Four years ago today Q: You were asking your medical experts to look into sunlight and bleach as treatment. Were you being sarcastic? TRUMP: No. No, no, no, no. To look into whether or not sun and disinfectant on the hands, but whether or not sun can help us pic.twitter.com/HeHBgL8BOC — Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 24, 2024 He actually doubled down on his stupidity. Email Twitter Facebook ..read more

The Trumpers have already “won” the immunity case: Donald Trump‘s inner circle doesn’t expect the Supreme Court to go along with his extreme arguments about executive power in the immunity case before the justices. But what the high court does now is almost beside the point: Trump already won.  Three people with direct knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone that many of the former president’s lawyers and political advisers have already accepted that the justices will likely rule against him, and reject his claims to expansive presidential immunity in perpetuity ..read more

What is he, three? Philip Bump did a nice rundown of the “tortured” right wing rationalizations over Trumps criminal behavior. (gift link)If you don’t watch Fox you will be surprised at just how stupid it really is: If last week is any guide, somewhere north of 2 million people tuned in to Jesse Watters’s prime-time show on Fox News on Monday night to hear him moan that Donald Trump was being tortured. That the treatment the former president was experiencing during his criminal trial in New York was equivalent to — or perhaps worse than? — that experienced by at Guantánamo Bay. “Do ..read more

Wow. You may have seen a short version of the North America Building Trade Union (@NABTU) video endorsement of Biden. The full video is incredible and absolutely devastating for Trump. They did not hold back. A must watch till the end. pic.twitter.com/stL7b7JazP — MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) April 24, 2024 Except for the police unions, the unions are putting some real muscle behind Biden in this election: Email Twitter Facebook ..read more

The Bulwark’s JV Last with a very interesting historical observation: In taking in the testimony of David Pecker, it is tempting to say that he was the Joseph Goebbels of the MAGA movement, but that’s not quite right. Pecker is much closer to Dietrich Eckart. Let’s talk about this villain. Dietrich Eckart was a German “journalist” who co-founded the German Worker’s Party, which was the precursor to the Nazi Party. Eckart met Adolf Hitler in 1919 and saw in him a kindred spirit. They became friends and Eckart was something of a mentor. He believed that Hitler was the man to lead German w ..read more

Think about this: In his first questions of the day, Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch asked Turner to parse exactly how close a patient needs to be to death under Idaho’s law. He asked whether the law would permit an abortion in the case of a molar or ectopic pregnancy — both of which are nonviable and can be life-threatening — but deny one in a case where a patient would probably die at some point, but not imminently. “It doesn’t matter whether it happens tomorrow or next week or a month from now?” Gorsuch asked. “There is no imminence requirement,” Turner said. “This whole notion of delay ..read more

Joe Biden’s the big winner — on policy anyway Biden is so old he just got every dime of Ukraine aid and humanitarian relief he asked for despite Republican and Trump resistance and along the way he managed to flip the politics on immigration just for the hell of it. — Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) April 24, 2024 While most of the country was riveted by recaps of Donald Trump’s sordid hush money trial on Tuesday, something amazing was happening in Washington: the US Senate debated and then passed the national security package that’s been consuming the capitol for the last six months. With a ..read more

Let me count the ways Good heavens, this garbled mess from RNC co-chair Lara Trump. “We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers… but people who can physically handle the ballots… So there was a moratorium for about 40 years on the RNC actually training people to work in these polling locations and the tabulation centers where the mail-in ballots come in. And last year, the judge who implemented that passed away, so that was lifted.” Lara Trump: We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers… but people who can physically handle the ballots… pic.tw ..read more

The popularizer of “fake news” conspired to create it Projection. Long has the left used that term to describe conservative accusations against the left. When Republicans allege the left commits some infraction against, what — Decency? Patriotism? Rule of law? Election integrity? — then likely they themselves are secretly or more subtly doing the same. Inoculation is the underlying purpose. Loudly and often accuse your opponent of misbehavior in which you engage so that if ever caught in the act you can both-sides the affair. “Well, they do it too.” Fake news is another Donald Trump effort at ..read more

He’s very desperate right now Trump issued that call for his cult to protest at the courthouse last night. It’s not surprising. They haven’t shown up to protest for him on the courthouse steps or anywhere else. This was from day 1. There weren’t any more today after he made that call. So he lied: He’s only been able to get a ragtag handful of weirdos to show up at the courthouse and it’s freaking him out. His rallies aren’t drawing like they used to but it’s early in the campaign. The people who come to them at the moment are hard core cultists who love the ritual the same way Grateful dead ..read more