Trump floated buying government stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic, an idea Sam Altman pitched, and Republicans are apoplectic. Cruz, Hawley, Rounds, and Moran all balked at his AI socialism push, with one aide predicting near-unanimous GOP revolt against the addled dealmaker.

The establishment said he was unelectable. Corporate media called him irredeemable. David Brooks called him a "degenerate." Graham Platner won the Democratic primary by more than 50 points anyway. And he's already polling 10 points ahead of Susan Collins in the general.

When some Trump officials began to raise alarms over the growing "Epstein Files" crisis, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was initially dismissive of the controversy, believing it to be "passing clouds" instead of "a storm."

When you: 1) restrict the supply of goods 2) restrict the supply of labor:

Trump: "They rigged the election. Now it's been proven, and it will be proven even more as time goes by even more so. We have things that you won't believe. When we release the full files, you won't believe how crooked the 2020 election was."

A nugget buried in the big & impressive NYT piece on how the Trump White House had an internal freak-out over the Epstein case....If Bondi didn't use DOJ email, what did she use? I recall a time when the right (and the NYT) went ballistic over a Cabinet official's use of non-government email.

Q: Are you concerned about the latest inflation numbers that came out this morning? TRUMP: No, I love it. I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over -- do you know we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil? You know who doesn't know? Iran until right now.

Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning? Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.

Trump: "We have a fully negotiated deal with Iran. It only needs a signature." Trump (2 minutes later): "I think Iran wants a deal."

NEW: House Oversight Chairman James Comey now claims he's asking both Todd Blanche and Alan Dershowitz to appear before the Committee as part of its Epstein investigation.

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As someone who has worked on national security vetting, this makes no sense. Omar Artan was vetted, approved, and issued a visa. Then he arrived in the U.S. and was suddenly deemed a national security threat. So what changed? The public deserves answers.

🔥 @adammockler.com: “Susan Collins IS THE DEFINITION OF A SWAMP CREATURE… and my definition of ‘masculinity’ precludes people who shill for someone who offended their wife (Cruz) or cheat on their wives (Trump & Paxton)…” Young Jedi Mockler landing haymakers as usual 🥊 🥷🏼

Funny how MAGA can’t understand how California’s thorough but slow vote counting would be the norm if they got their way on voting machines and vote counting.

“I have a lot of questions about our F-15 pilots who went down over Iran who we’ve still never met.” 🤔 (good point!) Ex Trump Campaign Deputy Comms Director Caroline Sunshine says Trump’s war with Iran is hurting our standing all over the world and needs to end.

Vice President JD Vance reportedly called an emergency Situation Room meeting after a DOJ memo denying the existence of an Epstein "client list" backfired spectacularly — angering the MAGA base and triggering a damaging upcoming Wall Street Journal investigation into Trump’s ties to the financier.

Affordability is not a hoax made up by Democrats. But I know Trump is busy with his wars and basketball games and golf and UFC fight and ballroom and reflecting pool and triumphal arch and the Kennedy Center and parades and fireworks and putting gold and his name on everything.

Money hoarders are the most dangerous and destructive hoarders of all.

Hard to believe she actually asked this with a straight face

Blanche: “Not a Crime to Party with Mr. Epstein” To defeat Todd Blanche, talk about Jeffrey Epstein. Or, if the Republican Senate muscles him through, make them pay a real and ongoing political price. Blanche is a chance to reopen Trump's Epstein wound. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

1. States are not just allowing AI data centers to be built. States are spending BILLIONS to incentivize tech giants to build data centers. And its creating major issues for state budgets.

CNN: INFLATION TOPS 4% FOR FIRST TIME IN THREE YEARS AS OIL PRICES JUMP

JD Vance pushed to post explicit, uncorroborated sexual assault allegations against Trump on the DOJ website, calling it "maximum transparency." Chief of Staff Susie Wiles killed it. All of this happened in the Situation Room, repurposed as an Epstein damage-control bunker.

Say it or I’ll release the files! ~ Netanyahu Iran shot down the Apache helicopter just hours before the Peace Deal that Israel opposed was supposed to be signed. ~ Trump Good boy. ~ Netanyahu

ZETEO: “A Marine who served with Graham Platner in Iraq and got matching tattoos: ‘No, we did not purposely get hateful fucking shit because we’re racist people. We got matching tattoos because we were in our 20s, drunk in Croatia, and that’s it.’” open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

Trump rage-posted at Morning Joe seconds after they read Epstein file excerpts from a new Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan book, and Scarborough noted on air that the instantaneous meltdown was itself confirmation the story hit a nerve.

Los Angeles COUNTY has more people than 43 STATES in the nation. The county alone has over 3 MILLION registered Democrats.

HUD Secretary Scott Turner on CNBC: "Houses for American people are taken by those who are not here legally"

Of course An FBI document from the U.S. Department of Justice Jeffrey Epstein files contains extraordinary allegations involving President Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and a Trump-owned golf course www.miaminewtimes.com/news/epstein...

Hey susan what happened?

Political analysts and observers referred to a GOP lawmaker as a "racist" after he made remarks that seemed to reveal his thinly veiled thoughts.

Wonderful news, supreme MAGA lunatic and racist bigot Nancy Mace just lost her primary to be South Carolina Governor after placing in a humiliating 5th place which pairs up well with her time in Congress also coming to an end in January. I’ll drink to that. Bye bye. 🍷💙👊

That’s called a bribe.

What a spoiled baby.

An angry letter from a retiring Republican senator has kicked off a new round of handwringing inside the Senate Republican caucus.

Magat brain