Trump or Barr – who’s lying about the SDNY firing?

Berman backed Barr into appointing a replacement who is far more of a DOJ lifer than he was.

Barr just threw the SDNY investigations out of the frying pan and into the fire.

And now Berman is free to speak. https://t.co/6AlCwooXOx
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 20, 2020

Will Barr now interpret this to be a “resignation” by Berman and use this opportunity to replace Strauss with someone of his choice in the near future? https://t.co/HhJ0jdpMLY
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 20, 2020

Geoff Berman has agreed to leave. Thank you for your service to the country. Despite challenges, the fine people at SDNY will continue the long tradition of integrity and independence under Audrey Strauss. Let’s all wish her well. 🙏 https://t.co/9KRgUOeObn
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) June 20, 2020

Then it should be easier to get Berman to testify since he’s no longer working for the administration. I don’t see how Trump could block it.

BREAKING: Geoffrey Berman says he will step down as U.S. attorney in Manhattan, in light of Attorney General William Barr's decision to name Berman's deputy, Audrey Strauss, as acting U.S. attorney. [More] https://t.co/vNi4numDkv
— Benjamin Weiser (@BenWeiserNYT) June 20, 2020

Geoff Berman says he’s leaving: pic.twitter.com/nY5rdCnaRQ
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) June 20, 2020

.@RepJerryNadler announces the House Judiciary Committee will open an investigation into the Berman/SDNY firing: pic.twitter.com/mVNfe8aZoR
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) June 20, 2020

Barr says Trump has now fired Berman. This, Barr says, is authorized by 241(c). Notably, however, Barr has shifted, and is allowing the Deputy US Attorney to serve as the Acting US Attorney — and not, as per last night’s release, the NJ US Attorney. https://t.co/I73mOZtFAZ
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) June 20, 2020

Yes, Trump is saying he's not involved, and that's the only way Berman can be removed. Barr is a wannabe President, but he's not the President. As I read the law, Berman is still the US Attorney for SDNY. https://t.co/FAJpSZNGmc
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) June 20, 2020

Barr CAN’T legally remove Berman as SDNY US Attorney because Berman was installed by federal judges in NY when Trump failed to nominate & have confirmed a US Attorney for SDNY. Let’s see if Trump now tries to fire Berman. If he does, it’s a sign of extreme desperation & coverup.
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) June 20, 2020

Many things about this Barr letter

1. It says Berman must vacate today
2. It retreats from bizarre appointment of the NJ US attorney to lead both DNJ & SDNY https://t.co/jDAiPzJEpx
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) June 20, 2020

Now: Trump just said that "I am not involved" in firing of US Attorney Berman SDNY – saying it's up to AG Barr not him. This plays right into Berman's hands if Berman wants to contest Barr's authority.
— Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu) June 20, 2020

As we ask why Trump and Barr want to fire Geoffrey Berman from SDNY, we should consider this: It’s possible that there’s an entirely new investigation that we don’t know about yet. That Trump and Barr don’t want to go forward.
— Anne Milgram (@AnneMilgram) June 20, 2020

Given Senator Schumer’s call for Jay Clayton to withdraw from SDNY consideration, this announcement by Senator Graham means Clayton’s nomination is dead on arrival https://t.co/7fCnZF7gsw
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) June 20, 2020

Trump lies about Veterans Choice over and over

I am sure he has told this lie dozens of times. Does anyone ever correct him to his face?

Trump lies that he got Veterans Choice passed after others had tried for almost 50 years, though Choice was a Sanders-McCain bill signed into law by Obama in 2014, and he's said this more than 142 times and how do I not have a keyboard hot key for this yet
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 6, 2020

Tuned in to the president's ongoing Arizona "tele-rally" just in time to hear him claim he got Veterans Choice approved
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 18, 2020

Trump, who signed a 2018 law that modified the Choice program but did not create the Choice program, has now claimed more than 145 times to have created the Choice program. (I never have an exact count because by the time I've caught up he's said it more.) https://t.co/1ub4h7iyFl
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 22, 2020

LIE. @BarackObama signed the VA Choice Act — sponsored by @BernieSanders — into law in 2014. https://t.co/4GKFDQ0mhv
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) August 4, 2020

Trump slams Obama and Biden over their handling of the VA, then says he, conversely, approved Veterans Choice. Obama signed Veterans Choice into law in 2014.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 17, 2020

Trump talks about school choice, then, because he said "choice," proceeds to repeat his lie that he is the one who got the Obama-era Veterans Choice program created.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 11, 2020

“We got Choice approved for the vets,” Trump lies about the Sanders-McCain bill signed into law by Obama in 2014.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 5, 2020

During somnambulant coronavirus speech at the White House, Trump takes credit for Veterans Choice legislation that was actually signed into law by President Obama in 2014 pic.twitter.com/Bgfa1e6UNz
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 30, 2020

Is any reporter EVER going to call him on the veterans choice LIE?
— Justice13_ (@Justice13__) June 17, 2020

Wow. At this veterans event in the east room, @realDonaldTrump is talking about how “we got VA accountability passed” instead of repeating his done-to-death lie about having signed VA choice into law.

cc: @GlennKesslerWP @ddale8
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) June 17, 2020

Trump takes credit for Veterans Choice legislation that was actually signed into law by Obama in 2014 pic.twitter.com/0SDjkN3hm1
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 17, 2020

Donald Trump said his administration passed veteran's Choice after a 50-year wait. The policy dates to the Obama administration: https://t.co/7eBPaPRPoe #TulsaTrumpRally
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) June 21, 2020

Asked what his greatest accomplishment is, Trump lists, among other things, how "we got" Veterans Choice, a program actually created in 2014 under Obama.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 26, 2020

Trump lies about Obama, Biden and policing

He said they did nothing. He’s a liar…again.

His speech was worthless and he used the white supremacy keyword “heritage” at the end to appeal to the bigots in his base.

So that was weird. And my GOP source was correct in that there was no substance in Trump’s “police reform” announcement. It was mainly a ramble, praising himself, attacking President Obama and Democratic mayors and droning about the economy while gushing over police and violence.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 16, 2020

So the EO "bans chokeholds" except when the police want to use chokeholds?
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 16, 2020

The 116-page 2015 report of Obama's "Task Force on 21st Century Policing" is still up on the Department of Justice website: https://t.co/nFpgpHBq8s https://t.co/f52Eziy9cm
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) June 16, 2020

NEW: Dwayne L. Palmer & his mother, Rose, were among the families who met w/ Pres Trump for about an hour. Palmer told me Trump was sympathetic but used a lot of "platitudes." "Kind words," he said. "But, speaking for my family, we are beyond kind words. We want to see action.”
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 16, 2020

Before his lies, he met with families of people who were killed by police.

NOT TRUE what @realDonaldTrump said that @BarackObama & @JoeBiden did nothing! The Obama admin had 21st Century Policing enforced by the DOJ & its Civil Rights Division. Pattern & Practice & body cams were part of the accountability then. Trump abolished the Civil Rights office
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) June 16, 2020

Trump claims Obama and Biden "never even tried" to address these problems during their eight years in office. That's not true at all.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 16, 2020

Trump says Obama didn't reform policing. But Obama did and then Trump ditched it https://t.co/VsQMtdr3TE
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) June 16, 2020

Trump lies about Republican approval

It’s not as high as he says. Trump lies about everything.

This has actual numbers. They’re very high but not as high as he says.

GALLUP: President Trump's job approval rating is 38% 👍 to 57% 👎.

He rates at 91% with Republicans, 33% with independents (down 10 points from earlier this year), 2% with Democrats. pic.twitter.com/ZH3Tx0dUEh
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 6, 2020

This must be a relief.

He was down to 95 pct approval in the make-believe Republican Party poll, but now he's back up to 96 pct. https://t.co/s5JOOkcqva
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) July 5, 2020

Serious question: does someone show him a fake poll with the same number every day? Does he just make it up over and over again and expect no one will notice? https://t.co/rylvYFvyW0 pic.twitter.com/gzF5j1G94p
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) January 19, 2020

Just setting the record straight: In the new, high-quality Marist poll, Trump has 86% approval among Republicans. Not 96%. https://t.co/zCb89oroLc
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 6, 2020

Over the course of his presidency to date, an average of 87% of Republicans have approved of Donald Trump’s handling of the job, compared with an average of just 6% of Democrats. https://t.co/4WXzOstCOm pic.twitter.com/R564ajEeUp
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) August 24, 2020

Trump is at 80 percent approval with Republicans. He represents Republican voters. People who write columns like this do not. The sooner this sinks in, the better. https://t.co/YODI4u0e5i
— Adam Jentleson 🎈 (@AJentleson) August 24, 2020

Trump lies about using tear gas

There’s proof it was used. Trump and his staff just lie and lie and lie.

The government finally admitted the truth today. I am sick of all of the lies.

6/13 – finally admitting the truth

Secret Service issues a new statement correcting their claim that no pepper spray was used in Lafayette Park. As we all know, it was used. And this statement confirms that. https://t.co/bAa74z16jl
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 13, 2020

NEW: Park Police spokesman acknowledges chemical agents used on Lafayette Square protesters are similar to tear gas by @CarolLeonnig https://t.co/HJmeSFhUWQ
— Matea Gold (@mateagold) June 5, 2020

US Park Police: It was a “mistake” to say no tear gas was used in Lafayette Square. "It was a mistake on our part for using ‘tear gas’ because we just assumed people would think CS or CN [two common forms of tear gas] "https://t.co/B6UHIyoosw via @AlexWardVox
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) June 5, 2020

President Trump and some of his supporters are claiming authorities did not use tear gas against people in a crackdown outside the White House this week. An @APFactCheck finds evidence that they did. https://t.co/tu7oopN80u
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 4, 2020

The Trump campaign demanded numerous retractions from media outlets for accurately reporting on the presence of tear gas.https://t.co/KH1qOtfouH
— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 5, 2020

Here are the pictures of the tear gas canisters deployed at Lafayette Square on June 1.

The administration has tried to say there was no tear gas used.

That is demonstrably false based on hard evidence from ⁦@wusa9⁩ https://t.co/RxaHgu5xNF
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) June 4, 2020

Despite claims to the contrary, federal police did tear gas protesters to make way for President Trump's awkward Bible photo op. Reporting by the local CBS affiliate https://t.co/58a68HCrSh
— American Atheists (@AmericanAtheist) June 4, 2020

Trump defenders spent much of the week dismissing the events in Lafayette Square by insisting that no tear gas had been used. It was never a strong case, and it just collapsed completely. https://t.co/f1Ecu3PAwl
— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 5, 2020

New information on Trump’s attacks on Joe Scarborough

I know Trump and the Enquirer have a sordid history. But this happened *after* he was elected. In other words, the President of the United States used a supermarket tabloid as a private intelligence service against a political thorn in his side. https://t.co/skXEgcPhDL
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) June 3, 2020

Trump says he and a lot of other people feel that Scarborough "got a away with murder. … that was my feeling, a very strong feeling, and I do feel it."
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 3, 2020

Trump again floats baseless conspiracy theory about Joe Scarborough, says on Fox radio: “I always felt that he got away with murder.” He says he feels “strongly” about that
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 3, 2020

This is, of course, batshit. But it’s so on brand for Trump that I can’t even imagine folks finding it all that remarkable. https://t.co/LiHZkFmPbW
— Sam Stein (@samstein) June 3, 2020

Facebook lets Trump say anything

They are helping him by allowing him to lie and stoke hatred in his cult members. I hardly use it now because of this. At least some of their employees are showing their disapproval.

I'm not sure who elected Mark Zuckerberg as minister of information, but I plan to vote him out of office next chance that I get.https://t.co/0GYMwb5bmn
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) June 2, 2020

Woof. intense qutestion from FB employee:

"“Why are the smartest people in the world focused on contorting and twisting our policies to avoid antagonizing trump?”https://t.co/ZSpKcyDOji
— rat king (@MikeIsaac) June 2, 2020

Facebook is the primary source of news for a lot of Americans still deciding who to vote for in November https://t.co/O4FkytVvEl
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) June 2, 2020

Very powerful resignation letter from a Facebook engineer who worked on misinformation tools.

"Mark always told us that he would draw the line at speech that calls for violence. He showed us on Friday that this was a lie." pic.twitter.com/IfyhdHsprs
— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) June 2, 2020

Civil-rights leaders were left “stunned” after trying to explain racism in a Monday meeting with Mark Zuckerberg https://t.co/voVBWRlYAB
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 2, 2020

🔥@Facebook employees are staging a walkout today for the 1st time in the company's history, and some have threatened to QUIT, in protest of Mark Zuckerberg's decision to allow @realDonaldTrump's racist post that incites violence to stand.#DeleteFacebook https://t.co/CybUhwVzJm
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) June 1, 2020

Civil rights leaders went into a call with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg tonight with low expectations. They were not disappointed. Mark didn't comprehend/accept history of voter suppression and that Trump's tweets could stoke violence against demonstrators. More to come
— CeciliaKang (@ceciliakang) June 2, 2020

Sources tell me that Facebook employees are changing their internal employee-Facebook profile images to the Twitter logo in protest https://t.co/Bk7XlTw4uq
— Kate Klonick (@Klonick) June 1, 2020

🔥@Facebook employees are staging a walkout today for the 1st time in the company's history, and some have threatened to QUIT, in protest of Mark Zuckerberg's decision to allow @realDonaldTrump's racist post that incites violence to stand.#DeleteFacebook https://t.co/CybUhwVzJm
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) June 1, 2020

Wow.

Before announcing that Trump's post suggesting "looters" should be gunned down would be allowed to remain on Facebook, despite the company's clear ban on content advocating violence ZUCKERBERG PERSONALLY CALLED TRUMP and had a "productive" call https://t.co/x7bSakTLkf
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 31, 2020

The Trump campaign has spent lots of money on ads on Facebook.

During a company-wide town hall, Zuckerberg struggled to explain his decision-making process as many of his employees reminded him of promises he'd made before Congress to remove content that calls for violence or that could lead to imminent physical harm https://t.co/FlGoNruZWI
— CNN (@CNN) June 2, 2020

Zuckerberg’s position exempting politicians from #Facebook standards is as incoherent as it is destructive. He won’t prevent pols from using FB to incite violence & he won’t let FB be an “arbiter of truth” even to fact-check pols’ most brazen&harmful lies. https://t.co/J10KlffB1l
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) May 30, 2020

Not physically being in the office hasn't prevented some workers from "walking out."

Some at Facebook staged a virtual walkout Monday over CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to take action on a series of controversial posts from President Trump last week. https://t.co/Z4gJdheDbN
— CNN (@CNN) June 2, 2020

Trump makes baseless attack on Antifa

Trump and O’Brien have presented no evidence of Antifa involvement. I am waiting for them to say George Soros funded the protestors. They are distracting from any focus on right-wing extremists. I think Trump will try the Nixon racist “law and order” strategy.

Opinion: Trump’s bluster about "Antifa" and the protests takes another hit https://t.co/wGmJzPy0hx
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 11, 2020

“[Antifa] doesn’t exist as a group in the way the president imagines, it would make it difficult to associate somebody with a group that doesn’t exist as an organization. They’re imagining something that isn’t real,” a retired FBI agent said https://t.co/bmm2ZCtvKK
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 5, 2020

Why did this Talk Radio Militia think some campers were “antifa,” as though there were an actual organization by that name? Because the president* told them so. https://t.co/vwdImqnACU
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) June 5, 2020

Why is the president so determined to ignore the white nationalist right? https://t.co/heXl0r9d52
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) June 1, 2020

Because they vote for him

i can't really summarize years' worth of research & experience on here but a few quick notes about "ANTIFA":
1. it stands for antifascist
2. it traces its origins to street-fighting armies who confronted the fascist forces of mussolini, the nazi party, & fascists across europe
— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) May 30, 2020

Waste no brain cells on this. Antifa is a vaguely defined movement of people who like direct-action protest tactics, not an actual organization. Even if it were a real group, the law that lets the government deem entities as terrorists only applies to foreign orgs. https://t.co/zXYjI16ymB
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) May 31, 2020

It is extremely common for authoritarian states to broadly expand the definition of an activist group so that anyone they oppose can be accused of being a member, and thus be arrested and surveiled according to their invented pretext. That is what they will try to do with antifa.
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) May 31, 2020

Context: For years federal law enforcement has been hesitant to label/treat white supremacists groups as terrorist orgs — it would infringe on rights of Americans if cops monitored them the way they do foreign terrorist groups, they've argued. Apparently that's fine for Antifa https://t.co/RlNtD5r1hX
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) May 31, 2020

The United States of America has no legal authority to designate *any* domestic entities as “terrorist organizations.” https://t.co/NniZjEwaJl
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) May 31, 2020

President Trump tweeted that the US will designate Antifa as a terrorist organization, even though the US government has no existing legal authority to label a wholly domestic group in the manner it currently designates foreign terrorist organizations. https://t.co/IZp6IVSkc5
— CNN (@CNN) May 31, 2020

When even Andrew McCarthy calls Barr’s designation of Antifa as a terrorist organization illegal and a “pointless political gesture,” that’s really saying something. https://t.co/TejsLjSeqW
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) May 31, 2020

Regarding the President, politics, law enforcement & Antifa – we have a problem. Here’s my story – for last 15 yrs been involved or teaching terrorism/counterterrorism courses to law enforcement around the country, last 3 years, it’s gotten weird.
— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) May 31, 2020

President Trump said the U.S. would designate antifa as a terrorist organization. But the laws that permit such an action are limited to foreign groups — and antifa is a vaguely defined movement of left-wing and anti-fascist activists, not an organization.https://t.co/UxkrLPe65T
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 31, 2020

For all of you presidents out there confused about what Antifa is, we defined it AND interviewed someone about it last season on the #NotAllWhitePeople episode of #UnitedShades. You can watch it here on @hbomax. #IAmAntifa https://t.co/H16kDL7UiC pic.twitter.com/XKrPbrkNCC
— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) May 31, 2020

NEW: A suspended Twitter account is the source of a viral conspiracy theory about antifa and the George Floyd protests. There is no evidence that activists are targeting white residential areas. https://t.co/utYhCjPBrA pic.twitter.com/zXciNAmg66
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) June 1, 2020

Barr was quick to conflate peaceful demonstrators with dangerous looters, and to claim it was all the work of Antifa.

This has now become Trump’s mantra as it was once an article of faith for LBJ and Nixon that communists were behind all protests.https://t.co/9hJXFMxksZ
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) June 3, 2020

Trump lies update

New from me in @nytopinion: all presidents lie, but Trump's lies are qualitatively different. When others lied, they lied out of a weird kind of respect for democratic guardrails. Trump lies to crush those guardrails into scrap metal. https://t.co/i0ZRDplrRe
— Michael Tomasky (@mtomasky) June 11, 2020

Fact Checker: President Trump made 19,127 false or misleading claims in 1,226 days https://t.co/TZYzNcgCOj
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 1, 2020

#FactsFirst https://t.co/esRFIQfEcI
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) June 3, 2020

Here is my breakdown of Donald Trump's 654 false claims between the day his pandemic task force started meeting, January 27, and May 3. https://t.co/pkGi695nM0
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 29, 2020

Rare deflation! On May 12, Trump bragged that he had appointed "280" new judges. Tonight: "260" new judges. (The actual number was under 200 on both occasions.) https://t.co/7znDBnVWGZ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 28, 2020

Opinion: Trump has told 16,000 lies.

Now he’s trying to silence those who correct him. https://t.co/lw76vAW9hZ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 28, 2020

"I think we're absolutely seeing a really dangerous and concerning high watermark in terms of the spread of false and misleading information and conspiracy theories." @CraigSilverman @BuzzFeedNews w/ @Yamiche https://t.co/ELvAy3dcRy
— Judy Woodruff (@JudyWoodruff) May 27, 2020

Fact check: President Trump falsely claims California is sending mail-in ballots to undocumented immigrants https://t.co/jYfAmxfg5r
— CNN (@CNN) May 27, 2020

These daily disgraces – lying about mail-in ballots, smearing Joe Scarborough, misleading the public about masks – are all a part of the war on truth. This war is so intense that attaching small labels to tweets seems like spitting into a hurricane. Tell me if I'm wrong… pic.twitter.com/kNIxbo5pyu
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 27, 2020

Remembering the Pulse nightclub shooting.
Trump said it "wouldn’t have happened" if someone at the Orlando nightclub had been armed. A uniformed off-duty police officer worked security that night and exchanged gunfire with the shooter. https://t.co/K6oxUffQOX pic.twitter.com/Bhy09sX9PV
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) June 12, 2020

I forgot to tweet last week's Trump-checking video, which was about some of the president's many and varied lies about supposed voter and election fraud: pic.twitter.com/ZpQHXabcka
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 6, 2020

This week's video on Trump's dishonesty is on (some of the) ways the president and his team tried to smear and mislead about the George Floyd protests: pic.twitter.com/GIfFBBzEuy
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 6, 2020

Trump’s dangerous executive order

He can’t take any interference with his lies. Facebook has caved into him. Twitter flags two out of thousands of false tweets and he goes ballistic.

A new executive order by President Trump to crack down on social media bias is wrong in so many ways, writes The Times Editorial Board. "We can't even begin to count them." (via @latimesopinion) https://t.co/qQtUcvQIaB
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) May 28, 2020

This, from the executive order, completely unmasks what a laughable exercise in bad faith this whole thing really is. It's all about bullying social media companies into treating Trump's lies as truths, and truths about Trump's bottomless corruption as lies: pic.twitter.com/xQVJ580um2
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) May 28, 2020

This is in the text of Trump's executive order targeting social media companies pic.twitter.com/2gUxvrMapn
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) May 28, 2020

Think of all the time that would free up for golf. https://t.co/5ThB4wHJh5
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 28, 2020

“Donald Trump is so committed to preventing Americans from voting that he spent weeks lying about vote by mail, and now he is trying to twist Section 230 and the First Amendment to force Twitter to spread these lies." –@RonWyden https://t.co/NmZGWmUSq9
— Swing Left (@swingleft) May 28, 2020

This presidential meltdown brought to you by the hurt feelings of the man with the nuclear codes. https://t.co/zNhjSvFQZH
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 28, 2020

Here, buried in the Executive Order is the reason ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ flipped his wig: He’s upset Twitter fact checked him. It is always about him. pic.twitter.com/PZZ5IiKX1e
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) May 28, 2020

Railing against alleged ‘bias’ of social media companies after Twitter fact-checked him, President Trump signs new executive order @kaitlancollins reports pic.twitter.com/l5jD3Ug5u6
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) May 28, 2020

If you had to guess which company fact-checked Trump and which criticized that decision and the only information you had was that Trump's campaign doesn't spend money on Twitter and it spends tens of millions on Facebook, what would you guess?
— Philip Bump (@pbump) May 28, 2020

Take a look down Trump's twitter feed and then tell me that his account doesn't violate Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

It's all ad baculum threats, tu quoque (appeals to hypocrisy), and conspiracy. Trump's twitter is an attack on the American public sphere.
— Jennifer Mercieca (@jenmercieca) May 28, 2020

Lol – whatever hack lawyer approved Trump's order failed to realize it forces more not less scrutiny of content by turning social media into publishers. No publisher would stand behind Trump's lies & ravings unless they wanted to commit financial suicide
https://t.co/AilL0dNcIj
— Shanlon Wu (@shanlonwu) May 28, 2020

Even Trump’s resident professionally obtuse legal defender couldn’t muster more than this sad little explanation. pic.twitter.com/8kRYKtgJ2c
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) May 28, 2020