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Sarah Matthews, a former Trump assistant press secretary, slammed Trump and the dissenting conservatives who still kiss his ass, saying “a lot of Republicans” that she has spoken to, including top elected officials, “will bash him privately, but many of them will not even say it publicly.” Via The New Republic: “A lot of times what they often say is that they’re supporting him because of the policies, that they want the conservative agenda.

Fox finally got around to reporting on puppy-killer Kristi Noem, and but not without this ridiculous whataboutism from The Five's Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters. It was radio silence over on Fox for at least three days after the story about Noem exploded, and I guess they decided they couldn't ignore it any longer, so they finally ran a few segments like the one above discussing the dog shooting incident in Noem's memoir. Gutfeld started things off explaining the gruesome tale and asked Dana Perino to weigh in.

Donald Trump thinks he’s identified a crucial mistake of his first term: He was too nice. We’ve been talking for more than an hour on April 12 at his fever-dream palace in Palm Beach. Aides lurk around the perimeter of a gilded dining room overlooking the manicured lawn. When one nudges me to wrap up the interview, I bring up the many former Cabinet officials who refuse to endorse Trump this time.

Since 2004, Crooks and Liars has been a leading voice in progressive politics and liberal commentary. For two decades, this fiercely independent site has provided intelligent analysis, uncompromising criticism of right-wing extremism, and a Haven for hilarious mockery of conservative hypocrisy. From eviscerating dishonest Fox News narratives to elevating underreported stories that cut against the mainstream media grain, Crooks and Liars' commitment to truth-telling has never wavered.

She's baaaaack! Former crackpot Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann claims the World Health Organization has a satanic plan to create global governance. It appears Bachmann is a big Rothschild conspiracy theorist that comes from the dregs of QAnon. In my remarks, I'm going to have a chance to talk a little bit about that. If there's time to talk about the World Health Organization that is the health care arm of the United Nations, they're meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, the end of May. And they have a plan. They have a satanic plan. And that plan is to create a platform for global governance. So we'll probably be talking about that. But here's the greatest thing. In the last few weeks, as maybe you felt the same thing, as despair has come upon your mind and been on your shoulders and weighted us down to the point where we thought we could never see it get as bad as what we've seen in these last few weeks, I have to tell you, the Holy Spirit has been speaking. And the still, small voice in my spiritual mind has been fluttering. It's like a fluttering, a fluttering that goes along with springtime, that says that there is a new thing that God is doing in our midst.read more

By now, you've heard about smelly Donald Trump sleep-farting in court daily, and I'm sure that Eric Trump heard about that, too. Eric told Fox News's Maria Bartiromo how great his father's "stamina" is and said he's "never seen anything like it in my life." That's a tell. Donald says that or says something is worse than "the world has ever seen" when he lies. "He's going all over the place," Eric said of his father, who has been golfing on his days off where, hopefully, he's not farting on his Mar-a-Lago guests.

Trump lickspittle Sen. Lindsey Graham blew off any concerns that The National Enquirer's David Pecker paid for catch-and-kill stories in order to help Trump's presidential campaign. I still want to know what Trump has got on Graham since he did his 180 back when Trump was running the first time. Here's Graham's lame response when CNN's Dana Bash asked him about Pecker's testimony this week: GRAHAM: Apparently, a lot of people do this, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods.

Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley refused to pull over for speeding and went home and called the police chief to quash the incident instead. That's a no-no. Unfortunately for her (or fortunately for the rule of law), the entire incident was recorded on the officer's bodycam and now DA Doorley has to explain why she has such reckless disregard for the law, police officers, and common sense. And although a Republican now (of course), Doorley has been a Democrat in the past.

CNN contributors blasted South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), who reportedly shot a 14-month-old puppy to death. "This is something that she wrote in her book that she killed a 14-month-old puppy and a goat on her family farm," CNN's Dana Bash said Sunday. "And three horses, she said it wasn't a pleasant job, but it had to be done, and after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done, and then she went on to talk about her goat." CNN's Ana Navarro said she thought the story was "made up" when she first heard it. "Because number one, I couldn't believe somebody would do that, kill a puppy," Ana Navarro remarked.

Flute extraordinaire JJim Walker and his band Free Flight blew Johnny Carson's mind on the Tonight Show back in 1982 with their melding of jazz and classical. Walker has had a stellar career playing his beloved instrument, but was also a world class educator who retired a few years ago as a professor of practice in USC Thornton’s Winds and Percussion department. Two years in a row, he received the Most Valuable Player Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Academy itself famous for its GRAMMY Awards.

As the gentle reader is aware, abortion is a very hot topic that the Republicans are failing miserably on, and Senator Ron Johnson did them no favors on that matter. Earlier this week, Vice President Kamala Harris once again visited Wisconsin. During her visit, she announced the White House's new policy about staffing in nursing homes and talked about reproductive health care.

A Ukrainian soldier played the national anthem of the United States for the Russian soldiers somewhere on the frontline in eastern Ukraine. Unsurprisingly, the Russians did not care to be serenaded in this fashion and responded with their AK-47s and fired an RPG in the general direction of the offensive tune.

During Thursday's Supreme Court hearing, Trump lawyer John Sauer was made to look foolish trying to defend his claim that the president would get immunity even if he assassinates his political rival. Justice Sotomayor was not amused. Sotomayor: Your answer below, I'm going to give you a chance to say if you stay by it – if the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity? Sauer: It would depend on the hypothetical, but we can see that could well be an official act. Sotomayor: It could.

One of my lawyer friends has been predicting for months we would see Amy Coney Barrett gradually moving toward a partial alliance with the liberal justices on the court, and yesterday, we saw her back up Justice Sotomayor's argument in the Iowa abortion case before the court. "The U. S. Supreme Court sounded divided yesterday during oral arguments in a case concerning access to emergency abortions.

Two new high-quality polls suggest an electoral dagger could be coming for Donald Trump—if their findings persist. Both polls, from Marist College and NBC News, show third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. siphoning more support away from Trump than President Joe Biden. The potential emerging trend was first spotted by The Washington Post's Aaron Blake. In the NBC poll, Biden trailed Trump by 2 points in the head-to-head matchup, 44% to 46%.

This morning, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case brought by the state of Idaho, which wants the nation’s highest court to rule that its abortion ban preempts federal law when it comes to emergency abortion care. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTALA, requires that hospitals receiving Medicare funding provide stabilizing care for all ER patients—including abortion care, even if it conflicts with a state’s own stricter abortion rules. Enter Idaho.