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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 8, 2020

Attorney General William Barr's latest outrageous assault on the integrity of the Justice Department, because he's Trump's Roy Cohn.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 8, 2020

Over the past three and a half years, Donald Trump has tried to use almost every facet of the federal government for his own personal benefit.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 3, 2020

It's not just one single Election Day. There is an election season with mail-in balloting and early voting.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 3, 2020

As Americans, I think we need to start changing the way we're talking about this. Nick Tilsen could very well end up being a political prisoner.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 3, 2020

There is an election season with mail-in balloting and early voting.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 3, 2020

We've seen a president hell-bent on tearing us apart and looking to undermine our faith in democracy.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Sep 2, 2020

Vladimir Putin wants and needs Donald Trump to remain in the presidency so that Vladimir Putin can dominate the president of the United States as no one in history has ever dominated an American president.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 1, 2020

If Trump was a Muslim leader, not the leader of the Christian right, how would we in the media describe what he's doing?

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 1, 2020

When you see what Donald Trump is doing, is that any different from what we describe as radicalizing people?

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 1, 2020

We have never had a president do that. And he's getting help from his party and his media outlets who are literally celebrating vigilantism, and turning an alleged killer into their version of a hero.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 1, 2020

The president of the United States is accelerating it. We are living in a time when the president is the fire starter. He is helping to radicalize his own followers, to try to help his re-election.

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Tucker Carlson
@tuckercarlson· Sep 1, 2020

Why haven't we seen the leaders of Antifa and BLM arrested and charged for conspiracy under say RICO, like the heads of the mafia families were?

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Aug 30, 2020

If you start sending condolences to one side and not the other. Praising one side and not the other. What you begin to do is to encourage people to believe or lead them to believe that they have the President's backing when they go out and…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Aug 30, 2020

Trump is -- he loves the bluster. He loves to kind of act like the tough guy. But he often is whining.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Aug 28, 2020

A central pillar of the President's reelection strategy, perhaps the most important, is to use the power of the government that he represents, to create an unfair election on his behalf.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Aug 28, 2020

The Trump camp, including Kellyanne Conway, have been explicit that they think the more chaos the more violence there is in American streets, the more misery there is for Americans, the more it helps them in this election.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 27, 2020

To paraphrase the line from 'The Lord of the Rings,' America has no king, America needs no king. And the majority of us will fight your attempted takeover...

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Bill Maher
@billmaher· Aug 27, 2020

I don't bend the knee. And I get that, that people are pushing back on that kind of stuff.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Aug 26, 2020

Kellyanne Conway who has violated the Hatch Act more than anyone in history went out there and violated the Hatch Act again tonight on television.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Aug 26, 2020

It was obviously a disgraceful use of government facilities, first of all, and then the disgraceful use of government personnel on the job in a convention setting.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Aug 25, 2020

The Republican Party is not the party that looks at that and feels sympathetic impulses or thoughts that they need to express about that.

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Nate Silver
@natesilver· Aug 23, 2020

Whoever wins, the American people should have confidence in that result.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Aug 22, 2020

Yes. It struck me that what happened was some strategists gave him a meeting and said here's some data and here is how we've sliced and indices the electorate.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 20, 2020

And it is a demonstration of the moral bankruptcy, but also the clear and present danger that the Trump administration poses to our freedoms, to our values.

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