Pam Bondi is not in the justice business. She's in the protect Trump business. The House Oversight Committee members – Republicans and Democrats – must plow through her cheap theatrics to disrupt her Epstein Files cover-up. My USA Today column:
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A post-defeat victory lap of sorts.
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Wait, who gets custody of the shagadelic deportation jet?
With ethics complaints piling up against DOJ lawyers at state bar associations, AG Pam Bondi is proposing a new big-government regulation to suspend investigations until the DOJ first takes a look, and for as long as she likes. My USA Today newsletter:
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Trump and his election-denying allies are hunting for some sort of "emergency" so he can try to federalize the midterm elections. Is that why he was posting about Iran and past elections less than two hours after the bombing started? My USA Today column:
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On the 6 US troops who died at Shuaiba port in Kuwait: Troops asked for more drone defeat capabilities, none came. It was recommended that the makeshift tactical operations center not be used because it was hard to defend and concentrated too many troops in one place. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-st...
REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran--
RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday?
REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question
How is the latest Trump team rational — America had to go to war with Iran because Israel was about to go to war with Iran and then Iran would have attacked American locations in the region — playing with the anti-Israel MAGA influencers?
John Thune is looking to trade a legislative defeat on the SAVE act for a messaging win. Democrats should meet the challenge and ask voters why the president and Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for Americans to vote. My USA Today column:
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A man who has never learned that actions have consequences should never be allowed to start a war.
"Which Trump are we supposed to believe here? And – yes – I think not believing either version is an option," writes columnist @bychrisbrennan.bsky.social. bit.ly/4aXevOy
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To recap: The U.S. Military just used a laser to shoot down a U.S. Border Patrol drone... while the Pentagon is demanding that AI safeguards be dismantled to allow fully autonomous weapons. Maybe the Pentagon needs more safeguards, not less.
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"Forget the feel-good and make-money fake reform of the Stop Insider Trading Act. Pass the Restore Trust in Congress Act instead," writes columnist @bychrisbrennan.bsky.social. bit.ly/40gTx8F
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Team Trump face-plants on retribution. Again.
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Background on that tariff check that is not in the mail:
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Conservatives on the Supreme Court cast the decisive votes last week to cancel Trump’s tariffs. But he’s blaming Democrats in a fundraising email, claiming they canceled “tariff rebate checks” (that were never coming anyway.)
It felt incongruous, a wealthy politician like Donald Trump calling in his #SOTU to reform how members of Congress profit in the stock market. But the more you know about what Trump asked from Congress, the less impressive it gets. My USA Today column.
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An unsurprising and uninspiring state of the union address from Trump — short on substance, shifty on facts, and stacked with spectacle. Don’t expect this to move the needle on the midterms. A long speech soon to be forgotten.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals should overturn District Court Judge Aileen Cannon's coverup and let us see how Trump handled classified documents after he lost the 2020 election, and the lengths he went to cover up his own behavior. My USA Today column:
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Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room
Donald Trump bragged twice last week about knocking out Iran's nuclear program eight months ago – while threatening to knock out Iran’s nuclear program soon. Such startling cognitive dissonance from a politician threatening war. My USA Today column:
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"Barack Obama, in his two terms as president, was assigned a moniker he never embraced," writes columnist @bychrisbrennan.bsky.social. bit.ly/4kyk1vo
Trump on Thursday: "And to think I have to be in the United States Supreme Court for many, many months waiting for a decision on tariffs."
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Supreme Court on Friday: Here you go.
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Does the Supreme Court striking down Trump's tariffs make it more likely that he bombs Iran again, if only to shift the narrative away from this big loss from the conservative-controlled institution?
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Less than eight months ago, Trump's White House insisted Iran's nuclear facilities were "obliterated."
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The sources I spoke to about Donald Trump's high-profile mass deportation policy, in last week's three-column series, all said his efforts to also stymie legal immigration should get more attention. My USA Today newsletter:
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"It's true that Trump made immigration a winning issue. But that support is rapidly evaporating in recent public opinion polling, as Americans watch the chaos he has unleashed and start to reject it," writes columnist @bychrisbrennan.bsky.social. bit.ly/3OiSUbK
look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british
The Dow dipped below 50,000. Somebody had to pay.
"Former Prince Andrew arrested; King Charles speaks out"
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