@joanwalsh
The repeated and immediate counterpunch should include a list of Trump’s brazen failures such as numerous bankruptcies, a history of fraud, grifting, and treachery. Let’s not forget bone spurs and his questionable time at the Wharton School.
@SenBlumenthal
Time for you guys to show some spine and, at a minimum, subpoena this grifting, treacherous joke of a judge. Grill him like a hamburger, as was done to Hillary for far, far less. This is an abomination.
@tribelaw
We’ve got to be more aggressive. For example, why hasn’t anyone filed a nationwide class action lawsuit against Trump and his goons for continuing intentional infliction of emotional distress?
@RWPUSA
If Trump and his grifting gang aren’t prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, it is a disgrace to us and especially to those in prison for far, far less.
@tribelaw
It is arrogant, cruel, lacking in humility. The tell tale signs of rank bias. Stoning people to death, crucifixion, burning at the stake used to be well-established. As has been remarked, taking away a truly well-established right is made even more cruel by criminalizing it.
@MilesTaylorUSA
@aZenScrit
It’s not cowardice. It’s craven, grifting, treacherous hypocrisy. The fraud is criminal. I would think at least one sponsor would feel defrauded by Fox’s calculated nonsense. Isn���t fraud, theft, a crime?
@BeschlossDC
@nytimes
Could someone please tell me what counter-intelligence does? They seem to have endless, obscure investigations that amount to nothing. The Trumpsters/the devolving GOP are firmly in place & causing as much wreckage as ever, despite brazen criminality and corruption everywhere.
@JodieHMoss
@RepLizCheney
Fines would only be seen as the cost of doing business. While the Trumpsters/GOP haven’t yet sacked the Capitol again, the insurrection is active and continuing.
@tribelaw
The press seems to implicitly glorify the Trumpsters, e.g. “Trump Lashes out….;” “McConnell Blasts Schumer….” How about, instead, “President Biden Rejects Trump’s Baseless Request….” We’ve got to stop coddling the Trumpsters & idiotically portraying this Country as “divided.”
@BleuLimousine
@PattyWi71761554
Real simple. A cultural conceit in our decaying society is that ever more is expected from folks trying to do the right thing while the bar gets ever lower for the bad folks who grift, lie and sow chaos.
@ungerbn103
Exactly! There are only two choices, neither are good: 1) the criminal justice system is corrupt and are in on it; or 2) it is irrationally afraid of the Trumpsters, despite having 1000s of FBI agents and such.
Peter Baker, another NYT feckless “reporter,” just said on Nicole Wallace’s show, in reference to Trump, “if we only knew at the time….!” WTF!!! It was obvious from the very beginning!!!! Yet another who saves the juiciest to sell a book. A little too late, Pete.
@harrylitman
I’m so sick of the constant and unique deference given to Trump, the constant musing about his state of mind, the apparent need to have an air-tight case against him. All I know, most of my former indigent clients were locked up at the scene and routinely overcharged.
@NBCNews
Why don’t you preface the aggrandizing headline with “The Brave, Courageous Bannon….” The real news is how the main stream news coddles evil, burnishes false equivalencies, uses terms like “polarized” and “divided,” as if there is some equally pitched debate.
@neal_katyal
It is laughable for the devolving GOP to accuse the current DOJ for playing politics anytime it twitches in an attempt to do its job, in contrast to Trump’s all out weaponization of the DOJ along with Barr. And McCarthy’s threat of retaliation is the height of hypocrisy.
@tribelaw
How much more are we going to be squeamish and coddle the devolving GQP? Arrest Jordan, McCarthy and the other grifting insurrectionists for obstruction of justice!
@donwinslow
Apart from the sporadic sputtering of a feckless press, MoscowMitch keeps the press pretty much at bay. I’d also ask how the top 10% needed yet another tax cut, the most recent in excess of a trillion dollars. The hypocrisy of the GOP is just stunning.
@harrylitman
I know we’re all addicted and bamboozled by the MAGA runaway “free speech” train, but it seems that after the substantial defamation verdict, a judge could provide injunctive relief - order Jones not to say these kind of blatant lies again!
@donwinslow
How about the inexplicable Secret Service deletions of text messages during the sacking of our Capitol? And a million other unanswered questions.
@tribelaw
@RepRaskin
I don’t care what the standard is, what the calculus is, what the distinctions are, Alito & the GQP members of the Court are brazenly grifting, treacherous, profoundly biased and owe their allegiance to a genocidal madman and overt fascist. Subpoena, impeach, prosecute & disbar.
@coastal_eddyLB
@CarolAlmero1
@MSNBC
It’s far easier to do the “gotcha” with folks trying to do the right thing, than roll up their sleeves and dig into the Federalist Society or why the DOJ hasn’t charged Trump and his goons with anything! Or why there are Trumpsters still in government, the police and military.
@mitchellreports
@Spacedad2
@BeschlossDC
How about if the press stop with the “whataboutism” and false equivalencies, for starters. And stop dinging Biden for every misstep. It seems it’s easier to find fault with those who are trying to do the right thing, than confront a genocidal, grifting fascist.
@AWeissmann_
The tonic? Trump being handcuffed in broad daylight, cuffs on, and for the first time by anyone, Marshalls tersely barking orders to him as he goes to jail. That would start breaking the spell.
@tribelaw
We have crossed the Rubicon twice. When the devolving GQP starts thumbing their noses at their own rigged Supreme Court, it has truly become lawless.
@ProjectLincoln
We should be on our fourth or fifth impeachment by now. Lay this shit at Mitch's feet everytime, especially dereliction of duty and violation of his oath of office for slandering the military.
@AWeissmann_
Oh, Andrew! Don’t you descend into false equivalencies!!! It seems the few “unanswered questions” by the Dems always implies something sinister, but, despite an avalanche, gives the devolving GOP and the Trumpsters the benefit of the doubt. Strange, don’t you think?
@OccupyDemocrats
@sybilsdad
If there isn’t a purge of the treacherous MAGA Trumpsters from the DOJ, FBI, police and military, there is something really, really wrong. Not to mention get rid of the Postmaster General and the GQP members on the pathetically called Supreme Court.
@gregolear
We’re in the grips of societal PTSD and Stockholm Syndrome, exacerbated by a brilliant, albeit obvious, gaslighting campaign where increasingly absurd and outrageous arguments are spewed forth and gain traction since there has been no real accountability whatsoever.
@JohnJHarwood
And thoughtful, clear, rightly blamed past administrations as well as the Afghanis. His best theme? That he is not going to pass this mess to yet another President.
@UncvrngTheTruth
It’s obvious there is a powerful, wide ranging cabal, including the press, that protects him. Worse, during his so -called Presidency, he poisoned the capillaries of government, the FBI, DOJ, police, military. No one person has caused such wreckage.
@harrylitman
As long as we are playing defense, more afraid of the Trumpsters than they are of us, we lose. Simple. The Trumpsters are always on offense, get coddled, and literally break the law all of the time. Stop with the pearl clutching!!!
@glennkirschner2
And the fact he is running for President makes the danger even worse. At a minimum, a strong gag order. He cannot continue to spew blatant laws, denigrate the DOJ, and whip up his base.
@Strandjunker
@FireyTopaz
Why isn’t there a full blown investigation and aggressive reporting about this, instead of Biden’s latest errant twitch??? We are being gaslit on every level!
@JeffFlake
The is very sophisticated Russian orchestrated psychological warfare. Trump continues to be an active Russian agent. It is obvious by the circumstances, our own intel & the wreckage he has left in his wake. But most of all, he & his inner circle have gotten away with murder.
@BeschlossDC
I wonder if the arch of our history would’ve been different if Robert E. Lee and company were hung as seditionists immediately after the Union victory. It certainly would’ve deflated the mythos of the “lost cause,”
@JoyceWhiteVance
Oh. Ok. That explains it. We’re good then, right. This is fucking outrageous. The GQP grifting, hypocrisy, treachery is being normalized. The press, Dems, and the DOJ are utterly feckless. At least subpoena Alito and the Thomases and grill them like hamburgers.
@BeschlossDC
There should be a shareholder lawsuit against Musk for devaluing the company with the obvious aim of buying it on the cheap. For all of the billionaire dance & complicated contractual nuances, it is obvious. If Twitter lets him out of whatever the deal was, never let him back in.
Senator Cruz is a loathsome, lawless, disgrace. For him and the devolving GOP to hold themselves out as the law and order party is yet another Big Lie, what with their Nazi flags, sacking of our Capitol and a large faction supporting Putin.
@tribelaw
It’s amazing how the GOP routinely breaks customs and norms, if not the law, and then screams at the mountaintops when the Dems occasionally muse about something like expanding the Supreme Court, which has been done before. The hypocrisy is breathtaking and effective.
@ungerbn103
Corruption, grifting, treachery, hypocrisy, have become virtues in the American psyche. Meanwhile, the homeless teenage shoplifter gets prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
@lawofruby
@JoyceWhiteVance
Absolutely laughable, if it wasn’t so ironic in the wake of the DOJ’s unique coddling of this genocidal madman. The explicable delay of the search after a campaign of “pretty please” requests by the DOJ. Despite tons of probable cause was Bedminster ever searched?
@WalshFreedom
“Mistake?” We’ll never get to the craven motivations behind the war. I just read, however, that 5 major “defense contractors” got a total of 2 TRILLION over the 20-year period. Something tells me they had an incentive to keep that beast going.
@UncvrngTheTruth
It seems our feckless press is utterly uninterested. It’s far easier, I guess, to focus on the missteps of those who are actually trying to do the right thing.
@tribelaw
I get the free speech kick to some extent. But the off-the-wall lies, fabrications by the Trumpsters, especially the pols, about the recent search of Mar-a-Lago seems meant to impede the investigation, i.e., obstruction of justice. We can’t keep coddling them.
@neal_katyal
Deep, thoughtful, human. What a stunning contrast. Perhaps people, other than lawyers, can make distinctions and comparisons again, rather than live in a compartmentalized, fragmented, frenzied surreal fantasy world.
@tribelaw
@MJGerson
Measurable, conventional intellect is greatly overestimated. Moreover, arrogance is mistaken for intelligence. I’ll take empathy and compassion every time. Hawley is simply a fascist.
@harrylitman
@DeadlineWH
@FrankFigliuzzi1
If Trump and his gang refuse to turn over whistleblower material, immediate article of impeachment and continue all investigations. We are dealing with a brazen tyrant.
@tribelaw
If no one was above the law, there is plenty of probable cause to arrest the 3 Trumpster members of the Court for lying to Congress and, along with Thomas, brazenly taking bribes from billionaires whose cases come before them, not to mention the treacherous members of Congress.
@JillWineBanks
Why just the Presidential ballot? Over 100 GQPers voted against certification after the sacking of our Capitol. They should be disqualified. Obviously.
@harrylitman
Why is there always trepidation about jailing this genocidal monster? There was plenty of probable cause to have jailed Trump the day after Biden’s inauguration. We’ve got to stop coddling him!
@glennkirschner2
The judge is so flagrantly biased it demands a nationally covered recusal motion and an immediate interlocutory appeal if — in all probability — denied.I’ve been a defense attorney my whole career but the Government is entitled to a fair trial too.
@JoyceWhiteVance
The GQP Supreme Court is the trifecta cesspool of all time: 1) gross appearance of impropriety; 2) flagrant conflicts; and 3) obvious bias in favor of Trump. It is beyond a complete lapse of judgment, but evidence that none of them have any semblance of a conscience.
@MichaelSteele
God! The good folks revel in the crumbs. Trump should be in jail with no bail long ago, aide to Ukraine should’ve never been delayed. Pence of course should’ve validated the electoral vote. Part of the gaslighting process is reducing us to relishing the crumbs.
@SteveSchmidtSES
@keeissner
I’m afraid it’s easier for the corporatized media, saturated with whataboutism, to do the gotcha bit aimed at folks trying to do the right thing, while the devolving GQP, which worships a genocidal madman, spews hate, grifting, lies and treachery. Trump inexplicably roams free.
The Dems are “involved in mankind,” the GOP is not. They sow hatred, hypocrisy, blame, anger, bigotry. It is that simple. Vote all blue like your life depends on it.
@peterbakernyt
I like the usual NYT negative nuance and opinion that seems to usually ooze into a piece about the Dems: “last-ditch effort to save their party’s midterm election hopes….” You guys have done more to prop up the genocidal and devolving GOP than anyone. Deftly done.
@JoyceWhiteVance
@Melanie86862076
Doesn’t scratch the surface. Trump poisoned the capillaries of government, the police, military, the DOJ. But we can’t keep going down the bottomless pit of never-ending questions as if it is necessary to get to the bottom of it all. Plenty of evidence to indict NOW!
@ReallyAmerican1
Jaw dropping and surreal. Apart from the cruel, outmoded “policies”’of Trump and the devolving GQP, it is incredible that a black man affiliates himself with a party that is openly racist, bigoted and treacherous.
@tribelaw
@MichaelSteele
It’s too bad that subjects of such monstrosity don’t have the presence of mind to say what Michael later said in the heat of the moment. They’re too busy picking their jaws up from the floor. We’ve got to get ready and call this nonsense out every time, in the moment.
@tribelaw
Forget about all of that. Two things are damning to me, which are not crimes: mocking the handicapped and bragging about grabbing pussy. He is the most uncouth, malignantly narcissistic person I’ve ever witnessed, and I’ve seen many. A quintessential bully and a braggart.
@JoyceWhiteVance
@femmesthetics
Crocodile tears. Briar patch. No one has been more coddled, more accommodated than Trump and his goons despite unprecedented and immeasurable wreckage to this country by them. Why isn’t he under arrest as investigation continues?
@JoyceWhiteVance
How about condemnation from the rest of us? The NYT made far more out of the nonsense about Hillary’s emails. It astounds me how much the feckless press has coddled the Trumpsters & their brazen criminality. The pundits muse about Trump’s “intent,” as if he was in a benign stupor
@tribelaw
This is a “bombshell” report? It was obvious the DOJ was sitting on its hands, compounded by the “pretty please” approach to Trump. The corporatized press was sitting on its hands too, saturated with whataboutism & false equivalencies. Hopefully, Jack Smith isn’t too late.
@CNNPolitics
Why are Bannon and Trump still allowed to screech flagrant lies and threats? Don’t give me the free speech crap, this is undermining national security, not to mention the health and welfare of this nation.
@itsJeffTiedrich
Not to mention that what Hunter is accused of pales in comparison to the genocidal grifting and treachery spawned daily by Trump and his goons.
@Strandjunker
That seems more worthy of an investigation than the protracted investigations into Hillary’s emails which came to nothing and which some of her detractors hypocritically employed the same email system.
@tribelaw
We keep talking about impeachment like it is some extraordinary process that will grind the wheels of government to a halt. However, every President who has been impeached or about to be impeached has been accused of far less than Trump.
@CNN
How much does Dimon “make” again? I’d love to follow him around during his “work” day. And then follow the average fast-worker around during his or her day. It would be an interesting comparison. Make a movie.
@neal_katyal
@Lawrence
@MSNBC
Be careful, Neal, don’t give spectacle credence. This is an absurd filing and the attorneys should be sanctioned for wasting the Court’s time! I think they have more important things to do.