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Peter Fimrite retweeted
The disgraced former mayor of New York, Rudy (I was just tucking in my shirt) Giuliani, has threatened to sue me for defamation over an interview in which I never said his name. No one even mentioned him.
I want to apologize to Rudy. Going forward I will be certain to say his name directly.
Rudy, you worked with known Russian agents and their proxies to spread lies about me and my father. Their names are Andrii Derkach, Konstantin Kulyk, Andriy Telizhenko and Oleksandr Dubinsky and more. Kulyk handed you a dossier filled with disinformation. You flew to Kyiv in December 2019 to sit down with Derkach, then went on television with him to sell his bullshit tapes.
Trump’s own national security adviser warned the White House that what you brought back was Russian disinformation. You kept going.
Then Trump’s own Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, sanctioned Derkach in September 2020 as an active Russian agent for over a decade, for spreading the same lies you are still spitting. Four months later, on his way out the door, Mnuchin sanctioned the rest of your sources. Kulyk. Telizhenko. Dubinsky. Eleven people and four media front companies in all. Not sanctioned by me. Not by my father. By Donald Trump’s Treasury Department.
And remember Vienna Rudy. In October 2019 you, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman had tickets to fly there to collect a hard drive, courtesy of Dmytro Firtash, an indicted oligarch who has spent a decade in Vienna fighting extradition to the United States. Lev and Igor were arrested at Dulles holding one-way tickets. You canceled yours the next morning. That was way before a computer repairman in Wilmington was ever a twinkle in your eye.
So please, @RudyGiuliani. Please, please sue me. Discovery will be a joy for everyone.
Peter Fimrite retweeted
Every Canadian needs to watch this and understand exactly what kind of evil we’re dealing with. #NEVER51 always Strong & Free!!! 🇨🇦
Peter Fimrite retweeted
Trump is, and always has been, a Russian asset. Putin has Trump by the shorthairs. He always has. The President of the United States is compromised. Well done America.
Peter Fimrite retweeted
CALL TO ACTIVISM
@CalltoActivism
Rosie O’Donnell has lived rent-free in Trump’s head for nearly 20 years. She knows how to shatter his ego psychologically better than anyone on Earth. Whatever you do, definitely do NOT retweet this video. He would absolutely lose his mind. 😂
Peter Fimrite retweeted
Jon Ossoff is so good at this 👇
Ossoff: When he first announced the tariffs, you remember that? He called it Liberation Day, and it crashed the markets because it was clown policy. You remember that?
OK, so follow me through on this. He announces the tariffs on April 2 of last year. The markets tank nonstop for like a week because it’s a disastrous trade policy, and six days into the crash, April 8, Trump buys millions in stock. I’m talking Amazon, Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway, and then the very next morning, April 9, he posts on Truth Social, quote, “This is a great time to buy.” Three exclamation marks.
OK, now listen to this. Three hours and 41 minutes after that post, one day after he bought millions in stock, he canceled the tariffs and triggered one of the biggest same-day rebound rallies in market history.
He’s trying to get money. And you saw, now he’s offering paid subscriptions to presidential announcements, right? Just understand what’s for sale here: The sitting president’s pronouncements on war and peace and economic policy delivered first to paying customers.
What an absolute crook.
#TrumpCrimeFamily
Peter Fimrite retweeted
Bill Clinton explains how Jon Ossoff’s speech wasn’t just another political propaganda moment behind a podium.
Peter Fimrite retweeted
Ossoff: It’s been amazing to watch this White House melt down over this all week. And about Natalie Harp, these White House staffers are adults, public officials paid by the taxpayer, with immense power in positions of public trust. And whether it’s Natalie Harp printing out Donald Trump’s daily dose of delusion and flattery, or Peter Navarro steering taxpayer-funded loans to Trump family investments, or Pete Hegseth deluding the president daily into deepening this quagmire in the Middle East, no one cares about their feelings.
The sailors on the Lincoln are fighting his war, a war based on lies, while he plays with his new ballroom, flies around on a jet given to him by a foreign prince, and retreats into this circle of sycophantic aides who tell him every day what he wants to hear, not what he needs to hear.
This entire White House is responsible for lying the country into war, and for the rest of their careers, they will be known for having participated in this obscenity.
Peter Fimrite retweeted
Psaki: Why did you invoke Natalie Harp?
Ossoff: We’re in wartime. The commander in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People have lost their lives. Our naval logistics are frayed. The global energy system is in crisis. And he retreats into this bubble of West Wing aides who are his security blanket to make him feel good about himself, to reassure him that he’s doing a great job, to help him while he designs his new ballroom. And he adorns the Oval Office in gold and picks the interior decorations on this new luxury flying palace he received from a foreign prince.
When every single minute of every single day, what the president of the United States should be doing is bearing his most solemn burden of care for the sailors and Marines and aviators and all service members deployed on his orders on the basis of his lies to this disaster in the Middle East
Peter Fimrite retweeted
Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain's 2008 campaign for president, was interviewed on MSNOW. In response to a very general question regarding the Trump presidency, Mr. Schmidt spoke for two minutes and gave the most insightful and brutally honest response of what the Trump presidency has done to our great country: "Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And, I don't say that hyperbolically. He is.
But he is a consequential president. And, he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And, there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.” "When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile.
An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country whose ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.” "It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City.
Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale. And, let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter.
We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are, because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk." @SteveSchmidtSES r/t Ron Tipton
Peter Fimrite retweeted
At long last, the Giants’ farm system is loaded: ‘We were very, very disrespected’ sfstandard.com/2026/08/13/sf…
Peter Fimrite retweeted
Citizens United has destroyed the democracy.
In January 2010, Justice Scalia rendered a separate but equal democracy.
He said if you have money, it’s your First Amendment right to push unlimited amounts of it into any political cause or candidate you want.
Donations are up nine times in 16 year and we skewed the entire legislative agenda toward big business, big food, big pharma, corporate tax cuts, tax cuts for the rich.
We are no longer serving the people. We are serving the donors.
Peter Fimrite retweeted
Paul released 1,100 pages of Fauci's private pandemic diary last week, obtained through RFK Jr.'s HHS, claiming it proved Fauci said one thing privately and another publicly. FactCheck.org and PolitiFact both independently checked the entries Paul highlighted. Neither found a substantial gap between what he wrote and what he said publicly.
Here's what actually fills fifty years of that record. Fauci personally suited up and treated a nurse who caught Ebola in 2014, then hugged her publicly eight days later. He helped build NIH's mRNA research program in the 1990s, which is why a COVID vaccine design was finished within 48 hours of the genome's release. He helped architect PEPFAR, credited with saving more than 25 million lives, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. None of that made it into the diary excerpts Paul chose to release.
A man's actual record is sitting right there. The committee just voted to hold him in contempt anyway.
“The GOP has become deranged and captive to conspiratorial thinking. It draws energy from the dark passions. Many people within the party, especially within its leadership and the right-wing ecosystem, delight in destroying institutions and individuals” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
Peter Fimrite retweeted
Trump on Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis: "If you feel sorry for him, don't feel so sorry, because he's vicious. I really don't feel sorry for him."
Let that sink in. A sitting president is asked about an old man with cancer, and his answer is to tell people not to feel sorry for him.
For us in Europe it is almost impossible to grasp that a country can turn this cold, this depraved. Not disagreeing with, but completely stripped of the simplest form of human decency. To deny a sick man even a single moment of compassion, just because he is a political opponent, is not tough or honest. It is just petty and vile.
And the worst part is not that one sentence. The worst part is that this has become the norm. Think of the children growing up over there right now, learning that this is how a leader speaks, that contempt is strength and that cruelty is something to applaud. That is how a culture rots from the inside, bit by bit, until it becomes normal.
This is not the American people. There are millions over there who are as ashamed as we are, who still have their decency intact. But they have a president who drags the whole nation through the mud, and the world is watching.
It should be beneath any human being to say something like that. That it comes from the man at the top only makes it more disturbing.
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Peter Fimrite retweeted
Here's a clip from when he didn't say, "I always wanted to play it down"
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Peter Fimrite retweeted
They seem to either forget or deny quite a lot.
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