Well, I would ask you to clarify your words of violence, but we know you don't take questions kindly!

How about that "karma is a bitch" thing?

Or how about Trump threatening retribution on his first day in office?

Yeah, Republicans, they're the party of peace, except when it comes to war, then they're all business!

 

Dismissed.
Both of you trolls.

 

So shooter, why did Fox news consistently repeat Trumps election fraud claimed? What evidence did Fox news present that proved Trump's claims?

Enlighten us

 

Dismissed

 

Attaboy

 

This is something I thought myself. Mental health experts recently predicted that since Trump cannot control Jack Smith he would be desperate to try and control the narrative. Now all that did in his Fox interview was provide Smith with more confessions he can use against him in court. But Trump also appeared panicked shrill and incoherent because he was not ready for tough questions with push back.



Donald Trump’s Tone Has Shifted, MSNBC Contributor Says: ‘Sounds Very Unsure of Himself, and Frankly a Little Scared’ (Video)
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Is “defendant Trump” starting to hear the footsteps? At least one prominent legal analyst has detected a shift in the GOP front-runner’s tone as he defended his keeping of classified documents in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier.

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, repeatedly referring to the former president as “defendant Trump,” on Monday night replayed parts of Trump’s interview for a panel of guests on “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell.”

But it wasn’t just Trump’s elliptical arguments that caught the ear of Andrew Weissman, a former federal prosecutor and general counsel for the FBI.

“I’ll be interested in what everyone else things in terms of demeanor,” Weissman said after watching the clip. “It’s a little striking to me that he sounds very unsure of himself, and frankly a little scared, and he rightly should be as he’s facing 71 felony counts in federal and state court and maybe could be facing additional charges.”

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Weissman was referring to the moment that Trump told Baier that he retained the boxes because he needed to sort out his personal belongings – things like “clothing” and other items he said were interspersed among the sensitive classified material.

“In my case I took it out pretty much in a hurry, but people packed it up in a hurry and I had clothing in there,” Trump said, his voice rising. “I will go through these boxes! I have to go through those boxes.”

Weissman read Trump’s elevated pitch and volume in that moment as a tell that his usual bulldozer confidence was perhaps on the wane.

“That was the thing that struck me the most was his tone,” Weissman continued. He added that Trump’s insistence that he keep talking to the press about the felony indictment is only hurting him.

“This is the kind of thing that (special prosecutor) Jack Smith has to be salivating over,” Weissman said. “His talking is the best possible thing – as E. Jean Carroll knows full well. This is a colossal blunder on his part to continue down this road.”

Watch the entire clip above.



https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/donald-trump-tone-shifted-msnbc-152103817.html

 

Nicolle Wallace busts John Durham for playing dumb about the Mueller report he was investigating

Sarah K. Burris
June 21, 2023, 5:20 PM ET



MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace (screengrab)


MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace highlighted testimony from former special counsel John Durham in Congress Wednesday and accused him of playing politics to dodge answering questions that were unflattering to him and his probe.

Speaking to NBC News reporter Garrett Haake, Wallace pointed out that Durham did not know the answer to basic facts about things he was supposed to be investigating.

"Durham's mandate is to investigate not just any investigators, not just investigators who happen to investigate while [Donald] Trump was president, not investigators who may have had one of the pieces of paper that cross their desk that pertains Russia, Durham's mandate was to investigate the investigators who investigated interference by Russia in the 2016 election," Wallace said. "And what a lot of people talk about when they revisit the Mueller report is the Trump figures that were charged that like Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos. Mueller also indicted a whole lot of Russians. Durham was the man in charge of the investigation, and he doesn't know basic facts? He either misstates or erroneously recounts the conclusions of the Mueller report. What was that?"

Haake said that his sense is that Durham didn't want to go down that road, so he simply refused to answer questions about it, saying that it wasn't part of his report.

"You might have an issue with the bias Peter Strzok indicated in his text messages, but weren't these findings still findings?" Haake asked. "Were not Russians, in fact, trying to get involved in the Trump campaign or be involved in the 2016 election in a significant way? And nothing in the Durham report undercuts any of those findings by Mueller or the Crossfire Hurricane team that predated him under Jim Comey. I think that's why you would two wholly separate conversations, only tangentially dealing with that paper report in front of them going on in that hearing room for five hours today."

Wallace noted that the one somewhat legitimate finding from the Durham report is that there should have been a preliminary investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election before the larger investigation.

"At the end of the day, for both Charlie [Savage's] reporting and Garret's, he does not come out and refute the facts that predicated the opening of an investigation. It's simply this rather technical dispute about whether it should have been a preliminary instead of the full. But the wreckage, the blast radius, four years of Donald Trump and Sean Hannity, and everyone on the right building up the Durham report is coming!"

She recalled being in Washington with Trump-era DOJ officials ahead of the Mueller report dropping, and she said that all of them insisted that Durham would discount everything.

"They said, 'This is nothing, wait until you see what Durham's got.' And I said, 'Oh, yeah, what does Durham have?' Durham never had anything except a tip to open an investigation into Donald Trump," Wallace said. "And that was something he couldn't even answer for today."

See the full comments from Wallace and Haake below or at the link.



https://www.rawstory.com/nicolle-wallace-busts-john-durham-hearing/

 

Hey guys if you tune in real quick you can catch Jen Psaki interviewing Nancy Pelosi on MSNBC. This ought to be good.

 

Donald Trump Is ‘Very Seriously Damaged Goods,’ Nancy Pelosi Tells MSNBC’s Jen Psaki (Video)

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Sun, June 25, 2023 at 3:36 PM MDT




As Donald Trump’s indictment collides with his candidacy for the 2024 election, Nancy Pelosi said the former President is “very seriously damaged goods.”

“Here’s a president who has been twice impeached, multi-times indicted, we don’t know how many it will be, defeated once — I think he’s very seriously damaged goods,” Pelosi told MSNBC anchor Jen Psaki on Sunday’s “Inside With Jen Psaki.” “We have to do everything to make sure that a person so frivolous with our democracy, so jeopardizing of our national security, so disrespectful of our rule of law, would [never] be president of the United States once again.”

Despite the growing pile of evidence against Trump, the Speaker Emerita also noted her hesitancy to say there’s no way he could win again since she “never thought he could win the first time.”



As the pair discussed Trump’s recent indictment — to which he pleaded not guilty to 37 federal counts regarding the illegal retention of classified documents as well as obstructing justice and making false statements — Psaki pointed out that some of the documents found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence were the highest level classifications possible.

“Knowing what you know about former President Donald Trump, we know he has an affection for dictators,” Psaki said. “Do you have concern, without us knowing at this point, of what he may have wanted to do with those documents?”

While Pelosi didn’t give a definitive answer to Psaki’s inquiry, the California representative underlined the extent to which Trump “seriously jeopardized our national security,” which went against protecting important security documents that he expressed as a priority during his candidacy.



“Our intelligence community takes risks for us all the time, and to jeopardize their lives, their families, the sources they may have interacted with is a very dangerous thing — very irresponsible,” Pelosi continued. “And by his own public statements, before he was president, and as president, he knew that.”

You can watch the entire 15-minute interview in the clip at the top. The discussion about Trump’s handling of the classified documents begins at the 9:48 mark.


https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/donald-trump-very-seriously-damaged-213640020.html

 

We can see how it will be laid out for 2024.
Despicables will twirl at every opportunity about how Trump stole every womans right to an abortion.
And deplorables will be pointing out that what really happened was the decision about abortion, since it isn't a constitutional right, was properly put in the hands of the states.
Course, deplorables will fuck up the message and despicables will play it for all it's worth cause the only other thing(s) they have to talk about are the border, economy, biden, and the debt.
And that direction be monsters.

 

You just totally exist in your own little fact and truth free plastic bubble completely detached fem the re reality staring us in the face every day.


Trump says US government has 'vital role' opposing abortion, won't say if he backs national ban
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireS...-vital-role-opposing-abortion-backs-100361277



Republican Graham proposes national ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-se...eils-abortion-bill-ahead-midterms-2022-09-13/


Pence calls for 2024 GOP candidates to back a 15-week federal abortion ban
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politi...idates-to-back-a-15-week-federal-abortion-ban

 

And so it begins ....................

 

Jen Psaki says Trump has an ‘affection for dictators’

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Mon, June 26, 2023 at 9:18 AM MDT




Former White House press secretary turned-cable news host Jen Psaki noted former President Trump’s “affection for dictators” during an interview that aired on her MSNBC show this weekend.

During a conversation with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Psaki asked the Democratic leader about a federal indictment the former president is facing over his handling of classified documents in the context of his dealings with some foreign leaders.

“As you just alluded to, I mean reading the itemized list of 31 documents and the clearance levels as a former ranking member on the Intel Committee, there were Five Eyes classifications there, there were some of the highest level classifications,” Psaki said.

“And knowing what you know about former President Donald Trump, we know he has an affection for dictators … Do you have concern, without us knowing at this point, what he may have wanted to do with those documents?”


Pelosi responded saying, “no, I don’t know. But what I do know is that he seriously jeopardized our national security.”

Trump is facing more than 30 charges relating to his handling of government secrets after leaving the White House, which federal prosecutors allege violated the Espionage Act.

The former president, who is currently seeking the GOP nomination in 2024, has pleaded not guilty to all the charges he faces, and a judge in Florida slated a trial in the documents case to begin in August.

Psaki served as President Biden’s first White House press secretary and has since left the government to take a job hosting a weekend news and analysis program on MSNBC.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/jen-psaki-says-trump-affection-151803632.html

 

Jen Psaki thinks Nancy Antoinette is a wonderful politician.

Ain't no accounting for taste.

 

Former prosecutor tells Maddow how newly released tape will be used during Trump's trial

Sarah K. Burris
June 26, 2023, 10:13 PM ET



Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears in a Manhattan court during his arraignment on April 4, 2023, in New York City. - Seth Wenig/Getty Images North America/TNS


MSNBC's Rachel Maddow began her Monday show by doing her own dramatic reading of Donald Trump's audio tape that was revealed by CNN. After listening to the tape, she explained that so much is left out in transcripts, like the cadence and inflection that makes it clear that Trump is handing a classified document to someone.

"I mean, let's just draw down on the specifics of this for a second. In Jack Smith bringing charges against Donald Trump, the sort of crux of the case, right?" said Maddow. "Is that the prosecution has to be able to prove that Trump had classified documents in his possession after he left the presidency, right? That's the illegal activity alleged in the indictment. And here in this part of the tape is Donald Trump saying he had possession of classified information after leaving the presidency."

Former federal prosecutor Barb McQuade, who now teaches law at the University of Michigan, joined the conversation saying she had two reactions to what she heard.

"One, as a former prosecutor, it makes my hair stand on end a little bit to see this in the public domain," she said. "Prosecutors try to keep this stuff safeguarded so you can't have witness tampering and crowdsourcing of defenses. Now people can because this is in the public domain. But as a matter of evidence, this is really powerful evidence. We had seen some verbatim quotes from this recording that was in the indictment, but to hear the whole thing play out, I think, is incredible evidence. And at trial, it will not just be this recording that's played in a vacuum. They will have to authenticate this document, this recording, with someone who was there. So, whether it is the biographer or the publisher or one of the two staffers, one or more of them will have to be there."

The question she expects them to be asked is if they looked at the documents because it sounds as if he is handing them to folks.

"So, I think it proves a couple of things," McQuade continued. "One as you said, his knowledge and intent, which is important here about that he is willfully violating the law, and the other is the incredible recklessness with which he is treating our national secrets. It is a very powerful piece of evidence."

McQuade ended the interview by saying, "Let's have some cokes," a reference to the bizarre final line in the tapes.

See the full conversation below or at the link here.




https://www.rawstory.com/trump-court-proceeding-tape/

 

Cable News Ratings Monday June 26: Maddow Boosts MSNBC Prime Time Into First Place
By Mediaite StaffJun 27th, 2023, 4:37 pm
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow led prime time on Monday with 2.53 million total viewers and 212,000 viewers in the key 25-54 age demographic.

Maddow’s haul was enough to boost MSNBC’s prime time average to number one. MSNBC won prime time with 1.9 million total viewers, while Fox News came in second with 1.73 million total viewers. Fox won the demo, however, with 178,000 viewers to CNN’s 161,000 and MSNBC’s 160,000.


CNN landed third in total viewers with 770,000. Fox News’s The Five was still the highest-rated show of the day and Fox won in total day viewers and demo viewers.

Here is a full breakdown of Monday’s cable news ratings by show:

https://www.mediaite.com/daily-rati...dow-boosts-msnbc-prime-time-into-first-place/

 

Maddow hails Biden's ability to stay out of the gutter despite GOP authoritarian fear

Sarah K. Burris
June 29, 2023, 6:58 PM ET



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MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Joy Ann Reid appeared on "Deadline White House" Thursday following an interview with President Joe Biden.

In the analysis after the interview, host Nicolle Wallace marveled at Biden's willingness to keep calm and carry on when it comes to democracy and the American people. It is the kind of faith that the hosts all argued they're not sure they share.

Reid recalled Wallace asking Biden specifically about the Justice Department, "which was so politicized by his predecessor... and he was very clear I'm not going to comment on cases about Jan. 6. I'm not going to do anything that this previous president established as what presidents do."

She went on to say that thus far, Biden continues to believe "that these institutions can work. If he does normal politics and lets people see he is doing normal things, getting them roads and bridges and putting infrastructure money into their communities, that Americans are mostly team normal. He has won on that bet. We may be cynical in the world in the media, but he has won on that bet. He has been in politics since he was 29. I think maybe he is on to something that maybe we can't see from where we are. I'm terrified, but he is not."

"I think he is, Joy. I think he is. But I think the tools that he is willing to use do not betray the institutions he reveres," Wallace explained. "Which is interesting also. I think he is. I'm not sure -- because I think that's why the questions don't elicit defensiveness. He is almost selling me on, 'I haven't talked to the DOJ about anything! It's not going to break my promise!' The question about the court isn't like; they're doing fine. It's like — it's this restraint that I pick up. It's not that he is calmer than we are, Joy. I think it's just that the faith in the institutions, which — all four of us have covered the Republican strategy of burning them down."

She cited Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who is running a presidential campaign on destroying American norms, bringing down parts of the American government. By contrast, Biden trusts the institutions and those running them.

Naming a number of horrifying things that have happened to bring down American norms due to the Supreme Court, Reid confessed, "I see this sort of calm demeanor, and I don't know how he maintains it. Maybe he is screaming inside the way I am on the outside. I don't know if his calm institutionalism can really withstand this just onslaught from the Republican Party against all the advances of the 20th century all at once."

But Maddow explained that's exactly what true faith looks like in democracy and institutions.

She recalled Wallace asking about foreign policy issues around Russia and Vladimir Putin as well as Donald Trump, and even in the comments about those issues, she said she saw him again turn to his faith in democracy over authoritarianism.

"It's not he is saying the right are combatants and he is not," Maddow continued. "He is not an institutionalist, just playing defense. He is saying what we stand for is democracy and the institutions of democracy. An independent Justice Department. A non-politicized court. He doesn't want to expand it. Standing up for our NATO allies in Ukraine, because the fascist government of Russia is marching on them. He is saying, I'm a combatant, and what I stand for is democracy. What we will stand up for, and not only lead by example but we're going to protect with all our might despite any prevailing winds, are the institutions that make democracy work. That means standing up for DOJ, and a non-politicized court, and voluntary alliances against fascism. He is saying, I will be the leader of the free world. You may not like I'm not willing to get down in the mud and battle with the authoritarians, but I'm not going to dismantle democracy."

See the full segment in the video below or at the link here.




https://www.rawstory.com/joe-biden-democracy-gop-authoritarianism/

 

Kevin McCarthy is 'motivated by fear' of 'the circus wing of his party': MSNBC's Jen Psaki

Matthew Chapman
June 27, 2023, 8:00 AM ET



Kevin McCarthy (Photo by Win McNamee for AFP)


House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is being held hostage by fear of his own caucus, former White House Press Secretary and MSNBC host Jen Psaki argued on Tuesday.

She offered her analysis in a segment discussing McCarthy's endorsement of a far-right resolution that would purportedly "expunge" the two impeachments of former President Donald Trump.

"When you look at just Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker, given another chance to be adult in the room and say, stop with the nonsense, let's move forward and get some legislation passed, let's do things for the people who voted us, taking a pass on that and, again, fanning the flames of this stuff that comes from the extremes of his party," said anchor Willie Geist. "I mean, we're talking about looking to the past again just as a political question. Let's look back to 2020. Look back at Hunter Biden. Let's look back at all this stuff, rather than looking ahead, as the man you once worked for, President Biden, is attempting to do, even with this Congress he has to deal with."

"That's right," said Psaki. "I think it is pretty clear that Kevin McCarthy is motivated, right now, by fear. Fear of losing the Speakership. Fear of angering the base of Republicans. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, whatever the collection of people from the circus wing of the party is. He is fearful of angering them and angering the Trump base because he wants to hold on to the Speakership. Now, we don't know whether or not Kevin McCarthy thinks truthfully this is the right strategy as Speaker or the right thing he should be doing as Speaker, because he is so motivated by that fear."

READ MORE: Trump starts morning with all-caps tirade against 'deranged Jack Smith' and 'Joe Bidden'

Regardless, Psaki added, "this is not what Congress is elected to do," nor "what the Speaker is supposed to be doing."

"We also know that the contrast is quite stark between kind of leading the House of Representatives down a rabbit hole of trying to expunge impeachments versus actually trying to get something done," she continued. "I think what a lot of Democrats are betting on, and I spoke with Speaker Pelosi and she is betting on this over the weekend, is that the American public is smart. They will look and think, that is chaotic and crazy, and I don't know what they're trying to do over there. I would like the people representing me to do something. We won't know until the election, but I think that's what a lot of Democrats in leadership and Democrats running the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and certainly the Biden campaign is betting on."

Watch the video below or at this link.



https://www.rawstory.com/kevin-mccarthy-2661926885/

 

this has become kind of a feature on Lawrence O'Donnell's show. He gets the legal experts on and then plays clips of Trump's latest claims and excuses for streaking highly classified documents. And invariably what Trump says is so ridiculous and counter to the actual laws it turns into more of a comedy routine.


'Hell, Yeah!': Ex-DOJ Official Makes Short Work Of Trump's Big Defense Claim

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Ed Mazza
Fri, July 7, 2023 at 12:54 AM MDT


MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell and his panel of legal experts went through some of the claims Donald Trump has been making in his defense as he faces a 37-count indictment in the classified documents scandal.

In one clip played by O’Donnell, Trump claimed that charging him under the Espionage Act is “one of the most outrageous and vicious legal theories ever put in an American court of law. There’s never been anything like this.”

“Has there ever been anything like this?” O’Donnell asked former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal.

“Hell yeah,” Katyal replied without hesitation, then immediately cited the case of Robert Birchum, who was recently sentenced for keeping classified documents at his home.

“Notably, unlike Donald Trump, Mr. Birchum ― who was a highly decorated Air Force officer ― expressed remorse for what he did, he took full responsibility. And Lawrence, yet, he still got three years in prison just last month.”

Katyal also cited several other examples of people getting prison time for the same charges that Trump is now facing.

Trump, he suggested, “should just look at the language of the Espionage Act ― it describes him to a T.”

Watch as the panel also dissects some of Trump’s other claims clip below:

 

‘Stunts and Conspiracies’: MSNBC’s Velshi Blows Off GOP’s Investigations and Hearings On ‘So-Called Biden Crime Family’
By Caleb HoweJul 22nd, 2023, 7:16 pm

MSNBC host Ali Velshi on Saturday trashed Republican investigations and hearings as being “riddled with stunts and conspiracies” that amount to nothing and are a “wild goose chase.”

On Saturday’s Velshi on MSNBC, the left-wing anchor defended President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden against various allegations repeatedly brought forth by Republicans, some of which have the subject of recent House or Senate investigations and committee hearings.

Velshi said if allegations made by Republicans are “sounding like déja vu, that’s because these allegations have already been investigated over and over and over again,” without ever finding “evidence of improper influence or wrongdoing by the president.”


Velshi particularly brought up the IRS whistleblowers hearing that took place Wednesday, which neither MSNBC nor CNN covered live.

During that hearing, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene displayed graphic images of Hunter Biden in a variety of compromising positions that were recovered from his laptop, a scandal that was also mainly ignored by outfits like MSNBC and which was censored to varying degrees on social media prior to the 2020 election.

Velshi described them as “explicit photographs” without saying where they came from, and extrapolated that investigations into the President’s family are just stunts for political gain.

“Now, if you thought a hearing with two IRS whistleblowers was going to be tame, you’d be wrong,” he said Saturday. “That hearing quickly devolved when the Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene displayed explicit photographs of Hunter Biden to the committee.”


“This is the reality of the Republican investigation into the so-called ‘Biden Crime Family,'” said Velshi. “It’s seemingly riddled with stunts and conspiracies.”

That is essentially the same thing Democrats in Congress had to say, as is usually the case on the network.

Watch the clip above, via MSNBC.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/stunts-...and-hearings-on-so-called-biden-crime-family/