Trump’s violation of laws on keeping records

I don’t want to hear any more about Hillary Clinton’s emails. I hope DOJ finally holds Trump accountable for breaking laws.

I am a retired federal employee and I assure you we got many reminders about obeying the Hatch Act.

The key to the stories about Trump's serial violation of the Presidential Records Act is that he was repeatedly told he was breaking the law, but he kept doing it.

Same was true of the Hatch Act. His whole administration's attitude was that obeying the law was optional.
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) February 7, 2022

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The key to the stories about Trump's serial violation of the Presidential Records Act is that he was repeatedly told he was breaking the law, but he kept doing it.

Same was true of the Hatch Act. His whole administration's attitude was that obeying the law was optional.
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) February 7, 2022

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Scoop: National Archives last month had to retrieve boxes of Trump WH records from Mar-a-Lago that were improperly removed from the WH. The items included correspondence w Kim Jong Un. With @jdawsey1⁩ ⁦@thamburger⁩ & ⁦@AshleyRParker⁩ > https://t.co/ZdGvEk66Zv
— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) February 7, 2022

NYTimes and Trump campaign were in total sync https://t.co/fmRGNYg9Ot pic.twitter.com/XEgz27xvVw
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 6, 2022

When I was in WH Counsel we briefed everyone on these laws.

The notion that any President would repeatedly ignore legal warnings is mind boggling.

It’s not a small thing-it’s the chief law enforcement officer declaring himself completely above the law. https://t.co/y57l08ctCq
— Ian Bassin (@ianbassin) February 6, 2022

Clinton was wrong in applying her misguided decision to create server & destroy emails. I rep'd @GOP to help expose those facts.

What Trump did is worse as it was deliberate & known disregard of US law & for malicious purposes. Now GOP is complicit in this hypocrisy. https://t.co/w3qLzdrKCh
— Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) February 6, 2022

Lot of people deserve a lot of snark over this, but in all seriousness, Democrats should launch an investigation, wholly separate from 1/6, to get to the bottom of what Trump sought to conceal by destroying documents. https://t.co/UB3kfpDUlw
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) February 6, 2022

Ripping and shredding papers in the Trump White House was so common that when the Jan. 6 committee asked for documents related to Trump’s pressure campaign against Pence, some couldn’t be sent over bc they had already been destroyed. https://t.co/jkoiun6dkI pic.twitter.com/KPLM0hYWDS
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) February 6, 2022

Crucial now for all Americans to know exactly how many and what Presidential documents were illegally taken, hidden or destroyed.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) February 7, 2022

National Archives says they took 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago last month that were supposed to be transferred by Trump at the end of the presidency. They say Trump and his team are "continuing to search for additional Presidential records that belong to the National Archives." https://t.co/0sSKI19wmc
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 7, 2022

Trump is unleashing white grievance politics

Just one of the many terrible things Trump has done

White Americans see an increase in discrimination against other white people and less against other racial groups (@Stella_Rouse @ShibleyTelhami) https://t.co/fEqvRfRwEp
— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) July 2, 2022

The belief that whites are the real victims of bias is absolute bedrock for Trump's GOP coalition: "Among adults nationwide, 22% thought the NFL was doing 'too much' to show respect for Black players. Among Republicans & R-leaning independents, that number shot up to 45%" https://t.co/cqxUtIHLSi
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 10, 2022

the Trump effect in white grievance, as measured by @PRRIpoll :

is there a lot of discrimination against whites in the U.S.?

white Republicans in Oct. 2015
38% yes, 61% no

white Republicans in Jan. 2021
55% yes, 45% nohttps://t.co/FNcDU5Edxd
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) February 6, 2022

#Latest After years of being branded a racist, Trump and his allies are trying to turn that label back on critics by wielding their own definition of racism, one that disregards the history of exclusion that gives White people a monopoly on power & wealth.https://t.co/0oAuvzyBN0
— Cleve R. Wootson Jr. (@CleveWootson) February 5, 2022

If the Republican Party has any sort of platform these days, it appears to involve stoking White grievance and opposing even modest steps to foster diversity, @Eugene_Robinson writes https://t.co/Z7eK2Zp2Bo
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) February 4, 2022

Trump is facing an array of Black prosecutors who he called 'racist.' The former president, who rode the politics of white grievance into White House, left the clear impression that he thinks he can’t possibly be treated fairly by Black officials. https://t.co/c7wxTKzALj
— Bobby Caina Calvan (@BobbyCalvan) February 6, 2022

Donald Trump has escalated a message rooted in racism and lies during recent rallies. "The audience he's trying to get is constantly agitated and upset," one professor said. "He always has a nose for white victimhood."https://t.co/zdI1BBbe23
— NPR (@NPR) February 1, 2022

"The GOP’s white-grievance movement is increasingly anti-American," @JRubinBlogger writes https://t.co/QLlpfGyBuu
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) February 15, 2022

Many Republicans think the NFL does too much for Black players and are losing interest in the league, poll shows https://t.co/FuKBHxfJrh
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) February 14, 2022

an old article:

White people think racism is getting worse. Against white people.

Covers: Act Naturally

“Act Naturally” is a 1963 Buck Owens record that was the last Beatles cover (1965) not counting the fragment of “Maggie May” on Let It Be. Ringo was the lead singer of the Beatles version and later recorded a duet with Owens. I saw Ringo perform this on TV today in a Soundstage rebroadcast – see the clip below

Right-wing attacks on the National Butterfly Center

This is an incredible story. It’s like Pizzagate.

I went to the National Butterfly Center in South Texas to watch as the nonprofit closed its doors indefinitely amid far-right lies online that the center feared would lead to violence

“It’s just incredibly sad” said a butterfly enthusiast on a last tourhttps://t.co/JnJtEvDaKH
— J. David Goodman (@jdavidgoodman) February 6, 2022

We live in an unbelievably stupid time https://t.co/xyEu3pfH9J
— John Bresnahan (@bresreports) February 3, 2022

UPDATE: The National Butterfly Center on the Texas border is closing “for the immediate future” after conspiracy-fueled threats against the center escalated in recent days. https://t.co/vi9KSIEi7e
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) February 2, 2022

Bob Marley’s birthday – February 6th

“Coming in from the Cold” is my favorite of Marley’s many great songs.

Let us celebrate together the birth of Robert Nesta Marley born February 6th 1945 in Nine Mile St Anne , Jamaica
A blessing to the world.
Tuff Gong 77th bornday today. JAH RASTAFARI pic.twitter.com/SZqG5QxRSD
— Bob Marley (@bobmarley) February 6, 2022

Bob Marley would have turned 77 today. Read our list of his 50 greatest songs https://t.co/Itu5KZLsCp
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) February 6, 2022

Join us in celebrating Bob Marley’s birthday! We invite you to take a journey through our Bob Marley covers, with insight from PFC co-founder and producer Mark Johnson. Enjoy!https://t.co/iFWYPMPuhr
— Playing For Change (@playing4change) February 6, 2022

OUT NOW 📺🚨 Ep. 9 of our #LEGACY web series, “Dreams of Freedom” – focusing on Bob’s mission for musical independence by establishing @TuffGongINTL – is available TODAY! #bobmarley #reggae #vinyl

📺: https://t.co/hHnKhztJaH pic.twitter.com/VDKtqTMHZR
— Bob Marley (@bobmarley) February 5, 2022

Covers: Love Potion No. 9

“Love Potion No. 9 ” was a hit for the R&B group the Clovers in 1959 and the British Invasion band The Searchers in 1964. At that time, young rock fans like me had not heard the earlier version.

Update on gerrymandering in North Carolina

Republicans will pay for trying to be greedy.

North Carolina Supreme Court rejects redistricting map as unconstitutional https://t.co/TYcEV8ECgV
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 5, 2022

In a big decision, NC's Supreme Court just struck down the GOP gerrymander, 4-3.

Had Dems not won the 2018 Supreme Court race, this would have gone the other way.

2018 is the year that… the GOP tried to rig the election, only to have it spectacularly backfire. Let's recap.
— Taniel (@Taniel) February 5, 2022

NC could easily have drawn a 9-5 map and no one would have said anything, but they got greedy and tried to go for a 11-3-1.

Now they are risking a 8-6 or even a 7-7
— u〽️ichvoter 🌴🏳️‍🌈 (@umichvoter) February 5, 2022

in love with North Carolina Republicans having the chance to draw a bulletproof 9-5 gerrymander similar to the 8-5 one the state Supreme Court approved in 2020 and instead drawing a hilariously blatant 10-4-1 map that immediately got struck down
— seinfeld empath (@NickTagliaferro) February 5, 2022

And there it is: the NC Supreme Court, in a 4-3 ruling along party lines, strikes down the GOP congressional map that might have led to an 11R-3D split, orders NC's General Assembly to submit new maps by Feb. 18th. https://t.co/aYO2e88Jny pic.twitter.com/8fG3aAqgmx
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) February 4, 2022

Heading into today's NC ruling, I had assumed that a pro-Democratic ruling would probably add two Democratic-leaning CDs–one in Greensboro, the other in the rural northeastern part of the state.
But based on this decision, the Democrats have more upside
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 4, 2022

Chief Justice Paul Newby accused the court’s majority of “seizing the opportunity to advance its agenda.” | Editorial https://t.co/451nEHSNqJ
— The Charlotte Observer (@theobserver) February 5, 2022

i hate to report that conservative election twitter is having a normal one. https://t.co/gfp22sYZxI pic.twitter.com/3Ahs5m2ByG
— Tyler Dinucci!! (@TylerDinucci) February 5, 2022

The two new proposed NC congressional maps today won't earn rave reviews from redistricting art critics, but they would have a very real chance to pass legal muster by typical partisan fairness measures.
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 16, 2022

Jeff Zucker did more harm than good

Great column by Margaret Sullivan. Zucker had a major role in creating Trump’s image.

Any good Zucker did at CNN is far outweighed by the harm he did to the country by promoting Trump. https://t.co/RpdzZD4mWW
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 5, 2022

This is extremely embarrassing, not just for Don, but for all the professional journalists at CNN. https://t.co/jPG2CeraM0
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) February 5, 2022

To you, Zucker was a great leader (and I have no doubt he was). To me, he did great harm to the country by boosting Trump. You mentioned it briefly but it's the most significant part of his career.https://t.co/UVZRUm5S7D
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 6, 2022

The huge gap between what matters to Beltway media elites and their toxic impact on America was never greater than CNN's bizarre emotional wailing for Jeff Zucker — whose quest for ratings and entertainment helped foist Trump on America

My new column https://t.co/CnTt4Eu1C0
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) February 8, 2022

Media: @brianstelter @oliverdarcy @ReliableSources: "Huge disconnect between critical external coverage – blaming #Zucker for boosting #Trump…and the internal impression that he was a heat shield and big-hearted leader and best producer at the network." https://t.co/1AALjuvInQ pic.twitter.com/ke8pbx1xVj
— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) February 4, 2022

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Great New Yorker weather cartoon by Rox Chast

I call The Weather Channel “weather porn” because they put their correspondents out in the snow, wind, and rain to look miserable when they could show the same stuff just with a camera and someone doing a voice-over from a safer spot.

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Miklos Jancso films coming to Blu-ray from Kino Lorber

This is great news. Jancso’s films have been hard to find here. UK company Second Run has Blu-rays of Silence and Cry and Electra, My Love. It appears that the version of Electra coming from Kino will be a 4K upgrade. Of the six films to be released, I think only The Red and the White was ever in a US edition (Kino Lorber DVD).

The listing on the Kino Lorber site. I ordered mine today.

Kino: New 4K Restorations of Six Miklós Jancso Films Coming Soon to Blu-ray

Rare screening: Winter Wind, from 1969, in which Miklós Jancsó presses his elaborate and exquisite political choreography into confines that heighten both intimacy and paranoia; it's at @MovingImageNYC at 2 (scroll down:https://t.co/mUVNZPXks9
— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) October 20, 2024