Trump’s Lawyer Created A Private Llc In Delaware To Pay Off Stormy Daniels: Report

As we already suspected, it sounds like Pete Hegseth is not really the kind of person you want to put in charge of the nation's military, according to a whistleblower account in The New Yorker: A trail of documents, corroborated by the accounts of former colleagues, indicates that Hegseth was forced to step down by both of the two nonprofit advocacy groups that he ran—Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America—in the face of serious allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual impropriety, and personal misconduct.read more

A Newsmax panel criticized women who reacted to President-elect Donald Trump's victory by declining to have sex, shaving their heads, or being sterilized. During a Sunday morning discussion on the conservative news network, host Sarah Williamson said women were making the "crazy" decision to be sterilized because they feared that anti-abortion laws could put their lives at risk. "I think they have deeper issues than Trump being president," Newsmax contributor Deneen Borelli argued.

Above, Shaboozey performs Good News. I wish we had some. Adventus draws a comparison between yellow journalism and clickbait/misinformation. Michael in Norfolk tells us about Trump's coming war on the free press. PM Carpenter discusses a never-discussed theory of TrumpThink. Driftglass presents A Farewell to Norms. Bonus Track: Life on the Wicked Stage says that, "A Gentleman in Moscow is a romantic adventure with a warning." Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors.

David Plouffe, a top adviser to the Kamala Harris presidential campaign, this week explained the failure to inspire independent voters: “This political environment sucked, okay?” But political environments don’t just happen. They’re driven by governance, campaigns, culture, and the media. Including journalism. According to a New York Times post-mortem of the Harris campaign, a Trump campaign ad and its followup had a devastating effect.

As if his actions as one of the most notorious arms-traffickers in government didn’t already suggest his contempt for law and order, he pops his ugly head back in to say it.

The FBI went rogue a very long time ago.