Nick Bryant
@NickBryantNY
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Author of The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself. Presenter ABC Saturday Extra. Former BBC US correspondent. Speakers agency in link.
Sydney
Joined April 2011
A couple of gift options - thanks to those who have already got them….
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Future generations might find it hard to believe that this photo was taken at the White House in the midst of a pandemic that had by that stage killed more than 200,000 Americans.
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The New York Daily News is giving Donald Trump quite the send off #ElectoralCollege #Election2020
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New York Times - “Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism.” Strong and accurate headline.
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History will record that this was Donald Trump’s last tweet before he lost the 2020 presidential election #Election2020.
I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!.
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There have been more than 25 tweets today from Donald Trump. Not one of them has mentioned his wife, Melania, or members of his administration suffering from Covid. Nor has his feed shown compassion for his compatriots who’ve also got Covid or the relatives of the 210000 US dead.
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Australia has rejected its first post-truth prime minister, Scott Morrison. Big moment. Didn’t want to go further down that path.
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I have loved my 25 years with the BBC. To work alongside so many colleagues I admire and adore has been one of the great gifts of my life. But I’ll be leaving later in the year - returning to Australia, happy, contented and genuinely excited about what’s next.
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Were this a different country on a different continent, we would be talking of a failed state.
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Biggest wimp? GHW Bush flew 58 combat missions in World War II and was shot down by the Japanese. His squadron had a 300% casualty rate. .
Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush: As of today, he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States.
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A tweet from May 10th, 2018, following the departure from the White House of the pandemic chief.
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If you are waking up in the UK, the Trump lead has been cut in Pennsylvania to 22,576 (with more than 170,000 votes still to count, more than 50,000 of them in Dem Philadelphia). Trump lead cut to 1709 in Georgia. Biden leads Nevada by 11,438.Biden leads Arizona by 47,052.
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Two former British ambassadors to Washington have now weighed in - one said Trump made him "puke", the other saw parallels with 1933 Germany
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The New York Times is better than this, but they always do it. American exceptionalism at its most needy and mad……
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Interesting moment as an author, when your book on America makes it into the Oval Office. #WhenAmericaStoppedBeimgGreat #summerreads
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A key takeaway. Trump polled at least 3 million more votes in 2020 than 2016. His vote share has increased. Time to bury the idea his 2016 victory was a historical accident. A large swathe of the USA has read the fine print & clicked on the terms and conditions of his presidency.
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This gotcha questioning is out of control - it has had a disfiguring effect on the campaign. It has made a small bore campaign even smaller. Lot to think about as an industry when this campaign is over…. .
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“At Pennsylvania rally, Donald Trump descends to new levels of vulgarity.” Good headline from the NYT.
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Today we’re remembering Simon Cumbers, the BBC cameraman murdered in 2004 while on assignment in Saudi Arabia. He was the loveliest and most gentle of men, universally liked and admired. He embodied all that’s good in our industry. #cuecumbers
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Six months ago today. More than 189,000 Americans have now died from Covid 19.
So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!.
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This is inside the US Capitol. Started covering Washington in the Nineties. I have never seen anything even close to this. This is tragic to watch.
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Rather than Britannia unchained, Brexit has delivered Britannia unhinged. My latest column
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Peak Australia.
Watch the moment a paraglider makes a safe landing only to then be attacked by a kangaroo. Straya!
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Cardiologists of Australia are rushing into work as we speak.
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An extraordinary moment in US broadcasting history - Fox News cuts away from the White House press secretary citing the lack of evidence for her claims of Democratic cheating. .
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An invasion? I was in the border town yesterday that Donald Trump visited. The local police chief told us the crime rate was the lowest in 34 years, and the existing barriers worked well. He said the biggest problem was the 'perception' of disorder rather than the real thing.
Humanitarian Crisis at our Southern Border. I just got back and it is a far worse situation than almost anyone would understand, an invasion! I have been there numerous times - The Democrats, Cryin’ Chuck and Nancy don’t know how bad and dangerous it is for our ENTIRE COUNTRY. .
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On the very spot where Martin Luther King delivered his I Have a Dream speech. .
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Telling that some of finest Aussie tributes have come from Republicans - Paul Keating and @TurnbullMalcolm. Suspect they represent the prevailing view: massive respect and affection for the Queen combined with skepticism about the relevance of monarchy to modern Australia.
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Nobody writes ledes quite like @peterbakernyt and he does it day after day, week after week
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Thousands gather for #climatestrike in Sydney, as Australian prime minister who brandished a lump of coal in parliament dines with a US president who took America out of the Paris climate change accord @kymtje
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Rare in our industry for someone to be so universally loved. There won’t be many dry eyes today in the BBC newsroom. What a beautiful man.
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Kabul is now the only major city in Afghanistan not under Taliban control. The work of 20 years - all the lives lost and the treasure spent - unravels in less than 2 months. This will be in the opening paragraph of Joe Biden’s foreign policy legacy.
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In awe of this guy, my mate Rob Laurie, who in perilous seas late this afternoon took to ocean to save a swimmer caught in a vicious rip who would certainly have drowned. One of the bravest acts of heroism I’ve witnessed. An Aussie legend.
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State of play. Georgia - Biden leads 7248.Nevada - Biden leads 22,657.Arizona - Biden leads 29,861.Pennsylvania - Biden leads 28,833.Big batch of results expected to be released in Pennsylvania at 0900 which are expected to extend Biden���s lead. Penn alone gets Biden past 270.
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Australian headlines understandably dominated by Macron openly calling Morrison a liar, but in the coming decades this could receive more historical attention…. #COP26 #COP26Glasgow
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55 years of hurt seems incidental this morning. It’s the never-ending scourge of racism that’s heartbreaking. A thought that raises the spirits is that Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka will be representing England, on and off the field, for years to come.
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Today we’re remembering Simon Cumbers, the BBC cameraman murdered by Islamists in 2004 while on assignment in Saudi Arabia. He was a lovely, gentle man and personified all that’s good in our industry. This year he would have celebrated his 50th birthday. #cuecumbers
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Historical takeaway: a president who incited an insurrectionary mob to attack the US Capitol was acquitted in an impeachment trial six weeks later partly because Republican Senators were afraid of his personal base.
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When I came to the United States as a wide-eyed teenager in the mid-1980s, one of the things that seduced me about America was its preoccupation with the future. Almost four decades on, I'm struck by how it remains captive to its past. My farewell piece.
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If every single Biden appearance from now on is going to come under the microscope, we need to do the same with Trump. All the crazy stuff needs to get front page coverage - which doesn’t happen at present. All the lapses showing cognitive decline. All the threats to democracy.
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One of the strongest forms of journalistic partiality is when liberal-minded reporters are so determined to demonstrate a lack of bias that they end up over-correcting and producing coverage with a conservative slant. Trump continues be a huge beneficiary of that.
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Has there ever been a better time to be a British headline writer?
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The gracelessness of Donald Trump in this moment speaks of his true character - a character that is unchanging.
In a phone call with CNN minutes after Biden announced his exit from the 2024 race, former President Trump responded, “He is the worst president in the history of our country. He goes down as the single worst president by far in the history of our country.” While it's unclear who.
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We said we would leave America when our kids realised why they rehearsed hiding in their classrooms. We now live in Australia, the model for how to introduce gun laws. I know America, a country I love dearly, will not follow that path, and I fear this will be another Sandy Hook.
SPECIAL REPORT: Texas Governor Greg Abbott says at least 14 kids and one teacher are dead after an “active shooter” was reported at an elementary school in Ulvade, Texas.
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Wasn’t it because of Russia’s invasion of Crimea, it’s interference in Ukraine, it’s part in shooting down a commercial airliner killing 298 people, its support and assistance to Assad’s murderous regime, the murder of Russians on British soil and its attack on US democracy?
Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!.
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Australia’s Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton has tested positive. This picture was taken seven days ago in Washington. Meeting Ivanka Trump and US Attorney General William Barr #coronavirus
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Every state has now been called - a clear-cut Electoral College win for President-elect Joe Biden. 306-232. Biden got he same number of Electoral College votes as Donald Trump in 2016. #Election2020
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One of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking tributes to the Queen comes from a Republican dubbed by the UK tabloids the “Lizard of Oz”, Paul Keating.
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Watching progressive Trump critics becoming Trump sycophants is always grim. Much as I love America, countries like Britain and Australia need to rethink their alliances with the US. They are not special relationships, they are servile relationships.
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"A quick word for the BBC?". "The BBC? I'm Irish.".
The moment when @NickBryantNY asked @JoeBiden for a quick word. He replied with a smile, “The BBC? I’m Irish.” . #PresidentElect #Election2020
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Joe Biden has taken the lead in Pennsylvania - the potentially decisive moment of this election. 5,587 ahead. Biden leads in Georgia.Biden leads in Nevada.Biden leads in Arizona. Pennsylvania alone wins him the presidency.
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For more than a decade, Twitter has been Donald Trump’s unfettered megaphone, from birtherism onwards. This dramatically alters the online rules of engagement. Milestone moment in the era of the Internet presidency.
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Will these turn out to be prophetic words?.
Nikki Haley (in January): “The first party to retire its 80-year-old candidate is going to be the one who wins this election."
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Imagine you’re recruiting the most junior position in your company or organization, and doing due diligence on their social media posts. I realize this isn’t the bar, but would you hire this man?
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A quarantine room with a view. A strange time to arrive back in Australia, but we’re delighted to be here.
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I’ve never covered an election where a candidate lost so many times. #Election2020 #SCOTUS.
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More people have been killed at schools this year in America than have been killed while serving in the military.
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I’ve long thought Australians have some of the most finely tuned BS detectors on the planet, so I’ve been a little surprised that so much misinformation has taken hold. And if ever there was a slogan encapsulating the dumbing down of democracy, it’s “If you don’t know, vote no.”.
It’s a small ask for a giant step forward in reconciliation, and a generous invitation from First Nations people for us to listen, learn and come together. These kind of historic opportunities rarely present themselves again.
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A US president arrived calling for Putin to be readmitted to the G7, left attacking America’s closest allies and is now heading off to legitimize one of America’s arch enemies. And all this in the week that marked the anniversary of the D-day landings.
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One of the most jaw-dropping headlines of the Trump era.
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Surely that headline should read “Harris dismisses Trump’s race-baiting as the ‘same old tired playbook’”.
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This is a significant front page - the Murdoch empire preparing for a transfer of power. #election2020
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Watched a lot of political ads over the years - this is up there with the best.
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Nancy Pelosi statement on #Brexit. If the U.K. violates that international treaty and Brexit undermines the Good Friday accord, there will be absolutely no chance of a U.S.-U.K. trade agreement passing the Congress. The Good Friday Agreement is treasured by the American people.
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One of the most searing cartoons of the Trump presidency so far - by @roweafr #Armistice100 #Armistice
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When I covered Australia, I was always struck by how the kids watching in the parliamentary gallery were far more impressive than the politicians down below #auspices.
Thousands of schoolchildren are currently in Martin Place, protesting the government's lack of climate change action #climatestrike (📷: @nampix)
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One of the great broadcasters. One of the big personalities. One of the most consummate pros. One of the funniest people in the industry, whose bulls-eye wit was often directed at our industry. You’ll be missed @BBCSimonMcCoy.
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We’re into American Caligula territory. Half expecting Trump to make his golf cart the Secretary of Transportation.
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The happiest of updates. With immense joy and an indescribable sense of relief, we have welcomed our new little girl into the world. My wife, who was extraordinary, and our American daughter, who is just gorgeous, are doing well after a home birth. Our midwife was immense.
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I so vividly remember the moment I heard that Mark Colvin had died, five years ago today. Australia isn't the same without him, and Twitter is a lesser place without @Colvinius Here's a tribute I wrote to him when he died.
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Curious morning as an Englishman in Australia dressing your daughters for school in Matilda’s paraphernalia.
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A shot that might mystify generations to come - a presidential political rally in 2020, the year more than 210,000 Americans have already died from the coronavirus and in a hotspot state, Florida, which has recorded 17,600 cases in the past week. #Election2020
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Freedom day. Loved the sunsets but delighted to be out of quarantine. Now for lockdown.
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This looks more like Venezuala than Washington DC. Alarming targeting of members of the press.
Police outside the WH just repeatedly bashed a cameraman as they pushed back protestors - just now on @ABC7News
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We shall remember them - the Sydney Opera House early this morning
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Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq fueled the rise of ISIS. Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan has been a gift to the Taliban. Any US official with even a cursory understanding of Afghanistan would have known that, and also the consequences for women and girls in the country.
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Not a fan of using impeachment as a political weapon, but Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanagh clearly lied under oath during their confirmation hearings. The normalisation of brazen political lying has become, like the hyper-conservative court, a legacy of the Trump years. #RoeVWade.
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The danger with journalists repeatedly saying that Boris Johnson defies the normal laws of political gravity is that it helps him achieve weightlessness, and normalises the chronically abnormal. Similar, if not identical, dynamic with Trump.
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Delighted that the 2020 Aussie Open will be remembered for Ash Barty rather than Novak Djokovic.
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