Steve Bannon, the leader of the seditious GOP megaphone clan advises diminished Don to not show up to the Manhattan courtroom during his trial and see what happens. Bannon: Thursday's also on another topic uh... the immunity situation one of the most important uh... arguments in history of the Supreme Court. This is a lie. This immunity case is another shot in dark to excuse Trump's lawlessness. In the scheme of things this is a trite case. Bannon: Of course Trump won't be there. If I was Trump, I'd go to the immunity thing and let me put me in uh... in in a jail cell. And I'd go I'd go to ..read more

In the most heinous pot calling the kettle moment, Donald Trump attacked Michael Cohen: as being a pure liar. Diminished Donald again took to the cameras to attack the prosecution case, district attorneys, and Michael Cohen. After rambling several minutes about how nobody wanted to prosecute this case, he turned to his former personal attorney for a decade. Now, when are they going to look at Pomerantz and what Pomerantz did? Because that's bad stuff. And when are they going to look at all the lies that Cohen did in the last trial? He got caught lying in the last trial. So he got caught lyin ..read more

The HBO documentary The Truth vs Alex Jones, which premiered last month, takes a devastating look at grifter Alex Jones and the very real damage he did to those poor Sandy Hook families who were suffering so badly already. I know this has been out there for a little while now, but if you have access to HBO or another service that is streaming the documentary, go watch it, but be prepared for a gut wrenching reminder of the horror the families experienced when the shooting occurred and to be infuriated by the fact that Jones basically tortured them for over a decade. I thought Trump was possib ..read more

You knew the knives would come out after Rep. Tony Gonzales called Rep. Matt Gaetz and Rep. Bob Good "scumbags" this weekend on CNN's State of the Union. He called Matt Gaetz a pedophile ("I serve with some real scumbags. Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties.”) and Bob Good a member of the Ku Klux Klan for supporting his primary opponent, a guy he calls a known neo-nazi. But remember, according to cable news, it's the Democrats who are always in disarray. Source: Punchbowl News Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) is making more enemies ahead of his primary runoff next mon ..read more

Donald is sad! "Where my peeps?" he wants to know. "As The New York Times puts it, the former president is not getting the circus he wanted," Mika Brzezinski said. "The paper reports there were only a handful of Trump supporters outside yesterday morning, and they were outnumbered by the Trump detractors, who had signs about his alleged affair with an adult film actress. The former president tried to rally his followers with a long post on his social media site just before 7:00 yesterday morning. He'd post later that the courthouse is completely closed down, which it is not, suggesting the po ..read more

Jimmy Kimmel had a, um, blast last night with the stories about Smelly Trump. Via HuffPost: Kimmel showed how the reports caused “ODOR IN THE COURT” and #TrumpStinks to trend on X. The late-night host had a little fun of his own, altering the courtroom sketches to show the jury with gas masks and creating videos in which Trump’s speeches are interrupted by flatulence. Kimmel also begged people not to share them online since the reports are unconfirmed. “There’s no way to prove Donald Trump was the one who dealt it, so please don’t repost this video with a dumb caption like ‘Julius Squeezer ..read more

Newt Gingrich, who is famously a Catholic convert, has some very strange ideas regarding the commandment about lying. But then, he lied just as enthusiastically back when he was a Baptist, so there you go. He's just a liar by nature! Via Media Matters: NEWT GINGRICH (GUEST): Let me tell you, I am deeply worried that tomorrow, a totally corrupt judge and a totally corrupt district attorney are going to try to put a former president of the United States, candidate of his party, and front-runner in the polls in jail. Now, I think this is so horrendous that there has to be some way to reach out ..read more

Donald Trump was doing his typical accordion hands as if he were in marketing, trying to sell something. Well, he is trying to sell something, but it smells like bullshit. I was going to say that it smells like his farts, but that wouldn't be very classy of me. It appears that Donald's Pecker has a lot to say on the stand right now because Trump looks nervous. Trump is on break during his hush money payments trial, and it's almost as if the former President is confessing to reporters. Ssh! Don't interrupt him. Let him talk. "It was just in the last minute they decided to do it," Trump said ..read more

The "Stop Murdering People" Edition Historical context from Popular Information. Caitlin Johnson: "Israel Is Turning Hospitals Into Mass Graves While The West Fixates On ‘Antisemitism’" Jamie O. at First Draft on Columbia doing the right's bidding. Sanctions? Dragon-King Wangchuck is suspicious. Somewhat lighter bonus from Yellowdog Granny. By M. Bouffant. Submissions to mbru@crooksandliars.com will be considered. read more ..read more

Never mind that Trump was the one responsible for holding up the aid for months in the first place. Now lickspittle Lindsey Graham wants to give him credit for it finally passing. Sadly it looks like the evangelicals were the ones that pushed Johnson to finally put the bill up for a vote, not Trump. Here's Graham responding to his fellow Senator JD Vance's criticism of the bill on this weekend's Fox News Sunday: GRAHAM: So this idea, give up on Ukraine, makes the world safer, if you pull the plug on Ukraine because you don't have enough capability, there goes Taiwan. Ukrainians are fighting ..read more