I just wanted to say for the record that Dr Fauci did EXACTLY the right thing by pleading the 5th. He remains in my opinion one of the most consequential men of his generation.
It was the best thing he could have done to deny Republicans hellbent on destroying him their search for performative social media clips.
His reputation stands the test of time and will continue to do so when these fools are long gone.
Thanks to Lawrence O'Donnel for his spot on assessment of what yesterday was all about.
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Ben Meiselas on Elon Musk's claim that AI will create such abundance there'll be no need to save for retirement: "What in the con artist crap are you all talking about?"
We knew Trump’s Reflecting Pool redo was a disaster from the get-go.
But this buffoonery…
Yesterday Jeanine Pirro admitted the damage was caused by faulty workmanship and dropped the case.
Today, Trump says he disagrees “100%” with his own hand-picked prosecutor. Meanwhile, the Secretary of the Interior is still insisting it was vandalism.
A clown show.
🚨Oliver Stone is a national treasure for the United States
Oliver Stone Spent Two Years Interviewing Vladimir Putin
Stephen Colbert: Do you trust him after spending 20 hours with him?
01:56 I'd like to see the film.
01:56 I haven't had a chance to see it
01:57 yet, but he's the head of state.
02:00 He has his own interests of Russia, atmont.
02:00 He has his own interests of Russia, atmont.
02:03 I respect him for that.
02:04 I understand why he's doing it.
02:06 He's a strong nationalist.
02:51 There's a tremendous amount of information in it, a lot
02:53 of it, for the first time, we haven't heard.
02:58 I can't tell you how you think.
03:00 I think he's devoted to his country,
03:03 and I'm amazed at his calmness.
🚨 JUST IN: THINGS GOT HEATED ON THE BIG WEEKEND SHOW
@PeteSessions defends to @TomiLahren & @Johnny_Joey his support for a Republican-led bill granting temporary legal status to foreign farmworkers.
"...in order for something to rise to the level of a federal criminal felony threat, first of all, there has to be a clear statement of intent to inflict physical harm. And second of all, there has to be some intent by that person to actually pursue physical harm. If you start with the second part of that, there‘s no chance Jim Comey had any intent to go and come after Donald Trump."
Senior CNN Legal Analyst @ElieHonig on @TheLeadCNN with @jaketapper
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🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed.
The bank says its AML team conducted a careful review that identified suspicious transaction patterns and made the decision under federal anti-money laundering obligations.
Senator Thom Tillis responds to Trump:
“Despite comments as late as yesterday that the fund is dead, President Trump clearly intends to resurrect the payout pot for punks either by inappropriately establishing another bogus fund or pushing Congress to vote for a bill that the majority of Republicans in the Senate would be against.
It’s unfortunate that Todd Blanche, who I consider qualified for the job, will not be confirmed because of this reversal. Hopefully, we can resolve this by Tuesday.”
NEWS: Trump vetoed a bipartisan water project he'd promised Coloradans. Now, according to Lauren Boebert, the real reason wasn't the fiscal concerns his official veto message cited. She says she was told it was retaliation over Tina Peters, the election clerk convicted over the 2020 voting-machine breach, sitting in jail. https://t.co/MdustW8ccZ
BREAKING: UNDER THE BUS! Delusional Trump publicly trashes his own U.S. attorney Jeanine Pirro after she refused to call Reflecting Pool damage "vandalism!"
Donald Trump just turned on one of his own most loyal allies.
In a Truth Social post Saturday, the president publicly contradicted interim U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro over the investigation into damage at the National Mall's Reflecting Pool, making clear he believes she got it completely wrong.
"I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro," Trump wrote. "I don't know what she was thinking?"
Trump insisted the damage was "a pure case of VANDALISM," dismissing suggestions that contractors may have played a role.
"There may have been some contractor difficulty," he wrote, "but the major damage was caused by VANDALS!"
It's a remarkable public rebuke of a woman Trump personally chose to serve as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., and who spent years kissing Trump’s tuchus on Fox News as one of his most loyal public allies.
Yet when her handling of a politically charged case diverged from the president's preferred narrative, Trump didn't bother to pick up the phone – he made her walk the plank for all to see.
As we well know, loyalty for Trump is a one-way street. His allies are expected to stand behind him without question, and when they don't, even briefly, they can find themselves learning about the president's disappointment the same way everyone else does: via public shaming.
Every official who serves under Trump understands the risk. Loyalty flows in one direction. They are expected to defend him without hesitation, but the moment Trump decides they've become politically inconvenient, he has no qualms about dressing them down in public.
Jeanine Pirro is simply the latest reminder that serving Donald Trump comes with no guarantee he'll ever stand by you, and that once he considers you no longer useful, you are finished.
BREAKING: Trump overrules his own Coast Guard and orders 11 giant Arctic icebreakers just because Russia has more – leaving taxpayers holding the multi-billion dollar bag!
Donald Trump reportedly ignored his own Coast Guard experts and ordered the purchase of 11 massive Arctic icebreakers after getting obsessed with the fact that Russia has a bigger fleet, according to a new New York Times investigation.
The Coast Guard’s most recent assessment said the country only needs four or five heavy icebreakers.
Admiral Kevin Lunday, the Coast Guard commandant, told the Times straight up: “The number 11 came directly from the president. This was the president’s number and the president’s decision.”
The Times notes the deal was born as much out of Trump's personal enthusiasm as military planning. After a round of golf with Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Trump reportedly called him late one night and announced he no longer wanted one used icebreaker.
He wanted an entire fleet of brand-new ones instead.
The ships alone are expected to cost nearly $7 billion. The administration also bypassed normal competitive bidding by invoking a rarely used “public interest” exemption so the contracts could move forward without competing bids.
And here’s the kicker: while they found billions to buy the ships, there is no plan yet to pay for the crews, ports, maintenance, and infrastructure needed to actually operate them – costs that could run into billions more.
Where did the money come from? The administration redirected billions from the Republican spending law’s border security funding after Trump decided he wanted more ships than Congress had originally approved.Trump has never hidden his reasoning:
“We only have one,” he complained during his first term. “Russia has 40.”
Experts note that comparison is nonsense. Russia has a far larger Arctic population and relies on icebreakers to keep northern ports open year-round. The United States has completely different needs.
Even the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office is sounding the alarm likening the Coast Guard to “a lottery winner who spends all their money buying the mansion, and then goes broke once they realize they don’t have the money to maintain it.”
This is a perfect example of Trump’s government-by-fiat: decide he wants the biggest, the most, or more than the other guy – then leave everyone else to figure out how to pay for it, staff it, and make it work.
The man is treating the national budget like his personal toy store. If Trump’s ego-driven $7 billion icebreaker shopping spree has you seething, like and share this post.
BREAKING: The U.S. and Israel are planning what would be one of the harshest bombing campaigns to date against energy infrastructure targets in Iran, multiple sources told @CBSNews, with strikes possible throughout the weekend. @margbrennan has details. https://t.co/67GtsafRMH
Mary Trump: "Donald is so unhealthy. He is such a deeply, deeply unhealthy person. He always has been. He doesn't exercise. He eats a terrible diet. He drinks God knows how many Diet Cokes a day. He doesn't sleep. And of course, there are all those undiagnosed, untreated psychiatric disorders."