Obama-Trump voters

1: In light new WI poll, I see some are discussing how Dems are winning back Obama-Trump voters (@HotlineJosh @HeerJeet @Bencjacobs). We did some research on OT voters in early 2017 for @prioritiesUSA. A look back at it provides interesting insight into what's happening today…

— Nick Gourevitch (@nickgourevitch) September 18, 2018

3: All Obama-Trump voters align with Dems on need to protect Medicare & Social Security, and on health care access for all (maybe why you continue to see ads on that!?) Only the strong OT voters cared deeply about immigration and trade. pic.twitter.com/CTq0EOeTlY

— Nick Gourevitch (@nickgourevitch) September 18, 2018

5: The reluctant Obama-Trump voter was willing to give him a shot way back in early 2017 but didn't have confidence he'd be a good President. Wanna bet these numbers have shifted bigly since we did this in February of 2017? pic.twitter.com/0Td8XhPjDL

— Nick Gourevitch (@nickgourevitch) September 18, 2018

7: The list of things that concerned reluctant Obama-Trump voters about what the President might do is like a list of things that have happened… tried to repeal Obamacare, will cut programs people depend on, tax on imports, he'll act like a maniac, etc. pic.twitter.com/g4QGTQjjdj

— Nick Gourevitch (@nickgourevitch) September 18, 2018

Another report concludes identity politics, not the economy, determined the winner in 2016

"Their conclusion is straightforward." In 2016, "issues of identity — race, religion, gender and ethnicity — and not economics were the driving forces that determined how people voted, particularly white voters." https://t.co/Kea3ny3S6u

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 15, 2018

Economic anxiety? Clinton voters express more economic uncertainty than Trump voters. But moreover, *white* Clinton voters also express more than white Trump voters. https://t.co/AmY3J9CgbU

— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 17, 2018

What does Manafort know?

I am most interested in the Trump Tower meeting with the Russians. He was there. I don’t believe Trump when he said he didn’t know about it at the time.

I just spoke to @RepAdamSchiff about Manafort's flip. Schiff suggests Manafort may shed light on:

— Trump Tower meeting

— conversations between Trump and Manafort as part of joint defense agreement

— whether Trump's team dangled a pardon

New post: https://t.co/zDpoUoad89

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 14, 2018

Gates: Guilty and Cooperating
Cohen: Guilty and Cooperating
Papadopoulos: Guilty and Cooperating
Flynn: Guilty and Cooperating
Manafort: Guilty and Cooperatinghttps://t.co/oExcQq2Uda

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 14, 2018

This is telling. Trump’s team indicates that they may have to switch gears and attack Manafort, because they can’t be sure if Manafort will implicate Trump in the future. https://t.co/DqSPkAmxWQ

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) September 14, 2018

The Trump Tower meeting – follow the money

Docs reviewed by BuzzFeed reveal a previously undisclosed aspect of the Trump Tower meeting: a complex web of financial transactions among some planners and participants.

Investigators are focused on banking activity after the meeting and the election.https://t.co/U6gLUuaezj

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 12, 2018

The notorious Trump Tower meeting in June 2016, where members of the Trump campaign met with Russians in the hopes of getting damaging information on Hillary Clinton, was trailed by suspicious Russian money transfers. https://t.co/8vp9PwSN7D pic.twitter.com/BqWWRUpGGO

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) September 12, 2018

Trump Organization executives face federal campaign-finance probe

Trump executives face U.S. campaign-finance probe, source says https://t.co/eg5DRYquG1 pic.twitter.com/PiL0gIlRu2

— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) September 7, 2018

Treason?

TREASON?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2018

I assume Trump is referring to the anonymous writer of the New York Times column.

My idea of treason is Trump, Jr., Manafort, and Kushner meeting with the Russians. They should have told the FBI instead.

Sad!

Trump lies about the Lester Holt interview

Now it’s inconvenient that Trump told Holt he fired Comey over Russia so he just lies and says the tape was altered. Trump has provided no proof…because there isn’t any. Sad!

As a former prosecutor, I know that when defendants make incriminating admissions on tape, they often argue the tape was fudged. They invariably lose because people trust their eyes & ears. The Lester Holt interview with @POTUS has been online since May 2017. Watch it. https://t.co/o2zJdXUCBt

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) August 30, 2018

Non-rhetorical question: has anyone at the White House offered any explanation for Trump's claim that his Lester Holt interview was altered?

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 3, 2018

Here it comes, Trump suggesting to his followers anything negative toward him “may have been altered”. Fake audio, fake video will soon be a cover for getting away with anything. https://t.co/2FzXkKBDNS

— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) August 30, 2018

Trump is lying about Lester Holt. The entire unedited interview was posted online. And Trump is likely lying about it because he now understands that he put himself in legal danger by admitting, on camera, that he fired Comey *because* he was investigating Trump’s campaign. https://t.co/sLzEUMgmF5

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) August 30, 2018

Another day, another groundbreaking black man to malign. Today it’s Lester Holt’s turn… Trump accuses him of “fudging” the Russia interview… So now, in addition to wiretaps and birth certificates, black men have the power to put words in people’s mouths? 🤭 #ThursdayThoughts

— Cyrus McQueen (@CyrusMMcQueen) August 30, 2018

Nearly 16 months after Trump confessed to Lester Holt that he’d fired Comey over “the Russia thing,” he suddenly claims that NBC had “fudged” the tape of Holt’s national interview❗️This obvious lie is itself a confession that Trump now realizes the import of what he admitted. https://t.co/Hd3xtfHeOp

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 30, 2018

FWIW, the entire Lester Holt interview has been posted to NBC's website ever since May 2017. If there's something exculpatory in it, Trump might want to point it out.https://t.co/y9qoQsynoq

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) August 30, 2018

FISA

Republicans who have attacked the FISA warrants on Carter Page have conveniently forgotten the facts.

-Judges who signed C. Page FISA warrant were nominated by GOP Presidents
-Those judges were appointed to FISA court by John Roberts
-Trump DOJ reauthorized the warrant
-GOP Congress passed & Trump signed FISA legislation—w/o changes to warrant process—in January. You voted for it https://t.co/PCOtQ8BLqW

— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) September 3, 2018

Yes, Brit. The idea of having a judicial check is that you have an experienced, independent entity which is going to make this determination. And this is a much better judgment than the argument that the FISA was not well founded and required hearings bc Brit Hume said so. https://t.co/2j9cjEjkZQ

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) September 2, 2018

In case you're confused about how the FISA Court (FISC) really works, when it does and does not hold hearings, and how it handles a normal application, here's the world's leading authority on the subject, @DavidKris, with a simple but detailed explanation. https://t.co/iRg69uYVLd

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) September 3, 2018

This is what got them worked up – usual Trump crap

Report: There were no FISA hearings held over Spy documents.”It is astonishing that the FISA courts couldn’t hold hearings on Spy Warrants targeting Donald Trump. It isn’t about Carter Page, it’s about the Trump Campaign. You’ve got corruption at the DOJ & FBI. The leadership….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2018

….of the DOJ & FBI are completely out to lunch in terms of exposing and holding those accountable who are responsible for that corruption.” @TomFitton @JudicialWatch

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2018

“You have a Fake Dossier, gathered by Steele, paid by the Clinton team to get information on Trump. The Dossier is Fake, nothing in it has been verified. It then filters into our American court system in order to spy on Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s political opponent……

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2018

….Donald Trump, and now we find out that there wasn’t even a hearing – that Donald Trump’s 4th Amendment right to privacy was signed away…and someone in there is swearing that this stuff is true, when it wasn’t? This is the scandal here – a police state.” Dan Bongino

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2018

Trump may block public release of the Mueller report

Here's my 8000-word @NewYorker profile of @RudyGiuliani . Note the claim that @realDonaldTrump may try to block public release of Mueller's report. https://t.co/Ll44F99JHA

— Jeffrey Toobin (@JeffreyToobin) September 3, 2018

from the article:

” Mueller will file a concluding report with Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General, at the end of the investigation, and, in theory, Rosenstein has the option of releasing the report to Congress and to the public. But Giuliani pointed out a little-known aspect of the agreement that Trump’s original legal team struck with Mueller: the White House reserved the right to object to the public disclosure of information that might be covered by executive privilege. I asked Giuliani if he thought the White House would raise objections. “I’m sure we will,” he said, adding that the President would make the final call. In other words, the conclusion of the special counsel’s investigation could be the beginning of a contentious fight over whether Rosenstein is allowed to release a complete version of Mueller’s report.”

Analysis: Could Trump block the release of Mueller’s findings? Giuliani says he’ll try. https://t.co/KtYBeToj87

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 4, 2018

So Rudy Giuliani told @JeffreyToobin that the White House might try to block release of the Mueller report by claiming executive privilege.

Could it work?

Probably not.

But a GOP Congress could aid the cover up.

I gamed it out with @andrewkent33 here:https://t.co/i4RYeOoBZN

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 4, 2018

The “Obama spied on Trump’ lie is back

Tucker Carlson said it and Trump tweets it.

“The Obama people did something that’s never been done…They spied on a rival presidential campaign. Would it be OK if Trump did it next? I am losing faith that our system is on the level. I’m beginning to think it is rotten & corrupt. Scary stuff Obama did.” @TuckerCarlson DOJ

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2018

Here are the facts.