Racist has to racist, aka Yet another day with the felon-in-the-oval.
As President Donald Trump tries to convince voters that Democrats have let crime run amok, he’s digging into the country’s political past to cite one of the most controversial campaign advertisements that relied heavily on racist tropes.
During a campaign stop Wednesday in Gastonia, North Carolina, to stump for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley, Trump resurrected a 1988 George H.W. Bush presidential campaign ad featuring Willie Horton, a Black man convicted of rape and assault after he escaped while on temporary release through a Massachusetts prison furlough program.
A grainy black-and-white prison photo of Horton was used in the ad targeting then-Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who was ahead of Bush in the polls. On Wednesday, Trump evoked the Horton ad in an effort to convince voters Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper, Whatley’s opponent in the Senate race, is soft on crime.
“Willie Horton was a bad guy, really bad guy,” Trump said, before comparing Horton’s escape to the pretrial release of a Black man who faces a murder charge for last year’s killing of a white Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Cooper was not the governor when the man was released or when he was later charged with killing the refugee.
“Same thing as this, same as, same exact thing,” the president told the crowd in Gastonia.
It’s the second time Trump has invoked Willie Horton while campaigning for his party. Last month during a speech in Las Vegas, Trump called the Charlotte killing a “Willie Horton — modern day” tragedy.
It’s a military squirrel!
Washington — The Pentagon on Friday released its sixth batch of files on unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP or UFOs, including dozens of documents detailing a military program that commissioned studies of warp drives, wormholes and injuries that researchers linked to possible encounters with unknown craft.
Friday’s release includes a total of 71 files — 67 provided by the Defense Department and four from local law enforcement in Colorado. There are 55 PDF files, 15 video files and one audio file. Most of the files — 64 out of 71 — contain redactions. The dates of the documents range from 1952 to 2025.
The most noteworthy documents deal with a secretive military initiative known as the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. The Defense Intelligence Agency established the program in 2008 to study various aerospace threats decades into the future. The initiative ended in 2012.
One document describes the goals of the program and requirements for contractors who would work on it: “One aspect of the future threat environment involves advanced aerospace weapon system applications. The objective of this program is to understand the physics and engineering of these applications as they apply to the foreign threat out to the far term, i.e., from now through the year 2050. Primary focus is on breakthrough technologies and applications that create discontinuities in currently evolving technology trends.”
The release includes 37 “Defense Intelligence Reference Documents,” or DIRDs, produced under AAWSAP, dealing with topics like warp drives, wormholes, antigravity, negative mass propulsion and invisibility cloaking. All 37 have been publicly available for years, including through Freedom of Information Act releases by the DIA. But Friday’s versions include some details the agency had previously withheld, like the names of the agency offices that produced the documents.
The felon to be at the airport to say ni hao (heavy on the ni, if you know what i mean).
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first state visit by the leader of China in more than a decade takes place next week when President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington for high-stakes talks — and a little schmoozing — at the White House with President Donald Trump .
When Xi’s plan lands at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington on Wednesday, Trump will be there to welcome Xi for the state visit, senior administration officials told reporters. That’s unusual – Trump typically meets foreign leaders at the White House.
The heart of the visit comes Thursday when Trump and first lady Melania Trump welcome Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan at an arrival ceremony held indoors on the State Floor of the White House. Trump and Xi will also participate in a review of troops in the Rose Garden before they retreat behind closed doors for their talks.
And in totally unrelated, no relationship whatsoever, news re the felon and Russia.
Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation enabling sweeping sanctions on Russia aimed at pressing it into ending its war with Ukraine, and also giving him the power to impose additional tariffs on countries breaking the embargo.
The US president signed the Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act into law two days after it passed the House of Representatives in a bipartisan 262-159 vote, amid concerns the legislation gives him too much power.
The Trump administration has previously been doubtful about imposing additional sanctions on Moscow but changed its stance after repeated attempts to end its four and a half year war against Ukraine have stalled.
Let’s just pretend there’s no state or municipal government; it’s all federal control.
Donald Trump is aiming to block an Illinois city from providing reparations for Black residents. Although the city of Evanston approved its reparation program in 2021, aiming to compensate Black residents for historical injustice, the Trump administration now says the city’s plan is discriminatory.
In June, the Justice Department revealed its plan to file a lawsuit against Evanston, joining a conservative legal group known as Judicial Watch. The DOJ released a statement at that time, saying the city’s reparation program is discriminatory because it’s only available for Black residents.
“Simply handing out money based on race … is not the answer,” Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department’s civil rights chief, said in a statement, per NPR . “It is race discrimination, pure and simple.”
Federal judge won’t let the government lawyers “lawfare” as the felon’s personal cover-up workers.
A judge has ordered the DOJ to cough up notes from interviews between the FBI and a woman who alleged Donald Trump forced her to give him oral sex when she was 13.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Reagan appointee in Washington, ordered the DOJ to hand over all handwritten notes from its four 2019 interviews with Trump’s accuser, who alleges she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein to meet Trump in 1984.
Attorney General Todd Blanche’s DOJ filed an appeal Thursday in a desperate attempt to keep the notes under wraps.
The legal wrangling centers on a lawsuit filed by former MS Now host Katie Phang , who has sued the government and demanded that it release more unredacted Epstein files—like those involving the president’s teenage accuser.
Surgeon General nominee just contradicted the conspiracy idjit-in-chief.
Another U.S. surgeon general nominee is making waves with her vaccine comments .
Dr. Nicole Saphier , President Donald Trump ’s latest pick for the nation’s top doctor role, had some intense moments during her confirmation hearing on Sept. 16 when faced with questions about the MMR vaccine , which protects against measles, mumps and rubella.
Things got particularly intense when committee chair Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, asked her a line of questions about whether the vaccine causes autism.
“Humbly, I don’t know what causes autism, but I have not seen repeatable evidence that would suggest that vaccines cause autism,” said Saphier, a breast radiologist who has served as a Fox News contributor since 2018.
“Can you tell (a) parent − I assume you’ve reviewed the literature − that there is no credible evidence that vaccines cause autism?” Cassidy pressed.
“Certainly, I have not seen any evidence presented to me that is−” Saphier began before Cassidy interjected.
“There’s a little bit of wiggle room there, and I’m so sensitive to this because I’ve had wiggle room from people sitting there … who later used that wiggle room to do things which are quite contrary,” he said. “Is the MMR vaccine extremely lethal, as the president said ?”
Saphier said she cannot speak to what the president has said but added, “as a physician, I can tell you that I do not believe the MMR vaccine to be lethal. I believe the MMR vaccine is our greatest tool for combating measles.”
“That’s great,” replied Cassidy, who is a physician himself. “And does it cause autism?”
“I do not believe childhood vaccines cause autism,” she answered.
That’s what we need in education: more free-for-all.
FIRST ON FOX — U.S. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon is pushing forward with the administration’s campaign to scale back federal education red tape, backing a national movement designed to bypass administrative bureaucracy and teachers unions.
The initiative, the Let Teachers Teach Coalition, aims to empower local educators and return decision-making authority to classrooms and school districts nationwide.
This coalition was launched by America First Policy Institute on Thursday, Constitution Day, to strengthen civics and history education and “put teachers, parents and students back at the center of America’s classrooms.”
It’s amusing how the felon and his flacks are doing their utmost to have 100% federal control of education while at the very same time saying they’re getting the federal goverment out of education.
Oddly enough, they’re right, but that’s only if you realize they’re shifting the definition of education mid-stream.
Under 21 but over 18? The felon’s legal advisors say you can get a gun.
The Trump administration on Friday issued an advisory opinion that declares unconstitutional two federal laws prohibiting firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under the age of 21.
The 49-page guidance document was prepared by T. Elliot Gaiser in the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and is directed to the attention of U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche.
“In sum, because the modern federal age restrictions limit young adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty from obtaining arms, they ‘fall within the plain text of the Second Amendment’ and are ‘presumptively unconstitutional,’” the OLC opinion reads.
And here’s the reasoning. (The bolding is mine.)
“Our laws deem an eighteen-year-old ‘mature enough to be drafted, vote, serve as a juror, and be sentenced to death,’” Gaiser wrote. “One such eighteen-year-old represented the United States at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, shooting skeet. Yet, due to statutes predicated on concerns over an eighteen-year-old’s ability to handle a pistol as a responsible adult, it would have been a federal felony if a licensed dealer had sold her such a firearm before she left or after she returned to her studies at the University of Texas at Arlington.”
The bolded part above is word-for-word the complaints I’ve often heard about laws prohibiting those under 21 from consuming alcohol.
Someone’s super jealous of a real president.
WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday a proposed triumphal arch President Donald Trump wants to build near Arlington National Cemetery in Washington would not pose a hazard to aircraft but would be required to have an “eternal flame” on top.
The FAA determination requires it to be marked with a light on top of the structure and floodlight projectors pointed at the arch to make it noticeable for pilots. Some aviation experts have raised safety concerns given its proximity to Reagan Washington National Airport.
Just in case you didn’t know, President Kennedy’s gravesite has an eternal flame. This decision is no doubt at the behest of the felon.
A Republican senator says the felon’s family is corrupt.
Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) on Friday ripped President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. for letting a Russian oligarch with ties to the Kremlin pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to finance his wedding after-party in the Bahamas this year.
Curtis called the generous gift “corruption” and pledged to say more about it in coming days.
“A Russian oligarch paid for a lavish wedding after-party for Donald Trump Jr., which to me just stinks. It’s corruption, I don’t like it,” Curtis said in a video summary of the week’s events posted on social media.
When? “In two weeks!” of course.
WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said on Friday his son, Donald Trump Jr., has told him he would pay back a Russian oligarch who bankrolled wedding celebrations for him in the Bahamas in May.
Democrats in the US Congress launched an investigation this week into reports that Umar Kremlev, a wealthy Russian businessman and president of the International Boxing Association, paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the wedding festivities.
ProPublica, which first reported Kremlev’s involvement, said he has close ties to the Russian government.
Trump told reporters on Friday that when he asked his son about the report, he responded, “‘No, I’m paying it back, Dad.’ And that was a while ago. So I heard he’s paying.”
Oh, he’s heard it, no doubt while people were saying it. Calling him sir. With tears in their eyes.
In other words: DIDN’T HAPPEN!
Census Bureau workers told to STFU.
Leadership at the Census Bureau has ordered staff to halt all external events related to the 2030 Census amid the agency’s release of a controversial, unprecedented rule proposal aimed at excluding immigrants from the U.S. population count, according to a copy of an email obtained by TPM.
The events moratorium is set to last until the end of the 30-day public comment period allotted for the sweeping proposal, which seeks to transform how the U.S. Census defines “usual residence” and end the collection of race and ethnicity data for the first time since the Census began in 1790. The email also instructed Census employees to write a memo justifying their participation in any events, including those unrelated to the 2030 Census. Staff were instructed to justify their participation in any events to “George, Michael and John,” referring to George Cook, acting Census Bureau director, Michael Lachanski, Census Bureau deputy director for Data, Policy, and Science, and John Studds, Census Bureau deputy director for for Administration and Operations, according to a current Census Bureau employee who was not authorized to speak to the media.
“It is highly unusual to blanket deprive the public of access to Census professionals at any time,” John Abowd, former chief scientist at the U.S. Census Bureau, told TPM.
Highly unusual? During a normal presidency perhpas, Johnny, but welcome to the Matrix.
Human chain around what’s left of the Kennedy Center.
Hundreds of activists gathered at the Kennedy Center Friday night in opposition to President Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of the presidential memorial and threats that he will close and demolish it.
Activists linked hands and formed a human chain outside the Washington venue, demanding Trump be removed as its chairman for failing to protect and manage it. Trump installed himself as chairman of the Kennedy Center last year after removing its previous leadership and replacing board members with his own appointees.
“The demonstration opposes the recent sudden closure of the facility, the installation of security fencing, and political efforts to alter or demolish portions of the presidential memorial,” the group said on its website.
The Hands Off the Arts organization behind the rally and protest said they expect hundreds of people to gather on the center’s steps for musical performances, testimonials and speeches before forming a human chain around the building. The group has held various protests outside the performing arts venue this year.
“The Kennedy Center can’t be renamed for anyone else. It’s a memorial to John F. Kennedy. It’s like silly to suggest otherwise. And it’s not just silly – it’s insulting and it’s degrading and it’s un-American,” Miller told ABC News.
Silly?
That makes it 100% the felon-in-chief.
