1/ Today, @nbcnews published my latest feature on the falsehoods and conspiracy theories that have defined Donald Trump's presidency.

It's the culmination of many years of reporting, so I thought I'd take you on a little trip through fact check history...

2/ But first, please read the story!

3/ I started this work as a campaign reporter — watching the now-president come down the escalator at Trump Tower in 2015 — and realizing that this beat would be different, that this candidate was different, and he was frequently not telling the truth.

4/ I chased Trump and other candidates all around the country for 18 months. By the time we reached the fall of the general election, the falsehoods were coming fast and furious

5/ I'd cut my teeth as a young reporter fact checking other reporters' stories at major magazines for $.

And it had been several years since, but I couldn't really shake the instinct to print all the speeches and debates and take my trusty red and black pens to them.

THREAD: Boris Johnson has a problem named Joe Biden: Democrats are ☑️ on UK climate leadership and ☑️ on UK defense spending increase, but in no mood to prioritize the relatively small trade deal Johnson wants to agree in Biden’s first 100 days. 1/

My new article puts the much more likely timeframe for the U.S.-U.K. #trade deal as 2022. It’s not punishment for #Brexit per se, but Brexit means the U.K. has complicated Washington’s relations with Europe, and dropped it down the global pecking order /2

I interviewed 16 senior officials and former officials on both sides of the Atlantic, and it’s clear that despite the new EU-UK settlement, Brexit will continue to change the transatlantic dynamic under Biden /3

“You’re still going to call London, but that call will be lower down in the queue,” thanks to Brexit, said @CFR_org's Charles Kupchan, former Obama/Clinton National Security Council official, and author of a new book "Isolationism" /4

Here's more: “Biden is seeking to strengthen and renew ties with the EU - Britain is not going to be a part of that,” said one person familiar with President-elect Biden’s thinking. “Boris Johnson needs a trade deal to show the domestic utility of Brexit.”not Biden’s problem /5

THREAD: Biden 2020 Highlights

"We hold these truths to be self evident. All men and women created by, go, you know, you know, the thing."



“Um, you know, there's a uh, during World War... uh, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing that you know, was totally different than a, than the, the, it's called, he's called it, you know, the WWII, he had the World, the War Production Board."



“You ain’t black”

Biden confuses his wife for his sister

“We can only re-elect Donald Trump”

Just doing an exercise in

Scott Morrisons Image VS Donald Trump Image

#ThumbsUP

Thread of Comparative Images 👇👇

Dark Images appear to make you more important?

#LeaderBeingChauffeured

Business on a Plane

#SoBusy

#BlackAndWhite

#WalkingThroughAnArch

At least Trump had Clothes on.

From the SC GOP - 2021 Resolutions. Pathetic attempt to rally the party and not one mention of the fight for our legally elected @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @SCGOP 👇
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Dear Fellow Republican,

Sometimes we get so caught up in what's happening in our political world...

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that we can lose sight of what's important and what to do next. Don't let that happen this year! If conservatives want to be successful long-term, then we have to THINK long-term.

With that in mind, here are a few suggested New Year's resolutions for conservatives in 2021.

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And stay tuned for part two! I'll send that around shortly

Focus on the Fundamentals
No matter how things change from cycle to cycle, the need for fundamentals remains the same. The most fundamental element of politics is people, and the most fundamental principle is addition

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More organized people means more political influence.

Find, or create, and focus on projects that you or your group can use to help identify and better organize more people who think like you do.

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Coordinate With Other Conservatives
It's simple: we're stronger when we work together and easier to beat when divided. So, focus on finding ways to work with other conservatives on sharing information, picking which battles to fight, which targets to emphasize, and then ..

🚨GOP Senators Refusing To Stand AGAINST Election Fraud. You know what to do! [1/5]
@SenJohnBarrasso WY
@RoyBlunt MO
@JohnBoozman AR
@SenatorBurr NC
@SenCapito WV
@SenBillCassidy LA
@SenatorCollins ME
@JohnCornyn TX
@SenTomCotton AR
@SenKevinCramer ND
@MikeCrapo ID

🚨GOP Senators Refusing To Stand AGAINST Election Fraud. [2/5]
@SenJoniErnst IA
@SenatorFischer NE
@SenCoryGardner CO
@LindseyGrahamSC SC
@ChuckGrassley IA
@SenJohnHoeven ND
@SenHydeSmith MS
@JimInhofe OK
@SenMikeLee UT
@KLoeffler GA
@McConnellPress KY
@JerryMoran KS

🚨GOP Senators Refusing To Stand AGAINST Election Fraud. [3/5]
@SenJoniErnst IA
@SenatorFischer NE
@SenCoryGardner CO
@LindseyGrahamSC SC
@ChuckGrassley IA
@SenJohnHoeven ND
@SenHydeSmith MS
@JimInhofe OK
@SenMikeLee UT
@KLoeffler GA
@McConnellPress KY
@JerryMoran KS

🚨GOP Senators Refusing To Stand AGAINST Election Fraud. [4/5]
@lisamurkowski AK
@RandPaul KY
@sendavidperdue GA
@senrobportman OH
@SenatorRisch ID
@SenatorRomney UT
@SenatorRounds SD
@Marcorubio FL
@SenSasse NE
@SenRickScott FL
@SenatorTimScott SC

🚨GOP Senators Refusing To Stand AGAINST Election Fraud. [5/5]
@SenShelby AL
@SenDanSullivan AK
@SenJohnThune SD
@SenThomTillis NC
@SenToomey PA
@SenatorWicker MS
@SenToddYoung IN

Y’ALL I GET EMOTIONS ARE HUGH BUT TRY TO STEP BACK AND THINK LOGICALLY:

1. BIDEN VOTERS HAVE BEEN TOLD TRUMP WOULD ATTEMPT A COUP FOR YEARS. IF IT DIDN’T SEEM LIKE TRUMP CONCEDED THERE WOULD BE MASS CHAOS BECAUSE 55M PEOPLE HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT.

It is clear that a consequential portion of Republican elected officials hold a particular view of America which only benefits “their kind of people.”

It is a vision so anti-democratic that secure it through exercise of raw, brutal power.

So what is to be done...

Unequivocally and boot these opponents of liberty out of the Republican party or start a new one.

Accept the repentant, but don’t waste time trying to persuade the obtuse, arrogant and violent.

Remember who caved and never, ever, ever vote a Trump lackey into office again.

Make repair for the damage the party has wrought.

Extend and protect voting rights for all. Act in true democratic fashion and listen to the will of the majority.

Aggressively enact policies to disrupt white supremacist extremist activity. Disassociate from racists.

Do a deep and thorough accounting of your authoritarian, patriarchal, white supremacist history and remove from pedestals those who, covered their dehumanizing tactics under the guise of “conservatism.”

Look to your religious institutions and divorce from them any notions that the Republican Party is God’s party and that the USA is God’s favored nation.

Glean wisdom from faith communities comprised of marginalized people groups. Smash the idol of Christian Nationalism.

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You know, it's just occurred to me...

How many times have we heard @realDonaldTrump say, "If I had a plan, you'd be the last to know it"?

What are the chances he comes out with something none of us saw coming?

#StopTheSteaI
#MAGA

THREAD 📌Those of us whose lives have been made a living hell by Trump's presidency have a right to ask those of you who voted Trump/Trump proxy (yes, your Stein votes threw the election to Trump in PA, WI & MI), to have the decency to just STFU. Not everything is about you.
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And FGS everyone stop applauding GOP who put us here for their belated mea culpas or one tweet you agree with. If you want to applaud, applaud folks who were doing the work of the past 4yrs, not coming in at the end to say they wouldn't make the same awful mistake again.
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And if you want "healing," don't demand it of people who have been hurt. Let the folks who skimmed through the past 4yrs painlessly do that work. Some of you don't even know that Betsy DeVos was one of the most effective Cabinet members--destroying thousands of young lives.
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This is a tenuous time. People are wounded--and I do not mean Trump folks because I honestly could not conceivably care less about them. I mean people I have been interviewing over 4yrs: BIPOC, women, immigrants, LGBTQ, poor and disabled people, Muslims. SO MUCH SUFFERING.
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22k people died this week and that is because 77k people out of 130M just couldn't bring themselves to vote for a brilliant life-long public servant because something something vagina emails speeches and whateverthefck you lied to yourself about in 2016 to "show" Hillary.
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THREAD: As the founding head of @TwitterGov, I have long been a vocal defender of @Twitter’s permissiveness of @realDonaldTrump’s otherwise-violations of Twitter Rules (1/11)

The “newsworthiness” exemption often held true. If the President was a madman or a fraud, or both, let the spotlight shine on it for the populace to see. Don’t have a private company shield the public gaze from the meltdown and pretend the emperor has clothes. (2/11)

The time for that sunlight has long passed. No one can claim ignorance to his delusion; the citizenry has already chosen whether to swill the toxic Kool Aid. A few more Tweets or less won’t affect that. (3/11)

The stronger argument was always that there was something exceptional about the presidency. That there are actions, when taken by the President, that must be held to a different standard than when taken by a private individual. (4/11)

An early example of this was a series of @realDonaldTrump Tweets threatening the North Korean regime early in his term. Violent threats such as these would normally violate the law and Twitter Rules. (5/11)

The Anabaptist Option:

Neo-Calvinist Cornelius Van Til was a lifelong Republican voter, but couldn't crack the application of Reformed theology to politics. How does the Christian worldview manifest in the political realm with regard to particular parties and politicians?

Van Til's student, Francis Schaeffer, motivated by his postmillennialism in the Cold War context, promoted Christianity as antithetical to communism. Fundamentalist friends like Jerry Falwell found political motivation in the moralist message of Schaeffer's A Christian Manifesto.

The aforementioned mindset put the Moral Majority (1979) into motion right around the time of the Conservative Resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention (1979) and the presidential run of Ronald Reagan (1981). Similar rhetoric and results followed in the years to come.

Politicians, knowing they had to secure the votes of the Moral Majority, or 'Values Voters,' or 'evangelicals' as a voting bloc, pandered to them by citing their 'Christian faith' and 'pro-life' positions which ran counter to Roe v. Wade (1973), another Schaefferian target.

Those left unpersuaded by the aforementioned project were no longer merely political opponents, but morally inferior people, most likely owing to a lack of true Christian faith and practice. Clearly, the moral failings of Bill Clinton weren't consistent with his Christian faith.

President-Elect Joe Biden is asked if he thinks it’s a good idea for House Democrats to introduce articles of impeachment, as early as Monday. Biden says he’s long thought Trump was unfit for the job, says what Congress does is up to them. Says his priority is COVID.

Biden doesn’t say one way or another whether he supports impeaching Donald Trump a second time. Says it’s up to the Congress.

Biden says the next COVID relief package will be in the trillions of dollars. Details to be released next Thursday. Says if the US does not act now, it will get much worse later.

Biden says yes, when asked if the rioters stormed the Capitol should be treated as domestic terrorists. Calls them thugs. Says it will be a judgment for the Justice department for what the charges should be.

Biden says there should be a full blown investigation, noting the statement given earlier today by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R) who said his national guard troops were ready to help, but he couldn’t get authorization.

Some random reflections on yesterday:

As a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol--the legislative center of the world's superpower--I couldn't ignore the significance of the date.

For one, this was the traditional date of the Epiphany, when Christ was revealed to the nations with the coming of the Magi.

Here you have nobles traveling a long way to pay homage to a baby who was born with nothing, wrapped in rags and laid in a a feeding trough. Our God came in humility and peace.

It's also the Optional Memorial of St. André Bessette--a Quebecois, religious brother, barely five feet tall, a doorman too "lowly" to be a priest.

Comparing and Contrasting the 2000 contested election with the 2020 contested election.
According to @SenTedCruz book One Vote Away in 2000 Bush was able to assemble a Legal "Field of Dreams" team. All they had to do was make a call and people showed up to help.
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Good afternoon all!! ☕️☕️☕️

I got delayed this morning due to lack of access to 17 drops across all platforms. What a coincidence 😏

I N D I V I D U A L M A N D A T E N O T = 212

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Here is a thread Exposing mentality of Congress Leader Salman Nizami . Please Retweet

His tweet mocking Rape

See his thoughts

His hate for other communities

Anti India tweets (1)