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[Bill - Stand with Ukraine & for Democracy - Hutt @BillHutt1]

Some things never change. Why do working class people believe that the GOP cares about them? #Resist https://t.co/k3LDTOuJTI via @YouTube

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Just a reminder that Trump named a replacement for AG Barr in December 2020 and Trump’s newly minted AG didn’t think it was worth investigating the 2020 election either.

[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.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

One of the many odd things about the speech last night: Trump claims the intelligence community was plotting against him in his first term.
This is the person who was running ODNI during his first term. He is now CIA Director.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

The new Red Scare bullshit shouldn’t work with people over 60 years old, many of whom were anti-Communists and who remember what real Communism, headquartered in the Soviet Union, was like. Somehow Trump was never active in that fight against Communist tyranny.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Things conservatives told me when I was in my 20’s:

*Character counts
*Crony capitalism is bad
*Russia is our enemy
*Tariffs are taxes
*The Constitution is sacrosanct
*Government power should be limited, restrained, and checked by congress.

Guess they were just joking.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Mocking the Democratic candidates in Maine may feel good now, but reality it’s a very blue environment and Susan Collins is six years older than when she beat Gideon and has been voting with Trump 95% of the time.

She gave the go ahead on an extra 70 billion for ICE with no guardrails. Listen to the ex wife of the agent who shot Joan Guerrero - he shouldn’t have been in that job. Maine is confronting the consequences of an agency staffed with untrained, unaccountable officers operating without body cameras. Collins can issue all the carefully worded statements she wants, but her record is clear. In 2026, make her answer for every vote.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Shapiro: I was Pennsylvania AG in 2020 when Trump's enablers took me to court 43 times to try and throw out votes. Every single time they went to court, they lost. They went 0-43, and I went 43-0, because they could never produce the evidence to back up the president's BS.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world-caliber

[Laura Rozen @lrozen]

The abuse the ex wife of the Maine ICE agent details in NPR interview is horrifying, including a 2022 police report of throwing his 13 year old daughter through a coffee table, a voice mail from last year saying her throat should be cut, and pulling a gun on her in the shower. She questions if ICE runs even a basic background check on recruits.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

“ Shut your mouth about their murders or there will be more murders!” This statement alone should be grounds for firing this grifting, disgraceful excuse for a human being.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jonathan Swan says that when President Trump returned to office, he pressured the intelligence community to produce some kind of evidence proving that the 2020 election was stolen, and that Trump’s Thursday night address was the best they could do.

Jonathan Swan: One way of looking at last night is as the culmination of an almost six-year effort. We have some reporting in the book that, in early 2021, Trump was telling people privately that he thought he could be reinstated as president that summer and was being encouraged by some people around him that this was a possibility.

When he came back into power this term, he started to put pretty intense pressure on the intelligence community to come up with some kind of evidence that could prove the 2020 election was stolen.

Last night, one way of looking at it is that this is the best they can do. Essentially, this was their best effort to prove that case. Of course, they didn’t. But that’s the genesis of last night.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Putin

Last night Donald Trump released a declassified document that says his own intelligence community identified Putin as personally running an operation to defeat my father in 2020, built around a fake Burisma corruption scandal centered around me and executed through prominent Americans.

Trump tasked his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to fly to Kyiv and meet a known Russian agent.

The Americans who ran, laundered, and legitimized the operation:

Donald Trump. Rudy Giuliani. John Solomon. Joe DiGenova. Victoria Toensing. Lev Parnas. Igor Fruman. Chanel Rion. Sean Hannity. Steve Bannon. Miranda Devine. Ken Vogel. Ron Johnson. Chuck Grassley. James Comer. Jim Jordan.

To name a few.

An operation formally sanctioned by Trump's own Treasury Department on September 10, 2020, and expanded to include more named actors on January 11, 2021.

Oh, and don't forget the Russian-linked FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who later pleaded guilty to making the entire Burisma bribery story up.

The record exists and we have all the receipts, and more.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:

1. He's not focused on making life better for Americans. Not even close.

2. We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections. https://t.co/L63hCChOn6

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

This is absurd. Every piece of voter data Trump mentions here, as well as which elections each voter voted in, is readily available in Kentucky for a small fee.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Holy shit: ICE gave a gun and a badge to a man who threw his 13-year-old daughter through a coffee table and threatened to slit her throat!

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Bro, you voted for the Trump I tax cuts and the Trump II tax cuts, neither of which was "paid for." That's a minimum $4 trillion right there. Maybe sit this one out?

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe Democrats were capable of stealing the 2020 election while out of power, but somehow incapable of doing the same in 2024 while in power. That is a categorically, phenomenally dumb thing to believe.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Very important warning.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Under Trump, U.S. federal debt has surpassed 100% of GDP for the first time since WWII.

And it's on track to beat that all-time record by 2030.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

This is insane. ICE hired a wife beater with severe mental health issues whose own family is terrified of him. Also worth noting that the military had previously accepted him in spite of severe mental health issues and sent him to Afghanistan where his family say he was turned into a monster.

This ICE hire isn’t just an accident or lack of vetting. Stephen Miller’s goal was to assemble a force of unaccountable marauding thugs. From his perspective this murderous psycho is a success story and exactly what he’s looking for.