Stuart Stevens
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Principal @ResoluteSquare, Sr. Advisor @ProjectLincoln, author. Enjoy endurance events, though I do them badly. Same handle on https://t.co/4d0IUAXbZW and Bluesky.
Joined June 2013
The greatest danger is not realizing the greatest danger. I wrote "The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Democracy to Autocracy" as a plea to grasp the true danger facing America. I hope you will consider pre-ordering to help spread this warning.
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If Mike Pence is going to be praised for not stealing an election, I’d like to get some acknowledgement that I drove by 11 banks today and didn’t rob a single one.
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So when your daughter comes home from school crying because boys called her names the president routinely uses to denigrate women, just explain to her that we cut marginal tax rates for corporations and everything will be fine.
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I don’t think Donald Trump can save us from the disaster Donald Trump created.
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This is a little thing but it's a big thing. Someone in Harris debate prep world came up with a way to make Ukraine resonate with a specific group of voters, then equipped their boss with the relevant stats for Pa. Then she delivered it like she had said it 100 times. That's.
Vice President Harris: Why don't you tell the 800,000 Polish Americans right here in Pennsylvania how quickly you would give up for the sake of favor, and what you think is a friendship with a dictator who would eat you for lunch?
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Mike Pence was surrounded by a conspiracy to end democracy in America. He didn’t call the FBI. He didn’t alert the public. He waited to see if it would succeed. When it was clear it would fail, at the last minute he threw in with the winning side.
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I am authorized to reveal that @ProjectLincoln has received secret tapes of Trump debate prep and we will be releasing them in the morning.
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Donald Trump would be 83 at end of his term. America can’t risk a president that old.
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J.D. Vance just said that he would not certify election. Nothing else really matters.
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Dow is over 36,000, unemployment has dropped from 6.3 in Jan. to 4.8. Over 5 million jobs added, a record. 220m vaccines in 10 months. And only 30% of country think US is on right track. The Democratic Party has a huge messaging problem.
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To be more concerned about inflation than a plot to end democracy is pretty much a definition of the choice made by many in pre-WW2 Germany.
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At gym with Fox News on and I’m beginning to think Hillary Clinton may not win this thing.
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This guy is 28 days from reverse mortgage infomercials.
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When Gore campaign was sent Bush debate brief book, they called FBI. If foreign interests offer you info on former SOS, you call the FBI.
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To my new Dem pals, I’m begging you, be happy. Please. @JoeBiden is racking up more votes than any candidate in history. You flipped Az, Mi, Wi, NE2. You’re going to flip Pa. & probably Ga. You beat an incumbent president. You elected first Black woman VP. Savor it. You won.
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Don't really understand why American president is more eager to speak out on London terrorism deaths than Portland terrorism deaths.
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Next by @AP :. “Julia Child and Jeffrey Dahmer are two famous cooks with different approaches to ingredients.”.
One attack, two interpretations: Biden and Trump both make the Jan. 6 riot a political rallying cry
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Still remember when Trump addressed the national Boy Scout Jamboree and talked about an orgy on a yacht, so, yeah, kind of refreshing to hear Barack Obama talk to kids.
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Harris is turning in the best debate performance we’ve seen in modern politics.
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If Mike Pence deserves praise for asserting that he didn’t have authority to overthrow the American government, I’d like to be recognized for the character it took not to rob a single bank I passed on the way to the grocery store.
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Donald Trump would like you to be upset over Nancy Pelosi’s fridge.
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His campaign manager is a felon. His deputy campaign manager is a felon. His personal lawyer is a felon. His foreign policy advisor is a felon. His national security advisor is a felon. The Trump campaign was run by criminals.
Trump calling Bahamas victims as gang members, drug dealers and bad people
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All my Republican friends who still don’t get it: @vp is the past. Odds are good @KamalaHarris will dominate American politics for the next decade. You had a chance to fight for a decent version of conservatism and you failed. Now you’ll live with the consequences.
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There are numerous examples of presidential addresses made to calm a frightened public. This will be the first to frighten a calm public.
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Just remember: almost every Republican didn’t want America to learn what we are learning. And no Republican leader has said they will not support Trump if he is the nominee. These are not patriots. These are men - and they are mostly men - who care about power, not their country.
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Just to recap:. Donald Trump is a felon. He joins his campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, national security advisor, foreign policy advisor, political consultant, and personal lawyer as felons.
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All the Republican Senators knew what Bolton knew. Yet only Mitt Romney had the courage to do the right thing.
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Every one of the lawyers who Trump uses in effort to suppress the vote should be exposed. Their firms should be held accountable. Corporate clients should be asked why they are working with lawyers who are trying to derail democracy. Hold them responsible.
President Trump denies he’ll declare victory early but says, “I don’t think it’s fair that we have to wait for a long period of time after the election. We’re going in the night of — as soon as the election is over — we’re going in with our lawyers.”.
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The irony is that no city or state could hire Donald Trump as a garbage man, given he's a felon out on bail awaiting sentencing.
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My one Tom Hanks story. Was out West skiing. Ended up on road connecting 2 areas. Snowing like hell. Had flat tire. Get out, start doing usual. SUV pulls over, guy gets out. Damn near white out now. Both of us freezing. We get it done. At end introduce ourselves. Tom Hanks.
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In 2004 when we were making convention film for President Bush, we were explicitly prohibited from using official White House shot video. Now Trump WH is not only using video but paying for full production. This is probably $500,000 of your tax dollars.
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On a personal level, what haunts me about Jan. 6th Committee is that for years I actually believed I was working for a party that cared about rule of law. That’s been exposed as a monstrous fraud. I was so naive. It was all a lie.
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2008. Sarah Pallin: “Barack Obama is palling around with terrorists.”. 2019. Donald Trump invites Taliban to hang out at Camp David on anniversary of 9/11.
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Everyone at rally taking photos on their iPhones invented by son of Syrian immigrant.
Scuffle breaks out in Trump crowd after protesters held up “immigrants built America” sign. Trump supporters tried to rip the sign out of their hands.
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If only Jeffry Epstein were still alive, he could be in Trump's Cabinet.
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As a former R. consultant I bear responsibility for the democracy eating monster the party became, so I get Dems don’t want to hear this from me. But I’d plead with Dems to rally around @POTUS. He’s your guy. You’re going to win with him or lose with him. Make the choice to win.
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I’m not a lawyer but isn’t threatening to kill potential witnesses against you considered a little problematic?.
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If the US was a country having an election under UN supervision, the UN would be putting out a statement calling the president’s statement illegal and undemocratic. That’s where we are, folks. From a shining city on a hill to a thug trying to stop democracy.
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The reason we have an obesity problem in this country is scales. With no scales to measure weight, there would be no obesity statistics.
This is why we have so many “cases” for the media to constantly refer to!.
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Guys, it’s Trump or Biden. Live in the real world. If you saw Donald Trump tonight and aren’t supporting Biden, you are helping elect Trump. It’s not complicated.
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“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”.- Atticus Finch.To Kill A Mockingbird.Harper Lee.
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My dad left FBI and joined the Navy when ordered to round up Japanese Americans. One of his lessons was “you can always say no.”.
People close to her say one reason - perhaps not only one - is that she was aware how awful life would/will be for her on the outside after defending his policies for a long tome.
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Can you imagine Bill Clinton saying he and Saddam Hussein are in agreement in their shared criticism of George Bush? A President is using credibility of a dictator who tortured an American to death & runs a prison camp country to help his campaign. So anti-American. Disgrace.
US president and North Korean dictator are in agreement on their shared criticism of former US vice president, White House says. - @MeetThePress.
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The @GOP convention has speakers whose sole qualification is that they waved guns at black people.
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What @POTUS is doing is very methodically saving the world. This is a moment he has prepared for his entire life. The 2020 election should be regarded as most consequential since WW2. That will hold true until 2024. Democracy was and is very much on the ballot.
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A lot of Christian Kurds are facing death because Donald Trump abandoned them. Will the Trump supporting Evangelicals say anything?.
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It was in the teleprompter loaded by Trump staff. They are terrible liars.
The Trump campaign responds: . “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.” -Danielle Alvarez, Senior Advisor.
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The Klu Klux Klan, the Weathermen, Oklahoma City bomber, anarchists, child pornographers and traffickers, organized crime, traitors who sell secrets - these are the usual voices attacking the FBI. Not a POTUS. My dad was an FBI agent. This attack is a disgrace.
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I don’t really get how Republicans believe Bill Clinton lying about sex is impeachable but Michael Flynn lying about his contacts with a hostile foreign power makes him a martyr.
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Republicans voted for a guy who cares more what Ann Coulter thinks than General Mattis. Merry Christmas.
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Be for or against Hillary Clinton, hard to argue she didn’t nail this.
WATCH Hillary at Oct 19, 2016 debate warning Trump will try to break up NATO because it's on "Putin's wish list." She also predicts Putin was hacking 2016 election to help Trump win which was just confirmed by GOP led Senate Intel Committee. Like today Trump denies Russia did it:
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What is most striking about the Republican Party is the total abandonment of any pretense that kindness or compassion are admirable human qualities. Donald Trump has spent decades proving he sees these as weakness and now the Republican Party has eagerly embraced the same.
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I worked for Mitt Romney. He had a great debate with President Obama in Denver. He demonstrated why he was qualified to be president and offered an alternative to incumbent. But the debate did not disqualify President Obama, any more than John Kerry’s first debate disqualified.
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Watching my old Republican friends attack General Kelly is such a lesson in character. You start out saying you have to vote for Trump because of Hillary Clinton and wake up one day attacking General Kelly to defend a criminal wandering around the country talking about Arnold.
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When you are a grown man spinning out fantasies in public of spanking little girls, you need an ankle bracelet and serious help.
Tucker Carlson’s vision of a Trump presidency is that “dad comes home” and says to America,.“You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl and you’re getting a vigorous spanking, right now. … It’s going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me.”.
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I get the desire to say Ann Selzer’s poll is interesting but Harris isn’t going to win Iowa. Having worked in Senate and governor races in Iowa, I have a more obvious take. She’s probably right and Harris will win.
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Republicans who support Trump know he is degrading office of presidency & harming America’s security. But they are willing to go along with hurting their country because they think it keeps them in power. Which is pretty much the definition of what it means not to be a patriot.
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Trump is moving into the Late Elvis stage of presidency. Everyone around him trying to make as much money as they can fast and doctor giving him whatever he orders up.
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His campaign manager is a felon. His deputy campaign manager is a felon. His NSA is a felon. His foreign policy advisor is a felon. His longtime personal lawyer is a felon. But the defense is he cares about corruption?.
This, from Trump, is the entire defense. Which is why Giuliani’s testimony will end up being the make or break for the Democrats.
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Trump couldn’t pass a drug test for the next debate. He’s on steroids, the mother of all performance enhancing drugs.
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This is guy who had sex with porn star ten days after his youngest son was born and sent best wishes from the WH to a woman arrested for being at center of international child rape ring.
Trump on Biden: "No religion, no anything, hurt the Bible, hurt . God. He's against God, he's against guns."
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Every sentence in this 4 sentence tweet is a blatant lie. Every one. And it’s only four sentences.
Didn’t take long for Mueller to once again vindicate President @realDonaldTrump. No collusion. No obstruction. And now Mueller all but admits it was all along a total witch hunt.
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Like him or hate him, you must admire the bravery of @realDonaldTrump to walk through debris in heels. MAGA for Men In Heels.
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The correct headline is: “Republicans Block Release of Federal Investigation.Of Underage Sex Trafficking.”.
House rebuffs Democratic efforts to force release of Gaetz ethics report
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"It Was All A Lie: How The Republican Party Became Donald Trump"
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In 2000, it took 29 days for Bush to win. In 2004, it took an extra day. President Bush moved forward as if he had won large mandate. President Biden should do the same. Be bold, be big. More Americans will have voted for him than any president in US history.
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The problem with basing your campaign on the other guy having dementia, when he shows up and is sharp as hell, you don’t have a message. Your campaign just collapsed. Trump is a moron.
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How did American conservatism go from “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” to the beating heart of pro-Russia propaganda? . Russia bought a party. This is just a tiny portion of the story.
NEW: CNN has independently confirmed the Russia funded US media company that paid American right-wing social media stars is Tenet Media, based in Tennessee. Some very big names tied up in all of this. Reporting w/ @ZcohenCNN @evanperez @snlyngaas .
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Just a reminder that it was Black voters in Alabama who saved their state from an accused child molester as Senator. Close to 70% of whites voted for the accused child molester.
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I’d blame Senator Warren if she had been using violent rhetoric and trying to score political points and raise money stoking fears about an invasion. She’s not. You know the difference. Why carry water for Donald Trump, a man you know is an idiot?.
The Dayton killer was a left-winger, but don’t blame Sen. Warren. via @WSJ.
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This is illegal.
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I worked in the Congo in election run by UN and it was much easier to vote.
This is a picture of voter suppression. Why do Americans have to wait in lines this long? This is the line in Suwannee Georgia today to vote.
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Trump Trade War In Four Acts:. —Act One: Threaten to burn down your own house. -Act Two: Your family tells you it’s a really bad idea to burn down the house. -Act Three: Agree Not to burn house down. -Act Four: Put out press release demanding praise from family for saving home.
I am pleased to inform you that The United States of America has reached a signed agreement with Mexico. The Tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the U.S. on Monday, against Mexico, are hereby indefinitely suspended. Mexico, in turn, has agreed to take strong measures to. .
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I fought a lot of battles for Republicans. Helped elect governors or Senator in over half the country. But Republicans defending Wikileaks & defending Russian attacks on American democracy crosses line from partisan warfare to unAmerican. It’s a violation of their oath of office.
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I appreciate Pence could have hurt America more than he did but let’s get real. He was surrounded by a plot to end democracy & called Dan Quayle, not the FBI. He didn’t hold a press conference to warn. He waited to see who was going to win & threw in with them at last moment.
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To all my Republican friends. Donald Trump is talking in public about executing a political opponent, a former Member of Congress and daughter of the man you all supported for Vice President. This will be your legacy. To all my former clients I helped elect, your support for.
Liz Cheney issues a response on X to Trump's comments: “This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”
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Your doctor doesn’t tell you that you have cancer because he doesn’t want you to panic. You plan on sticking with the same doctor?.
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Impeachment is part of the same Constitution that allowed you to lose by 3 million and still become president.
As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the. .
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Trump is the slow, aging water buffalo who isn’t going to make it across the Savanna to safety.
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I'll help you out. Steve Jobs birth father was Syrian who came to US. What device are you using to tweet?
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The degree of Russian compromise of the Republican party is one of the great stories of American political history. Those of us who worked within the party saw it happen, accompanied by a right-wing media industry that found it profitable to label Russian influence a "hoax.".
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I’ve spent a lot of my life sizing up political talent. The secret of success as a political consultant is working for candidates who are going to win anyway. The talent disparity between the Dem and R parties is like nothing I’ve seen. What happened? R’s became more white,.
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It's never that difficult to do one thing in a campaign at a high level. What is so impressive about the Harris-Walz campaign is that they are executing all elements of a campaign at a very high level. This is very, very difficult. And unlike any presidential campaign I'm.
Vice President Harris: The patriots at Normandy, Selma, Seneca Falls, and Stonewall… They did not sacrifice only to see us cede our freedoms and submit to the will of another petty tyrant. The United States is the greatest idea humanity ever devised. In 7 days, let us turn the
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As someone who spent years working for Republicans, what has really struck me about this whole impeachment process, starting with House hearings, is just how much goddamn smarter the Democrats come across. It’s not even close.
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The Tx. GOP is largest state GOP in country. Every Tx. statewide elected official is member. Their official position is Biden is illegal president. This is 1860. Let’s not pretend that @GOP isn’t an anti-democratic radical group. Listen to what they are saying. They believe it.
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I expected this post-Nov 3rd but in last 24 hours hearing from some prominent R’s supporting Trump -and one top Trump staffer - asking how best to find the exit ramp. My answer is simple: never too early or too late to do the right thing. How it’s done won’t mater after it’s done.
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Every person on that debate stage is more qualified to be president than Donald Trump. The same was true about the TSA line I was in this morning.
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Keep pointing out that Gore 2000 campaign received stolen Bush debate book, which would have helped tremendously in prep. (I had one of few copies; it was well done.) They turned it over to FBI. That stolen info came from Austin, not Russia. What Rudy is saying is so absurd.
Stunned by the number of people, including Rudy Giuliani, who confess the belief that anyone in politics would take stolen information from an adversarial foreign government to win an election. In this view, there are no means to victory that are not justified by victory.
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You voted for Trump and wanted a wall. Now you can’t leave your country and no one can enter. You got what you wanted. How’s it going?.
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There have been 116 Justices of the Supreme Court. Only 5 have been confirmed by Senators not representing a majority of the voters. All 5 are on Court today.
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Look, @NikkiHaley, you supported Trump after he mocked John McCain, attacked a Gold Star family, called fallen military heroes “losers and suckers,” and tried to order military to attack Americans. You said you’d support Trump if he was convicted of a felony. So now he mocks.
Michael is deployed serving our country, something you know nothing about. Someone who continually disrespects the sacrifices of military families has no business being commander in chief.
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It's a small thing but it's not a small thing. I'd just like a President and Vice President who can laugh.
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This is basically a Rico indictment of the Republican Party. As it should be. Every Republican elected official who refused to acknowledge the winner of the 2020 election is an unindicted co-conspirator.
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To my Dem friends. Be this guy.
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Call me crazy but having Georgetown Prep grads as 20% of the Supreme Court might not best represent a country of 320 million.
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So the Republican #PASen R primary will likely be decided by the late mail votes that all the Republican candidates say should not have been counted in 2020 and were the illegal votes Biden used to steal Pa. Got it.
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This actually says a lot about Trump campaign & why Trump is losing. When a campaign has such little control that it can’t stop a president’s son with obvious addiction issues from repeatedly going on TV while under the influence, there is little to be done to save a campaign.
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