Rebecca L

Community Note strikes again!

A hot mic catches Trump ranting that Senate Democrats are blocking his U.S. attorney appointees:

“I can’t appoint anybody,” Trump can be heard saying.

Lame duck President.

I was reliably told Trump ended the war between Cambodia and Thailand…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz:

“In my discussions with the Americans, I say: 'America First’ is fine, but ’America Alone’ can't be in your interest. You need partners in the world'

Trump says he knows “Very little” about former Honduran President Hernández, whom he pardoned last week.

Asked whether pardoning someone sentenced to 45 years for flooding the U.S. with cocaine sends the wrong message to drug dealers, Trump said: “No.”

ICE Detainee Bruna Ferreira, Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew, Says She ‘Made a Mistake’ in ‘Trusting’ Trump’s White House Secretary Bruna Ferreira, mom of WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, said she “made a mistake” by “trusting” her in-laws family after she was arrested by ICE.

ICE Detainee Bruna Ferreira, Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew, Says She ‘Made a Mistake’ in ‘Trusting’ Trump’s White House Secretary
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Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I feel very sorry for President Trump. I genuinely do. It has to be a hard place for someone that is constantly so hateful and puts so much vitriol, name calling, and really tells lies about people in order to try to get his way."

Trump dismisses concerns about high prices for holiday shopping.

“Look, don’t be dramatic.”

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 8, 2025 Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to portray the Russian economy as able to support a protracted war in Ukraine.

"The Kremlin’s recent economic policies indicate that the Russian economy is doing markedly worse than Putin’s statements seek to suggest"
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Russia’s hybrid warfare puts Europe to the test Officials suspect a campaign of sabotage that once looked opportunistic may be a strategic escalation

"The sites Russia is targeting, the risks it is willing to take, and its apparent goals reflect more than just a response to the dynamics of its conflict with Ukraine"

from the @financialtimes.com, on the Russian sabotage campaign in Europe

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there is no available evidence that donald trump understands what a tariff is, what a trade deficit is, and what the national debt is.

Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco The president’s claims about the boat killings and his pardon of the Honduran ex-president in a new Politico interview should finally convince Republicans that they, and we, must get to the bottom of ...

Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Reader, he is, in fact, making this stuff up

Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)

Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.

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Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery.

Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix, and Kushner's involvement only strengthens that case

Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump

Excellent

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...

What a coward.

Trump's farmer bailout will primarily go to massive row-crop farmers. Big Ag as they say. Smaller and diversified farms are getting something else - it rhymes with shackjit.

Stunning admission from Trump in his Politico interview. He confesses he knows almost nothing about the drug trafficking of the guy he pardoned even though he helped bring 500 tons of cocaine into US. Trump also reveals his narcissism makes him easy to manipulate:

newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Another war Trump claims he ended where fighting continues.

Sam Altman seems like such a subnormal that his dumb toy IS probably better than him at parenting, in the sense that a wire hanger would be a better parent than Joan Crawford.

NEW: Federal prosecutors call CBP officer Luis Uribe "a serial rapist who turned his position as a United States Customs and Border Protection officer into a license to commit or attempt to commit gunpoint sexual assaults."

Full detention memo here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/70/3d/594fc7...

everybody gets a pardon these days, huh

Fox ignores Trump pardoning Honduran drug trafficker while accusing Dems of supporting Venezuelan drug traffickers

Fox has devoted just over 6 minutes of airtime to the Hernández pardon since Trump announced his intention to pardon the notorious drug trafficker 12 days ago.

Ben Shapiro says Trump's pardon of Henry Cuellar is "a giant fail"

Shapiro: “The Trump administration's use of the pardon power has been exorbitant ... it's going to be hard for Republicans to defend that”

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"

The Supreme Court ponders giving billionaires even more power over elections Republicans want the last limits on political spending eliminated.

The Supreme Court Ponders Giving Billionaires Even More Power Over Elections.

Global Peace* Index:
Sweden 35th
USA 128th (below Belarus, Honduras and South Africa... 🙄)

*sorry to use your word against you, Mr President 😉

Powerful 🇺🇸

Trump pardons major drug traffickers despite his anti-drug rhetoric The president has granted clemency to about 100 people accused of drug-related crimes during his two terms in office, a Post analysis shows.

The pro crime President.

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