Richard W. Painter

Law Professor. Former chief White House ethics lawyer 2005-07. Independent.
@RWPMinnesota

[Richard W. Painter @RWPUSA]

Now available from @CambridgeUP
My new book coauthored with E. Thomas Sullivan,

The U.S. Presidency: Power, Responsibility and Accountability
https://t.co/iKJuAGDTjM

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@beautyinnis Source about the assault incident?

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We knew Graham Platner got kicked out of Hotchkiss, an elite boarding school, for skipping class. Not to mention problems with women. And the Nazi tattoo.
Why are recent Ivy League graduates with zero real world experience vetting candidates anyway?
https://t.co/suD39Npy9c

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@Yoyotisme @GovTimWalz Nonsense. School students can express their faith. It is teachers who should not be leading school prayer.

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@mmeJOAN @GovTimWalz The United States is not France. Tell a public school child they can't wear a cross around their neck and see what happens at the next school board meeting.

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@leeeeeeeesaaa I don't really care. If the Dems don't get their act together November will be a dumpster fire (again, as in 2016 and 2024).

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This was before the Maine primary.
What a dumpster fire.
https://t.co/LBCCHf0Ewr

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@leeeeeeeesaaa You can unfollow anyone you want, but voters will unfollow Democrats in November if they don't get their act together. Blaming the messenger is part of your problem. Same thing happened with Biden in 2024. Everyone knew, but still attacked anyone who talked about it.

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@FDavis0453 After Walz was forced to drop his own campaign for a third term because he did nothing to stop fraud in Minnesota? Perhaps he should focus on Minnesota's problems for the rest of his term instead of endorsing nutty candidates in other states.

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@Radskiwadski Just watch him.

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A quid pro quo of this ring in exchange for tariff relief would be a bribe, but it's difficult to prove that, so under federal ethics regulations officials other than the president cannot accept gifts worth more than $20.
https://t.co/WjGu0iy6UW

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The Governor of Minnesota should be running Minnesota (that includes preventing fraud in Minnesota), not dabbling in primaries in Maine.

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@BenMcCombe Maybe drugs too. Who knows?

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@BenMcCombe He admitted to skipping class, saying that he wanted to get kicked out because he didn't like going to school with a bunch of rich kids.

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At elite boarding schools top students go to elite colleges. Graduates of elite colleges then get jobs vetting candidates for public office, where the top pick is apparently someone who got kicked out of an elite boarding school and magically became "working class."

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@GOP If precedent means anything, Graham Platner can quit the Maine Senate race and run for President.
https://t.co/HqBa3xOa7r

[Richard W. Painter @RWPUSA]

@GOP If precedent means anything, Graham Platner can quit the Maine Senate race and run for President.
https://t.co/HqBa3xOa7r

[Richard W. Painter @RWPUSA]

Why is it we can't get through an election year without a Democratic Party candidate dumpster fire either a week before or a week after the 4th of July?
Will Ken Martin order another "autopsy" report on the Maine senate election?
https://t.co/WiwX6nAkHI via @nbcnews

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If a woman said a candidate sexually assaulted her and then he sued her for defamation and she sued him for defamation, and the court found him liable to her for defamation to the tune of $5 million, would the @GOP run him for U.S. Senate in Maine? Or for President?

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If a woman said a candidate sexually assaulted her and then he sued her for defamation and she sued him for defamation, and the court found him liable to her for defamation to the tune of $5 million, would the @GOP run him for U.S. Senate in Maine? Or for President?

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Meanwhile, in the eight years since I made this ad, the D.C. dumpster fire under Donald Trump is bigger and more destructive than ever before.
https://t.co/nWhvNjiyw5

[Painter For Minnesota @RWPMinnesota]

Richard's first campaign ad has arrived in time for President Trump's visit to Duluth. Will you help us fight for ethics in government and against the corruption and dishonesty in the Trump administration?
https://t.co/nY1ZLEJWGC