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Steve Benen
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Rachel Maddow Show producer, editor of The MaddowBlog, and author of Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
Joined March 2009
- Mulvaney said Dems are only seeking Trump's tax returns to "embarrass the president." He seemed unprepared for the follow-up question: Why would Trump be embarrassed by his tax returns? on.msnbc.com/2vSBAz0
- I'd love to hear GOP leaders explain why it's all right for a House Homeland Security Committee member to publicly endorse the dissolution of the United States.
- 1. An FBI official is on record saying @RepSwalwell is "under no suspicion of wrongdoing." politi.co/3QJ1DRL 2. There's something amazing about watching McCarthy engage in actual McCarthyism. on.msnbc.com/3koraDJIf you got the briefing I got from the FBI, you wouldn't have Eric Swalwell on 𝘢𝘯𝘺 committee.
00:00 - Total # of jobs created in 2011: 2.08m 2012: 2.17m 2013: 2.3m 2014: 3.01m 2015: 2.73m 2016: 2.32m 2017: 2.15m 2018: 2.68m 2019: 2.11m Trump says we're currently seeing the most robust job growth ever, but 2019 was the lowest since 2011.
- Texas AG Ken Paxton, already indicted on an unrelated matter, is also the co-chair of ... wait for it ... Lawyers for Trump.BREAKING: Texas Attorney Ken Paxton took bribes, abused office, executives in his office say atxne.ws/3jtklvd
- Quinnipiac poll on Biden's infrastructure plan: Support: 44% Oppose: 38% Same poll after respondents are told the plan would raise taxes on corporations: Support: 53% Oppose: 39%
- It's not every day that senators ask the attorney general to appoint a special counsel to criminally investigate a sitting Supreme Court justice. What's more, the case against Clarence Thomas is quite credible.
- Trump has been accused of disclosing national security secrets so many times that I've put together The Top 10 Instances In Which Donald Trump Allegedly Shared Sensitive Information For Reasons Unknown. (1/11)
- "I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected." Trump may delete this, but I think this is the first time he's said publicly that Russia helped elect him.
- Periodic reminder: as of eight months ago, Michael Cohen was a finance chairman of the Republican National Committee.Michael Cohen is a convicted felon who has consistently engaged in deceptive and misleading criminal behavior including tax evasion, lying to financial institutions, and lying to Congress. For example ⬇️ washingtonpost.com/politics/micha…
- Jim Jordan in July. "If [Jan. 6 investigators] call me, I got nothing to hide." Jordan in October: "I've said all along, 'I have nothing to hide.'" Jordan yesterday: On second thought... on.msnbc.com/3nefcee
- Let me see if I have this straight: According to Trump and his allies, his second term would be "nasty," "bloody," and filled with "hardships" for much of the population? There's never been a closing message quite like this one.
- Boebert is currently co-sponsoring two constitutional amendments - banning abortion and imposing term limits - suggesting she's OK with rewriting parts of the Constitution she doesn't like.Protecting and defending the Constitution doesn’t mean trying to rewrite the parts you don’t like.
