Monday, July 15, 2024
BY CROOKED MEDIA
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Trump emerged from Saturday’s failed assassination attempt with a call for unity. He then named Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) as his running mate, a choice that undercuts that whole unity thing.
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Well, that was quick: Trump’s “unity” phrase seems to be already sputtering out within its first couple of days. Trump kicked off the Republican National Convention by tagging the Ohio senator as his No. 2, prompting reporters to instantly remind everyone that Vance once said Trump might be “America’s Hitler,” or just “a cynical asshole like Nixon.” Vance has called Trump “cultural heroin,” and, before the 2016 election, Vance told a radio interview: “I think that I’m going to vote third party because I can’t stomach Trump.”
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Yeah, yeah, Republicans are hypocrites. We knew that. But then there are Vance's extremist views on abortion and 2020 election denialism. He opposes exceptions to abortion bans in cases of rape and incest, and applauded the overturning of Roe vs. Wade. More recently, Vance reacted to the weekend shooting at a Trump rally by immediately putting responsibility on Biden. Vance said it was “not some isolated incident,” and spuriously claimed the Biden campaign’s rhetoric against Trump “led directly” to the shooting. An incendiary statement like that “ought to disqualify him,” commented David Axelrod, who served as a senior advisor to former President Barack Obama. But of course, this is America in 2024, so it didn’t. Vance and his giant head arrived at the convention on Monday to blaring country music and big, cheerful waves.
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All of this follows Trump’s vow to "UNITE AMERICA!" in the wake of the attempt on his life. Trump’s campaign made a big deal of telling reporters that the shooting in Pennsylvania, in which his ear was grazed and a rally attendee was killed, had prompted him to run on national unity. In a Sunday interview with the Washington Examiner, Trump said his planned acceptance speech on Thursday would have been “a humdinger" aimed at President Biden. Instead, Trump claimed he tore up that speech, and directed speakers, as the Washington Post reported, to “dial it down, not dial it up.” Then again, in a social media post, Trump began with what may have been an inadvertently revealing typo: “As me move forward….”
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The convention lineup hardly features a bunch of folks known for dialing things down.
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One of the first speakers will be ultra-MAGA psycho Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who reacted to the rally shooting by attacking Democrats as “the party of pedophiles, murdering the innocent unborn, violence, and bloody, meaningless, endless wars.” There’s also Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R-NC), who has referred to members of the LGBTQ+ community as “maggots.” Then there’s Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who has called for an end to guaranteed money for social security and Medicare, downplayed the Jan. 6 insurrection, and dismissed climate change as “bullshit.”
Trump’s “unity convention” is off to a great start! |
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U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case against Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents, in a stunning decision that confirmed the worst fears of the controversial judge’s critics. The Trump-appointee has repeatedly issued rulings seen as extremely favorable to Trump, and has long been suspected of plotting to sabotage this case. Now, it seems, she’s finally done it.
Judge Cannon claimed Special Counsel Jack Smith was improperly appointed in her 93-page ruling, which was released at a moment that could not have been more perfectly calculated to sink under all the huge news of the deadly violence at Trump’s rally over the weekend and right before the Republican National Convention kicked off.
Smith plans to appeal, his spokesperson said in a statement that also made note of the staggeringly unusual nature of Cannon’s order. “The dismissal of the case deviates from the uniform conclusion of all previous courts to have considered the issue that the Attorney General is statutorily authorized to appoint a Special Counsel,” the statement said.
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Journalist Errin Haines has interviewed Vice President Kamala Harris more times than any other journalist. This week on Hysteria, she joins Alyssa Mastromanaco to discuss the building media narrative around the vice president in light of recent calls for Biden to step down as well her thoughts around Trumps attempts to distance himself from Project 2025. Tune in to this timely episode on Amazon Music or wherever you get your pods. |
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Delegates to the RNC approved the party platform that waters down language about fighting to limit reproductive rights, while also, confusingly, including language implying support for granting new legal protection to fetuses. Some Republicans are angry about that first part. The confused muddle is the result of Trump’s attempts to paper over one of the party’s least popular positions in an election year.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was booed by delegates during the RNC roll call. On the one hand, sure, he deserves it. On the other, we wonder if, this time, we have to wonder if McConnell — who has had a frosty, on-again-off-again relationship with Trump — got it for the right reasons.
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