As reported by CBS News' Michael Kaplan, while at Walter Reed hospital, Trump had the chance to visit with 14 U.S. soldiers wounded in his war of choice against Iran. Unsurprisingly, the coward snubbed EVERY SINGLE SOLDIER. He didn't have the guts to look them in the eyes.

This is so disgusting. It wasn't enough for the Department of "Justice" to actively cover up victims of Donald Trump's sexual assaults in association with Jeffrey Epstein; they are now harassing another victim of Trump's sexual assaults (per a unanimous jury) with a frivolous investigation. Sick.

Functionally indistinguishable from the way Putin talks about Ukraine & Xi talks about Taiwan.

If ever there was a line that was crossed by Trump, surely this is it! Trump is saying he never has to pay tax again and he can never be sued or investigated ever again for anytjing. Nether him, his family or his companies or associates. AMERICA - IS THAT OK? STOP THIS youtube.com/shorts/_nz15...

Coons: Has it ever happened that a sitting president sued his own government for $10 billion dollars and then directed the settlement of the case and the establishment of a payout fund? Blanche: No, but there's a lot of things that President Trump is the first of.

Sure, Todd….

The $1.776B “anti-weaponization fund” announced today is a theft of our tax dollars and a fraud on the American people. Congress needs to step up and block this settlement before Trump helps himself to the rest of our tax dollars. Please share and help sound the alarm. youtube.com/shorts/4bnF4...

JUST FILED: Senators launch probes into Todd Blanche and Trump's $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded payout to convicted criminals Lots of enterprise reporting in my daily "DAY AHEAD" editorial note (these are the notes I used to share with bosses at CBS) open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

Well the House just voted on an Iran war powers resolution and it failed -- on a tied vote.

Kash Patel channeled Pam Bondi with his combative appearance on Capitol Hill this week. Unfortunately for Kash, his self-congratulatory crime-fighting stats were quickly fact-checked by @ms.now. Turns out he’s better at juicing stats than solving crimes. youtube.com/shorts/S0SX4...

“If we gerrymander, they will come.” I hope they do. I hope they come out in droves against you all. I hope all the Northern and Western states also elect all Black and brown representatives to all political offices from the county clerk to Governor and erase what you’re pulling. Fuck you all.

And he had the nerve to post these... projection at its finest.

👀 About your Pulitzer….

Sure, Tim

Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina has a message for tonight's Met Gala chair Jeff Bezos

NEVER FORGET

A must read

That Donald Trump has vandalized the iconic Reflection Pool & tore down the East Wing of the WH to make low brow dance hall, is no surprise given he is, at his core cheap trailer trash, & he’s surrounded by shameless self-serving obsequious droids

Has anyone asked Hegseth if they will supply provisions to our sailors who are not being fed?

Hegseth spiraling to full Colonel Jessup.

Trump used tonight's alleged assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner to hawk his godawful ballroom.

Trump: “I didn’t want to say this, but this is why we have to have the ballroom.”

New photos from the USS Abraham Lincoln show service members receiving minimal food portions as reports grow that some troops have lost significant weight and aren’t receiving care packages—while the Pentagon denies any shortages. (Newsweek)

AP: “Iranian gunboats fire on tanker in Strait of Hormuz as Tehran reimposes restrictions” apnews.com/live/iran-wa... Iran Parliament Speaker: “Trump lied 7 times in an hour”

So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.

Can we get JD Vance to campaign in every state for the midterms?

Well, then. // Hungary's Orban concedes landmark defeat to centre-right opposition - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Can you do Kevin Hassett next? No beard but that obsequious simper.

Einstein Visa? Or Epstein Visa?

Spoken like a true Crime Boss. What a disgrace.

We are not just not holding any cards, Iran is holding the entire deck. Someone needs to put a sock in him & take away his phone. Donnie and Bibi are both unhinged psychopathic narcissists who panic under pressure.

Does Vance think he’s popular in Europe

Pro tip to Trump’s cabinet and enablers in Congress: “I was just following orders” is not a viable defense at a war crime proceeding.

The Supreme Court will not take Steve Bannon up on his request to rule on the precedent underlying his conviction. Instead, it grants cert only to send it back down to the lower courts, where the DOJ decided earlier this year to abandon the case.

Steve Bannon, a Trump ally, served a four-month sentence for defying congressional subpoenas related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack investigation.

The fact that Felon47 has left reality and wants the SCOTUS to base their decisions on a Mark Levin episode is insanity... If Felon47 makes it to trial an insanity defense is being built.

Discharging Trump under the 25th Amendment would ultimately require a 2/3 vote in the House and a 2/3 vote in the Senate. Impeachment requires a majority in the House and removal requires 2/3 of the Senate. If I’m reading 25A correctly, impeachment is easier. Please let me know if I’m wrong!

Again, the reason everything always goes wrong for Trump, on every issue at home & abroad, is not only the fascism & the incompetence, but also the almost unfathomable narcissism. Other people/governments exist & have agency & the world is complex & interconnected, but narcissists cannot grasp this.

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He is worse than she was Men? What men? Men who abused women?

The problem isn’t with Trump’s decision to oust Bondi — she was a cartoonish failure and a national embarrassment — but rather with his motivation. He fired his AG, not because she corrupted the Justice Department, but because she didn’t corrupt it enough. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

NEWSMAX: I wonder if you can respond to some breaking news we got a few moments ago that the Secretary of War has asked the Army Chief of Staff to step down REP. McCORMICK: That would be news to me. That would be very surprising. I'd look into it immediately, because Gen. George is a brilliant mind

Pam Bondi’s firing explodes inside Trump world youtube.com/shorts/nyNyV...

UK gathers more than 40 countries to press Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz apnews.com/article/horm...

To those still in government, let this serve as a reminder that this administration will have zero loyalty to you, regardless of how many principles you compromise. If the outcome is predetermined anyway, you may as well just uphold your oath of office and be a real public servant.

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social reacts to Trump's prime-time address on the Iran war.

So nothing about NATO

It is one of the burdens of the Trump era that the silliest, most absurd things often implicate grave matters of historic import. The Republic will not rise or fall on Army helicopter pilots joyriding over the Tennessee mansion of Kid Rock, but ... talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...