In 2016, Trump was asked why he had repeatedly attacked the press.
His answer:
“I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.”
When someone tells you exactly who they are and exactly what they’re doing, pay attention. Believe them.
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, after an American helicopter was shot down by Iran, CNN is finally slamming Donald Trump for saying the war with Iran has ended over 37 times before. It's about time someone call Trump out on his BS.
Of course he inconvenienced an entire city. Of course he was booed mercilessly. Of course he fell asleep. And of course the Knicks lost their first game of the NBA finals.
TRUMP. RUINS. EVERY. FUCKING. THING. HE. TOUCHES.
He was supposed to be on vacation.
Spencer Stone was 23 years old, half asleep in his seat aboard a high-speed train racing through Europe toward Paris. Beside him were his two closest friends from Sacramento — Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler.
Three childhood friends backpacking across Europe before life carried them in different directions.
It was August 21, 2015.
Train: Thalys 9364.
Passengers onboard: 554.
Then the bathroom door opened.
A man stepped into the aisle carrying an AK-47.
Panic exploded instantly.
People screamed.
Passengers dove beneath seats.
A French-American professor named Mark Moogalian lunged at the attacker in a desperate attempt to stop him first.
He was shot in the back.
The attacker was armed with:
an assault rifle,
a pistol,
a box cutter,
and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
The train was sealed shut and moving nearly 200 miles per hour.
There was nowhere to run.
Spencer Stone stood up anyway.
No speech.
No discussion.
No time to think.
He sprinted directly toward the gunman.
Alek Skarlatos charged behind him.
Anthony Sadler followed.
Then a 62-year-old British businessman named Chris Norman — a complete stranger to the others — joined the attack too.
Every instinct in the human body says to run from danger.
All four men ran toward it.
Stone hit the attacker first, wrapping him in a headlock and driving him to the floor of the train aisle.
What followed was 90 seconds of brutal chaos.
The attacker slashed at Stone repeatedly with a box cutter, cutting deep into his neck, face, and hands. Blood poured across the train floor. His thumb was nearly severed.
Still, Spencer Stone refused to let go.
Together, the four men subdued the attacker and tied him up with belts and a necktie before he could carry out a massacre.
Then Stone collapsed.
A deep wound in his neck had come within millimeters of killing him.
But even while bleeding heavily on the floor, Stone crawled toward Mark Moogalian — the passenger who had been shot earlier trying to stop the attack.
With one hand pressing against his own neck wound, Stone worked to keep Moogalian alive until emergency crews reached the train.
Later, surgeons said Stone’s injuries had been dangerously close to fatal.
When he woke after surgery, his first question was not about himself.
He asked:
“Did anyone else get hurt?”
Because of the actions of four ordinary men during 90 seconds aboard a moving train, 554 passengers made it home alive.
Days later, French President François Hollande awarded Stone, Skarlatos, Sadler, and Norman the Légion d'honneur — France’s highest honor.
The world briefly called them heroes.
Spencer Stone brushed it aside with the same quiet answer every time:
“I just did what anyone would do.”
But that is what makes the story unforgettable.
Most people freeze.
Most people run.
Most people protect themselves first.
Spencer Stone ran directly at an armed attacker with his bare hands.
And while bleeding from the neck on the floor of a speeding train, he still crawled toward another wounded man because someone needed help.
Three childhood friends from Sacramento.
One stranger from Britain.
Ninety seconds.
That was all it took to save 554 lives.
🚨 Every Republican present in the House Appropriations Committee last night voted to make THEMSELVES eligible to collect from Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund. I am not making this up.
I introduced an amendment to stop Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President from collecting a single dollar from Trump’s slush fund unless a court actually orders it.
Every single Republican who cast a vote was AGAINST my amendment, making themselves eligible for settlement funds.
Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President, have no business lining their own pockets by claiming they were victims of government weaponization. Trump set up this fund, now MAGA Republicans in Congress are ensuring they all can collect from it.
That is exactly the kind of self-dealing corruption the American people are sick of.
Trump: “when this is over, you'll have a world without a nuclear weapon with Iran”.
FACT: Iran has no nukes now nor did they ever and Obama’s nuclear deal would have ensured this. But you tore it up.
Mockler on Cost of Iran War:
So in New York, they did free school lunches for $300 million a year, put that against the $50 billion, which is a conservative estimate for this war. We could have funded this across the country. How about in Connecticut? They have paid family leave. It was $450 million a year. And it is $5 million to start up. Put that against the $50 billion. It is a no brainer. What about one more in New Mexico. It costs $1.5 billion for free college. We could do that 20 times over with the $50 billion that we've spent.
Off duty police pulls over Hispanic woman driving—while wearing his "Trump 45" shirt.
Cut the woman off in traffic with his gun drawn—then pulled her out of car and handcuffed her.
He never identified himself.
Cop is so MAGA—his truck has personalized license plate "Prez 45."
18-year-old Breanna Pantoja said she felt like she was being profiled—and was not involved in any accident like the cop accused her.
"At first I thought I was getting robbed or something cause I didn't know it was a police officer or anything. All I saw was a gun pointed at me."
The officer has been identified as Lt. Dan Miller—who was previously involved in an on-duty shooting of a Hispanic man in 2017.
That shooting left the unarmed man dead—and led to a lawsuit filed by the Gomez family that was settled for $599,000.
This current incident occurred in the North Riverside suburb of Chicago, Illinois.
🚨BREAKING: ICE agents surrounded the WRONG HOUSE for NINE HOURS… got a warrant… and still arrested the wrong person.
They were looking for Gerson Manuel Portillo-Escobar, a human trafficking suspect who lived at 919 Hamilton Crossings Station, Antioch, Tennessee.
Instead, they targeted someone at 939… a completely different home… and arrested Miguel Antonio Blanco, who has no criminal record.
Agents saw Miguel go inside his own house and decided he was their suspect… Even though they had the correct name, address, and a photo of the actual person, who lived a few houses away.
Miguel told them repeatedly they had the wrong person.
They ignored him.
For nine hours, they called out someone else’s name and tried to get inside.
Then, they got a warrant… forced entry… and took a man who wasn’t on that warrant.
This is a Fourth Amendment violation… you can’t have probable cause if you have the wrong person and the wrong house.
It also raises due process concerns under the Fifth Amendment… because the government doesn’t get to ignore facts and detain someone anyway.
They had the right information… They just didn’t use it.
Graham Platner on Iran: “This is a war that has been started because Donald Trump is in the Epstein Files and he doesn’t want us reading them. This war has been started because Benjamin Netanyahu has been begging for it for 30 years and finally found a president who is stupid enough to do it”