Trump busted plotting fake emergency to steal midterms

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump busted plotting fake emergency to steal midterms
With his back firmly against the wall and political headwinds threatening to blow his presidency permanently off course, Donald Trump and his allies are actively exploring how to declare a national emergency and unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting. In the latest episode of “Democracy Watch,” Brian Tyler Cohen and Marc Elias discuss the wannabe dictator’s latest authoritarian moves to subvert our electoral process and the lengths his enablers and supporters appear willing to go to rig the upcoming election on his behalf.

The Washington Post reports that Trump allies are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that would declare a state of emergency due to imaginary concerns about Chinese interference in the election in order to mandate draconian voter ID rules and ban mail-in voting. We are entering unprecedented territory, friends. As Elias notes, “This is a five-alarm fire. Everyone needs to wake up.”

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FBI conducted four interviews in 2019 during investigation into claim that Trump sexually abused a child in the 1980s with the help of Epstein
Oh, hey. So the FBI conducted four separate interviews in 2019 — during Donald Trump’s first term — looking into incredibly disturbing yet unsubstantiated claims that the future president sexually abused a child in the early 1980s with the assistance of Jeffrey Epstein. Again, unsubstantiated, but given all we know about the MAGA cult leader and his former best friend, it’s definitely noteworthy. In documents reviewed by The Guardian, an unnamed woman told agents she had been sexually abused by Epstein from the age of 13, beginning approximately in 1983.

She also claims that Epstein introduced her to Trump in a building in New Jersey or New York, and that, once alone, Donald “mentioned something to the effect of: ‘Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,'” before attempting to sexually assault her. She told agents she bit him, and that Trump then struck her and had her removed from the room. She also claimed that Epstein and Trump discussed blackmailing people in front of her and that she overheard Trump talking about “washing money through casinos.”

Kinda weird how the DOJ just decided to omit these particular files from their heavily redacted document dumps starting in December, eh? Also a good time to note there are millions more documents yet to be released.

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Mike Johnson: Trump’s presidency is OVER if Republicans lose the House
Red to Blue: Speaker Johnson just said the words we’re all dying to hear: “[Trump] needs all four years, not just two, to fix the mess. And that’s what we need. If we lost the midterms, heaven forbid, if we lost the majority in the House, it would be the end of the Trump presidency in a real effect.” That’s what’s at stake this November. We are faced with a choice between succumbing to dictatorship or stopping Trump’s agenda in its tracks and making him a lame duck two years into his term. Democratic leadership just identified the top 12 most important races for the 2026 midterms. Will you make a donation that will be split between all the progressive Democrats in these must-win races flipping seats from red to blue? Let’s take our country back and WIN in November!

Judge rules IRS broke the law “approximately 42,695” times by sharing confidential data with ICE
US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sharply rebuked Donald Trump’s goons at the IRS on Thursday for disclosing confidential taxpayer addresses to Donald Trump’s goons at ICE, accusing the department of breaking the law more than 42,000 times “in situations where ICE’s request for that information was patently deficient.” For a party that use to swear by its small-government bona fides, these MAGA Republicans sure do love them some Big Brother overreach, eh?

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Americans’ sympathies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have shifted dramatically, new poll shows
In the past three years Americans’ sympathies and attitude toward Palestine and Israel have shifted dramatically, due in no small part to Israeli forces killing more than 70,000 Palestinians in the devastating war that broke out after the Hamas terror attack on October 7, 2023. Turns out ethnic cleansing still rubs a LOT of people the wrong way.

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Hillary Clinton says she was asked about Pizzagate and UFOs during House Epstein deposition — seriously
We cannot believe we’re still typing the word “Pizzagate” in 2026, but here we are. While the sitting president of the United States — whose name appears MORE THAN 38,000 TIMES in the Epstein files released thus far — has yet to answer a single question about his former best buddy under oath, House Republicans wasted six hours yesterday grilling former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton about…UFOs and, yes, “Pizzagate” during her Jeffrey Epstein-related deposition. Surprisingly, not a single Republican blurted out “Benghazi!” even once. And here we thought they were set to play all the Hillary hits. Hmph!

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Texas’ Bible-infused curriculum in chaos after hundreds of errors identified
Truly shocking to learn that Texas’ new Bible-infused, “Bluebonnet” textbook for public schools is filled with so many errors — including typos, punctuation errors, factual inaccuracies, and copyright issues — that state officials were compelled to republish materials less than two years after they were initially approved. Board members advanced a measure — by a vote of 8-to-6 — to make the necessary corrections, which number more than 4,000 by some accounts. That six school board members voted AGAINST fixing said mistakes really says it all. Who cares if numbers actually add up, so long as we get the bits about Noah’s floating zoo and Eve eating that damned apple in there, right?

Trump DOJ to investigate itself over Epstein files release
Uh, we will not be holding our breath.

Manhattan DA drops assault charge against influencer accused in NYPD snowball fight
We are pleased to report that the NYPD officers who suffered grievous injuries — including redness in the eye and tenderness in the neck — during a super dangerous, life-threatening snowball fight in Washington Square Park earlier this week are expected to make full recoveries and will eventually be able to resume their policing duties. Accordingly, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has decided to drop assault charges against 27-year-old Gusmane Coulibaly, a New York City influencer, who was one of hundreds of New Yorkers who engaged in the impromptu snowball fight on Monday.

Following Coulibaly’s release, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s spokesperson, Dora Pekec, chimed in. “As the mayor has said, police officers deserve to be treated with respect,” Pekec told reporters at The New York Times. “The videos he saw showed a snowball fight that got out of hand. [Mamdani] does not believe this situation rises to the level of criminal charges.”

The fact that criminal charges were even a possibility here speaks volumes. America’s police-victimhood complex is a runaway train, and the very people charged with keeping the peace and maintaining some semblance of order are far too comfortable using literally any excuse to subject more and more people to the for-profit human suffering machine we call the US prison system.

Mamdani plays Trump “like a fiddle” in Oval Office meeting
Zohran Mamdani showcased his preternatural political instincts by absolutely rolling Trump in their latest meeting in the Oval Office yesterday. The New York City mayor deftly pitched the president on securing federal funding for 12,000 new units of affordable housing in New York with a fake newspaper reading “TRUMP TO CITY: LET’S BUILD,” and like an excited school child meeting a celebrity, Donald ATE IT UP.

Mamdani was also able to secure the release of Elmina Aghayeva, a Columbia neuroscience student who had been illegally arrested earlier in the day after ICE agents lied their way onto campus by pretending to investigate a missing person’s report. Two big victories, no bowing or scraping, just some elementary manipulation of the world’s most deranged narcissist. That’s how it’s done, folks.