Alex Rodriguez asked a question. Reggie Jackson answered it.
(Shouts to the producer and rest of the desk for staying out of Reggie’s way and just letting him talk. I doubt they expected this answer. But it’s a great few minutes of television.)
GOP Senators Richard Burr and Kelly Loeffler’s pre-pandemic insider trading hit a nerve of anger within me that I haven’t felt since the day Trump pardoned a war criminal. Their actions, from Congress and the Oval, reflect that some lives are dispensable to the powerful.
I can’t even start in on the utter depravity of pardoning war criminals who killed innocent Iraqi civilians. God help our nation’s soul for our many sins, and may we vow to never let any of this happen again.
.
@PeteHegseth
“Oh bye the way, I appreciate the message from former President Bush, but where was he during Impeachment calling for putting partisanship aside.”
@foxandfriends
He was nowhere to be found in speaking up against the greatest Hoax in American history!
My friend Dan served in the toughest combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan and today saves lives as an ER doc. He’s unsparing in his critique of Trump’s leadership.
Former U.S Navy Seal Dr. Dan Barkhuff wants to know if
@realDonaldTrump
is a coward who can't stand up to Putin or if he's complicit.
Well, Donald, which is it?
The average American family now spends more time plotting their grocery list every week than Donald Trump dedicated to pandemic planning in January or March.
Charles Kushner hired a prostitute for $10k to seduce his brother-in law, secretly filmed the tryst, and timed the delivery of the X-rated tape to reach his sister on the day of a family party--but he's too ethical to take money from the Qataris for his underwater asset.
So Jared's dad met with the Qatari FM as a "courtesy," discussed his distressed skyscraper, but then told him they wouldn't take any money because it's a "conflict of interest." Got it.
PSA: Everyone in our house is on the mend after getting hit with COVID. My husband and I were vaccinated; our ten-month-old baby girl was the first to get sick but is recovering and in great spirits. Please get vaccinated so that other innocent little babies don't have to suffer!
MAGA Twitter is mad at me for calling Trump a scumbag, a factually accurate statement, and Resistance Twitter thinks I'm
@EliseStefanik
so my mentions are just 🔥🧨. Happy Sunday!
I can't shake this thought: imagine needing to appoint a new NSA (national security advisor) and having Fiona Hill on your staff and not promoting her. (Yes, I have a massive girl crush on Dr. Hill and am just shy of having t-shirts printed.)
This line to vote is completely obscene and an affront to democracy. Georgia officials have known since their last shoddy election administration to prepare - yet didn’t.
Night has fallen, but voting lines continue in Marietta, Georgia. The
@WCKitchen
team just finished serving dinner. They met someone walking out who arrived at 8am — he waited 12 hours to vote today. We must do better! Until then,
#ChefsForThePolls
will try to keep everyone fed.
Laura Bush isn’t scared of being attacked by Donald Trump; she cares more about the well-being of children. GOP Congressional members, follow her lead.
Two basic Qs every reporter should ask Beto today: (1) should the “caravan” be allowed to cross illegally into Texas? (Beto refuses to answer.) And (2) did your campaign dollars illegally fund their doing so?
I’m so shaken by this video. Please watch and listen to Nadia Murad’s message with the attention and compassion she deserves from the American people, all the more so when our President is incapable of it.
Unreal:
-Nadia Murad: “They [ISIS] Killed my mom, my six brothers”
-Donald Trump: “Where are they now?”
-Murad: “They Killed them..they are in the mass graves in Sinjar”
[Trump nods...]
George Will: “We cannot know all the measures necessary to restore the nation’s domestic health and international standing, but we know the first step: Senate Republicans must be routed, as condign punishment for their Vichyite collaboration”
Truth bomb from
@NicolleDWallace
on today's GOP: "What sets the party back isn't just the president's posture toward women, it's every powerful man in the party looking away and doing nothing. I've just never seen a display of cowardice like their silence"
Imagine being held against your will on a cruise ship during a pandemic - at greater risk of becoming sick - just to satisfy Dear Leader’s desire to keep the actual
#s
of carriers artificially low. What hell for those poor American citizens, and our country...
"I like the numbers being where they are. I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship" -- Trump explains that he doesn't want to let people off the Grand Princess cruise ship because he doesn't want the number of coronavirus cases in the country to go up
The 1/6 attack on the Capitol was horrific & appalling. Those who planned & participated in the violence that day should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I agree w/Speaker Pelosi – a 911-type investigation is called for to help prevent this from happening again.
This Sunday morning, if you believe in the power of prayer, please pray that my dear friends will make it to the Kabul airport safely. There’s nothing else to do or say now.
Hospital officials go on the record to say Trump is lying; no, our doctors did not abandon patients mid-surgery to salute Dear Leader with bloody scalpels in their gloved hands.
Looking forward to a reporter asking Lindsey for comment on this doozy.
Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally. They can’t. If we had a Wall, they wouldn’t even try! The two.....
“The governments of Iraq, Kuwait, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Thailand and the European Union got the green light to rent a combined eight units“
EXCLUSIVE: State Department allowed at least seven foreign governments to rent condominiums in New York’s Trump World Tower in 2017 without approval from Congress, a potential violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause
@JuliaHarte1
The White House Press Secretary tweeted a doctored Infowars video, solidifying her position as the most dishonest Press Secretary in history. That is something.
Let’s hope Jared urged Kanye to get help, because only a truly evil person would exploit someone ill and suffering a public bipolar episode (as confirmed by his own wife) for craven political purposes.
Erik Prince has been in the news a lot lately. In his book, he explains the kind of man he is: the kind who impregnates his children's nanny while his wife is dying of cancer.
All women and men who've been victims of sexual assault--and all those who know/love women and men who've been victims--must vote. It appears Republican electeds/candidates collectively don't deserve our precious votes. I'm a fmr R policymaker. I will
#VoteBlue
.
#MeToo
As the grandson of a businessman who built Mississippi’s 1st African American hospital in 1921 - and by shattering barriers himself as the first black MS Congressman since Reconstruction - Espy and his family have done more good in Mississippi than you ever will, Donald Trump.
New: I wrote about how Alex Jones’ deposition vid exposed him like never before. And how the legal system may be the only way to defang a conspiracy theorist at the height of his powers.
Pattern:
1) Trump says something outrageous/offensive, with no immediate rapid response or clarification.
2) In a day or two, Trump delivers canned prepared remarks to clarify.
3) In another few days, Trump doubles down on original position, usually on Twitter.
Great strategy to woo John Kelly and keep him off the record. With savvy interpersonal charm like this, no wonder all of Trump’s various negotiations around the world have gone nowhere.
Trump says source for story on his disparagement of fallen US solders “could have been a guy like John Kelly,” his ex-WH chief of staff
then he assails Kelly:
“didn’t do a good job, had no temperament, wasn’t able to function. he was unable to handle the pressure of this job”
Can't overstate how disturbing it is that Ukraine - the host government - is more concerned with an American Ambassador's safety than our own Secretary of State and President.
The wealthiest member of the Senate, Loeffler - who sits on the Senate Health Committee - dropped 7 figures of stock immediately after a private coronavirus briefing in January and added a telework stock that’s gained in value during the pandemic.
John Kelly’s tenure is a case study in the collective societal impulse to treat a former general officer with kid gloves. This instinct gravely harms our understanding of the character of many men in power and the resulting damage of their policies.
Wow. E. Jean Carroll, an author I've long admired, writes of Donald Trump assaulting her in the mid-90s: "He lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips." And it gets worse...
The first Christmas without a loved one is incredibly painful. I have no idea what’s in Donald Trump’s dark heart that drives him to be so unbearably cruel, but please know,
@RepDebDingell
, that plenty of us are horrified and send you love and well wishes.
Mr. President, let’s set politics aside. My husband earned all his accolades after a lifetime of service. I’m preparing for the first holiday season without the man I love. You brought me down in a way you can never imagine and your hurtful words just made my healing much harder.
I just ordered Fiona Hill's book because if she's 1/100th as brilliant a writer as she has been giving testimony today, it's gotta be amazing. I'd love to see it surge on the best-seller lists:
Speculation over malevolent intent aside, the voting troubles in Georgia are a sign of stunning administrative incompetence on the part of Sec of State Brian Kemp.
On the bright side, today was a tutorial for the American people on USG efforts to promote the rule of law and anti-corruption around the world. My favorite quote of the day from George Kent: “You can’t promote principled anti-corruption action without pissing off corrupt people"
Excited to launch a new podcast with my friend
@SteveSchmidtSES
- tune in for our launch episode on Monday. Read why in
@VanityFair
: "People need to be preparing for what follows and how we’re going to come out of this dark cycle of corruption.”
This Russian operation had staff in the hundreds, and a monthly budget of $1.25 mil PER MONTH by Sept. 2016 -- for context, this is more manpower and resources than most Republican presidential campaigns.
My husband is being forced to listen to a distillation of theories I hold about the national security apparatus and its various players, he is nodding politely and I'm going to pour him a whiskey
Wow from
@TimOBrien
: "I spent about two years, a lot of time with Trump in the mid-2000s, and he routinely talked about Jeffrey Epstein as someone he admired, he felt they were in sync...He liked that he was free to pursue women whenever he wanted to"
I don’t believe in unicorns that puke glitter and I don’t believe Trump is capable of uttering a single word that will not enflame tensions around the country today.
The Lamestream Media is doing everything within their power to foment hatred and anarchy. As long as everybody understands what they are doing, that they are FAKE NEWS and truly bad people with a sick agenda, we can easily work through them to GREATNESS!
I think this policy would change pretty quickly if the tent cities and tender age shelters were branded
#IvankaCamp
in honor of the White House senior advisor for women and children
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Morning Joe now: "I advocate ratcheting up the sanctions faster...we need to call the oligarchs out. We need to call them out by name. We need to go after their assets."
Still unbelievable that it took 17 years after 9/11 for a national reckoning on the morality of our continued alliance with Saudi Arabia, but I'm glad it's happening.
Trump tweets about Roger Stone raid, "Who alerted CNN to be there?" Just think! If you were president, you could haul the FBI director's ass into the Oval Office and ask him yourself.
“The inauguration crowd size, the 3 to 5 million fraudulent votes in the election, having tapes of Comey in the Oval Office those are three examples of things that are now known not to be true.” -
@SavannahGuthrie
“I appreciate you keeping it to three.” -
@SeanSpicer
PANDEMIC WHISTLEBLOWER, the 🔥🔥 lede: “He was pressured to invest in drugs and vaccines that lacked scientific merit, because the people selling them had friends in the Trump administration, up to and including the President’s son-in-last, Jared Kushner”
BREAKING: Former vaccine chief Rick Bright files a 63-page whistleblower report blasting the Trump administration's "cronyism" and chloroquine pressure campaign.
Any number of elected Republicans have expressed basically same thing Amash has said about Trump, but, you know. in private.
This is why they do it in private --->
The pearl clutching over the established fact pattern that Trump has the character of a total scumbag will be historically embarrassing for those who knew better and still participated.
Christ Almighty. Did anyone even try to brief Trump? I know he’s beyond incurious, but he knew nothing about *NADIA MURAD* except that she was a Nobel recipient. If this is how he treats a victim of unimaginable horrors, those who set them up should be ashamed, too.
No one can possibly be this clueless. She knows single moms have to figure out how to get to work with their kids home from school, people are desperate to ensure elderly relatives are cared for, people are trying to afford enough food in advance to get by for a couple of weeks.
Inadequate men in big jobs are always dangerous. President Trump has cemented his legacy as an inadequate man who lacks the mental faculties and strength of character necessary for the job.
How many others will prove, by saying and doing nothing, that they too are inadequate?
The smallest gift the Trump Foundation dispersed was $7 to the Boy Scouts in 1989, when the registration fee was $7 and Don. Jr. was 11. The largest gift of $264,631 covered a fountain renovation outside Trump's Plaza Hotel that enhanced the view.
Psycho Joe Scarborough is rattled, not only by his bad ratings but all of the things and facts that are coming out on the internet about opening a Cold Case. He knows what is happening!
“Bush spokesman Freddy Ford also said the two men had not discussed the matter. And Obama, for his part, has not spoken with Trump since his inauguration, except for a brief exchange at George H.W. Bush’s funeral in Washington, D.C.”
Lindsey Graham, 2017: "If Jeff Sessions is fired, there will be holy hell to pay."
Lindsey Graham, 2018: “The president’s entitled to an attorney general he has faith in ... and I think there will come a time sooner rather than later where it will be time to have a new face..."
“Right now Fauci is trying to roll out the most ambitious clinical trial ever implemented” of a vaccine to save the world while “getting calls from the White House or Jared’s team asking, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice to do this with Oracle?’”
Excited to have my first
@clarionledger
column byline: "I worry that Mississippi is about to send a senator to Washington lacking the critical character traits of common sense, judgment and the humility to apologize"
Who are the GOP Congressmen and Senators willing to share a stage with a war criminal? This is a slap in the face to our troops who did follow the rules of engagement yet still live with the moral injury of their actions every day.
New: Devin Nunes flew to the U.K. this month to gather intel on Chris Steele from MI5, MI6, & GCHQ. But the agencies—wary that he was “trying to stir up a controversy," per a source—didn't meet with him.
Milton Eisenhower (Ike's brother) was appointed in 1942 as the first director of the internment camps. He lasted 90 days on the job, quitting because, quote, "I can't sleep and do this job."
The Mississippi welfare scandal gets worse and worse for former Gov. Phil Bryant and Brett Favre with every new revelation.
@ayewolfe
has crushed this story and deserves a Pulitzer for opening up Pandora's box of corruption implicating the most powerful people in Mississippi.
NEW: Texts show former Gov. Phil Bryant, NFL legend Brett Favre and others worked together to channel millions in welfare funds to build a volleyball stadium at their alma mater.
Prosecutors have called that project a scheme to defraud the government.
Yes this actually happened: “Jeanine Pirro, the Trump stalwart and Fox host, repeatedly contacted task force members and FEMA officials until 100,000 masks were sent to a hospital she favored��
There is something about the whole Edward Gallagher story, just the murder and the pardon and the Fox News bullshit and everything else, that somehow hits me more viscerally in an America-is-broken sense than a bunch of other stories that are objectively a lot more important.
That Joe Walsh is gathering elite R support and not Justin Amash says everything about why we are this pickle. There’s no atonement or thought about the policies that got us to this place, just an attempt to return to big govt and foreign policy status quo.
Nancy Pelosi's interview with Chuck Todd this morning is a devastating showpiece of our era's bipartisan moral blindness.
Dems had an opportunity to lead on sexual assault and are completely blowing it.
Pastor, thanks for watching. I am a commentator and never claim to be objective. I grew up Southern Baptist and Good Lord I never thought I'd see the day when a Baptist preacher defended the morality of a serial adulterer.
Michael Jordan isn't afraid of Donald Trump's bullying and takes a stand -- in harsh contrast to the moral cowardice of plenty of American political "leaders."
NEW: Jordan sides with James over Trump tweet. NBA legend Michael Jordan tells NBC News through a spokesperson: "I support LJ. He’s doing an amazing job for his community.”