Hi, George. Thanks for commenting. And welcome to my twitter feed. All the facts I listed came directly from documents Mueller filed with the court. Most are from a doc you signed under penalty of perjury! Let’s march through the facts, as given in the docs, shall we? 1/ The first bunch of facts will …
[View as a Twitter Thread] Glenn Greenwald wants to know if anyone can answer a few questions, like if Mueller indicted any Americans for crimes in the 2016 election or for criminally conspiring with Russians. 🙋♀️I can answer your questions, Glenn! 1/ Mueller’s mandate wasn’t to indict Americans for crimes during 2016 or for criminally …
[View as a Twitter thread] Q: Can Trump declare a national emergency and then build his wall? A: Of course not. The real question is how to deal with Trump’s very effective “flood the zone with shit” ploy. Look what happens when Trump says things like that: 1/Legal scholars like Lawrence Lessig, Yale Law prof. …
[View here as a Twitter thread] The problem isn’t (just) Trump. Tony Schwartz says the president has too much power. This is only true because the GOP members of Congress are not acting as a check on presidential power. 2/ The GOP is obeying Trump as if he is an autocrat. Example: The House and …
[View here as a Twitter thread] Who are “nullification libertarians”? @laura__3_14 asked for help responding to friends who now call themselves 10th Amendment purists. (To avoid sending people to their website, I’ll use screenshots) 1/ The site is professionally written—and uses the exact same rationale and arguments that underlaid the Confederacy. I felt a shock: …
[View as a Twitter thread] Was Cohen in Prague? Spoiler: It doesn’t really matter. The report that Cohen was in Prague ignited a frenzy this past week, sparking the question: Do we at last have a smoking gun? 1/ The conservative American Thinker argued there there’s still no “smoking gun” and so there’s nothing to …
[View here as a Twitter thread.] On Wed. I argued that our democratic institutions [appear to be] holding out against Trump’s onslaught. The federal reserve debacle provides another example. 1/ Trump was enraged when Federal Reserve chairman Jay Powell raised interest rates. Why? Perhaps because Trump has $340 million of debt with Deutsch Bank and …
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[View here as a Twitter thread.] I wrote about sadopopulism earlier this week. Kay asked “Do you think Trump is purposefully doing this? Or it is it instinctual?” Answer: I think both. 1/ Yale professor and author of How Fascism Works, @jasonintrator, thinks Trump acts purposefully: “Trump is cynically using a set of fascist tactics …
[View here as a Twitter thread.] Our institutions [appear to be] holding out against Trump’s onslaught. Well, other than the GOP, which caved completely. [For some background on why the GOP is enabling Trump, see this thread on the history of the GOP & this thread on authoritarianism] 1/ Prosecutorial discretion and independence is a pillar …
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[View as a Twitter thread] Are you surprised that Trump is destroying the government-literally pulling down the house-while his fans cheer? They want a “disrupter” even if they’re the ones most likely to be hurt by a disruption. Don’t be surprised. It’s what Timothy Snyder calls Sadopopulism. From a Trump supporter: 1/ From @MaggieNYT: …
