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Gaslighting: More Trump indictments are expected shortly which goes far to explaining the stranger than strange shenanigans carried out by Margie Q, RFK Jr, Gym Jordan, Chuck Grassley, and their crowd over the past few days.  That insanity included Margie Q playing show and tell with blown up pictures of a nude Hunter Biden engaged in sex acts. Weird that Margie is so obsessed with Hunter’s dick but fails to mention that a Federal Judge called Trump a rapist this week.  While denying Trump a new hearing in the E Jean Carroll case, that Judge, Lewis Kaplan, said that while E Jean Carroll failed to prove that she was raped within the narrow meaning of the New York Penal Law, she did prove that she was raped as people commonly understand rape. To be clear Margie Q’s hero Trump, who was president and is running again, is a rapist while Hunter is just a private citizen, albeit an unseemly one with lots of problems.  Gym Jordan who seemed to enjoy Hunter’s dick pics a bit too much featured purported Democrat RFK Jr pushing vaccine disinformation while disingenuously denying those video-taped claims he made that COVID had been engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people under the guise of a hearing on social media censorship.  Worth mentioning, RFK’s vaccine misinformation, like other COVID misinformation, was banned from social media because promoting vaccine lies during a pandemic was costing lives. RFK Jr has been re-platformed because he’s now a presidential candidate which goes far to explaining why he’s running. He knows he won’t win, but he really wants to be able to spread his twisted theories.  Also worth noting, the type of scapegoating he’s promoting feeds hate and has been known to inspire pogroms and other murderous acts not that any of that concerns Gym or RFK Jr or Steve Bannon, one of his supporters.  We also heard from some “whistleblowers” who testified that Hunter had been given preferential treatment by all the Trump, not Biden, appointees responsible for investigating his tax crimes. Then late yesterday over the protests of the FBI, Senator Chuck Grassley released a Trump era confidential FBI informant’s unverified, with the emphasis on unverified, claim that years ago, the Biden family “pushed” a Ukrainian oligarch to pay them $10 million.  If all that sounds familiar, it’s because it is, it was pushed by Guiliani and his cronies in the run up to the last election. 

Expungement: Then there’s Kevin McCarthy, Politico reports that Trump is furious that the man he calls “my Kevin” said that he’s not the Republican’s best presidential candidate and hasn’t endorsed him yet him yet.  To placate him and to get back into his good graces, Kevin has “secretly,” promised to expunge Trump’s two impeachments from the Congressional record by August.  It’s not clear that expunging impeachment votes is even a thing, but that’s a detail that neither Trump nor Kevin care about.  The only thing that matters to Kevin whose continuing Speakership role relies on Trump’s support is whether or not he has the votes to pull off an expungement.  He doesn’t right now, however with Trump taking names, twisting arms, and issuing threats, those reluctant to vote to change the past, even the swing district Republicans and the two still in Congress who voted for the second impeachment, could magically jump on board the expungement train, so don’t count it out.  Of course, Trump isn’t just threatening those who don’t vote his way, he’s also posting threats of violence on Truth Social, hinting at riots if, or more likely, when “deranged” Special Counsel Jack Smith’s new indictments land, something that could happen as early as today Trump clearly expects those indictments to come shortly which explains why he’s added another lawyer to his legal team.  His newest, presumably paid-up front, lawyer is criminal attorney John Lauro who has represented two of his other lawyers Christina Bobb and Alina Habba because in Trump land, everyone even lawyers need lawyers which goes far to explaining why yesterday, another lawyer, the one representing Trump aide and White House advance man William Russell had a scheduling conflict when Russell and a January 6^th defendant both needed to be represented in court proceedings at the same time, Russell, for another sit down with Special Counsel Jack’s Grand Jury and the January 6^th defendant for a sentencing hearing.  It’s thought that Russell was filling in details or clearing up some inconsistencies about Trump’s behavior on January 6.

And:  Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville is still holding up military promotions to protest the military facilitating women traveling for reproductive health care that they can’t get where they’re stationed.  After all who needs generals and the like, and why should anyone care if officers and their families can’t be moved to their new assignments?  And in Florida, the state that floundering presidential candidate Governor Ron DeSantis wants to serve as a model for the rest of the country, the Board of Education just approved new guidelines that require that lessons on the history of slavery point out how Blacks benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills and those riots that wiped out Black communities, those can’t be mentioned either without a both sides approach.  Somethings you can’t make up.