Jennifer Tammaro

“I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”

[Jennifer Tammaro @Jennanjack]

@mkraju @DanaBashCNN @CNNSotu "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." --George Orwell, "1984"

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Jacobs to Rubio: "You're saying we're winning because the Iranian economy has inflation and it's costing them millions a day in lost revenue. Well, we are having inflation. It's already cost us an estimated $100 billion, gas prices are up ... "

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

It seems there is an entirely different set of rules for Republicans and Democrats.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

we just want healthcare and lower gas prices

[Acyn @Acyn]

Psaki: What are you hearing from your former colleagues about what's happening inside CBS right now?

MacFarlane: I'm hearing an acceleration of concern about the future, not just of CBS news, but of linear legacy broadcast media already fighting, pushing against the ocean, trying to keep an audience, trying to keep relevant, trying to keep things the way they are…

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Can’t wait for an election where Americans can’t afford groceries and you cut my healthcare and Republicans are like ‘they’re trans-ing the mice’ 😂

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

“Be quiet!” That’s the President of the United States speaking to a female reporter just doing her job, and no one even blinks. He is normalizing aggressive misogyny from the highest office in the nation and facing no pushback. That is extremely dangerous for women everywhere.

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

This shouldn’t have to be said but if you tried to lower penalties for pedophiles you do NOT belong in Congress.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis to CNBC on Bill Pulte: "I don't think he has a prayer" of being confirmed by the Senate.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

We agree.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Yes. I note, too, that Trump calls her "corrupt." Perhaps he has heard the charges of corruption against him? Completely valid ones? After Oct. 7, he started to call Jan. 6 defendants and convicts "hostages." That should have caused general outrage. There was barely a peep.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Here’s a fact check of some of President Trump’s claims, including a bunch of long-debunked lies, from a single softball New York Post interview released this morning.

Claim: “We're the only country in the world that has mail-in ballots.” Truth: Dozens of countries have mail-in ballots, including Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, and Switzerland.

Claim: The 2020 election was “rigged” and has “been proven to be rigged.” Truth: Not rigged, there’s no proof for Trump’s assertion more than five years later, and he lost fair and square.

Claim: Trump won “three” presidential elections. Truth: He won in 2016 and 2024, lost in 2020.

Claim: In the 2024 election, “There were areas that were just rigged…rigged against me.” Truth: Nonsense again; he won that election fair and square but lost some areas of the country fair and square.

Claim: Democrats “could not win” “if they didn’t cheat.” Truth: Democrats, like Republicans, clearly win various elections legitimately.

Claim: California mails out “38 million ballots," and while "some people get three, four, five ballots," "Republicans get, oftentimes, none.” Truth: California mails a ballot to all active registered voters, of which there are 23 million, not the “38 million” figure Trump has used repeatedly; while there are occasional errors by county elections offices and the postal service, there's no general anti-Republican bias in ballot-mailing in the state.

Claim: “I inherited the highest inflation in the history of our country…Biden had like 9, 10% inflation. And I inherited that, and we have it way down.” Truth: The inflation rate the month Trump returned to office was 3.0%, lower than the most recent rate of 3.8%; Biden-era inflation did peak at 9.1%, but that was in mid-2022, and it wasn’t close to the all-time record of 23.7%. Regardless, it had fallen substantially before Trump’s inauguration.

Claim: “We have $18 trillion being invested in the country in just 11 months.” Truth: This is a completely fictional figure. The White House’s own website says there have been $10.6 trillion in “major investment announcements” this term, and even that’s a massive exaggeration that counts vague pledges, not-even-pledges, and pledges that are about mutual trade rather than investments in the US.

Claim: Trump had gas prices at “$1.85 in Iowa” on the day he visited there in January. Truth: The Iowa average gas price that day was $2.57 per gallon, per AAA; GasBuddy found four stations in the state out of 2,036 selling for $1.97 that day, none at $1.85; the station outside the venue where he spoke was at $2.69. (Ethanol-gas blend E85 was around $1.85, but that can only be used in a small percentage of cars, and he didn’t say that was what he was talking about.)

Claim: Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was still wearing a mask “a couple of months ago.” Truth: I've found no evidence for this; the Talarico video many Republicans have mocked shows Talarico wearing a mask in 2022, not 2026.

Claim: Mitch McConnell was “losing by a lot” in the 2020 Senate election in Kentucky but then Trump endorsed him and got him elected. Truth: McConnell, running in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1992, led in all but one public poll in that race, and that one exception was a poll conducted for a pro-term-limits group in which he trailed by just one point; he was always the overwhelming favorite.

Claim: The Jan. 6 attack was “nonsense” in which “the FBI said, ‘Go in. Go in.’” Truth: That was a riot perpetrated by Trump supporters, and there's no evidence the FBI ever told rioters to illegally enter the Capitol. DOJ’s inspector general found the FBI had zero undercover agents at the riot…and Trump was president at the time and had personally appointed the FBI director.

Claim: Former VP Harris “was the border czar” but “never went.” Truth: She went to the border twice as VP, and the Biden administration repeatedly emphasized she was never “border czar” but had a narrower assignment focused on the “root causes” of migration from Central America.

Claim: Under Biden, “25 million people” poured over the border. Truth: This is a further exaggeration from the wildly exaggerated “21 million” figure Trump used to use; even counting “gotaways,” it’s not even close to correct.

Claim: Democrats are so dumb that “we had 11,888 murderers, most of whom committed more than one murder, allowed into our country.” Truth: The federal data it appears Trump is referring to is about people who entered the US over the course of multiple decades, *including during Trump’s own first administration.*

Claim: Under Biden, countries emptied their jail populations into the US – “the whole jail was emptied into our country.” Trump and his team have never substantiated this claim even though he’s made it for years, and experts on global prison policy and on the countries he has previously identified as the supposed culprits have told me they’ve seen no evidence for it.

More details: https://t.co/NtFk7PUfwN

[Variety @Variety]

"60 Minutes" legend Steve Kroft says the news program has become "disastrous" under CBS News boss Bari Weiss.

“It’s the highest rated news program on television, and it has been that way for more than 50 years. The audience was up about 9% last year. Why would you mess with that?" he asks in an interview that's airing after Scott Pelley and other journalists were fired from the show.

https://t.co/P88WxWJPSa

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Rep. Jacobs to Rubio: "It seems like you have an issue admitting facts. You can't say that the president lost the 2020 election…You won't admit that President Trump is losing this reckless war of choice…You couldn't admit that the shoes the president bought you were too big."

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I’m glad one party still supports democratic allies against brutal authoritarian regimes who invade sovereign nations.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

When 60 Minutes is in trouble, we are all in trouble. When Pelley says CBS is meddling in his reporting for political reasons, believe it. https://t.co/lWpjdv1Unm

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

One of the many things that another president will have to rip up and restore their previous beauty

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

MADELEINE DEAN: How many people were killed simply trying to access food sites in Gaza?

RUBIO: Well, since Hamas killed them, you should ask what their role was

DEAN: IDF soldiers shot some of them. Propaganda ain't gonna work with me

[Sam Stein @samstein]

of all the pernicious things that have happened over the past few years I think the effective rebranding of January 6 into an event in which the rioters were the ones who were wronged may best symbolize how bad our politics have become.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

TRUMP: Be quiet. You should be ashamed of yourself. You used to be a conservative from Alabama.

KAITLAN COLLINS: I'm still from Alabama.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump attacking Kaitlan Collins: CNN's a very corrupt organization, with a corrupt reporter standing right there, never smiles. Young, beautiful woman, never smiles. I never see a smile on her face. I see her standing with such hatred in her eyes.