Trump Suggests the Clintons Murdered People
President Trump boosted a wild conspiracy theory that accuses the Clinton family of murdering seven people.
Tim Walz Calls Trump a ‘Tyrant’ Who Abuses Power
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) “criticized Donald Trump in a law school graduation speech Saturday, accusing the Republican president of creating a national emergency by repeatedly violating the rule of law,” CBS News reports.
Said Walz: “I have to be honest with you: You are graduating into a genuine emergency. Every single day, the president of the United States finds new ways to trample rights and undermine the rule of law.”
He added: “This is what the crumbling of rule of law looks like in real time. And it’s exactly what the founders of this nation feared: A tyrant, abusing power to persecute scapegoats and enemies.”
Quote of the Day
“A lot of us have covered Joe Biden’s aging, and the accompanying inability to do things the way he used to, throughout his Presidency. But what we uncovered, after the election was over, when all the people that we had been talking to for months and years, and all of the people who had been saying, ‘He’s fine, he’s fine,’ were suddenly willing to talk about what had been going on. It was only after the election that we were able to get the insider point of view.”
— Jake Tapper, in an interview with the New Yorker.
Trump Is Pushing Thousands of Experts from Government
Washington Post: “Across the federal government, a push for early retirement and voluntary separation is fueling a voluntary exodus of experienced, knowledgeable staffers unlike anything in living memory… Other leaders with decades of service are being dismissed as the administration eliminates full offices or divisions at a time.”
Hearing Joe Biden in Hur Interview Is Revealing
“For much of his time in the White House, former President Joe Biden offered a quick rebuttal to those raising concerns about his age: ‘Watch me,’ he said,” the New York Times reports.
“Yet, in the end, it may be the sound of Mr. Biden’s own voice that proves what his aides worked furiously, and spent hundreds of millions of campaign dollars, to try to keep the public from seeing with its own eyes.”
“The five-hour-and-10-minute audio recording of a special counsel’s interview with Mr. Biden on Oct. 8 and 9, 2023, shows a president struggling to recall dates and details, whose thoughts seem jumbled as he tries to recreate events that had occurred just a few years earlier.”
Axios: Biden’s reversal on classified document flustered his attorneys.
What Elon Musk Sees on Social Media
New York Times: “To better understand how the information that Mr. Musk consumes on X could shape his worldview, The New York Times recreated a version of Mr. Musk’s personal feed by opening a new account on X and following the same 1,109 users that he follows. We then analyzed more than 175,000 posts from the accounts that he follows, using a service that collects data from X…”
“The resulting feed, shown in this article as a selection of posts curated from the much larger set, revealed ample praise for Mr. Musk and his various priorities, mixed with a torrent of right-wing outrage over progressive politics. It highlights the ways that social networks can create information bubbles.”
18 Hours of Watching MSNBC
Erik Wemple: “The takeaway from all this? MSNBC has sidelined pro-Trump voices… The result is a programming model in which hosts and guests compete against one another to fashion the sharpest denunciations of the Trump regime.”
“The downside? Vast expanses of predictable programming in which people passionately agree with one another.”
“In pre-Trump times, MSNBC’s current programming model would have been outright journalistic fraud. In Trump days, not so much — and we have daily proof over at CNN: The segments featuring that network’s Trump-supporting contributors are loud, chaotic and poisoned by frequent distortions.”
“At least CNN viewers get to hear the pro-Trump arguments in all their fact-deprived glory, however. I lean toward the CNN model, but not enough to strain my calves.”
Beware of Statistics in White House Press Releases
Glenn Kessler: “Every presidential administration hypes the numbers in economic deals. Bill Clinton, for instance, claimed the North American Free Trade Agreement would create 1 million jobs. Well, that was a mistake, a placeholder figure that was accidentally left in his prepared remarks, but it’s emblematic of the phony math behind the figures that often dominate the headlines.”
“During President Donald Trump’s trip to the Middle East, the White House issued a news release titled ‘President Donald J. Trump Secures Historic $1.2 Trillion Economic Commitment in Qatar.’ The text said that he ‘signed an agreement with Qatar to generate an economic exchange worth at least $1.2 trillion.’”
“Economic commitment? Economic exchange? Those are meaningless buzzwords. No matter. The $1.2 trillion figure ended up in headlines across the world.”
“The goal is to have a number for headlines. No one is going to bother to check in 10 years whether any of this stuff actually happened.”
GOP Lawmaker ‘Reborn’ Through Psychedelic Therapy
Rep. Morgan Luttrell (R-TX) “says he had never smoked anything, let alone tried drugs in his life. So the retired Navy SEAL had to ask a nearby nurse for guidance on how to inhale a psychedelic drug that was part of the final step of an intense three-day experimental therapy,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Luttrell had traveled to Mexico in 2018 to take ibogaine, a drug that is illegal in the U.S. but is gaining a reputation within the veteran community as a potential treatment to address complicated conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder. Inhaling a separate drug, called DMT, was the final step in the process.”
“The Texas conservative, now in his second term in Congress, describes his journey as a last resort for people feeling trapped within their own minds, likening his physical experience of the psychedelic trip to an exorcism.”
Republicans Need Their Closer
Rachel Bade: “While Trump spent the week hob-nobbing with crown princes, emirs and titans of industry, Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans were watching Trump’s legislative agenda run slowly aground. Less than two hours after Trump sent his message, a clutch of hard-line conservatives joined with Democrats to tank a key House Budget Committee vote on Trump’s big tax, border and defense bill.”
“It was the latest demonstration that while Johnson and fellow GOP leaders might be within striking distance of advancing the ‘big, beautiful bill,’ Trump remains the essential ingredient to getting anything done on Capitol Hill.”
“So after a five-day, eight-time-zone hiatus, expect the closer to start closing. The coming week, no doubt, will see a flurry of holdouts shuffling back and forth from the Capitol to the White House, not to mention an angry phone call or 20.”
What Are Democrats to Do?
Gerald Seib: “They’ve lost the House, the Senate and the White House. They have full control of only 18 state legislatures across the country. In the latest Wall Street Journal poll, just 37% have a favorable view of the party.”
“Here’s an idea: Perhaps Democrats should do what Republicans and conservatives did, to great success, over the last quarter-century: start building back not in the hothouse of Washington, where they have limited power and little room for maneuver, but out in the states and at the local level.”
“Slow, steady, un-flashy work out in the states is what really laid the groundwork for the dominant position Republicans now enjoy. The states, not Washington, became the springboard for political success, the testing ground for policy and the sounding board for messaging.”
Trump Says He’ll Speak to Putin on Monday
“President Donald Trump said Saturday that he plans to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and NATO leaders in separate phone calls on Monday to try to arrange a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine,” the Washington Post reports.
Will There Be a Reckoning for Media Coverage of Trump?
Margaret Sullivan: “At what point will there be a general acknowledgment and some serious self-scrutiny about the way big media failed to adequately convey what would happen if Trump were elected again?”
“From 2015 – when Trump first declared his candidacy for president – right through the 2024 election, the press in general didn’t get across the reality.”
Trump Calls on Walmart to ‘Eat the Tariffs’
President Trump said that Walmart should stop blaming tariffs for rising prices while calling on the retail giant to “eat the tariffs.”
He added: “I’ll be watching and so will your customers!”
Secret Service Questions James Comey
The Secret Service questioned James Comey, the former FBI director, on Friday about an Instagram post that President Trump’s cabinet officials and allies claimed amounted to a call for his assassination, the New York Times reports.
Kentucky Weather Office Scrambles for Staffing
“A National Weather Service office in eastern Kentucky was scrambling to cover the overnight forecast on Friday as severe storms were moving through much of the eastern United States,” the New York Times reports.
Lexington Herald Leader: 14 dead amid devastation after storms hit Kentucky.
Trump Losing Patience with Putin
“The Trump administration appears to be losing patience with Russian President Vladimir Putin, even as President Trump offers a face-to-face meeting in an effort to end the Ukraine war,” The Hill reports.
“Trump this week flirted with traveling to Turkey to meet with Putin on the sidelines of talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials, but the Kremlin, just before negotiations were expected to kick off, said the Russian president would not be attending and instead sent lower-level officials.”
Wall Street Journal: How Russia’s call for peace talks turned into a diplomatic defeat for a Putin.
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