[View here as a Twitter thread] Spoiler: Maybe he’s succeeding. Someone attended a Nunes fundraiser, recorded him & gave the recordings to Maddow. msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-… Nunes: “If Sessions won’t unrecuse himself and Mueller won’t clear the president . . .” 1/We’re the only ones. . . We have to keep the majority . . . or all …
[View here as a Twitter thread] (Thread) America’s authoritarian moment Yesterday, I wrote a thread suggesting that Trump and his legal team are not devising a traditional legal strategy—their plan for beating the Mueller probe is to attack the Rule of Law itself. The thread is here: 2/ I suggested that Trump has a …
[View here as a Twitter thread] Spoiler: He doesn’t have one. He intends to beat the Mueller probe by torpedoing Rule of Law. It’s fairly clear to most people paying attention that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to fix the election, and that Mueller is closing in. 2/ It’s also clear that Trump …
[View here as a Twitter thread] What the heck is Sen. Paul Rand doing in Moscow? (Other than opening “lines of communication” and inviting Russian lawmakers to the US) abcnews.go.com/International/… Answer: Fox-GOP is moving toward openly embracing its Kremlin ties. 2/ . . . and that includes acknowledgment that Trump & pals coordinated with Russia during …
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[View here as a Twitter thread] (1) This is a great thread Thanks to @Talon269 and @julievzwilson for sharing it with me.https://twitter.com/djrothkopf/status/992382428231749633 … It raises the question that has been on my mind: How will the Fox-GOP respond when the penny hits the ground? And it appears that the actual penny will soon land. (2) Today Twitter is abuzz …
[View here as a Twitter thread] This is for the people who read this: twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield…and say: “I don’t believe Trump is that smart!” Consider the similarity between the lie Trump told Congress about how domestic terrorists , and Putin’s lie about the “homo dictatorship.” 1/ Recall that when Ukranians protested against Yanukovych, the lie told …
[View here as a Twitter thread] People still underestimate Trump. They say things like: Trump knows he’s caught! So now he’s going to do something desperate like start a war! Or: There he goes again! Telling more outrageous lies! Or: He can’t control his impulses! He’s self-destructing! 1/ Let’s consider another possibility: He knows …
[View here as a Twitter thread] Ideas come mostly from Yale Prof. Snyder’s 6-26-18 lecture. m.youtube.com/watch?v=4eydzJ… Punchline: Most Americans in 2016 didn’t know they were under attack. Many still don’t understand that the Russians went to war, won, and selected the US President. 1/ Americans still don’t fully understand what hit them. So how the heck …
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[View here as a Twitter thread] Why the Manafort trial matters. Spoiler: Because it will illustrate the depth of the GOP-Russia connection. And because it will highlight the connection between what Manafort did in Ukraine and what the Manafort-Trump team did in the US in 2016. “But,” you say, “The prosecutors said they won’t …
[View here as a Twitter thread] (thread) OK, what’s the big deal about the “Catch and Kill” arrangements Trump & Cohen had going with the National Inquirer (AMI)? Spoiler: The behavior is criminal and/or meets the elements of civil fraud. Plus it shows a pattern and practice tying the behavior to TrumpRussia. “Catch and …
