Trump is bribing farmers to make up for the damage he is doing with his tariffs. I wonder what Republicans would do if a Democratic president gave billions of dollars to primarily Democratic groups like women-owned businesses or HBCUs?
Trump’s war on blue states
Trump attacks blue states that didn’t vote for him but they are doing much better economically than states that support him.
A remarkable new study from @BrookingsInst shows that Red and Blue America are diverging economically way faster than you thought.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 19, 2019
This is fertile ground for Trump's dual demagoguery: His combo of industrial virtue-signaling and hating on urban America:https://t.co/bIaWhB5Pjf
More dramatic evidence that the modern GOP, defined in hostility to social & demographic change, is being marginalized in the dynamic metros driving the economy: in 08, GOP House districts had greater median income than D seats. Now Dem seats have 8k more in $ than R seats. Wow. https://t.co/LyOCXVeYRb
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 19, 2019
Trump's push to revoke #californiawaiver on #climatechange follows his pattern on taxes, immigration, education, clean water: he's pursuing a "reverse federalism" to constrain and/or punish blue states. My take. https://t.co/Ob4HLjHV2T
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 19, 2019
We must see the whistleblower’s complaint
It appears that the Trump administration is violating the law by not turning it over to Congress. Apparently, Trump wanted the Ukraine to investigate Biden’s son in return for military aid. How much corruption does Pelosi need to see. Impeachment was already justified and this just adds to its validity. As usual, Republicans try to confuse the issue. They will let Trump get away with anything as long as he appoints conservative judges.
Breaking News: President Trump’s desire for Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his family is said to be part of the secret whistle-blower complainthttps://t.co/4CmqwICl5B
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 20, 2019
The Trump Admin is clearly violating federal statute by blocking the head of US Intelligence from providing Congress with a whistleblower complaint described as being of "urgent concern & credible.” The stonewalling must end. What is the President hiding? https://t.co/Yg0LqT5HMd
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) September 20, 2019
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) September 20, 2019
We confirm WSJ report that Trump pressed Ukrainian leader to investigate Biden’s son, and reveal WH Counsel Pat Cipollone's role in preventing whistleblower complaint from being sent to Congress. @gregpmiller @mattzap @carolleonnig and me https://t.co/2P4fnQQFXM
— Ellen Nakashima (@nakashimae) September 20, 2019
In fact, that July 25 conversation took place ONE DAY after Robert Mueller’s public testimony on Capitol Hill about the Russia investigation. https://t.co/J6JpTSMD02
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) September 20, 2019
Traitorous. Utterly traitorous. We have a president who is a traitor. https://t.co/ucMOYKIWUu
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) September 20, 2019
Why is this classified information?@realDonaldTrump demanding a foreign leader 8 times to get dirt on Trump's political opponent's son during a presidential campaign is not a classified issue, it's a crime. Cannot solicit anything of value from a foreign power to help campaign. https://t.co/cVGdmUubu6
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) September 20, 2019
This is very good from former DNI general counsel Bob Litt. https://t.co/Evu4CkTSNI
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) September 20, 2019
For those considering whether the whistle blower complaint relates to Trump-Giuliani pressure on Ukraine to create false dirt on Biden…
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) September 19, 2019
This is a great backgrounder
cc: @lrozen @gtconway3d @TheViewFromLL2 @brianbeutler @EricColumbus @sam_vinogradhttps://t.co/fPZCjdQXMA
FYI: Administration officials have shared at least some details of the accusations in the whistleblower complaint with the White House, to allow officials to weigh whether to assert executive privilege, an official tells NYT. https://t.co/H5RUvnG4GZ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 20, 2019
This report is getting a lot closer to the worst-case scenario speculation https://t.co/KeJhVAhXjK
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) September 20, 2019
ZERO proof for this claim. None. https://t.co/pgx0sFWDlc
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 20, 2019
Is the House Minority Leader truly unaware that DOJ and ODNI are preventing the whistleblower from coming to Congress? https://t.co/lOLINmQdNR
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 20, 2019
Actually he couldn't have come to Congress, @GOPLeader, without potentially losing his job & his clearance. The law includes a workaround that allows whistleblowers to go straight to the intel committees, but once the DNI steps in—as he has—that clause is essentially nullified. https://t.co/wi8LIbK8to
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) September 20, 2019
Trump and his minions went to great lengths to benefit from foreign interference in our democracy, and engaged in extensive corruption to cover it up.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 20, 2019
He got away with it.
So why wouldn't he try the same thing again?
My piece on the Ukraine connection:https://t.co/jbCdyaw36s
This story about Hunter Biden wound up being extremely prescient.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 20, 2019
Especially this exchange, about the author of Clinton Cash/Breitbart editor Peter Schweitzer using the same funnel-to-the-New-York-Times playbook, and almost pulling it off once again.https://t.co/qhYbB4Ek5K pic.twitter.com/B4lvIdXDEP
There's the obvious problem everyone is discussing, the concern about a possible link to the aid to Ukraine. But a second problem is that you have the President of the United States telling a foreign leader to work on an official matter with a person in his private employ. https://t.co/zvDcAQXz6i
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) September 20, 2019
Note how the last line, Giuliani even concedes the interests of his client, Trump, differ from the interests of the U.S. government https://t.co/xRi5MIKnmc
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) September 20, 2019
Note how the last line, Giuliani even concedes the interests of his client, Trump, differ from the interests of the U.S. government https://t.co/xRi5MIKnmc
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) September 20, 2019
Trump’s endless lies – update 9/18/19
There's no dishonesty off switch for Trump; he lies not only to average citizens but to audiences who know he's making most of this stuff up. He made 25 false claims at his NC rally last week — and, also, 22 in his speech to the House Republican Retreat. https://t.co/zuxdiLieBB
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 18, 2019
Trump made at least 26 false claims at his rally last night.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 17, 2019
That’s 26 I can immediately call false without doing additional research, because he’s said them before or because they’re so obvious. https://t.co/0LRrYRx2rX
Committee Republicans and Corey Lewandowski have both claimed that Trump was never notified that Russia was interfering with the 2016 election.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) September 17, 2019
This is not true.
Trump received his first intelligence briefing on 17 Aug. 2016. The hacking and theft of Dem emails was covered.
Eric Trump’s Four-Pinocchio claim that the Obamacare website cost more than Trump’s border barrier https://t.co/PBYmcw2YJC
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) September 16, 2019
>> @ddale8's latest: "Trump criticizes the media for accurately reporting his comments on meeting with Iran"https://t.co/5ffgkiIISQ
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 16, 2019
Climate update 9/18/19
more bad news for the most part
This is alarming.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 16, 2019
A major new study concludes that even if Dems win the White House and Congress, the conservative justices on the Supreme Court are very likely to strike down most climate legislation.
Unfortunately, i's a persuasive case.
New piece:https://t.co/zHi0JFyDAC
I have an awful suspicion that the climate crisis already has passed beyond the capabilities of our politics and our political institutions to handle. https://t.co/GzAmFEoPrf
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) September 18, 2019
Meet the 15 women leading the fight against climate change, from Greta Thunberg to Ellen Page https://t.co/iQBvuWmcMz
— TIME (@TIME) September 17, 2019
Remember when we said climate change would cause mass migration, & the right called us crazy?
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 16, 2019
Well, it’s happening. And walling ourselves off from the world isn’t a plan for our future.
It’s time to recognize climate refugees in our immigration policies. https://t.co/Oo0uyT65ti
“These fish have maybe four generations left before they are gone,” one scientist said of the Chinook salmon, whose disappearance is also threatening orcas and dozens of other species. https://t.co/jy53HEIZdx
— NYT Climate (@nytclimate) September 16, 2019
"Religious Christians are the key to America taking action on global warming — yet the way climate activists frame the issue often alienates the very people they most need to persuade — and talking about coral reefs won’t cut it" https://t.co/2o1Y4Nqol4
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 16, 2019
The Climate Crisis Is Poised to Make Huge Swaths of America Totally Uninsurable https://t.co/b4J2hTvDgf via @thedailybeast
— Thomas Edsall (@Edsall) September 15, 2019
The people affected first and worst by the climate crisis are often the least likely to have their stories told. With your help, Tipping Point aims to change that.https://t.co/Fd2s5yMCRN
— Emily Raboteau (@emilyraboteau) September 13, 2019
If there's one group on earth taking the climate crisis seriously, it's the graphics department at @nytimes. This analysis of the spring floods in the Midwest is stunning in its detail and powerhttps://t.co/uyym5iVokl
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) September 12, 2019
Climate change: “We are running out of time. It’s an all-hands-on-deck situation. We desperately need the Hollywood community to take this issue seriously" https://t.co/sPwRzJ5vXz
— Variety (@Variety) September 10, 2019
Environmentalists cite mounting evidence that unburned gas leaking from pipes and compressor stations harms the climate more than carbon dioxide https://t.co/EPQEilK7Nq
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) September 9, 2019
Chao is being investigated
Trump sure has appointed a bunch of grifters.
The House Oversight Committee launched an ethics investigation into Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.
— Axios (@axios) September 17, 2019
Reports allege Chao used her position to benefit a shipping company owned by her sisters and father, among other accusations.https://t.co/M1pOgrbXLC
The House Oversight and Reform Committee on Monday sought documents from Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao as it investigates what it calls “troubling questions” into whether the Trump appointee misused her position for personal and family benefit.https://t.co/ia8xy2q1gP
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) September 18, 2019
The House Oversight Committee has finally taken notice of the Transportation Secretary’s many alleged efforts to use her office for personal gain. https://t.co/EgCeD7cg6J
— Slate (@Slate) September 18, 2019
My thoughts on swamp creatures Chao and McConnell nicely reflected in this @MatthewRozsa post: https://t.co/o3sNFmDYgx
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 17, 2019
Trump lies about Representative Omar
Disgusting and dangerous
Trump used his Twitter account to boost a baseless smear claiming that @IlhanMN partied on the anniversary of 9/11, a claim that’s based on footage of her dancing that wasn’t actually taken from that day https://t.co/7Y5oBKZnkL
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 18, 2019
A Twitter spokesperson tells @donie that Terrence K. Williams deleted the tweet that smeared Omar — Twitter did not remove it. (Trump's tweet promoting the now-deleted smear remains active.)
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 18, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar said Trump's retweet of a video falsely claiming she celebrated the anniversary of 9/11 "puts [her] life at risk."
— Axios (@axios) September 18, 2019
Twitter is currently looking into the matter.https://t.co/R7V0t7bGpv
Since July, I've written stories on Trump falsely accusing Omar of calling Jews evil, Trump falsely accusing Omar of saying Al Qaeda makes her proud, and Trump sharing a tweet falsely accusing Omar of dancing on the anniversary of 9/11.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 18, 2019
1/ Anatomy of a smear: progressive activist @AdamGreen posts on Sept 13, at a reception for the Congressional Black Caucus annual legislative conference, video of @IlhanMN dancing:https://t.co/sYFKN76rto
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 18, 2019
If anyone is still wondering, this is the event where Rep. Ilhan Omar was dancing, on September 13. The president, who has repeatedly smeared Omar, promoted a video claiming she was dancing on the September 11 anniversary. pic.twitter.com/G20rzLHV3F
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 18, 2019
On the retweet Trump did, which falsely claimed she was dancing around 9/11 – this appears to be yet another in a four year effort to validate his debunked claim of seeing “thousands” of cheering Muslims in NJ that day. https://t.co/HuSxExLPGt
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 18, 2019
