Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
19th November 2024
Another Fiasco for Trump as His Pick to Run Pentagon Suddenly Implodes (The New Republic) Say rather ‘crushed by the Narrative’.
Defense pick Peter Hegseth paid accuser to protect his career, his lawyer confirms (NPR) Knowing that all it takes is an accusation (Proof? Ain’t nobody got time for that.) to be destroyed.
Trump team weighs Pentagon pick after sexual assault allegation surfaces (Washington Poop)
Pompous ‘60 Minutes’ Smear Proves Team Trump’s Point About Skipping CBS
Lawyer tells ABC News his 2 clients told House Ethics Committee that Gaetz paid them for sex (ABC News) We lawyers call this ‘hearsay’ and there’s a reason it’s not admissible as evidence in court.
Trump’s War With the Press Takes a Terrifying Turn (Edith Olmsted/New Republic) Yeah. He’s winning.
Palestinian Authority Mouthpiece Says Trump Is ‘Full of Racism’ But Can Be Manipulated
Top House Democrat: Gabbard ‘a national security threat’ to US (Tara Suter/The Hill)
Cabinet Conniptions: TV Journalists MELT DOWN Over Trump’s Cabinet Picks
Berkeley Communists Call For “Righteous Anger & Revolutionary Determination” Against MAGA
Health care organization launches ‘Stop RFK War Room’ (Megan Messerly/Politico)
Election Deniers? Same Left-Wing Group That Tried to Kick Trump Off Ballot Now Demands Recount
ACLU sues to get clues on Trump’s mass deportation plans (Russell Contreras/Axios)
Scoop: Trump personally squeezes senators on Matt Gaetz (Axios)
Bolton: Gabbard as DNI Should Give Relief to Russia, China
Trump Reminds Everyone: He Wants US Soldiers in US Streets (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)
Top Democrat on Ethics panel says she wants to publish Gaetz report (Nicholas Wu/Politico)
Republicans Who Voted for Merrick Garland as AG Complain About Matt Gaetz, Trump’s Choice
Biden locks in $6.6B for TSMC chip factories, ensuring Trump can’t rescind CHIPS Act deal (Phineas Hogan/Arizona Mirror) Gotta save that ten percent for the Big Guy.
Court Filings Place Matt Gaetz at a Second Drug-Fueled Party in 2017 (Jose Pagliery/NOTUS) More allegations presented as if they were proof.
Google Hosts Party for Democratic Operatives Plotting To ‘Resist the Republican Agenda’
Threats Of Violence Against Trump Voters Surge
Kash Patel would do ‘massive damage’ to FBI: Ex-agent (Lauren Irwin/The Hill)
Biden should order background checks of Trump’s Cabinet picks (Frank Figliuzzi/MSNBC)
The corruption of MAGA comedy (Alexander Karn/Salon)
The Trump administration’s next target: naturalized US citizens (Steven Lubet/The Hill)
Throwback: Trump 2.0 is boosting some old economic ideas (Politico) Yeah, the ones that worked.
Recess appointments complicate Republican honeymoon (Washington Post) What ‘honeymoon’? Republicans haven’t had a ‘honeymoon’ since Eisenhower.
Democrats Used to Praise Trump’s New Border Czar for His Effectiveness at Deporting Illegal Aliens
The narrowest of margins – How to think about Donald Trump’s narrow, narrow victory (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario) So narrow that he won the popular vote.
Trump Confirms Plan to Use Military to Carry Out Mass Deportations (Arianna Coghill/Mother Jones)
Trump Confirms Plans to Use the Military to Assist in Mass Deportations (New York Times) There’s an echo in here….
The Horror! ABC, CBS Scared of Trump’s Picks to Lead Energy Department, FCC
Sex abuse allegations against Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth only make Trump like them more (Amanda Marcotte/Salon) If you’re getting flak, that means you’re over the target.
Making cowardly Senate Republicans pay a political price (Jennifer Rubin/Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.
NY judge adjourns Trump hearing without explanation, delaying sentencing (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News)
Don’t let Matt Gaetz escape accountability – release the ethics report (Charlie Dent/MSNBC)
Fretting ‘Rule of Law’ With Trump Nominees, MSNBC Has Felon Embezzler As Guest
Trump Defies the #MeToo Movement With Cabinet Picks Facing Accusations (Peter Baker/New York Times) How dare he?
ACLU Sues ICE in Advance of Trump Deportations
N.Y. Prosecutors Oppose Dismissing Trump’s Conviction Of course they do.
Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President (John Nichols/The Nation) ELECTION DENIER! ELECTION DENIER!
ABC Joins Tattoo Smear Against Hegseth, NBC Mad He Wants to Punish Afghanistan Generals
Vice’s Hard-Right Turn to Trumpism (Nikita Mazurov/The Intercept)
A 2016 Replay? Trump Is Back in WH, and Guess What Google Is Up to Now
Trump Ally Claims Defamation by Lincoln Project