Reporting and explaining are two different things, but the distinction is lost on a vast majority of cable news producers who insist on discussing motive over outcome — even after 10 years of clear evidence bearing witness to the cause and effect dynamic of Trump’s work.
Steve, the desperation of the Traitor/Rapist/Fraudster/34X felon observes that VP Harris is moving to a 5-6 point lead in the polls, he knows she will destroy him in the upcoming debate, he will be sentenced to prison on September 18th on his 34 felonies, and his illegal campaign commercial at Arlington National Cemetery has flopped as well! The worst POtuS in American history is finally meeting karma after a life of grifting and being Don the Con?
I keep waiting for the analysis of the blood streaming close to his mouth. Was it his or the guy sitting behind him whose blood splattered after being shot. He sure made a spectacle of his supposed trauma. But there doesn’t seem to be evidence of a scar, and nary a scab. Another one of his “poor me” declarations.
We are in an era where truth is politics. Don't hold your breath. There is a reason there is no medical report and no agitation after the Secret Service folks were suspended.
Friday, July 26, the FBI released a statement addressing Trump's ear injury:
“What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle,” the agency said, per the Washington Post.”
As you said, we’ll never see the medical results, and I’m still skeptical and will continue to be until there is an official statement for the attending physician. That would certainly clear the air and demonstrate honesty or lack thereof.
It still galls me when Vance says of Trump, "They tried to put him in prison; they tried to assassinate him." Who's THEY, a-hole? You mean the Republican guy who shot him? Why can't the media do a story on Vance's constant use of the word "they" as a means of lying? Plus, don't the magats all hate the word they? (Heh heh heh)
I keep hoping that he’ll meet his karma, but somehow after 78 years of BS, lies, grifting, unintelligent blathering, scare tactics, racism and the current make up of the Supreme Court and its total lack of ethical behavior vis-a-vis the moron, that he’ll weasel himself out once anew.
He will, because the written rules of law depend on the unwritten rules of civil society to be effective. And we've always seen low-end con artists, hustlers, and cheats get away with crap at the financial levels, but none of them got the power of the US Presidency. Or at least not effectively.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s not because he has the power of the presidency, it’s a) because of SCOTUS and b) the thirst and power of the Repugnican Party to become the only legitimate party in the US. Twice he could have been impeached, but was saved by the most unethical Party in the US that wants to be the sole proprietor of government.
If we show up in massive numbers and vote blue up and down ballot, we can keep the Senate and regain the House. THEN we can do something about the Supreme Accomplices.
Those of us raised by a narcissist really struggle with the karma thing. Alanis Morrisette had a great lyric about it: "What goes around never comes around to you "
I hope he is absolutely miserable and suffers humiliation in defeat. He has caused so much pain and hardship and death in his lifetime that it is hard for me not to wish the same for him.
Notwithstanding that most of us wouldn’t wish ill-will even on our enemies, the moron elicits such emotions that are difficult for most of us to ignore. Sometimes our worse instincts take over us and leads us to find even a speck of decency for his despicable behavior.
Steve's observation that Trump/Maga views are intellectually incoherent and wildly contradictory and "completely unmoored from reality," is illustrated by the Maga position on IVF. On one hand, they want to constitutionally designate an embryo as a "person" entitled to the same rights as all Americans. On, the other hand popular opinion and their "pro-family values" force them to favor keeping IVF legal.
The problem, "99% of the time, when people are done with family building and have no need for any remaining embryos, they opt to have them discarded." Feb 28, 2024, Why Discarding Embryos Is Inherent to the IVF Process, MedPage Today https://www.medpagetoday.com › OB/Gyn › Infertility
To be consistent, they would have claim destroying embryos is the same as murder. They are duplicitous as well as unmoored from reality.
Agreed Anthony. But they are obviously saying anything and everything to gain any vote they can. Honesty, integrity, a moral compass, and commitment to any true belief are not part of their playbook. It's disgusting.
Lindsey Graham is claiming a tactic of the Harris campaign is to goad Trump into calling her names and insulting her and other Democrats. Doesn't he realize that Trump has been calling people names and insulting them since he first debated fellow Republicans seeking the GOP 2016 presidential nomination?
He should remember those directed at him: "Donald Trump hurled a barrage of insults at former Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham in the senator’s home state of South Carolina today.
The GOP front-runner called the state’s senior senator 'a disgrace' and a 'nut job,' among other things -- apparently retribution for criticism Graham has been leveling against Trump.
Thank you for detailing what isn’t being called out and is known to many of us. Could MAGA be so uninformed to not have known or do they just hope no one will investigate?
Seriously, look at all that has played out over the last 10 years. Maga could care less because they know the complicit media is in their pocket, not to mention, they have only 2 months to go & they have their eye on the prize. Their hatred, greed & absolute control of power far outweighs the likes of anything we have ever seen. Win by ANY means necessary is their mantra.
this one example on IVF...is just one example . If you go to the past 8 years everything related to trump and MAGA has been inside out/ outside in / up side down / right side up...
its done on purpose - its a thing- to make you tired , to make you nuts..to make you angry so they can point fingers at YOU for being unhinged ..its HYPOCRISY slathered with MORE HYPOCRISY it fucking INSANITY
The “hillbilly handmaid‘s tale commander”is a perfect moniker for JD Vance. people who are inebriated on the shock value of Trump or Vance are finding their liquor watered down.
He can’t get his old mojo back because he’s stone cold done, but the Press wants to keep propping him up and coddling him as their golden goose. Problem is his golden eggs are phony and hollow, and full of diseased embryos that definitely need to be discarded.
Thank you once again for your eloquent, succinct renderings. The ANC debacle will go unpunished as usual but I would hope the enlightened American women are keeping tabs on their abuse towards us individually and as a whole. Then I hope we all utter our outrage about their abuse to all who will listen. I will never understand any woman who “stands” and supports trump and now vance. Their desire to disparage and control women is insane!!
Only a 5-6 point lead, with all of the evidence clearly laid out. There's something wrong with Americans. We are a threat to ourselves. What if we get what we deserve? I suppose that can be said worldwide from what I have been able to read. Disease feels like the right word. May sanity prevail to those whom inherit whatever we leave them.
Most of the press and many cable "news" outlets, in a benighted attempt to be even handed (and improve ratings), is presenting Trump and Maga as legitimate contenders for political office in a democracy. They are not.
Yup, so right on the mark. I’ve wondered so many times while watching coverage of the bafoon by MSNBC why they more often than not will default to giving him some bereft of a thousand and one doubts, as if his lies and flip flops and general inane gobbledegook makes any sense at all. It’s maddening. What is wrong with them? They do the same thing on every channel. I have not tuned in a single time on purpose to Fox Noise since about the year 2001, unless a finger accidentally slipped on the remote. So I have no idea what drivel takes place o er there. But the other regular network news, even MTP seems incapable of calling him what he actually is: a fascist blow hard prick that would win hands down a Prince Of Lies contest in Hell.
It is truly appalling that Trump is again the candidate of the most corrupt and incompetent political party this country has ever known. As to media coverage of the clown, I think MSNBC deserves some credit. Rachel Maddox, Lawrence ODonald and Chris Hayes have done excellent work.
Couldn't agree more! So sick of the MSM reporting on the trump/vance ticket like these are normal candidates! My guess the thug who assaulted the ANC employee was Lewindowsky, that paragon of virtue and restraint. Steve, I wish you would address the motivations of LaCivita and Wiles and their efforts to elevate a convicted felon/sociopath to the White House.
Kelly made her bones as a FOX NEWS jump off. She has no pretense for objectivity.. She was hired at NBC because she resembled the NBC News president's wife. That brilliant hire cost them a bundle.
This is a spot on piece, it's tone and tenor towards the press should be continually doled out all day everyday. I have to believe there must be some people who read this newsletter who are connected enough to find out who it was from the campaign who assaulted the staff at Arlington. Even if it is unknown to Steve, perhaps they can be outed by one of our community.
If the person who assaulted the staff person is outed, then that staff person might be outed as well and I don't think, given what we know about maga retribution, that would be fair to the staff person just doing his or her job.
When billionaires and huge corporations own the news what do you think happens? So people turn to independent sources like social media where AI generated images are mocking real news and getting swallowed as real by many. I don’t know how we are to get the truth other than finding sources like Steve and others who have no skin in the media game; just the “save the country” game. And watch “the Daily Show” of course.
God yes ! yes ! yes ! ..the media is as responsible for what is happening as Trump ... The conservative pundits are as sickening as Trumps henchmen .. it is beyond anything one could have imagined ..The 60's was a time of strife but nothing compared to what is happening to our country now...and will the media be happy if he gets in again.. then what ? How will the peaceful transfer of power look if he gets in again .. Joe and Kamala and former presidents and there wives will be on the stage while he is sworn in ? will we lay down and put up with the destruction of our country piece by piece .. Have you thought about this Steve ? I know you can't read everything we write of course but I am curious to know if you have thought about this ..scared on the edge !
I totally agree, but there's something else going on with CNN and even MSNBC where a policy seems to be afoot in which all daytime newscasters and some opinion show hosts are scripted to persist in "whataboutism" to throw darts at Harris, relying on a parade of ill-informed guests who are all too willing to nitpick everything she's ever said or done over a long career in public service instead of paying attention to the leader she has become and what she brings to the present challenge. At the same time, they're giving straight-faced equal airtime to Trump's outrageous and dangerous lies and antics as if their job is to try to explain Trump in the best possible light. You may be right, that they are afraid of losing access to him, but it seems to me a more deliberate and shameful decision to equivocate on Trump and treat everything he says and does as newsworthy and, by implication, meritorious, as if this were a "normal" campaign between two well-qualified and honorable candidates. It is a colossal disservice to the public.
The reason they are so anti women is because they are intimidated by them, especially the smart and strong women. Usually this comes from men who have been frequently rejected by women.
Trump obviously is greatly disturbed. He has to be disparaging of simply crude because, like any child that can’t get what he wants, he becomes petulant and insults them.
Both he and Vance are very insecure little kids pretending to be grown up to over compensate for their insecurity.
Steve, the desperation of the Traitor/Rapist/Fraudster/34X felon observes that VP Harris is moving to a 5-6 point lead in the polls, he knows she will destroy him in the upcoming debate, he will be sentenced to prison on September 18th on his 34 felonies, and his illegal campaign commercial at Arlington National Cemetery has flopped as well! The worst POtuS in American history is finally meeting karma after a life of grifting and being Don the Con?
His ear moment quickly faded, too.
I keep waiting for the analysis of the blood streaming close to his mouth. Was it his or the guy sitting behind him whose blood splattered after being shot. He sure made a spectacle of his supposed trauma. But there doesn’t seem to be evidence of a scar, and nary a scab. Another one of his “poor me” declarations.
It's all such a blatant scam and the press(and media) refuse to hold him accountable!!!! WTF
Looking forward to the press being held accountable for the bullshit they focus on while the country needs the truth. Eventually, it will happen.
Media takes the easiest route on this Trump story-NO report!
The media went home early . . .
We are in an era where truth is politics. Don't hold your breath. There is a reason there is no medical report and no agitation after the Secret Service folks were suspended.
But, but, but that BIG bandage on his ear proves he was hit and bled copiously, right?
😂🤣😂 yes and did you hear about the # of transfusions he was given because he lost soooo much blood. 😉
Yes... TFG has the BIGGEST crowds AND the BIGGEST bandages AND he has the most LOST BLOOD, by a lot...
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👍
....and the BIGGEST CROWDS...(Obama explained it very well :-)
Retired FBI set it straight! He said it was shards of glass from the ever-present teleprompter! No scar. No malformation. No surgery needed.
No one has ever or will ever see the medical report! Guess there wasn’t one? Just Jackson, the former WH doc, who no longer has a medical licenses!
Friday, July 26, the FBI released a statement addressing Trump's ear injury:
“What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle,” the agency said, per the Washington Post.”
As you said, we’ll never see the medical results, and I’m still skeptical and will continue to be until there is an official statement for the attending physician. That would certainly clear the air and demonstrate honesty or lack thereof.
It still galls me when Vance says of Trump, "They tried to put him in prison; they tried to assassinate him." Who's THEY, a-hole? You mean the Republican guy who shot him? Why can't the media do a story on Vance's constant use of the word "they" as a means of lying? Plus, don't the magats all hate the word they? (Heh heh heh)
Amazing how fast his bullet stricken ear healed so quickly???
Was it an ear moment or ear second?
Trump was playing golf WITHOUT the white bandage two days later in New Jersey!
I keep hoping that he’ll meet his karma, but somehow after 78 years of BS, lies, grifting, unintelligent blathering, scare tactics, racism and the current make up of the Supreme Court and its total lack of ethical behavior vis-a-vis the moron, that he’ll weasel himself out once anew.
He will, because the written rules of law depend on the unwritten rules of civil society to be effective. And we've always seen low-end con artists, hustlers, and cheats get away with crap at the financial levels, but none of them got the power of the US Presidency. Or at least not effectively.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s not because he has the power of the presidency, it’s a) because of SCOTUS and b) the thirst and power of the Repugnican Party to become the only legitimate party in the US. Twice he could have been impeached, but was saved by the most unethical Party in the US that wants to be the sole proprietor of government.
If we show up in massive numbers and vote blue up and down ballot, we can keep the Senate and regain the House. THEN we can do something about the Supreme Accomplices.
Totally true CaroleAnn!!!
Those of us raised by a narcissist really struggle with the karma thing. Alanis Morrisette had a great lyric about it: "What goes around never comes around to you "
The devil doesn’t die.
😡🤬
I hope he is absolutely miserable and suffers humiliation in defeat. He has caused so much pain and hardship and death in his lifetime that it is hard for me not to wish the same for him.
Notwithstanding that most of us wouldn’t wish ill-will even on our enemies, the moron elicits such emotions that are difficult for most of us to ignore. Sometimes our worse instincts take over us and leads us to find even a speck of decency for his despicable behavior.
Steve's observation that Trump/Maga views are intellectually incoherent and wildly contradictory and "completely unmoored from reality," is illustrated by the Maga position on IVF. On one hand, they want to constitutionally designate an embryo as a "person" entitled to the same rights as all Americans. On, the other hand popular opinion and their "pro-family values" force them to favor keeping IVF legal.
The problem, "99% of the time, when people are done with family building and have no need for any remaining embryos, they opt to have them discarded." Feb 28, 2024, Why Discarding Embryos Is Inherent to the IVF Process, MedPage Today https://www.medpagetoday.com › OB/Gyn › Infertility
To be consistent, they would have claim destroying embryos is the same as murder. They are duplicitous as well as unmoored from reality.
Agreed Anthony. But they are obviously saying anything and everything to gain any vote they can. Honesty, integrity, a moral compass, and commitment to any true belief are not part of their playbook. It's disgusting.
Lindsey Graham is claiming a tactic of the Harris campaign is to goad Trump into calling her names and insulting her and other Democrats. Doesn't he realize that Trump has been calling people names and insulting them since he first debated fellow Republicans seeking the GOP 2016 presidential nomination?
He should remember those directed at him: "Donald Trump hurled a barrage of insults at former Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham in the senator’s home state of South Carolina today.
The GOP front-runner called the state’s senior senator 'a disgrace' and a 'nut job,' among other things -- apparently retribution for criticism Graham has been leveling against Trump.
'I think you have one of the worst representatives of all the representatives in the U.S.,' Trump said at a campaign appearance in Bluffton." https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-calls-sen-lindsey-graham-nut-job/story?id=37001114
Of course Trump was responding to Graham's barrage of insults aimed at him:
"Trump said Graham 'lost it' during an appearance on Fox News this morning in which the senator called Trump a 'kook,' 'crazy' and 'unfit for office.'
'At the end of the day, he would be the most flawed nominee in the history of the Republican Party...'"Ibid.
Yep Mike....Just now I see on MSNBC D has called for the legalization of Marijuana....that would get 500 thousand votes right there.
Just to be clear, who is "D"? I seldom watch any of the major media outlets.
DONALD, perhaps?
Thank you for detailing what isn’t being called out and is known to many of us. Could MAGA be so uninformed to not have known or do they just hope no one will investigate?
Seriously, look at all that has played out over the last 10 years. Maga could care less because they know the complicit media is in their pocket, not to mention, they have only 2 months to go & they have their eye on the prize. Their hatred, greed & absolute control of power far outweighs the likes of anything we have ever seen. Win by ANY means necessary is their mantra.
this one example on IVF...is just one example . If you go to the past 8 years everything related to trump and MAGA has been inside out/ outside in / up side down / right side up...
its done on purpose - its a thing- to make you tired , to make you nuts..to make you angry so they can point fingers at YOU for being unhinged ..its HYPOCRISY slathered with MORE HYPOCRISY it fucking INSANITY
You nailed it again, Steve.
The “hillbilly handmaid‘s tale commander”is a perfect moniker for JD Vance. people who are inebriated on the shock value of Trump or Vance are finding their liquor watered down.
He can’t get his old mojo back because he’s stone cold done, but the Press wants to keep propping him up and coddling him as their golden goose. Problem is his golden eggs are phony and hollow, and full of diseased embryos that definitely need to be discarded.
Thank you once again for your eloquent, succinct renderings. The ANC debacle will go unpunished as usual but I would hope the enlightened American women are keeping tabs on their abuse towards us individually and as a whole. Then I hope we all utter our outrage about their abuse to all who will listen. I will never understand any woman who “stands” and supports trump and now vance. Their desire to disparage and control women is insane!!
Only a 5-6 point lead, with all of the evidence clearly laid out. There's something wrong with Americans. We are a threat to ourselves. What if we get what we deserve? I suppose that can be said worldwide from what I have been able to read. Disease feels like the right word. May sanity prevail to those whom inherit whatever we leave them.
Most of the press and many cable "news" outlets, in a benighted attempt to be even handed (and improve ratings), is presenting Trump and Maga as legitimate contenders for political office in a democracy. They are not.
"are presenting" not "is presenting " sorry...
Yup, so right on the mark. I’ve wondered so many times while watching coverage of the bafoon by MSNBC why they more often than not will default to giving him some bereft of a thousand and one doubts, as if his lies and flip flops and general inane gobbledegook makes any sense at all. It’s maddening. What is wrong with them? They do the same thing on every channel. I have not tuned in a single time on purpose to Fox Noise since about the year 2001, unless a finger accidentally slipped on the remote. So I have no idea what drivel takes place o er there. But the other regular network news, even MTP seems incapable of calling him what he actually is: a fascist blow hard prick that would win hands down a Prince Of Lies contest in Hell.
Scott Dworkin calls it corporate news as opposed to main stream news. That's what we should all be calling it.
It is truly appalling that Trump is again the candidate of the most corrupt and incompetent political party this country has ever known. As to media coverage of the clown, I think MSNBC deserves some credit. Rachel Maddox, Lawrence ODonald and Chris Hayes have done excellent work.
As has Nicolle Wallace and her regular round table guests- Claire McCaskill, Andrew Weissman, Charlie Sykes, John Heilemann to name a few.
Michael Beschloss.
Tim Miller.
And Joy Reid.
Couldn't agree more! So sick of the MSM reporting on the trump/vance ticket like these are normal candidates! My guess the thug who assaulted the ANC employee was Lewindowsky, that paragon of virtue and restraint. Steve, I wish you would address the motivations of LaCivita and Wiles and their efforts to elevate a convicted felon/sociopath to the White House.
I have issue.
NAME NAMES.
Start with Katy Tur, Ryan Lizza, Andrea Mitchell, that rodent Chuck Todd.
That moron, and always wrong Chris Cilizza (thankfully fired at CNN).
NAME NAMES
Dana Bash, Megyn Kelly
Bash yes.
Kelly made her bones as a FOX NEWS jump off. She has no pretense for objectivity.. She was hired at NBC because she resembled the NBC News president's wife. That brilliant hire cost them a bundle.
This is a spot on piece, it's tone and tenor towards the press should be continually doled out all day everyday. I have to believe there must be some people who read this newsletter who are connected enough to find out who it was from the campaign who assaulted the staff at Arlington. Even if it is unknown to Steve, perhaps they can be outed by one of our community.
If the person who assaulted the staff person is outed, then that staff person might be outed as well and I don't think, given what we know about maga retribution, that would be fair to the staff person just doing his or her job.
Thanks for this Steve...as always, to the point and a clear view.
When billionaires and huge corporations own the news what do you think happens? So people turn to independent sources like social media where AI generated images are mocking real news and getting swallowed as real by many. I don’t know how we are to get the truth other than finding sources like Steve and others who have no skin in the media game; just the “save the country” game. And watch “the Daily Show” of course.
I get my truth from NPR and PBS. And I fact check any interesting posts I find on social media against reputable news sources.
God yes ! yes ! yes ! ..the media is as responsible for what is happening as Trump ... The conservative pundits are as sickening as Trumps henchmen .. it is beyond anything one could have imagined ..The 60's was a time of strife but nothing compared to what is happening to our country now...and will the media be happy if he gets in again.. then what ? How will the peaceful transfer of power look if he gets in again .. Joe and Kamala and former presidents and there wives will be on the stage while he is sworn in ? will we lay down and put up with the destruction of our country piece by piece .. Have you thought about this Steve ? I know you can't read everything we write of course but I am curious to know if you have thought about this ..scared on the edge !
I totally agree, but there's something else going on with CNN and even MSNBC where a policy seems to be afoot in which all daytime newscasters and some opinion show hosts are scripted to persist in "whataboutism" to throw darts at Harris, relying on a parade of ill-informed guests who are all too willing to nitpick everything she's ever said or done over a long career in public service instead of paying attention to the leader she has become and what she brings to the present challenge. At the same time, they're giving straight-faced equal airtime to Trump's outrageous and dangerous lies and antics as if their job is to try to explain Trump in the best possible light. You may be right, that they are afraid of losing access to him, but it seems to me a more deliberate and shameful decision to equivocate on Trump and treat everything he says and does as newsworthy and, by implication, meritorious, as if this were a "normal" campaign between two well-qualified and honorable candidates. It is a colossal disservice to the public.
The reason they are so anti women is because they are intimidated by them, especially the smart and strong women. Usually this comes from men who have been frequently rejected by women.
Trump obviously is greatly disturbed. He has to be disparaging of simply crude because, like any child that can’t get what he wants, he becomes petulant and insults them.
Both he and Vance are very insecure little kids pretending to be grown up to over compensate for their insecurity.