On Friday, G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers reported that “polls show Trump’s position plummeting.” On Friday morning, the average job approval rating for Trump was 42.6% with 53.5% disapproving.

Those numbers break down by policy like this: Gallup polls show that only 35% of Americans approve of Trump’s immigration policy with 62% opposed. A new poll out from CBS News/ YouGov today shows that support for Trump’s deportations has dropped ten points from the start of his term, from 59% to 49%. Fifty-eight percent of Americans oppose the administration’s use of detention facilities. The numbers in a CNN/SSRS poll released today are even more negative for the administration: 59% of Americans oppose deporting undocumented immigrants without a criminal record while only 23% support such deportations, and 57% are opposed to building new detention facilities while only 26% support such a plan.

American approval of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is unlikely to rise as news spreads that last Monday, the government gave ICE unprecedented access to the records of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid, allegedly to enable ICE to find undocumented immigrants. Kimberly Kindy and Amanda Seitz of the Associated Press reported that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services signed an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security that enables ICE to access Medicaid recipients’ name, ethnicity and race, birthdate, home address, and social security number.

Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid, although they may use it in an emergency to cover lifesaving services in a hospital emergency room. The release of personal information from Medicaid lists is unprecedented. Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) warned: “The massive transfer of the personal data of millions of Medicaid recipients should alarm every American…. It will harm families across the nation and only cause more citizens to forego lifesaving access to health care.”

Trump’s tariffs are not popular. An Associated Press–NORC poll on Thursday found that 49% of Americans thought Trump’s policies have made them worse off while only 27% think his policies have helped.

And then there are the Epstein files.

A YouGov poll from Tuesday showed that 79% of Americans think the government should release all the documents it has about the Epstein case while only 4% think it should not. Those numbers included 85% of Democrats, but also 76% of Independents and 75% of Republicans. And that was BEFORE the publication of the Wall Street Journal article detailing the lewd and suggestive birthday letter Trump apparently contributed to Epstein’s fiftieth birthday album.

As Morris notes, Trump is underwater on all the issues of his presidency, but he is most dramatically underwater over Epstein.

You don’t need polls to see that Trump, at least, is panicking. He is throwing red meat to his base in what appears to be an attempt to regain control of the narrative. After his July 12 threat to strip comedian and talk show host Rosie O’Donnell of her citizenship (she was born in New York, and he does not have that power), he has kept up a stream of social media posts that seem designed to distract his wavering followers from the news around them.

On Wednesday, Trump announced on social media: “I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so. I’d like to thank all of those in authority at Coca-Cola. This will be a very good move by them—You’ll see. It’s just better!”

But Coca-Cola had apparently not gotten the memo. It uses cane sugar in a number of foreign markets but has used high-fructose corn syrup in U.S. products since 1985. On its website, it wrote: “We appreciate President Trump’s enthusiasm for our iconic Coca‑Cola brand. More details on new innovative offerings within our Coca‑Cola product range will be shared soon.”

Social media users posted memes of Coke bottles emblazoned with the words “Trump is on the List” and, in small letters below, “Now with cane sugar.”

On Thursday, after observers had noted both the president’s swollen ankles and what appeared to be makeup covering up something on his hand, the White House announced that Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a condition that his physician described as a “benign” and common condition in which veins don’t move blood back to the heart efficiently.

Trump has never offered any information about his health, and his doctors have presented accounts of his physical exams that are hard to believe, making observers receive this announcement at this moment with skepticism. “Chronic venous insufficiency is a condition where the veins in the legs have difficulty drawing attention from the fact that the Epstein Files still haven’t been released,” one social media meme read.

Today, Trump posted on social media: “The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past. Our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago. We are a Country of passion and common sense. OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!!”

Hours later, he posted that his post “has totally blown up, but only in a very positive way.” Then he threatened to block the deal to move the Commanders back to Washington, D.C., from a Maryland suburb unless they “change the name back to the original ‘Washington Redskins.’”

At the turn of the last century, those worried that industrialization was destroying masculinity encouraged sports to give men an arena for manly combat. Sports teams dominated by Euro-Americans often took names that invoked Indigenous Americans because those names seemed to them to harness the idea of “savagery” in the safe space of a playing field. By the end of the twentieth century, the majority of Americans had come to recognize the racism inherent in those names, and colleges started to retire Native American team names and mascots. In 2020 the Washington football team retired its former name, becoming the Commanders two years later. At about the same time, the Cleveland baseball team became the Cleveland Guardians in honor of the four pairs of art deco statues installed on the city’s Hope Memorial Bridge in 1932.

Trump’s attempt to control the narrative didn’t work. “The thing about the Redskins and Indians is that Donald Trump is on the Epstein list,” one social media user wrote. The post was representative of reactions to Trump’s post.

Today marked the end of the first six months of Trump’s second term, and he marked it with a flurry of social media posts praising his performance as “6 months of winning,” and attacking those he sees as his opponents. He again went after the Wall Street Journal, which ran the story about Epstein’s birthday album. He complained the paper had run a “typically untruthful story” when it said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had had to explain to Trump that firing Fed chair Jerome Powell would be bad for markets. Trump took exception to the idea he did not understand the interplay of the Fed and markets, despite his repeated threats against Powell.

“Nobody had to explain that to me,” he wrote. “I know better than anybody what’s good for the Market, and what’s good for the U.S.A. if it weren’t for me, the Market wouldn’t be at Record Highs right now, it probably would have CRASHED! So, get your information CORRECT. People don’t explain to me, I explain to them!”

Tonight, Trump’s social media posts seemed to project his own fears on Democrats he perceives as enemies. He once again claimed Senator Schiff, who managed one of the impeachment cases against Trump when he was a representative, had falsified loan documents in 2011 and should go to prison. In 2023, a judge determined that the Trump Organization had falsified loan documents. Trump posted: “Adam Schiff is a THIEF! He should be prosecuted, just like they tried to prosecute me, and everyone else—the only difference is, WE WERE TOTALLY INNOCENT, IT WAS ALL A GIANT HOAX!”

On Late Night with Stephen Colbert last night, Schiff said: “Donald, piss off…. But Donald, before you piss off, would you release the Epstein files?”

Trump also posted an image of intelligence agents and politicians in prison garb as if in mug shots, and reposted both an image of what appears to be lawmakers in handcuffs and an AI-generated video showing former president Barack Obama being arrested by FBI agents and then being held in a jail cell.

Meidas Touch posted: “The crazy thing about Donald Trump posting an AI video of Obama getting arrested is that Trump once had someone organize a party for him and invite a bunch of ‘young women’ and it turned out Jeffrey Epstein was his only other guest.” Alan Feuer and Matthew Goldstein broke the story of that party in Saturday’s New York Times.

Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is putting Trump intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard on blast after her office released a report claiming there is “overwhelming evidence” that Barack Obama laid the groundwork “for what was essentially a years-long coup” against Donald Trump.

“It seems DNI Gabbard is unaware that the years-long Russia investigation carried out by the Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirmed that ‘the Russian government directed extensive activity against U.S. election infrastructure’ ahead of the 2016 election, and that it ‘used social media to conduct an information warfare campaign’ in order to benefit Donald Trump. This conclusion was supported on a unanimous basis by every single Democrat and Republican on the committee,” Warner said.

Gabbard has been making the rounds on the fake-news networks for the past couple of days to make the case that Obama could face criminal charges for the “treasonous conspiracy” that she has created out of the thin air.

“We are referring all of our documents to the Department of Justice for the purpose of accountability and action,” Gabbard said in a TV hit with the no-pushback morning show “Fox & Friends” on Saturday. “No one, no matter who they are, no matter how high up they are or how powerful they may be, no matter the intelligence officials or professionals were who were a part of this treasonous conspiracy, there must be accountability.”

We all know what this is: Trump is facing intense criticism from within his own MAGA movement over the Epstein files, which Trump is trying to pass off as the handiwork of Obama, Joe Biden, James Comey, Inspector Gadget, 007, and Boris and Natasha.

Gabbard throwing out a “treasonous conspiracy” led by Obama is meant to give Fox News something to talk about to its 78-year-old viewers, since it can’t talk about the Epstein files, now that Trump is suing Rupert Murdoch.

“It is sadly not surprising that DNI Gabbard, who promised to depoliticize the intelligence community, is once again weaponizing her position to amplify the president’s election conspiracy theories,” Warner said.

 

That man should never ever again be believed or trusted, about child sexual abuse or anything else

Only a rich white man in America can…

be videotaped with underaged girls while hanging with a child sex trafficker

cheat on his wife with a porn actress and pay her to keep quiet

publicly fantasize about having sex with his own daughter

openly boast about sexually assaulting random women

be convicted of 34 felonies

have 91 criminal charges, 26 sexual assault allegations, 5 bankruptcies, and 2 impeachments

be sued by the Department of Justice for racial discrimination

have a $25 million fraud settlement, a $400 million fraud judgment, and a $96 million sexual assault judgments

…and be considered a good Christian by white evangelicals and elected president of the United States

Meanwhile, that president’s administration:

fired the federal prosecutor who handled the cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, from her position in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

intervened on the side of Catholic clergy in a case where a federal judge barred Washington state from enforcing a law that would have required priests to report evidence of child abuse learned during confession.

gutted the State Dept.’s ‘Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons,’ ]known as the TIP Office, literally and effectively killing its office which is combating human trafficking.

Trump also publicly defended sexual predators, including himself

Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery “Terrific guy,” Donald Trump booms from a speakerphone. “He’s a lot of fun to be with.”

(Trump offered sympathetic words to Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein who was convicted of facilitating the abuse of girls by the now-deceased sex offender. “I just wish her well, frankly,” Trump said when asked about Maxwell during a news conference.)

After repeatedly defending Joe Paterno, the former Penn State coach who covered up molestation of young boys in the locker room, Trump proposed at a campaign rally in Pittsburgh bringing back a statue of Paterno, which university officials removed from campus after the scandal. “How’s Joe Paterno? We’re gonna bring that back? Right? How about that whole deal?” the mogul told the crowd.

Trump defended Roger Ailes by insinuating Gretchen Carlson and 20 others were lying about their boss’s sexual harassment.

In 1992 when Trump was asked about his good friend Mike Tyson being convicted of raping Desiree Washington, Trump defended the boxer and maligned the rape victim. He in essence blamed Washington for being raped: “You have a young woman that was in his hotel room late in the evening at her own will.” And then Trump— even though Tyson had already been convicted by a jury—despicably questioned whether Washington was even raped, noting that a video after the incident showed her “dancing with a big smile on her face, looked happy as can be.” Trump then added, “It’s my opinion that to a large extent, Mike Tyson was railroaded in this case.”

source: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-defends-roger-ailes-he-helped-those-women/

A Tennessee woman is having to travel to Virginia for prenatal care because the DR in her area has denied her care on the grounds that she’s an unwed mother. Tennessee has passed a law to allow DRs to discriminate against anyone so long as DRs claim it’s about “religious beliefs.”

 

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Am I right in remembering that Jesus was born to an “unwed mother?”

She wants to be Governor of Virginia.  She is now Lieutenant Governor.  She got into politics because her family business went under.  Maybe someone can tell me why she campaigns with a firearm.

Maybe it was not such a good idea to:

• Name a pastor with no political experience as your campaign manager.
• Tie yourself to Trump.

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Virginia Republican Winsome Earle-Sears’ gubernatorial campaign said Thursday that it demoted one key staffer and parted ways with another less than four months out from the general election, as the candidate lags in the polls and fundraising.

Will Archer, a pastor with no prior major political experience, was removed from his post as Earle-Sears’ campaign manager, Mark Harris, a general consultant for the campaign, said on a call with reporters.

Archer will remain on the campaign in a role that focuses on voter turnout in the Northern Virginia area, said Harris, who also indicated there was not a plan to announce a new campaign manager imminently.

“Will, who was the campaign manager, is transitioning out,” Harris said. Asked when a new campaign manager would be announced, Harris replied, “When we decide to let you guys know.”

Harris also told reporters that Richard Wagner, Earle-Sears’ political director, has left the campaign.

“Richard has moved on to another race,” Harris said.

The Washington Post first reported news of Archer’s new role in the campaign.

The staff shakeup comes as Earle-Sears, the state’s lieutenant governor, has struggled to gain traction against Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former congresswoman, in the race to succeed GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

A poll released Wednesday by Virginia Commonwealth University found Spanberger leading Earle-Sears 49% to 37% among registered voters. Those results were outside of the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 4.16 percentage points.

And new fundraising reports released this week showed Spanberger with an advantage over Earle-Sears. Spanberger raised $4.3 million during the most recent reporting period, June 6 to June 30, and had $15.2 million in cash on hand. By comparison, Earle-Sears raised $2.4 million and had $4.5 million in cash on hand.

Republicans have criticized Earle-Sears’ campaign, saying that it lacks discipline and consistency. In interviews last month, Republican operatives in Virginia and elsewhere grumbled that the campaign has lacked a central message.

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Maybe Sears could start campaigning the same way she did when she was elected LtGov in 2021.

 

 

 

New concerns about President Donald Trump’s mental state are being raised after he recounted a story purportedly involving his college professor uncle and the Unabomber that simply never happened.

Speaking in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, Trump claimed that his late uncle John Trump taught Unabomber Ted Kaczynski at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then claimed that he quizzed his uncle about his supposed student.

“Kaczynski was one of his students. Do you know who Kaczynski was? There’s very little difference between a madman and a genius,” Trump told the audience. “I said, ‘What kind of a student was he, Uncle John—Dr. John Trump? I said, ‘What kind of a student?’ And he said, ‘Seriously good.’ He said he’d go around correcting everybody. But it didn’t work out too well for him.”

None of this ever happened.

Trump’s uncle died in 1985. While Kaczynski’s streak of homicidal bombings began in 1978, his identity was unknown to the public until his arrest in 1996—11 years after John Trump’s death.

Also, Kaczynski was not a student at MIT. He attended Harvard University and the University of Michigan.

“We have no enrollment record or information that Ted Kaczynski ever attended MIT,” a spokesperson told CNN.

The completely invented interaction gives renewed fodder to ongoing concerns about Trump’s mental state.

 

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BUT WAIT – THERE’S MORE!!!

Trump was at Carnegie Mellon University for the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit. He should have passed. He was hard enough to understand at press gaggles before and after, and this middle was worse.

In less than 30 seconds, Trump was off the rails.

Trump: I went to school here, I went to college here and got to know it very well.

Trump went to Fordham University and then the University of Pennsylvania. He never went to school at Carnegie Mellon. I’m surprised that the University of Pennsylvania would have him. How many people did he pay to write papers for him?

Being Pennsylvania, Trump had to bring up the assassination attempt in Butler. Senator David McCormick of Pennsylvania was on the dias, and the two talked back and forth and how if McCormick had come up on stage he might have been shot.

Then it’s so great that NATO is now paying for Ukraine’s ammunition. Our country was dead, but now it’s the hottest.

Trump:  We never even discussed who’s to be the leader of the pack. But boy, you are — it was one instruction, drill baby drill, right? And they are drilling, they are drilling. We have the EPA administrator, probably — I must say this, Doug. I hate to say it. Chris and Doug and all of you guys. The most important person on the dais today is Lee Zeldin. It’s called Environmental Protection because he’s the one who’s going to get you a permit. He’s going to get you a permit for the largest electric producing plant in the world in about a week, would you say? If you go nuclear, I promised I’d give him two weeks. Okay. Nuclear we’ll give him a little more time.

The Tangerine Mussolini is perfectly happy to let Lee Zeldin at the EPA run roughshod over the Environmental Protection Act. Nuclear power plants do take a long time to get approved. That’s because they are nuclear power plants. We almost had a meltdown at Three Mile Island. You want safe nuclear reactor designs. One week for coal and gas power plants is ridiculous. So is Lee Zeldin.

Next is the possibly the craziest thing Trump has ever said.

Trump: Also my uncle was at MIT, one of the great professors, 51 years, whatever, it was the longest serving professor in the history of MIT. Three degrees in nuclear, chemical, and math, that’s a smart man. Kaczynski was one of his students. Do you know who Kaczynski was? There’s very little difference between a madman and a genius.

Ted Kaczynski was known as the Unabomber. He killed 3 people and injured 23 others with mailed bombs between 1978 and 1995. He went to Harvard and the University of Michigan. The two never crossed paths. Trump is making it all up.

Trump: But Kaczynski, I said what kind of a student was he, Uncle John, Dr. John Trump, he said “What type of a student?” And he said, “Seriously good.” He said he’d go around correcting everybody. But it didn’t work out too well for him, didn’t work out too well, but it’s interesting in life.

Recently, Trump has been making up dialogue of people speaking to him, him speaking to people, and now him making up dialogue between two people that never happened. He is exceedingly proud of his uncle, who indeed had a long streak of achievements. But, Donald talks about him as if he was the achiever, when he has never achieved anything. His imaginary thoughts about the Unabomber talking to his uncle is another serious sign of delusional thinking.

Trump: But I will say this that we have the greatest brains, we have the greatest power and we are going to have more electric. I said to some of the guys coming in, they wanted to hook up to the grid.

Multiple times, Trump says “electric” instead of “electricity.” The grid instead of building your own gas or coal-fired power plants right next to your AI or data center or whatever business needs a lot power, even crypto.

Trump: Take everything we have and double it. And actually, the number  — that was even low, you need more than that. And to do that you’d have to hook up to an old grid, in many cases broken and certainly open to destruction from bombs and planes and from, frankly, storms.  You see what happened, that horrible situation in Texas.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The power grid is susceptible to terrorism. Planes taking out an electricity grid. Were the bombs dropped from the planes, or by a suicide bomber, or Ted Kaczynski?

Trump goes on babbling about businesses building their own power plants, calling the business an “electric plant,” not the power plants itself. Then he also calls them “electric business.” 

Trump: Well, we just started, but we’re going to actually end up doing more than them and it’s going to be done privately and you’re going to own your own electric plants and they’ll be powered by maybe nuclear, maybe gas, maybe coal. You know, we brought coal back in. They won’t be powered by wind because it doesn’t work. I hate to say it just doesn’t work. It’s rather intermittent. You don’t want it, causes a lot of problems.

Trump is hell bent on building polluting power plants because he doesn’t like the wind farm he can see from one of his golf courses in Scotland. That’s the problem for Trump. They put wind farms where there is nearly constant wind. But, Donald just loves his “clean beautiful coal.” He it goes on forever about the advantages of building your own power plant.

Trump: These are friends, these are warriors, they just passed the Great, Big, Beautiful — I added the word great, so I like to say, because it was really supposed to be Great, Big, Beautiful — they call it the Big, Beautiful, but I had great — they took the word great out. I was on a show called Deface the Nation, or something like that.

He goes on about his great accomplishment on Face the Nation of coming up with the name of the bill, while never finishing the phrase and saying the word “bill.”

Trump: You know, you have a 10-year period, last time we had a one year period, now we have a 10-year period. And that’s what made the first one.

Absolute total gibberish.

Trump: And the biggest thing, and the biggest reason for the success was the deduction. You’re allowed to do it, and this time, we’re including structure, so you’re able to deduct those big structures that you’re building.

Structure out of infrastructure? No, he’s talking about buildings or manufacturing plants or whatever houses a business. Great to have that deduction. Then he goes on to talk about Rand Paul, calling him Rand Paul Jr because he voted against the bill. Then he talks about other people that voted against the bill, but he doesn’t want to mention their names. He probably doesn’t remember. He starts talking about artificial intelligence and then gets lost.

Trump: And we are way ahead of China, I have to say, we’re way ahead of China and the plants are starting up, the construction is starting up. And did you notice that two days ago they announced that they had a budget surplus of $25 billion in this country. Right, Howard? They never saw anything like that. Everyone’s saying where did that — that’s been like decades, $25 billion and that’s peanuts compared to what’s it’s — and it’s good business practices.

He wanted to say that the tariffs that Americans are paying allowed a budget surplus to happen. “They” announced “they” had. Still more gibberish. Then he goes on about tariffs and how happy countries are and he likes Indonesia and India not so much. Then about China.

Trump: And one of the advantages they have is they show the electric, that they have it. They’re opening up coal-fired power plants all over the place and we’re entitled and allowed now to do that too. We took coal, it was taken out of the chain and coal is actually very, very powerful — I say you’re not allowed to call it coal. You have to call it clean, beautiful coal. You’re not allowed, John, to call it just coal because people don’t understand. We call it clean, beautiful coal.

I call it dirty coal because it always will be. EPA’s Lee Zeldin is going to give coal-fired power plants a pass on smokestack emissions. There are ways to cut them down, but that costs money and that gets in the way of businesses. China is building coal-fired power plants at a prodigious speed, so we’ve got to build to close the coal gap, and make climate change worse. And this type of pollution makes AI possible.

Trump: And as I said before, it’s an expression I used all during the campaign and screamed it out. We’ll drill baby drill. And people went crazy. We had big crowds, as you probably heard, biggest ever, biggest in history.

No change in Donald. Crowd size is his biggest achievement, but it’s really not. People applauded the “drill baby drill” only because it was something Biden was preventing. They, for some reason, loved anything that put Biden in a bad light. Trump’s propaganda worked then. It’s not working so well now.

Trump: It’s a green new scam, greatest scam in history, the greatest in history. Well, the autopen, I think, is a bigger scam if you want to know the truth. Actually, I believe that. Today we’re pleased to report that a $15 billion investment…

No transitions at all. Scam, autopen and then investment. How do people follow him along and then applaud their own stupidity?

Trump: And on day one, I ended the green new scam. I also ended Biden’s war on clean, beautiful Pennsylvania coal, totally ended it. Coal has equal if not greater status. It’s very powerful — it’s a powerful thing, coal. China — it’s sort of interesting. China makes windmills, but how many wind farms do you see in China? I haven’t seen any lately, it’s sort of crazy.

How many times can he say coal in a single sentence? It’s like he’s going for a record. But coal is powerful. Because coal is powerful, coal is good. If it’s powerful, Trump loves it, because he is so weak. We also make wind turbines in America. You just canceled all the incentives for manufacturers to make them. You’re forcing us back onto fossil fuel dependency.

Trump: I signed historic executive orders to expedite the construction of brand new nuclear power plants, which is very hot.

Yeah, Donald, nuclear power plants are hot. That’s how they make steam to run turbines to make electricity. If they weren’t hot, they wouldn’t work. Dork.

Trump talks about Westinghouse being the new Westinghouse, and they’re going to build 10 new nuclear power plants, because there won’t be any regulations to stop them from making stupid design changes. Then Trump brings up a reporter named Salena Zito, because he’s supposedly going to do an interview with her after the summit.

Trump: Let me to the interview after this this way. Be right on time. Where is Selena?

McCormick: She’s up here.

Trump: Oh, she’s great. You can’t be angry with me, now, Selena, because I’ll be with you.

Right next to him on the dais, but he doesn’t know she’s there, or he doesn’t know what she looks like. Except he was most likely introduced to everybody before they sat down. Nope. No excuses.

He talks about Nippon and US Steel and how Nippon is going to invest a billion dollars and they won’t put it on a boat and take it away. Then he talks about the Mon Valley Works.

Trump: And we did keep a golden share. You know who has the golden share? I do. I have the golden — does everybody know what a golden share? A lot of these people from the Middle East, they don’t have to worry about golden shares, but we have a golden share, but Nippon’s going to do a fantastic job.

All that glitters Is not gold, except if you’re Donald Trump. For him, everything has to be gold. The Oval Office, the FIFA trophy, the bathroom fixtures. He never does explain what a golden share is. It gives you unique voting rights over a company’s action. So nice of Donald to let us know that, not.

Trump: I think we have a true golden age for America. We’ve been showing it and it truly is the hottest country anywhere in the world.

Again, with the golden. And the weather is hot across the United States right now. It’s summer. But he talks about the United States like it was a woman. And you know what he does to women. That’s what’s happening to us.

Trump: So enjoy yourselves. And I look forward to hearing from some of your geniuses speak, if that’s okay. I’ll stay around. All right. Okay. Thank you.

He’s already forgotten about the two interviews he had scheduled after speaking at the summit. It’s like at the FIFA Cup team celebration, they just couldn’t get rid of him trying to steal the limelight.

Then, the other speakers, speak about as long as Trump did all by himself.

So, he had to get in the last word.

Trump: So, it’s an honor to be with you. I used to do what a lot of you guys did. I like this better though. I don’t care. [laughter] …So, good luck to everybody, and if I can help you, let me know. Thank you very much.

The man couldn’t remember the university he went to. Made up Dr. John Trump conversations, the Unabomber was smarter than the whole class in the wrong place at the wrong time. The beautiful coal that’s going to kill us. Everything is golden and the crowds are always big.

Do I need to say that Donald is short in the brains department? These lapses in understanding reality show up more everyday. This is worse than the impromptu press gaggles where he has to shift gear with each question. Here, his mind does it automatically, but without reason. It was not supposed to do anything with politics. But he couldn’t pass up talking about the autopen. He couldn’t pass up calling renewable power the green new scam.

Jim Jordan will now have to answer questions under oath about wrestling team scandal

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/college-sports/jim-jordan-will-now-have-to-answer-questions-under-oath-about-wrestling-team-scandal/ar-AA1IKzp9

Jim Jordan will now have to answer questions under oath about wrestling team scandal

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Story by Carl Gibson

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who chairs the powerful House Judiciary Committee, will soon be questioned under oath in a sworn deposition, according to a new report.

According to Columbus, Ohio-based NBC affiliate WCMH, Jordan will be questioned specifically about what he knew regarding former Ohio State University wrestling team doctor Richard Strauss’ sexual abuse of student athletes. WCMH reported Wednesday that Jordan will be deposed this coming Friday in Washington D.C. as part of civil lawsuits former Ohio State wrestlers filed against the school.

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Comey’s Fired Daughter Goes to War With ‘Tyrant’ Trump

Source: daily beast

‘TOOL OF A TYRANT‘
Prosecutor who worked on Epstein case abruptly fired by the Justice Department.

Sarah Ewall-Wice Updated Jul. 17 2025 12:07PM EDT

Federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who was abruptly fired by the Justice Department, sent a blistering email to colleagues warning them of the chilling effect of fear in the department.

“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain,” she wrote in an email according to The………….

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-comeys-fired-daughter-maurene-comey-goes-to-war-with-tyrant-trump-over-epstein-files/
This article is more of a background of Maureen Comey–some history of her cases and some analysis.
But indeed—Trump is instilling FEAR is so many And is using it as a tool to get what he wants!!

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Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone

Source: Associated Press

A U.S. Army veteran who was arrested during an immigration raid at a Southern California marijuana farm last week said Wednesday he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle and pinned down by federal agents who arrested him.

George Retes, 25, who works as a security guard at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, said he was arriving at work on July 10 when several federal agents surrounded his car and — despite him identifying himself as a U.S. citizen — broke his window, peppered sprayed him and dragged him out.

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Retes was taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, where he said he was put in a special cell on suicide watch and checked on each day after he became emotionally distraught over his ordeal and missing his 3-year-old daughter’s birthday party Saturday.

He said federal agents never told him why he was arrested or allowed him to contact a lawyer or his family during his three-day detention. Authorities never let him shower or change clothes despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, Retes said, adding that his hands burned throughout the first night he spent in custody.

On Sunday, an officer had him sign a paper and walked him out of the detention center. He said he was told he faced no charges.

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