1/9 “Trump may win or lose, but he will never concede.” The worst case is not that Trump rejects the November election results, but that he uses his power to prevent a decisive outcome against him, @bartongellman reports in our latest cover story. https://t.co/ksnLLam4Pi
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try,” General James Mattis writes in this extraordinary condemnation. https://t.co/3C6vTTz4pd
Federal records show OSHA worked for six years to create new rules to prepare for an airborne infectious disease pandemic. The Obama White House formally added it to a list of regulations to be implemented in 2017.
Then President Trump took office. https://t.co/D0KJ2HInzt
"'Make America Great Again' was a promise; “Keep America Great' was a declaration of victory. 'Transition to Greatness' is a confession of failure, a corporate-style euphemism that tries to spin a collapse as a success," writes @GrahamDavidA: https://t.co/wVTVQzHQKe
"Why do working-class white men—the most reliable component of Donald Trump’s base—support someone who is, by their own standards, the least masculine man ever to hold the modern presidency?" From @RadioFreeTom: https://t.co/GG0lQLiHJn
The White House "seems to think that this crisis will be solved by loudly announcing the reopening of the economy. But this is a dangerous misunderstanding of what’s actually driving the recession: It’s the pandemic, stupid," writes @dkthomp. https://t.co/vmhzfiVkJF
"The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same. His administration may stagger on, but it will be only a hollow shell. The Trump presidency is over."
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This is the moment when "the bluster and ignorance and shallowness of America’s 45th president became undeniable, an empirical reality, as indisputable as the laws of science or a mathematical equation,” writes @Peter_Wehner https://t.co/EbE2DRsRMr
Scientists: you should wash your hands because of Coronavirus.
People: I'm gonna stop flying, hoard masks, work from home & totally rearrange my life.
Also Scientists: the #ClimateCrisis will kill millions - we must use clean power & change how we get to work.
People: No way.
“This is the story of how a great republic went soft in the middle, lost the integrity of its guts and fell in on itself,” George Packer writes. https://t.co/lbW4xk4xhM
"The Senate acquittal marked the beginning of a fundamental transition ... the end of the Trump administration, and the first day of the would-be Trump Regime," writes @AdamSerwer: https://t.co/PbqLfHOBVU
"If the president's closest advisers believe that he is morally and intellectually unfit for his high office, they have a duty to do their utmost to remove him from it, by the lawful means at hand ... They swore an oath to defend the Constitution." https://t.co/f7kuh6Xglw