.@PeteButtigieg is asked what he'd do if Trump calls election a hoax and refuses to leave the White House if Buttigieg wins.
"I guess if he’s willing to do chores we can work something out,'' he says.
Trip Gabriel
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Trip Gabriel
@tripgabriel
Reporter at @nytimes. I used to cover elections. Now I only write about you if you're dead (and don't mind that you don't return calls).
New York, NY
Joined May 2009
- CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
- "The Chinese simply can’t believe their luck... OBBB 'virtually guarantees that China will own the future of solar, wind power and electric cars and trucks, as well as autonomous vehicles' 'And why? Because Rs view those as “liberal” energy sources'
- ‘Dr Oz has never stopped reminding me that I had a stroke,’ @JohnFetterman says at top of a rally in Bucks County. ‘I guarantee there’s at least one person here filing me hoping to catch me missing some words. What kind of a doctor roots for somebody who was sick, stay sick?’
- To accommodate Trump’s sudden decision to speak at West Point, cadets will be called back, tested off campus, then isolated for 14 days in rooms with masks. They’ll eat in segregated groups. No decision on whether family members may attend.
- Opposing $600 benefits to those who lost work in the pandemic, Sen. Kelly Loeffler said people "needed to get back to work and limit gov't dependency." Since 1995, her family's farms have collected $3.2 million in federal subsidies.
- From a disillusioned GOP operative: ‘The Trump campaign is well aware of the organized participation of Proud Boys rallies merging into Trump events. They dont care. Staff are to treat it like a coalition they can’t talk about.’Proud Boys and white power signs in Orlando.
00:00 - 230 years later the President retweeted a fantasy of driving a golf ball into the back of his defeated female opponent
- It was Stephen Miller who pushed the Trump admin to use the ‘nuclear option’ of separating children from parents at the border.
- .@maggieNYT points out Trump & Giuliani called senators during the riot to get them to use the delay to prevent the Senate from reconvening. "Trump’s lawyers have argued that none of the violence is connected to him." In fact, he tried to use the violence to his advantage.
- McSally: ‘Mark, do you agree with the president’s decision to ban travel from China?’ Kelly: ‘Yes, but Martha you would understand this as a pilot: the president did step one of the emergency procedure, but then didn’t do anything else.’
- A NYT fact check you may have been waiting for: "According to Richard Alles, a retired deputy chief with the New York Fire Department, Mr. Trump was not a presence at ground zero."
- Biggs voted against awarding Congressional Gold Medals to police officers who responded on 1/6 to the violent attack on the Capitol by rioters seeking to overturn the 2020 election.Today is Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. I am eternally grateful for the courageous men and women who protect our American communities at the expense of their own lives. I will always Back the Blue.
