Trump claims a corner has been turned – it's upward again, flying a white flag of surrender

The hope for a post-Trump era will bring with it already growing challenges to democracy. Along with $3 for a glass of water.

Pres. Obama campaigning for @JoeBiden:

“If he had been focused on COVID from the beginning, cases wouldn’t be reaching new record highs across the country this week… They’re waving the white flag of surrender.” #Vote pic.twitter.com/qJ7OZ5aw8R— American Bridge 21st Century (@American_Bridge) October 27, 2020

From time to time, I like to envision Trump in a mental hospital, devoid of original thought, mumbling the same thing over and over again; and I wonder what phrase he would be stuck on. It has varied over time. If this happened today, I'd go with: “We're rounding the corner.”

— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) October 27, 2020

THE NOTE: COVID-19 positivity rates are going up in 11 of the 13 most competitive battleground states. https://t.co/TVbxxULT43

— ABC News (@ABC) October 27, 2020

“Officials say Russia's ability to change vote tallies nationwide is limited.” As in limited to the swing states??? Seriously, what kind of statement is this?! 1/ https://t.co/w005sXmnrq

— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) October 22, 2020

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— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) October 27, 2020

27 days: The length of Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation process.

What a data analysis of Supreme Court confirmations tells us https://t.co/8cKoEqImEF pic.twitter.com/ty0faLV4bU

— NBC News Graphics (@NBCNewsGraphics) October 27, 2020

To Mr. Justice Kavanaugh: Absentee ballots do not “flip” an election. They are parts of an election. They must all be counted.

— Robert Reich (@RBReich) October 27, 2020

One week before the election and SCOTUS has signaled that they're not afraid to steal the election for Trump. @eenayo offers an important directive: https://t.co/LpN8VbC714

— Nathalie Baptiste (@nhbaptiste) October 27, 2020

Trump wanted United States Government to substitute in his place as Defendant in case arising out of claim he raped E. Jean Carroll and have the DOJ as his lawyer. He wanted case to be Carrol v U.S.A for a rape. The Judge said NO to USA as rape Defendant. https://t.co/v4tUGv2e0m

— Ben Meiselas (@meiselasb) October 27, 2020

Always a coward https://t.co/AfgeNx2ApJ

— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) October 27, 2020

Because sedition:

As the United States hurtles toward the presidential election, the country seems ready to forget that its own homegrown fascism predated President Donald Trump — and to ignore that it will last after he leaves office. Yet for its part, Patriot Front couldn't care less about the results of the upcoming election.

“It does not matter what people personally believe about it,” wrote the organization’s leader, Thomas Rousseau, who did not respond to a request for comment, in one of the chats. “Casting a ballot is a submissive gesture to legitimize tyranny. It is fundamentally amoral. It is done as an insult to the nation’s cause and the organization.”

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Patriot Front formed from the failure of another far-right group, Vanguard America. As one of its two leaders, Rousseau attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, during which a man who marched with them killed counterprotester Heather Heyer. In the aftermath, Vanguard formally dissolved, allowing Rousseau, then 19 years old, to push out a rival and rebrand the group around a cult of personality.

He and his followers are mostly zoomers, born in the late ‘90s or early ‘00s, and circle frequently around topics that include traditional masculinity, weight loss, and white power.

Rousseau keeps strict rules on the conversations in the forum, and his word is gospel. On a typical day, the chats are filled with lies they believe to be real (like antifa starting forest fires), paranoia, and machismo.

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To them, Trump is an old man holding up crumbling institutions, enacting policies that incrementally forward the cause without remaking the institutions themselves. When he’s gone, the rubble will remain, and to many he’ll be nothing but a tool they used to build the white power movement up.

The members of Patriot Front think that time is on their side. And with a leader still in his early twenties, they take a long view.

“There is no ‘endgame,’” Rousseau wrote. “The nation doesn’t ‘end.’ We’re not conventionally political to the point where there’s a defined ‘end’ of service. It’s not an office, a seat in congress, a law, or a percentage of representation.”

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The White Extremist Group Patriot Front Is Preparing For A World After Donald Trump https://t.co/KWkumqU0xn via @janelytv

— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) October 27, 2020

Since his first month in office, Trump has used his power to direct millions from U.S. taxpayers—and from his political supporters—into his own businesses.

In all, he has received at least $8.1 million from these two sources since he took office. https://t.co/PhRu4EjwM1

— Vicky Ward (@VickyPJWard) October 27, 2020

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REMEMBER when @statedept said they had 448 pages of records showing what they'd paid to @realdonaldtrump's businesses…but nobody could see them until after Election Day?

We got their receipts, anyway.

Here's what they wanted to keep hidden.https://t.co/fubxgjRPFH

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 27, 2020

For Trump, there was another, hidden benefit. Money.

At Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s company would get paid to host his summit.

In the next two days, as Trump and Abe talked about trade and North Korea, Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., club billed the U.S. government $13,700 for guest rooms, $16,500 for food and wine and $6,000 for the roses and other floral arrangements.

Trump’s club even charged for the smallest of services. When Trump and Abe met alone, with no food served, the government still got a bill for what they drank.

“Bilateral meeting,” the bill said. “Water.” $3 each.

Those payments from April 2018, revealed here for the first time, are part of a long-running pattern whose scope has become clear only in recent months.

Since his first month in office, Trump has used his power to direct millions from U.S. taxpayers — and from his political supporters — into his own businesses. The Washington Post has sought to compile examples of this spending through open records requests and a lawsuit.

In all, he has received at least $8.1 million from these two sources since he took office, those documents and publicly available records show.

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It’s too late to use the mails. Given Supreme Court rulings I urge everyone to now vote in person; early vote or use drop boxes. Protect your health but don’t let the Court and the deliberately crippled Postal Service deprive you of your most precious civil right. Plan your vote.— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) October 27, 2020

The president complains again that too many tests are being conducted for a deadly disease, since the media can use the results to make him look bad. https://t.co/70AwEq3JOy

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 27, 2020

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