More tweets on Trump’s unpaid campaign event bills

what a scumbag

His campaign still owes almost $445,000 from a similar event in 2019.https://t.co/tR8e3pxR2h
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 31, 2024

Donald, about that outstanding bill…https://t.co/icck3KxBFh
— Bob Moriarty 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@BobMoriartyABQ) October 27, 2024

Many cities now require the Trump campaign to pay upfront for rallies due to unpaid debts from past events dating back to 2016.

🟠 LIVE updates: https://t.co/7zDouhmC9g pic.twitter.com/ycUF2peiLa
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) October 27, 2024

Trump’s Unpaid Rally Bills Add Colossal Sum to Already Staggering Debt

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More pictures misused by Trump and his supporters

Miscaptioned photo shows people gathered in Dublin for a 2011 appearance by then-President Barack Obama, not lines to see former President Donald Trump’s Oct. 27 rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. https://t.co/DJJ8mFMUNZ
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) October 28, 2024

This is the most on-brand Trump ad ever. It claims to “support our troops,” but the photo is a composited fake, the jets are MiG-29s, and the rifles are Kalashnikovs. Yes, seriously. https://t.co/fEC3WndvHq pic.twitter.com/ZaJzo8fnus
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 15, 2020

Donald Trump's campaign ads featured pictures of a mountain range in the former Soviet republic rather than the U.S. state of Georgia.https://t.co/MkpAhmJzYu
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 23, 2024

Excellent article on Bronny James

From @TheAthletic: Most people may think of Bronny James as the spoiled son of basketball megastar LeBron James who now plays on the Lakers because of his dad. But those who knew Bronny as a kid saw his humility and kindness while managing his celebrity. https://t.co/PsJUVbe4iq pic.twitter.com/KcHwJxXgcM
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 29, 2024

More billionaires are supporting Trump or are sucking up to him

The disgraceful Citizens United decision by the Republican-run Supreme Court has allowed wealthy people to spend millions of dollars on elections.

Meet the megadonors pumping over $2.5 billion into the election

Billionaires own about 4% of US wealth, but contributed 1/3 of the money raised by Trump, a billionaire himself. The triumph of plutocracy, in real time https://t.co/7sDFueRgkP
— Gabriel Zucman (@gabriel_zucman) October 27, 2024

Fully a third of Trump's funding comes from billionaires, many of whom he's promised to appoint to powerful government jobs. Even by the lax standards of American politics, this is corruption on a massive scale.https://t.co/5UN9XjetUu
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) October 28, 2024

For my latest in @VanityFair, I wrote about the endorsement drama and why financial giants like Jamie Dimon and Bill Gates are hedging against a Trump winhttps://t.co/inmMtAAncE
— Jon Skolnik (@jonsskolnik) October 29, 2024

No American billionaire has played politics like Elon Musk.

The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO, and owner of X, has interjected himself into a presidential race like no other titan before him. https://t.co/rAotWngheb
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 29, 2024

Column: Here are the billionaires in thrall to Trump, and why https://t.co/sp5M7uxnjk
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 29, 2024

With a tight presidential race, some billionaires, CEOs and business elites are hedging their bets as Trump vows retribution and are toning down past criticism of the former president, @JStein_WaPo @JaxAlemany and @jdawsey1 report. https://t.co/tJGJ1PDvdl
— Jenna Johnson (@wpjenna) October 28, 2024

NEW – Some billionaires who Trump targeted are now hedging their bets, as the former president vows retribution against enemies if elected

Bezos blocks WaPo endorsement. Zuckerberg promises neutrality. Buffett stays out. Google chief reportedly calls Trump to praise McDonalds…
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) October 28, 2024

https://twitter.com/thecalvincooli1/status/1850596412976697849?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1850556521794425292?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

https://twitter.com/darrigomelanie/status/1849893664861958190?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

https://twitter.com/slate/status/1849946861265711428?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

Turns out it's not just Republican billionaires who've decided to bow down to Trump but the sentiment reported from GOP investor Nelson Peltz applies: I still think Trump's a terrrible person but we've got to support him anyway https://t.co/kdh0IkQuam
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) October 25, 2024

This is so reminiscent of German industrialists getting behind Hitler. https://t.co/R0LLJXcAGS
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 24, 2024

.@crampell: "Those who would trade democracy for financial gain are likely to get neither. Tax cuts aren’t the only thing that matters for personal or nationwide prosperity; rule of law is critical, too." https://t.co/VJHQBXFh1R
— Milan Vaishnav (@MilanV) October 29, 2024

Lack of factual information opens the door for conspiracy theories on the Trump assassination attempt

I don’t think it was staged by Trump.

I don’t think the government did it.

The amount of factual information that has been released is inadequate which creates an opportunity for people to create conspiracy theories.

https://twitter.com/kamaladreams/status/1850580742482403598?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

2 assassinators against Trump 👇
– Ryan Wesley Routh
– Thomas Matthew Crooks

Both donated to ActBlue.
Both are shown up in BlackRock commercials.

Coincidence? Or Planned? pic.twitter.com/wRzocNUvWZ
— Debyanne 🇺🇸 (@DebyanneS) September 16, 2024

Multiple speakers at rally (and other rallies) have done the nebulous "they" thing connecting Trump's political/business enemies with his would-be assassins.

As in, "they tried to imprison him, bankrupt him, even kill him."

Which…very much fuels/is conspiratorial thinking.
— Danielle Kurtzleben (@titonka) October 27, 2024

CNN’s bad tweet

Say racist, not insulting

Donald Trump defended his New York City rally where speakers hurled insulting remarks about Vice President Kamala Harris and Puerto Rico, calling it a "lovefest" https://t.co/6YL6tyvSMc
— CNN (@CNN) October 29, 2024

The Times did too. https://t.co/0gcJ1lUSDP
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) October 29, 2024

More tweets on the terrible 2024 election

Trump and his cult won’t accept a loss. Now we have burnings in drop boxes. This is gonna be ugly.

BREAKING: As voters in Harris County, TX are at the polls early voting, 3 MAGA extremists filed a lawsuit to remove voters from the rolls.

Their goal is to sow doubt in our elections and disenfranchise voters.

My office will fight back — see you in court. pic.twitter.com/QBR6jQwyOL
— Christian D. Menefee (@CDMenefee) October 28, 2024

BREAKING: Extremists inspired by conspiracy theories pose major threat to 2024 elections, U.S. intelligence warns. pic.twitter.com/IFiIoCJYTS
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 28, 2024

Incredible new reporting from @AlexandraBerzon takes you inside secret meetings of the Election Integrity Network, the well-funded conservative effort to spread election lies. https://t.co/8e0iKAwoFm
— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) October 28, 2024

Rep. Dan Goldman: Trump hinted that he has some secret with Mike Johnson. I suspect Trump's little secret plan with Mike Johnson is that when he loses, he tries to go to the House to throw out the Electoral College and have the House under Mike Johnson overturn this election. pic.twitter.com/ZnwSDMpYDX
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 28, 2024

https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1850817733757211034?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

This happened in WA-3, one of the most competitive House races in the nation. It happened in the most Democratic part of the district. https://t.co/aUx792rKXY
— Chris Vance 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@Chrisvance123) October 28, 2024

https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1850717379778466088

I'm convinced today's rally was to create the stolen election narrative and not to win an election. Those speeches were too consistently racist to think otherwise. Their racism will not go away by whining. It goes away by winning. Losers can't maintain a movement forever.
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) October 28, 2024

In our new piece @BrookingsGov, we identify the 50 counties in the swing states w the highest risk of trying to block certification

These efforts sow chaos & distrust—but they will ultimately fail

Read more👇https://t.co/RFezZ24CX9
— Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) (@NormEisen) October 25, 2024

Comments from Washington Post staff members on their management’s terrible decision not to endorse Harris

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Hoffman's full letter to Post Opinion editor David Shipley, stepping down from the editorial board: "I stand against silence in the face of dictatorship. Here, there, everywhere." pic.twitter.com/C6n4d2w3gE
— Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) October 28, 2024

Editorial board member David Hoffman is also resigning, I'm told. Hoffman accepted the Pulitzer last week for his series on "new technologies and the tactics authoritarian regimes use to repress dissent in the digital age, and how they can be fought." https://t.co/7RELdYFKbN
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 28, 2024

NEW: A member of the Washington Post’s editorial board, Molly Roberts, tells me she has resigned
— Katie Robertson (@katie_robertson) October 28, 2024

"Donald Trump is not yet a dictator. But the quieter we are, the closer he comes — because dictators don't have to order the press to publish cooperatively if it wishes to go on publishing at all. The press knows, and it censors itself." https://t.co/QekvgiJLRa
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 28, 2024

https://twitter.com/crampell/status/1850671564083343794?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

https://twitter.com/farhip/status/1850606451632312349?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

https://twitter.com/michele_norris/status/1850562547612528680?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

https://twitter.com/karenattiah/status/1849998911097770349?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

Our current owner has emblazoned “Democracy Dies in Darkness” on the front page of every edition of The Washington Post. With this decision, those words now stand as an indictment of ourselves. https://t.co/g4aS43cXvG
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) October 26, 2024

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