People ask me this all the time, and it’s the right question.
Why would billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, who has never done any public service (except DOGE, from which he was fired), moved his business and jobs to Texas, declares that Ohio isn’t the best state, won't even drive our roads, has an out-of-state area code, and thinks Ohioans are lazy and mediocre and envious of his riches, run to be Governor of Ohio?
To help everyday Ohioans? To protect our communities from his billionaire class and their big investments? To end the corruption? To lower the costs everyday Ohioans face as the big shots buy off the politicians and make out like bandits?
Of course not.
And why would a billionaire like Musk, with no ties to Ohio, support this guy and ads smearing his opponent?
To help everyday Ohioans? To protect our communities from his billionaire class? To lower costs?
Of course not.
It’s to keep selling Ohio and its assets off for parts to the billionaire class.
While we suffer the consequences of failing outcomes and higher costs.
This isn’t complicated, folks.
MS NOW: Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts were fired last week after refusing to participate in the Trump admin's investigation of Georgia's 2020 election.
The analysts told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and DOJ policies. https://t.co/iVFlFroRue
Brando: "When you step outside of Fox News and their bubble and the MAGA echo chamber, and you go out into the world, Donald Trump isn't respected, nor is he taken seriously. He gets on the world stage and humiliates us. It's one thing when he does it at home, but it's another thing when he does it abroad, because we've lost so much standing in the world, thanks to him."
My observations include that Trump continues to sound terrible and look even worse. He's puffy, lumpy, raspy, craggy, clunky, bulky, blotchy, sweaty, somnambulant, feeble, ungainly, pale, stiff, bandaged, discolored, limp, lumbering, and lopsided.
Hasan Piker: “Lindsey Graham, in a long list of demonic entities, was exceptionally bloodthirsty. A bloodthirsty odious monster who loved war. There was never a war that Lindsey Graham did not fall in love with. Mr. Ladybug himself. A fierce defender of the genocide in Gaza, Lindsey Graham never met a baby in the Third World he did not want to evaporate with American munitions”
Sudden and awful news about Senator Lindsey Graham.
The United States Senate lost a foreign policy giant. On a personal level, he had always been kind, gracious, and thoughtful.
Gisele and I extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and staff.
Your reminder that Lindsey Graham, along with Mike Crapo, Chuck Grassley, Jerry Moran, Mitch McConnell, John Thune and Roger Wicker, voted to convict Bill Clinton for lying about an affair - but acquitted Trump for attempting a coup.
TAPPER: “Iran says the Strait is closed…”
TRUMP: “Don’t talk about it.”
@jaketapper: “Ok.”
Journalism! This is tough to watch.
But hey can’t make things awkward at the White House Correspondents Dinner, right?
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @TheAtlantic cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link:
https://t.co/HhTQ8EoHkg
There has never been a scandal like this involving a First Lady.
The man who brought Melania to America — and introduced her to Trump — spent thirty years working the Russians.
He's still texting her. And now he's inside the US government.
https://t.co/nmEjJfZjcB
He cheated on the mother of his first three kids with the mother of his fourth, cheated on her with the mother of his fifth & then cheated on her with a porn star who he paid to shut the fuck up about it.