WE THE PEOPLE, ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL & LIBERTY and JUSTICE FOR ALL don't come w/ an asterisk! Learn something new every day.
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The US is a FEDERAL (State's rights) DEMOCRATIC (We vote, as per the Constitution) CONSTITUTIONAL (We have a constitution. But,so do many other counties inc Russia and other bad actors) REPUBLIC (Representational govt. ala POTUS & Congress. It's doesn't just mean "country")
President Donald Trump erupted into a diatribe about rigged elections during a segment with Meet the Press journalist Kristin Welker, which led to him abruptly abandoning the interview. https://t.co/BTAoot5CJh
Asked for actual evidence of his claims, Trump throws a tantrum and runs away.
Notice—he never offered a shred or scintilla of evidence.
He just yelled at her and ran away.
Trump’s egregious (repeat) lie about Jan. 6 in the new NBC interview he walked out of: “They had FBI agents ushering them into the building. They had FBI: ‘Go into the building.’”
There’s precisely no evidence this happened. DOJ’s inspector general found that the FBI had zero undercover agents in the Capitol crowd. Kash Patel has himself debunked a Trump-promoted conspiracy theory on this subject, saying FBI agents were merely deployed to do crowd control after the police declared a riot.
And of the dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who tried a “the cops let me in” defense, just one (1) was acquitted. Even in that case, the acquitting judge said that though the defendant reasonably believed he was being allowed in, the officers in question were actually overrun by the crowd and standing back reasonably and responsibly, not explicitly encouraging anyone to enter. (And they weren’t FBI.)
The best piece of advice I ever got came from my grandmother.
What other people think about you is none of your business.
It sounds simple, but it is genuinely hard to live by because we're social creatures and we want to be liked.
The moment you start caring about that less, you become your actual self.
And those other people you're so worried about are mostly thinking about themselves anyway.
So relax. Be yourself.
Thank you, @kwelkernbc, for pushing back on his blatantly false statements.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions. No one gets to choose their own facts.
To others who push back on his falsehoods, thank you.
To those still appeasing him for political or economic gain, it's not too late to find courage & change.
The legacy of this @POTUS won't be the monuments he builds to himself but the destruction of faith in public institutions for his own power and profit.
He wants to rewrite or erase history because he knows it won't be kind to him.
@SarahLongwell25@BillKristol It's confabulation. It's what people afflicted with various forms of dementia and memory issues do to fill in gaps and/or justify their behavior and/or failings.
Emotionally unstable man goes on paranoid, babbling rant.
Somewhere in that suit, he has a small card with the codes to 1500 strategic nuclear weapons.
In March 2025, Trump's USDA cancelled $300 million in land-access grants for American farmers — many of them farmers of color — and justified it with a list of "wasteful" purchases: a barbecue smoker, a gazebo, massages, and a $20,000 budget for ink pens.
The 49 terminated grantees say those line items never existed.
Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins cancelled roughly $1 billion more in local-food money the same month, leaving Pennsylvania farmer Dan Hunter and the food banks he supplied with crops already in the ground. Here's who actually paid for it — and why the USDA's own appeals office may have given the game away.
Watch: https://t.co/ojd6eMe6ds
@marceelias With the MAGA Sinister Six of the SCOTUS's recent ruling that the USPS doesn't have to assure mail be delivered in a timely manner, including deliberate delay of the mail, they deliberately teed it up for Trump and his evil minions to interfere with the #election.
🚨BREAKING: The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) says it is “deeply alarmed” about the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) new rule created to carry out President Donald Trump’s plans for restricting mail-in voting. https://t.co/ZHYGFbkSCC