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[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

I found watching Trump’s UN speech today deeply depressing. It is a matter of national shame and humiliation that he is our president. Every country in the world, friend and foe alike, sees we are governed by a vainglorious fool.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Everyone in the Trump administration, every Republican elected official, every Republican candidate, every Trump donor, should be asked what they think about Trump inventing heroic stories about himself on 9/11.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

More evidence that the president of the United States is psychotic. He’s been called out on this lie for many years. Once upon a time he knew he was bullshitting. But he has convinced himself of it now, as he has with all of the other fantasies with which he today soothes his fragile ego and that the world watches and listens to every day.

That’s the end stage of narcissistic sociopathy, of malignant narcissism. He’s rapidly decompensating into psychosis, and it’s accelerating.

Are we really still going to entrust him with the nuclear codes?

Is the media still not going to talk about the president’s depleted mental health?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump posts a map depicting the US conquering the entirety of North America

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

the president is now blacklisting companies by fiat. tell me more about how left-wing communism is the biggest threat to the country.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"The share of Americans who associate themselves with the Democratic Party has grown significantly over the past year...The shift signals the party’s largest advantage since 2008. The data shows Democrats with a 10-point advantage over Republicans..."
https://t.co/hau1HpEs8M

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

“One former Administration official told me that the President is ‘trying to project an image of American greatness,’ then suggested that I consult a relevant book, ‘Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics.’”

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

This detailed report not only illustrates Hegseth's profound incompetence, but also his rabid antipathy to competence in others.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

This is good political advice. But it assumes that Trump is sufficiently rational and mentally sound enough to listen to it and to follow it. He's not and therefore won't.

The same irrationality and impulsivity that caused him to create the problems that now beset him, and by extension, us, prevent him from recovering from those problems.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

It’s right out of the authoritarianism how-to manual

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

We are watching, in real time, the biggest fuck-up by any president in the history of the United States of America.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

A disgrace

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

Tonight Trump will re-litigate the 2020 election.
Why?
In support of his SAVE act, which is actually a Voter Suppression Act.
This is a Hail Mary effort to keep his corrupt power grab from being swamped by a blue wave in November.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: A federal judge says President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS was filed for an "improper purpose" and refers attorneys for disciplinary action. https://t.co/oO279kp2z7

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The leader of the Republican Party, the one they defend and support at every turn, wants to shut down the US government two months before the midterms. Republicans, you own this mess you have created and fed into for so long.

Everyone else, vote these people out.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Abolish ICE. Now.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Donald Trump opposes affordable housing. Pass it on.

[NY AG James @NewYorkStateAG]

Trump’s assault on mail-in voting has been permanently blocked. 

The president doesn't have the power to take over state elections or invent new voting restrictions by executive order. 

I'll always fight to protect our elections and our democracy.
https://t.co/oM8T1UUNvL

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump in the last hour:

"We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"

Referred to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy as "President Putin"

"We have the greatest economy we've ever had. $19.2 trillion is being invested right now in the US" (a lie)

His brain is mush.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

It is not defamation. Not even close.

It is not false to state that a man who forcibly inserted his fingers into a non-consenting woman’s vagina has raped her. That’s because, as the distinguished district judge in Carroll v. Trump explained more than once, and as dictionaries confirm, the word “rape” is broad enough to encompass forcible, involuntary penetration of the vagina or anus by fingers or some foreign object, even if under the specific criminal code provisions of some (but not all) jurisdictions, non-penile penetration is categorized as sexual abuse or sodomy.

It is therefore not defamation to state that a man who, like @realDonaldTrump, was found unanimously by a federal jury to have forcibly inserted his fingers into a non-consenting woman’s vagina, is an adjudicated rapist. Because he is.

But even if the word “rape” were categorically defined to exclude non-penile penetration (which it is not), the description of Trump as an adjudicated rapist would not be actionable under the defamation-law doctrine of “substantial truth,” which provides that, if the gist, or sting, of a challenged statement is not significantly different in reputational effect from the actual facts, there can be no liability. And here there can be no serious argument that committing forcible sexual abuse is any less morally reprehensible or reputationally damaging than committing forcible rape.

So it’s a fact and not defamatory to state that Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist. He may be an adjudicated digital rapist, to be more precise, but he’s still a rapist, and it’s long past time that people stop pretending that he isn’t and wasn’t found to be one—or that forcible sexual abuse is somehow more tolerable than forcible rape.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.