Trump’s DHS and the right treat Rittenhouse like a hero

He apparently killed two people. He is not a hero.

Kyle Rittenhouse's lawyers see his case as a battle in their own culture war https://t.co/uMsygC7JRN
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) October 5, 2020

Law enforcement officials "were directed to make public comments sympathetic to Kyle Rittenhouse" in internal DHS talking points, NBC reports.

One of these is that he "took his rifle to the scene of the rioting to help defend small business owners."https://t.co/22kItkeXlB
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 1, 2020

Christian group raises over $500K for Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse https://t.co/0femJpPHci pic.twitter.com/6b6FUmL76P
— New York Post (@nypost) September 28, 2020

Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with fatally shooting two people and injuring a third last month in Kenosha, got a standing ovation at a Waukesha County Republican event this week. https://t.co/bLhMZekdSx
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 26, 2020

I think a lot about how large parts of America literally worship violent white men. https://t.co/FgAI5oaCME
— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) September 25, 2020

This is insane. https://t.co/VlkIgWzS3s
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) September 25, 2020

A standing ovation from Wisconsin Republicans for a 17-year-old who traveled to another state, illegally procured an AR-15, and has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide and first-degree reckless homicide after fatally shooting two protestors. #wileg pic.twitter.com/lWwqRlvhGr
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) September 25, 2020

Kenosha shooter's defense portrays him as 'American patriot' https://t.co/yBxrJQTvvV
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) September 24, 2020

Just here to add my voice to all the black people calling out this racist crap. He's calling for vigilante violence. https://t.co/vpaUCs3dCm
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) September 24, 2020

It is sort of noteable that Biden is repeatedly pressed to respond to and denounce looting and riots that happen at these protests while Kyle Rittenhouse becomes a folk hero on the right and militias now roam the streets of cities.
— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 24, 2020

Fox is defending a mass murdering 17 yo who went into the street with a rifle to shoot unarmed protesters. If you can’t see that Fox is a malignant tumor on the American mind I can’t help you. https://t.co/MVV93BePdl
— Touré (@Toure) September 23, 2020

He brought a semi-automatic ride to a police brutality protest and has been charged with murder https://t.co/lQWFFXrrnX
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 23, 2020

Sen. Ron Johnson just said he supports “citizen soldiers” in Kenosha. Kyle Rittenhouse, who murdered 2 people, is a citizen soldier. #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/gAe4B2Z4tA
— Mike 🌊 One-Term Trump 🌊 (@thedecider99) August 30, 2020

Even for Trump, it was a morning of especially wild tweets, advancing conspiracy theories claiming a coup against him and an inflated virus death toll while embracing a call to imprison Cuomo and offering support for Kyle Rittenhouse. https://t.co/PlSF8ft3W2
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) August 30, 2020

Trump is responsible for nearly 38% of the world’s misinformation about COVID-19

Guess where a stunning 37% of world’s COVID-19 misinformation is coming from? https://t.co/V1KZ9z7wmn
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 1, 2020

⚠️TRUMP IS THE TOP MISINFORMATION source on #COVID19. @Cornell researchers analyzed 38 million articles about the pandemic in English-media. Trump made up nearly 38% of overall “misinformation conversation,” making Trump largest driver of “infodemic”. https://t.co/zVBqLyVvHR pic.twitter.com/aIfbQAhVpx
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 1, 2020

A new Cornell University study finds that the president has been the single "largest driver" of coronavirus misinformation.https://t.co/xa5WSQ65G0 pic.twitter.com/xEN9KRig74
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 1, 2020

Trump’s lies about voter fraud

NEW from me: I spent 5 months investigating how Trump and Republicans are sowing disinformation and creating panic about supposedly widespread voter fraud. Reporting included 100+ interviews with key players, review of 1000s of pages of records 4 @NYTmag https://t.co/ewJ2HRYvEZ
— jimrutenberg (@jimrutenberg) September 30, 2020

The Trump cult believes his lie that he will protect people with pre-existing conditions

A new report finds many Trump voters are certain he'd protect people with preexisting conditions. In other words, his health care stance is so awful that his voters simply don't believe he holds it. In 2012, something similar happened with Romney's plans:https://t.co/cE6DxNNnzZ
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 1, 2020

Republican voter suppression in Texas

One drop box for almost 5 million people! This is blatant voter suppression.

Editorial board of ⁦@HoustonChron⁩ says it straight: Governor Abbott’s closure of ballot drop-off locations is voter suppression. Plain and simple. https://t.co/xvsqRgzBHy
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) October 3, 2020

Voting rights advocates sue to block Texas governor’s order limiting counties to one ballot drop-off location https://t.co/YB4GcIeJVz
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) October 2, 2020

Texas Democrats are planning to take Gov. Greg Abbott to federal court over his controversial move to shutter locations across the state where voters can drop off their mail-in ballots to be counted for the general election https://t.co/rfq8gE2wB4
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 1, 2020

Harris County clerk: “To force hundreds of thousands of seniors and voters with disabilities to use a single drop-off location in a county that stretches nearly 2,000 square miles is prejudicial and dangerous.” https://t.co/d7GHcvhLh3
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 1, 2020

Why?

—>> Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a proclamation limiting drop-off locations for mail-in ballots to one per county.

The move significantly affects Harris County, the state's largest county by population, one of the largest in the country, and a Democratic stronghold.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 1, 2020

How GOP voter suppression works in Texas

-you can vote with gun permit but not student ID

-no online voter registration

-must be deputized to register voters

-voters under 65 can’t use fear of covid to vote by mail

-only 1 place to drop ballots off in huge Dem counties
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) October 1, 2020

Heres how we overcome this latest voter suppression bullshit: we call Texas voters tonight and ask them to make a plan to vote during Early Voting (12 days away). We cannot allow Abbott to deter, deny or defeat us. Sign up here and lets do the work to win: https://t.co/mpDxpOfSBb https://t.co/bWXh871YJ2
— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) October 1, 2020

WaPo: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a proclamation limiting each of the state's counties to only one mail-in ballot drop-off location for the November election.

Texas Democrats immediately criticized Abbott's move as "a blatant voter suppression tactic."
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 1, 2020

NEW: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott limits election drop boxes to one per county. He says the move was made to enhance ballot security, but critics warn it could severely limit access for many voters https://t.co/JIg0lsVYJ4
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 1, 2020

The particular game here is that Texas has 254 counties, most of which are tiny. But also five counties with populations of over one million.

So the one drop-off point per county rule delivers a huge advantage to residents of those small rural counties. https://t.co/rA5hQoBuH9
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 1, 2020

To put this in perspective:
Washington DC:
68 square miles
700,000 residents
Dozens of ballot drop-off boxes

Harris County, Texas
1,777 square miles
4.7 million residents
1 ballot drop-off location https://t.co/LAbAeBMLbv
— Aman Batheja (@amanbatheja) October 1, 2020

BREAKING: In what will surely spark a Texas election controversy, Gov Greg Abbott is ordering counties to only operate one mail-in ballot drop-off location. Harris County had opened nearly a dozen drop sites in a county that's larger than Rhode Island. More details to come..
— ed lavandera (@edlavaCNN) October 1, 2020

This is Republican voter suppression at high level. You would think a governor who is disabled might show a little sensitivity to making voting more accessible to all Texans.Why are Republicans afraid of more people voting? @GregAbbott_TX https://t.co/QIwhzdwEyI
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) October 1, 2020

This is voter suppression in action, a conscious effort to make it much harder to vote in urban areas — which are more Black, Hispanic & Democratic — than in rural areas. It’s blatant discrimination, made easier by a a right-wing Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act. https://t.co/CIj2hmN3nt
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) October 1, 2020

For those of you not from Texas, Harris County includes Houston, and has more people than 24 states. It will have one drop box. https://t.co/IdnDihT38v
— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) October 1, 2020

"This has President Trump written all over it with the Governor changing the rules with 33 days until the most important election of our lifetime to make it harder to vote," says Clay Jenkins. https://t.co/pjNd0Ji5LN
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 2, 2020