— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) July 30, 2020
As his business competitors could’ve told you any time over the past forty years, Donald Trump has terrible timing. Late July during an election year is absolutely the worst for rolling out a Big New Concept, but hearing all the really important people snub him at Rep. Lewis’ funeral hurt Donny’s ever-sensitive fee-fees. He just *had* to yell out on twitter that Maybe I won’t even let you have your dumb ol’ election, so THERE!!!…
Which not only gave us sane people (Democrats) the chance to point out that (a) we warned you this would happen, and (b) this wasn’t a stunt Trump could pull off with even the faintest shroud of legitimacy… but also required his co-conspirators and other Repubs to disavow their allegiance, as they skittered for cover under the refrigerator from the harsh light of public scrutiny…
It is not the job of the media or anyone else to come up with the most charitable interpretation of what the President is talking about. He’s an aspiring autocrat and if this happened in Africa or South America our media would say so, and there would be bipartisan scorn.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) July 30, 2020
This is what I want to see reporters doing today. Not ringing up election experts to ask, "can he really do that?" Tracking down Republican office-holders and getting them on the record. https://t.co/EcPnJIJVmz
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) July 30, 2020
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