"So a #Trump attorney that aided his #2020 campaign (and wrote a memo encouraging #Pence to skip counting #WlectoralVotes) was given an '#ElectionIntegrity' job in the admin, where he made referral 2 investigate #FultonCounty," wrote #PhilipBump

"It rehashes debunked arguments abt impropriety in ordr 2 establish a predicate 4 seizing election material — on basis that mistakes that occurred might have been intentionl & therefore criminl. It's all transparently contrived"

https://www.rawstory.com/fulton-county-2675256758/

things happen:

„A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen.“

Donald Trump defended the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia’s role in the murder of American journalist Jamal Khashoggi by indicating that Khashoggi was to blame for his own death. via So, we’re just moving on from the sedition-execution thing? | Philip Bump on pbump.net found at Heidi Li Feldman.

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#blogroll #donaldTrump #jamalKashoggi #killing #pbumpNet #philipBump #saudiArabia #uspol

Occasionally, even Kevin McCarthy is right (gift link below):

“I’d just become leader and I’m excited and President Trump’s there. And I look over at the Democrats and they stand up. They look like America,” [McCarthy] told Sorkin. “We stand up. We look like the most restrictive country club in America.”

#uspol #politics #republicans #philipbump #WaPo #washingtonpost

https://wapo.st/3sU9rsr

The Washington Post Via MSN

A lot of Americans embrace Trump’s authoritarianism

Story by Philip Bump • 22h

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-lot-of-americans-embrace-trump-s-authoritarianism/ar-AA1jIxTz?ocid=BingHp01&cvid=46c444c3cd86489dac9982d19445eea5&ei=52

At any given time, about 25-30% of Americans will support a fascist and fascism. Those people are sometimes called the "fascist third." The fascist third is a very useful term and it ought to be used often to describe MAGA and the dominant faction of the Gangland Trump Party (GTP), formerly known as the Republican Party.

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#democrats #donaldtrump #fascism #fascist #fascistthird #maga #philipbump #trump

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#PhilipBump/WaPo dissects Tucker’s “interview” of Mal-a-Lardo resident:

#45 lied “for more than a minute about how court staff and police officers were in tears and apologizing as he was arraigned on criminal charges in Manhattan. [Etc.] Well, really, he rambled for more than six minutes because Carlson’s only interjection was to reply to Trump’s inaccurate assertions about materiel left behind by the U.S. military with a sycophantic, ‘Of course.’”

[Screenshots chart #45’s serpentine ramble.]

#wapo please take the crayons away from #philipbump

Red America is growing because blue America is shrinking https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/30/red-america-is-growing-because-blue-america-is-shrinking/