CNN has published a look back at the Trump error from its senior fact checker Daniel Dale, who got his start debunking Trump’s 2016 campaign claims.
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Cooperation is a progressive value: How an unprecedented coalition of liberal groups prepared for Trump’s war on democracy
“By the time rioters ransacked the Capitol, the machinery of the left had already been primed to respond — prepared by months spent sketching out doomsday scenarios and mapping out responses, by countless hours of training exercises and reams of opinion research,” The New York Times reports.
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Trump to flee D.C. and seek rehabilitation in a “MAGA” oasis
“Florida, in some freakish, horrible way, is the Trumpiest of states. This is the logical place for them to come,” Republican strategist Rick Wilson told The Washington Post.
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With Trump off Twitter, window into cult chieftain’s mind goes dark
“He’s neutered without Twitter… Members are starting to wake up to the fact that he’s powerless,” an unnamed Republican congressional aide told the LA Times.
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Talk radio owner orders pro-Trump hosts to temper election fraud rhetoric
“Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning talk-radio hosts in the United States, has told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from President Trump — or else face termination,” The Washington Post reports.
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Biden preps to be president as Trump fights for the job he is ignoring
The Los Angeles Times’ Janet Hook assesses the status of the non-transition transition from Joe Biden to Donald Trump, noting that Trump is making more of an effort to stay in power than actually do the job he already has.
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President Barack Obama shreds Donald Trump in major speech from Philadelphia
On October 21st, 2020, President Barack Obama delivered a scathing and unsparing indictment of Donald Trump’s disastrous presidency from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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The New York Times has Donald Trump’s tax returns. Here’s what’s in them.
Unsurprise: The paper’s reporters write that based on what the data shows, Trump “has been more successful playing a business mogul than being one in real life.”
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Kristin Urquiza delivers searing indictment of Donald Trump on Day One of 2020 DNC
Urquiza made one of the first night’s most memorable appearances, ripping Donald Trump for his refusal to step up and take on COVID-19, the novel coronavirus.
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Political commentator and analyst David Roberts offers a theory on why the Republican Party is self-destructing
“No one, even McConnell can herd these cats. The party – from top electeds to think tankers to party officials to voters — has become one big swarming mass of hack pundits competing to go viral.”
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In leaked call, Barack Obama describes Trump’s handling of virus as “chaotic disaster”
Former President Barack Obama strongly condemned Donald Trump’s coronavirus pandemic response without mentioning him by name in a conference call with alumni of his administration.
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Ex-Senator Jeff Flake: Trump is on trial; so are my Senate Republican colleagues
“Personally, I have never met anyone whose behavior can be described as perfect, but so often has the president repeated this obvious untruth that it has become a form of dogma in our party. And sure enough, as dogma demands, there are members of our party denying objective reality by repeating the line that ‘the president did nothing wrong.’ My colleagues, the danger of an untruthful president is compounded when an equal branch follows that president off the cliff, into the abyss of unreality and untruth.”
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Our country is accepting the unacceptable
“Slowly, gradually, but inexorably, our country is accepting the unacceptable. We thought we had a consensus about basic norms that protect freedom and self-government. That consensus has been swept away by Republican partisans who value political power over the constitutional liberties they have always claimed to revere above everything else.”
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Rudy Giuliani butt-dials NBC reporter, heard discussing need for cash and trashing Bidens
In the call, “Giuliani can be heard discussing overseas dealings and lamenting the need for cash, though it’s difficult to discern the full context of the conversation,” NBC’s Rich Schapiro reports.
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This photo of Nancy Pelosi *literally* standing up to Donald Trump is everything
This is one of the most striking photos of the Trump error.
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Politico’s Jack Shafer: Trump won’t be able to tweet his way out of his deepening problems
“Trump’s old techniques are failing — and not just due to the volume of the bad news,” Shafer says.
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‘Total panic’ as ‘shell-shocked’ White House struggles to find impeachment footing
While many in the Trump White House are battle-tested from the Mueller investigation, this is starting to feel different, aides and advisers told NBC News.
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Civil rights icon John Lewis: It’s time for impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump
WATCH: Georgia Democratic Representative John Lewis takes to the House floor to call for the beginning of impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump.
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John Bolton leaves the Trump regime
Another rat flees the sinking ship.
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Trump had better be careful about hate-tweeting Fox
Donald Trump may think he doesn’t need Fox Noise Channel. But he does. He needs Fox even more than they need him. After all, they’re a media outlet, and they can always turn on a dime and go back to having an adversarial relationship with the President.
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Revealed: Matt Shea aided group training young men for ‘biblical warfare’
Archconservative Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told The Guardian that “it almost sounds like going back to the Hitler Youth concept”.
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