CAN WE PLEASE SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. SOLICITING A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT TO HELP YOUR RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN IS A CRIME. IT IS ILLEGAL. PRISON IS ONE OF THE PUNISHMENTS.
Let me be very clear: if all we do is accept the certified Electoral College results and go home, we would have failed our country. We must impeach Trump, or have the 25th Amendment execute, or have
@realDonaldTrump
resign. Congress cannot just go home like nothing happened.
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: What is wrong with you? Disaster victims deserve help & sympathy.
Oh, and guess who owns much of the forest land in CA? Your federal agencies. CA only owns 2%. Guess who cut funding to forest management in the budget? YOU DID.
#SaturdayMorning
Thoughts
There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!
My statement on the retirement of Justice Kennedy.
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new Congress.”
Last night at a restaurant in Torrance, CA strangers thanked me for telling the truth. I politely said thank you. Their actions say far more about our nation than about me. This also happens to me at the mall, airports & coffee shops. This is what happens when you tell the truth.
I just want to note that in America, you don’t get to have one free coup attempt. That’s why we are readying Articles of Impeachment for introduction this Monday.
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: Like your grandfather, my parents infested America. As their son with yellow skin, I now get to vote against your harmful policies. And after you leave due to either losing reelection or impeachment, I will still be here reversing your shit.
Cheers.
Dear
@Walmart
, remember how:
Mario Kart caused people to drive faster?
Pac-Man caused folks to eat more?
Fortnite radicalized a white supremacist to shoot Hispanics at your store?
You disrespect the victims of mass shootings by making up stupid shit. Stop blaming video games.
My experience at restaurants: I ordered take out at a Greek restaurant. When I arrived, the owner saw me & threw in a free baklava (one of my favorite desserts). He said he appreciated what I was doing. I guess that's what happens when one opposes ripping kids away from parents.
Amazing Lev Parnas interview on
#Maddow
. Also, I’m disclosing that the lawyer for
@DevinNunes
wrote a letter saying Rep Nunes will sue me if I didn’t apologize for saying last month that Nunes conspired with Parnas.
Devin, I’m adding to my statement: “Your pants are on fire.”
My wife and I had our two teenage boys watch the amazing speech by
@AOC
. America is a better place because Representative Ocasio-Cortez chose public service. She has inspired more people than she will ever know.
David Remick:
@AOC
's speech on the House floor about Ted Yoho "should be studied for its measured cadence, its artful construction, and its refusal of ugliness."
Dear
@RepCawthorn
: We don’t want your guns. We just don’t want you to bring them on the House Floor.
I have 2 Air Force marksmanship ribbons. You lied about getting into the Naval Academy. Stop your tough guy act and promoting conflict. We’ve had enough violence in the Capitol.
Dear Tucker Carlson (
@TuckerCarlson
): I'm an immigrant. Irish Spring soap cleans my skin the same way it cleans your skin. My parents were poor. They worked hard and started a successful business. Now their son is in Congress.
So take your hatred of immigrants and shove it.
I have seen the classified information on Russian hacking.
@realDonaldTrump
has received classified briefings. I can tell you that
@POTUS
is LYING. Trump knows the Kremlin hacked America last year.
This is sick behavior from Rep. Paul Gosar. He tweeted out the video showing him killing Rep. Ocasio-Cortez from both his official account and personal account. In any workplace in America, if a coworker made an anime video killing another coworker, that person would be fired.
I never disclose what happens in internal Steering and Policy Committee discussions. But I make one exception today.
We just gave
@SpeakerPelosi
a standing ovation. Because Nancy Pelosi is a badass.
#NoMoreShutdowns
Hey Mike Huckabee, I asked around and Coke likes me, Delta agrees with my values, I wear Nikes and my hometown Dodgers won the World Series.
But it’s not because of my ethnicity. It’s because I’m not a sh*thead like you who is adding fuel to anti-Asian hate.
#StopAAPIHate
I’ve decided to “identify” as Chinese. Coke will like me, Delta will agree with my “values” and I’ll probably get shoes from Nike & tickets to
@MLB
games. Ain’t America great?
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: The "dumbest" law you refer to is called the United States Constitution. Specifically the 14th Amendment which provides due process to all persons, not just citizens.
You took an oath to the Constitution at your relatively small inauguration, remember?
When people come into our Country illegally, we must IMMEDIATELY escort them back out without going through years of legal maneuvering. Our laws are the dumbest anywhere in the world. Republicans want Strong Borders and no Crime. Dems want Open Borders and are weak on Crime!
@tedlieu
@Cirque
What is Ted "China Spy" Lieu doing about homelessness in major California Cities?
When he is enjoying Cirque du Soleil while our President Works in Japan!
As a Member of the House Judiciary Committee, I read the partisan, classified Nunes House Intel memo. I can't talk about it. However, here's an analogy.
Remember Geraldo Rivera and the infamous Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults? It's like that, but Geraldo Rivera has more integrity.
The
@realDonaldTrump
Administration brought a machete to a knife fight. We brought the House rules. And we are getting shredded. We need to change the Rules to allow
-Contempt on the spot
-Witnesses to be fined daily
It is now time to exercise our full inherent contempt powers.
Dear
#BillBarr
of
@TheJusticeDept
: After
@realDonaldTrump
was inaugurated,
Senate controlled by REPUBLICANS
House controlled by REPUBLICANS
SC investigation opened by Rosenstein, a REPUBLICAN
SC was Mueller, a REPUBLICAN
So take your false revisionist history & shove it.
AG Bill Barr: "Immediately after President Trump won election, opponents inaugurated what they call 'The Resistance' and they rallied around an explicit strategy of using every tool and maneuver to sabotage the functioning of the executive branch."
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: I speak Chinese. I also served on active duty in the United States military—something you were too afraid to do—to defend your right to say stupid shit.
The guilty plea of
@realDonaldTrump
attorney Michael Cohen, the conviction of Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, and the indictment of GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter reaffirm three principles that are self-evident:
Truth is truth
Corruption is corruption
The law is the law
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: As public servants, we help people because it is the right thing to do, not because we want to be praised for it. Also, the US President should never wish for Americans to be locked up in a foreign jail.
Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!
Let me ask White House Senior Advisor
@IvankaTrump
about Trump Tower Moscow.
Oh wait, she blocked me, a Member of Congress, because my questions bother her.
Let me correct that. She blocked me, a Member of Congress who will be in the majority, because my questions bother her.
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: I served on active duty in the United States military. We are not mercenaries. We are not bargaining chips. We don’t deploy for money.
Our troops exist to protect the Constitution and the national security of the United States. Get it?
#SaturdayThoughts
He sells troops.
“We have a very good relationship with Saudi Arabia—I said, listen, you’re a very rich country. You want more troops? I’m going to send them to you, but you’ve got to pay us. They’re paying us. They’ve already deposited $1B in the bank.”
Mike Pence in the 2016 vice presidential debate: "This is basic stuff. Foreign donors — and certainly foreign governments — cannot participate in the American political process."
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: Your Administration made the policy change to separate children from their parents. If you don't have the courage to own up to it, then reverse it.
Disgraceful & weak to blame others for your own evil policy.
Put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from there parents once they cross the Border into the U.S. Catch and Release, Lottery and Chain must also go with it and we MUST continue building the WALL! DEMOCRATS ARE PROTECTING MS-13 THUGS.
Dear
@laurenboebert
: FYI, the 19th Amendment rewrote the Constitution to give you the right to vote. That Amendment passed because a lot of Americans across our country worked to rewrite a part of the Constitution that they didn’t like.
Dear Rick Santorum: CPR is good for heart stoppage. Not good for victims of multiple AR-15 bullets, which typically impart 3 times the lethal energy upon impact than a 9mm handgun bullet. AR-15 bullets obliterate organs and cause so much bleeding that victims die very quickly.
2300 kids were ripped away from parents with no real plan to reunite them. I can't play the
@ProPublica
audio of their cries for help because of "decorum"? F*ck decorum.
@realDonaldTrump
engaged in the functional equivalent of kidnapping. The American people need to hear this.
THIS IS OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
@POTUS
now admits he KNEW Michael Flynn lied to the FBI. Yet Trump tried to influence or stop the FBI investigation on
#Flynn
.
I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: You didn't serve. For those of us who did, we didn't give a sh*t which politicians our commanders loved. We cared if they could lead & execute the mission.
Stop disrespecting military veterans because they disagree with you. It's unpatriotic & unAmerican.
Dear Jared Kushner of the
@realDonaldTrump
Administration: We are the UNITED STATES of America. The federal stockpile is reserved for all Americans living in our states, not just federal employees. Get it?
JARED KUSHNER: "The notion of the federal stockpile was it's supposed to be our stockpile. It's not supposed to be states stockpiles that they then use."
How quaint that some folks are more concerned about kids speaking respectfully than the fact that 17 kids were slaughtered with an assault rifle.
#StudentsStandUp
Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office “begging” for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!
I'm thinking that after we subpoena chicken Barr and force him to testify in
@HouseJudiciary
, I'm going to invite
@SenKamalaHarris
to the hearing and then I'm going to yield my time to her.
Analogy: Mueller gives us a slice of bread, puts ham on it, and then another slice of bread. We say that's a ham sandwich. Mueller says I didn't make a determination whether or not it's a ham sandwich because I was instructed I can't call it that.
It's still a ham sandwich.
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: Remember when you went on national TV with Lester Holt & told the American people you fired James Comey because of Russia? There's a tape of it.
Remember when you told the Russian Ambassador you fired Comey because of Russia? There's a transcript of it.
Not that it matters but I never fired James Comey because of Russia! The Corrupt Mainstream Media loves to keep pushing that narrative, but they know it is not true!
I note that
@WhiteHouse
Senior Advisor
@ivankatrump
blocked me because my statements gave her discomfort and uncertainty. Can you ask her to unblock me as part of her personal growth? Thanks.
Hey
@PressSec
Sanders, in case you forgot what team you are on, here is a reminder:
Chairman Kim: Not American
Former Vice President of the United States: American
You should never side with an American adversary & foreign power over an American VP. Get it, you political hack?
Speaking from Tokyo in her first "Meet the Press" interview ever, Sarah Sanders reiterated that Trump and Kim Jong-un "agree in their assessment" of Joe Biden, who Trump called a "low IQ individual" in a tweet Monday evening.
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: You said you will be throwing out the first pitch at a Yankees game on August 15. The video below is an example of what you will see prior to your first pitch. These players and coaches understand America better than you do.
I’m all in for “healing.” But we can’t pretend the violent attack on our Capitol incited by the former President didn’t happen. And we need to ensure future presidents never use violence to hold onto power after they’ve lost.
If you actually believe
@realDonaldTrump
has an “ironclad” commitment to protect Americans with pre-existing conditions, you are stupid. S T U P I D.
The Trump Administration is suing right now to eliminate coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.
#SOTU
Three of Iran's top strategic goals were the following:
-Get US troops out of Iraq
-Get rid of limits on Iran's nuclear program
-Get its people to rally behind the Iranian government
The decisions by
@realDonaldTrump
delivered all three goals to Iran.
Thank you to everyone who wished me a speedy recovery from stent surgery. Grateful to God, and the professionals at OAP &
@GWHospital
for catching my condition early. Will be going back to work this Monday.
No more Snickers bars for me. But I look forward to spelt spaghetti.
Dear
@SecNielsen
: I don't give a shit if you apologize. We just need you to reverse your policy of ripping kids away from parents.
Also, how did you go from saying such a policy doesn't exist to now saying you won't apologize for it? Why all the lies from Homeland Security?
“We will not apologize” for doing our job, says Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen of the “zero tolerance” immigration policy involving family separations
Dear
@benshapiro
: I have two marksmanship awards from the military. You know what I do when I really disagree with what politicians mandated? I help register voters.
In America, we settle political disagreements at the ballot box or through the Constitution, not with guns.
Ben Shapiro warns that if politicians try to mandate LGBTQ 'indoctrination' at all schools, then he will "pick up a gun." Further adding "Beto O'Rourke does not get to raise my child. And if he tries, I will meet him at the door with a gun"
Under our Constitution, the duty of Congress is not to clear the President. The duty of Congress is to be a check and balance on the Executive Branch, and to pursue the facts wherever they may lead.
Devin Nunes should resign for perverting the oath he took.
In this part of the secret audio, Devin Nunes flatly admits that the reason it's so important for House Republicans to keep their majority is b/c "we're the only ones" left to shield Trump if "Sessions won't unrecuse and Mueller won't clear the president."
#Maddow
Regeneron, an experimental drug which
@POTUS
took, relied on “human embryonic stem cells.” I support this research. I wonder if
@realDonaldTrump
and Amy Coney Barrett support this research?
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: The First Amendment stops the government—that’s you—from interfering with free speech. That means you can’t stop
@Twitter
from fact checking your false tweets.
And the fact that we’re reading your excrement on Twitter shows it is not stifling your speech.
Dear
@SpeakerRyan
: I appreciate your words. But as Speaker, there are actual actions you can take. For example:
1. Subpoena the translator in the private meeting of
@realDonaldTrump
with Putin. Congress needs to know what was said.
2. Allow a vote on bills to protect Mueller.
WATCH: Speaker Ryan:
"We just conducted a yearlong investigation into Russia's interference in our elections. They did interfere in our elections. It's really clear. There should be no doubt about that."
"I don't have any shadowy figures behind me... I'm just a kid that uses Twitter if he sees me as powerful that's okay. I don't see myself that way.
– David Hogg says in response to Bill O'Reilly comments that 'powerful, shadowy radical groups' are leading ad boycott.
Congress can impeach for Obstruction. But that still doesn't allow us to compel witnesses & documents for the trial.
We have the power of inherent contempt, which includes fines & jail. That would give us a chance at compliance.
I remain baffled why we still don't use it.
Hey
@realDonaldTrump
: What makes America exceptional is we are a nation of immigrants. As an immigrant who served on active duty, I am appalled you are telling us to "go back."
I'm not going back. America is our home. And I will still be in Congress after your racist ass leaves.
....and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how....
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: Your federal agencies own the majority of the forest land in CA. Our state only owns about 3%. So when you allege a "terrible job" you are actually referring to yourself. Also, the causes of the fires vary. Please educate yourself.
#SundayMorning
Thoughts
The Governor of California,
@GavinNewsom
, has done a terrible job of forest management. I told him from the first day we met that he must “clean” his forest floors regardless of what his bosses, the environmentalists, DEMAND of him. Must also do burns and cut fire stoppers.....
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: I served on active duty in the US military to give people the right to clap when the President speaks, or not to clap; to stand, or to sit; to attend your speeches or to boycott them. We are not & never will be an authoritarian regime.
"Can we call that treason?" Trump asks, referring to Democrats not clapping during the State of the Union. "Why not? ... They certainly didn't seem to love our country very much."
Quisling: A person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy, often serving later in a puppet government.
#NothingLikeAGosling
#OrADuckling
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: You said today you didn't know Parnas & Fruman.
-But they were part of your legal team trying to get dirt on your opponent.
-They funneled foreign money to a super group led by
@DonaldJTrumpJr
.
-AND THEN YOU HAD DINNER WITH THEM AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
Based on the Buzzfeed report and numerous other articles showing
@realDonaldTrump
committed Obstruction of Justice and other possible felonies, it is time for the House Judiciary Committee to start holding hearings to establish a record of whether
@POTUS
committed high crimes.
I'm sort of happy that McConnell fears making election day a federal holiday. It's such a frank acknowledgement that the GOP's ideas are not accepted by the majority of American voters.
Any party that is scared of people exercising the right to vote, will eventually be doomed.
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: Please get the European Union to stop aiming nukes at America. Please get them to stop attacking our elections. Please get them to stop invading other countries.
Oh wait, the European Union is not doing any of the above. Are you out of your frickin mind?
Asked who is America's biggest foe right now, Donald Trump's first answer was "the European Union."
Somewhere, Vladimir Putin is choking from laughing so hard with glee.
Dear
@realDonaldTrump
: Using Twitter to spread this misleadingly edited video of
@SpeakerPelosi
is WEAK & COWARDLY (but I'm saying this in a calm way). You should woman up & delete the tweet.
I note that even in the doctored video, Speaker Pelosi sounds more coherent than you.
Dear Laura Ingraham: I served on active duty to defend your right to make racist statements.
America is not a race or demographic. It's a beautiful & bold idea, based on life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness. You
@IngrahamAngle
are no more American than I am or others are.
Laura Ingraham: "The America we know and love doesn't exist anymore. Massive demographic changes have been foisted on the American people, and they are changes that none of us ever voted for, and most of us don't like ... this is related to both illegal and legal immigration"
This is a very disturbing article. If in fact Rob Porter's interim security clearance expired on Jan 15 and John Kelly continued to let him handle highly classified information, then Kelly must resign. Also, giving someone classified info who is not cleared to see it is a crime.
Kelly must go. He knew that Porter’s interim security clearance expired Jan 15 and that the FBI had a serious problem with Porter handling top secret material.