Punchbowl: Trump was said to be especially upset about Noem’s response when Sen. John Kennedy pressed her Tuesday about a government-funded ad campaign that Kennedy said only served to boost her own personal name recognition nationall
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
America, this is your next four years, or longer. Oligarchs protected by Trump accusing former public officials of the gravest crimes without evidence or even pretense to provide any. Trial by social media, which of course is owned by said oligarch. Russia in the Wild West 90s.
Judge Merchan takes Trump's sentencing date off the calendar while the parties brief Trump's motion to dismiss the case & vacate the conviction. Sad day for the rule of law.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is threatening to expose republicans for sexual assault and hush money payments if they don’t vote to confirm a guy for AG who is an alleged sex trafficker nominated by an adjudicated rapist and the king of hush money payments. Can’t make this shit up
Conservative lawyer @gtconway3d on Trump’s latest cabinet picks:
“If you were actively trying to do harm to the country, to destroy the country, these are the kind of people, if not the people, you would pick…Mark my word-It is only going to get worse.”
1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️
To everyone who is afraid of what happens next, I share your fears. But what we do next is important.
We have to learn from what happened. And then, make a plan. As we confront a second Trump presidency, here’s a path forward: 🧵
This is Russia’s state-run media airing salacious pictures of the future First Lady, Melania Trump.
This is Putin letting Trump know that he is in charge.
Watch as Trump rolls over.
Before it’s too late to make history transparent and to Trump-proof the past from erasure, Jack Smith and Merrick Garland — yes, that guy — can yet perform a great public service by going fully public:
Russian state TV posts naked pictures of Melania. Putin wants Trump to know he’s laughing at him, even after Trump has spent years carrying his water.
Trump’s response to this will be…interesting.
It’s hard for me to explain the depth of sadness I feel about Jack Smith moving to vacate the remaining schedule in the DC case. All that work. All those filings. And Donald gets to just walk away from accountability. It’s profoundly depressing for those of us who seek justice.