* to argue that he’s done more than McCain. https://t.co/4XjGBdLzHt
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 4, 2020

"We passed Veterans Choice," Trump lies for more than the 150th time of the program signed into law by Obama in 2014.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 20, 2020

It's fairly alarming that the President has been lying for years at nearly every public event about passing a bill and this may be the first time a reporter has challenged him about it to his face. https://t.co/93YX6Svidu
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 8, 2020

https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1292203532733624321?s=20

!!! Trump is challenged for I think the first time ever on why he keeps lying that he got Veterans Choice passed – and he ends the “news conference” and walks out.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 8, 2020

https://twitter.com/jonfranks/status/1292202689003171840?s=20

"We passed Choice, as you know," Trump says for at least the 143rd time of the bill signed into law by Obama in 2014, "and they've been trying to get that for decades and decades and decades and no president's ever been able to do it."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 8, 2020

Trump begins his August 8 Bedminster news conference with some casual xenophobia, and takes credit for Veterans Choice legislation that was actually signed into law by President Obama in 2014 pic.twitter.com/NPjNdhDHQ2
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 8, 2020

Trump just took credit for Veterans Choice legislation.

The Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act was signed into law by President Obama in 2014.

He’s so bad at everything he’s not even good at lying. pic.twitter.com/ZjuuCoNKLc
— VoteVets (@votevets) August 8, 2020

Trump walks out of his news conference after @PaulaReidCBS challenges him on the Veterans Choice lie he has told more than 150 times: https://t.co/4OfLneQ089
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 9, 2020

Trump takes credit for veterans legislation passed during the Obama-Biden administration in 2014 pic.twitter.com/heefy25CoU
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) May 1, 2024

Russia is interfering in the election to help Trump

I bet he does nothing to stop it. Russia should be thrilled by how much Trump has done to help them. Sad!

U.S. Intelligence: GOP Is Accepting Russian Help for Trump https://t.co/v0h2Wt0OLg
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) August 8, 2020

We are all suffering from scandal fatigue, but this scandal cannot be ignored: Trump does not want the intelligence community to expose Russian attacks because he is their beneficiary.

In @PostOpinions: https://t.co/IeK0PFnJrR
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) August 8, 2020

Lets' be 100% clear – there is one nation that has BOTH the capability and intention to significantly disrupt the 2020 American election.

It's not Iran. It's not North Korea. It's not China.

It's Russia.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) August 7, 2020

Breaking News: Russia continues to meddle in the election to aid President Trump, using a range of measures to denigrate Joe Biden, intelligence officials said. https://t.co/4wJeLUMkjY
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 7, 2020

Maybe they know that Russia wants to help Trump and they are comfortable with that. Remember, they didn't want campaigns to be required to report foreign assistance. https://t.co/QfT662HF3Q
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) August 7, 2020

This is huge.

▶️The US says Russia is actively trying to hurt Biden. They are doing this because Biden was tough on Russia as VP.

▶️The US says Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach is part of this effort. He has worked with Giuliani to smear Biden.https://t.co/f5amdoZ9wr pic.twitter.com/b6pHc99auM
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) August 7, 2020

As DNI formally cites the Biden tapes leaked by Derkach as part of a Russian effort, it's worth remembering that Giuliani met with Derkach in December and hosted him on his podcast in February. Derkach “doesn’t seem pro-Russian to me," he told @jdawsey1 https://t.co/jGBRJjMSnA
— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) August 7, 2020

Pelosi/Schiff on DNI statement on election security praises IC for providing new info about Russian efforts to damage Biden but adds: "Unfortunately, today’s statement still treats three actors of differing intent and capability as equal threats to our democratic elections."
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 7, 2020

“What makes Evanina’s statement today so significant is that it makes clear that the passing of information, real or otherwise, from various Ukrainian figures to various Trump allies is part of a Russian-directed scheme to help Trump win.” https://t.co/jJx6vUm3Un
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) August 7, 2020

China and Iran are saying mean things about Trump.

Russia is funneling dirt on Biden to Republicans, who are eagerly exploiting it.

Not the same thing. https://t.co/U1hGh7dIZf
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) August 7, 2020

The nation's top counterintelligence official came out and said that Rudy Giuliani's ally and the Kremlin are playing on the same team.https://t.co/3uOWZKnYGh
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) August 7, 2020

“The softening of Key Judgment 2”—that Russia wanted Trump to win in 2020—“signified a sobering new development of the Trump era: the intel community’s willingness to change what it would otherwise say straightforwardly so as not to upset the president.” https://t.co/DkF7TfwB8k
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 8, 2020

.@maddow: "What's happening in 2020, this is now the Republican led US Senate accepting and acting on, effectively laundering and promoting dirt that the US intelligence community now publicly says is a Russian operation to mess with our election."https://t.co/i6jPwnuGMy
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 8, 2020

Coronavirus polls update 8/6/20

It’s like there are two separate countries here.

Americans have mixed views about whether K-12 schools in their area should offer in-person instruction, online instruction or a combination of both as the coronavirus outbreak intensifies across much of the country. https://t.co/FX0EiV5nEE
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) August 9, 2020

Republicans tend to be more open to the idea of reopening sooner than Democrats, data shows. https://t.co/mjfcQ4Z76t
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) August 7, 2020

80% of Democrats attribute the rise in coronavirus cases primarily to more infections, not just more testing. 62% of Republicans say the primary reason is because more people are being tested. https://t.co/01Wri8ysFm pic.twitter.com/1nWDbPcmsq
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) August 6, 2020

Poll: Americans don't trust Trump on coronavirus. Republicans don't trust CDC or Fauci. https://t.co/VgHzZsopsz pic.twitter.com/vcqjJiUxBY
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) August 4, 2020

Roughly 40% of Americans have postponed getting medical care due to the coronavirus outbreak.https://t.co/xclVIqafqm
— Axios (@axios) August 5, 2020

Pluralities of Trump voters and Republicans think the U.S. is handling coronavirus better than most other countries are, a new poll finds.

No, really.https://t.co/cf3nae83xb
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) August 3, 2020

Only 47% of employees said improved safety measures would make them feel comfortable returning to the office, according to a recent survey. https://t.co/pyy0qkeXem
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 7, 2020

Share of Americans who say___is a major reason the COVID-19 outbreak has continued in the U.S.:
Not following social distancing/mask-wearing guidelines: 75%
Inadequate government response: 53%
Lack of timely testing: 49%https://t.co/2vddzTAOCJ pic.twitter.com/ZORjTu0pXX
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) August 7, 2020

About 69% of U.S. adults said they worry that states reopened too quickly as the country continues to confront the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new Pew survey. https://t.co/LNzjZFlbci
— Axios (@axios) August 7, 2020

New @pewresearch maps opening for @ProjectLincoln & @RVAT2020: 45% of Rs say states opened too fast; 34% say US has been less effective in response than other countries; 21% say poor federal response is a reason for high caseloads & 20% disapprove of Trump job (33% of R mods do)
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 6, 2020

Regardless of how you intend to vote, who do you think would do a better job handling the response to the coronavirus?

ALL
Trump 35%
Biden 59%
WOMEN
Trump 29%
Biden 64%
MEN
Trump 42%
Biden 52%

(Quinnipiac U. Poll, RV, 7/9-13/20)
more: https://t.co/08M9QULkDU
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) July 18, 2020

Only 11% of Americans say they trust the information they hear about coronavirus from President Trump "a great deal." Four times as many Americans, 45%, say they trust it "not at all" via new NPR/PBS/Marist poll.
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) August 14, 2020

US failure to control the coronavirus

To summarize this outstanding @DLeonhardt piece, the inept US response to the coronavirus is attributable to 1) American conservatism generally 2) Trump specifically https://t.co/opTK0yta14
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) August 6, 2020

Wear a mask – more information

It’s terrible that many right-wing people have made this a political issue. It’s selfish, too.

CNN: Researchers behind an influential model at the University of Washington are now projecting that the US death toll could reach nearly 300,000 by December 1 – but that can be changed if consistent mask-wearing occurs.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 6, 2020

Kansas Health Secretary:

“What we've seen through this is that in the counties with no mask mandate there's no decrease in the number of cases per capita.

All the improvement in the case development comes from those counties wearing masks."https://t.co/XUDiLsYBLN
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) August 6, 2020

A Florida man was arrested after confronting a child wearing a mask at a restaurant and spitting in his face when the boy refused to take it off, police said. https://t.co/sN8Y3NchxL
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 6, 2020

Masks work. Period. https://t.co/CTq14hnX8E
— Men's Health Mag (@MensHealthMag) August 4, 2020

Delta's CEO says more than 100 people have been banned for refusing to wear a mask onboard.
“If you board the plane and you insist on not wearing your mask, we will insist that you don’t fly Delta into the future.”
— Touré (@Toure) August 4, 2020

"Wearing a mask is a non-partisan issue. The advice of medical experts shouldn't be politicized."

Rep. Louie Gohmert's daughter publicly rebuked him for not wearing a mask and ignoring medical expertise before he tested positive for coronavirus last week. https://t.co/rGzOfeu2OW
— CNN (@CNN) August 3, 2020

Great catch by @RobertMackey: It appears CEOs at Mike Pence's event on Friday may have been actively instructed to remove masks before it started: https://t.co/HhYHGX3MVc

I took a close look at Trump's Honeywell event, and it looks like something similar happened there, too: https://t.co/QcDXtQXFMq
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 11, 2020

In 1918 and 1919, masks also stoked political division. Then, as now, medical authorities urged people to wear them to help slow the spread of disease. And then, as now, some people resisted.

Here's how that started — and what it looked like. https://t.co/QYHzGV33hM
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 3, 2020

Man fires at cops with AK-47 after refusing to wear a mask, police say https://t.co/3DhchMilSJ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 3, 2020

Fox News’ Pirro comes out firmly against masks: “What is the point of the mask? The point of the mask is to basically kinda dehumanize. It’s to frighten people…It’s exactly what the anarchists and the protesters need…There are all kinds of subliminal messages to that mask.” pic.twitter.com/15yKeHenrr
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) August 3, 2020

“Many retailers have said they do not want to become the face mask police, and that if states and local governments want mask requirements strictly enforced they should provide law enforcement officers to do so,” says the National Retail Federation. https://t.co/l8gppJ3vta
— Staying in the Game (@AdrienneLaw) August 2, 2020

No way to enforce masks in school? The same places that enforce uniforms and hair styles and things like that? https://t.co/jCmzYRw9zn
— Dr. Seema Yasmin (@DoctorYasmin) August 6, 2020

We’ve seen viral videos of people refusing to wear a mask, many being indigent or violent. Why are the majority of those involved white?

I caught up with critical race theorist Dr. @MaythaAlhassen to explore the issue. Her insight in eye-opening: https://t.co/lL3QfjPVOY
— Staying in the Game (@AdrienneLaw) August 6, 2020

New research suggests that face coverings help reduce the transmission of droplets, though some masks are more protective than others.
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) July 23, 2020

Trump uses official events as campaign events

Trump has totally blurred the lines between his presidency, his business, and his campaign events. Can’t anyone hold him accountable?

Trump again campaigning during official WH event from the Oval Office, attacking Biden repeatedly and asking for support from the nation’s sheriffs https://t.co/UMgHUut7L7
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) August 11, 2020

President Trump continues his norm-breaking by campaigning from the White House https://t.co/rg0ks6VrjS pic.twitter.com/JcIzwJ0qFr
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 7, 2020

Trump is now denouncing Oregon's governor and Seattle's mayor. These speeches are like taxpayer-funded rallies with mostly silent audiences.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 6, 2020

At an official WH event, Trump is delivering a campaign speech, repeatedly attacking Biden. Many of the lines are right out of the rallies.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 6, 2020

“AOC, that’s a real beauty isn’t it,” Trump says in Ohio at what’s supposed to be an official WH event but what’s really a campaign speech attacking Biden and Democrats
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) August 6, 2020

Trump's trip to Ohio is a taxpayer-funded official White House event, but here he is railing against "the Obama-Biden administration."

He's obliterated the line between campaigning and the office of the presidency. pic.twitter.com/lSu0BSCDSF
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 6, 2020

https://t.co/FuUeG45rOk
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) August 6, 2020

Trump has totally blurred the lines between his presidency, his business and his re-election campaign. Can't anyone hold him accountable? Taxpayers should not being paying for this.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) August 6, 2020

In Georgia, at an official event paid by taxpayers, Trump taking shots at Biden. Yesterday, in the WH rose garden, he spent a bulk of his official speech attacking Biden
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 15, 2020

In today's official (taxpayer-funded) speech in Georgia, Trump is now attacking "the Biden administration," when Biden was vice president, and attacking Biden's current proposals at length.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 15, 2020

And here is why taxpayers spent well over $3 million for Trump to go to Mount Rushmore. So his people could make this campaign video.

Watch for this footage in TV ads. You will have paid much of the production costs. https://t.co/x9UupQu45Q
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) July 4, 2020

This was basically a campaign rally for Trump at taxpayer expense.

Seven hour round trip flight, using BOTH 747s, plus airlifting motorcade, helos…

Minimum $3 million, back of the envelope. Minimum.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) July 4, 2020

Can’t anyone stop Trump from constantly using official events for political purposes? Taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for this.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 15, 2020

Trump's visit to Maine is funded by taxpayers and is not supposed to be a campaign event, but here he is openly campaigning pic.twitter.com/ZWzD4mi18d
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 5, 2020

Don’t drink hand sanitizer!

C.D.C. has warned about the dangers of drinking hand sanitizer after four people died and nearly a dozen became ill. https://t.co/oy03tVGMzK
— Mark S. Getzfred (@marknyt) August 6, 2020

People are getting sick and even dying after swallowing hand sanitizer, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

Four have died and others have suffered impaired vision or seizures, the CDC says. https://t.co/W7UXiBxmSm
— CNN (@CNN) August 6, 2020

Don't drink hand sanitizer. https://t.co/4JjUb06jSb
— Dr. Seema Yasmin (@DoctorYasmin) August 6, 2020

More on coronavirus and prisons

Although there had been three straight weeks of decreasing coronavirus cases among prisoners, infections rise again this week. There was a steep rise in staff cases after plateauing for nearly two months. https://t.co/qeOZKfSQuD
— The Marshall Project (@MarshallProj) October 23, 2020

🗓 As of this week, at least 93,618 incarcerated people around the country have tested positive for COVID-19. 790 have died.

21,725 staff have tested positive. 63 have died.

Mass incarceration is a public health crisis for everyone.
— ACLU (@ACLU) August 6, 2020

2 California prisoners die of suspected coronavirus complications https://t.co/Pyupb8nUad
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) August 4, 2020

Someone I know got out of prison right around the time the pandemic hit a peak here. They said so many people inside had Covid and not much was being done then

Now, new cases among incarcerated people reached an all-time high mid-Julyhttps://t.co/uvipb7aisM
— Ivie Ani (@ivieani) August 2, 2020

Virus rate in prisons seen as U.S.' worst https://t.co/HdooHuWVpE
— AR Democrat-Gazette (@ArkansasOnline) August 3, 2020

Arizona corrections officials have said that 517 inmates at the state prison in Tucson have tested positive for the coronavirus even as the overall spread in the state seems to be turning a corner.https://t.co/VD1pTXkwFH
— FOX5 Las Vegas (@FOX5Vegas) August 6, 2020

The spread of the #COVID19 virus in prisons is taking its toll on all of us. Directly or indirectly, everyone is affected, including you. | Via @TaylorMarie1732 https://t.co/5JkdJjzPdR
— Florida CCJR (@betterjusticefl) August 5, 2020

BREAKING: After months of attempting to mitigate COVID-19’s spread through the Florida prison system, Department of Corrections Secretary Mark Inch is facing the highly infectious disease himself. https://t.co/cKbu7rlFMI
— Samantha J. Gross (@samanthajgross) August 1, 2020

This public health crisis has turned a prison sentence into a death sentence. We need to safely release people from jail. Glad to see NJ is on track to make significant progress—but we must do more including passing my bill to do this on the federal level. https://t.co/Yz09OMkMjl
— Sen. Cory Booker (@SenBooker) August 1, 2020

Currently, 43 percent of inmates inside San Juan County jail have contracted the virus. When the Navajo Nation, partly in San Juan County, called for an investigation of prison conditions, county officials refused. https://t.co/Lk0ulDl1Kp
— PSL Salt Lake 🚩 (@pslsaltlake) August 5, 2020

Prisons are not a bubble that contain the virus. Can’t get out of this pandemic without more releases. 6 staff and 49 incarcerated have died. How many more will it take? @GavinNewsom https://t.co/S3SZGZcjTz
— Liz Linn (@LizLinn74) August 3, 2020

San Quentin Prison has experienced the largest outbreak of Covid-19 among prisoners in California, with 168 positive cases as of Tuesday morning, according to @guardian. Learn more about the virus's spread in CA's places of detention with our case study:https://t.co/3KJxG0qhfx
— WorldPeaceFoundation (@WorldPeaceFdtn) August 6, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to spread through Florida prisons, 59 inmates have now died from the virus https://t.co/zTwr7rAJQJ
— Ray Roa (@rayroa) August 6, 2020

For the past few months I've been exchanging letters with Kevin Sawyer, an incarcerated journalist who has gone to incredible lengths to document the coronavirus outbreak at San Quentin Prison while he's locked inside. This is his story: https://t.co/jIRJfLYai0
— Samantha Michaels (@sjmichaels) August 7, 2020

Marijuana sent him to prison for decades. Now he has COVID-19 and is seeking release. https://t.co/AmNAaPcYg2 pic.twitter.com/WyrhW4q3Qc
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) August 7, 2020

Voting for Kanye West helps Trump

He has Republicans helping him out.

A fresh look from @PostRoz and @jdawsey1 at how Republican operatives are trying to get Kanye on the ballot.

The unspoken side of this: Where’s the organic demand for a Kanye campaign? https://t.co/hLWlNiivaK
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 9, 2020

Kanye West's candidacy is so clearly part of the president*’s re-election campaign that it should fool nobody. https://t.co/jxbOw8qF7K
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 5, 2020

So you’re telling me that the Republican Party is using a black man’s labor, to meet their own goals, because they don’t want to do the work. We are all so shocked.

This has deep Roots. https://t.co/KnDhBENHHS
— Mandela Barnes (@TheOtherMandela) August 5, 2020

Lane Ruhland, the Wisconsin lawyer who dropped off Kanye West's presidential filing at the Wisconsin Board of Elections represented Donald Trump's presidential campaign exactly one week before in federal court pic.twitter.com/RHajkRDiMO
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) August 5, 2020

Scoop! A well-connected GOP strategist is helping Kanye West get on the ballot in Wisconsin.

From @cam_joseph https://t.co/dNVOtzz8l6
— Katie Drummond (@katiedrumm) August 5, 2020

to recap Kanye's ballot efforts…

– WISCONSIN: ballots submitted by *Trump campaign attorney*; electors are GOP activists

– ARKANSAS: point of contact was nearly Trump's campaign manager

– VERMONT: elector is Trump delegate; wife is Trump appointee
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) August 5, 2020

Usually a lawyer could not represent two different candidates in the same race, unless both candidates waived the conflict to allow it. Would sure like to know if that happened here. https://t.co/RLJpPtrQrS
— Daniel Jacobson (@Dan_F_Jacobson) August 5, 2020

It looks like Kanye West may have filed his ballot petitions in Wisconsin roughly 2 minutes after the filing deadline closed. This will likely end up in court. https://t.co/VqAM5VACQ0
— Politics1.com (@Politics1com) August 6, 2020

And what exactly does the GOP think they are going to gain by doing this? The Trump campaign taking advantage of a man whose wife says he “is suffering from mental illness” is such a pathetic act of desperation; and yet to be expected. #moretocome https://t.co/b8OqheyaZM
— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) August 6, 2020

"Republicans are obviously pinning their hopes on Kanye West to siphon off enough votes to squeeze Donald Trump through."

.@Chrislhayes explains how the Republican party could benefit from Kanye West's candidacy: https://t.co/btGbfcm2q0
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 6, 2020

We’ve gone way beyond wearing a hat and having an opinion. He’s trying to take away Biden votes. This is insane. https://t.co/Fw9yffCbBT
— Touré (@Toure) August 5, 2020

Hm… sounds right, but I should travel there for at least a week to make sure. https://t.co/CRoBorHYOi
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 6, 2020

As spoiler strategies go I feel like "I'm Ralph Nader, and I want you to vote for me and this agenda" is more effective than "I'm literally running to re-elect Trump, please step onto this part of the floor and ignore the button I'm about to push." https://t.co/JCqbhPiIex
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 6, 2020

#KanyeConJob https://t.co/oGBBwIe0m3
— The Lincoln Project 🏴‍☠️ (@ProjectLincoln) August 11, 2020

“After combing through two challenges to Kanye West’s nomination signatures at the behest of The Lincoln Project… two conclusions: not only should Kanye be kept off the ballot, but law enforcement should investigate and prosecute several individuals involved in the effort.“ https://t.co/JsODCZBLX7
— Francisca Sinn (@mcfslaw) August 9, 2020

The #KanyeConJob is illegal and likely organized by the Trump campaign.

This feeble attempt at rigging the election won’t work and shows that Trump knows a reckoning in November is imminent. https://t.co/i9qKRK1tix
— The Lincoln Project 🏴‍☠️ (@ProjectLincoln) August 9, 2020

Kanye West will also not be permitted on the New Jersey ballot due to faulty signatures. His ‘campaign’ withdraws petition. https://t.co/HoIgwv9XnA #KanyeWest #Election2020
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) August 9, 2020

Rapper #KanyeWest indicates that his spoiler campaign is indeed designed to hurt @JoeBiden in @Forbes exclusive.

We must also mention he’s battling severe bipolar disorder, is off his meds & is in a manic state according to his wife @KimKardashian.

READ: https://t.co/sWDKe5KtDN
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) August 7, 2020