Rachel Maddow Show producer, MaddowBlog author, MS NOW contributor, and author of Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
Steve Benen
Trump has clashed with so many AGs (Bondi, Barr, Sessions, Yates). Why is Blanche different? They agree on what an AG should be: part puppet, part weapon, and part cheerleader.
Blanche doesn’t want to be our attorney general; he wants to be Trump’s attorney general. Those are 2 very different jobs.
I think both points can be true:
- John Bolton broke the law and mishandled classified docs
- Trump’s weaponized DOJ went after Bolton in the first place because the president told it to
Trump effectively admitted the latter point today, saying he “helped” with the case.
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It’s not easy for a leading American official to screw up a D-Day commemoration ceremony in Normandy.
With his ugly anti-immigrant remarks, Pete Hegseth managed to find a way to do it anyway.
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On the one hand, Hegseth is using his office to advance a Christian nationalist agenda.
On the other hand, his Pentagon isn’t just elevating one faith tradition, it’s also demoting other faith traditions, slashing the number of religions the Defense Department officially recognizes.
Of course Triggered Trump abandoned his MTP interview: Kristen Welker used the one word that practically causes a presidential allergic reaction:
“Evidence.”
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On issue after issue:
- national security
- 2020 election
- undocumented immigrants casting votes
- California primaries
Mike Johnson has said “instincts” and “intuition” are a legitimate substitute for knowledge.
They are not.
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For just under $12,000, you too can buy a Trump-branded gold “medallion,” “designed” by the president, celebrating the UFC’s White House event.
This is not to be confused with Trump-branded shoes, guitars, Bibles, watches, digital trading cards, or phones. #grift
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As outlandish as this might seem, Trump has now extended clemency to almost all of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century.
The latest pardon was issued late Friday night, when the White House hoped it’d go unnoticed.
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Here’s a trend I’d love to hear the White House explain:
Average monthly job growth in the runup to Trump’s tariffs: 72,000
Average monthly job growth during Trump’s tariffs: -4,900
Average monthly job growth in the aftermath of Trump’s tariffs: 188,000
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Aside from the obvious, Republican conspiracy theories about the California elections seem to suffer from one fatal flaw:
If nefarious Democratic schemers existed and were secretly orchestrating the results from the shadows, they wouldn’t have picked these outcomes.
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Steve Benen
Blanche has made it clear that he doesn’t want to be the American people’s attorney general; he wants to be Trump’s attorney general.
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What we’re dealing with is a political leader who believes gut feelings are a legitimate substitute for knowledge. They are not.
As outlandish as this might seem, Trump has now extended clemency to almost all of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century.
The defense secretary has spent most of his tenure drifting from one culture war priority to another. Evidently, he hasn’t gotten to the end of his list.
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This wasn’t CPAC or a conservative media interview; these were prewritten remarks from a U.S. defense secretary at a solemn event.
Trump is sometimes confronted with a word that practically causes a presidential allergic reaction: “evidence.” Trouble soon follows.
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The president, unprompted, boasted that he “helped” with the case against his former national security advisor, “from the standpoint of encouragement.”
