Reckoning with Trump's past

[Trump's problems consist of wrongdoing from before election and wrongdoing after election. This blog entry discusses Trump's wrongdoing from before election. The blog entry Trump's conflicts of interest problem discusses Trump's wrongdoing after the election.]

Limited vetting in 2016 election of Trump's past history
In the 2016 election, there was widespread voter dissatisfaction with career politicians seeming to serve their own interests, and seeming not to care about a protracted shrinking of the middle class and deterioration in the economic lives of tens of millions of Americans.

This dissatisfaction was charged up by candidates Sanders and Trump making harsh attacks on a "rigged" political system and by Trump being especially vicious in alleging Clinton corruption.

In this political environment, Trump swept into the 2016 Presidential election with a campaign spectacle unlike anything seen before in American politics.

In the campaign Trump trashed Obama and the other Presidents as being stupid incompetents and touted that he Trump, aided by his supreme "art of the deal" business skills, could fix the country's problems that the other Presidents had failed on.

Trump's campaign spectacle was an entertainment tour de force, which received unprecedented news coverage and free advertising for Trump.

In all the publicity he got, Trump avoided serious thinking by the voters about Trump's past history and the possible consequences in their consideration of Trump as a Presidential candidate.

Trump had fame in his previous life, and there were voluminous news stories over 30 years about Trump's business and personal life.

To the extent there were bad things about Trump's past that were not in the public record, Trump knew what those bad things were, and some Trump associates also possibly knew. To the voters, these were unknowns.

In the 2016 Republican primaries, the other Republican candidates, possibly because they were cowed by Trump, did minimal attacking of Trump about his past history.

In the general election, there was also minimal attacking of Trump by Hillary Clinton about Trump's past history.

Any attacking of Trump about bad things in his past history done by the other Republican candidates or by Hillary Clinton could, as indicated, not include things that were not in the public record (or found by "oppo" research).

While Trump's business experience had great appeal to many voters, those voters probably gave little serious thought about the possibility that Trump had done nefarious things in his business career, and those could be a problem if Trump won the election and bad things came to light after Trump took office.

Risk of bad things coming out after election
The 2016 election had potentially serious adverse consequences for Trump, his supporters and the country if there were unknown bad things from Trump's past history, and, if Trump should win, those bad things came to light after the election.

Bad things from Trump's past history coming out after the election could lessen Trump's moral authority to lead the country as President and reduce the country's trust in Trump. This would be exacerbated if Trump lied and tried to cover up to keep bad things from his past coming out.

Bad things from Trump's past could be used by Trump's political opponents to attack him, and those attacks could impair Trump's ability to carry out his agenda. That would negatively affect Trump's supporters, who wanted Trump's agenda to be carried out.

The attacking of Trump by his opponents for Trump's past misdeeds would divert Trump and Congress from carrying out their functions in the operation of the Federal government. Division in the country would also increase from Trump's supporters defending Trump and his past misdeeds, and Trump's opponents attacking Trump for those past misdeeds. This increased division would be especially acute if Trump lied and tried to cover up to keep the bad things from coming out, Trump supporters supported Trump notwithstanding his lying and covering up, and Trump's opponents increased their attack about past misdeeds due to Trump's current lying and trying to cover up.

The foregoing would happen in the environment that there would be immensely more intensive and broad ranging scrutiny of Trump's past history that would be carried out by the media and by Trump's political opponents.

Trump knew of all the bad things in his past that could come to light after the election. Trump further knew of the above potentially serious adverse consequences for Trump, his supporters and the country if those bad things from Trump's past came out. Those were risks that Trump knowingly took for himself. He also took the risks for his supporters but Trump's supporters did not know of the risk that Trump took for them.

Bad things actually coming out
Bad things from Trump's past are now coming out, and the potential adverse consequences described above are now happening.

Trump can be expected to take the position that, no matter what bad things are in his past and no matter what comes out from his past, there is no recourse against him as President except for the voters to vote him out of office in 2020.

It can also be expected that such a position by Trump would be strenuously resisted by Trump's opponents, and the ensuing political battle would be exactly one of the potential adverse consequences resulting from bad things in Trump's past that come to light after the election.

As stated above, Trump, in running for President, knew of whatever bad things there were in his past and Trump further knew of the potentially serious adverse consequences for himself, his supporters and the country if those bad things from Trump's past came out. Those were risks that Trump knowingly took for himself . Trump also took the risks for his supporters and the country, but Trump's supporters and the country did not know of the risk that Trump took for them.

It can be expected that Trump will take the position that, as between himself and the country, it is the country that should bear all the costs and risk of what Trump consciously and knowingly subjected the country to, and that he Trump should be untouched by the harms he has caused for the country by his choice to run for President.

Time will tell how all of the foregoing plays out for the country.

Trump's conflicts of interest problem

[Trump's problems consist of wrongdoing from before election and wrongdoing after election. This blog entry discusses Trump's wrongdoing after the election. The blog entry Reckoning with Trump's past discusses Trump's wrongdoing from before the election.]

General problem of conflicts of interest
There is long standing understanding of the problem of public officials having conflicts of interest and the need for prohibitions, disclosure and other ways for avoiding or lessening the problem. Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Sector

Public officials are supposed to act for public purposes and not to benefit themselves personally.

If public officials have conflicts of interest, there is a risk that they will make decisions and take actions for their personal benefit in violation of what they are supposed to do.

Further, the mere existence of conflicts of interest engenders distrust of the public official, because the public cannot know with certainty that the public official is acting for public purposes and not for personal benefit. This distrust can metastasize to such an extent a public official does not have trust of the voters needed to make and carry out difficult decisions in his public office.

The best solution to the conflict of interest problem is for there not to be conflicts of interest, which can be done by prohibiting them or insulating them by the use of "blind trusts" so the public official does not know what will benefit himself personally.

Disclosure of conflicts of interest is also a tool, but it is not as good a tool as prohibition.

The worst case is where the public official has conflicts of interest and hides the conflicts of interest.

Exemption of President
18 U.S.C. Section 208 is the general Federal law prohibition on Federal officials having conflicts of interest.

Section 202, however, provides an exemption for the President, the Vice President, any Member of Congress, or a Federal Judge.

Until Donald Trump, U.S. Presidents have been sensitive to, and taken steps to avoid, their having conflicts of interest, and Presidential conflicts of interest have not presented a problem for the country before Donald Trump.

Trump controversially started out his Presidency with an attitude and actions that he legally could have any conflicts of interest he desired, and that he would in fact have and pursue personal benefits  for himself and his family from an extensive set of conflicts of interest.

For news stories and commentary on this, see Brennan Center for Justice, "Strengthening Presidential Ethics Law", by Daniel I. Weiner, December 13, 2017;
Emory Corporate Governance and Accountability Review "Conflicts of Interest and the President: Reviewing the State of Law in the Face of a Trump Presidency" ; POLITICO "Trump owes ethics exemption to George H.W. Bush", by Josh Gerstein, November 23, 2016: and LAW & CRIME,
"Trump is Right, Conflict-of-Interest Rules Don’t Apply to Him",
by Rachel Stockman  November 23, 2016

Past two years
The past two years have evidenced great untoward consequences for the country growing out of Trump's attitudes and actions to keep his conflicts of interest while President and pursue personal benefits for himself and his family from those conflicts of interest.

This has included instances of Trump hiding his conflicts of interest and lying.

Perhaps the leading, most egregious instance to date is the Trump Tower Moscow matter. This was hidden for two years, and information about it, and the consequences from it, are still unfolding.

While Trump had a legal right to pursue his business interests during the time he was running for President, this was a precursor "conflict of interest" that, in the course of two years, morphed into a huge trust problem for Trump and the country.

The precursor "conflict of interest" was that Trump as a candidate may have been secretly doing and saying things to curry favor with Putin in order to advance his Trump Tower Moscow project, and those things were damaging to the country while Trump was helped personally.

For example, Trump alone in the summer of 2016 was questioning national intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 election. The country's intelligence apparatus is important for national security, and it is important that the country have a legitimate faith in the apparatus so that actions taken based on the apparatus have the support of the country. If Trump undermined that faith by what he said in the 2016 election in order to serve his private interests, that would be very bad for the country and it would engender huge distrust of Trump if this was found out after he became President.

To the extent Trump was currying favor with Putin before the election, after Trump won, he was potentially compromised and subject to blackmail by Putin by reason of what Trump did before the election.

This then gets immensely exacerbated if Trump got Cohen to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow project.

The upshot of the foregoing is huge damage to the country's trust in Trump, and, if Trump is willing to do the foregoing in service of his private interests and to protect himself, the distrust spills over to many other actions of Trump and what other things Trump may be willing to do to protect himself.

Currently, legitimate questions can arise as to whether Trump's summit with Kim this week is to further U.S. national interest or to distract from Mueller. If Trump is willing to get Cohen to lie to Congress, Trump himself may lie by saying he has removed the North Korea nuclear threat, when in fact it has not been removed.

Kim is presumably aware that Trump is weakened by widespread distrust of Trump in the United States and Kim potentially can take advantage of the distrust in whatever agreement is made at the summit.

During the past two years Trump has had many other conflicts of interest that are harmful to the country in the way described above.

Republican complicity
For two years the Republicans have enabled Trump's conflicts of interest and increased the problem for the country of Trump's conflict of interests.

The Democrats won the House of Representatives in the 2018 election and should endeavor to undue the damage that the Republicans have done in enabling Trump's conflicts of interest for two years.

Tweet against electoral college

TWEET AGAINST ELECTORAL COLLEGE BY GETTING VOTE FOR #ALDEMS CONG'L CANDIDATES UP

TO: As many #ALDEMS and other Alabamians as we can tweet to:

While #ALDEMS Congressional candidates (except for Terri Sewell) may not win, it is important to get the total vote for them up.

The electoral college, which determines the Presidency, and the United States Senate, are undemocratic and unfair.

It was undemocratic and unfair that Donald Trump became President in 2016 when Hillary Clinton got 3,000,000 more votes.

It is undemocratic and unfair that the 25 least populous states have about one-sixth the total United States population, and those 25 states have 50 of the 100 Senators in the Senate.

This unfairness is  a bone of contention between the two political parties, and that will continue after Nov. 6th.

After the 2018 votes are counted, the total vote that Democratic Congressional candidates get nationwide, compared to the total vote that GOP Congressional candidates get, will be important..

The more the total vote nationwide for Democratic Congressional candidates exceeds the total vote for Republicans, the greater the "unfairness" and undemocratic nature of the electoral college and the United States Senate will appear.

Thus it is important to get  votes for the #ALDEMS Congressional candidates up as much as possible, because all the votes will count favorably in the nationwide vote total described above.

We are tweeting to you to call this to your attention and to urge you to vote on Nov. 6th for the Democratic Congressional candidate in your district.

We want to send thousands of tweets to #ALDEMS and other Alabamians to ask them to join with us, and send more thousands of tweets to #ALDEMS other Alabamians, all to get the vote total up for #ALDEMS Congressional candidates

To join in and tweet with us, please follow Steps One and Two below.

Step One

Click on the below "Tweet here" link  to send a tweet that says,

Tweet against the undemocratic electoral college and undemocratic U.S. Senate. Get vote total up for #ALDEMS Cong'l candidates to do this. #alpolitics
https://trumptweet.blogspot.com/2018/10/tweet-against-electoral-college.html

(After you click on the below "Tweet here" link, you will see a preview of your tweet, and your tweet will not be sent until you click the "Tweet" button in the preview.)

Tweet here

Step Two
Send individual tweets to other Alabamians, which tweets have a link to this webpage. This will be to try to get recipients of tweets to come to this webpage, send their own tweet in Step One, and, after that, join in sending tweets to more Alabamans in this Step Two. The goal here to get a large number of "pyramiding" of tweets going to Alabama voters.

A suggested tweet message to send in this Step Two is:

Help tweet against the undemocratic electoral college and the undemocratic U.S. Senate. Help get vote total up for #ALDEMS Cong'l candidates to do this. https://trumptweet.blogspot.com/2018/10/tweet-against-electoral-college.html

Then find follower lists of Twitter accounts in your geographic area that have a lot of followers. Below are examples of good Twitter follower lists to use for the Huntsville, Birmingham, Montgomery, and Mobile areas:
https://twitter.com/ALcomHuntsville/followers
https://twitter.com/GreaterShelby/followers
https://twitter.com/OTMJ_Life/followers
https://twitter.com/HomewoodHigh/followers
https://twitter.com/TrussTribune/followers
https://twitter.com/ALcomMobile/followers
https://twitter.com/MGMAdvertiser/followers

FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR TWEETING
A. General
This tweeting involves a non-standard use of Twitter, namely, the sending of large numbers of individually directed tweets to followers of other Twitter accounts (not your own followers).
A ground has been staked out with Twitter for this method of tweeting. See letter to Twitter @Support.
The object of this method of tweeting is to get a "pyramiding" of tweets going in Alabama.

B. How to send your tweets efficiently from laptops
In doing your tweeting, you are repetitively sending the same tweet message. This can be done very efficiently, at least on a laptop computer. Get the tweet message on your mouse clipboard, go to the follower list  you are using for your tweeting, start with the first person on the list you want to tweet to, and do this:
1. Right click on person's Twitter name.
2. Choose "open in new tab"
3. Go to the new tab.
4. Click on the "Tweet to" button.
5. Paste the tweet message in the box.
6. Hit the "Tweet" button.
7. Close the tab, which takes you back to the list
8. Go on to next person, and repeat above steps.
You should be able to send 35 to 70 tweets in a half hour. Send as many tweets as you are willing to. Don't worry about any duplication that you think may arise.

C. How to send your tweets efficiently on smartphones
[to be added]



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Increase AL contribution to Dem votes

The electoral college, which determines the Presidency, and the United States Senate, are arguably "undemocratic."

Under the electoral college, Trump became President even though Clinton got 3,000,000 more votes than Trump.

As to the United States Senate, the 25 least populous states have about one-sixth the total United States population, and those 25 states have 50 of the 100 Senators in the U.S. Senate.

Trump has repeatedly bragged about his Presidential win, calling it a "landslide." This has stuck in the craw of the Democrats and accentuated the arguable unfairness of Trump being President even though he got 3,000,000 less votes.

In the 2018 elections, people have become attuned to arguably "unfair" control that the Republicans have over the Senate due to the disproportionate number of Senators that populations in smaller states have.

The contentiousness that this "unfairness" has spawned will continue after Nov. 6th. The Republicans will staunchly defend the status quo, and the Democrats will press the case that the status quo is undemocratic.

Besides continuing to cite the undemocratic result of Trump being President despite getting 3,000,000 votes less Clinton, the Democrats will also likely cite voting statistics in the 2018 elections, such as the total vote that Democratic Congressional candidates get compared to the total vote that GOP Congressional candidates get.

The more that the total vote nationwide for Democratic Congressional candidates exceeds the total vote that GOP Congressional candidates get nationwide, the more compelling the case the Democrats can make about the "unfairness" of the electoral college and the United States Senate.

That excess can also be used for the Democrats to press the case against partisan gerrymandering by the Republicans.

The Democratic Congressional candidates (except for Terri Sewell) may have no chance of winning, but voters should think about getting as many votes for those Democratic candidates as possible, because such votes will count favorably in the nationwide vote totals described above.

This should be used as an incentive and argument to get voters to the polls on November 6th to vote for the Democratic candidates.

Cong'l resolution censuring Trump

DRAFT

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S.,

WHEREAS, President Donald J. Trump (herein referred to as the "President") was a businessman for more than 40 years and developed a multi-billion dollar business in the United States and abroad;

WHEREAS, the President conducted his business as a family business, was never subjected to constraints and fiduciary obligations applicable to publicly held corporations, and practiced extreme aggressiveness in business especially evidenced by hundreds of lawsuits in which he and his businesses were involved;

WHEREAS, the President, in his political campaign to be President, touted his business capabilities and business success as a reason that he would do an excellent job as President for the American people;

WHEREAS, the President did not release his income tax returns as is the norm for Presidential candidates;

WHEREAS, in the election campaign, the President engaged in unprecedented hyperbolic, insulting, demeaning, derogatory, bullying and threatening campaigning, including relentless broadside attacks on the free press as making up fake news and being extremely dishonest people, and saying to his Democratic opponent in a Presidential debate she would be in jail if he was in charge of the law:

WHEREAS, the President, in the campaign, publicly asked Russia to interfere in the election to help him;

WHEREAS, it is fundamental to public office that the officeholder has a fiduciary duty to act for the public interest, and not put private interests ahead of public interest, and strict limitations are in the law regarding conflicts of interest to protect against public officeholders acting to serve private interests instead of properly serving the public interest;

WHEREAS, it is the sense of this House of Representatives that, since being elected President, the President has evidenced in numerous ways that either he does not understand that a public officeholder has a fiduciary duty to act for the public interest, and not  put his private interests ahead of public interest, or else that the President considers himself not subject  to such limitations and that he can and will use his Presidential office to benefit himself and his family and family businesses;

WHEREAS,it is the sense of this House of Representatives, that the President's exempting himself from public officeholder norms has been detrimental to the President's properly executing his Presidential office, including that there has been significant, legitimate opposition to try to force the Present to conform to the norms, such opposition has extended to  more general opposition against the President that impairs the President, has diverted time and resources of the President, Congress and others away from the country's business; and sets a bad example for other public officials who observe the President using his Presidential office for his private benefit, which  may cause them to  do similarly for themselves:

WHEREAS, it is the sense of this House of Representatives, that the President's failure to conform to the aforesaid public officeholder norms as regards the President's business interests has carried over to  other actions by the President that have risk that such actions are for the President's personal and private interests and not in the public interest:

WHEREAS,  it is the sense of this House of Representatives that such actions include the President's continued attack after the election on the free press as being fundamentally dishonest and an enemy of the people, which attack this House of Representatives believes is not in the public interest, but may well serve the President's personal interest;

WHEREAS,  it is the sense of this House of Representatives such actions also include the President's extensive telling of falsehoods to the American people, which this House of Representatives believes is not in the public interest, but which falsehoods may well serve the President's personal interest;

WHEREAS, other such actions include the President's attacks on the intelligence agencies and the FBI, which attacks this House of Representatives believes are not in the public interest, but may well serve the President's personal interest;

WHEREAS, it is the sense of this House of Representatives that the President has declined and avoided subjecting himself to press conferences and other forms of questioning about himself and his actions that could be availed of by the President to provide assurances to the American people and to this House of Representatives that the President's actions are being properly done for the public interest and not for his private and personal interest; and such Presidential avoidance of questioning is a legitimate basis for increased doubt about whether the President is properly discharging his public office;

WHEREAS, it is the sense of this House of Representatives that the President believes whatever he does is beyond reproach and the President seems incapable of recognizing and acknowledging any possibility that he is improperly putting private interest ahead of public interest;

WHEREAS, ultimately, the foregoing may amount to a failure of the President to faithfully execute his office of President of the United States and be an impeachable offense; and

WHEREAS, this House of Representatives desires to put the President on notice of the foregoing by means of this resolution censuring the President for conduct and actions that present a significant risk that this House of Representatives may determine to be a failure on the part of the President to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, this House of Representatives hereby expresses it disapproval and censure of President Donald J. Trump regarding actions and conduct on his part that have given rise to appearances, suspicion and doubt about whether they are for the public purpose and interest or are for his personal purpose and interest and constitute a failure to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States.

Tweet "Trump not wanted in AZ"

ARIZONANS TWEETING TO TELL TRUMP HE IS NOT WANTED IN ARIZONA 

TO: As many Arizonans (and others) as we can tweet to

We who are tweeting to you believe Donald Trump has now proven he is not fit to be President of the United States, and he needs to resign or be impeached.

Nothing will stop Donald Trump other than an uprising of opposition that forces him out of office.

This includes depriving Donald Trump of sustenance he gets from his campaign rallies.

After his Charlottesville havoc of this past week, Donald Trump is seeking to recover with a campaign rally scheduled for 7 pm Tuesday, Aug. 22nd, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix AZ.

We want thousands of Arizonans to tweet to tell Donald Trump he and his rally are not wanted in Arizona on Tuesday.

To help us do this, please follow Steps One and Two.

Thank you.

Step One

Click on the link below to send a tweet that says, "@realDonaldTrump, you and your rally are not wanted in Arizona today. #TrumpRally #PhoenixRally #notrumprallies http://trumptweet.blogspot.com/2017/08/tweet-trump-not-wanted-in-az.html"  (After you click the link, you will see a preview of your tweet, and your tweet will not be sent until you click the "Tweet" button in the preview.)

Tweet here

Step Two
Send individual tweets to Arizonans and to others, which tweets have a link to this webpage. This will be to try to get your recipients to come to this webapage, send their own tweet in Step One and, after that, join in sending tweets to more Arizonans and others. The goal here to get a large amount of "pyramiding" of tweets  going.

A suggested tweet message to send is:

Tweet to tell Donald Trump he and his rally are not wanted in AZ on Tuesday.  http://trumptweet.blogspot.com/2017/08/tweet-trump-not-wanted-in-az.html

Then you need to find follower lists of other Twitter accounts in Arizona that have a lot of Arizona followers. Here are some suggested Twitter follower lists to use.
https://twitter.com/phoenixmagazine/followers
https://twitter.com/phxchamber/followers
https://twitter.com/AZDemParty/followers
https://twitter.com/tucsonweekly/followers
https://twitter.com/TucsonChamber/followers

FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR TWEETING
A. General
This tweeting involves a non-standard use of Twitter, namely, the sending of large numbers of individually directed tweets to followers of other Twitter accounts (not your own followers).
A ground has been staked out with Twitter for this method of tweeting. See letter to Twitter @Support.
The object of this method of tweeting is to get a "pyramiding" of tweets going in Alabama.
(For questions or discussion about this tweeting, go to Google group topic Tweeting for Trump censure.)

B. How to send your tweets efficiently
In doing your tweeting, you are repetitively sending the same tweet message. This can be done very efficiently, at least on a laptop computer. Get the tweet message on your mouse clipboard, go to the follower list  you are using for your tweeting, start with the first person on the list you want to tweet to, and do this:
1. Right click on person's Twitter name.
2. Choose "open in new tab"
3. Go to the new tab.
4. Click on the "Tweet to" button.
5. Paste the tweet message in the box.
6. Hit the "Tweet" button.
7. Close the tab, which takes you back to the list
8. Go on to next person, and repeat above steps.
You should be able to send 35 to 70 tweets in a half hour. Send as many tweets as you are willing to. Don't worry about any duplication that you think may arise.

Trump NV SuperPAC

TWEET AGAINST TRUMP LIES AND TRUMP SUPERPAC IN NEVADA

TO: As many Nevadans (and others) as we can tweet to

We who are tweeting to you are Americans who are angered that Donald Trump is deploying his America’s First Priorities superPAC to attack and pressure Nevada Senator Dean Heller to vote for the Senate health bill and against the best interests of Nevadans. (See Las Vegas Review-Journal,  Super PAC plans $1 million ad buy targeting Heller, The Las Vegas Review Journal, June 24, 2017.

Donald Trump  promised in his campaign he would not cut Medicaid.

Now Donald Trump is hard at work on behalf of the Senate bill that will take away upwards of $1 trillion of funding for Medicaid and give it to the wealthy. 

In his Contract with the American Voter,  candidate Trump committed to restoring honesty and accountability in government,  and to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC. 

Donald Trump, in his inaugural address, said

For too long, a small group in our nation's Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished -- but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered -- but the jobs left, and the factories closed.

* * * * 

What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.

Now Donald Trump has turned around and is deploying money coming from big money donors seeking the rewards of government, in order to benefit the wealthy under the Senate bill and  harm "the forgotten mane and women of our country."

The lies and duplicity of Donald Trump know no bounds.

We want to send thousands of tweets to Nevadans and for Nevadans to send tweets to one another that express the outrage of all of us against Donald Trump and to support Senator Dean Heller to do the right thing for Nevadans, and thereby for Americans generally.

To help us do this, please follow Steps One and Two.

Thank you.

Step One
Click on the link below to send a tweet that says, "Tweet to Nevadans for them and US and against Trump lies and Trump superPAC. #NVPol http://trumptweet.blogspot.com/2017/06/trump-nv-superpac.html"  (After you click the link, you will see a preview of your tweet, and your tweet will not be sent until you click the "Tweet" button in the preview.)

Tweet here


Step Two
Send individual tweets to Nevadans and to others, which tweets have a link to this webpage. This will be to try to get your recipients to come to this webapag, send their own tweet in Step One and, after that, join in sending tweets to more Nevadans and others. The goal here to get a large amount of "pyramiding" of tweets  going.

A suggested tweet message to send is:

Tweet for Dean Heller and for US, against Trump lies and against the Trump superPAC doing ads in NV. http://trumptweet.blogspot.com/2017/06/trump-nv-superpac.html

Then you need to find follower lists of other Twitter accounts in Nevada that have a lot of Nevada followers. Here are some suggested Twitter follower lists to use.
https://twitter.com/reviewjournal/followers
https://twitter.com/nvdems
https://twitter.com/Nevada_Magazine/followers
https://twitter.com/SenDeanHeller/followers
https://twitter.com/News3LV/followers
https://twitter.com/NVGOP/followers

FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOUR TWEETING
A. General
This tweeting involves a non-standard use of Twitter, namely, the sending of large numbers of individually directed tweets to followers of other Twitter accounts (not your own followers).
A ground has been staked out with Twitter for this method of tweeting. See letter to Twitter @Support.
The object of this method of tweeting is to get a "pyramiding" of tweets going in Alabama.
(For questions or discussion about this tweeting, go to Google group topic Tweeting for Trump censure.)

B. How to send your tweets efficiently
In doing your tweeting, you are repetitively sending the same tweet message. This can be done very efficiently, at least on a laptop computer. Get the tweet message on your mouse clipboard, go to the follower list  you are using for your tweeting, start with the first person on the list you want to tweet to, and do this:
1. Right click on person's Twitter name.
2. Choose "open in new tab"
3. Go to the new tab.
4. Click on the "Tweet to" button.
5. Paste the tweet message in the box.
6. Hit the "Tweet" button.
7. Close the tab, which takes you back to the list
8. Go on to next person, and repeat above steps.
You should be able to send 35 to 70 tweets in a half hour. Send as many tweets as you are willing to. Don't worry about any duplication that you think may arise.