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Link: latimes.com/politics/story/2021-01-07/capitol-arrests-in-dc-riots

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President Trump Has COVID-19. Nobody Knows What Happens Now

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for the coronavirus early Friday — 32 days before Election Day and while voters are already casting ballots. It’s a stunning reminder that the northwest gate of the White House, where senior staff, VIPs and journalists gain entry to the 18-acre complex, is made of metal bars and not medical masks or face shields. Campaign rallies, candidate debates and rope lines at airport pit-stops offer even fewer protections — even for the most powerful person in the world.

More 2020 I guess.

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This is just something that I do with my text messages

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All the ugliness of the Trump campaign is on display in Georgia

The president also said last Thursday that Ms. Abrams “is not qualified to be the governor of Georgia.” Ms. Abrams graduated from Yale Law School and worked her way up to become minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, a position she held for six years. She is not only more qualified than her opponent to be governor, she is more qualified than Mr. Trump to be president. What absence of qualification could Mr. Trump possibly have been referring to, other than that she is not white?

I bet Trump hates the WP.

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…pretty much every message I get.

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Trump slams social media firms as ‘silencing millions’

Trump criticized the social media industry last week, claiming without evidence that unidentified companies were “totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices.”

Those tweets followed actions taken by Apple Inc, Alphabet’s YouTube and Facebook to remove some content posted by Infowars, a website run by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Jones’ own Twitter account was temporarily suspended on Aug. 15.

Infowars and Alex Jones do nothing but spread hate.

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If this isn’t politically disgusting I don’t know what is.

Edit: I was bit hasty when I chose the title for this. Not all five have been convicted.

Paul John Manafort Jr. is an American lobbyist, political consultant, and lawyer. He joined Donald Trump’s presidential campaign team in March 2016, and was campaign chairman from June to August 2016. In August 2018, Manafort was convicted of five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failure to report foreign bank accounts.
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manafort

Richard William Gates III is an American former political consultant and lobbyist who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States and making false statements. He is a longtime business associate of Paul Manafort and served as deputy to Manafort when the latter was campaign manager of the Donald Trump presidential campaign in 2016, and after under Kellyanne Conway.
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Gates_(political_consultant)

Michael Dean Cohen is an American attorney who worked as a lawyer for Donald Trump from 2006 until the termination of his employment in May 2018, a month after a federal investigation began. The investigation led to him pleading guilty on August 21, 2018 to eight counts of campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud. In his statement before the court, Cohen said he violated campaign finance laws “in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office,” meaning Trump, “for the principal purpose of influencing the election” for president in 2016.
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cohen_(lawyer)

Michael Thomas Flynn is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General who served in the U.S. Army for 33 years, from 1981 until 2014. In January 2017 he briefly served as National Security Advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump. In December 2017 he pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI (a felony) about contacts he had with the Russian government during Trump’s presidential transition.
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Flynn

George Demetrios Papadopoulos is a former member of the foreign policy advisory panel to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. On October 5, 2017, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents about contacts he had with the Russian government in 2016 relating to U.S.-Russia relations and Trump’s campaign.
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Papadopoulos

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President Trump is tougher on Russia in 18 months than Obama in eight years (thehill.com)

Obama’s lackluster track record with Russia is in stark contrast to what the Trump administration has already done in its first 18 months.

One really has to be careful with headlines like this as it’s implying that Trump is leading the charge on the items listed and linked to in thehill.com article. That’s not often the case. Not really the case at all in the first five pro-Trump links.

5th paragraph in thehill.com article:

Just last April, the Trump administration imposed new sanctions (cnn.com) on Russia…

The Treasury Department announced this and held the press conference. Trump is only mentioned directly a couple of times, once in a White House press release (not the press conference) and then also:

Trump has continued to press for good relations with Russia, Congress and the rest of the administrations have pursued efforts to punish the Kremlin.

8th paragraph in thehill.com article:

During his first month in office in January 2017, President Trump upheld strict sanctions (cbsnews.com) to punish Russia for its unlawful 2014 annexation of Crimea

Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was speaking to the UN Security Council here. Trump is mentioned little in the cbsnews.com article. The only Trump/Jan 2017 quote I saw:

In January before his swearing in to the White House, Mr. Trump suggested that he would also be open to lifting the sanctions imposed on Russia over Ukraine in exchange for a nuclear arms reduction agreement.

10th paragraph in thehill.com article:

In August 2017, Trump signed a bill (cnbc.com) slapping even more sanctions on Russia — this time specifically aimed at the country’s energy and defense industries.

This cnbc.com article doesn’t come across as Trump slapping anybody. From the first few paragraphs, emphasis mine:

President Donald Trump signed the newest Russia sanctions bill into law on Wednesday despite what he called “problems” with the measure.

…

Trump and his secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, had expressed concerns about the sanctions’ possible effects on U.S. relations with Russia. The administration has pushed to improve relations with Moscow…

Sounds like he begrudgingly signed it to me. Definitely not slapping anybody in there.

11th paragraph in thehill.com article:

In fact it was Trump — not Obama — who ordered the closure (nytimes.com) of Russian diplomatic properties…

Again, the nytimes.com article barely mentions Trump specifically, only the State Department. When it does mention Trump it doesn’t say that he ‘ordered’ anything but instead that:

President Trump has kept his distance from the dispute. He expressed gratitude, rather than anger, toward Mr. Putin when was asked about the Russian president’s action to reduce American diplomatic personnel.

So to me the first five links for Trump in thehill.com opinion piece don’t support the “Trump is tougher on Russia” headline. His administration, maybe. Trump specifically, no.

If anything, I’ve learned this past election and presidency to thoroughly read the articles and then also articles they link to.

It’s all too easy to sway a reader’s point of view, assign credit where credit isn’t due, misrepresent what’s really happening, what’s really being said.

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