DdBvScheltinga

Advisor on strategy, business & politics. Asian cross border advisory services. Passionate writer, observer of China. Love Hong Kong, home since 2001.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

From 10:36 pm ET-midnight last night the president posted/re-posted dozens of clips including videos/clips pushing long-debunked 2020 election conspiracy theories after which one features this vile & racist depiction of President and First Lady Obama.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: Trump just posted a video on Truth Social that includes a racist image of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys.

There’s no bottom

[Rebecca Ballhaus @rebeccaballhaus]

Four days before Trump’s inauguration, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal w/the Trump family to buy a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial for $500M, according to documents & people familiar.

The buyer paid half up front, steering $187M to Trump family entities and $31M to Witkoff entities.

The investment was backed by the UAE national security adviser, Tahnoon bin Zayed. The deal put two executives at his company, G42, on the board of WLF, alongside Eric Trump and Zach Witkoff.

W/@skesslr @eliotwb @AABerwick https://t.co/toL2TKth6j

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

In any other time or presidency, this story. reported by @WSJ, would be an earthquake of a scandal.
The size, scope and implications of it are unprecedented and mind-boggling.
But will this Congress, which brayed endlessly about the "Biden crime family," probe it?
Not a chance.

[DdBvScheltinga @dpdbvs]

@KristiNoem Are you still dancing and laughing at ICE?? Still think it's funny? https://t.co/5XPTKdtioM
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump

[Larry Nance @Larrydn22]

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart.
Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

[Harry Litman @harrylitman]

The most damning view I’ve seen.
Can’t imagine even an argument that the shooter believes he is in imminent danger of deadly harm. Infuriating to juxtapose with the reflexive false statements from Trump on down.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

This thread is now being down ranked.

Please do your part in retweeting it.

It contains frame by frame analysis from ALL the videos we’ve seen today, showing how ICE murdered this man.

It is important people see the truth! 🫡

[Eoin Higgins @EoinHiggins_]

Doesn’t get much clearer than this

[Dennis Wilder偉德寧 @dennisw5]

I find this a very weak argument for an invasion this year. The PLA leadership is in disarray and Xi Jinping getting what he wants from Trump on so many fronts. At the same time, INDOPAC is building very new capabilities with Japan/Philippines/Australia etc. The new KMT leadership is very friendly. Why upset a very positive geopolitical position by destroying Taiwan?

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Having lived through a similar, nationwide version of this in Trump's model, Putin's Russia, it’s not easy to fight against. And Trump and many of his gang have passed the point at which they feel they can afford to lose power, even in Congress. It’s a perilous moment.

[Generaal Onno Eichelsheim @CDS_Defensie]

Nederlandse militairen hebben in #Afghanistan onder gevaarlijke omstandigheden gediend, uit solidariteit met bondgenoten. Ze hebben daar gevochten voor veiligheid en offers gebracht die zij en hun families voor altijd meedragen.

Hun inzet verdient erkenning, geen ontkenning.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Make no mistake, this latest threat and sophomoric bombast isn't about trade.
It's about ⁦@MarkJCarney⁩, the PM of Canada, forthrightly telling his people & the world hard truths about the unreliability of America as an ally and a partner in the era of ⁦Trump.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Now would be a good time for our former Presidents to come together and take a stand for the American people against ICE and this fascist regime.

[Aasma Shaukat MD MPH @AasmaShaukatMD]

One of my former research assistants was killed by ICE in Minneapolis today😢

Alex was the kindest, sweetest human and a ICU nurse with a bright future ahead of him
May his soul rest in peace and this senseless carnage stop💔

[DdBvScheltinga @dpdbvs]

How can protesters in Iran ever believe the US will help them, when in the US protesters are being shot in the same manner? #IranProtests #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

It's extraordinary that Board of Peace is being discussed on media - including @BBCWorldatOne - without reference to the requirement of 2/3rds majority of the Senate for ratification of treaties - is amazing. Admin will argue probably this isn't a treaty but of course it is

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

So embarrassing for our country:
“European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde was among the attendees who walked out of an invitation-only dinner in Davos on Tuesday during a provocative speech by US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.”

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Trump: "The fact is no nation or group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the U.S.…We saw this in WWII, when Denmark fell to Germany after just 6 hours of fighting."