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So, a thread about all the ways Trump is cheating/breaking rules and laws in the 2020 Election.
This is a big issue, and we need to be talking about it.
Let's start w/his visit to Ohio yesterday. https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1291431249844862981
This is a big issue, and we need to be talking about it.
Let's start w/his visit to Ohio yesterday. https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1291431249844862981
It is not legal for the President to use tax payer funded events, or the any aspect of the Presidency to lodge partisan attacks against Biden. He has a campaign for that. Functionally, he's erased the line between the WH and the campaign. It's illegal. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1291470677208424449
The speeches the President gave from Mt. Rushmore and the WH on July 3/4 were campaign speeches. Central theme of both was need to defeat his domestic political opponents.
He's doing it everyday, and it is wrong. @whca should be calling him out on it. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/04/887346956/in-fourth-of-july-remarks-trump-attacks-radical-left
He's doing it everyday, and it is wrong. @whca should be calling him out on it. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/04/887346956/in-fourth-of-july-remarks-trump-attacks-radical-left
Moving on, it's pretty clear that his campaign has been violating US election laws on a massive scale. This report estimates campaign has illegally spent $170m. $170m. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/07/28/Watchdog-accuses-Trump-campaign-of-laundering-170M-in-campaign-funds/8341595980547/
The President was Impeached for illicitly using the US govt to benefit his re-election as doing so is a felony level violation of US election laws. People go to jail for this stuff. He's doing it again with his attack on the Postal Service. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/us/politics/trump-usps-mail-delays.html
There is a lot of evidence - including his own words - that the President sent troops to Portland not to make things better there but to aid his re-election. That's illegal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/21/once-again-trump-says-corrupt-part-out-loud/
Has any POTUS waged a war against such foundational institutions of our democracy as the Census, the Postal Service, the Presidential election?
All were established in the Constitution. Even his own allies have called for his removal over these attacks. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/897724197/citing-election-delay-tweet-influential-trump-ally-now-demands-his-re-impeachmen
All were established in the Constitution. Even his own allies have called for his removal over these attacks. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/897724197/citing-election-delay-tweet-influential-trump-ally-now-demands-his-re-impeachmen
What are we to make of the President's extraordinary efforts to allow/encourage Russia to intervene on his behalf again? He fired a DNI over it. He's blocked legislation that would make it harder. And his govt is covering up current Russian efforts.... https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/31/nancy-pelosi-william-evanina-russia-meddling-389847
We know the GOP Senate/Ron Johnson are cooking up a late report - using tax payer money - designed to hurt Biden. So apparently is Barr. Dropping these things late make them partisan activities. It's an abuse of power, illicit. It's cheating. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/08/06/is-barr-is-planning-his-own-october-surprise/
And now we have this Kayne ridiculousness. Not legal in US elections to create a straw candidate like this. It's fraud, and it breaks US election laws. This too is cheating. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/us/politics/kanye-west-president-republicans.html
Reviewing all this it's clear that cheating is central to Trump's re-election strategy. It is how he won in 2016, how he's run his professional career. It's what he knows, who he is. But it is wrong, and an extraordinary, ongoing historic betrayal of our democracy, of America.
So, what do we do?
I am a student of @TimothyDSnyder and believe deeply in his first rule of fighting tyranny - "do not obey in advance."
We have to fight what's happening here with all our tools - Congress, state/city AGs, law suits, making it a 2020 issue.
I am a student of @TimothyDSnyder and believe deeply in his first rule of fighting tyranny - "do not obey in advance."
We have to fight what's happening here with all our tools - Congress, state/city AGs, law suits, making it a 2020 issue.
The President is in the midst of a massive crime spree. He's not even trying to conduct his re-election campaign legally. He's just going for it, and knows w/Barr there he can't be prosecuted. His lawless campaign represents a total break down of rule of law in America.
I realize there is a lot to talk about in 2020 - COVID, the economy, health care, racial justice/equity, climate - but what Trump is doing right now is so outrageous, venal, dangerous that we must turn it into a major issue this fall. We cannot look the other way any longer.
And there's more - wild, dishonest, manipulation of media, mis/disinformation. Posts getting taken down, removed, labeled for violating rules, norms. Media manipulation we are already seeing has no real precedent in modern era: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/07/trump-campaign-ad-manipulates-three-images-put-biden-basement/
The President, the WH and the campaign know they are operating every day with Barr not watching over them, but pitching in, doing his part, illegally, as the Attorney General, to support the President's re-election effort. https://www.axios.com/barr-hearing-trump-reelection-fce57e71-63df-40c7-81ef-f4335559c6bd.html
Need evidence the AG isn't counseling the President to respect the legal line between political and official?
Here he is *yesterday* pitching in at a VA GOP event. https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/1291717799283482624
Here he is *yesterday* pitching in at a VA GOP event. https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/1291717799283482624
In a very prescient @NBCNews piece, the great @glennkirschner2 predicted that if our system cannot prosecute candidates for cheating IF THEY WIN, then we are creating an incentive structure to cheat and cheat as big as possible. What we are seeing now. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-indictment-possible-mueller-doj-should-re-evaluate-office-legal-ncna949116
For all those still thinking well there's no way Trump can spoil or seize mail ballots or cancel the election welcome to all the new steps to degrade the USPS, and this truly unbelievable story 
He's capable of doing ANYTHING to stay in power. https://twitter.com/ArielOrtizBobea/status/1291871714654269443
He's capable of doing ANYTHING to stay in power. https://twitter.com/ArielOrtizBobea/status/1291871714654269443
Add manipulation, pressure of social networks to the list of ways Trump is attempting to cheat. Have all the ridiculous Facebook favoritism - below good example - and threatening to ban TikTok - whose users have ridiculed him - right before the election. https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1292109327189278720
Wow, we are really are in a five alarm emergency here.
New story about Trump's White House exploring all sorts of ways for him to cheat in the election; and remember in 2000 SCOTUS intervened to prevent counting of ballots. https://twitter.com/anitakumar01/status/1292087516292681728
New story about Trump's White House exploring all sorts of ways for him to cheat in the election; and remember in 2000 SCOTUS intervened to prevent counting of ballots. https://twitter.com/anitakumar01/status/1292087516292681728
The President's absurd executive orders are another example of his utter lawlessness and disregard for bedrock understandings of how our democracy (any democracy) should work. https://twitter.com/RonBrownstein/status/1292228418281418754
Also had this back and forth w/ @RonBrownstein yesterday. Trump's attacks on USPS, his lawlessness may have broad GOP support for its understood that while it may not save Trump, could keep the Senate close, lessen Dem reapportionment advantage next year. https://twitter.com/SimonWDC/status/1292105499354202116
Found another example of Trumpian cheating - the corruption of our government run global information networks. Thanks to @djrothkopf here. https://twitter.com/djrothkopf/status/1293316738956824580
