Idiocracy

REPORT: Secret Service Had To Break Up February Fight Between Corey Lewandowski And John Kelly

The New York Times reports: An argument last February between the White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly, and Corey Lewandowski, an informal adviser to President Trump, turned into a physical altercation that required Secret Service intervention just outside the Oval Office, according to a half-dozen people familiar with the events. The episode, details of which have not been …

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Thousands Gather For Trump/Cruz Tailgater [VIDEO]

The Associated Press reports: The “amoral bully” is ready to campaign for the “dishonest politician” as President Donald Trump holds a Houston rally for Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday. The president’s appearance on behalf of Cruz represents a once-unthinkable show of support for Trump’s onetime rival for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and comes as Cruz faces a strong challenge …

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Trump Preps To Blame GOP Leaders For Midterms Loss

Politico reports: At his rallies, President Donald Trump argues that the midterms are about one person — Donald Trump. “Get out in 2018,” Trump told a crowd in Missouri last month, “because you’re voting for me!” Privately, the president says the exact opposite. According to two people familiar with the conversations, Trump is distancing himself from a potential Republican thumping …

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DOJ Court Filing: No, Obama Never Wiretapped Trump

Law & Crime reports: The Trump administration just confirmed–for at least the second time–that there is no evidence then-candidate Donald Trump was wire-tapped at Trump Tower in late 2016. In a 178-page court filing released late Friday night, the Department of Justice noted, “[t]he Government has made two acknowledgments” regarding claims that the previous administration of Barack Obama wiretapped Trump …

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GOP Rep. Steve King Goes Full White Supremacist In Interview With Austrian Neo-Fascist Propaganda Site

The Huffington Post reports: Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) visited Austria in August and gave an extensive interview to a far-right publication there in which he spelled out, in clearer and more shocking terms than he ever has before, his white nationalist worldview. The eight-term congressman, up for re-election next month, talked to Caroline Sommerfeld of the Austrian far-right propaganda site …

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Trump Laments “Pain And Suffering” Of Migrant Families Just Hours After Calling Them “Hardened Criminals”

The below happened just last night: President Donald Trump says Central Americans trying to traverse Mexico and reach the U.S. border aren’t “little angels” but “some hardened criminals.” On Friday while Trump was campaigning in Arizona, migrants burst through a Guatemalan border fence and started to stream into Mexican territory, rushing a phalanx of police with riot shields. About 50 …

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Eric Trump Defends The Dotard’s Praise For Assaulting Reporters: This Is Actually Exactly Why My Father Won

“He wasn’t the guy that body-slammed anybody. He can have fun. By the way, this is actually exactly why my father won. Because so many people were so sick and tired of the little caged, the perfect, the perfectly scripted politician who memorized their little sound bite and went out there and had no crowds, and they weren’t any fun, …

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POLL: Trump Voters Say Men Are More Discriminated Against Than LGBT People, Women, And Minorities

The Hill reports: People who voted for President Trump say they believe men are more discriminated against than LGBTQ people, most minorities and women, a new poll conducted by YouGov and The Economist found. The survey found that forty-nine percent of people who voted for Trump said they believed men currently face either “a great deal” or “a fair amount” …

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Cultists Cheer As Trump Celebrates Assault Of Reporter

ABC News reports: Donald Trump kicked off a western tour in Montana on Thursday ostensibly to support Matt Rosendale as he attempts to unseat Sen. Jon Tester, but it was his praise for Congressman Greg Gianforte’s physical assault on a reporter that stole the show. “Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my type!” Trump said to …

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Paul Ryan: Liberal Elites Are Trying To Buy Congress

CNN reports: House Speaker Paul Ryan pointed to a “green wave” of money that Democrats have infused into the midterm elections, telling a crowd of Republican supporters on Wednesday that “this is our challenge.” “We really don’t see a blue wave,” he said. “We see a green wave of money and this is our challenge. We see liberals on the …

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REPORT: Trump Workshopped His “Horseface” Tweet

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump caught various West Wing officials off-guard on Tuesday when he decided to describe the woman alleging that they’d had an affair as having a “horseface.” But privately, the president not only thought that it was strategically smart to go after the adult film star Stormy Daniels in such a visceral way; he workshopped the …

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Glorious Leader Attacks “Flake” Beto O’Rourke

The Hill reports: President Trump on Wednesday attacked Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), calling him a “flake” and saying he “is not in the same league” as his opponent in the Texas Senate race, incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz (R). Trump, who often attacked Cruz while campaigning against him in the Republican presidential primaries in 2016, added in a second tweet that …

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Joe Arpaio Files $147M Libel Suit Against NYT

The Washington Post reports: Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who finished a distant third this year in a Republican Senate primary, filed a libel suit Tuesday night against the New York Times and a member of its editorial board, arguing that they had undercut his chances for another run. In a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for …

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Trump Ridicules “Horseface” Stormy Daniels

Remember Trump’s attack on Carly Fiorina back in 2015? “Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?” Trump reportedly bellowed while watching his Republican presidential rival on the news. “I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we …

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Trump: I Have “No Financial Interests” In Saudi Arabia

The fact checkers will have a field day with this one: President Trump on Tuesday pushed back on speculation he has not punished Saudi Arabia for the disappearance of a U.S.-based journalist due to financial conflicts of interest, calling it “FAKE NEWS.” Trump for years has had business ties to the Saudis, with one Saudi royal billionaire, Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal, …

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Glorious Leader Again Attacks “Phony Pocahontas”

The Hill reports: President Trump on Tuesday slammed Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) claims of Native American heritage as a “scam and a lie” one day after the senator revealed she had a distant Native American ancestor. The tweets came after Trump initially brushed off Warren’s DNA test, telling reporters “who cares” and denying that he offered the senator $1 million …

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New Dating App For Trump Cultists: Donald Daters

State television is thrilled to promote this: Enter Donald Daters, a new dating app that launched Monday for Apple and Android devices with the mission of helping Trump supporters meet and mingle on a platform free of any liberal backlash. “For many young Trump supporters, liberal intolerance has made meeting and dating nearly impossible. Support for the president has become …

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Trump Defends Saudi Arabia, Suggests “Rogue Killers” Murdered Missing Washington Post Reporter [VIDEO]

The Daily Beast reports: President Trump has once again come to the defense of Saudi Arabia, telling reporters on Monday morning that Saudi officials have repeatedly denied murdering critic and journalist Jamal Khashoggi—and suggesting that Khashoggi could have been murdered by “rogue killers” instead. “I just spoke with the king of Saudi Arabia, who denies any knowledge of what took …

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Glorious Leader: My Rallies Are Bigger Than Ever

The Washington Examiner reports: President Trump said Monday that the large and boisterous crowds he’s seeing as he holds rallies around the country is a good sign for Republicans as they head toward a midterm election that many think could give Democrats control of the House, and maybe even control of the Senate. The GOP is working up its base …

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Trump Defends Family Separations Policy [VIDEO]

Axios reports: President Trump sat down for a lengthy interview with Lesley Stahl on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” discussing a wide variety of topics from climate change to foreign policy to the Mueller investigation. Trump was discursive — and often combative — while defending some of his administration’s most controversial policies, including family separation at the border. He ended one particularly …

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