“Whatever he does, he accuses everyone else of doing,” said Senator Ted Cruz.
More Lies, Nothing But Lies
Threats and Claims of ‘Treason’
The New York Times reports With Threats and Claims of ‘Treason,’ Trump Pressures Media on the War
A president who calls journalists the “enemy of the people” has accused news organizations of undermining a military effort that many Americans oppose.
Official Pentagon briefings now include attacks on outlets like CNN, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth nit-picking headlines. President Trump is turning to his bully pulpit on Truth Social to accuse “Highly Unpatriotic ‘News’ Organizations” of airing “LIES” about the war and musing about “Charges for TREASON.”
The goal seems to be pressuring journalists to back off critical coverage of the war effort, or to at least encourage the public to second-guess reporting that runs counter to the administration’s preferred narrative. And the effort has gone well beyond words.
Mr. Trump’s top media regulator, Brendan Carr of the Federal Communications Commission, issued an explicit warning to broadcast television networks on social media, writing that “hoaxes and news distortions” could lead to the revocation of licenses for local stations, a threat that Mr. Trump said he was “so thrilled to see.”
The president and his allies have sought to vilify the news media since the start of his political rise a decade ago. But this recent denigration of news organizations — including The New York Times — comes as Mr. Trump has appeared at pains to depict his Middle East military effort as a smashing success, despite some facts to the contrary and opinion polls that have revealed widespread doubts among Americans about the war.
In particular, Mr. Trump has zeroed in on accusing American news organizations of disloyalty to their country, as in an official White House news release declaring that CNN had sought “to undermine our decisive victories in Operation Epic Fury.”
Jonathan Karl, ABC’s chief Washington correspondent, recently said he had spoken to Mr. Trump by phone three times in the first five days of the military operation in Iran, including one midafternoon call that lasted 20 minutes. During one of those calls, the president asked Mr. Karl if he thought the war was “impressive.”
The licensing threat from Mr. Carr, the F.C.C. chairman, raised eyebrows in part because the agency has been traditionally viewed as independent. As a regulator, Mr. Carr has government tools at his disposal to punish media organizations, though the process for revoking a broadcast license is onerous and can take years. On Sunday, the Democratic minority leader, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, called his comments “vindictive, fascist stuff.”
Mr. Carr made his remarks on a day when he was seen speaking with Mr. Trump at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., according to CNN. Mr. Carr was criticized last year for implying that he might retaliate against ABC for on-air comments by Jimmy Kimmel, the late-night host, who was then temporarily suspended by the network.
His comments about coverage of the war drew Republican criticism over the weekend. Senator Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, was asked on Fox News on Sunday if the government should have a role in policing news coverage. “I’m a big supporter of the First Amendment,” Mr. Johnson said. “I do not like the heavy hand of government, no matter who’s wielding it.”
Besides CNN, Mr. Trump has criticized The Times and The Wall Street Journal for particular articles.
The president’s attacks on the media have been supplemented by Mr. Hegseth, who used a Pentagon briefing last week to assail individual outlets for what he deemed insufficiently positive coverage of the war.
Trump In One Single Session
Please Play This Video
In the above video the following people predicted what would happen.
Ted Cruz: Whatever he does, he accuses everyone else of doing. The man cannot tell the truth, and he combines it with being a narcissist, a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country has ever seen.
Rand Paul: And my concern is that he would grab up all power and really treat the country as his bully fiefdom.
Nikki Haley: Donald Trump is everything I taught my kids not to do in Kindergarten.
Marco Rubio: He’s been exploiting Americans for forty years.
Lindsey Graham: He is a race state, xenophobic, religious bigot.
Mike Pompeo: Donald Trump the other day said that quote If he tells a soldier to commit a war crime, the soldier would just go do it.
Glen Beck: I don’t think Trump has read the constitution or knows what’s in the constitution.
Rick Perry: A toxic mix of demagoguery, mean spiritedness, and nonsense.
Marco Rubio: Donald Trump is a con artist.
Ted Cruz: He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies, practically every word that comes out of his mouth.
Lindsey Graham: I think he’s crazy.
Truer words were never spoken.
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learned behavior from his predessors in the d party who perfected it and made it an art form..he was at the meetings
“Jeffrey Epstien would bring the children, and Trump would auction them off.. he measured the children’s vulva and vaginas by entering a finger”
Grab a copy for yourself, before they take it down.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01245100.pdf
Anybody seen anything in the news about this?
So the war was started to impress media and if the media chooses to be not impressed, Trump is unhappy?
While the citizens of the allies being bullied are asked to come and donate blood to the US military hospitals in Germany. Truly “impressive”!
“The president and his allies have sought to vilify the news media since the start of his political rise a decade ago.”
The MSM is propaganda, easily provable. As Mika exclaimed on MSNBC, they were supposed to tell us what to think. One can watch a YTube video of newscasters all across the country parroting the same scripted lines. “…a threat to our democracy.” “Safe and effective.”
The mRNA vaccines were safe and effective and still are safe and effective.
No vaccine is safe or effective.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/henry-ford-birth-cohort-study-finds-vaccinated-children-sicker-22-chronic-disease/5908854
https://www.vaxcheckers.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PRJN4.pdf
Ridiculous Silliness
Anyone who wants to return to polio and measles outbreaks is just plain nuts
People make up preposterous bullshit all the time. Grow up in ranch world. You will soon vaccinate anything that moves that you own with every vaccine you can lay your hands on because your animals are money, and the money goes to zero when they go to pasture/corral/barn temperature. Go to a rabies catching party. French kiss a rabid skunk. Refuse the vaccine. Go with weight lifting supplements and some herbs and raw milk. Build your immune system.
Hassett: “If the war were to be extended, it wouldn’t really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we’d have to think about what we’d have to do about that, but that’s really the last of our concerns right now.”
He reminds me of Donald Rumsfeld in his ability to casually throw 100s of millions of people under the bus in a perfectly reasonable sounding sentence.
War is the only part of the economy that matters.
Smedley Butler called it in 1933
https://youtu.be/kLgSgoj3cUc?si=l9Pi-oijzl-oYbNw
Smiles Hassett. As out of touch as out of touch gets, and the moron is always smiling: 100% Trump loyalist; 0% Economist.
There is an actual “Worlds Biggest Liar” Competition, and Trump has never won. Just thought I would throw that out there…
Into the Hide box ya go…. You’re the only one in there.
I will miss your smugness, but more importantly your additions to the conversation at hand, from time to time. I always welcome others thoughts and opinions.
To win that contest the lies have to be convincing and plausible. The lies of a total imbecile stand no chance of winning.
There is a secret trick to lying successfully when stupid: Make sure your audience is stupid.
He is convincing, and repeats plausible ideas. His problem now, is many don’t pan out or backfire of late. Not good, but plenty of time for that to change.
He would never enter it because it wasn’t his competition to exploit.
See Joe Kent has resigned
National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent said that Iran posed “no imminent threat” to the US and claimed that the Trump administration “started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby”.
Trump will obviously trash him and call him a traitor at the very least.
So I’m guessing that the “no imminent threat” is what killed our U.S. Military Soldiers then. Hmm… Odd don’t you think?
What the holy fuck?
Let me explain better for you. When one states imminent threat, that’s a very bad thing. People can die. Well in this case people did actually die. I think the threat was serious and qualified so by actual deaths. In other words REAL!!!
What soldiers were killed by Iran?
Thirteen U.S. service members have been killed in the ongoing conflict in Iran as of March 2026. Additionally, about 140 more have been wounded, with eight of those injuries classified as severe.
So that justifies incinerating a girls’ school with 160 children inside?
Or torpedoing an Iranian ship off the coast of Sri Lanka and watching as their crew drowned to death?
Most people would call those war crimes. Animals wouldn’t.
As a member of the feline community, I demand an apology!
So your “logic” is that because they retaliated when we attacked them, that proves that they were an imminent threat?
So, using that same logic, if you hit someone in the bar, and they hit you back, that proves they were an imminent threat to you?
Funny how that works when you attack people – they fight back.
That’s like saying that the convenience store is an “imminent threat” because if you go to rob it, the clerk shoots you dead.
If you go in to buy a candy bar, he probably doesn’t do that.
Man, the excuses you will make for your hero.
You don’t even have to wait for Trump, dishonest morons like Stu Pid will jump right on it! Not even 12 tours of duty will protect someone like Kent from these vile people.
Any American that states “no imminent threat” from Iran, after watching them kill American Military Men, is a fool. I don’t care how many tours he had. Maybe in Hawaii?
You keep making the same “point” here about our casualties vs Kent’s (well written) resignation statement. Your point is entirely based on your failure of reading comprehension. It’s painful to watch.
Anyone who tries to follow your garbled syntax and oddly close-but-not-quite-the-right-word writing in your posts can tell that you have some kind of language disability. And now you’re just repeatedly hammering on a point that only exists because you don’t understand past vs present tense.
We’re at the point here on Mish’s blog where this has been going on all afternoon, and nobody has bothered to spell it out to you, because why bother? You are incapable of comprehending what people say to you. The idea that you of all people could get a read on what’s truth or fiction in this current middle eastern morass… hilarious!
I distinctly get the feeling that you were a kid who liked getting hit, because at least you were getting attention that way.
Nice to hear from you just the same!
You can’t get mad at Stu for doing his job, he’s got to earn a living somehow
Joe Kent is a man of honor. Kudos to him for refusing to be a party to Trump’s folly of a war. Of course, the AP has to tar him with a gratuitous line about him being a “former candidate with connections to right wing extremists”. https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-war-kent-resignation-e2e17a76d79617a68370f076c0291208?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/middleeast/joe-kent-counterterrorism-resigns-iran-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.T1A.OkOE.FWSyEoQgPuBG&smid=url-share
Remarkable.
On the bright side, Karoline Leavitt is more pleasant to look at than was Joseph Goebbels. Keep that in mind as we march toward our own version of Gleichschaltung.
Ehhh… too much plastic and paint. Married to a creepy old man. Uncanny valley stuff.
I see no reason why each can’t be right about the other. Trump is a genocidal Liar and the globalist regime media are scum.
Another day in Operation Epstein Fury
also known as epic f-up
….They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me….
via Ken Jennings
AHH, the parallels are immense…
..The gods, perhaps, would see fit to take him down a peg or two. Croesus sent many gifts to the Delphic oracle. He donated huge golden bowls for mixing wine, basins for holy water, and a gold statue of the woman who cooked his bread in the mornings. Many of these fabulous gifts from the East could still be seen at the temple of Delphi when Herodotus was writing over a 100 years later.
Croesus then sent messengers to Delphi with the following question:
Should he go to war with the Persians?
The Delphic Oracle replied as follows:
If Croesus goes to war, he will destroy a great empire.
And that, is probably the most famous prophesy of all time, famous not for its accuracy so much as for its ambiguity. Ambiguity means that it could be understood in more than one way. But the one and only way in which Croesus chose to understand it was this: that if he went to war against the Persians, the Persian empire would fall.
When Croesus received this answer from the Pythian Priestess of Delphi, he was pleased he sent her more gifts. Then he asked another question:
Would he reign for many years as king of Lydia?
Her reply was:
When a mule becomes leader of the Mede Then, oh Lord, it is time to flee
This reply pleased Croesus even more because he reasoned that the Medes would never choose a mule for their leader and he would not have to flee.
Also, on the advice of the oracle, he made a treaty of friendship with the Greeks who lived in Sparta. The Spartans were the toughest and most warlike nation among the Greeks and might be useful to him in time of need.
Next he readied his army to attack the Persians. While he was doing this, the wisest among his advisers, tried to warn him not to start the war. This is what he said:
“Let us remember what type of people we are about to attack. They are wild men, who wear leather trousers, who know no luxury, drink no wine, and barely have enough to eat – they can survive on a few figs a day. They have nothing that is worth having, and if you defeat them, you will gain nothing. We on the other hand live in enormous comfort. Our treasuries are overflowing with gold. If they defeat us, they will gain everything, and we shall lose everything. So what is the advantage for us of this war? Let us be grateful that the gods have not put the idea into the heads of the Persians that they should attack us. It is far better for us to sit tight, and to do nothing.”
Herodotus for the win. Maybe Mark Twain, too.
As a member of the feline community, I have more respect for the woman who makes food than I do for the crowned heads and pompous politicians of the world.
It just goes from bad to worse. Any other democratic country would have sent a van around to the White House or Mar-a-Lago, put him in a straight jacket and driven off never to see him again…
Kinda like they did with Vegetable Joe? …#stillwinning
Why not both?
Joe stayed in his pot. Trumpstien started WW III to distract from his raping of children.
The NYT reports:
– A president who calls journalists the “enemy of the people” has accused news organizations of undermining a military effort that many Americans oppose. > You could just have easily stated that many approve. The breakdown is as follows: 85% Rep. Approve & 89% Dem. Oppose, so that’s pretty equal. The Independents are as usual 50/50 or 60/40, in this instance they were at 60%, so again pretty equal. An equal split pretty much sums up our polling of late, and that’s practically right down the middle.
>> One could imply a media bias, that probably accounted for roughly 10% of inaccuracy either way, and that matches up again as accurate of a basic 50%/50% Split.
– Official Pentagon briefings now include attacks on outlets like CNN. > There has been a lot of bogus reporting, that gets debunked after the fact. That media misrepresentation should be addressed on all sides! If in fact the media is peddling lies, either way, then they should be punished for false reporting. Maybe have their license suspended for 30 days 1’st, 60 days, 2’nd, and loss of license on the 3X you’re out.
– “Eye Opener”The licensing threat from Mr. Carr, the F.C.C. chairman, raised eyebrows in part because the agency has been traditionally viewed as independent. As a regulator, Mr. Carr has government tools at his disposal to punish media organizations. > When you start losing the overall trust of otherwise down the middle FCC then you may have some serious problems and better wake up, or have nothing left to be able to say… Be truthful, or go away is the clear message to these news outlets!!
“There has been a lot of bogus reporting, that gets debunked after the fact.”
Any examples of that?
“Maybe have their license suspended for 30 days 1’st, 60 days, 2’nd, and loss of license on the 3X you’re out.”
Or maybe the FCC could just publicize malicious, false reporting so that people could choose to watch something else? No need to be a nanny state, let people make their own decisions.
And with FOX News promoting lies about WMD’s, Irans Nuclear program and false statements regarding election fraud? What becomes of them?
What financial penalties?
What criminal charges?
What reparations should be paid to the victims of Fox’s lies by Newscorp?
From Politifact:
Here’s a look back at the claims that caught our attention.
January
“Disease X” was a social media misinformation trend early in the year, unsurprising with its vague and scary-sounding moniker. It’s a name the World Health Organization adopted years ago for an unknown disease that could emerge and threaten to cause a new pandemic.
Disease X had been in the news before — we debunked a claim about it in August 2023 — but it reemerged in social media feeds because of “Preparing for Disease X,” a January panel discussion at the World Economic Forum, which is often a target of conspiracy theories.
WHO Inspector General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged world leaders to better prepare for potential new pandemics, and to learn lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. Some social media users saw that as evidence that the global elite was planning another pandemic, which, of course, is False.
Disease X also was part of another fact-check of a social media claim that distorted results of a Chinese COVID-19 study, in which some falsely claimed a new strain was created with a 100% kill rate and tied it to Disease X.
February
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s visit to Moscow to interview Russia President Vladimir Putin spurred misinformation this month.
Much of the misinformation originated with Putin, who made several baseless claims that Carlson didn’t challenge. We fact-checked three of Putin’s conspiracy theories involving Ukraine and who is really running the U.S.
But the interview also spawned two fact-checks on claims from social media users. One claim fabricated a statement from Putin and alleged he said he found the U.S. southern border situation “ironically amusing.” Another baselessly claimed Ukraine put Carlson on a hit list for doing the interview.
It gies through the year by month for you. Check it out, it’s eye opening!
I don’t consider social media and Putin to be new sources to begin with. Does the FCC even license people on social media and Putin?
There will be no examples… just happy clappy love for the child raping pig.
I suppose if you ignore the constitution, this war is justified.
When Trump is not raping young girls he is killing them at school. Bravo to you and your “Values” or lack thereof.
I see your statement as lies. When and where did Trump do as you say, “Factually” speaking? Not anywhere that I have seen… innuendos don’t count.
Being willfully blind is no excuse! Do you deny that the US bombed a school full of young girls?
Please move to Israel and leave America for those of us that respect the constitution and do not attempt to pervert our values to one religion over another.
Or, to be clearer ~ Fuck Off!
😉
You get awfully nasty and outright rude, when you get called upon your lies. Hmm… that’s what a lot of idiots are doing on CNN for example. They constantly have to correct themselves live, for doing so. I know you won’t, and I don’t expect you to with the decorum you just displayed. Didn’t you learn from your Parents, that it’s ok to have differing opinions. Do you need a blankeee by chance?
Two provisions of the first Amendment of the U.S. constitution protect religious freedom and establish the legal framework that protects Americans from the establishment or preference of our government for one religion or another.
The war in Iran is against a theocracy and attacking Iran’s theocracy to support another theocracy is specifically prohibited.
Together, these two clauses define and protect religious freedom for all Americans!
This war is absolutely unconstitutional and violates the first priority of the framers of the constitution.
What? The war is about Nuclear Weapons. When a country repeatedly states they want to wipe your Country from the map, and is trying to get them!
If only there were an agreement with Iran not to develop nuclear weapons, like the JCPOA…
Just a dream, I know. Too bad that Trump terminated it, even though he all evidence indicated that Iran had scrupulously complied with the JCPOA. Still, Israel wasn’t happy, so it had to go.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/middleeast/joe-kent-counterterrorism-resigns-iran-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.T1A.OkOE.FWSyEoQgPuBG&smid=url-share
In 2018, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal. Despite periodic attempts to revive the deal since then, Iran accelerated its uranium enrichment, limited inspector access to its nuclear facilities and is now closer to developing a nuclear weapon than before the deal.
They withdrew because Iran was not complying and would not allow our inspectors access. Gee I wonder why, as any H.S.kid could figure this out…
Wrong. Trump had no evidence and raged at his own CIA for being unable to find any evidence that Iran was not complying with the JCPOA.
“Leading up to the United States’ withdrawal, the IAEA asserted that its inspectors had verified that Iran had implemented its nuclear-related commitments since the agreement.” [emphases mine]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_withdrawal_from_the_Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action
The link is lavishly sourced.
Trump did whine that the JCPOA did not restrict Iranian missile development.
Together, these two clauses define and protect religious freedom for all Americans!
This line says it all. Iranians are not Americans and what’s in the constitution does not apply to them.
“Two provisions of the first Amendment of the U.S. constitution protect religious freedom and establish the legal framework that protects Americans from the establishment or preference of our government for one religion or another.”
Yet there are states which deny religious exemption on childhood vaccine mandates.
If you want diseased offspring, that’s your business. If you want to send your diseased offspring to school to spread disease, that becomes the government’s business.
LOL
Trump wants Europeans to commit suicide in Hormuz because the US Navy knows running this gauntlet is a death sentence. “A small favor we don’t really need.”
In Europe they are reporting this in political terms, breaking NATO, threatening the partners, etc etc. Even after Ukraine they still haven’t gotten it through their thick skulls that the US Military is not omnipotent, not the greatest fighting force ever, and is in serious trouble. Nor that the European naval assets cannot accomplish anything whatsoever.
Let alone the US is Daddy of their world order.
As for Trump, he seems unable to grasp reality anymore.
Every nation that refuses to be suckered into Trumps invasion ~ is standing up for the Geneva convention.
They know that the worlds eyes are on them if they cave into this mad mans quest for domination. They also stand united against a clear danger to humanity.
Trump is playing with a potential nuclear war as if it is a Childs toy.
Totally irresponsible…
Many would choose to say, like myself, that the Trump Administration was being very responsible. They are taking away Nuclear capabilities from a Country that shouts constantly “Death to America” and what do you think that means, once Nuclear weapons are at their disposal? I will tell you in 1 Word: “FIRE” and then the World is in a Nuclear War. Seems awfully responsible to me and my family anyway, as we like life.
Wonder if they would stop saying “death to America” if we ended decades of sanctions and killing their children?
Only one true way to find out, and Iran will never play along, as they hate our existence. As a result we will never know more than we already do.
Agreed, way too late to change our ways now! We are left with just murdering and maiming as many as we can. Praise Jesus!
We never changed, as the same request denied was the exact same request from the start. They refused to follow the agreement, and we were left with two choices. Kill or be killed.
You do understand the overwhelming destruction Nuclear Weapons can cause. This is not a game they are playing. They openly and happily declare “Death to America” and refuse to allow inspectors in to verify they are not enriching uranium and trying to create Nuclear Weapons, of any kind, but suitcases would be preferred I would think. They could drop them anywhere and everywhere…
“We never changed.” Which is why they hate us.
I would hate people that stopped me from building a nuclear weapon to destroy them too, If I hated them that much.
So they hated us before, and still do, because they have not eliminated America from the earth yet. If they ever did, they would still hate us for having existed.
It would probably take a few generations, but they’d calm down eventually. European countries slaughtered each other for millennia, and have mostly gotten over it.
The trick is to not do evil things to them, for a long time. This has proven exceptionally difficult for the US. We’re special that way.
Moving NATO to the Russian border has done that. During the provoked Ukraine war Russia has warned that it would go nuclear if invaded.
There is hope in these statements:
Every one of those lying sycophants turned on him before and they will do so again under the right circumstances.
Paul and Massie excepted…
If you voted for the guy who said with a straight face on national TV that the “Haitians were eating the cats and the dogs”, don’t be upset about him lying to you on anything else. You go exactly what you voted for.
– Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner referred to himself as a “communist”
> I prefer the guy with silly statements and a possible eating disorder, over the self identifying Communist, just saying…
USS Tripoli is deploying to the Persian Gulf. The Tripoli is a massive amphibious assault vessel. We are going to invade Iran.
The Tripoli is likely to be sunk at the Strait of Hormuz if it tries to pass.
The US is not going to “invade” Iran with 2,500 Marines. It will be a slaugther.
A proper invasion would take many tens of thousands of troops at minimum and a year or more to prepare.
Gallipoli revisited…
Why have a ground assault on behalf of a religions nation on behalf of another religions nation?
Trumps follies continue.
yep I concur Least we forget (for we should not) the marines that sat in Lebanon only to be slaughtered
https://www.marines.mil/News/Marines-TV/videoid/634642/dvpTag/Beirut/
Assault vessels will do the trick, and air assaults will wrap it all up if necessary. We don’t require boots on the ground, as we have plenty of eyes already there, via the skies…
You are assuming they plan to invade Iran proper.
They could be just there to seize Kharg island which 2500 would be plenty of Marines.
I would imagine they would not remain there as targets. Instead the purpose would be to booby trap the oil facilities so that they can’t be used until the conflict is over. Thus the oil facilities are preserved but Iran can’t use them.
I don’t think China will stand for that.
Explain to me how and why a US ship-based expeditionary force will break into and transit the Strait and steam the 300 miles to Kharg to make a beach landing
The top secret Ship Paratroopers Division stands ready.
No, we are going to guard the Strait, as we continue to move ships through it day after day.
the marines could be used to seize the oil tankers that are allowed to leave the Gulf.
USS Tripoli would provide the helicopters for the assault on the ships.
I dont pretend to know, just spitballing.
That oil is going to China. I think they’d have a problem with that.
The Tripoli is designed for vertical envelopment air assault.
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
― Abraham Lincoln
Nice thought but this liar has become president AGAIN!
Shit!
So True! I had not seen that quote attached to him, so thanks! A smart man!!
So you agree Trump is a lying failure?
Or do you believe that Trump does not lie?
I agree “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar” as I already stated.
Everybody lies on occasion… I am sure Trump has, and his wife, and you and me and everyone I know, and everyone you know, at least once.
That long gallery of Republicans that switched from realistic assessors of Trump to abject sycophants of Trump is really impressive. It looks like American politics has lost any sense of shame in the age of Trump. Just look at Marco Rubio strutting around in his Trump-gifted clown shoes. Maybe American democracy looks fated to end up as just another version of Hungary. Certainly, the Founding Fathers 250 years ago were afraid that could happen; we may be the generation that let it happen.
Perhaps reporters should just ask Trump to disclose which former President he spoke to. Trump might be telling the truth.
I can imagine he might say “I spoke to former President Maduro.”
I think it was Biden, and he was asked if he did, but he couldn’t remember…
Rand Paul should not have been in that video, because his views on Trump never changed.
The video would have been far more effective if it contrasted the criticism from Cruz/Rubio/Graham/etc. with how they are kissing up to Trump now. Tulsi Gabbard should also have been included.
well put. Rand Paul and Massie have both been consistent and credible with him. These others change their opinions whenever required.
Graham is especially odious in that he fought him in 2016, supported them in his first term, and then claimed to get off the hamster wheel after Jan 6. Now he loves him again. I wonder why. Out of all the miserable miscreants, I think he may be the worst.
Rand Paul has fully supported Trump while pretending to have an independent mind.
Rand is allowed to only vote against bills when the vote is not close.
Rand fully supportee the attack on the Jan 6th attack on the Capitol (once the terrorists were no longer in position to kill him).
Rand refused to hold Trump accountable for this attack and fully supported the pardon of all of the terrorists (now that they were not in a position to kill him).
And Rand fully supports this dumbazz war Trump has us in.
And Rand doesn’t want anyone in the Epstein files investigated, especially *REDACTED*.
What does it say about his former republican critics that they ended up giving enthusiastic support, joined is administration and accepted his endorsements?
Unfortunately, taco is like the leopard who can’t change its spots. The world is aware of the guilty party (and parties).