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July 13, 2019

The sublime Bette Midler perfectly sums up Trump's social media summit

That thing at the White House yesterday was the social media "summit"? With Sebastian Gorka, James O'Keefe, and Charlie Kirk? I'm too lazy to look it up, but does summit still mean "the top"? Wasn't this more of a social media latrine pit?

https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1149795358123409408
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/13/1871445/-The-sublime-Bette-Midler-perfectly-sums-up-Trump-s-social-media-summit?utm_campaign=recent

July 13, 2019

Shut your face, Mike.

Vice President Mike Pence

CNN is so dishonest. Today we took reporters to a detention facility on the border for families and children and all told us they were being treated well.


Ida Skibenes ❄️




You just posted this pic. Look at that little girl in the background. How old is she? Why is she sitting there alone? How can she understand the meaning of being treated well? This is bullshit and if you had a heart you would know that.


https://twitter.com/ida_skibenes/status/1149927154714587136

July 13, 2019

Stephen King predicted rise of Trump 40 yrs ago-but says reality scarier than anything he's written

StephenKing predicted the rise of Trump 40 years ago — but he says the reality is scarier than anything he’s written

In his 1979 novel “The Dead Zone,” King imagined the political rise of “real estate con man” Greg Stillson, whom he described as “a huckster from the word go.”

“I was sort of convinced that it was possible that a politician would arise who was so outside the mainstream and so willing to say anything that he would capture the imaginations of the American people,” King explained in the clip.

King, a fervent critic of Trump in recent years, didn’t believe he’d “necessarily predicted” Trump’s political ascent with the book, however.

“I know that American voters have always had a real attraction to outsiders with the same kind of right-wing ‘America First’ policy,” he noted. “And if that reminds people of Trump, I can’t be sorry because it was a character that I wrote. It was a boogeyman of mine and I never wanted to see him actually on the American political scene but we do seem to have a Greg Stillson as president of the United States.”

VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1149684335127093248
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-king-donald-trump_n_5d29a1f7e4b02a5a5d5b2d7d

July 13, 2019

WOW! Just Wait...

July 13, 2019

Buttigieg quotes from the Bible as he comments on Pence's visit to Texas.


“Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.” (Heb 13:3)



https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1149840135267028992
ttps://twitter.com/costareports/status/1150013302136815617
July 13, 2019

"The Stench Was Horrendous."



Pool report: "Pence walked into the room a few moments after us. He paused for a moment ... It was quite humid and there was a notable smell of sweat in the air. He didn’t say anything. Only watched. And then he was escorted out. It was a striking visual."








https://twitter.com/DavidNakamura/status/1149817569668423686


VIDEO:
https://www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/new-footage-shows-severe-overcrowding-at-texas-detainment-facility-63762501913?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_hb
July 12, 2019

Florida reporter drops new bombshell on Epstein while blasting resigning Acosta

Following the abrupt resignation of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta on Friday morning after being dogged by accusations of giving a sweetheart deal to accused child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, MSNBC was able to get the Miami Herald reporter whose dogged pursuit of the truth led to the arrest on Epstein again on the phone.

Speaking with host Stephanie Ruhle, the Herald’s Julie K. Brown said she was surprised — but not that surprised.


“I’m surprised it happened this fast,” Brown conceded, before adding, “But, you know, that press conference that he gave the other day didn’t do him any good. Practically everything that he said at that conference was either inaccurate or twisted in some ways to benefit him; to make him look good. In reality, there is nothing here that makes him look good. He dropped the ball on this case.”
She then added, ‘We had been preparing to do a fact-check story tomorrow that would essentially use documents to show everything he said was not true.”

Brown then dropped some new news about Epstein, telling the MSNBC host, “I know for a fact there’s journalists all over the world covering this story now — he [Epstein] had been recruiting in other countries. I’m sure there will be more information coming out not only about his operation, but there were a lot of employees and other people, big people who, if they weren’t involved in the operation, they knew about the operation.”


VIDEO:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/florida-reporter-drops-new-bombshell-on-epstein-while-blasting-resigning-acosta/

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