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From 538 Blog, July 18, 2024

Rachel Maddow lists the ways J.D. Vance attacked Trump

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Wanna-Be Trump Assassin: White Registered Republican Gun Nut

Posted earlier at Schools Matter:

Had Trump been neutralized, one may wonder if his supporters would alter their views on the legality of assault rifles. 

From The Daily Beast:

The FBI identified Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, as the gunman who fired multiple shots with an AR-style rifle in a failed assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. . . . During the attack, Crooks wore a gray T-shirt with an American flag on the sleeve, matching merchandise sold by the popular YouTube firearm channel Demolition Ranch. The channel has over 11 million subscribers and frequently posts videos about various types of weaponry.

'So much for Trump as genius': Conservative WSJ editorial drops the hammer on president's trade blunders

'So much for Trump as genius': Conservative WSJ editorial drops the hammer on president's trade blunders: The conservative Wall Street Journal’s editorial page on Friday published a scathing editorial attacking President Donald Trump’s decision to slap key American allies with hefty tariffs on steel and aluminum. “So much for Donald Trump as genius deal-maker,” the editorial begins. “We are supposed to believe his tariff threats are a clever negotiation strategy, but on Thursday he revealed he’s merely an old-fashioned protectionist.” The editorial goes on to slam the president for hitting Canada, …

Former associates confess what a horrible deal-maker Trump was -- who regularly botched his own negotiations

Former associates confess what a horrible deal-maker Trump was -- who regularly botched his own negotiations: Even the conservative Wall Street Journal has figured out that President Donald Trump isn’t the master negotiator he’s long branded himself as — but Trump’s former business associates say they’ve known Trump was bad at making deals for years. Jack O’Donnell, a former Trump casino executive, tells Politico that Trump’s typical negotiating style is to act, as the publication puts it, as a “for-show tough guy.” However, when it comes to the details of negotiating, …

Trump dehumanizes minorities to gain the approval of angry whites -- according to science

Trump dehumanizes minorities to gain the approval of angry whites -- according to science: Writing for the New York Times, demographics expert Thomas Edsall looked askance on President Donald Trump calling members of MS-13 “animals” during a rant on undocumented immigrants and tried to figure out a more scientific approach as to why Trump using the highly inflammatory rhetoric. According to Edsall, “Through gut (or gutter) instinct, Trump has adopted a political strategy designed to exploit anger at and resentment toward immigrants as well as racial and ethnic minorities. …

Trump is 'going down' -- and here are all the reasons why

Trump is 'going down' -- and here are all the reasons why: I’ve been “covering” the Trump story for over a year now, and I’m sick and tired of stacking up the details of his treachery day after day, week after week. What more do you need to know? He’s a lying, thieving, incompetent, ignorant traitor who conspired with the Russian government to steal the election of 2016 and illegally defeat a candidate who won the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots. His presidency is illegitimate, …

'They're laughing at him': Thomas Friedman explains why Trump screwed up the Israel embassy deal

'They're laughing at him': Thomas Friedman explains why Trump screwed up the Israel embassy deal: During a Tuesday conversation with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said that President Donald Trump made a terrible deal, essentially giving away the farm, on any chance of Middle East peace. Friedman explained that the Hamas violence and deaths seen in reaction to the embassy moving to Jerusalem were the radical Palestinian response, but he wondered what Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are doing to work with moderate Palestinians …

Jared Kushner calls 40 Palestinians killed outside Jerusalem embassy opening 'part of the problem'

Jared Kushner calls 40 Palestinians killed outside Jerusalem embassy opening 'part of the problem': Jared Kushner, an adviser to President Donald Trump, suggested on Monday that dozens Palestinians who were killed while protesting the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem were “part of the problem” in the Middle East. While speaking at the dedication for the controversial new embassy, Kushner referred to the protests outside the celebration, where more than 40 Palestinian demonstrators have reportedly been killed. “President Trump was very clear that his decision [to move the …

Author reveals how Donald Trump chased after 'Russian criminal money' to build Trump Tower

Author reveals how Donald Trump chased after 'Russian criminal money' to build Trump Tower: Award-winning Associated Press reporter Seth Hettena, author of the new book Trump/Russia: A Definitive History, explained President Donald Trump’s decades-long ties to the Russian Mob during a Saturday appearance on MSNBC “A new book on the Russia investigation explores whether President Trump is either hiding something when it comes to the Kremlin or was duped by Soviet state craft,” anchor Alex Witt noted. “You have relationships with Russia — between Trump and people around him …

It's now a fact that Russians have compromising material on Trump: columnist

It's now a fact that Russians have compromising material on Trump: columnist: As recently as last week, the president and his Republican allies were hiding behind the claim that “no evidence of collusion” had been found in the Russia investigation. That argument was undermined on Tuesday, as first attorney Michael Avenatti and later the New York Times and Washington Post reported that Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen had accepted Russian-linked money as a “consultant” for a secretive shell company he then used to pay hush money to the …

Cavuto: Is Trump giving the media very real ammunition?

‘You’re f*cking insane’: Internet scorches ‘traitor’ Trump over new bonkers tweet threatening to obstruct Mueller

‘You’re f*cking insane’: Internet scorches ‘traitor’ Trump over new bonkers tweet threatening to obstruct Mueller: President Donald Trump threatened to “get involved” and obstruct special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe in a Wednesday morning tweet — which naturally set off a firestorm by other social media users. The president complained earlier that the Russia probe was a “hoax,” and an investigation into his possible efforts to obstruct were a “trap,” but he issued a threat after insisting he had “unfettered power” to fire anyone in government. The tweets seemed to be …

Scholar Reza Aslan explains why it's time to treat Trump as an enemy of the state -- before it's too late

Scholar Reza Aslan explains why it's time to treat Trump as an enemy of the state -- before it's too late: As we now understand, white evangelical Christians form the core of Donald Trump’s support, despite the president’s abundant and well-publicized personal failings. A recent poll by PRRI revealed that 75 percent of white evangelicals support Trump, apparently an all-time high. This group that has long insisted that a president’s “moral character” was of primary importance has evidently and abruptly changed its collective mind. This article was originally published at Salon It is hardly breaking news that Trump would fail …

Army investigates 101st Airborne chaplains accused of dismantling on-post programs for Jewish soldiers

Army investigates 101st Airborne chaplains accused of dismantling on-post programs for Jewish soldiers: The 101st Airborne Division chaplains have fired the longstanding Jewish lay leaders at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, allegedly without providing any reason, effectively ending Friday night Shabbat services for Jewish soldiers and their families.

Army investigates 101st Airborne chaplains accused of dismantling on-post programs for Jewish soldiers

Army investigates 101st Airborne chaplains accused of dismantling on-post programs for Jewish soldiers: The 101st Airborne Division chaplains have fired the longstanding Jewish lay leaders at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, allegedly without providing any reason, effectively ending Friday night Shabbat services for Jewish soldiers and their families.

REVEALED: Trump used his ‘John Barron’ alias to lie about his wealth — and sneak onto the Forbes 400

REVEALED: Trump used his ‘John Barron’ alias to lie about his wealth — and sneak onto the Forbes 400: Jonathan Greenberg, an investigative reporter who used to write for Forbes, has written an extensively documented article for the Washington Post detailing how President Donald Trump once used his alias “John Barron” to lie about his personal wealth. Specifically, Greenberg says that, while writing up Forbes’ annual list of the 400 richest people in America in 1984, he received a phone call from a Trump Organization official who went by the name of John Barron and who informed …

'Quislings, collaborators and stooges': MSNBC's Scarborough rips into Trump's Fox News 'apologists'

'Quislings, collaborators and stooges': MSNBC's Scarborough rips into Trump's Fox News 'apologists': Former Congressman Joe Scarborough (R-FL) believes that defending President Donald Trump will “forever stain” the reputations some leading Fox News conservatives. Writing in The Washington Post, the co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe slammed the “miserable crew” attacking special counsel Robert Mueller. “These are desperate times for the quislings of Trump,” Scarborough observed. “The cost of collaborating with President Trump in the continued debasement of American democracy is becoming far too high.” He observed that “the …

Trump's Homeland Security will begin tracking news outlets, journalists and ‘social media influencers’: report

Trump's Homeland Security will begin tracking news outlets, journalists and ‘social media influencers’: report: The U.S. National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) will begin creating a database to track and monitor hundreds of thousands of news outlets, journalists, bloggers, and “social media influencers,” in the latest Trump-world development of what sounds like a bad dystopian novel. If you’ve never heard of the National Protection and Programs Directorate, don’t be alarmed, few have. If you think it sounds like something out of a World War II era spy novel, or “Nineteen …