NARRATOR: He Didn't. He Got Drunk And Locked Himself In The Toilet Of Air Force One. It Took A Day And A Half For Anybody To Notice, And Six Hours To Get Him Out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
BARTIROMO: So you're gonna sue them?
KASH PATEL: Absolutely. It's coming tomorrow
BARTIROMO: Tomorrow you will be dropping a lawsuit against The Atlantic?
PATEL: Yes I will. For defamation
"" Says Nobody 60 Minutes Will Interview About The 100 Palestinians Executed By Israel Yesterday
60 Minutes@60Minutes
"When they came to tell us that Hersh had been executed, then I realized that those 330 days had been the good part, because he was alive. And now I'm in this place... How do I walk through this place without a piece of me here?" says Rachel Goldberg-Polin, whose son was executed by Hamas in 2024.
TRUMP: Can I Try Them Just To Be Sure?@atrupar
"Over 20% of US women are on antidepressants"
TRUMP: Do they work?
"No, they don't"
And If His Corruption And Racism Had Remained Subtle Rather Than Overt...?@RpsAgainstTrump
Three-time Trump voter:
I'm a registered Republican. I voted for Trump...He is not worthy of the presidency. He takes bribes blatantly, and now he's being a racist blatantly...I just want to apologize to everybody in the country for supporting this rotten, rotten man.
His Approval Rating With Actual Voters May Be Dropping Through The Thirties, But His Approval Rating Is 100% With AI-generated Social Media Accounts!
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D@RVAwonk
As we head towards midterm elections, NYT says it has identified "hundreds" of fake AI-generated pro-Trump social media accounts. Trump has reposted content from at least one of the fake accounts.
So, The Grand Jury Is Alleging It? Are You Familiar With The Concept Of Innocent Until PROVEN Guilty? Hunh - Call Yourself A Lawyer? I Wouldn't Treat A Ham Sandwich This Way!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
REPORTER: I just want to make sure I understand. You're alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the leaders of KKK and other groups?
BLANCHE: I'm not alleging it. The grand jury returned an indictment that says that
After She Smiled For Seven Minutes Without Saying A Wrd, He Turned Towards A Producer And Asked: "Did I Just Break A Member Of Congress?"
State of the Union@CNNSOTU
Jake Tapper to Rep. Elise Stefanik: "Is calling for wiping out an entire civilization bad or good?"
Slavery Just Got An Upgrade
National Homelessness Law Center@homeless_law
BREAKING: Louisiana has advanced one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country. It would force homeless people to choose between jail and involuntary treatment, make them pay for it, and if they can't pay, force them to perform unpaid labor.
You Give Him Too Much Credit@RpsAgainstTrump
NEW: Iran's Parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf:
"Trump, by imposing a blockade and violating the ceasefire, seeks, in his view, to turn the negotiating table into a table of surrender or to justify renewed warmongering. ...
Dollars To Donuts, They'll Soon Be Changing Their Dollars To Donuts
Luke Gromen@LukeGromen
UAE to Trump Administration: "You started this war; if we run short of USDs as a result of it, either you will give us USD swap lines, or we will be forced to start transacting oil and gas in CNY and other currencies."
-WSJ, just now
Trump: "Really? Isn't That What I Appointed Him To Do? If He Hasn't Been Doing That, What The Hell Has He Been Doing?"
Roger Sollenberger@SollenbergerRC
The defamation lawsuit Kash Patel filed against The Atlantic contains this almost admirably absurd false claim: "Director Patel has not targeted political or personal adversaries"
What You Get When "Party Unity" Is More About The House Party Than The Unity
Art Candee@ArtCandee
Republican Rep. Cory Mills is going after Nancy Mace for introducing a resolution to expel him for being a "woman beater and a fraud":
"Will Nancy share her alleged TRO issued for harassment of her ex-fiance? Nancy's ‘I don't drink alcohol' when there's videos of her drinking and spitting alcohol into a woman's mouth for a game?"
I wanna see that TRO, and I wanna see Cory expelled.
Is Anything You Say?
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
Trump: "It was a little tacky...a very beautiful woman standing there with two big bags of McDonald's hamburgers. And I said, Is this really believable?
Soooooo...You Work 520 Days A Year? That's Some Beatles Level Calendar Math Right There
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
REPORTER: Can you say definitively that you have not been intoxicated or absent during your tenure as FBI director?
KASH PATEL: I can say unequivocally that I never listen to the fake news mafia. This FBI director has been on the job twice as many days as every director before me. I've taken half as many days off.
Hannity: Sources Also Tell Me That The Sun Will Be Rising In The East And That Water Is Wet. Where Is My Pulitzer Prize?
Acyn@Acyn
Hannity: Sources tell me that the ceasefire extension in Iran will be short-lived unless a deal is reached quickly.
Trump Gets Away With This Kind Of Judicial Blackmail Because He Has The Weight And Resources Of The Government Behind Him@kyledcheney
JUST IN: A federal judge has tossed a defamation lawsuit Kash Patel brought against former FBI official / pundit Frank Figliuzzi.
Figliuzzi's claim that Patel spent more time in nightclubs than at FBI headquarters was "rhetorical hyperbole," the judge rules. ...
I Guess It's A Good Thing You Live In Texas, Where These Kinds Of Shenanigans Never Happen, Then
Ted Cruz@tedcruz
A brazen abuse of power & an insult to democracry.
47% of VA voted Trump. They will now get just 9% of the seats.
52% of VA voted Harris. Now they get 91% of the seats. ...