Washington Post – Politics:
He cited two shootings to prove that looting led to violence, but one of his examples occurred in a city where no looting took place.
Category: Politics
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Trump battles Twitter for the ability to share his unpopular tweets
Washington Post – Politics:
Polling shows that the president’s normal tweets are received much more positively.
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Ted Cruz offers a very strained defense of Trump’s social media executive order
Washington Post – Politics:
Cruz suggested that social media companies forfeit protections when they are no longer “neutral.” But the law has no such requirement.
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Mailing of ballots to all voters in Las Vegas area puts sharp focus on election safeguards
Washington Post – Politics:
Republicans have seized on accounts of what appeared to be unattended or discarded ballots as proof that mailing ballots to all voters opens the door to massive election fraud.
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Trump just said what Republicans have been trying not to say for years
Washington Post – Politics:
The president revealed his real concern about mail-in voting: He’s worried Republicans will lose more elections.
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The Daily 202: Violent Minneapolis protests give Trump a chance to be the law-and-order candidate he ran as in 2016
Washington Post – Politics:
Nixon won amid the turmoil of 1968, and this crisis could rebound to the president’s benefit.
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Trump wants to win over black voters while his base wants him to be tough. His base is winning.
Washington Post – Politics:
Trump can’t get black voters to see him as an ally when his base wants him to have an iron fist.
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‘The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.’ ‘When the looting starts, the shooting starts.’ Twice in 25 hours, Trump tweets conspicuous allusions to violence.
Washington Post – Politics:
Trump’s dual tweets echo a long-running effort to raise the specter of advocating violence — while exploiting plausible deniability about it.
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No, Twitter is not violating Trump’s freedom of speech
Washington Post – Politics:
Twitter is a private company that can regulate its content how it wishes