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Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, is enjoying a range of special privileges at the low-security prison where she was transferred after she played defense for Donald Trump. trib.al/nRLjbum

Weapons sales to Taiwan help to keep the peace. They should never be used as a "negotiating chip." Slippery slope here, Mr. President.

Just sayin’, when Obama visited Xi in China, Xi turned up at the airport to meet him. As you can see, this is what respect really looks like. He didn’t scare the children either. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRGWAQ1T/

Trump on Venezuela: We have made a fortune with their oil.

Unbelievable. Trump was asked about saying, “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation,” and instead of apologizing, he called it a “perfect statement, I’d make it again,” adding that “everyone agrees that it’s a short-term pain, but the pain is much less than people thought.” The president of the United States doesn’t give a shit about the well-being of ordinary Americans. He never has. And now he doesn’t even try to hide it. November is going to be brutal for the GOP.

You cannot be serious

The Trump administration says it is going to go after fraud. It should redirect its attention to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Everything is a scam to get richer. He’s made $3 billion since coming back into office!

All my favorite content creators are supporting Thomas Massie!! This song is great!! 😎

Scott MacFarlane slams the legacy media over its handling of January 6 coverage MacFarlane: I’ve said before, and I’ll say again, that legacy media owns some of the blame for the lying about January 6th—platforming demonstrably false information, lies about the Capitol insurrection, giving Trump an unchallenged platform at times to say the 2020 election is rigged, to say the January 6th rioters were political patriots or heroes, and to allow his surrogates to do the same. The Republicans here in Washington at the Capitol down the road—they’re silent generally about January 6th. They won’t defend it declaratively. Most of them won’t. They know it’s wrong. They were hiding for their lives or running for their lives that day. They know it was wrong; they just don’t say anything about it. They let the malignant lies go unchecked. Legacy media has done the same. They have not counterpunched effectively or efficiently against the lies about January 6th. They own some blame for the idea that $1.7 billion in taxpayer money would pay off January 6 rioters. It really is a malignant lie that didn’t get counterpunched effectively. There were a few of us—really talented reporters—and me who covered the January 6 prosecutions, who were in the courtrooms for those hearings. Sometimes there was only a few of us. Sometimes I was alone in the room, and that was negligence by mainstream media, who should have marshaled more resources, more time, more manpower, more energy toward covering the largest criminal prosecution in American history—the 1,500-plus January 6 cases. Just guys like me scrapping in the courtroom, running outside on our phones to tell you what happened. The legacy linear media let the story die. They let it atrophy. They allowed the space and the void for Trump to step in and try to rewrite it, to craft a different narrative, to flat-out lie. They left that space by underresourcing January 6th reporting. It’s really a cardinal sin to not put more time, money, and manpower into covering what I think was the defining criminal case of modern American democracy—and the first attack on the U.S. Capitol since the early 1800s.

MacFarlane: And there’s that enormous monumental arch they’re planning that critics say would overshadow Arlington National Cemetery. Some iconography meant to make the president’s legacy stand out in the landscape is not only a major expense, it’s also a potential eyesore.

Rep. Massie to Julian Andreone: AIPAC is kind of a proxy for the military-industrial complex. When they used to try to lobby me, they tried to convince me that the aid to Israel would help our country because it would all be spent in gift certificates and sent to local Lockheed Martin and Raytheon outlets. And I’m not buying that. Americans are not better off when we build bombs for Israel and then pay for them and then drop them on people in the Middle East. This has a lot to do with the Epstein class. Is it just pure coincidence that one of the three big donors against me is in the Epstein files organizing an event for Howard Lutnick and shaking down Jeffrey Epstein for money for that event? I mean, I think it’s pretty interesting. And maybe Miriam Adelson and Paul Singer didn’t particularly go to Epstein Island. They probably have enough money to buy their own islands. But they certainly go to dinner with people who were at Epstein Island.

PabloReports: What do you make of this $1.7 billion slush fund that Trump is proposing for Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and pardoned fraudsters? Raskin: It’s illegal, unconstitutional, and outrageous. Congress controls the spending of money from the federal government, and we never voted to establish a $1.7 billion fund to pay off insurrectionists and his extremist private militias, and we would never spend money on that. So it needs to be blocked. It’s an absolute corruption and prostitution of the Judgment Fund.

Trump: “President Xi said America is a nation in decline. And I said, ‘You’re right.’” No American president should ever say this. Disgraceful.

The man does not care that things keep getting worse for people. Doesn’t pretend to care. Doesn’t want to care. Never cared. Will never care. The man does not care.

Part 1 - Trump in 2024 during the campaign when asked if he will be able to get Xi to release Jimmy Lai from prison if elected: “100% I’Il get him out. He’ll be easy to get out.” Part 2 - Today: “I brought up Jimmy Lai. I would say the response to that was, um, not positive.”

David Letterman absolutely did not hold back during his final-ever appearance on The Late Show - signing off with an expletive-filled message to CBS that left the audience stunned and cheering. Read more: trib.al/PJQQpfz

@marlene4719 President Xi did greeted President Biden and President Obama at the Airport.

@DennisGoris Way to go Dennis. 👏🏻👏🏻 SPOT ON at the same time Hilarious. 🤣🤣

You drive a hard bargain #grift