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Well, here in the War Room, we're going to call it what it is, the deep state, the permanent political class, the in-your-face state, who yesterday decided to release, quite curious timing in a 165-page filing, nothing really all that new in there. Now we've entered what is essentially the assassination project against President Donald J. Trump. And I'm not just talking literally, though we have that, too. I'm talking legally, I'm talking politically, I'm talking financially. It shows you how desperate they are. And last—I want to make it very clear that this filing that we saw released yesterday, it wasn't just a filing. In light of what has happened to President Trump in terms of assassination attempts, it is essentially a premature version of a manifesto for the next crazy person, probably propped up by the federal government, who's going to try and go after President Trump because he's such a threat to democracy. Although something tells me if you actually looked into the background of one—let's see, one, two of the shooters who tried to kill President Trump, with the same resources and funding that the January 6th committee had, you'd probably find a lot more interesting stuff there. read more

The Guardian received leaked audio from a Trump fundraiser in Aspen, Colorado on August 10th, were he despicable jokes about Helen Comperatore, the widow of firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was killed in the attempt. The leaked audio also contained Trump attacking migrants with his made up stories to the wealthy donors coughing up big bucks to be there. He descended into demon style hubris when he made fun of widow Helen Comperatore’ after she received a million dollars in donations. Then, recalling a meeting with Comperatore’s widow, Helen, he made a risky attempt to find humour in the tragedy.

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Whatever you think of Brian Stelter, you have to applaud his refusal to let MAGA lies about Hurricane relief go unchallenged and uncorrected. Republican T. W. Arrighi did his best to promote right-wing lies on CNN's The Source with Kaitlan Collins Friday night: lies that recovery money is going to immigrants instead of citizen hurricane victims and lies that the Biden administration is not helping victims as much as it could and should because they’re in red states.