Joe Conason

Editor-in-chief @NationalMemo, editor-at-large @typeinvestigates, senior fellow @TypeMediaCenter, #author, father, etc. Standard retweet disclaimer applies.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

Trump plotted and planned the withdrawal. Biden ignored the advice of his military officials and followed Trump’s plan. This was a shared disaster, and it is rich to hear Trump officials ignoring all actions that led to this disastrous withdrawal.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

how stupid does he think everyone else in the world is?

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

The people Donald Trump wants to give $1.776 billion of your taxpayer dollars as “compensation” for the “weaponization” of justice they’ve suffered.

[Harry Litman @harrylitman]

"We are being made, without our consent, co-signatories to the biggest lie of Trump's presidency." https://t.co/cM7BY1Pi6O

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

There’s so much going on that it’s easy to overlook the fact that the president is telling so many lies.

Here’s a fact check of 28 different false claims President Donald Trump made from Monday through Friday. https://t.co/K0hfbxA7TS

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Just a horrible Secretary of State, but of course, even worse as an accessory to mass murder when he ran AID

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Below is Exhibit 2 for when @DAGToddBlanche gets disbarred.

(Exhibit 1 is the illegal slush fund to pay criminals that Blanche created from a fake settlement).

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

Erasing history https://t.co/XOV0dLuo1b

[Joe Conason @JoeConason]

Pedo protection racket. Just like with Epstein files. Sick.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Literal definition of Orwellian

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Not getting enough attention: the one-page order from Todd Blanche to wipe out every audit of Donald Trump.

Many experts believe it’s illegal, and here’s why.

Federal law prohibits the President or his aides from directing or halting an IRS audit. Agents who carry out a politically motivated audit, or stop one at the direction of the White House, can face prison time. That is the statute on the books.

Now look at what just happened.

Todd Blanche, the Acting Attorney General and Donald Trump’s former personal criminal defense lawyer, signed a one-page order demanding the IRS drop every existing audit of Trump, his family, and their “affiliates.” One of those audits reportedly could have cost Trump more than $100 million.

The Treasury Department’s top lawyer resigned over it.

The acting top IRS lawyer had to recuse himself because he previously represented Trump in his tax cases.

There is no precedent for an Attorney General ordering an end to audits of a group of taxpayers. Many experts say the Attorney General has no authority to do this.

So we have a likely illegal order, signed by the President’s former lawyer, on behalf of the President, protecting the President. And the only people with jurisdiction to investigate it work for the President.

I will fight this with every tool I have.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Even. Tommy. Fucking. Tuberville.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

For Trump and his friends:

- A $1.8 billion slush fund, paid for by you.
- A $1 billion ballroom, paid for by you.

For you and other American taxpayers:

- Millions kicked off health care.
- Highest gas prices in 5 years.
- Soaring costs for groceries.
https://t.co/sHG6L1Cdlq

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

A year ago I warned what would happen if the U.S. tore down our disease detection system around the world

With Hantavrirus and now a very concerning Ebola outbreak in DR Congo, we are seeing VERY clearly what we’ve lost.

And why it matters.

Read my @TheAtlantic piece from a year ago outlining what happened, and follow along as I continue to cover these issues in the coming days.

https://t.co/5P2oQ6uoOE

[Harry Litman @harrylitman]

"The combined effect of Rucho, Callais, and Shelby County—turbocharged by Citizens United's flood of unregulated campaign money—is to institutionalize Republican political power, allowing a party with a 25% base to knock at the door of durable legislative majorities it could not otherwise achieve." https://t.co/vpttxG1bDm

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

@JDVance You do not give a damn about fraud. Every one of these people gave Trump $1 million, and each of them got a pardon.

That scheme is fraud in and of itself.

[Joe Conason @JoeConason]

This has been known since last year

[Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics]

INTEL BOMBSHELL: Ex-counterterrorism chief says US spy agencies agreed Iran wasn't building a nuke before war started https://t.co/EaRquRVYsi

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

I guess it’s just an amazing coincidence that basically every decision related to politics helps Republicans, and every decision related to regulation helps fossil fuel polluters.
https://t.co/jXwR0YTs0W

[Joe Conason @JoeConason]

This is the little Nazi snake that @TuckerCarlson won't stop promoting https://t.co/aXM6fBKZN2

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

What a disgrace. The Jonathan Turley of Georgetown.