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“Today, Rep Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and Rep Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, are demanding answers from Donald Trump after a bombshell report by the Washington Post surfaced new evidence suggesting the former president may have illegally accepted a $10 million campaign contribution from Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign and that appointees in his own Department of Justice (DOJ) covered it up,” says a joint Tuesday press release by Raskin and Garcia.

“A recent report from the Washington Post has created renewed suspicion that you collected a $10 million cash bribe from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Surely you would agree that the American people deserve to know whether a former president—and a current candidate for president—took an illegal campaign contribution from a brutal foreign dictator. Accordingly, we request that you immediately provide the Committee with information and documents necessary to assure the Committee and the American public that you never, directly or indirectly, politically or personally, received any funds from the Egyptian President or Government,” wrote the Members.

The organizers of a far right campaign to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom, again, declared moral victory on Tuesday after the deadline for them to turn in the petition with the required 1.3 million signatures to initiate a statewide recall election came and went, the Sacramento Bee reports.

The group, Rescue California, turned in 0 signatures. “We’re not turning in any,” said Anne Hyde Dunsmore, chief petitioner with the campaign, on Tuesday. “The process is time consuming and we felt that we had done what we needed to do.” Dunsmore claimed her group’s focus shifted to keeping Newsom out of the White House. “When you read about Gavin Newsom today, he is termed as irrelevant and that’s a victory. He is not on a track to the White House. That’s a victory. He is now having to fix the problems he’s created. That’s a victory,” she continued. Jesus Christ, lol.

Convicted felon former President Trump on Tuesday brushed off podcaster Lex Fridman’s concern over Donald’s continued fixation with 2020 election conspiracies being unpopular with indie voters.

Despite having claimed that he committed his life to Jesus in the 1980s, far right psychopath North Carolina Lt Gov and gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson was a five-night a week regular at a peep show/place and porn video store in the 1990s and early 2000s, employees tell The Assembly.

At least six of the men who worked at Gents Video and I-40 Video in Greensboro told the local news site that Robinson came into the places to masturbate in the private video booths. Owner Louis Money said Robinson also bought bootleg porn tapes he sold on the side. “He was good for at least one a week,” said Money, noting that didn’t pay for the last one, described as a compilation of “super hardcore” films he had acquired in New York City that were too trashy to be sold in North Carolina.

Money said he doesn’t really care about the $25 Robinson owes him for that last tape.

Roadkill collector Robert F Kennedy Jr on Tuesday sued the Michigan Secretary of State in an attempt to get himself removed from the ballot after quitting the race, the Detroit Free Press reports.

It’s not clear what legal argument Kennedy is using because Michigan statute prohibits candidates who have accepted a minor party’s nomination – which Bobby did – from withdrawing.

A likely Russian disinformation operation not ready for primetime – given the production value of the site, KBSF-TV.com, which was registered on August 20th, 2024, the other articles were copy-pasted verbatim from other sites without attribution, and the ads are completely static – went ahead with it anyway on Tuesday, claiming Vice President Kamala Harris left a then-13 year-old girl paralyzed from the waist down after a hit-and-run accident in 2011, using the terribly-acted video above.

National Zero was able to find that the host and domain are the same as ours – NameCheap.com – and have contacted their legal/abuse department to both report “KBSF-TV” and request comment on the person/entity who slapped this shitty hit job together, though we’re being realistic about that.

A federal judge on Tuesday issued a temporary injunction against convicted felon former President Trump, prohibiting from playing the late Isaac Hayes’ “Hold On, I’m Coming” at his rallies and dancing to the song as he usually does at the end of them, Meidas Touch reports.

Late Senator John McCain’s youngest son Jimmy, a currently active serving officer in the Marine Corps’ 158th Infantry Regiment, tells CNN that convicted felon former President Trump’s campaign stop at Arlington National Cemetery infuriated him. “These men and women that are laying in the ground there have no choice” of whether or not to be used a prop for the fat bastard’s bid to regain power and end American democracy, McCain said, adding “I just think that for anyone who’s done a lot of time in their uniform, they just understand that inherently – that it’s not about you there. It’s about these people who gave the ultimate sacrifice in the name of their country.”

“It was a violation,” McCain said of the fat fuck grinning with his thumbs up next to the grave of service members who had died separately and apart from the Kabul bombing. “That mother, that sister, those families, see that – and it’s a painful experience.” McCain said he registered as a Democrat a few weeks ago and plans to vote for Kamala Harris in November, adding that he “would get involved in any way I could” to help her win. Jimmy’s sister, former The View host Meghan McCain, did not comment for the CNN story, depriving Mediaite of the real lede they crave.

Jimmy will appear on Jake Tapper’s show 4 PM EDT Tuesday to trash the Orange Tyrant further.

Dems are done playing nice with Kremlin-backed shitbag Jill Stein, with DNC spokesman Matt Corridoni telling the Bulwark in a blunt statement that the Green Party’s candidate “is a useful idiot for Russia. After parroting Kremlin talking points and propped up by bad actors in 2016 she’s at it again. Jill Stein won’t become president, but her spoiler candidacy – that both the GOP and Putin have previously shown interest in – can help decide who wins. A vote for Stein is a vote for Trump.”

In response, Stein campaign manager Jason Call, said “the Democratic Party has no respect for actual democracy or the voting public,” calling the attack a “tired and sad commentary on a party that refuses to serve the American people with good public policy. Every American should have the opportunity to vote for candidates that represent their values. The Green Party forwards popular policy on universal healthcare and climate action, things the Democrats cynically claim to stand for, though failing in action to bring meaningful change. All Democrats do is hamper our efforts to get on ballots so we can speak to the policy Democrats consistently avoid.” Note that he said absolutely nothing whatsoever to deny that he and his candidate are on Vladimir Putin’s payroll.

Apparently eager to keep this news cycle going eight days later when the media was starting to move on from it, convicted felon former President Trump on Tuesday morning posted “The was no conflict or ‘fighting’ at Arlington National Cemetery last week. It was a made up story by Comrade Kamala and her misinformation squad. She made it all up to make up for the fact that she and Sleepy Joe have BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS for the INCOMPETENT AFGHANISTAN Withdrawal – THE MOST EMBARRASSING DAY IN US HISTORY!!! They should have been at Arlington, not on a beach or studying for a Debate. Thanks you to my friends, the GREAT GOLDS STAR FAMILIES, for revealing the TRUTH OF A BEAUTIFUL DAY OF HONOR. Could not have been a nicer moment – And there were no fights or problems, only in the heads of those that are destroying our Country!”

There is, in fact, a problem with this denial that there were any “fights or problems,” because Donald’s large headed spokesman Steven Cheung last Tuesday specifically claimed “there was no physical altercation as described and we are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made. The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump’s team during a very solemn ceremony,” meaning that in their initial account it did (at the very least) get physical and there was a confrontation.

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House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan needs to subpoena an Amazon Echo device immediately to get to the bottom of this blatant attempt at election interference by the ubiquitous home voice assistant Alexa. Just picture the blockbuster hearing with the cylindrical device sitting at the witness table getting grilled for answers about why it’s at the forefront of yet another plot to steal the election from President Trump. “ALEXA, WHY WON’T YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION ON THE 51 INTEL AGENTS WHO SIGNED A LETTER CALLING HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP A HOAX?!?”

“I’m sorry, I don’t have answer for that. You can ask me for recommendations of movies, games, and books for your Amazon shopping cart,” the device will answer, provoking Jordan into even more of a rage. “THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF THESE SILICON VALLEY TECH COMPANIES WEAPONIZING THEIR INFLUENCE TO SUPPRESSING CITIZENS’ FREE SPEECH AND WE’RE HERE TO PUT A STOP TO IT. THIS DISTURBING VIDEO OF A YOUNG LADY ASKING FOR ADVICE ON WHO TO VOTE FOR IS PUTTING A CHILLING EFFECT ON OUR DEMOCRACY. WITHOUT OBJECTION THE CHAIR MOVES TO HOLD THE ECHO DEVICE IN CONTEMPT AND WE WILL SCHEDULE A MARKUP VOTE WITHIN THE NEXT 30 TO 40 DAYS. ALEXA YOU ARE GOING TO BE HELD TO ACCOUNT.”

“I’m sorry, if you need help with your Amazon account please log in on your device and go to the page that says ‘My Account’ to make whatever changes you need,” the device will reply in pure fear.

National Zero will resume our regular coverage after providing this analysis of the coming all-out war between House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan and an Amazon Echo device.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, flush with a $540 million haul since she took over the presidential ticket, is transferring a $25 million of it to boost the undercard: $10 million each to the Dem Congressional Campaign Committee and the Dem Senatorial Campaign Committee, and $2.5 million each to Dem gubernatorial and state legislative committees, the Washington Post reports.

“If we want a future where every American’s rights are protected, not taken away, where the middle class is strengthened, not hollowed out; and a country where our democracy is preserved, not ripped apart, every race this November matters,” Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement Tuesday. “The Vice President believes that this race is about mobilizing the entire country, in races at every level, to fight for our freedoms and our economic opportunity.”

Trump didn’t fucking do this in 2022 when he wasn’t even running. His “Save America” PAC was billed as a fund to back his endorsed candidates but he spent far more money on Melania’s dressmaker, with one source at Mar-a-Lago telling Politico “It’s not Trump’s job to elect a Senate majority,” in response to reports that Republicans were wondering why he wasn’t helping.

In a new rundown of where the race for Congress stands, Politico finds Republican campaign money lampreys starting to freak the fuck out over getting outraised and outspent by Dems in races far and wide, writing that “Panic is starting to set in” among the NRSC and NRCC chodes. “When Republicans have the resources to tell this story, we win,” said National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Jack Pandol. “We just can’t allow a green tsunami of Democratic cash to change the conversation from the issues,” he continued. Of course it’s not clear whether this is because these committees are actually scared of losing or that their salespeople aren’t getting their commissions and bonuses for landing the big checks from the wealthy plutocrats.

Politico writes that the GOP boiler room have been seeing some modest increases in donations lately, but notes a possible reason why: “Many GOP donors see investing in the Senate as one of the best ways to block Democrats from having total control in Washington in 2025… The strong start to Harris’ candidacy has spurred anxiety about the GOP’s prospects in the presidential race. And in the House, Democrats need to gain just a handful of seats to retake the chamber – and among the vulnerable incumbents are 16 Republicans in Biden-won districts.” Womp fuckin womp.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign have scheduled another stop in Pittsburgh for Thursday, the news coming just a day after a pretty solid showing at a union hall in the city, KDKA reports.

The news of the quick return itself seems less important than what it could possibly mean as we were to understand that the Veep was busy prepping for the big debate next week. Thing is it’s not like a high school chemistry test where you either studied and know all the bullshit inside and out or you didn’t. While Trump 100 percent needs the debate more than Harris does, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t need it either – simply because she can absolutely put this election away if she makes Trump look like Biden did after the June debate. But we suppose there’s such a thing as being over-prepared too and that could be a hinderance on spontaneity. Maybe it’s just a confidence booster, feeling the energy of the crowd to get pumped ahead of the big showdown with El Naranjo.

Feels like next Monday or Tuesday would be a better day for that though. Anyway we might be overthinking this and that the newly-added stop has no bearing on her debate prep. It’s certainly not panic defense. You won’t be seeing that until mid-October, the textbook example of which was Trump’s last-minute rally in Georgia during the closing days of the 2020 race. Could just be simply surge offense, trying to capitalize on the localized momentum from the Labor Day rally.

“With a little more than two months to go until Election Day, it’s fair to ask if Donald Trump can win in November. The presidential race is virtually tied in all the major swing states. Last month’s Democratic National Convention was both a hate fest directed squarely at our former president and also a fawning coronation of Vice President Kamala Harris, the nominee who didn’t win a single primary in 2020 or 2024. Every day that the candidates trade insults is a good day for her because it’s one less day that she has to defend the failures of the Biden-Harris administration.”

“Far more worthwhile for Mr Trump is his record of success. The road to the White House runs through a vigorous policy debate, not an exchange of barbs,” writes dainty South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham in a guest essay printed by the New York Times on Tuesday. Notably the comment section is missing from the piece, almost as if they couldn’t trust Lindsey to spend the entire day responding one-by-one to the libs mocking him for his bullshit complaining that Harris is an illegitimate nominee and projecting confidence Trump can have a “rigorous policy debate.”

Worth asking whether Lindsey wrote this in direct response to the Washington Post masterfully capturing Team Orange’s game plan in a single sentence in a Monday story: “With little chance of improving Trump’s standing, Trump’s advisers see the only option as damaging hers.”

Vice President Kamala Harris’s new ad “Focused” is, well, pretty focused on creating a contrast between her and convicted felon former President Trump, aiming to appeal to economic fairness.

“US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces, partnered with Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), captured an ISIS leader, who was assessed as helping ISIS fighters after escape from a Raqqah Detention Facility in Syria. During the early morning hours of Sept 1, CENTCOM forces and SDF captured Khaled Ahmed al-Dandal, an ISIS facilitator assessed to be aiding efforts of detained ISIS fighters to include recently escaped fighters. Previously, on Aug 29, five ISIS Foreign Terrorist Fighter detainees (Two Russians, two Afghans, and one Libyan) escaped from the Raqqah Detention Facility.”

“SDF recaptured two escapees: Imam Abdulwahed Akhwan (Russian) and Muhammad Noh Muhammad (Libyan). The search continues for the three who remain at large: Timor Talbrken Abdash (Russian) and Shuab Muhammad Al-Abdli and Atal Khaled Zar (both Afghans). A primary objective of ISIS remains to free their fighters currently held in detention and subsequently fuel an ISIS revival. CENTCOM forces, in coordination with SDF, will continue to mitigate threats of future escapes and to ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS,” says CENTCOM in a statement.

Republican strategist and former Michigan GOP executive director Jason Roe, who was forced to resign in 2021 for the thoughtcrime of not believing the 2020 election was stolen, tells Politico he has “always felt Labor Day was going to be about the time the Kamala sugar high starts burning off.”

“It’s gone on for too long,” Roe continued, as if he was talking about a bunch of noisy teenagers drinking beer and smashing bottles in a parking lot and if they don’t break it up and go home soon he’s going to call their parents to come pick them up. “There’s not a lot more left to propel it,” he said, like he thinks they’re running out of beer and the battery’s low on their Bluetooth speaker.

Roe says although Harris over the last few week benefitted from being “a little bit undefined,” MAGA efforts to highlight her shifting policy positions mean she’s now “going to get a little definition.” We were to understand that The Defining™ was over. For all the wishcast-y confidence he exuded, Roe concludes the debate “may be one of the few opportunities that [Trump] can put her on defense.”

Former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to testify next week to the House GOP’s lame COVID-19 subcommittee on his management of the pandemic, specifically how nursing homes in the Empire State were quarantined – or not – which ended up being the go-to talking point for MAGA propagandists seeking to shift blame away from convicted felon former President Trump’s failed, shambolic response to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans, CNN reports.

“The one question that needs to be answered is still being ignored: ‘Why did more people die from COVID in the United States than any other country and how do we make sure it never happens again?’ It is Gov Cuomo’s pleasure to join the committee once again to try to get an answer,” said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi in a statement. MAGA Congressman Brad Wenstrup in April told CNN’s Jake Tapper he was itching to get Cuomo to testify, saying “I’m trying to learn why he would do something like this. As a doctor who has treated infections, it goes against all medical common sense to take someone who was highly contagious and put them amongst the most vulnerable.”