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Looking to counter the accusation he attempted to rape a girl in high school, Brett Kavanaugh takes a page from the successfully disingenuous “socio-economic” outrage employed by Clarence Thomas at his own Senate confirmation hearing.
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White House sources say Trump is hot on the trail of unmasking the anonymous senior staff member who wrote a blistering critique of his administration in a New York Times op-ed this week.
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While Donald Trump has said some crazy stuff since taking office, his latest accusation against a major news network provides proof positive he intends to use the “insanity defense” in any criminal prosecution against him.
Trump is now making the absurd, and baseless, claim that NBC News somehow doctored an interview with Lester Holt in which he cites the Russia investigation as a factor behind firing FBI director James Comey.
“What’s going on at @CNN is happening, to different degrees, at other networks – with @NBCNews being the worst,” Trump tweeted. “The good news is that Andy Lack(y) is about to be fired(?) for incompetence, and much worse. When Lester Holt got caught fudging my tape on Russia, they were hurt badly!”
The “insanity defense,” also known as the mental disorder defense, is a defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is not responsible for his or her actions due to an episodic or persistent psychiatric disease at the time of the criminal act.
It is possible Trump just might pull this off if he keeps going on this way.
What’s next … the Earth is flat? The moon landing was fake? Big Foot is an alien? Dinosaurs helped build the pyramids? Elvis is still alive? The National Enquirer is real news? Don Jr. and Ivanka are not really my kids?
As Rachel might say, “Watch this space.”
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No one will ever accuse Donald J. Trump of skimping on top-notch legal representation!
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This year’s “Unite The Right” rally in D.C was a bust.
As reported in the Washington Post, “White supremacists held a rally in Washington on Sunday, and almost no one but their opponents and the police showed up.”
“Jason Kessler, one of the organizers of last year’s violent and deadly ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville,” wrote the Post, “wanted to hold an anniversary demonstration there, but the city wouldn’t let him. So he brought his show to Washington, where he hoped 400 supporters would join him for a rally at Lafayette Square, across from the White House. Fewer than 40 turned out.”
In an exclusive interview with MM, Kessler blamed the piddling attendance on Donald Trump.
“Would it have hurt Trump to put out a tweet or two promoting our event?” asked Kessler. “The man tweets about everything, why not about our great rally?”
After last year’s violent rally in Charlottesville, Donald Trump gave aid and comfort to the white nationalists by saying “there is blame on both sides” for the deadly violence, equating the actions of white nationalist groups and those protesting them.
It was suggested to Kessler that maybe hate has lost its appeal, its panache. The peddler of animus was having none of it. “Hate is as American as apple pie. It will never go out of style. No, I blame this all on Trump.”
Donald Trump has yet to chime in on this year’s flop of a hate rally.
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While finding time in his hectic schedule to dunk in the face of basketball great, LeBron James, founder of a top-notch public high school for low-income kids, Donald Trump gets ready to celebrate the 15threunion of Trump University’s first graduating class.
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In an effort to distance himself from the infamous Trump Tower meeting attended by Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner and a group of Russian operatives, Donald Trump claims he hardly knows his son.
“The last time I had a serious conversation with Junior was many, many years ago, believe me. It could have been his wedding,” said the President. “As I’ve said many times, I knew nothing about the meeting, before or after. We just don’t talk about things.”
Though Trump’s claim sounds preposterous on its face, a recent Quinnipiac poll found that 87% of Trump supporters believe he doesn’t know his own son.
“Just because they have the same name doesn’t mean they are close,” said Melvin Scruggs, president of Alabama’s Talladega County Republican Committee. “I mean the kid was just doing his own thing, you know, freelancing.”
“If the president was really close to Junior he would have brought him into the White House like Ivanka and Jared,” added Scruggs. “Trying to claim Junior doesn’t do anything without his father’s permission is just more fake news.”
Trump’s latest attempt to downplay his personal relationship with his son follows the same pattern he used to minimize his close association to indicted or convicted former campaign members, namely: Paul Manafort, campaign manager, George Papadopoulos, policy advisor, Rick Gates, campaign aide and Michael Flynn, campaign advisor and former National Security Advisor.
While Trump’s attempted disassociation from his own son is selling well in Trumpland, one very important member of the FBI’s probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia isn’t buying the story … Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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In their historic and unprecedented one-on-one meeting today in Helsinki, Donald Trump discussed his exit strategy with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. News of the clandestine tête-à-tête was provided to the Associated Press by the sole interpreter at the event just hours before his mysterious disappearance.
Sergei Romanov, the interpreter, told the AP that is was Trump’s desire to seek asylum in Russia. Putin suggested a beautiful country estate in Siberia for Trump and his family. Romanov indicated it did not appear Trump knew the location or history of Siberia … an area primarily known for its long, harsh winters and its prison camps.
Asked for comment, both Trump and Putin denied they discussed Trump’s renunciation of his position as capo of the American government. Instead, the coordinated message is that the two men discussed Russian adoptions.
This is a developing story. More to come if, and when, Sergei Romanov is located.
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Thanks to the notoriety afforded him by Donald Trump, French president Emmanuel Macron has been signed by Proctor and Gamble to star in a new Head & Shoulders commercial.
Yesterday, as the two world leaders met in the Oval Office, Donald Trump made the surprise move of brushing a speck of dandruff from Macron’s shoulder.
Many are calling the episode “Dandruffgate” as there did not appear to be any dandruff on Macon’s jacket.
Nevertheless, because of Macron’s good-natured acceptance of Trump’s stunt, he has been rewarded by Proctor and Gamble with the starring role in a new TV ad for it’s best selling dandruff shampoo.
Macron said that in honor of Donald Trump, he is donating the proceeds from his advertising venture to Alzheimer’s research.
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Now that Dr. Ronny Jackson’s bid to become the next Secretary of Veterans Affairs has suffered a major setback amid allegations of both personal and professional improprieties, some lawmakers are questioning whether Jackson is really a doctor.
A group of senators, both Republican and Democrat, has written a letter to Donald Trump advising him they will not consider Jackson’s nomination to head the VA until he produces his long form medical degree.
These same members of Congress became suspicious of the doctor’s educational background when he gave a glowing bill of health to Trump following his annual physical exam. The man, whose diet consists of junk food and little in the way of exercise, was said to be in “excellent” health by Jackson.
“Based on his cardiac assessment, hands down, there is no question he is in the excellent range,” Jackson told a group of reporters this past January.
For the record, Jackson claims to be a 1995 graduate of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB).
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