Top Trump official craps the bed on national TV

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump official turns in DISASTER performance on national TV
UN Ambassador Mike Waltz turned in another disaster performance for the Trump regime, this time on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” after Kristen Welker challenged him on reports that the Trump administration has burned through our stockpile of bombs and missiles with nothing to show for it. In response, Waltz executed the Donald J. Trump PR crisis managment strategy of “Blame Joe Biden and then threaten to jail people,” in an astonishing 60-second meltdown.

Waltz’s name might ring a bell, and not for good reason. He previously served as Donald Trump’s national security advisor for all of 102 days before being relieved of his duties following the infamous 2025 Signal chat leak where he accidentally added The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, to a group chat with top Trump administration officials wherein top secret military operations were openly and casually discussed.

What posh government post will he fail into next?!

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Trump saves George Washington with time travel and protects world from Iran in bonkers AI posting spree
More super-normal behavior from our super-normal president!

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Mike Johnson FLEES when confronted by media over the Iran War
Democratic Veterans for Congress: Speaker Johnson was just asked if Congress should hold an up or down vote authorizing Donald Trump to put troops on the ground in Iran — and Johnson predictably refused to answer. He’s entirely abdicated Congress’ constitutional responsibility to dictate when and where America goes to war, and with an unhinged and volatile president like Trump, our fighting men and women are in serious danger. Will you chip in to help elect Democratic veterans and make sure we have a Congress who will treat decisions of war with the seriousness it demands?

Judge demands to see what Trump’s DOJ is hiding in Epstein files
A federal judge overseeing political commentator and independent podcaster Katie Phang’s lawsuit against the Trump Justice Department is making one thing abundantly clear: he’s not willing to simply accept the government’s flimsy explanations about its Epstein files redactions at face value.

In a new order issued Saturday, US District Judge Emmet Sullivan directed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to submit unredacted versions of key Jeffrey Epstein-related emails and documents directly to the court for a private in camera review, along with evidence backing up the Justice Department’s claims that its sweeping redactions are legitimate.

Blanche has until 3PM on Thursday, July 30 to respond. Clock’s ticking, Todd!

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Fox News panel calls out JD Vance for “undermining” Trump on Iran
Donald’s sycophants at Fox were visibly perplexed that JD Vance dared to voice on opinion on the Iran war that seemingly ran counter to the Trump regime’s established talking points.

During an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Vance warned that an escalation in the war with Iran — a nation of 94 million — could trigger a refugee crisis for Europe and the United States, prompting Fox contributor Marc Thiessen to respond: “[Vance] seems to be going off. Off base a lot and contradicting the president a lot in public lately and it’s not helpful. [He] keeps putting up these straw men. He says, ‘Well, the people who want President Trump to go back to war they want to send a hundred thousand, a hundred and fifty thousand troops.’ And nobody’s saying that! Nobody is saying that at all. You don’t have to tear down straw men.”

Hmmm, trouble on the propaganda set?

Quiet change to Pentagon website adds 142 wounded US service members to Iran war casualty count
Sec. of War Crimes Pete Hegseth spent weeks hiding the actual tally of dead and injured soldiers in Donald Trump’s war with Iran before finally bending to intense public pressure to honor the fallen and injured — but not without engaging in further shenanigans, of course.

The Pentagon quietly created a new category to track casualties, an “Overseas Operations” purgatory of sorts that somehow separates some of the 18 killed and 624 service members wounded in Operation Epic Fury from the rest.

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie called the stunt an “absurd ruse,” which, honestly, is a perfect two-word description for the Trump presidency write large.

Heritage Foundation exec arrested on drug possession charge after accidentally bringing pistol ammo into Senate office building
Heritage Foundation executive Chris Wingate was stopped at the entrance of the Russell Senate Office Building earlier this month after an X-ray screening machine revealed a loaded magazine in his briefcase. Things unraveled from there, as Wingate was also found in possession of an assortment of illegal narcotics. Unfortunately for Wingate — who previously worked for GOP Sens. Joni Ernst and Ted Cruz — it was not Bring Your Cocaine & Fentanyl & Adderall & Ammo To Work Day. Oops.

Fed faces growing pressure to hike interest rates as price risks rebound
Hoo boy, Donald is not gonna be happy if the fella he just installed at the Federal Reserve yields to economic reality and makes interest rate decisions based on market forces rather than what’s politically favorable for the wannabe dictator.

Trump “border czar” says ICE officer in Maine killing should not have cleared vetting
During a troubling appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” yesterday, Trump’s so-called “border czar” was forced to admit that the ICE officer who fatally shot Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in front of his wife and three-year-old child in Biddeford, Maine, should have never been given a badge and gun in the first place.

When pressed to explain David Brouillette’s eligibility to serve following reports that two of his ex-wives had previously accused him of disturbing abuse, Tom Homan conceded, “I don’t think he should ever have cleared vetting.”

Why do we get the feeling this is the first time anyone in Trump’s orbit has mentioned vetting the goons charged with carrying out his anti-immigrant crusade?