@RBReich I hope he gets some genuine offers from good and generous people. I've seen this lad interviewed on MSNBC, and he is well-spoken and promising, just you. That should not be a mark against him. He was elected to Congress! He deserves a break!
The first Gen Z Congress member was denied a D.C. apartment due to bad credit.
Freshman reps don’t get a paycheck until February even though they start working on January 3rd.
Congress is inaccessible to those who don't have wealth.
It’s designed to keep working people out.
Just what any serious Presidential candidate would do -- announce sale of "amazing" digital trading cards on "my Life & Career!" with his cartoon image on them.
Make no mistake: these republicans tried to violently overthrow the government. They wanted tanks in the streets to make trump dictator. It's why 2 years ago I said every insurrectionist republican violated the 14th Amendment and shouldn't be seated. Most are still in office.
The Meadows Texts: Mark Meadows was bombarded with texts from Trumpworld figures and GOP electeds – while the Jan. 6 attack was still underway – recommending it be blamed on "antifa."
https://t.co/FmaYAm1Qg1
The Meadows Texts: Ted Budd (R-NC) mixed pardon requests w/ election subversion:
"1. Anything I need to do to help get Robin H on the pardon list? 2. I’m on the Jan 6 objector list in case there’s anything to sync up on. 3. Hang tough. Grateful for you."
https://t.co/Eq1GOlFGdl
The Meadows Texts: The 2021 Georgia Senate runoffs collided with the Big Lie in ways that exposed rifts among Republicans, a tricky spot for the two GOP senators trying to hold on to their seats. But Georgia was ground zero for Trump. https://t.co/DaBGpG19V1
Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) passed unproven YouTube conspiracy videos from Romania to Mark Meadows and pressured Georgia’s secretary of state. At least one of the paranoid election theories Allen texted to Meadows made its way directly to Trump.
https://t.co/L1sSVzxeWY
"Rep. Andy Biggs’ communications with Mark Meadows paint a picture of two increasingly desperate men, grasping at fantastical conspiracy theories when the real votes did not produce a Trump win."
https://t.co/BdILCCcIZq
Based on the text log obtained by TPM, Rep. Scott Perry wrote Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows about his efforts to set up a “cyber team.” It would seize voting machines around the country and put them under “lock and key.”
https://t.co/a7Db8dbT0c
TPM EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) in a text to Mark Meadows, 3 days before Biden's inauguration:
"Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!!"
https://t.co/6I8FPf8XTB via @TPM
It's funny how Trump could have actually freed Paul Whelan from a Russian, he chose not to. The chance was there. Yet, President Biden catches hell for getting Brittney Griner released? Why the free pass for Trump?
@JoJoFromJerz MARJORY TAYLOR GREEN IS A DOMESTIC TERRORISTS! IT’S ON TAPE THAT SHE IS A TRAITOR TO THE THIS COUNTRY! WHY IS MCCARTHY SO DAMNED WEAK? HE DOESN’T DESERVE TO BE SPEAKER! HE CANNOT LEAD OR CENSOR A THUG LIKE MTG!!
Since @elonmusk and his redoubtable hired hands seem determined to obscure what happened on Jan. 6 and why Twitter executives were scrambling on Jan. 7, it seems essential to point out that Twitter in fact played a central role in Trump’s coup attempt: specifically, this tweet.