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Richard Stengel
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Former Under Secretary of State in Obama admin & Editor @TIME. Political analyst @MSNOW. Book: "Information Wars." + @rickstengel.bsky.social
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    Richard Stengel
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    Apr 21, 2022
    I always told my journalists, there aren’t two sides to a lie. Yes, you should be non-partisan, but not neutral. Journalists must be biased in favor of the truth and facts. Biased in favor of democracy itself. We protect the press so the press can protect democracy. Let’s do that
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    Richard Stengel
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    Nov 25, 2017
    Mr. President, just to clarify things, I wanted to offer a few statistics. Number of times you were Person of the Year during the 7 years I was editor of Time: 0. Number of times you were on the cover: 0. Number of times you made the Time 100 influentials list: 0. Thanks anyway!
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    Richard Stengel
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    Jul 12, 2020
    We've had presidents who were competent but corrupt (Nixon) and presidents who were incompetent but not corrupt (Hoover), but we've never had a president who was utterly incompetent and utterly corrupt.
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    Richard Stengel
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    Sep 11, 2024
    The most pathetic line ever delivered by a candidate in a presidential debate was when he said, “I saw it on television!”
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    Richard Stengel
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    Apr 3, 2020
    Mr. President, when you've been in office for more than three years, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to blame the previous administration for not being prepared for something that happened on your watch.
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    Richard Stengel
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    Oct 26, 2024
    And, by the way, if you worry that food prices are too high, wait till you have a president who deports half the farmworkers and puts a 20% tax on food from abroad.
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    Richard Stengel
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    Jan 10, 2022
    The great Jim Clyburn on Manchin's insistence that a voting rights bill be bipartisan.“I am a Black person, descended of people who were given the vote by the 15th Amendment. The 15th amendment was not a bipartisan vote, it was a single party vote that gave us the right to vote”
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    Richard Stengel
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    Sep 28, 2020
    Trump paid his daughter, who was a full-time employee of his company, $747,622 in consulting fees on three hotel deals, and then wrote off the consulting fees as a business expense. He's a fraud in every conceivable way possible.
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    Richard Stengel
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    Jun 16, 2020
    If we stopped reporting job losses, we’d have very little unemployment.
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    The Hill
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    Jun 15, 2020
    Trump on coronavirus: "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any" hill.cm/g4vKJ4u
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    Richard Stengel
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    Jun 28, 2024
    A debate where one candidate flagrantly lies again and again without a mechanism for correction is not a debate.
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    Richard Stengel
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    Jan 26, 2020
    Why doesn't Chief Justice Roberts hold Trump in contempt for his disrespect of the Senate trial and his threatening of his chief prosecutor?
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    Donald J. Trump
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    Jan 26, 2020
    Shifty Adam Schiff is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and probably a very sick man. He has not paid the price, yet, for what he has done to our Country!
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    Richard Stengel
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    Dec 9, 2024
    Go to jail for what? For doing their job? For trying to protect the constitution? For defending the rule of law?
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    No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
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    Dec 8, 2024
    Trump announces he wants to throw “everyone on the [January 6] committee” in jail.
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    Richard Stengel
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    Mar 31, 2020
    PLEASE STOP TELEVISING THESE CORONA CAMPAIGN RALLIES LIVE. THEY ARE BAD FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
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    Richard Stengel
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    Nov 8, 2020
    The celebrations look a lot like those in countries that have just toppled a dictator.