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Former Trump White House Homeland Security official Miles Taylor, aka “Anonymous,” previewed a sequel to his book “A Warning” in Newsweek on Wednesday with a very brief excerpt revealing former Chief of Staff John Kelly getting revolted by the disgraced former president’s lust for Ivanka.

“Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter… Afterward, Kelly retold that story to me in visible disgust. Trump, he said, was ‘a very, very evil man,'” Taylor writes in the upcoming “Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump,” which also included Stephen Miller’s idea to bomb a refugee boat bound for the US.

Taylor’s a dick. He was all for separating migrant children from their parents. There’s a not small chance he’s exaggerating or embellishing this to sell more books. None of that makes this in any way unbelievable, knowing what we know from other sources about Donald’s sick regard for Ivanka.

On Tuesday newest MAGA hero whistleblower IRS agent Gary Shapley gave an interview with CBS News where he alleged that there was a vast conspiracy going all the way to the top of both the Trump and Biden Justice Departments to protect Hunter Biden and by extension Joe from criminal investigations into their supposed shady foreign business dealings and so on and so forth.

Unlike with previous “whistleblowers” propped up by other House GOP circlejerks this cycle, there’s no evidence that Shapely is currently on suspension for trying to sabotage investigations into Capitol rioters, is getting paid by Kash Patel, is trying to promote a book about his experience, or openly wishing Biden would die of cancer on social media. He seems, at this point at least, to be a legitimate actor even if his claims only hint at what was likely a messy reality that falls far short of the grand Deep State atrocity Republicans and their fanboys so badly want to be true.

The problem with Shapley is his representation: Former Charles Grassley senate office staffer Tristan Leavitt, a MAGA lawyer who was himself one of the witnesses who recently appeared before a hearing of spandex-wearing grapple freak Jim Jordan’s stupid “Weaponization” subcommittee. That’s a big fucking red flag right there. Yes, everyone’s entitled to representation, but if Shapley wants to be taken seriously, he would have done well to have hired a real whistleblower attorney and not some douche who’s suing the SEC over some massive conspiracy against the crypto industry.

Oh and cooperating the with Senate investigation into his claims rather than just the House’s. Telling Senate Dems to fuck off while giving the House GOP spank material isn’t a great look either.

See you at the groundbreaking. https://t.co/1kJZ2h3JZW

— President Biden (@POTUS) June 28, 2023

Real Americans are getting sick of leftist elitists weaponizing their “facts” for political gain. So what if Senator Tommy Tuberville didn’t vote for the socialist infrastructure plan that he’s saying he delivered for his constituents? It’s not like it’s a crime for him to imply that he did by omitting his actual record on the issue, and it definitely doesn’t mean swamp creature Joe Biden should get to virtue signal and spike the ball on Tuberville like this. It’s just so out of touch with the reality that Republican voters and Alabamans in particular want to believe in. Worse is how the libs are going to act like “Dark Brandon owned that lame-brained hick” with this tweet. Very disrespectful.

National Zero will resume our regular news coverage now that we’ve given our best shot at articulating the nebulous anger and resentment MAGA voters feel after burns like this.

Fat former President Trump on Wednesday filed a federal defamation lawsuit against writer EJ Carroll over her comments after a jury found him liable for sexual abuse, ABC News reports.

“In response to that specific inquiry, Counterclaim Defendant disregarded the jury’s finding that Counterclaimant did not rape her, and replied: ‘Oh yes he did, oh yes he did,'” wrote Trump’s lawyers in the complaint, claiming that the word games caused “significant harm to his reputation.”

Florida’s children can sleep well knowing that they’re being protected from the evils of socialism as the state has been using bureaucratic loopholes to kick thousands of them off of Medicaid following the expiry of a COVID-era policy banning states from the practice, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

“I’ve just been calling everybody that I can, any resource. I feel drained,” said Chianne Douberley, mom to a 2 year-old named Charlotte whose cystic fibrosis medication costs $26,000 a month and should move to Venezuela if she doesn’t like living where woke goes to die.

While he hasn’t yet officially decided to skip the Fox News-hosted first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate in August, disgraced former President Trump is leaning heavily toward it and is making plans to “counterprogram” it with some rally or whatever, NBC News reports. The thinking is that there’s no incentive for Trump to do it given his prohibitive lead in the primary polls and wanting to punish Fox News for their repeated failures to satisfy his capricious whims.

Whatever happens, it doesn’t seem like Fox News can really do anything to mollify the fat bastard at this point and he’s just going to come up with his own reasons to fuck them over in the ratings for the debate, the Republican Party and its primary voters be damned too.

Legendarily uncourageous Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy took a beating on Tuesday after the Trump regime found his lack of faith disturbing, Politico Playbook reports on the fallout from McCarthy’s ill-advised “Can he win that election? Yeah, he can win that election. The question is: ‘Is he the strongest to win the election?’ I don’t know that answer,” interview on CNBC.

Even McCarthy’s frenzied damage control re-do with Breitbart later in the day and personal apology call to Trump did little to temper the anger in the Orange God Emperor’s court. Worse, a fundraising email McCarthy sent out calling Donald the “strongest candidate” managed to piss Trump off even more, as “fundraising off of Trump’s name without permission is a huge no-no for the former president,” per Politico. “If Donald Trump wanted… he could have [McCarthy] out as speaker by the end of the week,” one GOP consultant unambiguously warned the hapless weakling.

At least eight civilians are dead, three of them children, in a Russian missile attack Wednesday on a pizza restaurant in the center of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the BBC reports.

As many as 56 others were injured in the strike. “This is the city centre. These were public eating places crowded with civilians,” regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko told Ukrainian television.

Texas Republican Will Hurd, a former CIA operative and Congressman who’s thrown his hat into the White House race, turns on the charm and turns up the heart-pumping energy during his CNN interview about Republican Florida Governor and primary opponent Ron DeSantis’s dodging of a question regarding the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress.  With the charisma of a half-eaten loaf of Wonderbread, or Jeb Bush, Hurd explains some hard truths for the Fox audience to hear:  “We should be clear about what happened in the past.  Donald Trump lost.  The election was not stolen.  It was not a tour that happened on January 6th; it was an attempt to stop the government and overthrow the government.”

GOP presidential nominee Chris Christie tore into Donald Trump like he was a Tastykake chocolate eclair on Tuesday, cracking that Trump is “the cheapest S.O.B. I’ve ever met in my life” after it was disclosed Trump is diverting ordinary Americans’ donations from his presidential campaign to his legal defense fund, Politico reports.

“What Donald Trump is good at is spending other people’s money,” Christie said, adding, “This is a billionaire who refused to pay his lawyers with his own personal money, and instead, men and women out there who believe in him and wanted [him] to be elected president are donating money to try to forward his candidacy … and he’s diverting that money to pay his own legal fees. He should take a pledge today to instruct his campaign to no longer spend any public money on his legal fees. He is the richest candidate in this race, yet he is using public money to pay his legal fees.  He should be ashamed of himself.”

Democratic Florida Congressman Jared Moskowitz went into the lion’s den and tamed the kitty.  As Lawrence Jones–literally the name the pops up if you Google “Black host on Fox”–tries to push a narrative about how unpopular Vice President Kamala Harris is, according to a new poll, Moskowitz repeatedly points out that the same poll had the Biden-Harris ticket handily beating a Trump-led ticket.  A recent poll found 40.7% of respondents approving of Vice President Harris’s job performance, while 51.6% said they did not approve.  (Honestly, though, what’s the job:  go to funerals overseas and… well… don’t die.  That’s about it.)

Moskowitz also notes in passing that Harris’s predecessor had similar poll numbers at this point in his single term in office.  That’s only partially correct:  in 2019, a poll found 39% approved of Pence’s job performance, with 40% having an unfavorable opinion and 8% neutral.  Amazingly, in his third year as Vice President, 12% of respondents had never heard of Mike Pence.  (The same poll found 4 in 10 respondents rated the Trump administration the worst in American history, and that was before the pandemic.)

On Monday night after CNN published the damning 2021 audio of fat former President Trump telling his ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’s ghostwriters that the document he was holding was “secret” and that he hadn’t declassified it, Donald claimed that the tape “is actually an exoneration.”

Which makes this Tuesday night Truth Social post kind of strange because you would think that he would be happy to be “exonerated” and not like calling for Jack Smith and his team to be prosecuted for letting it leak or coming up with all sorts of contradictory bullshit excuses.

Nosferatu cosplayer and one-time lawyer Rudy Giuliani was interviewed by investigators for Special Counsel Jack Smith regarding the fraud aspect of the plot to undermine the legitimate results of the November 2020 presidential election, CNN reports.  Giuliani and his attorney Robert Costello met with Smith’s team in recent weeks.  Sources reported that Smith is looking at a number of lawyers affiliated with Trump’s attempts to convince state legislatures to decertify legitimate results and to appoint fake electors.

“Now with Hunter, every day is ‘Bring Your Kid to Work Day’ at the White House, Air Force One, state dinners, Camp David…” the next future Fox prime time host to be booted off air for sexist remarks and misogyny Jessie Watters notes, forgetting that the previous administration had the then-president’s literal offspring on the White House staff.

Disgraced former President Trump told a Semafor reporter he was holding up a random piece of non-classified paper to impress Mark Meadows’s ghostwriters when he was recorded in July 2021 telling them that the document he had in his hand was “confidential” and “secret.”

“I would say it was bravado, if you want to know the truth, it was bravado,” Trump told Semafor and ABC News reporters. “I was talking and just holding up papers and talking about them, but I had no documents. I didn’t have any documents. I just held up a whole pile of – my desk is loaded up with papers. I have papers from 25 different things,” the twice-impeached loser continued.

So in essence Trump is using his reputation for dishonesty as a defense and “coming clean” with a new lie. Nice of him to give his fanboys something to work with here after a rough 24 hours for them.

A federal judge on Tuesday told fat former President Trump to fuck off with trying to get the Stormy Daniels hush money criminal case moved from New York state courts to the federal circuit, thereby keeping it in front of “biased” Judge Juan Merchan, the Daily Beast reports.

Southern District of New York Judge Alvin Hellerstein hasn’t actually ruled yet, but according to the Beast told Donald’s lawyers point blank he’d heard enough and would reject the arguments in the coming days. “There’s no relation to any act of the president,” Hellerstein said, dismissing the claim that it was part of Trump’s “official duties” as president to pay money to a porn star to keep her quiet about their past sexual encounters and thus not a federal offense.

Chicago’s air quality ranks as worst in the world thanks to the smoke from resurgent Canadian wildfires, CBS News reports, giving Jim Jordan another thing to illogically claim is hypocritical about “Democrat-run cities” as he does with gun violence.  Chicago’s Air Quality Index hit 228 Tuesday afternoon, putting it in the “purple” zone signifying “very unhealthy” air quality.

As Tuesday carried on, Detroit overtook Chicago as the world’s worst air designee as the day went on.  Wisconsin and Iowa have already issued warnings for poor air quality, and New York Governor Kathy Hochul warned her state’s residents that air quality will return in the coming week.

Trump co-defendant and valet Walt Nauta’s Tuesday morning arraignment was postponed until later next week because the would-be counsel backed out after a dispute over fees with the fat former president’s legal slush fund/”Save America” political action committee, the Guardian reports.

Nauta needs local counsel admitted to practice in the Southern District of Florida to represent him in the case and his Orange Master has the final say over who can be retained. Trump’s conditions reportedly also stipulate that the defense lawyer can never have previously served as a prosecutor, which probably seriously narrows down the field. The problem overall however is that Trump is happy to cause any and every delay possible as to drag the trial out past the 2024 election.

A New York State judge ruled Ivanka Trump was no longer a subject of the civil lawsuit brought by state Attorney General Letitia James, but that the other aspects of the case involving her father, two brothers and other members of the Trump Organization can move forward, ABC News reports.  The lawsuit, which seeks at least a quarter billion dollars, stems from allegations that the Trumps and their company illegally manipulated the stated values of their assets to pay fewer taxes but gain more credit.

While it makes sense that Ivanka be removed from the suit–while she was an officer of the corporation, she was not involved in the daily operation of the business and her own enterprises were operated independently of the family’s alleged grift–the move also demonstrates Ivanka is smarter than the males in her family:  In April, Ivanka changed lawyers, dropping the ones also representing Junior and Eric who were paid for with family money and hiring independent counsel from a different firm, who brokered this motion.

Fat former President Trump called Fox News “fake news” in an interview with the sometimes-loyal right wing propaganda outlet on Tuesday about the incriminating 2021 audio leaked to CNN.

“I said it very clearly – I had a whole desk full of lots of papers, mostly newspaper articles, copies of magazines, copies of different plans, copies of stories, having to do with many, many subjects, and what was said was absolutely fine… We did nothing wrong. This is a whole hoax,” Trump said.

“My voice was fine. What did I say wrong on those recordings? I didn’t even see the recording. All I know is I did nothing wrong. We had a lot of papers, a lot of papers stacked up. In fact, you hear the rustle of the paper. And nobody said that I did anything wrong other than the fake news, which is Fox, too,” he added. When asked if there might be any other incriminating recordings, Trump said “I don’t know of any recordings that we should be concerned with because I don’t do things wrong. I do things right. I’m a legitimate person. I’m not like Biden that gets hundreds of millions of dollars from people and countries. We do things right, so I don’t care about any recordings.”