General Trump Administration F**kery Thread (2017-2021)

[Blackfyre]

@jaketapper
NYT: pushed to comply with Trump’s false attacks on mail-in voting, the ⁦@CDCgov “quietly altered its guidance about mail-in voting to make misleading claims about the safety of absentee ballots.”

Takeaways on Trump, Voter Fraud and the Election
A New York Times Magazine investigation finds that misleading and false claims about widespread voter fraud are part of a long disinformation effort that the president has taken to new extremes.
nytimes.com

7:43 AM · Oct 1, 2020

 

[Blackfyre]

@jaketapper
Cornell study: “the President of the United States was likely the largest driver of the COVID-19 misinformation ‘infodemic’.”

https://int.nyt.com/data/documentto...bmitted-07-23-20-1/080839ac0c22bca8/full.pdf…
7:46 AM · Oct 1, 2020

 

[Blackfyre]

As Kim wooed Trump with ‘love letters,’ he kept building his nuclear capability, intelligence shows
The two-year relationship between Trump and Kim bought a freeze in testing, but all along the North Korean was expanding his arsenal and digging new bunkers.
washingtonpost.com
8:15 AM · Oct 1, 2020

 

[Blackfyre]

@kylegriffin1
U.S. intelligence and homeland security officials have been worried for some time that Trump's fake warnings about voting are a signal to outside powers — chiefly the Russians — for their disinformation campaigns.

Tuesday’s Debate Made Clear the Gravest Threat to the Election: The President Himself
President Trump’s unwillingness to say he would abide by the result and his disinformation campaign about election fraud went beyond anything President Vladimir V. Putin could have imagined.
nytimes.com
10:00 AM · Oct 1, 2020

 

[88m3]

DeVos to Be Investigated for Potential Violation of Ethics Law

 

[88m3]

Michigan man pleads guilty to threatening to shoot Black family at church, prosecutors say

 

[Blackfyre]

@KateBennett_DC
Trump requires food aid boxes to come with a letter from him - via ⁦@hbottemiller⁩
Trump requires food aid boxes to come with a letter from him
“In my 30 years of doing this work, I've never seen something this egregious,” one food bank director said.
politico.com
7:42 AM · Oct 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/intent/like?ref...1632565929947136&tweet_id=1311632565929947136

 

[88m3]

E.P.A. Rejects Its Own Findings That a Pesticide Harms Children’s Brains

got to get these guys out of here

 

[88m3]

Unions Play a Major Role in Helping America’s Middle Class - Center for American Progress Action

 

[Blackfyre]

@mkraju
Some GOP senators up for re-election not touching Trump’s white supremacy comments.
“I’m not commenting. I didn’t see the debate,” said GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan. Joni Ernst, in tough race in Iowa, waved off a question from @tedbarrettcnn when asked about Trump’s debate comment
11:46 AM · Oct 1, 2020

 

[Blackfyre]

@KateBennett_DC
Trump requires food aid boxes to come with a letter from him - via ⁦@hbottemiller⁩

Trump requires food aid boxes to come with a letter from him
“In my 30 years of doing this work, I've never seen something this egregious,” one food bank director said.
politico.com
7:42 AM · Oct 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/intent/like?ref...1632565929947136&tweet_id=1311632565929947136

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

 

[Blackfyre]

@DonaldJTrumpJr
Did the phrase "stand by" have a different meaning to the media when Obama used it here?

12:12 PM · Oct 1, 2020

 

[Blackfyre]

@realDonaldTrump
Why would I allow the Debate Commission to change the rules for the second and third Debates when I easily won last time?
2:15 PM · Oct 1, 2020

 

[Blackfyre]

@washingtonpost
Trump cuts cap on refugees to lowest level ever, depicts them on campaign trail as a threat and burden

Trump cuts refugee cap to lowest level ever, depicts them on campaign trail as a threat and burden
State Department notice to Congress cites coronavirus, backlog of asylum claims as explanation for the low number of refugees who will be allowed to enter the country.
washingtonpost.com

2:24 PM · Oct 1, 2020