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by Matt_Mickiewicz 3080 days ago
Without his tweets, we'd only know about how crazy and unbalanced he is via the "biased" and "corrupt" and "failing" media... with Twitter, we get to see it directly from his keyboard, thus leading to better debate about his fitness to serve.

P.S. Loved the Full page NY Times ad of his tweets - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cviq5rBWYAQeh56.jpg

That being said, it's a double standard, most ordinary people would have been banned before they tweeted half-way down the first column of what's in that ad...

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> Without his tweets, we'd only know about how crazy and unbalanced he is via

...video of (or live attendance at) his speeches, and via the actual concrete actions he undertakes in government.

Right - things that were not tweets:

* Mocking the parents of a man killed in action serving his country in the military.

* The "grab em by the pussy" tape.

* Racist comments about Mexicans.

* Mocking a disabled reporter

* 'Both sides' about actual nazis.

* Having no knowledge of policy

* Constant lying

We don't need twitter to tell us that he's unfit, unhinged and incapable of doing the job.

What were the racist comments about Mexicans? I know he made some comments about illegal immigrants, but most Mexicans in America are not illegal immigrants.
>with Twitter, we get to see it directly from his keyboard, thus leading to better debate about his fitness to serve.

Yeah but, that didn't stop him from getting elected in the first place, if anything it made him more endearing to his base.

Does anyone have a higher quality image where you can actually read the tweets?
There's a online and updated version here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald...