Given Trump’s ongoing Saudi business deals, we literally do not know whether Trump would enter the White House as a business partner, an employee, or an unregistered foreign agent of the Saudi state. That makes questions about his Saudi ties more urgent than questions about the suspected $10 million payment from Egypt.
WaPo is telling fairy tales about whether mainstream outlets gave up their fondness for rat-fuckery. They did not.
And as such, the decision not to embrace this rat-fuckery, however correct it might be, is a double standard.
The news that Roger Stone was pwned by suspected Iranian hackers may get more interesting. For now, however, it recalls the 2020 Iranian effort that adopted false identities of the Proud Boys.
Journalists are indulging their own vanity by imagining they’re doing any better at interviewing Donald Trump than Elon Musk did.
Just a week after Elon Musk used Xitter to sow political violence in the UK, Donald Trump returned to Xitter.
Trump melted down after seeing Kamala Harris’ spectacular Detroit rally immediately, well before his unhinged conspiracy theories yesterday. And Harris’ campaign had been goading him into doing so.
The question of how to approach this news that Iran hacked Trump’s campaign goes well beyond the question of whether to publish the documents allegedly stolen. In significant part because Trump refuses to firewall his political life from his criminal life, hacks by Iran could create real damage to the United States far beyond what they do to Trump’s campaign.
It has taken two days and at least ten journalists to chase down Trump’s fabrications about a helicopter flight with Willie Brown on which he badmouthed Kamala Harris. But the stories have yet to focus on that part — that the failing helicopter was just a vehicle to tell more lies about the Vice President.
Nicole and I talked about the selection of Tim Walz to be Kamala Harris’ VP — and the swiftboating of him by JD Vance.
Trump spent 6 minutes lying about crowd size. He spent 6 minutes lying about polls. He spent 6 minutes lying about the criminal cases against him. None of that has led the press to call the GOP to replace him.
