Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER)
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Brooklyn NY
Joined February 2010
Some personal news: after six and a half years as an opinion columnist at the Boston Globe I am leaving the paper . and launching a subscription Substack newsletter, Truth and Consequences (.
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This is horrifying. And wrong. America doesn’t leave Americans behind.
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Just want to point out that Will Smith saying “love will make you do crazy things” after punching a man on live television is pretty much straight out of the domestic abuser handbook.
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The flip side is that Trump ran an awful campaign. He gave a terrible RNC speech, his VP was deeply unpopular, he lost the debate, he had no ground game to speak of, he offended key demographic groups . and none of it mattered.
If Harris loses, there will be a lot of recriminations directed at her, but it's hard to point to any glaring mistakes that she made. She ran an excellent campaign.
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There’s a very simple explanation for why Democrats didn’t get a “better” stimulus deal. They are negotiating with a political party that is indifferent to human suffering.
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This woman is pregnant. She has 2 kids & she just lost her husband. POTUS told her he knew what he signed up for
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Little known fact: neither World War I nor World War II were contagious.
Trump pushes a false equivalency: "People went to the polls & voted during World War 1. They went to the polls & voted during World War 2. We can safely go to the polls & vote during Covid-19." (Soldiers during those wars voted by mail.)
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Donald Trump hasn’t just lost the presidency . he’s lost immunity from prosecution.
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True story: there's a living two-term Republican president who not only won't speak at the RNC, but his name won't even be mentioned!.
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I think the biggest shock about this Stormy Daniels story is that Trump actually followed through in paying someone.
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I once paid off a porn star at my employer’s behest.
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Ted Lieu reading quotes of Trump mocking Republican senators and calling them weak and pathetic . as they prepare to weakly and pathetically acquit him is a ninja-style rhetorical move.
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America should have listened to Adam Schiff . “You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What's right matters even less, and decency matters not at all.".
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Wait until you find out that your Dad signed an executive order banning those same people from entering the United States
Heartbroken and outraged by the images coming out of Syria following the atrocious chemical attack yesterday.
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Just saw a Biden ad with 12 different shots of him wearing a mask - while encouraging Americans to do their part and wear one. That's what leadership in 2020 looks and sounds like.
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Think about how stupid you'd need to be to believe that kids are going to school and having sex change operations.
“It happens!” Trump claims sex change operations are happening in US public schools. (Video: Fox News)
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This Administration is an ongoing experiment in what happens when you put the worst people in America in charge of leading America.
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I know what Roy Moore is accused of is bad but it’s not like he kneeled during the playing of the national anthems.
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Even for this president, "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" is just breathtakingly irresponsible. Not only could it inflame the situation, it's a call for extrajudicial murder. If we lived in a normal country there'd be bipartisan calls for him to resign.
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A reminder for those covering the mass shooting in Boulder: don't focus on motive . focus on the fact that America is the only country in the world where these mass shootings happen because we allow Americans near unfettered access to deadly weapons.
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WE’VE BEEN TO THE MOON
On Fox FEMA Administrator Brock Long says hurricane relief for Puerto Rico is “the most logistically challenging event the US has ever seen”.
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I’m genuinely impressed that Josh Hawley made himself a more hated figure in the Republican caucus than Ted Cruz. That is not easy to do.
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I keep seeing the argument that Democrats abandoned the white working class, but from a policy perspective most of Biden’s legislative accomplishments benefited the working class. The sad reality for Dems is that “doing things” simply doesn’t translate into electoral benefits.
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YOU LITERALLY IMPEACHED BILL CLINTON FOR OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE
.@NewtGingrich speaking right now at the @PressClubDC: . "The president of the United States cannot obstruct justice.".
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More than 65,000 people in Pennsylvania work in the renewable energy industry - that's more than mining, oil and gas combined
Trump: "I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh not Paris.".
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Populism 2016 is a billionaire who lives in a gold-plated apartment attacking a guy who works in a factory
If United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana. Spend more time working-less time talking. Reduce dues.
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Democrats have won the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections. That’s never happened before in US history. Maybe the problem is not that Democrats are out of touch with ordinary Americans but rather that America has a terribly unrepresentative political system.
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I don’t say this lightly but to believe it’s somehow exculpatory that Trump called Sondland and said there’s no quid pro quo the day after the whistleblower report emerged . you need to truly be a moron.
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Far be it from me to get in the way of a Dems in Disarray media frenzy . but it the latest Quinnipiac poll has Trump at 42% and losing to every potential Democratic nominee . Bloomberg 51 - 42.Sanders 51 - 43.Biden 50 - 43.Klobuchar 49 - 43.Warren 48 - 44.Buttigieg 47 - 43.
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Biden tonight referenced “European munitions policy.” . If someone asked Trump about “European munitions policy” it would be like watching my dog trying to untie a knot.
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Today my youngest is turning 8 … and all his friends have (understandably) backed out of today’s birthday party because of the COVID upsurge in NYC. He is disconsolate … so Twitter could you do your thing and send a birthday greeting!.
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THIS IS NOT A HEARTWARMING STORY. THIS IS NOT A HEARTWARMING STORY. This is a story about a country that has so failed its most vulnerable citizens they must rely on charity for essential medical equipment.
This 2-year-old's family couldn't afford his $20,000 electric wheelchair, and their insurance didn't cover it. So, a high school robotics team built him one for free ❤️️
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This is 1000 times worse than Biden’s debate performance.
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Nothing to see here, just a public servant who serves on the country’s most powerful federal court eating crab legs, Kobe steaks and drinking $1000 bottles of wine with a billionaire who had multiple cases before the Supreme Court
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Everything I need to know about Tim Walz is etched on the faces of his proud kids.
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The last 48 hours are an object lesson in what happens when you put the worst people in America in charge of America.
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A lot of crazy things have happened over the past 2.5 years . but that so many people are simply accepting the conclusions of the Mueller report based on the word of an attorney general who wrote an unsolicited 19 page memo to DOJ bashing Mueller’s probe might be the craziest.
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Hopefully this speech will lead to a serious national conversation about Donald Trump’s diminishing mental acuity.
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I completely understand that many Americans don’t like Joe Biden’s politics - and that’s fine. But he’s quite clearly a good, decent and empathetic man and if you think it’s funny or clever to tell him to go fuck himself there’s something really wrong with you.
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OMG, Trump responding to Biden talking about his son Beau, who served in Iraq and died, by smearing Hunter Biden is one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen in American politics.
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I think white voters need to spend some time marinating on the fact that black voters in Alabama saved America from having a child molester in the US Senate.
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This might be the most irresponsible statement I’ve seen today. This is the political equivalent of throwing gasoline on a fire.
Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination.
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It's pretty amazing to consider that one week ago the president openly admitted (again) that he fired FBI Director Jim Comey to end a criminal investigation against him, which is obstruction of justice (a felony) and it received almost no media attention.
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This speech is quite good, but I'll be honest I'm still a bit shook by a former president saying that if Trump is reelected our democracy won't survive.
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The modern Republican Party summed up in one tweet
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This speech is a pathetic, incoherent mess from a man who is clearly diminished and every journalist who criticized Biden’s debate performance needs to say that.
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It’s genuinely hard to do justice to the political earthquake that is this Iowa poll. If Harris wins Iowa … she wins in a landslide. If Harris is close in Iowa … she likely wins comfortably. It upends every assumption about this race.
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I don’t think people fully appreciate how bad this will be.
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"Daddy, why is the world a dystopian hellhole of constant flooding & intense heat?"."Well son, this woman had a private email server".
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It's pretty remarkable to see TV analysts openly discussing firing Mueller as a "choice facing the president . as opposed to an impeachment-level offense to obstruct justice.
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I know I’m a bit late but this year we’ve vaccinated 3.63 billion people against a virus that sparked a global pandemic … and Elon Musk is the person of the year?.
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I wrote about this a few months but Trump should be impeached over this phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State. I'm quite serious. Impeachment could prevent him from ever seeking federal office again.
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So Nuzzi wrote a piece about the “conspiracy of silence” around Joe Biden while having a relationship with one of his rivals in the presidential campaign. Feels like an ever so slight ethical lapse.
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No better example of the role race plays in US politics than conservative silence over a licensed gun owner being killed by the police.
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I dare you to read this and then conclude that the president has any clue what he’s talking about
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Der Spiegel not mincing words
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Glad to see America is finally having a debate about the actions of a president who left office 17 years ago . as a sexual predator sleeps soundly in the White House
Some liberals say it may be time to rethink their defense of Bill Clinton
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Kelly Stafford thinks living in Michigan is like being in a "dictatorship" because of COVID-19 restrictions. In related news, her husband is an NFL quarterback who makes $27 million a year and has never won a playoff game
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People Donald Trump Has Criticized:.John Lewis.The Pope.Gold Star Mother.Meryl Streep. Person Trump Has Not Criticized:.Vladimir Putin.
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Just a quick reminder that many of the same people who will be cheering the overturning of Roe & government bans on abortions, forcing women to carry a baby to term … thought requiring mask wearing to stop the spread of a deadly virus was an unacceptable infringement on liberty.
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If Harris loses, there will be a lot of recriminations directed at her, but it's hard to point to any glaring mistakes that she made. She ran an excellent campaign.
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Yes you do . because out of state liberals won the civil war
Alabama governor defends Confederate monuments: We don't need "out-of-state liberals" telling us what to do
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Tim Kaine once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die
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My reaction to that DiFi video was that it was almost certainly edited to make her look worse than she really acted . and hey, I was right!.
Here's the @SenFeinstein video threaded #DianneFeinstein To recap: she engaged on substance, told them she might vote "yes," and OFFERED ONE OF THEM AN INTERNSHIP. pt 1
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My efforts not to be “The Worst Michael Cohen” have received a significant boost today.
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THAT’S PRECISELY WHY YOU INVOKE THE 25TH AMENDMENT.
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Congressional Democrats should be calling on Wilbur Ross to resign immediately. If he refuses they should impeach him. What he’s accused of is unbelievably dangerous and a flagrant misuse of power.
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It’s just complete horseshit to claim that Democrats abandoned the working class.
.@BernieSanders: "It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well.".
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Just a quick reminder that if Mike Pence was following the guidelines of the coronavirus task force that he helms he’d be in quarantine, not on a debate stage in Utah.
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I'm listening to Kamala Harris's interview with Charlamagne Tha God, and this is an incredibly substantive interview -- he is not lofting softballs, and she is hitting back hard.
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On Biden's memory loss, where's the evidence that he’s screwing up his job? I'm being serious here: is there an argument that Biden is making mistakes? On Israel, immigration, Ukraine, the budget & debt limit? Seems like he's handled most of these pretty well.
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Yes Ivanka, what America needs is pictures of you cuddling your child as we’re reading stories about the Administration you work for forcibly taking immigrant children from their parents. Top notch optics on this one
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Imagine the level of whiteness needed to believe this is the first time in generations that law enforcement agencies have misused their power
.@TuckerCarlson: "For the first time in generations Americans have reason to believe that our intelligence and law enforcement agencies gravely misuse the powers we have given them." #Tucker
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I keep coming back to how repulsive and fundamentally anti-American this tweet is. That this man will be POTUS makes me weep for America
Vladimir Putin said today about Hillary and Dems: "In my opinion, it is humiliating. One must be able to lose with dignity." So true!.
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For all the focus on Manchin and Sinema the real story of COVID relief is that Democrats have remained united in passing a $1.9 trillion stimulus package. It’s an extraordinary and unprecedented accomplishment.
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When federal judges issue absurd, partisan rulings intended to protect a former president from justice then yes, democracy is under threat.
BREAKING: Judge Cannon has dismissed the Trump documents case, citing violation of appointments clause:
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Worth noting that if America was a normal democracy, where the person who won received the most votes, all we’d be talking about is the GOP’s 28 year ineptitude in winning over average Americans who live in places like New York, LA, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta & Detroit.
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Maybe Bill Barr could shoot pepper spray in his face and then he can tell us if it’s an irritant.
"Pepper spray is not a chemical irritant. It's not chemical" -- AG Barr uses painstaking distinctions to defend the use of force against protesters near the White House last Monday
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She honestly thinks we're all idiots
1:2 It was beautiful to see thousands of people across the U.S.A come together today to peacefully denounce bigotry, racism & anti-semitism.
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Just as an FYI, as a society we are not required to pay attention to Elon Musk or Meghan McCain.
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It’s really something how we’ve all become inured to having a president who literally cannot utter a single coherent and truthful sentence.
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The Post's account actually finds an anecdote even worse than those reported by @JeffreyGoldberg
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Every day, in ways both large and small, he debases us all
President Trump goes on wide-ranging tweetstorm, retweeting gif showing him hitting Hillary Clinton with a golf ball
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I wrote a book on campaign speeches and this speech was one of the best I’ve ever heard. An absolute tour de force.
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7) But here's the ugly part: at no point today did Kelly or the WH apologize to Myeshia Johnson or the family of Sgt. Johnson.
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This might actually be worse than her original answer.
Nikki Haley today: “Of course the Civil War was about slavery. We know that. That’s the easy part of it. What I was saying was what does it mean to us today? What it means to us today is about freedom. That’s what that was all about.”
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It's a weird time we're living in when standing up to a powerful person who mocks someone with a disability makes you an elitist.
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Let's not all sleep on the fact that Barr put out a press release saying Berman had resigned . when in fact Berman had refused to resign.
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The president of the United States can’t attend the funeral of a former First Lady because every member of her family can’t stand him
Trump won’t attend Barbara Bush funeral ‘out of respect’ for family, White House says
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Remember when Paul Ryan said Hillary Clinton should lose her security clearance because she had a private email server . and reporters took seriously the notion that the GOP was deeply concerned about the security of classified material. That was the best.
Scoop: Trump uses a cell phone that isn’t equipped with security features designed to shield his communications, according to two senior officials – a departure from the practice of his predecessors that potentially exposes him to hacking or surveillance.
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Remember how Congress did nothing after 20 kindergarteners were murdered
Two years ago today, 32-year-old Kate Steinle was killed by a criminal illegal immigrant. This is her story:
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1) Reading the transcript from John Kelly's press briefing I'm struck by something particularly ugly that hasn't received enough attention.
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It's amazing to think that 8 years ago, Republicans lost their s**t over Obama calling the actions of a Cambridge police officer "stupid" and today are unbothered by POTUS calling the FBI the "worst in history".
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25) To view the story of a devastated Gold Star widow through the prism of POTUS's hurt feelings is not the America that I know.
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Putting aside the electability concerns I find it kind it remarkable that more Democrats aren’t concerned about nominating a guy who is 78 AND who had a heart attack four months ago.
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One year ago today.
”We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here… isn’t that refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama?” — Kayleigh McEnany, 2/25/20
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Not to nitpick BUT TRUMP IS THE GUY WHO ENDED DACA. This argument is like killing your parents and begging for mercy because you’re an orphan
I have offered DACA a wonderful deal, including a doubling in the number of recipients & a twelve year pathway to citizenship, for two reasons: (1) Because the Republicans want to fix a long time terrible problem. (2) To show that Democrats do not want to solve DACA, only use it!.
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One of the particularly amusing responses to Biden’s speech is that he went out of his way to say that not all Republicans are MAGA Republicans … and the GOP response has been, basically, “oh yes we are.”.
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Literally, an anonymous public servant leaking to Bob Woodward helped force President Nixon to resign.
Public servants used to quit on principle. Now, they leak to Bob Woodward and write op-eds in The New York Times, @DickPolman1 writes:
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Hey remember when Donald Trump encouraged the Russian government to illegally hack & leak Hillary Clinton's emails
Information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?).Just like Russia.
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This is my favorite bit of Trump imbecility. He literally thinks stealth fighters, which are invisible to radar, are actually invisible to the naked eye.
Trump on the F-35: “You literally can’t see it. That’s an expensive plane you can’t see. It wins every time because the enemy cannot see it, even if it’s right next to it, it can’t see it.”.
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