Another excellent point by Steinglass in closing argument:
While the sex between Donald and Stormy happened in 2006, there was no payoff until 2016...because Donald's concern *wasn't* his family, but the election.
Logic.
#TrumpTrial
@ProjectLincoln
This woman just did what, for some reason, most of our friends in the press have not been able to do at press conferences and briefings over the last four years.
Brava!
@DanRather
No matter what - rhetoric like this is UnAmerican and anti-democratic.
I'm no longer going to pussyfoot around Trump supporters. If they support this, they don't believe in American values or democracy.
American Presidents do not speak like this.
Period.
@derek_del
Not that I have much respect for her....but she is clearly OVER. IT.
That body language is beyond transparent, and I'm glad she doesn't care if it's on camera. Gives the T enablers a pretty crucial element they'd have a hard time arguing: even his wife is sick of him.
@ProjectLincoln
Trump lumbers out to assist 5 people with being naturalized when his whole schtick is KEEP FOREIGNERS OUT.
This is HORRIFYING MANIPULATION!!
@ArtChimera
@BetteMidler
@NBCNews
Someone at NBC should be tasked with individually responding to *every single tweet* of anger & hate leveled at
@AOC
in order to make sure the correction doesn't become the online equivalent of an erroneous 1st page headline getting a buried correction in small print on Page 17.
@MaryLTrump
Reading about how your family treated your father broke my heart....as did you being robbed of potentially final moments with him.
You have my respect and appreciation.
Kamala's interview with Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC right now puts to rest two main criticisms:
1) She doesn't do interviews; and
2) No one knows what she stands for.
Re: 2). She is being VERY clear. You may not *agree* with her, but you *cannot* say you don't know her stance.
@ProjectLincoln
Can I ask a couple of 'elephant in the room' questions?
1) Why was it necessary for him to take a cognitive test to begin with?; and
2) How did they convince him to actually participate, given his propensity for arrogance and "nothing is wrong with me"?
@brianstelter
The fact that he was "angry" about Woodward's last book, then sat for 12 interviews for the new one *&* allowed for recording is another example of DTs uncontrollable decision making.
He doesn't care about anything as long as his name is out there. Even if he's ruining himself.
@MondaireJones
They couldn't clap for more manufacturing jobs and lower prescription drug prices?
I knew they were f'ed up and have sunk really low...but whoa. They sunk lower.
@ProfHWalsh
@GalaxyOrion17
@rianjohnson
Yeah, no - not "Period." Any opinions towards this movie are totally subjective and up to the individual watching it. Additionally, I don't think that 51% statistic is at all provable.
@davidmackau
@EliStokols
There it is.
He finally set the stage to flee the country to evade prosecution from SDNY. I've been waiting for him to preview this out loud.
@Acyn
@gjackstan
That is a blatant example of "I know the answer to the question is no, but I'm not going to say that, and instead I'm just going to spout b.s. for a couple of minutes."
His face gives him away. He *knows* the answer.
@Yamiche
I don't understand why you're bringing attention to this.
You can't possibly not know that you're feeding his need for attention every time you spotlight him.
If he's doing something dangerous, I get it.....but this?
@lanewood
I saw Gaga with Tony Bennett at The Hollywood Bowl in 2015. There was a moment where Tony got a little off rhythm, and a touch befuddled, and she was *right there* gently holding his hand and leading him back. I saw her protection.
She "gets it" and I love her for it.
Denรฉe Benton just threw some epic, legendary, unforgettable shade towards the current governor of Florida by referring to him as "the Grand Wizard" at the
#TonyAwards2023
.
Denรฉe. Diva. I bow to thee! THANK YOU.
#TonyAwards
With respect to women's rights, Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC asks, "Can we trust you?"
*and without blinking,* Vice-President Kamala Harris responds, "Yes."
No ego. No bravado.
Kamala Harris knows who she is. Is centered in who she is. *That* is a President.
@JoyAnnReid
What is everyone in that room so afraid of that they can't shout in that moment...."PEOPLE ARE DYING & YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW YOU'RE
#1
"???
What are they afraid of? That they'll lose access? What is access to him worth when he answers NOTHING anyway!
Someone - shout!
@ProjectLincoln
DT is self-destructing right before our eyes and trying to take as many as he can with him.
Absolute mania.
We're going to be in a very different place by the end of this month. So will he.....
....and whatever that turns out to be will be his own fault.
@Variety
If that's the position Simmons is so quick to take, I can see exactly why Harry and Meghan wouldn't want to be in business with him anymore.
I don't believe for one second they were the problem, given the quotes in the article.
@MichaelAvenatti
@butchgroves
What a charmer!
My guess? Mr. Groves is guilty of similar crimes. No one who responds out of nowhere with his kind of rage does it unless it hits too close to home and they're afraid floodgates are opening and their lives are about to be investigated too.
@ProjectLincoln
Several associates indicted or in prison.
Too many resignations to count; many with follow up stories on why.
His own sister trash talking him.
I'm never going to understand why people "all in" for this guy think he's perfection & *everyone* else is wrong or out to get him.
@WesleyLowery
@EliStokols
The call to "lower the temperature" is completely disingenuous.
When they're in power, they don't care about the temperature. It's only when they're out of power, and know they potentially won't get it back for decades, that they decide to care about rhetoric and "temperature."
@thatonequeen
@violinisbae
Just based on what I've studied, I wouldnt say Christianity is a tool. I'd say it's been *used* as a tool, and wrongly...but Christianity (in my sense of the description, and I am not a Christian) in its purest form is open and inclusive.
@MarkSimoneNY
Right, so the entire book I read yesterday where she talks about her father (DT's brother) and grandfather....yeah....she just completely made all of it up without considering she might get caught for perpetrating a fraud.
@AOC
I think this outage is deliberate, actually. I think the '60 Minutes' piece freaked them out and they've pulled everything down to get some 'see how reliant people are on us' PR.
@DanRather
The mere fact that he moved instantaneously against Twitter but did NOTHING for months with respect to COVID is yet another argument of his deeply disturbing psychosis.
@Acyn
This is the main pitch I will never understand the Fox audience and the MAGA folks falling for.
The guy made his name labeling himself the richest man on the planet.
Why the heck would he need *their* money, and why would they bend over backwards to throw it to him?
@DrPhillipsMD
@brianstelter
October 2020 is going to a perilous month for DT.
All it will take is for *one* person around him to die, & there is no way of spinning out from that.
He's toast. All of his decisions are adding to his own self-desctuction and, as predicted, he's taking people down with him.
@ProjectLincoln
"I don't want to scare people".....Trump says while he's screaming that if Joe Biden is elected we'll be living in a dystopian nightmare where suburbs are abolished and cities will be overrun."
Non compos mentis.
@Acyn
One day, & I expect it will be soon, Marjorie Taylor Greene will realize the biggest mistake she ever made was entering politics.
The trash she puts into the world is going to come back to bite. Itโs inevitable; law. Her implosion will be spectacular, & she did it to herself.
@Evan_McMullin
Turning the blackout question around on Senator Klobuchar tells me all I need to know. He's got a smug "everybody does it" attitude. I can see he was a drunk then, & is probably still a drunk with anger issues now. If he just OWNED THE TRUTH none of this would be happening to him
@brianstelter
I have always enjoyed Bill -- but he softballed her. I understand that a portion of his show always stays "light", but he's expressed enough rage in 4 years that she deserved way more pushback than he leveled.
Not that he would give a shit, but I'm very disappointed in him.
@IAmPoliticsGirl
This makes perfect sense.
The Republican party has fractured, and since the majority who would attend the RNC are, more likely than not, firmly far-right, extremist, MAGA Republicans, traditional and reasonable Republicans feel unwelcome and are staying away. Wisely.
@tommyxtopher
@MalcolmNance
@SenFeinstein
While there are still a few moments that don't sit well with me, I feel foolish for tweeting earlier that I'd lost some respect for
#DianneFeinstein
. I didn't realize the clip I'd seen earlier was so selectively edited. I ought to have known better than to fall for it.
@DanRather
If people in "his base" are not penetrated by this, dismiss it, or ignore it....then I am afraid 37-40% of the people in this country have a form of sociopathy (or mental illness) I'm not sure how we combat.
I don't say that lightly. That is no joke.
@BrianStewartOH
@isaacbilmes
@MuseZack
SOUL was the first Pixar movie where theatrical release was affected by the pandemic, so i'd suggest it can't be used as a barometer of general audience reaction.
I thought SOUL was on par with top Pixar, but I'm also a person interested in those concepts (not to mention jazz).
@MollyJongFast
EM's response was classic passive-aggressive, childhood bully on the playground stuff (i.e., "nyah nyah, you're so scared you won't debate.")
A conspiracy theorist will never concede a point, facts or truth put to them. No use debating one.
Of all the reasons I loved
#KnotsLanding
, this is near the top. I've never forgotten this since first seeing it in 1990. The essence, sadly, remains true. Especially after the last nine years.
By this definition, I want to be a Pollyanna too!
@maddow
Screw this 'lower the temperature' crap. The temperature didn't matter to them over Donald's rhetoric, Charlottesville, family separation & kids in cages, mocking the BLM movement, or shoving a SCOTUS pick down our throats.
They can shove their false call for "unity."
@rhymeswithbeg
I dunno. I think it's kinda overblown. When Celine was introduced Taylor was on her feet clapping and singing. She just freaked out a bit when she won. I don't think she intended disrespect.
@AOC
Just a hunch: I think this outage is deliberate. I think the '60 Minutes' piece freaked them out and they've pulled everything down to get some 'see how reliant people are on us' PR.
@politico
With all respect to Katie Porter, I listened to one of the debates to make my decision.
I didn't think she was strong enough in the debate.
I'm sad that her miscalculation in this run comes at a cost of her being out of Congress. Very unfortunate.
@DEADLINE
Translation:
I'm starting to realize I seriously messed up, and Disney is gonna cream me in their suit. Instead of making different decisions in my state though, I'm just gonna be a punk and beg them to drop it.
I understand that Bret Baier may be under a time crunch, but his continual interruption of Vice President Kamala Harris is the epitome of unprofessionalism, misogyny, and sexism.
And now Dana Perino is trying to say VP Harris "came in hot and got angrier." Dana - COME ON!
@TheRickWilson
@ProjectLincoln
Next time, would y'all just wait until you can actually announce a thing instead of creating a massive buildup to what will probably last barely 18 hours of a news cycle & then go away?
Honestly, if this turns out to be zip - it's just going to look like marketing for followers.
@Acosta
Pence - coward to the bitter end.
While his letter makes sense, his pleas to "lower the temperature" are pure BS.....and we had best find ways to alter how, when, and where the 25th Amendment can be invoked.
@TheRickWilson
It's hilarious that these folks have to superimpose Donald on to just about anything to make him look fit or like a total "badass."
You'd think the fact they can't use actual, un-doctored photos and videos of him would be their first clue.
Nope!
@ProjectLincoln
He's just digging his own grave.
As an "every day" American, it should be considered whether you think a POTUS would listen to you if you ever met them.
I don't believe Trump would listen, hear me or care. In fact, he'd probably kick me out.
That's not a POTUS for all.
@hollylottie88
Gaslight is a stretch. She was just miscast. It happens. She'll be fine....especially considering she's got a Sondheim movie project that takes her through the next 20/30 years.
@Yamiche
I personally wish we would stop bringing any attention to Donald. I understand Limbaugh is a news story today, but we don't need reporting on how Donald is weighing in.
Keep his voice limited to Fox News.
@Yamiche
This is all predicated on whether it's true and not some hoax of the hoax, which - unfortunately - has to be considered given all the lies that come out of this WH.
The worst thing is if he comes out the other side having had no issues & STILL tells people "this is nothing."
@tonyschwartz
I know you spent a lot of time with him Tony - but resignation? That idea doesn't seem to be within the mental constructs he's built. He can never admit wrong, or tolerate embarrassment or humiliation. So, how does he get to the resignation point?
@ememess
I agree. The political tide has shifted & it's going to take more than just one person & the running mate to push back.
If all have a cabinet position, they can ALL "run against" Trump / hit him in different areas. Imagine Trump having to counterpunch all & not able to keep up.
Cohen's quote in his book regarding Hannity, which
#maddow
is spotlighting right now, squares with plenty of evidence
@brianstelter
lays out in his book, "Hoax".
@JoeBiden
Between this and the military comments, I don't understand how he can remain President five more seconds let alone five more months.
He doesn't care about America or Americans, only himself.
@rebeccaballhaus
@EliStokols
Whether it violated the Hatch Act or not, it was a stunt designed to gaslight people over Trump's stances on minorities and immigration.
He used those new citizens because he's desperate to win. A new level of manipulation.
@MaryLTrump
It never ceases to amaze how reporters in press briefings allow themselves to be interrupted & steamrolled over every time.
Why can't they form a united front, stick up for each other, & not let him get away with it?
"Not being the story?"
Different era. Get over that for now.
@atrupar
I know he was warned against it, but I'm glad he displayed some outrage/temper about Trump's disrespect of our military.
Apparently, anger is considered a form of "power" to 37-40% of the country. So, if this display assists them in seeing Biden as "strong", I'm fine with that
@JessicaShaw
Correct. Rogan saying "I'm very sorry they feel that way" means no self-reflection or decision to take responsibility.
It continues to shift the blame. What I say is THEIR fault for reacting to it, not mine for saying it in the first place.
@thatonequeen
@monetxchange
If this is an official Twitter account from that company, that response tells me everything I need to know. True professionals don't respond like that. Band together and form your own company to protect your, and your friends' artistry. Dump these chumps!
@Acosta
@YouTube
1st tell that Trump is reading a speech someone else wrote to protect him / he doesn't mean what he's reading:
The enormous pause after he says "I unequivocally condemn the violence that we saw last week."
@JoyAnnReid
Romney is willing to sit through hearings for the SCOTUS pick of an impeached President who he voted to convict.
His principles depend on which way the wind is blowing.
@Yamiche
@HillaryClinton
Were it not for an antiquated electoral college system (which will REALLY be put to the test if his cheating pays off), we would not be here now.
@MikeSington
These people get so agitated and flustered (as she does toward the end of this clip) because they have a moment where they realize, "Yes, what I'm saying makes no sense, and I don't know how to admit that."
@JimLaPorta
@JeffreyGoldberg
While I don't doubt Trump said everything quoted, whoever provided quotes needs to put their name to them.
At this point, it's just cowardice not to align your name with quotes. It lessens veracity. You're either aligned w/him to save your own ass, or you side with the country.
@ziibiing
Beyoncรฉ's song is great, but Song of the Year is partially about *lyrics* - and "Break My Soul" is a dance tune where the title gets repeated quite a bit.
That's why Bonnie Raitt won - the voters actually paid attention to the lyrics. *Song writing.*
@weijia
@EliStokols
@CBSNews
Reckless, sociopathic behavior. The entire administration should resign before the election (I know they won't but I want to write that anyway)
@marwilliamson
It pained me to watch that segment. I understand where you're coming from when you make 'spiritually evolved' statements, & those ladies taking your statements out of their full context is disappointing & makes me angry.
As if 3 statements wipe out your 40+ years of service.
@MaddowBlog
As someone who has been betrayed by friends, Ms. Wolfcoff's pain and upset *about* betrayal by someone she thought was her friend was real and palpable.
I've been reading most of the books
#maddow
is spotlighting. I wasn't expecting to want to read this one.
Now I do.
@MaryLTrump
@nytimes
@washingtonpost
It's unreal. Between this and the military statements I don't see how he can remain president five more seconds let alone five more months!
I did wonder, today, how many wrongful death suits might be filed against the occupant and his "administration."
I spent the last week jumping on the
#TedLasso
bandwagon; watching with family.
No TV show has made me laugh more times per episode since "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", which is my favorite of all time.
I am totally, utterly, fantastically in love with this show. ๐
@duty2warn
Last night, Bill Maher expressed a spooky prediction of DT's 2024 bid for re-election.
While Bill's scenario is not out of the realm, I don't see Donald alive in 2023. If he is, then the cognitive & physical decline will be so bad that going out on the trail will be disastrous.
@JoyAnnReid
On the idea that teachers should be armed:
1) This pre-supposes teachers want to be in the position of potentially having to *kill someone* to protect themselves, students and others every day. That practically makes every school a militarized zone