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When Donald Trump repeatedly asked Russia [Vladimir Putin] to find thirty-thousand emails of his opponent Hillary Clinton, The press ate it up like a bowl of gazpacho. “Russia, if you’re listening — I hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably...

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  • February 11, 2022

Top Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro didn’t come out of nowhere. The administration found him where most high-level government aides are found … i.e., the same place I found the anti-fungal treatment for my big toenail—Amazon. You may or may not know that Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner found Navarro while...

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  • March 31, 2021

That constitutional scholar Tommy Tuberville claims he wasn’t at a meeting with Trump the night before. Evidence piles up as the impeachment trial begins. “Lawmakers ‘perturbed’ when House Sergeant-at-Arms told them at least none of them died in Capitol attack.” x As GOP defends Trump's impeachment on 'political speech' grounds,...

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  • January 27, 2021

During her second appearance on the leader of the genre in daytime talk, The View (1/5/21), following her maternity leave, Meghan McCain was told in no uncertain terms by one of the other four co-hosts, Joy Behar, that she was not missed.  Although McCain was apparently appalled by the rebuke,...

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  • January 6, 2021

Nothing but baboons: x “Baboons do not go far from the place of their birth.” Maasai proverb https://t.co/6pedtij0BT— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 3, 2021 x Fun Fact: In 1861, 11 U.S. Senators were expelled from the Senate for refusing to recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln. — Alex Cole (@acnewsitics)...

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  • January 3, 2021

Never has a Freudian slip been so perfect — or accurate: x “We're working on mass distribution of the virus.” — Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin, who we hope is working on mass distribution of the ~vaccine~ and not the virus. pic.twitter.com/DqaTC1ZTmD— The Recount (@therecount) November 20, 2020 < p class=”is-empty-p”> TREASURY...

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  • November 20, 2020

Trump’s spokespersons did not have a very good weekend on the news. They were either summarily dismissed or called out for their lies. Trump spokespersons get a rude awakening x x YouTube Video Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254 0...

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  • September 14, 2020

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, the jarvanka of Roger Stones tried a new scam to suppress votes with a robocall in major cities to misinform Black voters. The Trumpian bamboozle is strong with them. Trump had an average audience of 21.6 million viewers Thursday. Biden’s final total was 24.6 million...

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  • August 29, 2020

Andrea Mitchell did not allow Trump spokesman Peter Navarro to roll her like he does too many hosts. She checked him as he misinformed. Andrea Mitchell checks Peter Navarro x x YouTube Video Watch the full episode here. Andrea Mitchell normally gives Trump's spokespeople a lot of leeways. This time she...

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  • August 26, 2020

It was difficult watching the Republican National Convention as it presented an alternate state of reality to its viewers. Republican National Convention, the art of lying x x YouTube Video Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video Zoom: LINK — Live Calls: (346)248-7799 ID:254 0 9091 Nancy Pelosi...

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  • August 25, 2020

Both Chuck Todd and George Stephanopoulos grilled Trump's spokesmen, Peter Navarro and Larry Kudlow, as they continued spilling lies and misinformation. Todd & Stephanopoulos were journalists today x x YouTube Video Watch the full episode here. I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of pushback that both Chuck Todd and George Stephanopoulos gave to...

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  • August 9, 2020

Trump’s attempts to rationalize his future grievances resemble the excuses he’d created for an anticipated 2016 loss. He had hoped to grift for his quasi-empire from his opposition to a Clinton presidency when he gained it via the Electoral College. He’s repeating that tactic, only this time his adoption of the 1968...

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  • July 31, 2020

Peter Navarro, the Trump administration trade adviser whom Jared Kushner found on Amazon.com (the same place I’ve been vainly searching for a one-bedroom tauntaun carcass to hide in for the next four years in case Trump somehow wins again) wants y’all to stop politicizing the, erm, China virus, folks! This morning,...

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  • July 27, 2020

Today in disinformation: the plan continues to be no plan, increasing our information search-costs. The best example of that is removing as campaign manager, Brad Parscale, the real manipulator of the real and imagined 2016 data-sets in the swing-states. What is normal functioning for Trump has been disinformation, as he...

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  • July 16, 2020

The new COVID-19 model projects 224,000 deaths by November. Trump said if there were 100,000 deaths, “then we’ll have done a good job”. We are at 137,000 now, as if attacks on Fauci will draw attention away from the numbers. Trump now disclaims Peter Navarro’s “rogue” op-ed in USAToday. x...

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  • July 15, 2020

Donald Trump's spokespersons do not get a pass when interviewed by Ali Velshi. As a real journalist, he does not allow the spin or refuted statements or lies. Ali Velshi did not allow an unchallenged lie. x x YouTube Video Watch complete episodes here. Ali Velshi was not allowing Peter Navarro to use the...

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  • July 4, 2020

Another election could be stolen, but only if the results are close. GOTV.  x #BenedictDonald, #MoscowMitch & GOP #GroupiesofPutin decide to legalize election cheating & working with Russian spies. https://t.co/sDAgxT6WGR— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) June 30, 2020 Trump remains furious at his son-in-law Jared Kushner, whom he blames for the campaign’s dismal poll numbers. Axios reported this...

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  • July 3, 2020

Reading the Bolton book is a tough slog. although it is amusing to read how he wanted to settle scores including obliquely allowing Rex Tillerson to call Nikki Haley a c***. If there’s a takeaway so far, it is how badly edited it is, and how absent any consideration of...

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  • June 21, 2020

Still in a first wave doesn’t mean that like ramps, they can be both “long and steep”. And the lies keep coming. x I stopped counting a month ago, when Trump said for the 40th time that the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed his own grandfather, happened in 1917. Now...

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  • June 18, 2020

George Stephanopoulos interviewed Senator Bernie Sanders and Trump's spokesman Peter Navarro. Watch this re-clipped video with Bernie taking down Navarro on every single point. Bernie Sanders takes down Peter Navarro x x YouTube Video Watch full episodes here. There are times you wish the host of the Sunday morning shows...

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  • May 18, 2020

Trump and his well-oiled machine are using Chuck Todd and the mainstream media with little pushback to con Americans back to work. It is an election strategy that could work given the anemic pushback from all corners. Chuck Todd used once more to deceive Americans Watch full episodes here. It is not like...

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  • May 17, 2020

There’s only six months left in ‘Trump Time’, so the continuum is still safe, so far. Profiteering and looting might be less safe in the interim. Already under fire for his role atop a shadow task force aiding the administration’s response to the coronavirus, senior White House aide Jared Kushner is now being handed...

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  • May 7, 2020

Trump still refers to the 1918 pandemic as happening in 1917 because he saw the recent war movie, which was not about the flu. Remember how he got the US to build a southern border fence by using “wall” as a mnemonic device for “immigrants”. Trump’s grandfather died in the...

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  • April 26, 2020

Will Trump fire Dr. Fauci this week. More importantly will Trump even acknowledge the death toll other than saying “it’s a bad week” and babble some happy talk. He will promote the debut of a economic reopening council only to divert attention to the now 22,000 deaths. President Trump’s trade...

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  • April 13, 2020

She’s not fooling anyone: During an April 2 tele-town hall, Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) lied about supporting protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. Throughout her career in Congress, McSally has repeatedly voted against those protections and has encouraged her colleagues to do the same. On the Thursday call with...

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  • April 9, 2020

Live Blog below 5:00 PM EDT Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing x READ: White House trade adviser Peter Navarro's memos to President Trump on the coronavirus threat https://t.co/YklwPl7YhS pic.twitter.com/CS7ls2wPGN— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 7, 2020 Today should be a doozy, Navy secretary resigns, Navarro memo, Pentagon...

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  • April 7, 2020

But Trump is all about the necessity of hurting people. His cruelty and sado-populism continue to manifest themselves during this pandemic as he continues to tout corporations as the only savior for a leader like Boris Johnson. His mercenary rule comes with the daily COVID taskforce briefing as propaganda so...

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  • April 7, 2020

Only in the Trump administration can you have a non-economist like Larry Kudlow give economic advice and an economist dispense medical advice. Then again, having Peter Navarro give Trump advice on China trade was such a winner. Berman: What are your qualifications to weigh in on medicines more than Dr. Fauci?...

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  • April 6, 2020

There’s always been something strange about Trump’s continued insistence that Hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. You would think he’d mention it once or twice, then move on to something else, especially after the medical experts keep questioning the studies. Now it looks like we have an explanation for this fixation: the...

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  • April 6, 2020

Today was the first time in the COVID daily briefings that Trump has mentioned the 2018 “Right to Try” as the reason for insistence on untested treatments, confabulating them with cures and vaccines. It is an extension of the RW deregulatory discourse that when it comes to the desperate time...

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  • April 6, 2020

Presidential Assistant Peter Navarro, who appears to be President Trump’s Swiss Army knife—with his myriad of titles, has tried his best this week to re-introduce the phrase “Trump time.”  During last night’s confusing parade to the podium of experts, sycophants, and an admiral; Navarro used the words “Trump time” on...

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  • April 3, 2020

For the past four days, I have heard Trump loyalists like Wilbur Ross and Larry Kudlow, disaffected Republicans like Megan McCain and Ana Navarro-Cárdenas, ‘woke’ or former  Republicans like Nicolle Wallace and David Jolly use the phrase, “ this is not political.” What they all have been talking about is...

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  • February 28, 2020

Donald Trump is declaring victory in his trade war with China. Of course he is. He always claims victory, even — in fact, especially — when he loses. Remember the 2018 midterm elections? You’d have thought Republicans had won every seat and exacted punitive damages from Democrats who’d had the temerity...

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  • December 18, 2019

Like David Brooks and Thomas Friedman, conservatives use (non-) fictional everymen in their writing. WH adviser Peter Navarro is no different: his is the thinly disguised Ron Vara, no different than David Dennison or John Barron. Today the Comical of Higher Education takes Peter Navarro to task for his sinophobia which only...

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  • October 15, 2019

Rand Paul went on The View to explain the RWNJ critique of “socialism”, hoping he wouldn’t see his neighbor, but didn’t win any support for the notion that rich people have it bad. x Rand Paul gets laughed at by The View audience after saying that the 1% has it...

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  • October 11, 2019

You can tell when Donald Trump is upset about something — his lies and non sequiturs become far more feral, frequent, and surreal. Meanwhile, we all sit back and observe with a mixture of contempt, amusement, and horror — like watching a chimpanzee in a room with several boxes scattered around...

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  • August 16, 2019

Early this morning, Donald Trump tweeted some homespun wisdom: The negotiations with China have already started. Unless extended, they will end 90 days from the date of our wonderful and very warm dinner with President Xi in Argentina. Bob Lighthizer will be working closely with Steve Mnuchin, Larry Kudlow, Wilbur...

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  • December 4, 2018
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