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This ad should be a commercial on primetime television. pic.twitter.com/RAhU8pBKeU
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) August 13, 2022
.@POTUS goes on a bike ride pic.twitter.com/sZQ5RJPYit
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) August 14, 2022
.@POTUS: “The big drug companies spent nearly $100 million to beat this bill. And every Republican voted against it.”
We face a choice: “whether we protect the already-powerful or have the courage to build a future where everybody has an even shot.” pic.twitter.com/XXtBPPXnV2
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) August 12, 2022
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) August 13, 2022
A little nostalgia, for readership capture…
https://t.co/KRhVFeLDab pic.twitter.com/NOAIEhylZg
— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) August 12, 2022
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle:
These "deep fissures within the party" are between Republican officials who defend Trump violently and unreservedly, and those who only do it emphatically. https://t.co/R8p3QdVpw4
— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org (@froomkin) August 15, 2022
… [T]he shifting explanations have made it difficult for Republicans, many of whom are eager to please the former president, to come together with a unified defense. They are divided about whether to attack the nation’s top law enforcement agencies and how aggressive to be in those attacks…
The Republican leaders in the Senate and the House, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, have also said that Mr. Garland needs to provide answers.
Mr. Garland, for his part, held a news conference on Thursday defending the way the Justice Department has handled the case.
“Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly, without fear or favor,” he said. “Under my watch that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing.”…
But… Democrats immediately seized on Republicans’ anti-law enforcement statements.
“I thought in the old days the Republican Party used to stand with law enforcement,” Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And I hope some of them do today because this kind of rhetoric is very dangerous to our country.”
She pointed out that when she reviews classified documents she must do so in a secure room. “I can’t even wear my Fitbit,” she said.
Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has called for the director of national intelligence to conduct an “immediate review and damage assessment” and provide a classified briefing to Congress about the potential harm done to national security by Mr. Trump’s handling of documents.
“The fact that they were in an unsecure place that is guarded with nothing more than a padlock or whatever security they had at a hotel is deeply alarming,” he said on “Face the Nation.”…
"I'm impressed Democrats finally got us to say, 'Defund the FBI.’ That makes you look unserious."
– GOP Congressman Dan Crenshaw https://t.co/sNMFgnkDod
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) August 14, 2022
Yeah, this is gonna fly like a frozen turkey:
Seems like Trump supporters/prominent former Trump administration officials have settled on “he did it but it’s no big deal.”
At least they are no longer spreading conspiracy theories that evidence was planted. https://t.co/wpOA2hpcVp
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) August 14, 2022
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