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Anthony Head: RIP

John Amato — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Famed British actor Anthony Head, who portrayed Rupert Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Rupert Mannion of Ted Lasso, has passed away from complications with pneumonia.

He was 72 years young.

He had a long and distinguished career.

Open thread.

Trump’s Cabinet Fluffs And Flatters Him Every Six Sentences

NewsHound Ellen — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:58:23 +0000

The New York Times did a deep dive into Donald Trump’s cabinet meetings. The results are disturbing but not surprising.

After reviewing every televised Trump cabinet meeting from February 2025 to March 2026, The Times found, "On average, at least one of every six sentences either flattered Mr. Trump, gave him credit or criticized his political opponents.."

The Times also reviewed the 22 televised cabinet meetings in Trump’s first term. It concluded that he has been complimented far more in his second term cabinet meetings than in his first. That's even though he has since been convicted of 34 felonies and impeached for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection and attack on the Capitol after he couldn't handle losing the 2020 election.

Interestingly, at least to me, The Times noted that while Secretary of State and (2028 presidential hopeful) Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe “packed their speaking time with praise,” others, such as Vice President JD Vance (who likened Trump to Hitler before deciding he was just fine being "Hitler's" VP) focused on attacking Democrats.

Alabama Sen. Tuberville In Trouble For Voting In Florida

NewsHound Ellen — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:22:03 +0000

Once again, the accusation looks a lot like an admission.

As Raw Story reported, Sen. Tommy Tuberville has championed Trump’s voter suppression legislation, known as the SAVE Act. He claimed that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election because of “rampant voter fraud.”

It turns out Tuberville has some serious ‘splaining to do on that very subject.

AL.com’s Kyle Whitmire has been digging into rumors that Sen. Tommy Tuberville is actually a Floridian and so ineligible to run for governor in Alabama. “Alabama law requires candidates for governor to have lived in the state for the last seven years,” Whitmire noted.

Now, Whitmire and AL.com have some very damning receipts.

Tuberville owns a 4,000-square-foot home in Florida, worth at least $4 million, Whitmire reports. He has owned it for nearly 20 years. In 2017, his wife and son bought a much smaller, much less valuable house in Auburn, Alabama, which Tuberville had claimed as his residence. He sold that home in 2023, according to Whitmire.

NY Times Omits Minor Detail In Platner Hit Piece

Ed Scarce — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:04:45 +0000

There are dirty tricks, and then there are coordinated attacks meant to move the needle in political races. The latest New York Times opus against Maine's Graham Platner is sort of more of the same from them, printing allegations and then "letting the people decide" their merit. Except in this case, these stalwarts of journalistic integrity [sic] omitted some rather salient details.

Nonetheless, that was not enough for Fifield, who was aghast this morning that her story featured in the paper of record didn't receive as much attention in the more skeptical mainstream press as she had hoped, saying to the New York Post, their "watering down bombshell story as ‘gift’ to the Democrat’s campaign.

In 2020, Heather Higgins, chair of the Independent Women’s Forum, where Fifield is a fellow, bragged, “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV, and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!”

Source: Zateo

Kevin Hassett Now Claims Wall Street Doesn't Understand Trump's Golden Age

John Amato — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:15:03 +0000

Trump economic cut out Kevin Hassett attacked Wall Street for not understanding Trump's supposed golden age economy, which is in line with his criticisms of everyone who complains about the affordability crisis, skyrocketing inflation, and fuel costs.

Today's job numbers were much better-than-expected, but that didn't have the desired effect on the stock markets Trump longs for since rate reductions are now in jeopardy while treasury yields spiked.

HASSETT: Yeah, it's absolutely a blowout number.

And the thing that's most astonishing about it is, is we look at the forecast of everybody that surveyed at Bloomberg, and not a single person got this number right. That happens quite a bit. But the error from the top person to this number was about 50,000 jobs.

And so, you know, right now, Wall Street just doesn't understand that the Trump economy is really creating an economic golden age.

And another thing that is probably not going to make the headlines, certainly not in the fake news, is that the numbers keep getting revised up. So you remember under Biden, they kept revising the numbers down.

The only people who believe we are in a Trump economic Golden age are Trump, his officials, and spokespeople. Kevin Hassett constantly tells the viewers that anything negative about Trump and his economy is just temporary. It's been temporary for over a year now, with no hope of recovery any time soon.

Whistleblower Blows Lid Off DOGE Plot To Declare Millions Dead

Conover Kennard — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:57:04 +0000

The Trump administration came up with a dystopian idea (quelle surprise!), to reportedly cook up a plan to declare 2.7 million living people — among them U.S. citizens, legal residents, teenagers, and retirees — officially dead, The Washington Post reports.

The goal: weaponize Social Security's identity database to functionally delete people from the financial system, cutting them off from paychecks, bank accounts, and government benefits. You know, the kind of stuff living people tend to need to survive.

The scheme was exposed by Jeremiah Schofield, a 25-year Social Security veteran who actually had the audacity to look at the list. When he pulled a sample from the 2.7 million marked for fictional death, every single one of them was alive — including a widow receiving survivor benefits legally. At that point, agency lawyers gently noted that declaring living people dead might, technically, be against the law. Schofield agreed, refused to participate, and eventually left the agency in October.

DOJ: Trump Could Destroy Statue Of Liberty And Nobody Could Stop Him

John Amato — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:56:30 +0000

Earlier today in the US Court of Appeals in Washington, Trump's DOJ presented a bizarre analogy to defend Trump so he can start rebuilding the White House ballroom that he destroyed without congressional approval.

Yahoo News reports, "In order to demonstrate Trump's supposedly far-reaching power to destroy and alter national monuments at whim, the DOJ lawyers claimed that if the president wanted to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty in New York, there would be no one with the standing to challenge him. "If the government decides very quickly to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty, the people whose ancestors—that was the first thing they saw coming to this country, but the government moved too fast—nothing can be done?" Judge Patricia Millett asked, according to Politico's Kyle Cheney. "I think that's right, yes," the government responded.

White House Melts Down As Sleepy Trump Gets Caught Napping On The Job Again

Conover Kennard — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:08:00 +0000

A video of 79-year-old Grandpa Trump with his eyes closed during an Oval Office "Beautiful, Clean Coal" event went massively viral, and the White House — demonstrating exactly the restraint and confidence you'd expect from a secure, well-functioning administration — completely lost its mind about it.

The Rapid Response account sprang into action after footage spread showing the 79-year-old president appearing to be slumped sideways and very much not awake during the proceedings. One post racked up over 8.2 million views, claiming he was "completely passed out at 3 pm," and preemptively trolled the White House by asking how long before they'd insist he was "blinking" at a very deliberate and presidential pace.

The White House then did the one thing guaranteed to make everyone forget about it: it took the bait.

"His eyes are literally open in the clip you posted, you dumbass mouth-breathers," the Rapid Response account super eloquently replied.

His eyes are literally open in the clip you posted, you dumbass mouth-breathers https://t.co/7VCNwVgQow pic.twitter.com/3zoCVEzsrY

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 4, 2026
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Trump Obsesses On His Reflecting Pool While Americans Suffer

John Amato — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:09:07 +0000

Donald Trump continues to ignore the plight of the American people as a result of his illegal tariffs and Iran war and instead focuses on his grandiose obsessions of destroyed ballrooms, renaming buildings and now reflecting pools.

Trump held court with the press for almost ten minutes to revel in his graphs outlining the new Lincoln memorial reflecting pool.

TRUMP: You're getting a first glimpse, but that's your size compared.

So those are compared to — those are among the tallest buildings in the world, including the Empire State Building, World Trade Center, Sears Tower, Chicago.

So if you lay it on its side, you'd take two or three of them to fill it in because the width is very — almost 200 feet wide, and actually much more than 2,000, close to including everything.

It's about 2,500 feet in length to the end.

And it's going to be beautiful.

It was a great concept that never worked because they couldn't hold the water, and now they hold the water for a tiny fraction of the cost.

Trump most likely tried to change the name to the Trump Memorial reflecting pool. I can't confirm that.

Americans don't care about these remodelings and structure desecration taking place at the White House.

They want rents to become affordable, fuel and grocery prices to drop, and not to be priced out of healthcare.

Trump admitted he could care less about affordability issues and it's highlighted by his obsession with this pool.

John Bolton Takes Plea Deal On One Count Of Holding Classified Info

Susie Madrak — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:34:08 +0000

Trump hates being the target of lawfare, but he sure knows how to wield it against anyone who crosses him. That’s the story of John Bolton, his former national security adviser, who is agreeing to a plea deal essentially for the sin of writing a critical book about his time advising Mr. Trump.

The President has been determined to seek revenge against Mr. Bolton, who wrote his well-regarded memoir, “The Room Where It Happened,” based on his 17 months running the National Security Council in Mr. Trump’s first term. Mr. Trump first tried and failed to block publication, then went to court to confiscate the royalties. He lost that fight, too. But on Mr. Trump’s return to office, his Justice Department charged Mr. Bolton with a coercive 18-count indictment for keeping diary notes on a home computer that included “national defense information.”

Bolton has now decided to plead guilty to a single felony count for retaining classified information. He will pay a $2.5 million fine, which is best understood as an attempt to deny Bolton the earnings from the book.

Democrat To Rollins: 'You Own Every Single Bit' Of This Economy

John Amato — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:57:13 +0000

Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig became fed up with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is still blaming President Biden for the high cost of diesel fuel and failing farms, and pointedly told her that the Trump administration controlled all of Congress a year and a half ago, and "you own every single bit of this."

Craig began by admonishing Secretary Rollins for the 15,000 farms that failed and the $28 billion that was lost in the agricultural industry.

Rollins blamed the Biden administration for what she claimed caused a $42 billion agricultural trade deficit in the Trump administration. This is when Rep. Craig got testy.

CRAIG: Madam Secretary, I'm going to reclaim my time on behalf of family farmers.

ROLLINS: That was not the Trump administration. That was the Biden administration.

CRAIG: That's what it means in this building. You stop talking when I reclaim my time.

What's the national average of farm diesel right now?

ROLLINS: The national average of farm diesel?

Yeah, of diesel.

ROLLINS: Well, diesel has increased because of the Iranian conflict.

CRAIG: How much was it? How much is it right now?

ROLLINS: Well, before the Iranian conflict, it had gone way up. All inputs under the last administration increased about 40%.

That's what we inherited.

Gas and diesel prices had come way down when Trump took office, which Trump officials ignore.

Trump: 'If It Weren't For Me, There Would Be No Israel'

Chris capper Liebenthal — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:32:37 +0000

Trump, with his puffy eye and puffy hands, agreed to sit down with Miranda Devine of the New York Post. That should automatically tell you that he was going to be asked questions that were even easier than one of his cognitive tests. However, true to his nature, Trump wasn't able to handle softball questions without putting his foot in it.

When Devine asked him about people who claim that he was tricked by Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump responded by going on a rambling rant about Democrats, immigrants, and transgender people before really going off the deep end.

Well, they're just, you know, the enemy, they're just, you know, the Democrats, the UN, these are Democrats, these are people that don't know what they're doing. They want men playing in women's sports, and they want open borders so the world can pour into our country, and they want transgender for everybody, surgery, and they want transgender mutilization of our children.

No, these are just words, you know, that's all they do. They're, that's all they're good for is words like, I heard that the other day for the first time. I said, " He tricked me?

I mean, I'm the one that started it because, again, I don't wanna bore anybody, but I started because we can't let them have a nuclear weapon. Now, that pertains to Israel because they probably would have been the first one to get hit. There would be no Israel. Tell you what, if there wasn't me, there would be no Israel right now.
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Cutting WIC Funds Is Still The MAGA Way, Amirite?

Susie Madrak — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:24:13 +0000

As grocery prices continue to rise nationally, the House on Thursday passed an appropriations bill that would cut funding for a program that helps pregnant women and children purchase healthy foods.

By a vote of 213-210, the House passed an appropriations measure to fund the Agriculture Department among other agencies. The bill, which the Senate has yet to consider, aims to cut about 1.5 percent from overall federal agriculture spending in fiscal 2027, according to Republicans. Four House Democrats voted with Republicans to pass the measure, while five Republicans voted against it.

Under the legislation, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children — more commonly known as WIC — would lose $141 million in funding for fruit and vegetable benefits for the nearly 5.4 million children and pregnant and postpartum women enrolled, according to an estimate from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

But wait! Rep. Andy Harris, who was a Johns Hopkins anesthesiologist and is chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on agriculture, said on the House floor that despite cuts, the $8 billion in remaining funding is sufficient to meet the needs of the program. Harris argued that Agriculture Department data “clearly shows” that WIC participation has been declining during the current fiscal year.

"No woman or their children will lose or be denied coverage.”

But here come the pointy-headed liberals, with their statistics and analysis and whatnot.

WHEE! Oil Prices Will Surge In Coming Weeks Due To Hormuz Backup

Susie Madrak — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:54:53 +0000

The oil industry has warned the Trump administration that a Hormuz-sized hole in the world’s petroleum market is steadily draining inventories to levels that are likely to send global energy prices surging in the next several weeks, according to Politico.

Industry executives told senior White House officials and Cabinet members in recent weeks, the people said. The warnings came as recently as late last month as data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration and other sources began showing that fuel makers were increasingly relying on oil and fuel from their storage tanks to replace products no longer arriving from the Middle East.

“We’re at dangerously low levels already,” said one industry executive who was granted anonymity to discuss private conversations with the administration. “We have shared those concerns at the highest levels of government about what’s coming in mid-to-late June. … I hope they are paying attention to inventories right now. You’re hitting tank bottom.”

Countries are drawing down supplies in their oil and fuel storage tanks to make up for the shortage of supply coming from the Middle East, but inventories are now running dangerously low and some companies and market analysts are sounding the alarm that a price spike could come later this month.

MO GOP Senator Big Mad CA Is Counting Their Mail-In Ballots

Heather — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:54:35 +0000

Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt had the nerve to pretend he cares about everyone's vote counting and election integrity while bitching that they're actually counting all of the mail-in ballots in California.

Here's Schmitt on this Thursday's The Ingraham Angle on Fox, accusing the state of rigging the election if his fellow Republicans Steve Hilton, who's running for governor, and Spencer Pratt, who's running for LA mayor don't wind up on top once the vote counting is finished.

INGRAHAM: As I was saying, a hearing on mail-in ballots as a general matter is one thing. But I'm talking about this process in California, Senator, which is perverse. The fact that we don't know — there are tranches of votes arriving tomorrow, we're told.

We don't know what Orange County's current ballot count is right now. Wouldn't anybody like to know that? I would. We're seeing the registrar — the county clerk video — but we don't know how many Republicans are there, how many observers are there.

Should the Justice Department send observers? I don't know. I don't know how this can work, but something's got to change.

SCHMITT: I do think there needs to be an investigation when we see this many irregularities. The broader context, Laura, is that it destroys Americans' faith in our elections.
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Mike's Blog Round Up

Batocchio — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:54:20 +0000

The Mahablog: The Democrats need a Project 2029.

The Debate Link: SovCit therapy.

Pharyngula: This man should just admit he wants to kill women.

Lawfare: The indictment of Raul Castro.

Jen Sorensen: The dangers of solar panels.

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.

Which Monopolies Are Bribing Trump For His $60M Cage Match?

Cliff Schecter — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:53:20 +0000

A new Tequila Talk, and we took on the "Bread & Circuses," UFC embarrassment that would've made the Founders cry at what their country's become. A truck company, crypto exchange, energy drink, and a media giant that needs Trump regulators to approve a $111 billion merger all chipping in for his 80th b-day cage match on the lawn you own. Trump needs you to look away from his ever increasing number of f*ck ups from Epstein to the Iran disaster.

Joe Walsh and I poured the tequila and followed the money:

On This Day: Shopping Carts Were Introduced

John Amato — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:00:01 +0000

This is an idea I never thought of, but it revolutionized the grocery industry.

Britannica,"On this day in 1937, a Humpty Dumpty grocery store in Oklahoma introduced the first shopping carts. Alas, customers were initially doubtful. Women already pushed carts around (albeit ones with babies in them) and were tired of doing so, and male shoppers thought the cart made them look effeminate. However, the new invention became hugely popular, revolutionizing grocery shopping."

Open thread.

Trump’s Slush Fund Has A New Back Door Opening

NewsHound Ellen — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:05:35 +0000

Let’s be clear: Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund was never dead, just dormant. His personal criminal-defense attorney turned acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche, made that perfectly clear to anyone willing to pay attention.

But even if President Felonious Trump and Consigliere Blanche permanently shelve it, they are already working on other ways to use taxpayer money to compensate Jan. 6 insurrectionists and others Trump wants to bribe and reward.

Blanche’s Department of Justice “is signaling a willingness to work through other legal channels to pay allies of the president who claim the government targeted them for political reasons,” The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. “Department officials have emphasized in recent days that, even without the contentious fund, they have the authority-and an uncapped source of money—to settle lawsuits against the federal government as they see fit. ‘We're on it,’ Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said in a now-deleted social-media post responding to a suggestion Tuesday from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) that the government should use existing law to compensate people who claim they were harmed.”

The Journal goes on to report that “A number of Trump supporters,” including many Jan. 6 insurrectionists “are crafting lawsuits that argue the government needs to pay up.”

Report: CBS Considering Replacing Anderson Cooper With Joe Rogan

Ed Scarce — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:05:34 +0000

According to the source at RadarOnline, an executive at CBS said, "You bring in Rogan and you immediately gain a core connection to over 50 percent of the country. He speaks to viewers who feel ignored or mocked by legacy media. That could solve the ratings and credibility problems of CBS overnight."

I'm pretty sure I've seen this idea before in the movie Network.

Source: Austin American-Statesman

CBS News is reportedly searching for a replacement for “60 Minutes” correspondent Anderson Cooper, and network executives may have their sights set on Austin-based podcaster Joe Rogan.

RadarOnline, a celebrity and entertainment news site, reported that CBS considering Rogan, who boasts 20.9 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, “PowerfulJRE,” and millions of viewers of his podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” would be “strategy,” not “stunt casting.”
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Republicans Somehow Still Insist Trump-Russia Investigation Was A 'Coup'

Heather — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:28:15 +0000

FBN's Maria Bartiromo and House Intel Chair Rick Crawford used the Democrats' attempt to oust Trump's unqualified pick for DNI head as an excuse to revive their revisionist history of Trump's Russiagate corruption.

As we already discussed here, Sen. Mark Warner, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has found an ingenious way to pressure Trump to remove his dangerous appointment of Bill Pulte as acting head of the Director of National Intelligence, which is to block the GOP’s beloved FISA bill if Pulte is not gone.

Crawford was asked about the move on this Thursday's Mornings with Maria, and with a big assist by Bartiromo, tried to pretend the Russiagate investigation was some hoax before accusing John Brennan and James Clapper of orchestrating some sort of a "coup" against Trump.

BARTIROMO: What's your take on Bill Pulte as DNI?

CRAWFORD: Well, first off, the fact that these Democrats over in the Senate are wringing their hands about a potential nominee — he's an acting DNI. That's what the president has stated. So it's not as though he needs their opinion, because he's acting. He's not asking for him to be confirmed.
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McGovern Confronts Rollins: You Kicked Off 700,000 Kids From Food Assistance

John Amato — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:28:15 +0000

Rep Jim McGovern raked Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins over the coals. He refused to take her lies about the state of the economy and how she kicked out hundreds of thousands of children from the SNAP program because of fraud.

McGovern's first volley was how awful farmers are doing because of Trump's reckless war with Iran and idiotic tariffs that are deemed illegal.

"I wish that you would take the time to talk with farmers in my district who have been totally screwed over by this administration," he said. " They are livid. They are mad. They are pissed off."

He then laid into Rollin's bragging about how she removed millions of people from SNAP, as if it were a badge of honor. Rollins' responses were very weak indeed.

MCGOVERN: Earlier this year, you even bragged about kicking 4.5 million people off nutrition assistance, saying that was, quote, good news. Well, a new report from the Nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that the number includes at least 700,000 children.

Now, I say at least because that is data from less than half the country. That number is going to be in the millions.

Let me say that again. 700,000 kids plus have lost their food assistance.
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'Team Mamdani' Airs Ad During NBA Finals

Ed Scarce — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:13:44 +0000

This is really clever. Mamdani enlisted Morris Katz to produce the ad for the three Democratic challengers, two of whom are challenging Democratic incumbents. The three candidates bore the cost, but it will get widespread attention.

Source: New York Times

A new television ad featuring Mayor Zohran Mamdani debuted on Wednesday night during postgame coverage of the New York Knicks’ Game 1 victory in the N.B.A. finals, but the 30-second spot was not about the team or the mayor.

The mission of the spot was to hype the candidacies of three left-leaning Democrats in competitive House primaries across the city by trying to capitalize on Mr. Mamdani’s popularity and on New York’s collective excitement over the Knicks.

The candidates — Darializa Avila Chevalier, Claire Valdez and Brad Lander — have all been endorsed by the mayor. Mr. Lander and Ms. Avila Chevalier are challenging incumbents; Ms. Valdez is running for an open seat.

“This is the team,” Mr. Mamdani says in the ad, which is shot on a basketball court with a pronounced Knicks’ orange hue. “This is our year.”

The ad aired locally during the game, but the real benefits will be online, where it will receive millions of views.

GOP Rep Accidentally Roasts Todd Blanche While Trying To Praise Him

John Amato — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:54:45 +0000

Rep. Jimmy Patronis of Florida's 1st told CNBC he supported the confirmation of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche because he is a loyalist to Trump who can be counted on to always act on Trump's behalf.

Trump's former personal attorney has done everything he can to prosecute those against whom Trump has a vendetta at every turn. To make matters worse, he allegedly perpetrated a fraud on the US government he represents by handing over a $1.8 billion settlement to Trump over his fraudulent lawsuit against the IRS to use as he wishes, as a quote, "anti-weaponization slush fund." It wasn't a surprise that Blanche was forced to rescind the handout.

KERNEN: How about AG Blanche? What do you think - good good pick to be a permanent AG, are you comfortable?

PATRONIS: Look, I think he has been steadfast and and loyal to the president and the president needs somebody he can trust and Todd has shown that he can be counted on. It's not an easy job. You're talking about a president who has been a bigger victim of a weaponized court system than any other sitting president in the history United States so yeah look is there an appetite to want to hit some reset buttons?

Absolutely, it's not just the president. It's just the constituency of the United States in general they want a fair court system a fair prosecution system in place and we saw very clearly where this president was having those type of events in his life where the Justice Department other other administrations were coloring outside the lines.
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Trump Loses His Sh*t After Learning War Powers Aren't A Personal Blank Check

Conover Kennard — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:59:14 +0000

On Wednesday, the House passed a measure to limit Donald J. Trump's military authority regarding Iran, with a growing number of Republicans breaking ranks to express dissatisfaction with how the administration has managed the ongoing conflict.

As NewHound Ellen reported, the four Republicans who voted with all the Democrats to end the war were Reps. Tom Barrett of Michigan, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Warren Davidson of Ohio, and Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Unsurprisingly, Trump's wrath is being directed at them and the "Dumocrats" in a childish Truth Social outburst.

"Yesterday, in a meaningless vote, the House voted, 4 bad Republicans and all of the Dumocrats, to limit my War Powers, right in the middle of my final negotiations to end the War with the Islamic Republic of Iran," he wrote. "Who would do such an unpatriotic thing."

"They know where the negotiations stand," he added. "The Democrats are fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome. They would rather have our Country fail than give me another, of many, victories. The four Republicans, that’s a whole other story - They’re GRANDSTANDERS! They should be ashamed of themselves. MAGA!!! President DJT"