Is Donald Trump trying to goad Joe Biden into running for president? Sure seems that way. He just repeated his claim that Biden is the Democrat he’d most like as an opponent in the 2020 race. Biden is Hamletting his decision, but he’s not one to back down from a mano-a-mano challenge, and Trump knows it.
Josh Marshall has what seems like an accurate take on this week’s Trump treasonpalooza: GOP electeds and Trump cultistswon’t budge, but GOP-leaning People Who Matter are coming around to accepting that this much evidence can’t be coincidence. Today’s “get” on that front is Blake Hounshell, whom you’ve probably never heard of but is the Editor in Chief at Politico. The former Russiagate skeptic writes, “When I wrote, back in February, that I was skeptical that President Donald Trump would ever be proved to have secretly colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election in his favor, I mistyped. What I meant to write was that I wasn’t skeptical.”
The NFL looks like one of those football teams that keeps getting penalized for false starts. A day after the media trumpeted the Miami Dolphins’ proposal to suspend kneeling players for four games, the league froze its recent ban on kneeling for discussions with the players’ union. Remember, this issue is gold for white nationalists/fans, whose love/envy/fear relationship with the league’s mostly minority workforce creates electoral energy through cognitive dissonance. Whatever the league ultimately does, Trump will turn it to his advantage.