Eric Trump vouches for his father: “Make no mistake, he is heaven-bound. He’s probably too humbled to say it. I can say it as his son because I’ve seen the hand of God on him for a very long time.”
Leaked Messages Expose Young Republicans’ Chat
“Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway,” Politico reports.
“They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.”
“The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening.”
Israel Accuses Hamas of Violating Ceasefire
“Israeli officials and hostage families have accused Hamas of violating the new ceasefire deal by failing to immediately return the remains of many of the former captives still in Gaza,” the New York Times reports.
“The truce agreement called for the immediate handover of all remaining bodies in Gaza, but acknowledged that some could be difficult to locate and may take more time to retrieve because of the destruction. Gaza was highly urbanized before the war, but two years of Israeli strikes have turned large parts of it into a flattened landscape of cement rubble.”
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Fight Over Adelita Grijalva’s Swearing-In Heats Up
“The Arizona attorney general’s office is laying the groundwork today to take legal action in a bid to force Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ),” Punchbowl News reports.
“Arizona officials are set to formally certify Grijalva’s election win at 1 p.m. ET. The Arizona attorney general will then send a letter to Johnson demanding that he seat Grijalva.”
Worm Ate ‘Just a Little Bit’ of RFK Jr.’s Brain
Actress Cheryl Hines addressed her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “brain worm” as she wrapped up an interview on The View.
Said Hines: “It ate a little bit of his brain and died, so don’t worry.”
Democrats Keep Their Distance from Katie Porter
“Katie Porter’s public-relations meltdown last week was damaging enough. What may be more humiliating is how few of her former House colleagues or Democratic leaders are rallying to her defense,” Politico reports.
“Much like her time on Capitol Hill, Porter, the frontrunner in the race for California governor, is on an island — still reeling from the fallout over a pair of viral videos that captured her on-camera outbursts with a staffer and reporter.”
The New Think Tank Infuriating Progressives
Elaine Godfrey: “The age of the conventional Democrat is over. The time of the Democratic contrarian has come.”
“So says Adam Jentleson, anyway. The veteran political operative and former adviser to the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently launched a think tank that asks Democratic candidates to ignore pressure from the far left, take positions outside the ‘liberal box,’ and be a lot more ‘heterodox’ in general. If this seems to you like Beltway speak for asking Democrats to sound more like Republicans, well, you would be at least partly correct. The Democratic Party used to have supermajorities in Congress because it allowed its members to hold a wide range of positions, Jentleson told me. To start winning again, the party needs to bring that back, he said. His new think tank, Searchlight Institute, plans to help.”
“With its seven-person team, a polling arm, and a $10 million budget, Searchlight promises to offer a ‘menu’ of orthodoxy-challenging ideas for Democrats to run on.”
Indictments Make It ‘Terrifying’ to Oppose Trump
Rachel Maddow believes that the recent indictments of Letitia James and James Comey are aiming to make Donald Trump’s enemies terrified to oppose him, The Wrap reports.
Said Maddow: “I think that the most obvious answer is probably the real one, which is that they want to make it either illegal or terrifying to oppose him. And so they’re putting heads on pikes and putting those pikes up at the gates to the city to say it’s not possible to criticize, let alone oppose, this president. If you do, look what we’re going to do to you and your family and your career and your livelihood and your reputation.”
She added: “I think that’s all it is. And I think that they don’t have anybody holding them back. And so they’re going to do it as long as they can and as much as they can.”
It’ll Be Trump’s Fault
Brian Beutler: “Donald Trump and Stephen Miller will probably get the blood in the streets they want eventually.”
“We don’t know when or how it will unfold, or how the public will come to perceive it. But we do know that no matter how it unfolds or is perceived, it is already their fault, and everyone who cares about the future of the country should be prepared to blame them.”
Thanksgiving Travel Looms as Shutdown Risk
“The Thanksgiving travel season could be put at risk by an extended government shutdown, Republican leaders warned Tuesday on Capitol Hill, ratcheting up warnings about flight cancellations and airport chaos amid the ongoing standoff with congressional Democrats,” Politico reports.
“Leaders in both parties are starting to look to the Thanksgiving holiday as a looming pressure point after President Donald Trump acted over the weekend to ensure active-duty military paychecks arrive on time Wednesday by shifting Pentagon funds. Many congressional leaders saw that deadline as a forcing mechanism. Now it appears ready to pass without major political consequences — raising the possibility the shutdown could drag on for weeks more.”
Jon Ossoff Isn’t Budging on the Shutdown
Politico: “On paper, Jon Ossoff has plenty of reasons to break party ranks as the government shutdown drags into a third week: The 38-year-old Georgian is the most vulnerable Senate Democrat up for re-election next year and his home state has more than 81,000 federal workers at risk for furloughs and firings.”
“In reality, Ossoff is sticking closely to his party’s strategy of trying to reframe the shutdown fight as a battle over health care — and has emerged as an object lesson in the limits of Republican efforts to focus pressure on the Democrats’ soft spots.”
“Part of that calculus is that it is much riskier to alienate your own party’s base than to break ranks in hopes of appealing to swing voters.”
Another Bonus Quote of the Day
“This is no longer, the Department of Justice, it’s no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”
— Former New Jersey Governor and U.S. Attorney Chris Christie (R), on ABC News.
The Kissinger Tapes
Coming soon: The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone Conversations by Tom Wells.
Just like Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger secretly recorded each of his phone conversations and left a trail of evidence in his wake.
White House to Continue Firings as Shutdown Drags On
“The White House is pledging to fire more federal workers, the next salvo in President Donald Trump’s push to pressure Democrats to sign onto the GOP’s continuing resolution and end the government shutdown,” Politico reports.
The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
Anne Applebaum: “If we are no longer a country that aims to make the world better, but rather a country whose foreign policy is designed to build the wealth of the president or promote the ruling party’s foreign friends, then we have fewer reasons to work together at home. If we promote cynicism abroad, we will become more cynical at home.”
“Perhaps expecting Americans to live up to the extraordinary ideals that they proclaimed in the 18th century was always unreasonable, but that language nevertheless shaped the way we thought about ourselves. Now we live in a world where America is led by people who have abandoned those ideals altogether. That will change all of us, in ways we might not yet be able to see.”
France Contemplates the End of the Fifth Republic
The Telegraph: “France, to borrow the words of Alain Duhamel, the veteran political observer, ‘has gone beyond a political crisis.'”
“It is now flirting with regime change.”
“The tailor-made system that Charles de Gaulle built in 1958 to save the country from the chaos of 22 governments in 12 years established one of the most powerful presidencies in the Western world.”
“It is now in disarray, and Emmanuel Macron, the president, stands at the center of a drama of his own making that some say could yet end the Fifth Republic.”
Trump Rips Into Time Magazine
President Trump tore into Time over a cover the magazine posted on X featuring his face, complaining the image “disappeared” his hair with the use of a poor angle, The Wrap reports.
Said Trump: “Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.”
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