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Trump And Hegseth: We Had Nothing To Do With That Thing That Looks Like A War Crime Both blame the commanding admiral for killing shipwrecked survivors of an attack – an act the DoD’s own manual specifically describes as illegal.

NEW -- LOOK IF ANYONE DID ANY WAR CRIMES IT WAS THAT ADMIRAL GUY OVER THERE WE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT

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White House Throws Commanding Admiral Under The Bus In Killing Of Alleged Drug Boat Survivors Press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the apparent war crime was legal even as she said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knew nothing about it.

NEW — Admiral Bradley? Allow us to introduce you to the underside of this large bus.

Large bus? This is Admiral Bradley.

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Second-Term Tab For Trump’s Golf Hobby Tops $70 Million, On Track To Exceed $300 Million The total would double the $151.5 million taxpayers shelled out for him to play golf during his first term.

NEW -- Trump's golf tab tops $70 million since returning to office and is on pace to exceed $300 million by the end of his term.

Three hundred million.

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'Quiet, Piggy': Trump Insults Female Reporter Asking About The Epstein Files The reaction from the White House press corps to a personal attack on a colleague has been muted — in an apparent attempt to avoid losing further access.

NEW -- Trump calls a female reporter "piggy."

The response from the White House press corps? Not a peep.

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Trump's Account Of His Friendship With Epstein Doesn't Line Up With Trove Of New Documents Trump frequently socialized with the late child sex trafficker and once said admiringly that Epstein liked beautiful women “on the younger side.”

Trump was credibility accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women. He said his celebrity allowed him to grab women by the genitals. A jury found he had jammed his fingers up a woman's vagina.

A little context for the WH's denials of any wrongdoing.

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Trump Finally Meets A Problem His Lies Cannot Overcome: Rising Grocery Prices Trump keeps claiming that prices are ‘way down’ — but with food inflation running nearly twice the rate as it was in Biden’s last year, Americans are not fooled.

Since Trump and his aides keep lying about grocery prices, here are the facts:

Food inflation in Biden's last year: 1.8 pct.
Food inflation since Trump began his trade war: 3.1 pct.

Trump has nearly doubled grocery inflation.

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Your homework for this Friday night:

1) Read his answers out loud.
2) Tell me he's not out of his mind.

You will be shocked, shocked to learn that Trump’s claims about fentanyl and lethal U.S. maritime strikes are false.

Shared my thoughts with @svdate.bsky.social about the real reasons the U.S. is lawlessly attacking these vessels.

Trump’s Summary Killings Of Dozens Aboard Boats Appear Based On A Massive Fentanyl Lie The president has said multiple times that the destroyed vessels were carrying the lethal opioid, but officials have told Congress the boats were carrying cocaine.

NEW -- Trump's claim that the alleged smugglers he is summarily killing without charges or trials are bringing deadly fentanyl to the US is a total lie.

DoD, in fact, has told Congress that they haven't found that opioid in the debris. Only cocaine.

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Trump Marks Full Month Of Government Shutdown With $3.4 Million Golf Trip To Florida The Air Force One trip is his 13th visit to his Palm Beach country club since he returned to office and brings his taxpayer funded golf total to $60.7 million.

NEW -- When the going gets tough, the president goes golfing.

Using $3.4 million of your tax dollars.

While 700k federal workers remain furloughed and another 700k are forced to work without pay.

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Stephen Miller's Wife Threatens To Revoke Trump Critic’s Citizenship After He Insults Her Katie Miller, wife of top White House aide focused on immigration and extrajudicial boat killings, got angry that Cenk Uygur called her and her husband liars.

NEW -- Thinking about criticizing Katie or Stephen Miller? Reconsider, unless you want to get your citizenship revoked.

(Unclear what role, exactly, Katie Miller has in deciding who gets de-naturalized and deported. The White House would not say.)

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That's fine.

If our democracy survives these next years and the worst thing that happens to me is getting insulted by potty-mouthed children, I'll take that win.

Many people are saying that this kind of response in the corporate world would get you at the very least a summons to HR.

In other White Houses, it would get you fired.

In the Trump White House, of course, it likely gets you attaboys and high fives.

Here is the exchange, in context.

The Times' artful wording has naturally Raised An Important Question, namely: What precisely did the White House communications director call me to dissuade me from contacting Stephen Miller directly?

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Trump Creates Another Hero Myth About Himself, This Time Making His Aides Sound Like Fools The president now claims that staff at his own agencies couldn’t figure out where new revenues are coming from until he told them to “check the tariff shelf.”

NEW -- Usually Trump's "sir" stories just have beefy grown men crying because of their gratitude for him.

This one one instead makes his own staff in the WH, at Treasury, at USTR and at Customs sound like ignorant fools who know nothing about their jobs.
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Surprised Trump Is Destroying History? He Did The Same Thing Building Trump Tower. Trump broke his promise to leave the East Wing alone — the same way he reneged on a promise to preserve art deco friezes on a building he tore down in 1980.

NEW -- When Donald Trump reneged on his promise to leave the East Wing alone and demolished it instead, it wasn't the first time he has destroyed history that got in his way.

He did it back when he built Trump Tower, too.

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Top Pentagon Spokesman Jumps Into The ‘Your Mom’ Childish Response Game HuffPost had asked about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s tie that resembled the Russian flag and had won praise from Russian officials.

NEW -- Did you think it couldn't get any stupider?

Sadly, dear reader, you were wrong. It did.

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Karoline Leavitt Shares Screenshot Of Texts With HuffPost Reporter — And It Backfires The press secretary still didn't answer the question we asked her, either.

NEW -- Karoline Leavitt keeps insulting HuffPost, but does not want to answer what seems like a pretty simple question: Who picked Budapest as the next meeting site between Trump and his 2016 benefactor/murderous war criminal Vladimir Putin?

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Getting on 40 years of doing this, and never once imagined I would be writing a lead like this -- not about someplace in South America or West Africa, but right here. In America.

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Trump Says Putin Should Be Allowed To Keep The Land He Has Seized In Ukraine The president met with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, and later stated that the fighting should end and that territorial lines should be where the battle lines are today.

NEW -- Trump is now saying that the battle lines in Ukraine as they are right now should be the new territorial lines -- meaning war criminal Putin would be rewarded for his invasion and keep the land he has seized.

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Trump To Hold Putin Summit In Budapest – Where Russia Promised Not To Invade Ukraine Asked who chose Budapest given that history, top White House aides told HuffPost: “Your mom.”

NEW -- Trump is touting another meeting with Vladimir Putin about Ukraine, this time in Budapest.

So who picked Budapest, the city where Russia promised NOT to invade Ukraine back in 94?

When HuffPost asked the WH, this was their response:

"Your mom."

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David Jolly Takes Bid For Governor To Reddest Stretches Of Increasingly Red Florida The former GOP lawmaker went to his likely opponent Byron Donalds’ hometown for a “town hall” question and answer session.

NEW -- After seven years of DeSantis and nearly a year of Trump redux, are Floridians fed up yet?

The theory of David Jolly's case for running for governor is that the answer is yes.

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As Trump Moves Toward Autocracy, Top Aide Stephen Miller Is Way Ahead Of Him The president’s chief propagandist accuses opponents of “insurrection” and attempting a “coup” — while declaring Trump has “plenary authority.”

NEW -- As Trump rushes the country headlong into autocracy, chief propagandist Stephen Miller is already miles ahead of him.

He calls judges who rule against Trump "communists," Democrats who oppose him "terrorists," and claims Trump has absolute power.

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Trump-Appointed Judge In Oregon Could Slow Down His Push For Troops In U.S. Cities Previous judges who have ruled against Trump’s autocratic efforts have mainly been picked by Democratic and pre-Trump Republican presidents.

NEW — Trump loves calling judges who rule against him DEMOCRAT and LEFTIST and WOKE.

Which is why this one in Portland who ruled against one of his top priorities — deploying the military against Americans — is such a problem for him.

He appointed her.

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As The Shutdown Continues, A Checked-Out Trump Posts Childish Memes The lack of a new budget has not slowed his ability to terrorize Chicago, attack boats in the Caribbean, threaten military deployments domestically — even build his ballroom.

NEW -- Trump is going full steam ahead on his home improvement project at the White House, his military strikes on small, open boats in the Caribbean, his terrorizing of Chicago and his planned invasion of Portland.

Why would he care about a shutdown?

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The Grisly Alternative to ‘Medicaid For Illegals’ Republicans Won’t Talk About: Migrants Dying In Hospital Parking Lots Federal law requires hospitals to treat anyone in a health emergency, regardless of ability to pay or immigration status.

NEW -- Trump's White House keeps complaining about federal money going to treat illegal immigrants in emergency rooms.

Okay, so what is the alternative here? Letting them die outside in the hospital parking lots?

With @ArthurDelaneyHP

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Trump Quietly Grants Defense Guarantee To Autocracy That Gave Him A Luxury Jet Maybe Ukraine should have just given him a gold-plated 747.

NEW -- Ukraine should have just bought him a gold-plated 747.

Maybe they still can.

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Trump, Hegseth Host Multimillion-Dollar Meeting Of Top Staff That Could Have Been An Email The defense secretary railed against fat service members and hot yoga, while the president delivered his usual rambling nonsense.

NEW -- If ever there was a meeting that could have been an email, it was this morning's, which cost taxpayers millions of dollars, apparently so that Trump and Hegseth could hold a pep rally for themselves.

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Donald Trump’s Mouth May Bring A Quick End To Charges Against Comey The president’s statements and social media posts disparaging the former FBI director could persuade a judge that the case is a "vindictive" prosecution.

NEW -- As former FBI director James Comey fights the federal charges lodged against him, he appears to have an important, unexpected ally: Donald Trump's big mouth.

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