Why doesn’t the mainstream media make that clear? Here’s the NY Times today: Rather than attending the debate, Mr. Trump will appear with union workers in Detroit. No, he is going to speak at a non-union shop and from what we have heard he’s going to trash the union. I have no doubt there may be a few MAGA union members in attendance to see their Dear Leader but this is not a “union” appearance. The good news is that it appears the local news is telling it like it is: SPOTTED ON MICHIGAN TV >> “The major difference between these two is President Biden visited with UAW members, union members, where President Trump is visiting here…these are nonunion workers.” pic.twitter.com/wvyRl2i4eG — Ammar Moussa (@ammarmufasa) September 27, 2023 This isn’t hard but for some reason the media just can’t seem to get it right when it comes to Trump and the working class. They are as dazzled by his bullshit as his cult members are.
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Probably not. And that’s a problem. The new, large sample Economist/YouGov poll has Biden up 5 points over Trump 45-40. The new, large sample CNN poll of NH has Biden up over Trump by 12 points, 52-40. In dozens of specials across US this year Dems are outperforming 2020 by 8 pts. Have a nice day. pic.twitter.com/m5SSK2jXyw — Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) September 27, 2023 You can feel the febrile excitement in the media when a poll comes out that shows Trump beating Biden. They simply can’t help themselves. That poll that came out over the weekend was admittedly an outlier and they did it anyway. It’s going to be close. We have to face that fact. But the idea that Trump is running away with it is ridiculous. We’re not that far gone …. yet.
It’s the contagion, stupid New York State Supreme Court judge Arthur Engoron ruled Tuesday that Donald J. Trump, the former U.S. president, is a liar. His Trump Organization is a lie. His claims about his wealth are lies. All of this is known. David Cay Johnston knew long before Trump ran for president. David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of the New York Times won Pulitzers for exposing the Trump family’s corrupt and fraudulent practices in 2018. The Washington Post gave up counting Trump’s lies and misleading statements as president when they topped 30,000. Sure, everyone lies occasionally. But Al Franken lampooned the right’s enthusiasm for lying in “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them” (2003) before his stint as a U.S. senator. Lying as matter of course, as a political tactic, as a means of conducting oneself day to day was common before Trump. (Remember “death panels”?) Conspiracy theories built on smears and lies have been around for decades. But lying as a way to make a fortune at others’ expense seemed to become a contagion under Trump.
A rational person has enough of the Trump family’s nonsense It’s been a long time coming but it finally happened. Donald Trump, several of his businesses and two of his sons were found guilty of fraud for massively inflating the value of their holdings and companies. Is it possible that Trump’s pathological lying and grandiose bragging have finally caught up with him after all these years? The civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Leticia James was so unassailable to Justice Arthur F. Engoron that he issued a summary judgement on behalf of the state which strips control of Trump’s businesses from the family and may cost the former president as much as $250 million. The judge said that after looking at the facts and the arguments there was no need for a trial to determine that Trump had committed fraud. The ruling is what lawyers call the “corporate death penalty.” Trump’s main lawyer in the case, Alina Habba, who travels with him frequently on his campaign plane, was hired by Trump after meeting her at his Bedminister Golf Club.
The Democratic Party is far from perfect to be sure. There are times when they frustrate me beyond reason. It wasn’t all that long ago that I pretty much held mot powerful Democrats in contempt at least part of the time. But they have improved in recent years and I think it’s important to recognize that. The party has dropped much of its reflexive centrist dogma and, at least is more flexible ideologically. That the old dog Joe Biden could change his spots says everything about where it was and where it is today. And let’s get serious. Compared to the neo-fascist MAGA party they are sane which, at this point, is all that really matters. Here’s a Never Trumper: On Monday I argued that the Democratic reaction to Menendez—which has picked up steam since then—was a sign of a reasonably healthy institution. In response I’ve been told that I overstated the case. That the Democrats’ reaction is highly contextual. That if Menendez was a D in a state with a Republican governor who would appoint his replacement, then Democrats would be just as corrupt and unhealthy as Republicans. It’s really all about power. Both sides.
I’ve watched all the interviews with Cassidy Hutchinson and they’re just riveting. I thought this one with Lawrence O’Donnell was very good: She is brutally honest about her own culpability and the emotional journey she’s been on in emerging from Trumpworld. You have to remember that she was only 24 years old on January 6th. There are a whole lot of more experienced, wealthy men in her situation who are despicable cowards. Watching Nicole Wallace interview her I see more skepticism. As a Never Trumper from 2016, who left the Republican party, Wallace saw the danger from the beginning and she isn’t open to the idea that you can still be a Republican and not be an enabler of Trump and Trumpism. Hutchinson still is. When you look at it from Wallace’s perspective, Hutchinson is still mind-bogglingly naive. It doesn’t take anything away from her courage. But the veil hasn’t entirely lifted.
Taylor Swift’s new post urging her followers to register to vote has led to record-breaking voter registration numbers. At least 157,041 eligible voters visited the registration site in one day, including a 115% increase in 18-year-old registrations.https://t.co/GzLxLzFjuL pic.twitter.com/0ULCaQgo4x — No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) September 25, 2023
A “desperate effort at censorship”? Donald J. Trump is one grain alcohol and rain water away from pulling a Browning machine gun out of his golf bag. I just learned that windmills are causing mental illness in whales. pic.twitter.com/AjRONdTQdw — Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 26, 2023 Facing 91 felony charges across multiple jurisdictions, Trump believes it violates his rights if he’s not allowed to issue threats, intimidate potential witnesses, and taint jury pools as he campaigns for president awaiting trial. His defense team alleges a “desperate effort at censorship” by federal prosecutors. Can you hear His Indictedness whine from where you are? Politico: Donald Trump’s lawyers said Monday that a gag order proposed by prosecutors would unconstitutionally silence him during key months of the 2024 presidential campaign, urging a federal judge in Washington, D.C. to reject the proposed limits. In a 25-page filing that mirrored some of Trump’s own heated political rhetoric, Trump’s attorneys said the former president’s attacks on potential witnesses, special counsel Jack Smith and even U.S.
“These aren’t just one-off election wins” As Donald Trump gets crazier, as his Capitol Hill shock troops prove more dysfunctional, and as the noisy hostiles in MAGAstan grow more hostile, it’s reassuring to know that the country hasn’t gone completely mental. Whatever 2024 presidential contest polling indicates a year out, Democrats continue to win the only polls that matter: vote counts. Reid J. Epstein reminds New York Times readers: In special elections this year for state legislative offices, Democrats have exceeded Mr. Biden’s performance in the 2020 presidential election in 21 of 27 races, topping his showing by an average of seven percentage points, according to a study conducted by the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the party’s campaign arm for state legislative races. Those results, combined with an 11-point triumph for a liberal State Supreme Court candidate in Wisconsin this spring and a 14-point defeat of an Ohio ballot referendum this summer in a contest widely viewed as a proxy battle over abortion rights, run counter to months of public opinion polling that has found Mr.
They should Biden went where no sitting president had gone before: When former President Donald Trump visits Detroit on Wednesday, he’ll be looking to blunt criticisms from a United Auto Workers union leadership that has said a second term for him would be a “disaster” for workers. Trump will bypass the second Republican presidential debate that day to instead visit striking autoworkers in Michigan, where he has looked to position himself as an ally of blue-collar workers by promising to raise wages and protect jobs if elected to a second term. But union leaders say Trump’s record in the White House speaks for itself. Union leaders have said his first term was far from worker-friendly, citing unfavorable rulings from the nation’s top labor board and the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as unfulfilled promises of automotive jobs. While the United Auto Workers union has withheld an endorsement in the 2024 presidential race, its leadership has repeatedly rebuffed Trump. Nevertheless, Trump plans to speak directly to a room of former and current union members.