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Yesterday we posted about the deaths of two Kansas women at the hands of some right-wing nutjobs who call themselves "God's Misfits." Well, it turns out one of them is the chair for the Cimarron County GOP in Oklahoma.
So, besides being in Christian Nationalist/Sovereign Citizen/Republican Party hate groups, Tifany Adams is also now a suspect in the murder of her grandchildren's mother.
Jimmy Kimmel with a rundown of Trump's first day in his criminal trial in Manhattan, and on how the press would have reacted if it was "sleepy" Joe Biden rather than Trump that fell asleep in court.
KIMMEL: All eyes, or at least both of my eyes were on Lower Manhattan today, where the first criminal trial against Donald Trump is officially underway.
Trump attorney Alina Habba made a hideous comparison to Trump and Nelson Mandela, when she was asked by Fox News host if Trump goes to jail for thirty-days for violating the judges orders.
There is no class or dignity within the Trumpverse.
MacCallum: Do you think that this threat of 30 days in jail will change the social media actions of the former president in any way?
During a hearing on President Biden’s 2025 request for the Department of Justice, Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA) seemed more interested in MAGA gotchas rather than the less clickbaity but more substantive work of delving into the appropriation request.
Unfortunately for Cline, Attorney General Merrick Garland failed to give him the made-for-Fox-News soundbite that was Cline's likely objective.
First, Cline played the conservative victim card: He claimed there’s “a crisis of confidence” in the Department of Justice “created by the dual treatment of American citizens depending on their viewpoints or their political positions or their political offices.” He was trying to suggest that Donald Trump is being unfairly prosecuted for stealing classified documents and refusing to return them when Biden's completely different behavior was not.
A FOIA request to the National Park Service uncovered documents where Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy (hand picked by Trump, IIRC) apologized and asked for leniency in 2015 after he said a gun he kept in his vehicle for bear protection fell and discharged, striking him in his right forearm in Glacier National Park.
Delusional Kari Lake told her supporters they can "strap on a Glock" to be prepared for the intensity of the 2024 campaign and urged military and law enforcement veterans to be "ready," as her race heats up in a key battleground state. Via NBC News:
“We need to send people to Washington, D.