EXCLUSIVE | The Trump administration has secretly siphoned nearly $4 million away from a program that tracks and treats FDNY firefighters and medics suffering from 9/11 related illnesses. https://t.co/FwDPsNL9WK
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) September 10, 2020
Trump loses a census and redistricting related case
Great job by the court
BREAKING: Federal judges rule that President Trump’s order to exclude people who are in the U.S. illegally when redrawing congressional districts violates the law. https://t.co/8iM9VyVjdj
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 10, 2020
JUST IN:
— Joshua A. Geltzer (@jgeltzer) September 10, 2020
3-judge federal court in NY rules that Trump's recent census memo excluding undocumented immigrants from congressional apportionment count is UNLAWFUL.
A major win for a lawful 2020 Census! And yet another big loss in court for Trump.
#BREAKING: In a major victory, the courts have ruled President Trump cannot exclude undocumented immigrants from congressional apportionment in the #2020Census.
— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) September 10, 2020
No one ceases to be a person because they lack documentation, period. https://t.co/fUNsfM4e63
A federal court rejected President Trump’s order to exclude unauthorized immigrants from census figures, which are used to allot House seats. https://t.co/K1ab4FLSCU
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 10, 2020
Republican lawyer admits there is no widespread voter fraud
Scathing column from GOP super-lawyer Ben Ginsberg on his "painful conclusions" re: Trump and voting rhetoric. The party "must deal with the basic truth that four decades of dedicated investigation have produced only isolated incidents of election fraud."https://t.co/4Cp1UZsob4
— Peter Wallsten (@peterwallsten) September 9, 2020
The most Republican of Republican lawyers just called out Trump's lies on voter fraud https://t.co/LbpfhYzTa8 pic.twitter.com/EquX3AlMx0
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 9, 2020
Am I the only one that remembers that Ben Ginsberg was a key player in delegitimizing any effort to get a fair count in Florida in 2000? And that he was a particularly vicious partisan during the Clinton administration?
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) September 9, 2020
Sorry.
Update on coronavirus and schools 9/8/20
West Virginia University has suspended in-person classes amid the pandemic.
— CNN (@CNN) September 8, 2020
"We've seen the number of cases spike. The number of … students who've tested positive has gone up. And it's gone up at a quicker rate than we anticipated," Dean Corey Farris says of the decision. pic.twitter.com/uLxv4fh2xM
16 of the largest school districts in the U.S. resumed class today, and 14 of those were strictly online. @EricaRHill reports pic.twitter.com/ejHDBvJD64
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) September 8, 2020
How to reopen in-person schools safely | Opinion https://t.co/AI6ODAqcSH pic.twitter.com/VMmz8zVek3
— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) September 8, 2020
Sturgis was a superspreader event
"Our people are happy. We've had big events" — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem isn't sweating a study showing that the Sturgis motorcycle rally, which everyone knew was a terrible idea, ended up being a superspreader event pic.twitter.com/MzBFP64C26
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 9, 2020
Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota in August linked to more than 250,000 coronavirus cases, study finds https://t.co/85TdbJ6Pf1
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) September 8, 2020
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was "superspreading event" that cost public health $12.2 billion: analysis https://t.co/Xnu4bvvIhJ pic.twitter.com/krMuy3ZAtC
— The Hill (@thehill) September 8, 2020
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Linked to More Than 260,000 Coronavirus Cases, Economists Estimate https://t.co/a7djOFHmQJ
— #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) September 8, 2020
New analysis on Covid spread triggered by Sturgis event and implicated in the current epidemic in South Dakota. The estimates in this paper, if confirmed, would place Sturgis as the largest studied super spreading event in U.S. https://t.co/cNiTTs3Ilz
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) September 8, 2020
We estimate that over 250,000 of the reported cases between August 2 and September 2 are due to the Sturgis Rally. Roughly 19 percent of the national cases during this timeframe. https://t.co/6tCCV6aXYf
— Andrew Friedson (@FriedsonAndrew) September 6, 2020
2 weeks after the Sturgis motorcycle rally, South Dakota has the highest positivity rate (20.9%) in the country.
— Henry J. Kraven (@HenryJKraven) September 7, 2020
Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) hits reports that the Sturgis bike rally led to ~260,000 COVID cases: "They have deemed me as the governor that made all the wrong decisions by letting my people have freedom … Listen, our people are happy, we've had big events."https://t.co/eEDMmTaw6n pic.twitter.com/bqSHC9wFZo
— The Recount (@therecount) September 9, 2020
South Dakota Gov. Noem disputes report that Sturgis motorcycle rally may have caused as many as 250,000 COVID-19 infections.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 9, 2020
The state reported a 126% increase in new coronavirus cases over the last 2 weeks, with one death linked to the rally. https://t.co/g2x1OKpJ6W
Sturgis herd immunity virus experiment fails – no distancing, no masks – 266,000 infections – vrooom, vroom – to ER – https://t.co/QIWBJvUR6M
— jonflan@aol.com (@JonFlan) September 9, 2020
DOJ politicizes evidence in a potential criminal case
The DOJ is Trump’s personal legal team.
DOJ policy forbids publicly describing evidence in a criminal case, even after charges are filed, let alone before, because it could improperly influence a jury. This is an improper use of law enforcement authority for a political purpose. https://t.co/N4A46rfQ9D
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) September 8, 2020
Vigilantes have shown up at Black Lives Matters protests
These folks with guns scare me. What are they going to do if Trump loses the election?
Since the spring, militias have shown up at Black Lives Matter protests at least 55 times, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. https://t.co/fHd5aBsbcg
— MS NOW (@MSNOWNews) September 7, 2020
Veteran interviewed by @KatyTurNBC about potential violence during the November elections:
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) September 8, 2020
“Would you take up arms?”
“If that’s what it comes to.”
“Really?”
“Absolutely I would.” pic.twitter.com/Zw9rPBwEEi
Last week, following heavy press coverage of vigilante violence at protests, several analyses relied in part on my research to suggest Biden was likely to take a hit. A compelling new piece from @ThePlumLineGS shows that hasn’t happened. Why might that be?https://t.co/a2K52OKL7P pic.twitter.com/rB767xBB8w
— Omar Wasow | @owasow@bsky.social (@owasow) September 5, 2020
Election night coverage is important
We have to prevent Trump from declaring victory before mail votes are counted. The news media will play a major part in determining what the public thinks on election night.
Here’s what the news media must do — now and in November— to fend off the election-night chaos Trump wants https://t.co/GLfbwpknqS
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) September 6, 2020
More specifically, Fox's coverage will be the most important because that's where the most fact-resistant, easily triggered, Trump-alternate-reality voters will be watching.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 7, 2020
I can't believe I have to worry about a network causing Election Night violence, but here we are. https://t.co/4qWO77ejG5
Trump’s endless lies
And his cult lies right along with him
President Trump used a Labor Day press briefing at the White House to give a campaign-style address, attacking his political opponents, touting the alleged success the US has had against Covid-19 and repeating many false and misleading claims along the way https://t.co/hsAzz8pnKM
— CNN (@CNN) September 7, 2020
He's telling one lie after another and giving misleading statics about the pandemic and the economy. It is irresponsible to show this unfiltered to the public. People who don't usually watch TV all day are at home today and may not realize how pathological these "briefings" are
— digby (@digby56) September 7, 2020
Few would tolerate a co-worker, a boss, a friend, a spouse, a teacher, who constantly lied. Trump couldn’t get away with it if Republican leaders cared about truth. They don’t. They care about power. They should never be trusted. @JohnJHarwood https://t.co/8zNCHbkETU
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) September 7, 2020
“For the president and his top supporters, it was a campaign push brimming with disinformation — disseminating falsehoods and trafficking in obfuscation at a rapid clip, through the use of selectively edited videos, deceptive retweets and false statements” https://t.co/XOQ1RdSABY
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) September 6, 2020
"Why keep acting like things are normal after 20,000 false and misleading claims?" asks @brianstelter, as Pres. Trump's falsehoods continue to accrue. https://t.co/sE3dWvBU7l pic.twitter.com/416fwGRF21
— Reliable Sources (@ReliableSources) September 6, 2020
CNN's @ddale8 has fact-checked every false statement from Donald Trump since 2016. He takes you through his process and explains some of the President's biggest "tells" https://t.co/GDYh22FjOm
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 5, 2020
Trump blatantly lied about CNN on Thursday night. During a spiel about his Walter Reed visit, he confidently said that "CNN reported that I had a heart attack." The crowd booed. He said it again. CNN never reported such a thing. Search CNN's wbsite to see for yourself.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 4, 2020
The president lies to the crowd in PA that CNN reported as fact that he'd had "mini-strokes." Crowd boos the media.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 3, 2020
Biden wants to raise taxes on Americans who make more than $400,000 a year. (And as you might have guessed, 82% of Americans do not make $400,000 a year, so this is a lie). https://t.co/tnmvHKHgDv
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) September 2, 2020
Biden campaign wants pro-Trump ad on FRACKING removed in battleground PA, telling TV stations it "makes up a policy, ascribes it to Vice President Biden, and then says the nonexistent policy will result in job losses of 30 times more people than actually work in the industry.” pic.twitter.com/bVQspPOl7x
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) September 2, 2020
Officials in Wisconsin continue to stress that Pres Trump is not telling the truth when he says law enforcement in Kenosha has been federalized. Gov Evers deployed Wisconsin National Guard troops & got National Guard troops from other states.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) September 1, 2020
FBI & US Marshals are also helping.
Twitter deletes Trump’s retweeted claim minimizing coronavirus death toll https://t.co/o7OlIFiV1g
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 31, 2020
Trump on Portland: “The entire city is ablaze all the time.”
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) August 31, 2020
Fact-check: 100% flat out lie.
Lost in all of Trump's tweets about the protests were a pair of tweets in which the President is once again downplaying the coronavirus threat. Both tweets (one has been taken down by Twitter) falsely claimed the coronavirus death toll is in fact a fraction of what it is.
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) August 30, 2020
Trump retweeted two tweets featuring an egregious false claim about Covid data.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 30, 2020
One was from a supporter of the QAnon idiocy; now been deleted. The other was from campaign advisor Jenna Ellis, who linked to a piece by conspiracy site Gateway Pundit, which cited the QAnon tweet.
IRS commissioner makes money from Trump properties
If you’re concerned with Trump’s tax returns, you’ll want to hear about his IRS commissioner, who has made hundreds of thousands of dollars renting out Trump properties while refusing to release Trump's tax returns. https://t.co/zBiNnAUvrs
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) September 7, 2020
This is Charles Rettig.
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) September 2, 2020
Rettig failed to disclose his financial ties to Trump Waikiki when he was appointed.
Rettig told Congress that it's his decision whether or not to turn over Trump’s tax returns.
Rettig has an incentive to keep them hidden.https://t.co/WmFrIKnBTi
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig Profits From Trump Properties | Law & Crime https://t.co/MFZhPyOhPb
— K.Street1111 SOS America (@kstreet111) September 6, 2020
Trump’s IRS chief earns over $100,000 per year from Trump property while in office: new documents.
— The Great War & Modern Memory (@ps9714) September 3, 2020
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig has refused to release Trump’s tax returns despite law requiring him to do so. #wtpBlue #DemCast #wtp2020 https://t.co/2NJfaLONSq
NEW: Charles Rettig is Trump’s hand-picked IRS Commissioner who is supposed to release Trump’s tax returns. He makes as much as $1 million in rental income from the Trump-branded properties he owns. https://t.co/veG6eQpNWL
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) April 25, 2019
Sad! 