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I'm so old I remember when Donald Trump asking Ukraine to help him cheat to win re-election was an impeachable crime.
But I guess that was then. No sense for the Democrats to bother with that theater piece a second time.
According to John Bolton's new book, Trump:
- asked China's President Xi Jinping to help him cheat in the 2020 US presidential electionBolton knew all of this (and much, much more) and refused to testify at Trump's impeachment trial. If he was subpoenaed, Bolton said he would go to court to avoid appearing.
- said China should construct additional concentration camps for Muslims because it was "exactly the right thing to do"
- told Xi that Americans were clamoring for him to change the Constitution and serve more than two terms (after agreeing with Xi that the US had too many elections)
- thought Finland is part of Russia
- said invading Venezuela (which is "really part of the United States") would be "cool"
- wrote a glowing defense of Saudi Crown Price Mohammed bin Salan (with numerous exclamation points!) in relation to the murder of Washington Post reporter Jamaal Khashoggi to divert the media's attention away from a story about Ivanka Trump using her personal email for government business ("If I read the statement in person, that will take over the Ivanka thing")
- said "scumbag" journalists "should be executed" for not divulging their sources
Bolton will always be a treasonous piece of shit. He claims "the most irrational thing I ever witnessed any President do" was when Trump called off airstrikes against Iran in June 2019. ... Yes, a president not committing a war crime and mass murder was "the most irrational thing" to Bolton.
Most Republicans knew some or all of those revelations, too, and voted to not allow any evidence - not even one piece of paper - to be introduced during the impeachment trial.
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) June 17, 2020
Pleaded. Like a dog. pic.twitter.com/gMFZEbaoIC— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 17, 2020
Bolton’s book revealing a fumbling, bumbling, angry, corrupt, racist, vengeful, and ignorant President .. a President with a personality poised to botch a coming pandemic, much of which could have been mitigated by listening to simple science-My question-Why did he wait to share?— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) June 17, 2020
Yes, the White House blocked testimony in House, and the Republicans in the Senate blocked it there, but at any time, Bolton could have told what he knew. He could've written an op-ed. He could have whistleblown, like Vindman or the CIA analyst. He chose not to. https://t.co/CKnCsvzKxf— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) June 17, 2020
Trump wants to sue Bolton's publisher to stop the book from being released (no chance), but Trump's own National Security Council reviewed and cleared the book for publication - TWICE.Hakeem Jeffries, an impeachment manager, on John Bolton: “It's curious to me that now he has something to say when he could have stepped forward as a patriot when the stakes were high and the President was on trial - and he ran and hid in the other direction,” per @alizaslav— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 17, 2020
More From The Deranged Orange ManIt is a scandal that Trump has enlisted the Justice Department to silence and attempt to censor a former public official purely to spare himself from humiliation and the disclosure of wrongdoing. https://t.co/h17o5T1VKv— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) June 17, 2020
Trump offered quite the word salad on veteran suicides pic.twitter.com/mJouCBP3Za— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 17, 2020
Then he announced a suicide vaccine.— Frederick C. Trump (@TrumpFrederick) June 17, 2020
"Nobody quite understands" has become another "Sir Story".— D Villella ❄️ (@dvillella) June 17, 2020
Trump takes credit for Veterans Choice legislation that was actually signed into law by Obama in 2014 pic.twitter.com/0SDjkN3hm1— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 17, 2020
Fox News cut away from Trump’s speech and then broadcast Biden eviscerating his coronavirus response, which can’t make Trump happy pic.twitter.com/ex8LNdx5Ou— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 17, 2020
I would love to know what this is about. Fox almost seems to be trying to antagonize Trump these days. Not that I mind. I just would love to know what's actually going on with those two.— Miss Kitty (@MissKit23900150) June 17, 2020
Nearly two years after boasting that his gut tells him “more sometimes than anybody else’s brain,” President Donald Trump is ditching his go-it-alone approach https://t.co/J0EiONgRUl— POLITICO (@politico) June 17, 2020
"Mr. Trump has been wallowing in self-pity about news coverage of him since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, people who have spoken with him said." https://t.co/QDjxFUFwF9— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 17, 2020
So True! https://t.co/qDtX341AFs— Dion (@Noid68) June 17, 2020
Cops Remain Intent On Proving BLM Is Understating The Threat Of Police Brutality
5️⃣2️⃣8️⃣ Louisville, KY: a guy records a half-dozen cops dogpiling a protestor – and then one of the cops shoots the window to stop him from recording— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) June 17, 2020
Lawlessness
[@kenjiboijoi]
pic.twitter.com/Z32ZRZ9bMs
we're asking a science-denying ignoramus to deal with a pandemic.— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) June 17, 2020
we're asking a white supremacist to deal with racial strife.
we're asking a serially-bankrupt failure to deal with a ruined economy.
we're asking a psychopath to deal with police brutality.
we are so fucked
Only 187.5 Benghazis Every Day!
“In the past 5 days,” Pence wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “deaths are down to fewer than 750 a day...” This purportedly tolerable rate of 750 dead Americans a day would equal 270,000 deaths in a year. https://t.co/ggo2XGgUMR— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) June 17, 2020
The population of the US is 330 million— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 16, 2020
The population of the EU is 446 million
[source https://t.co/JtQgQFMvj9] pic.twitter.com/DAVWfkIW15
And these big differences are not because the US is testing more extensively.— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 16, 2020
The opposite is the case: the positivity rate in the US is higher than in all of these countries.
[Source https://t.co/NdxCCe8zZz] pic.twitter.com/d54baoZ3qJ
Sad day: ARIZONA has crossed the rubicon... its epidemic now exceeds Brazil and Peru to be one of the hardest hit regions in the world. Exceeding all European countries as well.— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 17, 2020
Today: Record cases, record positivity %, record ER, record hospitalizations, record ICU. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/czTCaSeOJ4
500 airport workers in Florida tested.— Pim Techamuanvivit (@chezpim) June 17, 2020
260 positive cases.
That’s over 50%.
Yup.
All good. https://t.co/E6k8dG7CC2
Fox News host frames report as “a bit of a spike” after she, graphic, chyron, and field reporter all say record high in COVID-19 cases pic.twitter.com/CyAnoPzhqv— Peter Wade 🤦♂️ (@brooklynmutt) June 17, 2020
— Bark54 (@kemling_becky) June 17, 2020
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