Trump won’t stop Russia from harming the US

Trump does nothing to stop his pal Putin

Keep in mind that AFTER being briefed on this intelligence, Trump once again pushed to have Russia readmitted into the G8. https://t.co/C8T1fUYWSg
— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) June 26, 2020

Stop for one second and read this.

Donald Trump was briefed in MARCH that PUTIN had put a "BOUNTY" on U.S. troops -$$$ for killing US troops – and Trump has done NOTHING for THREE MONTHS about it.

SOLDIERS/VETERANS/MILITARY FAMILIES WHO CHEER AT TRUMP EVENTS…WAKE THE FUCK UP! https://t.co/NLWQzW92GQ
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) June 26, 2020

A Russian hacking group with ties to Russian intelligence (aptly named Evil Corp) is deploying new ransomware and officials are warning that it could be used to wreak havoc on election infrastructure.https://t.co/UJu1bsMCXm
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) June 26, 2020

Russia reportedly made the proposals during peace talks between the U.S. and the Taliban https://t.co/NaXFH7PjPc
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 26, 2020

The most consistent feature of Trump’s foreign policy is an unwillingness to confront Russia. He’s gone back and forth on North Korea, even China, and has had occasional conciliatory words for Iran, but has never wavered on Russia. https://t.co/CRdqRpyXeA
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) June 26, 2020

Why does Trump suck up to Putin? I assume he owes Russia a lot of money.

Just so I have the white supremacy straight,

a black football player respectfully kneeling is TREASON, but a white President allowing a fucking BOUNTY on US soldiers is PATRIOTIC?
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) June 27, 2020

The public supports wearing masks

Except for Trump and his cult.

From the Yahoo article lined to in the second tweet below:

“Yet support for mandatory mask measures — which one study estimates have already prevented as many as 450,000 COVID-19 cases in the states that have enacted them — breaks sharply along partisan lines. While 86 percent of Democrats and 65 percent of independents back the idea, most Republicans (54 percent) oppose it. Among those who intend to vote for Trump in November, the number who say masks should not be mandatory is even higher: 63 percent.”

Nearly 9 in 10 Americans (89%) who left their home in the last week said they wore a face mask or a face covering, compared to only 11% who said they did not, new @ABC News/Ipsos poll finds. https://t.co/pHGJiyR4Oq
— ABC News (@ABC) June 26, 2020

Two-thirds of Americans say masks should be mandatory, siding with Biden over Trump – #COVID19 #Coronavirus #trump #Biden #pandemic #socialdistancing #virus #hotspot #mask https://t.co/zNHyb3Kc5u
— Hotpage News (@Hotpage_News) June 26, 2020

Another bad Trump appointee

Where does he find these anti-science bigots?

Trump announces intent to nominate William Perry Pendley to lead Bureau of Land Management https://t.co/lVed42Afvw
— Dan Berman (@DHBerman) June 26, 2020

This guy was officially nominated to head the Bureau of Land Management today.https://t.co/MrR0poN6tU pic.twitter.com/jiWMqY5ncm
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) June 26, 2020

JFC ENOUGH!

Bureau of Land Management proposes drilling on most of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. https://t.co/blYgsv73Em
— Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) June 25, 2020

Trump has (finally) named Wm Perry Pendley director of Bureau of Land Management even though Pendley doesn't believe in federal lands. He has pushed for more mining, oil exploration, grazing, recreation. Here's what I wrote earlier @StevenMufson https://t.co/NL7MpSUr7B
— Steven Mufson (@StevenMufson) June 26, 2020

Trump just announced his intent to nominate William Perry Pendley to be Director of the Bureau of Land Management.

Why's that bad? Well, check out Pendley's own words full of:
❌Climate-denial
❌Anti-environmental stance
❌Horrible takes on diversity https://t.co/SyQdJK12ch
— The Wilderness Society 🌳 (@Wilderness) June 26, 2020

Usually when public comments are filed with a federal agency, they are made, well, public.

But not so for the Bureau of Land Management. https://t.co/n50xRSHvYi
— Bloomberg Law: Environment (@environment) June 24, 2020

Trump’s spending on the wall was unlawful

BREAKING: A federal appeals court rules Friday the Trump admin. does not have the authority to use military funding to pay for construction of a border wall. https://t.co/0PaLmkcre4
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 26, 2020

Breaking: Trump admin does not have authority to divert Pentagon funds to construct additional barriers on US-Mexico border, a federal appeals court ruled, days after Trump’s visit to the wall.

In 2-1 ruling, Ninth Circuit said the $2.5 billion transfer circumvented Congress.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) June 26, 2020

BREAKING: A federal appeals court ruled in our case that President Trump’s attempt to transfer billions of dollars in military pay and pension funds for border wall construction is unlawful.
— ACLU (@ACLU) June 26, 2020

Trump’s disgusting effort to kill Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act)

There’s a pandemic going on

Many people are losing health insurance when they lose their joj

Sad!

On Thursday night, the Trump admin. filed its brief to repeal Obamacare with the Supreme Court.

"…[Americans] are not buying what the administration is selling. Simply put, gutting Obamacare is a political loser," writes @LloydGreen9.https://t.co/C0tvpdRbjD
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 26, 2020

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn the Affordable Care Act. If successful, this would bring a permanent end to the health insurance program known as Obamacare and wipe out coverage for as many as 23 million Americans. https://t.co/wvUCqmqk3F
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 26, 2020

Trump wants to rip millions of Americans health care away. In the middle of a pandemic.

His administration is saying so in black-and-white right here.

Don't let him. Vote!https://t.co/1Jtgyy7ZTG
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) June 26, 2020

Trump is trying to change the law so that an insurance company can deny coverage for the millions of Americans who survive COVID19. So if you’ve had COVID19 Trump is gonna make sure you pay, forever, with higher premiums.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) June 26, 2020

NEW tonight: Trump administration files a brief asking the Supreme Court to wipe out Obamacare, arguing that the individual mandate is unconstitutional and that the entirety of the law must be struck down with it. https://t.co/08W0r6ivdT
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 26, 2020

Democrats are uniting around a plan to make health care central to the 2020 campaign after the Trump admin's push to strike down the ACA, w/ @StephArmour1 https://t.co/hMziMsjadU
— Ken Thomas (@KThomasDC) June 26, 2020

Polls show that Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act) is popular

Trump still wants to kill it.

Majority Support Obamacare Despite Trump’s Supreme Court Bid to Kill ACA

#ACA #Obamacare is still vastly more popular with the American people than Donald Trump https://t.co/8EwjLiZASg
— Christopher Lawson (@Corpulace) June 26, 2020

It's still more popular than not.https://t.co/9f1zT0dq2E
— Mike 😷 Hamm (@mike_hamm) June 26, 2020

Growing majority of Americans like Obamacare (ACA).

According to FOX NEWS POLL. https://t.co/YLkh0tap1s pic.twitter.com/AqeN7PqOyF
— Kate Pryde (@Mutant187) June 25, 2020

an old poll

NEW POLL: Ten years on, the Affordable Care Act is more popular than ever. The program has a net +23 favorability rating (54% favorable-31% unfavorable), which represents a 22-point increase since last tested in June 2019 (46%-45%). pic.twitter.com/wdU4bzKjvo
— Navigator Research (@NavigatorSurvey) February 27, 2020

Trump’s ridiculous claim that Obama committed treason

New #FactChecker –> Michael Flynn, Barack Obama and Trump’s claims of ‘treason’ https://t.co/p1e6E5FVZv
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) June 26, 2020

In response to plummeting poll numbers due in part to his divisive handling of racial unrest, Trump tries out a new message: his wildly popular African-American predecessor committed treason. https://t.co/bCKqCE5GUa
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) June 23, 2020

Tonight in accusations of treason: https://t.co/7skJqHdUWJ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 23, 2020

In @DavidBrodyCBN interview, President Trump, without evidence, accuses President Obama of “treason” and says he’s looking forward to seeing what the Justice Department pursues in the coming months. pic.twitter.com/AKo9chdgPI
— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 22, 2020

Right wing media spreads conspiracy theories and misinformation

Let’s just say they lie a lot.

Three new studies about conservative media and Covid-19 "paint a picture of a media ecosystem that amplifies misinformation, entertains conspiracy theories and discourages audiences from taking concrete steps to protect themselves and others." https://t.co/EkMFU3O2ND
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 25, 2020

Three research studies now give devastating weight to what many intuitively knew: That Fox and other pro-Trump media lulled their audiences into not taking coronavirus seriously in the crucial early days. My column, building on @_cingraham's analysis: https://t.co/TIkrLhr67Y
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) June 28, 2020

Coronavirus poll update 6/25/20

Timely poll result given Trump’s comments today about reopening the schools https://t.co/QcK00uRQS4
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) July 7, 2020

65% of U.S. adults say that they have personally worn a mask in stores or other businesses all or most of the time in the past month. https://t.co/RBHHGIQqvQ
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) June 28, 2020

55% of U.S. adults say the reasons why Black people face higher #COVID19 hospitalization rates than other racial or ethnic groups have more to do with circumstances beyond people’s control. 44% say it has more to do with people’s choices and lifestyles. https://t.co/KogZJOJQkj pic.twitter.com/cmC5vGaYQa
— Pew Research Fact Tank (@FactTank) June 27, 2020

A new Pew poll finds a sharp partisan divide over concerns about Covid-19, with 61% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents saying the worst is behind us while 76% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents think the worst is still to come https://t.co/P1GCxWUZKN
— CNN (@CNN) June 25, 2020

THREAD: As the U.S. sees growing numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases, a new AP-NORC poll finds support for measures to slow the virus’ spread has declined from the early days of the pandemic. https://t.co/ITBmmhjIBd
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 25, 2020

Absolutely heartbreaking.

Our communities are suffering because of this administration’s lack of leadership.https://t.co/ee6M2BNGaY
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 28, 2020

CNN didn’t cover Biden’s speech today

They devoted hours to Trump’s Tulsa rally. This is 2016 all over again. Trump is dominating media coverage. It’s very unfair to Biden.

If this was 2016 and Trump was the challenger, CNN would have a carried this event from beginning to end. https://t.co/NXO2DbIpV4
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) June 25, 2020

This is a great clip. https://t.co/495WpveYP6
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) June 25, 2020

I sent this message in an email to Brian Stelter at CNN today (6/26):

Overall, I think you do a great time during a very challenging time for reporters between having a president who lies often and several major crises happening at the same time.However, I think you should have addressed why CNN did not broadcast Biden’s event on Thursday. I am concerned that we will see a repeat of 2016 when CNN and other networks gave Trump excessive coverage which helped him win the nomination and election. Yes, a lot of CNN’s coverage points out Trump’s lies and failings. However, more coverage of Biden is needed now in the interest of fairness.
Harris Levy