Pundits are still buzzing over Trump’s disastrous phone-in interview on yesterday’s “Fox & Friends,” which triggered two court filings by the end of the day. Prosecutors are in luck; Kellyanne Conway appeared on the show today to say Trump loved it and wants to do it every month. How any Republican can listen to yesterday’s manic logorrhea and think it’s anything but the ravings of a madman is a question historians will spend years trying to answer.
Candidates who want the lunatic’s endorsement in the midterms must answer an “Opinion Leader Questionnaire” from the Office of Political Affairs, with eight yes-or-no questions to fill out and space to elaborate on their reasoning. No word on how many candidates have asked for Trump’s endorsement.
What kind of shitheel is Paul Ryan? The kind who would fire the chaplain for the House of Representatives without an explanation. The priest who was canned is speaking out about it.
Adam Serwer at the Daily Beast makes the case that Bill Cosby was done in by his own public moralizing. The judge who unsealed the original settlement with Andrea Constand cited Cosby’s public image as a moral arbiter in doing so, and the avalanche of bad publicity that brought him down ensued.
It’s one thing to be hungry for higher office. It’s quite another to drool all over the tablecloth, which is pretty much what Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is doing in her lust for the presidency. She introduced a post-office banking bill this week, which sounds great and progressive, except that in doing so she bigfooted a four-year effort to achieve the same goal without having to go through Congress, where Republicans are universally opposed to the idea.
Authorities confirmed they used information from a genealogy service to find the Golden State Killer, an ex-cop whose DNA was not on record. Some genealogy services, concerned about losing business over privacy issues, were quick to distance themselves from the case. Such good citizens, those corporations, eh?