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[R.C. Maxwell 🇺🇸 @RCMaxw3ll]

"The enemy assault has been repulsed. The Americans are being destroyed at the water's edge."

This is what German commanders reported in the early hours of D-Day.

By 11am, Germany got a reality check:

Scattered groups of American survivors, led by low-ranking officers and non-commissioned officers, began scaling the bluffs between the German bunkers.

When the defenders looked behind them, they realized American soldiers had bypassed their front-facing concrete pillboxes and were attacking them from the rear.

By the time German high command realized the first reports were completely wrong, Omaha Beach had been breached, and the Atlantic Wall was broken. 🇺🇸

[Jomboy Media @JomboyMedia]

Phillies broadcasters quickly learned about the power of that wand

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

It’s fucking shameful that Trump isn’t confronted on his election lies more often.

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

Our president tried to steal an election. Unlawfully. Lives were lost, cops were beaten. The president is deeply anti American in many respects. And people who know better pretend that opposition to him is derangement, rather than courage, or more importantly, truth.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

The legacy of this @POTUS won't be the monuments he builds to himself but the destruction of faith in public institutions for his own power and profit.
He wants to rewrite or erase history because he knows it won't be kind to him.

[Michael Freeman @michaelpfreeman]

Credit to Kristen Welker. Many interviewers let him get away with his lies and move on without pushing back that there is no evidence. She held her ground.

And the more she didn’t defer to him, the more he became a petulant child.

[Chicago Sports Network @CHSN__]

Chuck Garfien and Ozzie Guillen remember Stacey King's everlasting legacy

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WATCH: “Where’s the evidence? You’ve never presented any evidence.”

Unhinged, lying Trump has a MELTDOWN and WALKS OFF when @kwelkernbc refuses to let him get away with lying about rigged elections.

Finally some pushback.

[Les Bowen @LesBowen]

Watching Trump’s meltdown with Kristen Welker: I really think he believes, when asked to provide evidence for his claims, that bellowing about how there is plenty of evidence and that “everyone knows” this, is the same thing as providing evidence. He’s exactly that delusional.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

The idea was brilliant. The execution was catastrophic.

Allied planners knew that the men hitting the beaches of Normandy would be cut apart without armor support in those first critical minutes. The solution was the DD tank. The Duplex Drive Sherman. A standard 33-ton Sherman tank fitted with a collapsible canvas flotation screen and two small propellers bolted to the rear. Raise the screen, drop into the water, swim to shore, lower the screen, start shooting. Tanks arriving with the first wave, ahead of the infantry, suppressing German positions before the ramps even dropped.

The concept worked perfectly in testing. The designers had one requirement: waves no higher than one foot.

On the morning of June 6th, 1944, the waves off Omaha Beach were six feet high.

Nobody stopped the launch.

At 5:40 AM, the 741st Tank Battalion began dropping their DD tanks into the English Channel, six thousand yards from shore. More than three miles of open water, in seas that were six times rougher than the tanks were designed to handle. The first tank hit the water. The canvas screen, designed to hold the weight of a Sherman afloat, was immediately overwhelmed. Waves crashed over the top. Water flooded in. The tank went down.

Then another. Then another.

The canvas screens collapsed like paper bags in the swell. Tanks that had been designed to float became 33-ton anchors the moment they hit the water. Crews inside had seconds. Some got out through the hatches. Many did not. The tanks took them straight to the bottom of the English Channel.

Some crews managed to get a radio signal out as their tank went under, warning the following units not to launch. The warnings either did not get through or came too late.

29 DD tanks were launched by the 741st Tank Battalion that morning. 27 sank before reaching the beach. The entire left flank of Omaha Beach, where the 1st Infantry Division was assaulting, had five tanks to support it. Five. Against fortified German positions housing hundreds of machine guns, 88mm guns, and mortars zeroed on every inch of that sand.

The infantry arrived first. Alone.

What happened next at Omaha Beach, the 2,400 casualties, the slaughter in the first ten minutes, the near-total destruction of Company A, is inseparable from the loss of those tanks. They were supposed to be there. They were supposed to be firing at German positions while the ramps were still closed. Instead they were on the bottom of the Channel with their crews.

The story of the 743rd Tank Battalion makes it worse.

The 743rd was assigned to the western sector of Omaha Beach. Their LCT flotilla commander looked at the sea conditions that morning, looked at the waves, and made a different decision. He refused to launch his tanks into the water. Instead he drove his LCTs directly onto the beach and dropped the ramps in the shallows. The tanks rolled off onto sand.

Nine tanks were knocked out by German fire during the assault. But they were there. They were fighting. The infantry had armor.

At Utah Beach, the sea was calmer, protected from the prevailing winds. 28 of 32 DD tanks launched there made it ashore. The infantry had support. Utah Beach cost 197 casualties. Omaha cost 2,400.

The sunken tanks of the 741st Tank Battalion still lie on the bottom of the English Channel off Omaha Beach. They have never been raised. Divers have visited them. Inside some of the wrecks, they found what they expected.

They are still there today, 82 years later, three miles off the coast of Normandy, on the bottom of the sea.

Today is June 6th.

Remember them.

[Leon Scott @McgregorZealot]

@ChuckGarfien @thekapman Was ready to tap out yesterday now he’s excited and wants to take shots after one win. #TakeThat Kap

[Jon Ralston @RalstonReports]

I watched MTP interview with Trump, and @kwelkernbc did what few interviewers do: Plow through his lies and evasions (especially about elections and Jan. 6) and not let him filibuster w/o response. He unleashed a barrage of childish insults before he...walked away.

Kudos.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

Look at the RAGE on his sweaty swollen bright orange face before he crashed out and ran away.

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

This is a devastating interview.

Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.

Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

[Lev Parnas @levparnas]

Enough is enough.

At what point do we stop pretending this is normal?

At what point do we stop allowing @realDonaldTrump to insult women, berate women, threaten women, degrade women, and then hide behind power like he is untouchable?

He has been doing this his entire life.

In business.

In politics.

In the courts.

In the Epstein circle.

And now, as president of the United States, he uses the most powerful platform in the world to attack women who speak out, women who stand up, women who dare to tell the truth.

Look at what he is doing to E. Jean Carroll. A jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her — and instead of accountability, he keeps attacking. He keeps trying to intimidate. He keeps using power as a weapon.

And that is exactly the point.

This is not just about insults. This is about control.

He takes away women’s rights.

He attacks women’s credibility.

He covers up the Epstein files.

He protects the powerful men while attacking the women who survived them.

He wants women silent. He wants survivors scared. He wants the country numb.

I’m asking a simple question:

When is enough finally enough?

When do we stand together and say no more?

No more letting the media normalize it.

No more letting politicians excuse it.

No more letting powerful men abuse women and then call themselves victims.

No more silence.

I am calling on this community — women, men, survivors, parents, citizens, everyone with a conscience — to stand together as one voice.

Protect women.

Believe survivors.

Demand the Epstein files.

Hold Trump accountable.

And stop supporting any media outlet, politician, or platform that continues to sanitize, excuse, or cover for this madness.

Because this is not politics anymore.

This is about basic decency.

This is about right and wrong.

This is about whether we are still willing to stand up for the women of this country against a man who has spent his life degrading them.

Enough is enough.

It is time to stand up.
It is time to speak out.
It is time to fight back together.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

Asked for actual evidence of his claims, Trump throws a tantrum and runs away.

Notice—he never offered a shred or scintilla of evidence.

He just yelled at her and ran away.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Here was a golden opportunity for Donald Trump to finally reveal his “evidence” of election fraud

And he ran away 😂

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Donald had a temper tantrum on national television and walked out of an interview simply because Kristen Welker presented him with a basic fact.

Note to other journalists: now is the time to pile on. He won't be able to handle it.

[Chad Scott @cpscott16]

It is becoming increasingly clear that Donald Trump has little interest in discussing actual policy. At this point, his administration is losing court battle after court battle, and many of his major strategic decisions are falling apart. His polling is awful. So rather than defend those failures, Trump keeps returning to the same conspiracy theories and recycled talking points to drive the narrative.

The best thing the press can do is stop treating every statement as if it deserves serious consideration. When he says dumb shit like he always says, don't even address it like treat it like you would a child...just say "that's nice" and then get onto more pressing business. Or better yet just stop feeding his ego. It is a waste of time trying to decipher some grand strategy behind everything Trump says or does. More often than not, the answer is far simpler: he’s trying to distract from the fact that his policies and decisions are failing. And therefore putting him on is a waste of time because he's just gonna pedal distractions.

[Barstool Chicago @barstoolchicago]

No matter how bad the Bulls got, Stacey made them worth watching.

Forever the voice of the Bulls.