In which we post yet another ten thousand plus interesting or amusing - or neither - tweets

Left, fantasy: in the fictional Trump memoir You Can't Spell America Without Me (2017), a character I invented was his most loyal aide--a Philippines-born valet named Rodrigo

Right, reality: actual ex-POTUS with Walt Nauta, his loyal Guam-born valet and indicted co-conspirator pic.twitter.com/WxkIY5IK51

— Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) June 9, 2023

 

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Trump's contempt for United States national security, captured in a single photograph: pic.twitter.com/j9GY2ttwFC

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 9, 2023

What this indictment tells us about Trump is bloodchilling.

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 9, 2023

 

Gotta Grandpa Simpson right on outta there pic.twitter.com/nx5h933MXT

— Stacey E. Singleton (@staceyNYCDC) June 9, 2023

 

From the now-unsealed federal indictment of former President TRUMP, on audio recording: pic.twitter.com/mFX6nJJV6H

— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) June 9, 2023

 

From the indictment on where Trump was keeping the papers. On staffer texts another: "there is still a little room in the shower" !! pic.twitter.com/ctaGpxvtxV

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) June 9, 2023

 

“As president I could have declassified it…Now I can’t. But it’s still a secret.” https://t.co/nA1iJIQRfn

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) June 9, 2023

 

Chaffetz is supposed to lend gravitas. He was a congressman.

The classified information was redacted from the image …. https://t.co/Ez8e5Ie4Yu

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) June 9, 2023

 

https://t.co/ATFRUCoucU pic.twitter.com/CTGYSZghZV

— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 9, 2023

 

The guy who'd bring him the Diet Cokes when he pushed the button. Unreal. https://t.co/G19UkTPYMV

— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 9, 2023

 

@Sounders78 do your thing!

Oh my god I forgot his lawyer's last name is Terwilliger https://t.co/M67IRJNDVs pic.twitter.com/oiITir6qi5

— zeddy (@Zeddary) June 9, 2023

 

This is exactly how I felt as the news came out

HOW?

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?

HOW IS IT FUCKING WORSE THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE?

— Cake or Death (@Johngcole) June 9, 2023

 

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THERE’S A GOOD CHANCE I MAY HAVE COMMITTED SOME LIGHT TREASON pic.twitter.com/YxtShN8HP9

— Stone Cold Jane Austen (@AbbyHiggs) June 9, 2023

 

Hmmm okay well that’s just excessive then pic.twitter.com/8XAILWcDon

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 9, 2023

 

CNN chief orders word “indicted” removed from all Trump chyrons

— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) June 9, 2023

 

Like the bad guy monologing his evil plan to the trapped protagonist

— Mike Tremblay 🥥💊 (@mtrem2) June 9, 2023

I mean, this is basically that scene in the pilot episode of "Better Call Saul" when Jimmy has just spent a huge amount of energy in his speech defending the idiot teens, and the prosecutor just lazily drags a TV in front of the jury to show them the tape of what they did.

— Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@SlavaMalamud) June 9, 2023

 

If you look at the charges, Trump is not charged for retaining anything he returned to the government before the subpoena in 2022. How would this have ended if Trump and his team had just given everything back to NARA, as many of his lawyers and advisers argued?

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 9, 2023

 

Stop saying the indictment "tests our democracy."

The actual "test" we face is Trump's apparent crimes and the unhinged GOP defense of him, which effectively posits that any/all law enforcement activity involving Trump is inherently illegitimate, no matter what the facts show.

— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) June 9, 2023

 

It's the pivot to "Parents in Virginia..." in the third sentence that elevates this to art. https://t.co/2E6gLgiOq3

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 9, 2023

 

Ok not so funny now

Deep scary: 1/50 k refers to military scale maps & publicly available US Geological Survey maps of areas mostly surrounding military installations. This isn’t a metaphor. This isn’t slow civil war. This is a congressman calling for the real thing. pic.twitter.com/HvAfn8yT4z

— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) June 9, 2023

 

This would have been a great tweet on January 6, 2021. https://t.co/vPu2ibFBlj

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) June 9, 2023

 

As I have said consistently, President Biden should stop this tortured nonsense immediately. In exchange for former President Trump dropping out of the race for the White House, Biden should pardon him for any and all federal allegations.

— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) June 9, 2023

 

oh so all of a sudden its a crime to knowingly steal top secret documents and wave them around in random meetings while saying “its a crime for me to have these”?!?

— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) June 9, 2023