#Harris #Trump #Debate 🧵
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At last, #Trump is questioned about why he sat by for hours as his supporters stormed the Capitol on #Jan6. He didn’t answer that part of the question & instead moved to other topics.
Trump says “nobody died” on Jan 6, 2021, after describing the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt by Capitol Police. Multiple Capitol Police officers died either that day or in the days to come.
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Another #Trump #ConspiracyTheory:
Trump says #Harris wants to do #transgender operations on #immigrants in detention. He’s referring to Harris’s response to an ACLU candidate survey in 2019 in which she said this: “It is important that transgender individuals who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment associated with gender transition.”
He also thinks kids get operations during the public school day.
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Rather than offer substantive answers on how he would handle some of the most complex #ForeignPolicy issues, #Trump repeatedly claims, baselessly, that seismic events like #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine or #Hamas’s Oct 7 attack on #Israel — & Israel’s subsequent war in #Gaza — would not have happened under his watch.
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#Trump often talks about #strongmen loving him, including his relationships with #Hungary Prime Minister Viktor #Orban, #Russia President Vladimir #Putin & #NorthKorea leader #KimJongUn. He brags about the “love letters” from Kim Jong Un. Tonight, Harris is saying these world leaders want Trump back in office because they can manipulate him.
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Reportedly, #Trump advisers are livid that #ABC is periodically fact-checking him. CNN didn’t do that, for better or worse, in the last #debate. You’re going to see a lot of #GOP attacks on ABC tonight.
I’ll say this, the moderators are DEFINITELY allowing Trump to “respond” to #KamalaHarris’ answers FAR MORE than they’re allowing Harris to reply to his.
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#Trump says that if he were president, the #war in #Gaza “would never have started ... #Russia would have never, ever, ever have gone into #Ukraine & killed millions of people.” He doesn’t explain why/how. On the other hand, he says, #KamalaHarris “hates #Israel.” [um, ok, her husband is Jewish, idiot]. Trump also falsely claims she “hates the Arab population, because the whole place is going to get blown up...Arabs, Jewish people” & Israel won’t even be a country any more if Harris is elected.
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#KamalaHarris strikes back with one of Trump’s favorite insults: #Trump is “#weak” on #ForeignPolicy. He “wants to be a #dictator.” He "told #Putin he can “do whatever the hell he wants” if Trump is reelected.
Trump would not say he wants #Ukraine to win the war with #Russia, & he would not say he has any regrets about #Jan6.
#tyranny #autocracy #authoritarianism #violence #FarRight #NationalSecurity #democracy #law
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#Trump has brought up #Biden repeatedly tonight, underscoring his struggle to adjust to running against #KamalaHarris.
Also notable: Trump keeps addressing #ABC #debate moderator #DavidMuir directly in his answers but ignoring #LinseyDavis — & often, #Harris herself.
[Biden & Muir are white men. Davis & Harris are women of color]
“Quiet, please,” Trump says to Harris as he’s responding to her last answer.
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#Trump attempts to make the case for why his friendliness w/various #dictators is an asset. He talks, as he has before, about how well he knows #Russia President Vladimir #Putin. It’s that relationship, he thinks, that would make a difference. #Biden doesn’t even know how to talk to Putin, he says. "He had no idea how to talk to him. He had no idea how to stop [Russia’s invasion]… & it’s only getting worse. And it could lead to WWIII…”
Trump really wants to be running against President Biden.
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After #Trump’s false statement [#lie] earlier in the #debate that people were recruiting illegal #immigrants to vote, #ElonMusk, who boasts nearly 200 million followers on X & endorsed Trump this summer, has just posted again promoting his theories about noncitizen voting.
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Yes my fingers are not as fast as this #debate…
[argh carpal tunnel!!]It’s hard to keep track of the rapid-fire #TrumpLies. Asked how he would end the #Ukraine war “within 24 hours,” #Trump didn’t answer. Instead, he said: “I want to the war to stop … people are getting killed by the millions.” According to the United Nations, from February 2022 to the end of July, at least 11,520 civilians have been killed in Ukraine.
IN UKRAINE.
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#Trump interrupted Muir to talk about how great he was for #NATO by getting European countries to “pay up.”
Muir: Do you [#KamalaHarris] bear any responsibility for the lethal #Afghanistan withdrawal? #Harris says, “I agreed with President Biden’s decision to pull out. Four presidents said they would, & Joe Biden did.”
Harris seemed to pause conspicuously when she said “this … former president.” #SideEye ️.
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Earlier, #KamalaHarris referenced a #Wharton analysis that predicted Trump’s #economic plan would boost the #deficit. In response, #Trump claimed many Wharton professors, “the top professors, think my plan is a brilliant plan.” A Wharton professor has apparently turned to social media to discover if any Trump-affirming colleagues exist.
The 2024 Trump Campaign Policy Proposals: Budgetary, Economic and Distributional Effects — Penn Wharton Budget Model
We estimate that the Trump Campaign tax and spending proposals would increase primary deficits by $5.8 trillion over the next 10 years on a conventional basis and by $4.1 trillion on a dynamic basis that includes economic feedback effects. Households across all income groups benefit on a conventional basis.
Penn Wharton Budget Model (budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu)
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#KamalaHarris’s attack on the #Trump #Taliban deal seemed to have its intended effect…
Best/Worst Trump quote of the night, “I got involved with the Taliban…”
…I mean… how do you get away with a sentence like that?
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@alexanderdyas and literally no one has been able to figure out who the hell Abdul is. Nobody, no journalist, no reporter, no foreign policy analyst or official. Nobody.
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#Trump got $413M from his dad, much from tax dodges
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #InheritedWealth #SilverSpoon #GenerationalWealth #SelfMadeMyth #LyingLiarWhoLies
https://apnews.com/article/0452d29cd2564eaf97605ab90acc3a67 -
Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #InheritedWealth #SilverSpoon #GenerationalWealth #SelfMadeMyth #LyingLiarWhoLies
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html -
Among the various topics touched on during Tues’ #debate was #Trump’s #inheritance, brought up by VP #KamalaHarris as she addressed the #MiddleClass.
How much Trump received has seemingly been a sensitive point for Trump. He has often claimed it was a “very small loan,” but a 2018 David Barstow, [the brilliant] Susanne Craig & Russ Buettner NYT’s report refuted that.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #InheritedWealth #SilverSpoon #GenerationalWealth #SelfMadeMyth #LyingLiarWhoLies
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After reviewing financial documents, the NYT reporters determined #Trump received >$413M — in 2018 dollars — from his NYC developer father, Fred, for years.
According to the Washington Post, Trump benefited from trusts set up for family members as well as loans from his father & his father’s estate. The NYT said it found Trump & his father avoided gift & inheritance #taxes by using a #sham corporation & undervaluing assets.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #debate #SelfMadeMyth
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/general-election/real-time-fact-checking-and-analysis-of-the-final-2016-presidential-debate/fact-check-trumps-claim-that-he-built-his-company-with-1-million-loan/