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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

5 years

On this historic day, remembering my first story about @realDonaldTrump from almost 40 years ago. (He evicted an elderly lady who had suffered a stroke.)

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@JoeConason

9 months

A gang of @nytimes writers who are always wrong — Dowd, Stephens, Douthat et al — want Biden out. They’ve never had a useful or original thought. Ignore these termites.

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8 months

Why isn't this front-page news @nytimes @washingtonpost @CNN @MSNBC

Barbara Comstock

@BarbaraComstock

8 months

Trump said in Richmond, that he will take all federal funds away from public schools that require vaccines. Like most states, Virginia requires MMR vaccine, chickenpox vaccine, polio, etc. So Trump would take millions in federal funds away from all Virginia public schools.

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One more time: Contrary to Trump's lying mantra, @HillaryClinton kept no classified documents, defied no subpoenas, engaged in no conspiracies, and stole nothing. So unlike him she is innocent of wrongdoing.

Analysis | Why wasn’t Hillary Clinton also indicted, Trump asks. Here’s why.

Donald Trump mixes partial facts and invented assertions as he attacks Hillary Clinton over her emails.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

3 months

Today @nytimes editors sent an email with this preview line: “JD Vance’s speech was masterly.” It’s the latest inspiration for my next book. Working title: “How The New York Times Destroyed Democracy, 1994-2024”

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@JoeConason

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@JoeConason

2 months

When will editors at @nytimes @washingtonpost @AP explain why they constantly sanitize #Trump ’s mad babble? We’re all waiting.

George Conway

@gtconway3d

2 months

In other words, babagagookistanorepihabxnoikseirrringoplebergeidhopertiopderfewsiepgjiopkuiefogislodigobbldywhatvhabeoojjskayadayadamagoogony

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

3 years

So Oath Keepers and Proud Boys are pleading -- and flipping -- on Jan. 6 plotters. (Pro tip: It's a liability when your mutt "revolutionaries" are mostly dim criminals with lots of priors.) This is ominous for Roger, Alex, Ali and the gang.

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@JoeConason

4 years

She’s the Ayn Rand of the Hee Haw set

diane #ForAll straub

@didikins4life

4 years

After the Loeffler family collected $3.2 million in federal farm subsidies, Sen. Kelly Loeffler had this to say about opposing #COVIDrelief ($600 per person): people need to “get back to work and limit government dependency.” #SenateRunoffs #VoteThemOut

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@JoeConason

2 months

Predictable result of his brave and selfless decision to put country first.

Joe Trippi

@JoeTrippi

2 months

Biden approval rating jumps 13 points while Harris leads Trump: poll #FoxNews

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@JoeConason

1 year

Brush off the idiotic lying about Hillary and just enjoy @benshapiro realizing that Trump has committed multiple felonies, including several he confessed on tape.

Ben Shapiro: "Donald Trump pretty much admits on tape to doing the thing that he's accused of doing"

www.mediamatters.org

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

3 years

So watching @jimmykimmel take down Rep. Greene (aka Klan Mom), maybe we should retire the "Karen" epithet and instead describe a certain kind of person as a "Margie."

Endorse This: Kimmel Hits Back Hard At 'Klan Mom' Marjorie Greene (VIDEO)

Jimmy Kimmel prides himself on gleefully lambasting and calling out all the infinite hypocrisy in today's insanely deranged GOP (or is it QOP?). Recently, the late-night comedy host found himself...

www.nationalmemo.com

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

7 years

Hands off @JoyAnnReid . She apologized for her insensitive decade-old blog posts and she's one of the very best on TV. Enough.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

4 years

Sedition—>Expulsion

Scott Dworkin

@funder

4 years

"You can't allow it to just transfer power 'peacefully' like Joe Biden wants, and allow him to become our president. Because he did not win this election. It's being stolen and the evidence is there," Marjorie Taylor Greene. Note how Greene puts "peacefully" in quotes. Grotesque.

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2 years

This is a sickening lie even for you, @tedcruz . The winter population of Martha's Vineyard isn't "rich" -- not compared with you and Goldman Sachs wifey -- and they deported nobody. Read the truth here, dirtbag.

A migrant landed on Martha’s Vineyard. A resident jumped in to help.

Earlier this week, two lives intersected after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) chartered two planes to fly a group of migrants from Texas to this island in Mass.

www.washingtonpost.com

Ted Cruz

@tedcruz

2 years

The rich, liberal “people of Martha’s Vineyard” DEPORTED THE ILLEGAL ALIENS WITHIN 24 HOURS. Glad to know that @aoc now tells us that’s “what the best of America looks like 🇺🇸”!

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@JoeConason

1 year

Tim Scott gets off easy for seeming “nice.” He isn’t nice. He’s just another fascist-enabling liar.

John Harwood

@JohnJHarwood

1 year

repulsive demagoguery

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

3 years

So @Acosta just let it rip @CNN and made a vow. No more “both sides” bullshit about the “Trump-Owned Party” and the danger to democracy.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

4 years

The party has collapsed. McCarthy was always a moral and mental vacuum.

Rick Wilson

@TheRickWilson

4 years

“Alexa, what is a moral collapse?”

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

3 years

IMPORTANT: Mainstream analysis of Biden's foreign policy was simply dead wrong -- and the proof is in.

Opinion | Biden is proving all the awful foreign policy takes wrong

Turns out, America really is "back."

www.washingtonpost.com

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

1 year

Giuliani used to parade people around in handcuffs for doing this kind of crooked shit

MeidasTouch

@MeidasTouch

1 year

BREAKING: Giuliani hit with devastating order from federal judge in defamation trial. The judge called out Rudy for intentionally trying to hide assets and deflate his net worth! The jury will be able to use this and more when assessing damages. Story ⤵️

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

4 years

Further instructions: go directly to prison

Alan Feuer

@alanfeuer

4 years

Robert Sanford, the retired PA firefighter who has been charged in the DC riot, went to the Capitol following "the President's instructions," a complaining witness told the FBI.

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@JoeConason

1 year

Bone stupid as always. But still funny in that very dark way

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@laurenboebert

1 year

I still remember when President Trump was the leader of the free world and you didn’t have wild conflicts all over the world going on constantly. How I miss those days! It’s time to bring leadership back!

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

8 years

Trump's voter fraud "expert" registered in three states. Says he "didn't know."

AP: Trump's voter fraud expert registered in 3 states

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man who President Donald Trump has promoted as an authority on voter fraud was registered to vote in multiple states during the 2016 presidential election, the Associated Press...

apnews.com

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

7 months

Aren't you still pretending to be a journalist? The full and exact quote: "Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole – that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That’ll be the least of it.”

Maria Bartiromo

@MariaBartiromo

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@politico That's so dishonest he said bloodbath in the auto industry bc of EV's We will discuss tomorrow @SundayFutures @FoxNews 10am et

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

5 months

I’d like to know who is paying for this. And you.

Cornel West

@CornelWest

5 months

How sad to see the great Morehouse College embrace the war criminal and genocide enabler Joe Biden as an exemplar of peace and justice! The event was more propaganda for his failing campaign than an affirmation of the precious Black Brothers graduating from Morehouse! Martin

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

4 months

Oh bullshit. Trump hinted that “Second Amendment people” should take out Hillary and none of you clowns blinked

Robby Starbuck

@robbystarbuck

4 months

Never forget this statement from @joebiden . Remind every single person you know that he said this in the week before Trump was shot. Trump would be in prison if he said the same thing and Biden got shot. They’d say he incited it. Joe Biden should resign.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

2 years

“No, we’re not releasing a copy of the warrant,” a Trump mouthpiece told NBC. Huh. Then maybe Trump and his stooges should stop whining about the FBI and the Justice Department.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

8 years

As usual, videotape directly contradicts Trump. #HamiltonBway cast was polite, even friendly to Pence. Stop whining. Act like a president.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

8 years

The Theater must always be a safe and special place.The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

5 years

Credit for Baghdadi raid belongs to US special forces and our betrayed Kurdish allies. Congratulations to them for taking down this mass murderer.

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@JoeConason

4 years

Hahaha

Rick Wilson

@TheRickWilson

4 years

“Siri, what is the Streisand Effect?” Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump threaten to sue Lincoln Project over Times Square ads via @nypmetro

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@JoeConason

6 months

What I've noticed is that Times honchos often feel free to bully Democrats (and sometimes enjoy it) -- but seem fretful and even fearful about irritating Republicans

Eric Schultz

@EricSchultz

6 months

wow - NYT reporter says their nonstop coverage of Biden’s age is retribution for not giving their boss an interview: “It’s A.G. He’s the one who is pissed [that] Biden hasn’t done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age.”

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

8 years

We've seen every Clinton tax return, emails, speeches, personal letters, her staff's emails... but still not one complete Trump tax return.

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@JoeConason

5 months

Yes, you’ve made abandoning our democratic allies a priority. I’m sure Putin is pleased — and that your father and uncle would not be.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr

@RobertKennedyJr

5 months

Earlier today, from the cliffs of Normandy, President Biden invoked the memory and sacrifice of American soldiers in World War II. But then he went on to suggest that those dead soldiers would now want us to take the fight to Russia: “Does anyone doubt that they would want

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8 months

The latest indication of dementia

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@SteveDeaceShow

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@JoeConason

6 years

Fox owns this shutdown

The National Memo

@NationalMemo

6 years

Fox & Friends is running the country via dummy Trump. Which means truly stupid decisions, every day.

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@JoeConason

1 year

Narcissistic grifter @RobertKennedyJr -- the self-styled critic of corporate America -- is financed by right-wing billionaires. A pungent whiff of fraud surrounds this "populist."

RFK Jr. aided by GOP and Trump PAC donors

Aubrey and Joyce Chernick helped the anti-vaxxer raise $2.2 million at their LA estate.

www.motherjones.com

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

10 months

No, @HillaryClinton attended Trump’s inauguration after he threatened to lock her up on false charges. I watched you sucking up to her husband in Jerusalem years ago, you awful little fraud. @LindseyGrahamSC

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

10 months

PIERRE THOMAS: Trump continues to say he won ... We teach our children when they lose something to shake their opponent's hand and move on. Are you concerned that the former president is not setting the proper standard? LINDSEY GRAHAM: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton ...

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

7 years

At 8 pm tonight, Steve Bannon told friends that Roy Moore would win by "5-10 points." I saw the email he sent. But his neo-Confederate candidate lost -- and democracy won.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

6 years

Brett Kavanaugh did much of Ken Starr's nastiest work. Today, National Memo proudly publishes journalist Dan Moldea's inside account of his dealings with Kavanaugh and the Office of Independent Counsel. Soon the whole story will emerge.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

4 years

Encouraged but unsurprised. Trump set a very low bar, while @RonaldKlain and Biden team are experienced, dedicated, and highly competent.

Tim Fullerton

@TimFullerton

4 years

CDC reports nearly 4.5 million doses administered over the last two days. Each day was a single day record on its own. This is major progress.

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4 years

Must say I love the idea of @ConnieSchultz in the Senate. @CapehartJ @TheSundayShow

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@JoeConason

2 months

Are you a “great force”? Is Trump? Because you both appear to be self-aggrandizing narcissists intent on damaging this country. Spare us your egotism, Bobby. We’ve seen enough. @RobertKennedyJr

Robert F. Kennedy Jr

@RobertKennedyJr

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When two great forces come together with a common goal, anything is possible. #trump @realDonaldTrump @TeamTrump

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

7 years

Gary Cohn despises Trump but staying on to repeal estate tax -- so Trump can leave ill-gotten wealth to his deserving kids. That'll show him

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

1 year

Go Bobby! Running "independent" means you'll draw more voters from the candidate you resemble most in political ideology, personal conduct, and narcissistic mentality. (That's Trump, not Biden.)

EXCLUSIVE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Planning to Announce Independent Run

2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce he will run as an independent on October 9 in Pennsylvania, Mediaite has learned.

www.mediaite.com

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

6 months

It started in 2015, when swindler Steve Bannon got a front-page smear of @HillaryClinton and @ClintonFdn in @nytimes — extremely effective and entirely fake.

Mark Jacob

@MarkJacob16

6 months

Today’s Trump trial testimony reminds us of how mainstream media – including the New York Times, Washington Post and Politico – were badly played by Trump in 2016. An example: The National Enquirer’s Trump-inspired hoax linking Ted Cruz’s dad to the JFK assassination.🧵1/7

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Joe Conason

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1 year

What needs to be said is that you and your fascist sponsor Peter Thiel back authoritarian regimes here and abroad. And no, we don’t want dictator Putin meddling in democratic elections. Suck on that.

JD Vance

@JDVance

1 year

Sorry, this needs to be said: A lot of the anti-Russia obsession on the left has nothing to do with Ukraine. It’s a revenge fantasy over 2016. They blame Russia for Donald Trump’s election and they’ll bleed Ukraine dry for payback.

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You’re widely despised because your anti-vax profiteering is dangerous to human life, especially children. You bear a large share of blame for this measles outbreak. You don’t belong in any public office.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr

@RobertKennedyJr

8 months

Although I grew up around the White House, I'm definitely not a career politician. I'm the most feared and hated candidate among the elites in Washington, D.C. because I'm not bought and I'm not buyable by corporate interests or by the big lobbyists. I get it. You're feeling

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

8 years

I almost forgot! Ryan was attending college on Social Security survivor benefits *while he fantasized about cutting Medicaid.* Even nicer.

Joe Conason

@JoeConason

8 years

So @SpeakerRyan was always the same, dating back to college days.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

2 years

Are we truly different from our adversaries, who mocked and smeared Paul Pelosi? I hope so -- and wish @LeaderMcConnell a full recovery despite our political disagreements.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

7 years

Doug Jones quotes MLK: "The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice." God bless him.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

4 years

You just lost Arizona. Don't stop packing.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

4 years

These states in question should immediately be put in the Trump Win column. Biden did not win, he lost by a lot!

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

4 years

That's alright. Surely his buddy #GymJordan will vouch for Gaetz.

The Daily Edge

@TheDailyEdge

4 years

Matt Gaetz: 2008: DUI 2012: Attempts to bribe hotel clerk to get key to room of sleeping Rep. Jose Oliva, R-Miami Calls Nestor: 2016: "A local student" 2017: "My helper" 2020: The son* "I love very much" (*Nestor is not his son) 2021: Under investigation for sex trafficking

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Joe Conason

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Not just a terrible lawyer but a noxious human being too

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

@ruthbenghiat

3 months

Her parents were Iraqi immigrants to the US...

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@JoeConason

2 years

Every Fox advertiser bears culpability in the racist #BuffaloMassacre , as @MattGertz explained in this prophetic article *posted last month* -- including @amazon , @Ford , @GM , @GSKUS , @USAA and that imbecile #MyPillow . Shun @rupertmurdoch .

Every Fox News advertiser bears responsibility for Tucker Carlson’s bigoted replacement theory rant

www.mediamatters.org

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

5 years

Something is happening tonight: In Missouri's HD-99, Democrat @TrishForMO won a Trump +5 district -- by 8 points.

Democrat Trish Gunby wins hotly contested Missouri House race in West County

Final unofficial returns showed Gunby defeated Republican Lee Ann Pitman, 54 percent, to 46 percent.

www.stltoday.com

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@JoeConason

7 years

Hands off @JoyAnnReid , punks.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

8 months

Every American should know that Trump sent all his children to New York City private schools that *absolutely require every vaccination* for admission. He just doesn't care if your kids get sick or die.

Barbara Comstock

@BarbaraComstock

8 months

Trump said in Richmond, that he will take all federal funds away from public schools that require vaccines. Like most states, Virginia requires MMR vaccine, chickenpox vaccine, polio, etc. So Trump would take millions in federal funds away from all Virginia public schools.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

1 year

Not going to waste much time here until you get over 1%. But Russia obviously still needs to be deterred and NATO is how we and our European partners do that, duh.

Vivek Ramaswamy

@VivekGRamaswamy

1 year

The original purpose of NATO was to counter USSR aggression & later to avoid nuclear war with the Soviets. Yet NATO expanded the most *after* the fall of the USSR. George Kennan, the lead architect of our deterrence strategy, said NATO expansionism was “the most fateful error of

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

7 years

Shorter version: He's a Nazi.

Oren Segal

@orensegal

7 years

James Alex Fields was w/ the Vanguard America folks in #Charlottesville . Learn more about the group > @ADL_National

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

8 years

If @ClintonFdn paid an illegal gratuity to a public official investigating a Clinton-related enterprise, American media would go...nuclear

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

3 years

Fascinating @newrepublic expose by @craigunger of CPAC's ties to the Russian mob through Viktor Orban.

Why Is CPAC Having a Conference Next Month in Budapest?

As Vladimir Putin grows increasingly isolated, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán becomes the chief conduit to the West for Putin-style authoritarianism and corruption.

newrepublic.com

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

2 months

Times editors provide fresh evidence (and motivation!) every day for my next book: "How The New York Times Lost Democracy, 1994-2024." (Publisher is already excited...)

Mueller, She Wrote

@MuellerSheWrote

2 months

Just because the @nytimes is confounded doesn't mean the rest of us are.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

8 years

Only 5 days after Trump, Flynn, et al. take office, how did Russians pop 4 alleged US spies in Moscow? Coincidence?

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@JoeConason

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READ @ninaburleigh ’s penetrating review of THE LONGEST CON. She goes deep @newrepublic .

The Con at the Core of the Republican Party

The conservative movement’s total abandonment of even the appearance of principles has been decades in the making.

newrepublic.com

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

8 years

This is why most New Yorkers - and many Americans - will shun the Trump family for years to come.

Opinion | Donald Trump Is Making America Meaner (Published 2016)

Hate speech from the campaign is poisoning schools and communities.

www.nytimes.com

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

5 years

Your insinuation that the Clintons profited from the Clinton Foundation is unfounded. I doubt you have any idea what you’re talking about.

Ross Douthat

@DouthatNYT

5 years

My Tuesday column: The Corruption Before Trump:

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

2 years

Oh, and here's a little footnote, @tedcruz : We know you and Heidi haul in a *bare minimum* of $500K annually from Goldman and Congress. You're in the 1%! Those "rich liberals" on the Vineyard earn $77K on average, according to the 2020 Census. So fuck your phony populism too.

Joe Conason

@JoeConason

2 years

This is a sickening lie even for you, @tedcruz . The winter population of Martha's Vineyard isn't "rich" -- not compared with you and Goldman Sachs wifey -- and they deported nobody. Read the truth here, dirtbag.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

1 year

Listening to Kasich is one of the stupider habits of "mainstream" journalism.

Joan Walsh

@joanwalsh

1 year

Get off my television John Kasich with blaming the Democrats for this impasse...

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

7 months

Many of us stand with him behind you, Doctor.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

@PeterHotez

7 months

Just when I start to think all might be lost (from the stepped up aggression and attacks) an honest to goodness Jedi Knight steps up. Many thanks @MarkHamill

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Chilling: Investigator who probed labor abuses @IvankaTrump shoe factory in China goes missing after police warning.

Arrested, missing China activists spark criticism of Trump

Activists are concerned that the Trump family's commercial interests will interfere with U.S. leadership on human rights after the arrest and disappearance in China of three labor activists.

apnews.com

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

8 years

It's nice that the convention applauded Peter Thiel, "proud to be gay." Now back to the regularly scheduled anti-LGBT programming...

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

4 years

I'm waiting for @realDonaldTrump to "open his archives," instead of paying off women to keep quiet. Oh, and the tax returns? @JoeBiden released his.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

8 years

House Oversight Committee Phones Jammed By Angry Calls Over Trump Conflicts Of Interest

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

8 years

Very thoughtful of @PressSec to say something stupid about Nazis on Passover -- so Jews will remember him (and his boss) at seders tonight.

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Joe Conason

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1 year

Here's a thought for our clueless mainstream enablers

Ask GOP Debaters if They Support Trump’s Open Fascism

Trump called for executions and media censorship over the weekend. Make his Republican opponents stand up and choose a side.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

9 years

Substitute "syngagogue" for "mosque" and you'll see why he often reminds me of 1930s Germany.

Donald J. Trump

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9 years

I wonder if President Obama would have attended the funeral of Justice Scalia if it were held in a Mosque? Very sad that he did not go!

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

8 years

First, Trump lied about HRC's position on 2nd Amendment. Then he dog-whistled his psycho followers to shoot her.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

4 years

Trump is willing to disenfranchise the troops if that will help him "win." (They're turning against him anyway.) @votevets @jonsoltz

The National Memo

@NationalMemo

4 years

When Trump attacks mail-in ballots, he subverts soldiers' voting rights

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

5 years

Someone saw this coming...

Wesley Clark

@WesClarkjr

5 years

I wonder when he's going to recommend his followers drink bleach to guard against the virus. via @phoenixnewtimes

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

9 years

Gandalf and Claudius celebrate

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

1 year

Do you know how slimy this is? Every real reporter does.

John Roberts

@johnrobertsFox

1 year

With war raging in Israel, the @WhiteHouse called a lid for @JoeBiden at 11:46am.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

2 years

Junior, you know fuck-all about jobs, the economy, or Joe Biden. So far his administration has seen five times as many jobs created as the last three GOP presidents combined. Including Daddy.

Donald Trump Jr.

@DonaldJTrumpJr

2 years

I wish Joe Biden would spend as much time getting hard-working Americans back to work as he did for a Russian international arms dealer. How many people will die in the coming years because of the “merchant of death” will get back to business?

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

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Conspiracy Madness 101: Any outlet that criticizes you is controlled by CIA. Your hermetic existence in a world of delusion is disqualifying for any public office, let alone the presidency.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr

@RobertKennedyJr

6 months

Despite the prohibitions in the CIA charter forbidding the agency from propagandizing Americans, Operation Mockingbird is alive and well. In his Dec 2021 article "Belly of the Daily Beast" CIA historian Dick Russell documents how liberal media outlets including Daily Beast,

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@JoeConason

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Remember when intelligence officials predicted something like this would happen? In *July 2016*

Some officials worry about briefing Trump, fearing spilled secrets

Some U.S. intelligence officials are concerned that Donald Trump's "shoot from the hip" style could pose national security risks as they prepare to give him a routine pre-election briefing once he is...

www.reuters.com

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

8 months

Both outstanding lawyers who dare to defend our shared values beyond partisanship or ideology. They are great Americans.

George Conway

@gtconway3d

8 months

A brilliant essay in @TheAtlantic by @judgeluttig and @tribelaw on SCOTUS’s “supreme betrayal” of the Constitution in 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘷. 𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯: “Whether born of a steeled determination 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘺 the presumptive Republican nominee from the

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@JoeConason

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Few conservatives have acknowledged the deep problems in their movement as bluntly as @gtconway3d . You’ll see in his foreword to

The Longest Con

A sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise – and why Donald Trump became the living emblem of the American right’s mo...

us.macmillan.com

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

5 months

"There is a sickness that has affected the entire right. It's a combination of authoritarianism and grift, and it has affected people in the conservative legal movement." I asked @gtconway3d if authoritarianism has been present on the right all along:

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

2 years

She has my support

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

@NoLieWithBTC

2 years

Ronna Romney McDaniel, who has presided over Republicans losing the presidency, House, and Senate multiple times, is now going to run for re-election as RNC chair to run the party in 2024. (from @politicoalex )

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@JoeConason

8 years

If @KellyannePolls doesn't want @chucktodd to laugh at her, she should stop presenting "alternative facts" aka #SpicerFacts .

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

5 years

I guess @IvankaTrump doesn't count, eh. She only *works* in @WhiteHouse while doing deals in China.

Charlie Kirk

@charliekirk11

5 years

The difference between the right and the left: When Donald Trump took office, his sons stopped engaging in overseas business deals When Joe Biden took office, his son started engaging in multi-billion dollar overseas business deals ...At the expense of the United States RT!

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

4 years

It's funny that the former OMB director can't do arithmetic.

Mick Mulvaney

@MickMulvaney

4 years

Since the media has aready picked the next President, I doubt anyone cares that the President is now within 14,746 votes in AZ. At the current %, if there are 127,364+ ballots still out, he wins AZ.

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

6 months

I know Dr. Gartner well and agree with this endorsement

George Conway

@gtconway3d

6 months

This is an excellent first episode of a new podcast hosted by clinical psychologists Dr. John Gartner and Dr. Harry Segal on the dangerous psychopathology of Donald Trump—in particular, Trump’s malignant narcissism as well as the effects of his rapidly deteriorating cognitive

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

7 years

Everyone can smell your fear.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

7 years

Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped!

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@JoeConason

8 years

Which tax years is IRS auditing? Where is IRS letter certifying an audit? Why not release years NOT under audit to prove "$100Ms" he paid?

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

3 years

Headquartered in Wuhan! Conspiracy theorists go nuts!

MeidasTouch

@MeidasTouch

3 years

Meidas Scoop: SEC Documents reveal that SPAC merging into new Trump ‘media entity’ TRUTH Social run by CEO of China Yunhong Holdings Ltd.

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@JoeConason

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Uranium One hoax made @nytimes page one, kicking off the smear campaign. Now @nytimes publishes a @reuters article blaming "Trump, Republican lawmakers and right-wing media" for those smears. .

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@JoeConason

8 years

Trump Coverage Should Reflect That He Is Historically Unpopular

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@JoeConason

9 months

Fearful media always need weasel-word hedging when they discuss the Dear Leader.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

9 months

“Appeared”? He did it. There’s video. No need for the weasel word hedging.

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@JoeConason

8 years

Colin Powell says he doesn't remember dinner where he advised @HillaryClinton on emails. But two months ago, he did.

Did Colin Powell Advise Clinton to Use a Private Email?

All the emails Powell sent as secretary of state are long deleted, despite his obligation to preserve them under the Federal Records Act.

www.newsweek.com

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

5 years

Classy: Especially when you remember that @HillaryClinton spoke out in support of Rep. Tlaib last summer

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Joe Conason

@JoeConason

4 months

LISTEN: Today I'm on @newrepublic 's "Daily Blast" podcast with my friend @GregTSargent talking about my new book "The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism" -- and the grifter-in-chief, of course.

Trump’s Rage at Fox News for Crossing Him Hints at a Darker Story

As Donald Trump erupts at Fox News for disloyalty, the author of a new book about the history of right-wing grift explains the Trump-Fox relationship’s place in that long and sordid tale.

newrepublic.com

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