As the election winds down, Convicted Felon Donald Trump drops the mask and calls for the execution of former U.S. House Representative Liz Cheney. And all his ever dwindling number of supporters can do is lie and pretend that he did not do that. Kipp Jones (MEDIATIE) reports:
Trump was speaking Thursday night to Tucker Carlson about Cheney when he said she wanted to send Americans to die on foreign battlefields in wars she would not enlist to fight in. Trump addressed her as a “radical war hawk” and added:
Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, ok? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, “Oh, gee, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.”
CNN’s Kasie Hunt took flak from the far right throughout Friday after she told her viewers Trump had said Cheney should be “fired upon.” Hunt was accused of taking Trump out of context in her reporting of his controversial remarks.
On Friday’s The Lead, Tapper welcomed Hagerty on to discuss Trump’s comments. Tapper aired them in full and argued they rightly offended some people.
Hagerty disagreed and called CNN’s reporting of the story a “hoax”:
It was not a hoax. It is what Convicted Felon Trump said. And the crook repeated it today. Victoria Bekiempis (GUARDIAN) reports:
Donald Trump repeated his aggressive attack on Liz Cheney at a rally in Michigan on Friday, one day after he first said the former Republican US representative should be under fire with rifles “shooting at her”.
Trump’s comments came as the presidential campaign enters its final stretch, with both the former president and his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, battling to woo voters in Michigan and other key swing states.
He also claimed, "That's why I broke up with her." Does he expect people to believe that lie? He must. He keeps lying. Sarah K. Burris (RAW STORY) adds:
It has been less than 24 hours since Donald Trump uttered a violent fantasy that former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) should experience "nine guns are trained on her face" in a war zone.
The comment was widely translated as wishing that Cheney be executed.
On Friday, he took to Truth Social in an effort to clean up his comments about her on Truth Social.
More liars from the biggest liar of all time. In other news, Joe Sommerlad (INDEPENDENT) reports:
With just four days of campaigning to go in the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump is facing new claims about his past friendship with the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Journalist Michael Wolff, who wrote three books about the Republican’s first administration between 2017 and 2021, has released an audio clip on his podcast Fire and Fury of what he says is Epstein talking in intimate detail about the inner workings of Trump’s Cabinet.
Wolff says the audio was recorded, to the best of his recollection, at the SoHo branch of Ladurée, a Manhattan patisserie, in 2017 when he met with Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in August 2019, to discuss the prospect of writing his biography.
Speaking over the background bustle of the eatery, Epstein is heard in the audio telling Wolff how then-president Trump played his administration officials off against each other.
“His people fight each other and then he poisons the well outside,” he says.
Offering examples, he names then-Trump officials Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus and Kellyanne Conway: “He will tell 10 people ‘Bannon’s a scumbag’ and ‘Priebus is not doing a good job’ and ‘Kellyanne has a big mouth – what do you think?’
“‘[JPMorgan Chase CEO] Jamie Dimon says that you’re a problem and I shouldn’t keep you. And I spoke to [financier] Carl Icahn. And Carl thinks I need a new spokesperson.’”
Of course, the felon was tight with Jeffrey Epstein. They should have shared a prison cell. Lastly, Taylor Odisho (LATIN TIMES) reports:
The city of Albuquerque went tit for tat with former President Donald Trump by blocking his preferred venues for his Thursday rally since he still owes them $500,000 from 2019.
Trump initially requested to use the local convention center for his rally, but the City of Albuquerque cited ongoing repairs, according to KOB 4. His campaign received the same response when they asked to use Expo New Mexico.
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He also attacked senior Democrats Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Adam Schiff and warned baselessly against “cheating” at the polls and forced sex-change operations in schools.
Vice President Harris closed out Thursday with a raully in Las Vegas in which singer and actor Jennifer Lopez emotionally endorsed her.
Donald Trump said former Rep. Liz Cheney is a “war hawk” who should be fired upon, as he raged against one of his most prominent intra-party critics while campaigning Thursday night in Arizona.
“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?” the former president said at a campaign event in Glendale with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”
Trump also hurled insults at Cheney, once the third-ranking Republican in House leadership, calling her “very dumb,” a “stupid person” and “the moron.”
Trump’s suggestion that Cheney be fired upon represents an escalation of the violent language he has used to target his political foes. And it comes days before an election in which the former president — who never accepted his 2020 loss — has already undermined public confidence. In recent weeks, he has also suggested a military crackdown on political opponents he has described as “the enemy within.”
Cheney is perhaps the most vocal Republican critic of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and his role in his supporters’ January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol. She played a leading role on the House select committee that investigated the attack, and later was ousted from her deep-red Wyoming House seat by a Trump-backed primary opponent in 2022.
Cheney responded to Trump’s comments overnight, saying: “This is how dictators destroy free nations.”
Over the course of just four years, male voters under 30 have shifted a net of 14 points towards Republicans, according to polling by the Harvard Kennedy School of Politics.
Citing inflation, immigration, the withering of the American dream, the left’s war on “toxic masculinity,” and the former president’s ability to bro-out with their favorite podcasters, young men told The Post what made them ready to get behind Trump this November.
“As far as young male voters are concerned, I feel like the Democrats have no message for them. The Democrats have totally ignored that base,” Alex Bruesewitz, a 27-year-old campaign advisor for Trump, told The Post.
This week, Kennedy told supporters that if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins, he has promised Kennedy “control of the public health agencies,” including the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump transition co-chair Howard Lutnik later denied that Kennedy would have a job with HHS—although, at the same time, he said Kennedy had convinced him to pull vaccines from the market. Trump himself, at his Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, seemed to lend credence to the idea of Kennedy leading on health: “I’m gonna let him go wild on health. I’m gonna let him go wild on the food. I’m gonna let him go wild on medicines,” Trump said. Trump also said on a three-hour podcast episode with Joe Rogan last week that he’s told Kennedy, “Focus on health, focus—you can do whatever you want.” It’s not clear whether such a promise would have been made in exchange for Kennedy’s political endorsement, which would be illegal. But if Kennedy were to be put in charge of HHS, he would be leading the executive department that oversees the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health, among others. In the meantime, Kennedy is an honorary co-chair on the Trump transition team, and claims to be “deeply involved in helping to choose the people who can run FDA, NIH, and CDC.”
In his own speech at Madison Square Garden, Kennedy took aim at Democrats, saying they were once “the party that wanted to protect public health, and women’s sports”—a bizarre pairing that highlights his recent pivot to attacking trans athletes and gender-affirming care. Kennedy, who ran as a Democratic and then independent presidential candidate before throwing his support behind Trump, is also spreading misinformation on chronic health issues such as obesity, diabetes, drug overdoses, and autism; on Tuesday, for example, he said diabetes could be “cured with good food.” In his Sunday speech, Kennedy characterized Trump as a president who would “protect our children … and women’s sports,” as well as “end the corruption at the federal agencies—at FDA, at NIH, at CDC, and at the CIA”—a constellation of bodies rarely joined together, which he implied are conducting surveillance upon and acting against the interests of the American people.
“This unbridled assault on science and scientists, it’s highly destabilizing for the country,” Baylor College of Medicine dean Peter Hotez, author of The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science, told me earlier this year, a few months after Kennedy announced his run. But it’s not just Kennedy—Trump and other Republicans in Congress are also leading the charge to undermine expertise and further erode public trust in the government, he said. “This is what authoritarianism is all about,” Hotez said, lamenting “the collateral damage that it’s going to do to our democracy” and pointing to the ways Stalin portrayed scientists as public enemies during the Great Purge.
Benjamin
and Davies write: “Most Americans have been persuaded that Stein cannot
win the election.” It’s not a matter of being “persuaded”, any more
than we are “persuaded” that Trump did not win the last election. It’s
simply a fact. No one seriously imagines that Jill Stein will get more
than a few percent of the votes anywhere, so I don’t understand what is
served by encouraging anyone to think maybe she’'ll actually win. It’s
not honest.
I also don’t see that we should regard voting for Jill
Stein as just another individual decision, for which no one need be
apologetic. If it leads to a disaster, you should feel bad about it. And
it very well may.
I’ve fleshed out some of the reasons voting for the Green Party is destructive, in these pages; I won’t repeat them all. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/kamala-harris-gaza-2669543360.
Two
points. First, I don’t see how anyone here can honestly take the
position it doesn’t matter whether Trump or Harris is elected. We now
have a full fledged fascist party, the Republican Party. The Democrats
are far from a fascist party. Are progressives so locked into hating the
Democrats that they cannot see the dangers of fascism? Is Gaza the sole
issue that matters? Not whether we have a president who plans to deport
11 million people? Not climate change, not the elimination of honestly
counted elections? Not abortion rights? Not whether reactionaries
control the Supreme Court for another generation?
Yes, I know the
Democratic Party is a capitalist party dominated by capital. But that
doesn’t mean all the differences between Democrats and Republicans are
trivial. I’m actually mystified anyone could believe that or pretend to.
Second,
on whether building a third party is a realistic goal: There are
structural issues that make this very challenging in a political system
with single member districts, as opposed to multiparty list systems. The
single-member district system pushes very hard toward two major
parties. The trend is supported by the fact that – as is obviously the
case here – third parties tend to injure the party closest to them, and
voters grasp that, actually, yes, the lesser of two “evils” is better
than the worse of two evils. Especially when the supposedly ideal party
has no plan that would lead to victory.
Below is the Green Party’s percentage of the popular vote for President for every presidential election of this century:
2000 2.74%
2004 0.38%
2008 0.10%
2012 0.36%
2016 1.07%
2020 0.26%
There
have been downs and ups. But the Greens have had more than twenty
years, and we see no progression toward the Green Party playing a
significant role in American politics. Other than as a spoiler.
Can someone explain to me what the plan is to break out of this role, in which the Greens are either irrelevant or destructive?