Anne Applebaum

@TheAtlantic and @SNFAgoraJHU
Author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Red Famine, Twilight of Democracy and now AUTOCRACY INC
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[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Paperback, with a new preface, available TODAY
https://t.co/ZrkdQDK96m

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

the documents didn't tell the story Trump wanted them to tell

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

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Some snips from the alleged bombshell documents from the @WhiteHouse.

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

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Some snips from the alleged bombshell documents from the @WhiteHouse.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened top election officials in all 50 states with criminal charges if they do not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to feed their voter rolls through a flawed federal database. https://t.co/ARyMtSzPqk

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

"if we lose it can only be because someone has cheated"
From Hannah Rosin: what does it mean if the election deniers are in charge

https://t.co/TVi5Ig0OJ9

[Josh Shapiro @JoshShapiroPA]

In case the President needs a refresher — we went to court against him and his allies 43 times in 2020 to defend our free and fair elections.

He went 0-43.

We're going to keep protecting our democracy –– and we will never let Donald Trump succeed in undermining the will of the people here in Pennsylvania.

[Shane Harris @shaneharris]

NEW: At the White House tonight, Trump tried to prove the 2020 vote was rigged. And once again, he came up empty. W/ @michaelscherer, @S_Fitzpatrick, and @yvonnewingett

https://t.co/BkzSnGkj5n

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Trump is really terrified that Democrats might have some oversight after the 2026 election, so he preemptively working to delegitimize America’s elections. That’s all this speech was. Undermining American elections. Outrageous.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Mussolini ordered everyone to refer to him as Him, as though he was some kind of infallible God. Then he entered Italy into a losing war and his incompetence was revealed.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

A reminder on the evolution of 2020 "stolen election" theories: First we had mail-in fraud + Dominion + "illegal law changes" (Nov–Dec 2020) then → Georgia election workers + foreign interference/Italygate (Dec 2020–Jan 2021, concurrent) then → 2,000 Mules (ballot stuffers) (2022) then → social-media-censorship revival via Twitter Files (Dec 2022) then → renewed foreign-interference claims (2024–present).

Through all this, we've had:

1. Dominion getting $787 million from Fox News for defamation

2. Rudy Giuliani admitting he lied about Georgia election workers (and the jury awarding the workers $148 million)

3. Sidney Powell admitting in court "no reasonable person would conclude" her claims of election fraud ��were truly statements of fact"

4. The Gateway Pundit retracting claims of election fraud in Atlanta

5. The Media company that put out D'Souza's 2,000 Mules film apologizing and removing it after law enforcement proved it falsely accused people of fraud

6. Newsmax and One America News Network (OANN) settling with Smartmatic

It is NOT true that none of these allegations have seen a court room. Most have. Of the 64 cases of fraud that Trump and his legal team filed in court, 30 were dismissed that included a hearing on the merits, 14 were voluntarily dismissed by Trump and his allies before a hearing, and just 20 were dismissed for lack of standing before a hearing on the merits. One case, involving far too few votes to impact the election, prevailed in Pennsylvania. That case was about voter ID deadlines, not election fraud.

Those are the facts.

Whatever happens Thursday night, please try to remember them.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

The documents are so damning in refuting Trump's own case that I wonder if anyone in the White House actually read them (or understood what they were looking at)

[Will Sommer @willsommer]

Trump's big document release tonight, supposedly meant to prove China stole the 2020 election, includes this classified intel graphic making clear that Russia was the only country trying to meddle in American voting systems.

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

Prezydenckie weto to wyraz pogardy wobec ludzi i ich prawa do szczęścia i normalnego życia.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Sen. @MarkWarner, speaking live on CBS, criticizes CBS for airing Trump's speech full of "falsehoods." Watch @tonydokoupil's response

[Brian Schwartz @schwartzbWSJ]

SCOOP: Top Treausry tax official and acting IRS chief counsel Ken Kies was ousted from his job after he warned that the White House was at risk of violating a federal law prohibiting senior officials’ involvement in IRS audits.

Story w/ @RichardRubinDC and @jdawsey1
https://t.co/r8Mwdso4kP

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

Donald Trump is releasing unverified, meaningless documents to appease his own delusions about an election he lost resoundingly, all while continuing to withhold 3 million pages of the Epstein files.

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

Trump’s shocking “bombshells” about China are totally bogus.

The fact is our intelligence agencies unanimously agreed that China did not even try to change a single vote in the 2020 election. A single concurring opinion suggested China may have tried to sway voters’ opinions… but that’s been public knowledge since 2021.

[Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem]

Do not laugh about this speech. It’s impossible to follow but he’s directly challenging our right to vote. The president of the United States is lying in order to wage war on our democracy and against the states. I don’t care your politics; everybody should be outraged.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

This has to stop. They’re just laughing and counting money and we’re letting them get away with it.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

A point to consider before Trump's speech about foreign interference in US elections is that our own intel community notes a key component of foreign interference is to do things that the undermine "public confidence in the electoral process"—which Trump will do in this speech

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Everyone remembers that Trump asked Brad Raffensperger to find him votes. But he also pressured Georgia House Speaker David Ralston to overturn the 2020 election.

Trump: "You can say for transparency and to uncover fraud. Who's gonna stop you for that?"

Ralston: "A federal judge."