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I agree, he could link more often. Maybe a sources post at the end of his threads.

He generally tends to link the first time he mentions something, but quite often not in subsequent mentions.

theories which at the time weren’t being backed by reporting

All his theorising came from stuff that had been reported.

I found his style a bit annoying every now and again but I think the sensational style of some posts was a reflection of how he saw it and perhaps some excitement rather than hyping for personal gain.

Rudy Giuliani accidentally links to non-existent domain in tweet. Somebody registers it...

Genius

Another senior moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaeKUMD3IHI

And another

https://twitter.com/muhammadlila/status/1068547537945079808?s=21

...aaand another (was in the comments under the last one)

https://mobile.twitter.com/MuhammadLila/status/1069609790802784257

Puerto Ricans in Florida aren't all voting Democratic
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/12/04/democrats-hispanic-voters-2020-222751

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/04/donald-trump-russia-robert-mueller-legal-trouble

could trump pardon himself even if he was done for something as serious as espionage

or would he just flee to russia and live out his days being pissed on by ladies of the night at the moscow sheraton

86,000 tweets in English from 49,000 accounts with hashtag #GiletsJaunes analysed. Seems legit.

Yup. Had an inkling of that going on.

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Incredible... Come on, Mr Mueller, get this creep outta here already...

I very rarely visit twitter, when I do it's to check if a trump tweet someone's posted is real or a parody 'cos I can't fucking tell the difference any more

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As i undersrand it, he can't be prosecuted as a serving president.

He'd need to be impeached first.

He can't then pardon anything.

If he were convicted and pardoned of a federal crime (the conviction has to come first), that requires acknowledgement of the crime. It's not a quashing of a conviction.

But he could also be done on state charges, which is he leverage is being applied in the others involved - those cannot be pardoned by the President.

I don't think it is totally clear about the President's immunity from prosecution. Trump is putting his faith on a legal opinion given for Nixon's White House in 1973 saying that the President was immune but the Vice President was not. It has never been tested in court.
In 1973 Agnew resigned as VP 5 minutes before appearing in court taking a plea deal to avoid decades in jail for mass bribery and corruption charges. 10 days later Nixon fired his Attorney General and his deputy and then the special prosecutor. That didn't save him, he too resigned before facing other charges or impeachment. https://www.msnbc.com/bagman

I could see the orange one following that route, firing all and sundry in some kind of purge to get himself off the hook. But resigning? Not really his MO. Surely he'd have to be impeached, if there were anything that would stick. And would GOP not just vote against or even refuse to try the impeachment in the senate?

So immune or not, with GOP in charge of the senate, does this not make the whole thing somewhat of an academic exercise?

Happy "Cohen and Manafort sentencing memos" day everybody.

We've already been treated to a huge presidential Twitter meltdown...

Oh yes Comey also testifying today too

Shit I've only just seen the tweets! Greatest hits compilation!

I agree, attempting to impeach Trump is lost cause unless he does something so outrageous that Republican senators are calling for it.
Trump is a very different beast from Nixon. I think Nixon understood the difference between right and wrong, once the White House tapes were subpoenaed and his aides began to be prosecuted he became incapable of carrying on government.
Interesting topical historical note: one of Nixon's aides was never fingered for obstructing justice by trying to block the Agnew investigation. His name: George H Bush.