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

US black-white inequality shown in graphs

US black-white inequality in 6 stark charts https://t.co/IEuG5VDnr8
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 3, 2020

In response to @itsafronomics's call to action I am going to make some observations as a macroeconomist. Black Americans’ share of wealth has hovered around 4% of total wealth for the past 30 years. People who account for more than 13% of the population hold 4% of the wealth..1/n pic.twitter.com/BGzeJYYEx6
— Dr Julia Coronado (@jc_econ) May 30, 2020

⚡️ “The black-white economic divide is as wide as it was in 1968”https://t.co/4scwRI19U9
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 5, 2020

This is just an incredibly damning graph about the public policy decisions we’ve made over the last thirty years. pic.twitter.com/RvEhdJGdEq
— Bharat Ramamurti (@BharatRamamurti) June 10, 2020

Black families in the U.S. have 90% less wealth than white families—the gap has worsened over time (via @CNBCMakeIt) https://t.co/NPQQjaSOxL
— CNBC (@CNBC) June 27, 2020

Protests are happening in small towns, too

This thread continues to amaze. National news outlets need to do a better job reflecting the scope of the peaceful protests in between NY and L.A. – it's happening in small towns all across the USA https://t.co/sr8v9e73Dp
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 4, 2020

Smaller marches in the movement for black lives have popped up in areas that many would not expect. Many have been remarkable for taking place in rural areas where the vast majority of the population is white. https://t.co/e2NFW01ya2
— The Intercept (@theintercept) June 28, 2020

Trump administration is using unidentified law enforcement

This is wrong and dangerous.

This is an important piece on the suddenly widespread decision in Washington DC to make it difficult to distinguish between armed men who have legal authority and armed men who don’t https://t.co/HymGtgveLU pic.twitter.com/Fz9swqGput
— dan solomon (@dansolomon) June 3, 2020

They've been bringing in Bureau of Prisons riot police.

BTW, BOP handles a post-adjudication population of people according to the 8th Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Totally inappropriate for use against law-abiding people exercising 1st Amendment. https://t.co/DlvHX4g48u
— Mieke Eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) June 3, 2020

Using *Bureau of Prisons* riot teams to tamp down on protests on the unfair treatment of black people by law enforcement.

Quite a statement about what Barr thinks of black protesters and their allies. https://t.co/MrOfEdRmmG
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) June 3, 2020

A dangerous new factor in an uneasy moment: Unidentified law enforcement officers https://t.co/04p2MwA2vH
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) June 3, 2020

DOJ to Ferguson Police Dept 2014:

“Officers wearing name plates while in uniform is a basic component of transparency and accountability. It is a near-universal requirement of sound policing practices and requires under some state laws.” 1/x https://t.co/uuf8QtCWv0
— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) June 4, 2020

Law enforcement deployed in/to DC we’ve seen/reported:

US Secret Service
US Park Police
Arlington PD (gone)
DC Nat’l Guard + other states
Bureau of Prisons
FBI
DEA
DHS
ICE
CBP
TSA
US Marshals
Pentagon Force Protection
Ft Bragg/Fort Drum active duty troops
MPD

Miss anyone?
— Alexander Marquardt (@MarquardtA) June 4, 2020

More police attacks on journalists

I compiled a list of 160 incidents where journalists were hurt, arrested, wrongly restricted or targeted by police while covering protests across the U.S. this week. There are some instances of attacks by civilians, but the majority are by police.https://t.co/sgS0fecWiv
— Scott Nover (@ScottNover) June 2, 2020

In Minneapolis, cops pulled a WashPost reporter over in a traffic stop for knocking on the door of the police union's leader. https://t.co/8ZivMOIK4z
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) June 4, 2020

"Get the fuck out of here you piece of shit," NYPD officers to clearly identified @AP reporters, as they shove media and force them to stop covering NYC protests. https://t.co/kHBcrq9fbg
— Ali Watkins (@AliWatkins) June 3, 2020

An officer, using an expletive, orders them to go home. After explaining that press are considered “essential workers” and are allowed on the streets, an officer responds “I don’t give a s—-.” Another yells “get the f—- out of here you piece of s—-.” https://t.co/zD4ScjQeML
— darlene superville (@dsupervilleap) June 3, 2020

After cops tackled & arrested me, & after I identified myself as a journalist, they refused to give me my phone, leaving it on the street.

Later that night another journalist found my phone. Turned out it was recording while cops pressed my head into the concrete & cursed at me https://t.co/Qs185nMXyh
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) June 3, 2020

Journalists at George Floyd Protests Are Facing Attacks – By @katiecouric, featuring a Q&A with CPJ Advocacy Director @courtneyr https://t.co/yXA2afWsFp
— Committee to Protect Journalists (@pressfreedom) June 4, 2020

Well that can't be right. A couple of esteemed media critics told me the police did nothing wrong and Trump's photo op was perfect. https://t.co/Ca51kNEZA5
— CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella) June 4, 2020

You can clearly hear @aeringle say, “I’M PRESS.” One beat, and then the cop douses them in tear gas. He then yells, “I’M PRESS!” Sprayed AGAIN.

The deliberate attack on media by the police is terrifying—and a direct result of Trump’s autocratic rhetoric.pic.twitter.com/HBzUG2mqTD
— Jesse Damiani (@JesseDamiani) June 22, 2020

Trump says Roger Stone won’t go to jail

Trump has no respect for the law.

Clearly this is the reassurance that a nation at the breaking point needed to wake up to this morning: Trump is going to override the criminal justice system to take care of Roger Stone. That should satisfy the throngs chanting no justice, no peace. https://t.co/oo5aMcKul9
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) June 4, 2020

President Donald Trump promises his longtime political adviser Roger Stone will not serve time in prison https://t.co/TJxbIUJkWP
— POLITICO (@politico) June 4, 2020

Trump strongly hints at pardon of political adviser Roger Stone, saying he should "sleep well at night" https://t.co/wHyqx93xiW
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 4, 2020

Amazingly, Trump tweeted "LAW & ORDER!" literally minutes after corruptly dangling a pardon for Roger Stone. This makes an utter mockery of rule of law. In so doing, Trump neatly confirmed that James Mattis' blistering criticism is 100% right. New piece:https://t.co/ne5I8td1ZN
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) June 4, 2020

Trump calls a bishop “the opposition party”

He exploited them and got mad that they didn’t like it. Trump is a disgrace.

watch over or gas *again*? Today, Trump called the Episcopal Bishop for DC the "opposition party." Now his little green men are surrounding one of her churches awaiting her vigil. https://t.co/y2JjiD3UZZ
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 3, 2020

This feels like an attempt to intimidate the Bishop and the priest who criticized Trump after he desecrated their church. https://t.co/CEARzOvaHv
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) June 3, 2020

Ahead of Trump's Bible photo op, police forcibly expelled a priest from St. John's church near the White House. https://t.co/8tnsPpvANv
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 3, 2020

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde criticized President Donald Trump for making an appearance in front of the historic St. John's Episcopal Church on Monday, calling Mr. Trump's photo-op a "symbolic misuse of the most sacred texts of our tradition." https://t.co/kbaBDiV8px pic.twitter.com/M1N4DI51Vx
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 2, 2020

McEnany compares President Trump's photo op at St. John's Church to Winston Churchill touring bombing damage in World War II and President George W. Bush throwing the first pitch at a World Series game after 9/11 https://t.co/Nj065CIsxp pic.twitter.com/rDuNejzxI0
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 3, 2020

Ridiculous!

“Trump, who rarely goes to church and has attended services at St. John’s only a handful of times since he became president in 2017, used the church as a backdrop for a photo op that critics say defies the faith he claims,” @ToluseO & @spulliam write https://t.co/umS1GAB0Uz
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 3, 2020

Another fake Trump video

Whoa: The White House is circulating a video which it claims shows a cache of antifa bricks, but the image is actually just a year-old security barrier set up by the Chabad Jewish center in Sherman Oaks to prevent anti-Semitic car ramming attacks. https://t.co/hTjTErAHXm
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) June 3, 2020

This White House video includes footage of palettes of bricks in places like Sherman Oaks, New York, and Fayetteville that were absolutely not "staged." In one case, they show barricades that were erected a year ago to protect a Jewish community center: https://t.co/zLbn7jCvn7 https://t.co/WhbELCOAN7
— Craig Silverman (@CraigSilverman) June 3, 2020

NEW: Websites and social media users are sharing footage of bricks around the country to suggest that "riots were planned, orchestrated events." That's Mostly False. https://t.co/Ktgv9s7C8e pic.twitter.com/l0XtvNOUU1
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) June 3, 2020

“The White House deleted the tweet, without explanation or apology, after journalists including Tablet Magazine's Yair Rosenberg and CNN's Gabe Ramirez — who lives in the neighborhood — pointed out that it showed a synagogue security barrier.” https://t.co/oVsvCHQIXj
— Erika R. Bales (emotionally distant since 1980) (@Bales4Judge) June 4, 2020

Great alteration of the picture of Trump with a Bible

who made this pic.twitter.com/oIvt4bk15y
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) June 2, 2020

There are other good ones in the comments

More on Flynn

Judge defends authority to review Michael Flynn's case despite the Department of Justice's request to dismiss it https://t.co/VGS9yPjlQB pic.twitter.com/S5XnxK8CDy
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 2, 2020

Kislyak “played Flynn like a fiddle…For a former head of an intelligence agency Mr. Flynn showed a stunning lack of counterintelligence savvy or sophistication in dealing with an adversary.” https://t.co/w026S4aA6p
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) June 2, 2020

Not a single passage in these transcripts where Flynn says it was wrong for Russia to interfere. Wrong to hack into DNC. Wrong to sow hatred, division on Facebook, etc.

Russia had just attacked the US. Russia was the enemy. And new NSA is fixed on how much we have in common. pic.twitter.com/fSmwFUJk6w
— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) May 29, 2020

Re: Flynn-Kislyak convo

Having now read the transcript & taking it in context of what was happening, it is obvious to me & anyone who has engaged w the Russians that the conversation was NOT in the US interest.

Flynn’s actions were despicable. Under stable why he lied to FBI. https://t.co/fwXBGUd9TA
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) May 29, 2020

With all the news about the Flynn transcripts, remember that at this point the only real issue is this: given what the FBI already knew about Russian efforts to help Trump win, did the calls give them any reason to talk to Flynn? The answer was – and is – clearly yes.
— Randall Eliason (@RDEliason) May 29, 2020

The just-released Flynn-Kislyak transcripts show Trump's incoming national sec. adviser speaking repeatedly to the Russian ambassador, buddying up to him, & NOT ONCE saying anything about Putin's attack on the 2016 election. A stunning betrayal of the USA.https://t.co/ArXBuRqGGd
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 29, 2020

The Flynn transcript shows the incoming Trump administration colluding with Russia against the U.S. government https://t.co/13xIhul7rp
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) May 29, 2020

These transcripts CONFIRM pretty much everything Mueller accused Flynn of doing, and they DEBUNK much of what Trump has said about Flynn. The transcripts corroborate Flynn's guilty plea and further prove that he lied to the FBI about his Russian calls. https://t.co/amOEtAPrDR
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) May 29, 2020

Here’s what the Flynn transcripts show:

Gen. Flynn secretly discussed the U.S. response to Russia’s brazen election interference, and lied about it to the FBI and Vice President.

No wonder Trump and his allies are trying to re-write history,

Because the facts are so damning. pic.twitter.com/eNZMFlDSSa
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) May 29, 2020

And here’s what Flynn said to the FBI. It’s clear beyond any reasonable doubt that he lied, even apart from the fact that he admitted twice in court that he lied. https://t.co/SOJGReP5aR pic.twitter.com/XSuag5x0dQ
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 29, 2020

Also, the 302 shows the agents gave Flynn multiple opportunities to come clean, asking specific questions like whether he discussed reciprocity with Kislyak. Flynn could have said, oh, wait, now I remember. Flynn was determined to lie, and as you say, the nagging question is—why? https://t.co/LU8gNRF6pt
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 29, 2020