Sam Stein

Sam Stein @samstein

Trump admits he downplayed the virus in order to reduce panic, hours after @PressSec said he didn’t. — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Stein @samstein

Under appreciated point here. Trump knew the disease was incredibly dangerous and airborne. And then he held campaign rallies for weeks. — PolitiTweet.org

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I mean. This alone is a red siren revelation. https://t.co/Qn5Dr9batC — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Stein @samstein

This whistleblower complaint is arguably as big a story as the Woodward book, in that it details existing efforts to downplay and manipulate real time threats in order to suit Trump’s preferred political narratives. — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Stein @samstein

It is an objective fact—one we’ve known for a while now—that Trump was downplaying the virus. It has also been previously reported that he was warned early on that it would be a huge problem. What’s new here is Trump admitting he new the latter as he did the former. — PolitiTweet.org

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“The president never downplayed the virus” @PressSec says of a book in which Trump admits he downplayed the virus. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @seungminkim: Trump raised $210 million in August, per Fox News. Biden raised $364 million in the same month https://t.co/e9nTzyIoxf — PolitiTweet.org

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There is so much in this Post piece on the Woodward book that it’s buried in like the 30th graph that Trump accidentally revealed a new U.S. nuclear weapons system — PolitiTweet.org

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This is like the infamous al Qaeda determined to attack memo. Except, there is literally no ambiguity. And, in this case, the president doesn’t just say he didn’t appreciate the warnings, he says he actively minimized them. — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Stein @samstein

Trump, on the record, admits to intentionally misleading Americans about a deadly virus. Pretty shocking stuff https://t.co/RHvZhiEpaS — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Stein @samstein

Look, who knows how this shapes up. But I still can’t believe that with ~15m people still not back at work because of COVID, Trump and Republicans —IN THE CLOSE OF AN ELECTION—are not taking the offer from Dems to spend trillions of dollars more in stimulus. — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Stein @samstein

This new Priorities USA ad seems as much an effort to send out a scream to the Biden campaign—stay on these messages!—as it does an attempt to win over voters. https://t.co/FEmrt9a4Bt — PolitiTweet.org

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"The truth is that after decades of looking for illegal voting, there’s no proof of widespread fraud. At most, there are isolated incidents — by both Democrats and Republicans. Elections are not rigged." - longtime GOP election lawyer Ben Ginsburg in wapo. — PolitiTweet.org

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Tragic. — PolitiTweet.org

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Let’s do this — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Stein @samstein

A look into the future? —> “Infowars published a list of addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information of electors pledged to vote for Joe Biden" including "spurious claims linking 88 of these electors to Soros and 14 to child sex trafficking.” https://t.co/MtMj3wIXZ7 — PolitiTweet.org

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My heart goes out to the campaign operatives on each side who will have to muster the energy to treat every misplaced word and awkward moment from the opposing campaign as the most existential gaffe/crisis screw up in modern political history. It’s hard work. Be sure to hydrate. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fin — PolitiTweet.org

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“It’s 2016," said one source. "But it’s that plus all Trump has done on voter suppression. So I think there is a question but I think both sides are going to fight this till the very end.” And what's the end? "I don’t know." — PolitiTweet.org

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The biggest question mark is what to do if there's an electoral college/popular vote split again. Sean Eldridge told me his group Protect the Results would respect it. But not everyone in the coalition said they would. https://t.co/MtMj3wIXZ7 — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyways, progressives say they're getting ready for this. Bernie Sanders, a source said, has talked to the report’s author, Schumer, and others about the role he could play. But the author, Rosa Brooks, is worried that prep work should have been happening months ago. — PolitiTweet.org

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But then things just got crazier. Like this: https://t.co/tmadwpHmKA — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden, by contrast, could mobilize influencers, GOP govs, former presidents, and corporate leaders. They predicted FOUR million people in the streets demonstrating if he wins and Trump refuses to concede. And business strikes. https://t.co/MtMj3wIXZ7 — PolitiTweet.org

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The report (based on war games) noted that Trump could “rely on surrogates to embed operatives inside protests to encourage violent action." It said AG Barr could order the seizure of mail-in ballots.  https://t.co/MtMj3wIXZ7 — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Stein @samstein

The group looked over a now famous white paper from the Transition Integrity Project, which we got a hold of. It's, well, startling. The word “violence” is listed 15 times; “chaos” nine times; “crisis” a dozen times.  https://t.co/MtMj3wIXZ7 — PolitiTweet.org

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There is wide consensus that this could be the biggest mass civil unrest moment in decades. One source described the plan as: “Occupy shit, hold space, and shut things down, not just on Election Day but for weeks."  https://t.co/MtMj3wIXZ7 — PolitiTweet.org

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The meeting was two hours. And touched on operational questions: setting up a communications infrastructure, how to fight against disinfo, how to get quick transportation in place if a pol location mysteriously closes, etc... https://t.co/MtMj3wIXZ7 — PolitiTweet.org

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A thread about what's happening now on the Left. Last week, a coalition of leading progressive groups that make up the relatively secretive Fight Back Table discussed, for the first time, how to organize and prepare for post-Election Day chaos.  https://t.co/MtMj3wIXZ7 — PolitiTweet.org

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So the president who has spent years touting the hundreds of billions of dollars extra that he's given to the pentagon is gonna close out the election running against the military industrial complex? — PolitiTweet.org

Sam Stein @samstein

“I don’t know what the strategy is when armed right-wing militia dudes show up in polling places... This Rittenhouse guy is being lionized on the right... If it is being unleashed that you can shoot people and be a hero, I don’t know what preparation we can possibly do for that.” — PolitiTweet.org