Trump attacks black female correspondents

Trump has attacked black women like House members Maxine Waters and Frederica Wilson. In the last few days, he has attacked reporters April Ryan (who he has criticized before), Yamiche Alcindor and Abby Phillip.

Trump is a bigot and a liar. He is also an opponent of the free press. Abby Phillip’s question today was very appropriate – it wasn’t stupid.

Trump, this is the 3rd black female reporter you’ve disrespected this week. Why can’t you just answer questions from competent reporters @AprilDRyan @Yamiche @abbydphillip. Why are you so intimidated by professional black women? https://t.co/Rt4cR8EHDP

— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) November 9, 2018

.@AprilDRyan, @abbydphillip, @Yamiche – among finest reporters covering the White House, plus April on the beat for decades. @realDonaldTrump's vitriol lodged against them, @Acosta, @PeterAlexander is unacceptable.

Mr. President, professionalism please. Abby is brilliant btw. pic.twitter.com/t3qJ8TxZxX

— Sarah Glover (@sarah4nabj) November 9, 2018

There are embarrassingly few black and hispanic reporters in the WH press corps and four have been personally insulted by the President this week https://t.co/YELssFmFrC

— Astead (@AsteadWesley) November 9, 2018

For the record, @abbydphillip is a talented, hard-working and most especially fair journalist. She asks many smart questions. Her question this morning about reining in Mueller not only was smart, it was important.

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) November 9, 2018

That makes three black women journalists he has berated just in the last 48 hours. (Not to mention the consistent attacks on black women’s intelligence…) https://t.co/5pCCgmbiJG

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 9, 2018

Asked about Jim Acosta, Trump brings up April Ryan, and questions the competency of a Black person for the third time in a week: "I mean, you talk about somebody that's a loser. She doesn't know what the hell she's doing."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 9, 2018

This is appalling. https://t.co/nb8q4wy7sN

— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) November 9, 2018

Trump complains about disrespect then when @abbydphillip, a total pro, respectfully asks if he wants Whitaker to rein in Mueller, he says, “What a stupid question. But I watch you a lot. You ask a lot of stupid questions.” And he didn’t answer the question. But we'll keep asking.

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) November 9, 2018

update 11/11/18

in other words Trump lashed out at Abby because her question hit the bullseye https://t.co/8VdaWZrfDu

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) November 10, 2018

MORNING READ: I wrote about the President’s ugly verbal attacks on Black women. I encourage you to read it. https://t.co/LMgcFWNdBH

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) November 14, 2018

Trump played a major role in payments to McDougal and Daniels

Trump has said he wasn’t involved but apparently he was very involved and informed and may have broken campaign finance laws. Lock him up.

If he can’t be indicted while he is president, I hope he is indicted as soon as he leaves office.

Here is more information and links on today’s Wall Street Journal story. All of the tweets link to the same story.

Federal prosecutors prepared a detailed 80-page indictment against Michael Cohen that outlined President Trump’s role in directing payments to women to keep quiet about alleged affairs, the Wall Street Journal reports https://t.co/K3vUnfzLkd

— CNN (@CNN) November 9, 2018

That’s MISTER Unindicted Co-Conspirator President to you, foolish citizen. https://t.co/ueDFSE9MkV

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) November 9, 2018

Where the head of the National Enquirer draws the line: "Mr. Cohen asked American Media to buy Ms. Clifford’s story. Mr. Pecker refused on the grounds that he didn’t want his company to pay a porn star." https://t.co/MU6iROFyOR

— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 9, 2018

"The accounts refute a two-year pattern of denials by Mr. Trump, his legal team & his advisers that he was involved in payoffs to Ms. McDougal & a former adult-film star. They also raise the possibility that the president of the U.S. violated federal campaign-finance laws." –@WSJ https://t.co/Vtj429WBRf

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 9, 2018

Federal prosecutors have gathered evidence of the president’s participation in transactions with porn stars and models that violated campaign-finance laws, per this WSJ story. https://t.co/cvpT5Tv5AG

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) November 9, 2018

"The Trump Tower meeting and its aftermath are among several previously unreported instances in which Mr. Trump intervened directly to suppress stories about his alleged sexual encounters with women," raising prospects Trump broke campaign finance laws https://t.co/eZGIYfABlK

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 9, 2018

New immigration plan coming

NEW: Trump admin. expects to be sued over its draconian new immigration plan, which may be unveiled as soon as Thurs. afternoon, two sr. officials with knowledge of the discussions say — but with Judge Kavanaugh now on US Supreme Court, it expects to win. https://t.co/s4G49Uaowz

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 8, 2018

Wilbur Ross update

Now Democrats will have oversight over the Trump grifters.

How do you spell grifter? W-I-L-B-U-R R-O-S-S. My column: https://t.co/sNWBEzDeYt via @bopinion

— Joe Nocera (@opinion_joe) November 8, 2018

We obtained 1,800 pages of Wilbur Ross’ calendar from 2017, which detail meetings he had with steel, rail, sugar, and energy industry insiders as well as groups with ties to WL Ross & Co. See what we found: https://t.co/1Gna9T4lLh

— American Oversight (@weareoversight) November 6, 2018

Wilbur Ross is accused of distorting an expert's view on adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census https://t.co/4S4p2gOr8Z

— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) November 8, 2018

1. Wilbur Ross held stock the manufacturing firm Greenbrier
2. As Commerce Secretary, he met with the firm’s CEO
3. Ross’ spokesperson said Greenbrier didn’t have business in front of the Commerce Dept.
4. Documents suggest they did…https://t.co/FXYS6hJwr1

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) November 8, 2018

Chief on its list is Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue https://t.co/CYRcEweX6I

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 8, 2018

Don’t target politicians or media members in restaurants or outside their home

Doing this just feeds into the right wing’s “mob” claim. Even Ted Cruz is entitled to eat dinner in peace.

Re Tucker Carlson: If you don't like him, what exactly is accomplished by terrorizing his family? Wouldn't something else — say, organizing a boycott of his advertisers — be a more effective means of protest?

— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) November 8, 2018

This is Brownshirt/fascist behavior. Period. If you defend it because Carlson’s opinions are noxious or dangerous, you’re opening the door to the “other guys” doing the same thing to you. https://t.co/4V08iiOCfa

— Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) November 8, 2018

Tucker Carlson is a blight on journalism and our public discourse. But addressing that reality with this tactic is disastrous for any republic, chilling to all speech including dissent, and, in the end, serves only to engender sympathy and allegiance with those targeted. https://t.co/eiC4kcNpRl

— David Simon (@AoDespair) November 8, 2018

This trend of harassing media figures and others at their homes is really detestable https://t.co/jl9BUZL3M3

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) November 8, 2018

I, too, dislike what @tuckercarlson says on television, in books, etc. But this kind of doorstep intimidation is reprehensible. Please respect his family's domestic life. https://t.co/QB9nEvovdF

— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) November 8, 2018

Fighting Tucker Carlson’s ideas is an American right. Targeting his home and terrorizing his family is an act of monstrous cowardice. Obviously don’t do this, but also, take no pleasure in it happening. Feeding monsters just makes more monsters.

— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) November 8, 2018

The @TheDemocrats have NO affiliation with Antifa. Let me repeat, NO affiliation with Antifa. Far Left mob, the Far Right mob that’s infiltrated the Republican Party is the #ProudBoys. To protest against Tucker Carlson’s views/lies; go protest #FoxNews not at his 🏡. Exhibit 1: pic.twitter.com/oBQyTkM6Kj

— BlackWoMANMajik (@CerebralGURL) November 8, 2018

People should not have done what they did at Tucker Carlson's house.
However…
I wrote something critical once about the calamitous CNN show hosted by TC and Bill Press. TC then shared my private e-mail with what passed for his audience. I, and my family, got death threats.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 8, 2018

“We know where you sleep at night,” they chanted outside Tucker Carlson’s home. @PeterBeinart says liberal protests targeting private lives "threaten the very norms of human decency that Trump and his supporters have done so much to erode.” https://t.co/3yXopGQhLe

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) November 16, 2018

2018 election results – 11/8/18 update

Suburban Voters Gave Democrats Their House Majority: Predominantly suburban congressional districts, once closely divided, are now twice as likely to be represented by a Democrat than by a Republican (@DHMONTGOMERY) details: https://t.co/6Apu9SPq7v pic.twitter.com/gdPPxjrtgW

— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) November 8, 2018

Election officials and campaign operatives across Florida are gearing up for massive recounts in large part due to one familiar problem: Broward Countyhttps://t.co/wwtaOf8bOA

— POLITICO (@politico) November 8, 2018

.⁦@clairecmc⁩ gets at an important part of rural realignment: nationalizing of media sources.

She said she’d see Fox on TV everywhere she went

“It’s time we all quit dancing around what is now a state-owned news channel”

https://t.co/WLBwdynS3W

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) November 8, 2018

BREAKING: The Florida Senate election has further narrowed. Bill Nelson now trails by only 17,333 or .21%. It is now in HAND recount territory. More ballots still being counted. I expect that margin to narrow further until recount.

— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) November 8, 2018

Déjà vu: Florida's two biggest 2018 races could head to a recount soon https://t.co/ldB48jJbCN pic.twitter.com/ajt3ZQPc1u

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 8, 2018

This is so helpful. A rundown of all the races from a Tuesday night that haven’t been called yet.https://t.co/kmTySQvaHq

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) November 8, 2018

NBC News now Democrats will have won 31 House seats — the same number they won in the 2006 wave.

A dozen races still yet to be called. could push that number closer to 38. https://t.co/fCizcCMX83

— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) November 8, 2018

The two Americas just lurched further apart (@RonBrownstein) https://t.co/XeiTH0Dnz2

— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) November 8, 2018

Uh, looking at the Broward County ballot. Who designs this stuff? This is not user-friendly at all. Seems rather easy to miss Senate and House race. https://t.co/KC9KghAGMz

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 8, 2018

I think what it suggests is very very poor ballot design. The Senate race was tucked low and left on the ballot. It's a problem similar to the Palm Beach butterfly ballot from 2000. https://t.co/1nAbC7MgAH

— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) November 8, 2018

Veteran Democratic elections attorney Marc Elias: “We believe that at the end of this [recount] process, Sen. Nelson is going to be declared the winner"

Rock Scott's campaign: “Let’s be clear: When Elias says ‘win,’ he means ‘steal.'"https://t.co/rEtik7yWIy

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 8, 2018

The midterms gave voters two opportunities to change America’s course on climate change. Voters took one, but only slightly. https://t.co/cLLgavdoFJ pic.twitter.com/S7ppAamrs4

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) November 8, 2018

.@MaddowBlog: GOP House losses in 2018 are higher than the historical average and the worst for a GOP president since the 1974 midterms in the aftermath of Watergate. https://t.co/mwKyAuFNEJ

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 8, 2018

Virginia and Maryland results: How the ’burbs won the battle https://t.co/jxkhXeT5YA

— Scott Clement (@sfcpoll) November 8, 2018

To get this off the table since ppl are focusing on it: AZ Sinema clearly has a good chance to win. Going off county results you'd give an edge to McSally, but these ballots are probably more Democratic. Could be very close. FL, who knows what lurks in provisionals, etc. https://t.co/Fd72naCMFH

— Sean T at RCP (@SeanTrende) November 8, 2018

Just worth noting when all ballots are in Democrats almost certainly will win the most House seats they've captured in any mid-term since 1974 and the third most in any mid-term since WW II. More than in the 82 or 06 backlash vs. R presidents. They'd prob take more such warnings https://t.co/qGeNw5ARJW

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) November 8, 2018

“The defining trend of the night—as throughout the Trump presidency—was the substantial gap between white voters with and without a four-year college education.” https://t.co/2gbjHWxDWI

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) November 7, 2018

Anyone wondering why one-time presumed GOP superstar Scott Walker appears poised to lose should read this definitive piece by @AlecMacGillis: https://t.co/SF4AKLZgwq

— Christopher Orr (@OrrChris) November 7, 2018

The Green Party continues to be a huge help to the Republican Party.

From Arizona: pic.twitter.com/3ci3j9FdFF

— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) November 7, 2018

Remarkable that Tester’s best result in MT comes after the president traveled there four times trying to convince voters to oust the senator https://t.co/wQGQgdGHga

— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) November 8, 2018

Breathtaking: 43 districts are already at or above 90% of their 2016 total prez votes cast, w/ millions more ballots left to count in tons of districts. https://t.co/0pm7oW1pFE

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2018

There are several unresolved issues in Florida, where Bill Nelson currently trails by 21,888 votes (0.26%). One involves the large drop-off between total ballots cast in Broward County from the Gov to Senate race. It's out of whack with every other county in the state: pic.twitter.com/RyeCEhZfa4

— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) November 8, 2018

In an apparent first, a Dreamer, @CatalinaCruzNY, was elected to the New York state Assembly https://t.co/tB2r2uS93Z

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) November 8, 2018

Brian Kemp is acting like he won in Georgia, while Stacey Abrams still sees path toward runoff: https://t.co/9CFou4J7YP pic.twitter.com/Sl2DnrTMpF

— Slate (@Slate) November 8, 2018

NEWS: The Florida Senate race is now in MANUAL recount territory, with Republican Rick Scott ahead of Democrat Bill Nelson by .22%. Threshold is .25%. More: https://t.co/wVcN85QhMQ

— Patricia Mazzei (@PatriciaMazzei) November 8, 2018

After Karen Handel conceded in GA and Dino Rossi conceded in WA, Dems have picked up 31 seats so far.

House breakdown:

Democrats – 225
Republicans – 199
Undecided – 11

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 8, 2018

NEWS: The Florida governor's race is now in recount territory, with Republican Ron DeSantis .47% ahead of Democrat Andrew Gillum. Recount threshold is .5%. That's still 38,515 votes.

— Patricia Mazzei (@PatriciaMazzei) November 8, 2018

We are moving Florida from Likely R to Lean R. The vote count keeps tightening and there's a big, weird issue regarding an undervote in Broward County.https://t.co/IPFgyRNPwT

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 8, 2018

FL Update, 11/8, 2 pm
Ag Comm: DEM +575 (+.006%)
Senate: GOP +17,344 (+.22%)
Governor: GOP +38,515 (+.47%)

Unknown number of Broward ballots and statewide provisionals uncounted

Margin for machine recount: .5%
Margin for hand recount: .25%

— David Beard 🏳️‍🌈 (@dwbeard) November 8, 2018

Trump has stopped talking/tweeting about the caravan

It was just a ploy to get his cult to vote. He duped his cult and the media.

Donald Trump has sent a total of 0 tweets on the caravan since the electionhttps://t.co/4osMBR4wtW pic.twitter.com/wmeDwMTB0O

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) November 14, 2018

Other than retweeting one WH message about new asylum rules, Trump’s Twitter feed has been silent since Election Day about the caravans approaching the southern border, which he constantly called a crisis in the days running up to the midterms

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 11, 2018

Notice that the caravan totally disappeared as an issue as soon as the votes were cast — not just Fox News, but mainstream media too. Guys, you really need to take a hard look in the mirror and ask why you're so easily played 2/

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 9, 2018

Trump tweets about the "caravan:"
Before Election Day: 9
After Election Day: 0

Meanwhile, there are more than 5,000 troops deployed along on the border, away from their families, for this political stunt. Shameful.

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) November 9, 2018

The president has not tweeted about the caravan “invasion” since before the election.

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) November 8, 2018

To those who believed Trump’s lies about the phony caravan crisis before the election, why isn’t State Run Media talking about the caravan today?

Because Trump and his media hacks played you for racist fools. And what did you do but swallow the bait whole. 🤔

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) November 8, 2018

Post-election reality: The caravan is no longer front page news, but mass shootings still are.

— Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw) November 8, 2018

Well, coverage of the migrant caravan stopped on November 7.

Just like coverage of Weiner's laptop stopped November 9, 2016.

Just like coverage of Ebola stopped November 5, 2014.

The media's top story is whatever Republicans say it is. Every. Single. Time.

— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) November 8, 2018

Every Republican voter I spoke to in Texas, without exception, mentioned the caravan & border security as motivating factors in their midterm vote. https://t.co/4QPMZYWnMA

— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) November 8, 2018

To those media outlets who covered extensively the " the invading caravan" before the election– sometimes on page one — but now have completely dropped reporting on this alleged national security threat, realize how badly Trump played you & don't repeat.

— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) November 8, 2018

While Trump had you focused
on a caravan of immigrants

an American
killed 12 people in a a bar

an American
killed 11 people in a synagogue

an American
sent pipe bombs to other Americans

an American
tried to shoot up a black church

an American
killed black people at a Kroger

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) November 8, 2018

My latest: Now that the election's over, Fox News and Trump seem to have lost interest in the caravan.

Go figure!

We did. Here are the results…https://t.co/jzJ6lfuAjB pic.twitter.com/WdZUZ9rCtf

— Marcus Baram (@mbaram) November 8, 2018

Trump dropped that Caravan like a second wife who hit her 40's.

— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) November 8, 2018

A Week After the Midterms, Trump Seems to Forget the Caravan https://t.co/NqI507ZUpY

— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) November 14, 2018

The media acknowledges that Trump duped the media with the migrant caravan. https://t.co/60yeqrAEXu pic.twitter.com/N2bIv1xoVM

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) November 14, 2018

Appeals court rules Trump can’t end DACA

On the surface, this looks like good news for DACA recipients.

In reality, it means that the Trump admin can now appeal this decision to the Republican Supreme Court where the Court will likely vote along party lines against DACA. https://t.co/yVtKesSd2w

— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) November 8, 2018

BREAKING: Appeals court says Trump administration can't end DACA https://t.co/LmHplm4JB3 pic.twitter.com/eg90lLGkbN

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 8, 2018

White House shares doctored video from Infowars author

This is pathetic and disgusting. The White House used an edited video from a guy who writes for Infowars, a right wing site that has been banned for hate speech by some social media sites.

Video of Acosta incident posted by White House press secretary contains extra frames, social-media intelligence agency Storyful found https://t.co/8euOVnIiEn

— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) November 8, 2018

Read this and weep. https://t.co/VbjCrCQMVs

— Julie Roginsky (@julieroginsky) November 8, 2018

Even the doctored video shows nothing

Sad! https://t.co/SqX23d11k6

— Rick Newman (@rickjnewman) November 8, 2018

Even by the standards of their serial-lying selves, this is bad stuff. https://t.co/uZag1rXO7T

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 8, 2018

In latest statement, White House Press Sec. Sanders says "we stand by our statement" from when revocation of journalist's pass was announced, but does not address allegations that she shared a doctored video of incident from her official Twitter account. https://t.co/2lbbnxYy90

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 8, 2018

I’ve worked in lots of places where reporters get banned, jailed and blacklisted — Christ, I’ve been banned from a whole country — but I’m struggling to imagine which of those governments would have the chief spokesperson send out a doctored video. https://t.co/6C5QTjk9oq

— Andrew Beatty (@AndrewBeatty) November 8, 2018

1) Sarah Sanders is flagrantly lying about what happened with @acosta, to justify punishing a reporter for holding Trump accountable.

People seem baffled.

How could the White House lie about something that's on video, where everyone can see what really happened?

*Thread*

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 8, 2018

2/2 …Note the blurring on the arm, the intern and @Acosta, while the rest does not. Sticking with the data / facts, and as we captured the live C-Span video as streamed from their website, the video from @PressSec was changed. pic.twitter.com/FWDtSJu7GX

— Factba.se (@FactbaseFeed) November 8, 2018

What the White House is doing to @Acosta has its roots in what Donald Trump & his campaign did to @MichelleFields in March 2016, when her character was assassinated after Corey Lewandowski left bruises on her arm. She wrote about it today for @TheAtlantic: https://t.co/d6yVQutijf

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) November 8, 2018

update 11/9/18:

The White House went the extra mile to doctor that Jim Acosta video. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/4l66nzUJN4

— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) November 9, 2018

It was doctored. https://t.co/alYa9s7xn3

— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) November 9, 2018

update 11/10/18:

Unraveling the truth of CNN reporter Jim Acosta's encounter with a press aide has little do with determining if the White House posted a doctored video of the incident, writes @ibogost. https://t.co/4sSu0SLng7

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) November 10, 2018

The acting attorney general

In case what's missing from your life is a long post from the Lawfare team about the Sessions firing and the rise of Matt Whitaker… https://t.co/afnpDS0SHF

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) November 8, 2018

And here is future United States Attorney General Matthew Whitaker promoting advances in hot tub design for scammers World Patent Marketing: pic.twitter.com/M9i2u2l4ww

— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) November 7, 2018

NEW: Whitaker ran interference for Sessions in 2017 when Sessions took heat over Kislyak conversations https://t.co/C1EbycItsw

— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) November 8, 2018

Trump's new acting AG said Clinton should've faced prosecution in email probe @CNNPolitics https://t.co/AGdHSgQAZ4

— David P Gelles (@gelles) November 7, 2018

The Whitaker-Clovis journey: both lost Iowa GOP primary; Whitaker chaired Clovis's Treasurer race; Clovis lost again; Clovis became co-chair of Trump's campaign, unqualified USDA pick, Mueller witness; Whitaker criticized Mueller, got hired at DOJ, became attorney general.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 8, 2018

NYT: "Whitaker first came to the attention of Mr. Trump because he liked watching Mr. Whitaker express skepticism about aspects of Mr. Mueller’s investigation on television." He was hired as Sessions's COS very shortly after this public Mueller criticism. https://t.co/a4RUZ2nqhx

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 8, 2018

NEW: Trump's acting attorney general was a board member of Miami Beach-based company World Patent Marketing, which the FTC called a scam and shut down https://t.co/XjMkkHJmjP

— Brittany Shammas (@britsham) November 7, 2018