Dear Mr. President,
My only son, Ryan Larkin, a decorated US Navy SEAL took his life following traumatic brain injury (TBI). It is difficult to put into words the impact that your statement had on me and my family yesterday…it was a hard hit to the gut.
Oooh: Metadata on the earliest known draft copy of the Trump executive order to seize voting machines says the document's creator is OAN reporter Christina Bobb - story coming via
@woodruffbets
Gold Star father Khizr Khan on
@maddow
just now raised an interesting HIPPA issue: If the doctors (who are all likely under NDAs) withholding details of Trump's true medical condition are aware he is endangering others, they are violating their Hippocratic oaths.
After that impeachment tantrum letter from the White House, the House Committees of jurisdiction should lead with subpoenas going forward. Skip the courtesy invites.
The Roger Stone commutation was timed to prevent you from noticing Bill Barr shuffling the deck over at EDNY to throw some sand in the investigation into Trump over there.
Just so you know.
Man arrested for threatening to kill Schiff, Schumer over impeachment - ABC News - He's charged with threatening to assault and murder federal officials. via
@ABC
Far-right Boogaloo Boys member Ivan Harrison Hunter admits he traveled from TX to Minneapolis to join the George Floyd protests while posing as a BLM supporter, and then he shot up the police station.
While the Trumps try to smear Biden as a pedo, here's a reminder of allegations against Trump: National Enquirer tried to help Trump bury teen rape allegation
Trump deplaned at his rally tonight to Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son" - which is a protest song about how working class guys got drafted to Vietnam while the sons of the wealthy got draft deferments. You cannot make this up.
🚨 Confirmed: Team Trump on Facebook posted for Trump supporters to stand against Antifa - and added a giant upside down red triangle. Just google that "upside down red triangle" and see what comes up first.
Great point from Clint Watts
@selectedwisdom
just now: Think back to when Trump fired
@Comey
but in context of the NYT story tonight. Trump KNEW Putin ordered Russian ops against our election and Trump still told Lester Holt he fired Comey because of this "fake" Russian thing.
"Trump told attendees at a Pennsylvania rally that the queen kept him waiting for their meeting. However, footage of their encounter broadcast live across Britain showed the queen waiting for the president for 12 minutes and looking at her watch." /1
Trump dossier author Steele gets 16-hour DOJ grilling. The interview was contentious at first, according to two people familiar with the matter, but investigators ultimately found his testimony credible and even surprising.
A WH official tells me what
@JakeSherman
was also told: Navarro's hit job on Fauci in USA Today was not sanctioned. "He does that" the official said of Navarro dashing off memos on a whim
So thank god for
@AVindman
, Fiona Hill, Ambassador Bill Taylor, Marie Yovanovitch and everyone else who put their careers on the line to stop Trump and Putin's plot to sell out Ukraine. /8
This is an important letter dated Jan 23, 2020 directed to POTUS from Former Navy SEAL Frank Larkin, whose son, also a former Navy SEAL, who committed suicide after a long battle with TBI and PTSD. The letter is published at SOFX - The Special Operations Forces Network.
Kanye is tweeting out to Bono and Taylor Swift and others to help him be the Baby Putin of the USA while he posts videos of himself peeing on a Grammy.
2020 is so far down a rabbit hole a Trump tweet might look normal right now.
@KBAndersen
@DavidAFrench
A bit glaring how they never get a super religious mission from God to be kind and help their neighbors and be decent and good in ordinary ways. Their perpetual religious fantasy is all about wrath and war and hurting/punishing other people as their ticket to eternal glory.
Again, no matter where you come out on whether Kavanaugh did sexually assault Dr. Ford, his own choice to rewrite his opening statement and fill it with rage at Democrats and partisan anger is a terrible posture for someone aiming to sit on the Supreme Court.
Trump just now: *I* don't call unappreciative governors, but Pence does, and I don't tell Pence not to.
Trump Friday: "I say, 'Mike, don’t call the governor of Washington. You’re wasting your time with him. Don’t call the woman in Michigan.'"
Habba: I think that realistically you have to remember that a lot of these cases deal with classified documents which mean that all the lawyers now have to apply for special clearance, right? You can’t just take a classified document and review it. You have to have scifs.
(From Frank Larkin's letter to POTUS: Please explain your statement, “I don’t consider them (traumatic brain injury-TBI) very serious injuries relative to other injuries that I have seen” …followed by, “no, I do not consider that (TBI) to be bad injuries, no”.
@EamonJavers
This is silly. Pelosi is the Speaker of the House. She is third in line for the office of POTUS.
Kellyanne is a hired PR person to spin for the press. No one elected Kellyanne to anything.
This is where I have trouble with Trump supporters who run around screeching "fake news" about everything they do not like. Trump is a pathological liar and he lies TO THEM - his supporters. They love his lies. Worship him and his lies. It's fucking weird. /2
Frank J. Larkin is a veteran of the U.S. Navy who served as a special warfare operator in the Navy SEALs, he worked in law enforcement as a police officer, detective and paramedic, and he also served for more than two decades in the United States Secret Service.
Sigh. It is possible to believe the American war in Afghanistan needed to end (and to believe it never should have gone on at all) and to also believe it should never, ever have ended like this. What a debacle.
HAHAHA Leahy got Barr on the record saying Trump instructing his aide to tell Sessions to UN-recuse himself and shut down the investigation was "fully cooperating".
El Paso Fire Department just told us that Trump's statement about them allowing 10,000 people inside is incorrect. Spokesman says coliseum holds 6,500 and that is how many were allowed in building.
#TrumpElPaso
"(cont.) If an SOFX Network member has something to say to a politician, and it is thoughtfully written, we will publish it as an OPED in our Saturday SOFX newsletter edition."
BZ
The Dayton shooter had almost a decade of violent threats & misogyny that were apparently continuously swept under the rug and clearly predate any current political issues or figures. This was posted by someone who knew him:
That being said, it is a double whammy. Parscale got a bunch of useless data from people who will never vote for Trump. Trump got a weak turnout from a base that was yawning through his rambling babble about the ramp and water glass. Lose/lose. /4
“A well-placed VOA employee said there are internal discussions about a sizable shakeup coming to the agency that may include former White House official and conservative radio host Sebastian Gorka taking on a leadership position.”
More recently, Mr. Larkin served as the United States Senate Sergeant at Arms, and lead the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) within the Department of Defense.
Probably the most shocking revelation for me in these hearings is how very Trumpy Kavanaugh is. I honestly thought he was a more measured, less partisan person before today. I figured a lifetime of hovering above politics had trained him to stay above it. Not so.
One of the most Trumpy things ever is Trump not giving Meadows a pardon because he felt Meadows failed in the coup. The sort of petty Trump gesture that could come back to bite.
Right now
@JoyceWhiteVance
explaining how Judge ABJ is laying down a very thorough sentencing record on Roger Stone because it is expected he will appeal. Air tight, strong sentencing record.
If there had been any people outside needing to get in, they would have got in. No matter how you slice it, people did not turn out for Trump on the scale he boasted they would. It was a humiliating, weak turnout. That's not due to pranks. That's all Trump. /3
Just now
@BillKristol
about Trump's behavior and attacks on the investigations into him is spot on: "The absolute consistent red thread running through all of this is that Trump does not want the truth to come out."
From former Navy SEAL Sam Havelock, CEO of SOFX: "We stay politics free at SOFX. But the SOFX platform was built to serve the Special Operations Community and Industry. (cont.)"
Those far right/Fox numpties who tried to falsely claim it was "antifa" who stormed the capitol on Jan. 6th instead of Trump supporters? Guess where they got that idea . . .
The 16 hour IG interview interview of Christopher Steele was contentious at first, the sources added, but investigators ultimately found Steele’s testimony credible and even surprising. /FIN
(Which is why Trump is rage tweeting about it now)
An absolute treat to see
@MarkHertling
and
@RadioFreeTom
discuss observations on the Russian military as it assaults Ukraine - two very adept experts with so much knowledge - discussing it and taking questions. Sometimes Twitter is pure gold.
Scientists are beginning to ask whether the European measles epidemic was bolstered by Russian trolls who infiltrated anti-vaccination groups to spread the Kremlin's agenda.
Just a reminder that Tucker Carlson (Такер Карлсон) is not in any way a journalist. He is an Opinion Columnist in video format. And his opinions aren't even HIS opinions. They run in tandem with Kremlin media RT talking points. Every. Time.