No rest for the blogger
If Trump can take credit for the prisoner swap, can Mary Lou Retton take credit for Simone Biles's gold medals? Not that she would, I'm just saying.
Trump likes to boast of his special relationship with every thug dictator on earth and how only their respect for him has averted nuclear war. But Putin gave the go-ahead for the prisoner exchange a week after North Korea said, "We don't care who wins your election." How long before Orban stops taking Trump's calls? Bolsonaro has legal problems of his own, and Nigel Farage may decide that since he's now an MP, campaigning for an American felon is not a good idea. Which leaves who, the Argentinian who talks to his dead dog? Abdel Fatah El-Sisi?
Yeah, fresh Trump scandal. In 2017 a Cairo bank withdrew $10 million in cash from Egypt's supply of US currency on instructions from Egyptian intelligence and gave it to two men, who carried it away. The Justice Department was curious about Trump's decision to inject $10 million "of his own money" into his campaign a few months earlier. Their investigation ended abruptly in 2019 on orders from Bill Barr, the attorney general Trump has now taken to abusing ("fat and slow") but back then was a loyal henchman. Still-loyal henchman Steven Cheung is denouncing the whole story, so it's almost certainly true. I wonder if Trump still thinks Sisi is "a fantastic guy." I wonder if Bob Menendez wishes he had held out for more gold bars.
Kamala Harris officially became the Democratic nominee for president. She raised over $310 million in July and caused 38,500 voters to register for the first time in the forty-eight hours after Joe Biden ended his campaign. Yesterday Trump lost and then regained the support of Kyle Rittenhouse. (Political insiders like Catturd reminded him that if he stopped getting invited to CPAC and Turning Point USA wankfests, he might have to get a real job.) Way to stay even, Donald.
Trump doesn't want much for the scheduled September 4 debate, only that it be controlled by Fox News, held in "the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" (a swing state he's been moving on like a bitch) and include a "FULL ARENA AUDIENCE." ABC News is out because his frivolous lawsuit creates a convenient "conflict of interest." And he's touchingly concerned about "Sleepy Joe Biden, who has been horribly treated by his Party." The Harris campaign has already told him what to do with his new rules, because it isn't being run by a bunch of amateurs.
That Kamala Harris. When she isn't laughing she's hugging. She hugged the president of her sorority, Sigma Gamma Rho, at its Houston convention. She hugged a Morehouse College graduate in Atlanta. She even hugged Hillary and Bill Clinton at the funeral of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. What is wrong with this woman? Laura Ingraham came up with the devastating nickname "hugger in chief," which should end her campaign any minute. Yes, very soon. Is it over yet?
How long has this sick, twisted behavior been going on? Laura?
Jason Carter reports that his grandfather, Jimmy Carter, in hospice care since February 2023, has been "more alert and interested in politics" lately. The former president's hundredth birthday is October 1 and a celebration will be held in Atlanta on September 17, but he says his goal is to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris on November 5. (With mail-in voting, he could do so earlier.) To those who saw "angels" deflecting the bullet from Trump, this is what a miracle looks like.
Mike Luckovich for the win.
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