A judge allowed E. Jean Carroll, who won a defamation suit against Donald Trump, to amend her original complaint to include further slanders he’s stated about her since the end of the trial, CNN reports. The jury in the original trial awarded Carroll $5 million, which the court could increase that award based on the continuing defamation.
Odds on Aileen Cannon being next Supreme Court Justice? She delays the trial until after the election. Trump wins. Republicans take the Senate. Clarence Thomas resigns.
1 in 5?#TrumpIndictment
— Al Franken (@alfranken) June 13, 2023
Two moms in Kelowna, British Columbia say their nine year-old daughter is devastated after two old right wing fucks loudly accused the girl of being trans and demanded proof she was born female as she stepped up to compete in shot-put at a track meet last week, Castanet.net reports.
“She went to step up to compete for the grade four shot-put final, and right before she went to throw, a grandfather of a student said, ‘Hey, this is supposed to be a girls’ event, and why are you letting boys compete.’ My daughter is cisgender, born female, uses she/her pronouns. She has a pixie haircut,” said mom Heidi Starr, adding the right wing man, apparently the grandfather of another girl competing in the event, angrily demanded some kind of certification Starr’s daughter is female. “He stopped the entire event. He also pointed at another girl who also had short hair. He then piped in and said, ‘Well, if she is not a boy, then she is obviously trans,'” Starr said.
Starr said the man’s wife called her “a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile.” The assholes were banned from school property and events for life, but we would hope Canadian and/or British Columbia law can make this a criminal matter. “This has destroyed our beautiful daughter’s confidence, and she was inconsolably crying during this whole event and continued once it was over and we were leaving. Not to mention, she was unable to concentrate on her track and field finals and the shot-put throw for which she had qualified,” the girl’s other mom Kari Starr said.
Further confirming the notion that the whole thing is scam designed to get disgraced former President Trump reelected, the “No Labels” operation’s CEO Nancy Jacobson tells Politico the group plans to drop out of 2024 if Ron DeSantis or Tim Scott somehow wins the GOP nomination.
The group’s chief strategist said some bullshit about there not being a market for their “centrist” candidate if a non-Trump Republican wins the nomination. It’s not worth reprinting here but the gist was, in not so many words, that they were worried they could end up siphoning votes from Nimrata Haley, Tim Scott, Ron DeSantis rather than Joe Biden, which is the whole point of the “party.”
Backed by pro-Trump scrotum Mark Penn, the “No Labels” scumbags have already been caught trying to trick voters into registering with the party in Maine, so Dem lawyers would do well to start challenging their ballot access elsewhere using that info. Destroy the whole scam, root and branch.
Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald, one of the fake Trump 2020 electors from the Silver State who last June had his phone seized by FBI agents apparently pursuant to a search warrant as part of the post-election coup attempt investigation, was spotted Thursday by NBC’s Ryan Reilly outside of the DC federal courthouse room where the grand jury in that case has been meeting. “Not on my bucket list,” McDonald told Reilly about testifying.
Follow live as disgraced former President Trump shows up to answer his 37-count federal indictment on Espionage Act and other violations stemming from his theft of classified documents from the White House in 2021… and the potentially explosive situation outside the courthouse in Miami.
To all National Zero readers in the area: Seriously stay the fuck away from the Miami federal courthouse on Tuesday. There will be hundreds armed, dangerous, and angry Trump fanboys there, all looking for a reason to express their “patriotism.” To show up and mock their sadness and anger over their Orange Lord and Savior being booked on 37 federal felony counts is suicidal.
Just stay away. Looking at Google Maps and where stupid Vivek Ramaswamy is at this moment holding a stupid mini-campaign rally on the east side of the Wilkie D Ferguson Jr US Court complex, there’s nowhere you’d be able to observe from a safe distance. Maybe if it were on the other side where there’s a public concourse on the Miami Central train station you might be able to get a good view, though even then we’d just encourage you to sit this one out. It’s not NYC.
Asked Tuesday by CNN’s Manu Raju if he would subpoena Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith as part of his endless investigations into the investigations into disgraced former President Trump, turgescent Congressman Jim Jordan told Raju that “everything’s on the table.”
Really says something if friggin Newsmax is getting impatient with the lack of real evidence supporting the Biden “bribery” story as this anchor, whatever his stupid name is, did with violent pro-choice activist and House Oversight Chair James Comer on Tuesday morning. It’s understandable seeing as how Comer keeps stringing them along with vague promises.
The Newsmax guy wasn’t frustrated enough however to ask why if the audio was mentioned on this FD-1023 form that Comer’s buddy Old Man Charles Grassley waited until this week to reveal its alleged existence, rather than after they’d seen the document last week. Or why this the Ukrainian scumbag who supposedly recorded the conversations (and almost certainly gave them to Rudy Giuliani) didn’t just go public with them in 2020 when it could’ve made a difference in the election.
“This is the Thug, over turned consistently and unanimously in big cases, that Biden and his CORRUPT Injustice Department stuck on me. He’s a Radical Right Lunatic and Trump Hater, as are all his friends and family, who probably ‘planted’ information in the ‘boxes’ given to them. They taint everything that they touch, including our Country, which is rapidly going to HELL!” wrote fat former president Trump on Truth Social on Tuesday morning while responding to one of his fans.
We normally would’ve embedded the post, but Trump is probably going to delete it when he realizes he wrote “Radical Right lunatic” rather than the “Radical Left lunatic” he meant. We think. The part where he says Smith “planted” evidence in the boxes won’t change if he rewrites this one though.
UPDATE 6/13/2023 10:09 AM EDT: Trump hasn’t deleted the above post yet, but he did write “THE GRAND JURY WAS NEVER TOLD ABOUT THE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT OR THE CLINTON SOCKS CASE, BOTH EXONERATING!” in a subsequent post, which is fucking hilarious.
QAnon fan Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday morning pleaded with fellow Trump fans to avoid violence at the federal courthouse in Miami during Donald’s arraignment, writing, “The same sick talking heads on tv, who cheered on violent BLM riots that destroyed American cities in 2020, want another ‘insurrection’ as their talking about President Trump in Miami today. Give these people nothing. They want to prove their lies about you when they call you domestic terrorists. Stand strong and show your support for President Trump and don’t fall for their traps.”
Unlike Monday’s open letter from a jailed Capitol rioter carried by the Gateway Pundit, this tweet doesn’t falsely preemptively blame whatever happens on FBI/BLM/Antifa agitators, instead trying to appeal to the temperance the kind of Trump fans who would show up to the courthouse probably don’t have. Like putting on latex gloves so she doesn’t have to wash the blood off her hands.
A new USA Today/Suffolk University survey finds President Joe Biden statistically tied with disgraced former President Trump 34 to 32 percent in a 2024 rematch with an unnamed third party candidate pulling in 23 percent support and another 9 percent undecided. Biden however has a clear lead in a matchup against heels-wearing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at 33 to 26 percent.
Obviously any Dem voter would want Biden to have a clear lead over Trump, but that so many respondents took the out of the magical third party candidate who will once and for all upend the ceaseless Red vs Blue shitshow so many have understandably become disillusioned with is probably better news for Joe than Donald. No third partier is ever going to be “viable” any time soon, the question is whether one might emerge and reach Ross Perot’s level of “viability” next year. Absent that not especially likely scenario it’ll be a binary between Biden and Trump where Donald himself is again the main issue. It’s hard to see Trump being the second choice of those who want neither.
Frustrating as findings like this might be, the “I can’t believe American voters can be this stupid” talk is for losers. Nobody should blame low-info voters for taking an out given to them in a survey when it’s offered. There won’t (really) be an out on the ballot next year and it’s up to you, especially the yous in the swing states, to make the choice clear to your friends, family, and neighbors.
At least ten civilians are dead Tuesday after a Russian barrage on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, hometown to President Volodymyr Zelensky, the BBC reports on an obvious targeted attack retaliating for the furious counteroffensive from Kyiv against the Putin Regime’s occupiers.
In related news, a Russian general was canceled in a Ukrainian missile strike, the BBC reports citing pro-Kremlin military bloggers. Major General Sergei Goryachev would be the highest-ranking Russian officer killed in action so far this year if confirmed. The death comes amid reports of a serious confrontation brewing between Moscow’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Wagner Group scumbag Yevgeny Prigozhin over the Russian MOD’s order for all mercenaries from Wagner and smaller private military companies serving in Ukraine to sign contracts with the regular army by July 1st. There’s been a lot of shit talk from the two sides – as well as reports of gun battles and other action between Wagner mercs and Russian army soldiers – in recent months.
Hard to give away the game more than Lady Goebbels did late Monday night by making it a choice between an actual criminal violation of the Espionage Act by Trump and what’s basically the same shit about Biden from four years ago that far-right Attorney General Bill Barr thought was bullshit.
Anonymous Trump minions tell the Daily Beast that the smarter-ish members of their team are terrified that something bad is going to happen outside the courthouse during Donald’s arraignment on Tuesday afternoon given that event is being organized by Roger Stone and Laura Loomer.
“Inside of this event, there is going to be a disaster. There are going to be people that come out that don’t want to be peaceful,” said the minion, adding “All the things that are wrong with MAGA are going to show up. You get the fanatics coming out.” Another told the Beast they “would hope it’s not a protest. I have never heard of anyone wanting to protest… Look at some of the people responding [to white nationalist psychopath Loomer’s calls for protestors]. It’s scary.”
The Washington Post reports that since landing in Miami Monday night, Trump has been trying to find a qualified lawyer who’s an active member of the Florida Bar to represent him at Tuesday’s federal arraignment hearing on 37 counts. Apparently, Trump is having difficulty finding a lawyer to join his team willing to potentially lose his law license or turn State’s evidence. It doesn’t help that the two lawyers representing Trump in the documents case, Jim Trusty and John Rowley, reportedly quit last week. The Post reports Trump wants a seasoned lawyer to represent him through the trial, quite a task given the late timing and the fact that the attorney would not likely be able to find any work outside politics after this trial.
After more than four decades, Pat Sajak will leave his role as host of Jeopardy!’s intellectually-challenged little brother, Wheel of Fortune, a job the 76-year-old took in 1981, NBC News reports. Don’t look for the same acclaim as happened when Alex Trebek retired: Sajak is an outspoken conservative and a board member of the controversial “christian” “college” Hillsdale College, which hasn’t been eligible for federal student aid programs since 1985 because it would not adhere to federal Title IX guidelines against gender discrimination.
Democratic Governor Gavin Newson gave a lesson to fellow liberals on how to handle the bullies on Fox, like Fred Flintstone cosplayer Sean Hannity: talk over them, batter them with cold, hard facts, and then slap them upside the head with logic as the coup de grace.
Newsom: “…make an excuse to Trump’s dismal jobs record related to COVID–”
Hannity: “It wasn’t a dismal jobs record.”
[FACT CHECK: The US LOST a net 2.5 million jobs during Trump’s 4-year term. He’s the only post-WW2 prez to have a net-loss jobs creation in his term. So, yeah: dismal.] Earlier:
Newsom: Let’s talk about inflation.. He was just with the UK Prime Minister, it’s 6.9%. Is that because of Biden’s policy–
Hannity: I think Biden’s economic and energy policy, yeah!
Newsom: –impacted the UK’s inflation?
Southern Florida Chief District Judge Cecilia Altonaga on Monday tossed a media coalition’s request to allow video and still cameras, or even an audio feed of disgraced former President Trump’s Tuesday arraignment on espionage and other charges related to his theft of top secret government documents from the White House, writing “Allowing photographs would undermine the massive security arrangements put in place.” Doesn’t explain why we can’t have audio though. Even better, she also ruled reporters can’t even use their phones, so no live tweets for inside the courtroom.
On May 2nd a not-very-widely followed Las Vegas-area Twitter account called @702times posted this clip passed along to them by someone named “Moni Em.” The timestamp on the video and on the tweet in which we ripped it from are important here because they very strongly corroborate something many of our readers are going to have a hard time with concerning a 911 call and subsequent police investigation that happened in the area just over an hour later.
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