Donald Trump and ethics go together like rattlesnakes and Birkenstocks, so it’s not surprising that he’s facing a new round of ethics complaints over his continued use of the Official Seal of the Office of the President of the United States, though in this case, the use is more infuriating than others, the Washington Post reports.

Trump bedecked his Bedminster golf club with the Presidential Seal in preparation for hosting a LIV Golf tournament this weekend, an event that will net him millions of dollars paid directly from the Saudi royal family to the Trumps, one despot to a wannabe.  Tee boxes, towels, golf carts and shirts were seen around the club donning the Seal, which is never supposed to be used for commercial purposes, although benign uses for soveniers are typically tolerated.  Critics note Trump’s use of the Seal seems to be intended to suggest the event was sanctioned by the White House.  It wasn’t.  While the tournament is not being televised in the United States, viewers can watch it streamed online and some foreign networks, particularly in the Middle East, are carrying it.

Trump’s use of the Seal, which is owned and trademarked by the federal government, has been controversial since the day he claimed victory in the 2016 election.  He designed an emblem very close to the official Seal for his transition team, and he continues to use a knockoff of it in his official ranting as “The 45th President of the United States” on his failing social media platform, Troth Socal. 

Justice Department press release: “Mark Grenon, 64, made his initial appearance today in federal court in Miami, Florida, after being extradited from Colombia. Grenon is charged – along with his three sons, Jonathan Grenon, 36, Jordan Grenon, 28, and Joseph Grenon, 34 – with fraudulently marketing and selling ‘Miracle Mineral Solution,’ a toxic industrial bleach, as a cure for COVID-19, cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, autism, malaria, hepatitis, Parkinson’s, herpes, HIV/AIDS, and other serious medical conditions, and with defying federal court orders.”

“According to an indictment returned by a federal grand jury, the Grenons, all of Bradenton, Florida, manufactured, promoted, and sold a product they named Miracle Mineral Solution (‘MMS’). MMS is a chemical solution containing sodium chlorite and water which, when ingested orally, became chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleach typically used for industrial water treatment or bleaching textiles, pulp, and paper. The Grenons claimed that ingesting MMS could treat, prevent, and cure COVID-19, according to the charges. The FDA, however, had not approved MMS for treatment of COVID-19, or for any other use. Rather, in prior official warning statements, the FDA had strongly urged consumers not to purchase or use MMS for any reason, explaining that drinking MMS was the same as drinking bleach and could cause dangerous side effects, including severe vomiting, diarrhea, and life-threatening low blood pressure. In fact, FDA received reports of people requiring hospitalizations, developing life-threatening conditions, and even dying after drinking MMS.”

“According to charging documents, Genesis’ own websites describe Genesis as a ‘non-religious church,’ and Defendant Mark Grenon, the co-founder of Genesis, has repeatedly acknowledged that Genesis ‘has nothing to do with religion,’ and that he founded Genesis to ‘legalize the use of MMS’ and avoid ‘going to jail.'” The Genesis websites further stated that MMS could be acquired only through a ‘donation’ to Genesis, but the amounts for MMS orders were set at specific dollar amounts, and were mandatory, such that the donation amounts were effectively just sales prices.”

Johnson County, Kansas Sheriff Calvin Hayden has been calling his office’s investigation into voter fraud a “criminal investigation,” claiming they’ve received more than 200 tips citizens about sketchy activity in local elections. Yet as KCUR reports the district attorney has received zero actual referrals from Hayden’s office to prosecute Soros’s foot soldiers for rigging elections. “This office has not been involved in this investigation and nothing has been submitted to our office for review,” said a spokeswoman for Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe.

The asshole’s lies being exposed comes amid a statewide MAGA freakout ahead of next week’s abortion ballot measure, as a Sedgewick County judge on Thursday tossed forced birth activist Mark Geitzen’s lawsuit attempting to ban ballot drop boxes. Judge Deborah Hernandez Mitchell ruled Geitzen “has suffered no cognizable injury or shown a connection between any alleged injury and the challenged conduct,” and declined to issue an injunction pending appeal to a higher court.

You’d think a guy facing a $150 million lawsuit for spewing lies would try to keep his mouth shut to stay out of trouble, but when you’re talking about Alex Jones, all rationality goes out the window.  Yesterday, Jones and his lawyers in a $150 million defamation case for claiming the Sandy Hook shootings were faked were chided by Texas Judge Maya Guerra Gamble for loudly lambasting the case against him to the point that members of the jury likely heard him.

Today, Judge Gamble spent a significant amount of time blasting Alex Jones and lapdog Owen Shroyer for violating the Rule of Sequestration, which basically demands that witnesses and parties to a lawsuit not discuss their testimony or align their stories with each other.

The Washington Post reports that text messages from two Trump lackeys, the unlawful Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and his acting deputy secretary, Ken Cuccinelli, are missing, adding to the apparent cover-up by senior administration officials to protect their asses.

According to the department, the text messages from the weeks leading up to the January 6th Republican terrorist attack on Congress were lost during a January 2021 “reset” of the phones after the pair left the government when Joe Biden was lawfully sworn in to be the 46th President of the United States.  The department’s Inspector General learned the messages were erased in late February.

Along with Wolf’s and Cuccinelli’s texts, a third person–undersecretary of management Randolph “Tex” Alles, a former Secret Service official–had his texts erased.

Forward, a new political party which only needs an exclamation point to be as silly as Jeb! Bush’s political ambitions, formally announced its organization yesterday, and so few people cared it got very little attention.

Reuters reports that the group is comprised of disaffected Democrats and Republicans who think a third party is wanted by people tired of the two-party system that’s dominated American politics.  Political dilettante Andrew Yang leads Forward.  Former Republican New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman and former Republican Florida Congressman David Jolley are also involved in the organization.

Third-party candidates traditionally fail because of the winner-take-all nature of national politics, with only the plurality of votes, not an absolute majority, needed to win seats in Congress.  In most cases, the third party fails to garner enough votes to be anything but a spoiler for one of the major party candidates.  There are two independent members of the Senate:  Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine, both of whom caucus with Democrats.  Sanders joins the Democratic Party every four years to try to win the Party’s nomination for president because he knows an independent doesn’t stand a chance.

A man so angry with Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz for his involvement in the January 6th attack on the Constitution that he threatened him with physical harm received a sentence of six months of home detention, Politico reports.

Fifty-nine year old Eugene Huelsman made threats against Gaetz in a profanity-laced voicemail left at the alleged child sex trafficker’s Congressional office.  “Tell him to watch his back, tell him to watch his children,” Huelsman said in the Jan. 9, 2021, message. “I’m coming for him … I’m gonna fucking kill him. … I’m gonna put a bullet in you and I’m gonna put a bullet in one of your fucking kids too.”

Hundreds of people voiced similar threats to members of Congress during the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol against various members including Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chuck Shumer. The Republican terrorists also threatened to hang Mike Pence, a sentiment that was reportedly met with approval by Donald Trump, an alleged co-conspirator.

Fox News surveys in Pennsylvania and Georgia put Dems ahead of Republicans in the Senate races, with Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock leading unhinged asshole Herschel Walker 46% to 42%, and Pennsylvania Lt Gov John Fetterman ahead of New Jersey man Mehmet Oz 47% to 36%.

Above is a fundraising email sent from the Republican Senate Campaign Committee, not particularly confident about three completely different states. Note how they list Reptilian Humanoid Blake Masters as facing Dem Senator Mark Kelly in Arizona. Masters hasn’t actually won the primary yet.

Eight people are confirmed killed by massive flooding that inundated the Appalachian foothills from massive rainstorms that dumped records amount of rain that’s really wet as far as water is concerned, the Washington Post reports.

More victims are expected, Democratic Governor Andy Beshear said, with rescuers lifting victims from rooftops with helicopters or using boats to evacuate people from isolated houses.  Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has been silent about the use of the government to save people who chose to live in those houses that were floodstricken, although he did say he sent prayers, according to a tweet.

The storms hitting Kentucky are part of the same string that continue to batter St. Louis and its suburbs, which had about 10 inches of rain in just a few hours Wednesday as a storm cell was locked into the location by pressure systems surrounding it. 

Former Trump Justice Department official Ken Klukowski, said to have worked with Trump toady former Acting Assistant AG Jeffrey Clark, is cooperating with federal prosecutors on the criminal investigation into the lead up to the Capitol insurrection, CNN reports.

Separately CNN reports the DOJ is getting ready to knock down any claims of executive privilege from Trump minions who will attempt to hide behind it when subpoenaed to testify to the grand jury, signaling they’re interested in gaming out the Donald’s criminal liability.

Republican Pennsylvania gov candidate and QAnon freak Doug Mastriano removed his account from MAGA social network Gab on Thursday after weeks of questions about being associated with Jew-hating piece of shit founder Andrew Torba, the Forward’s Jacob Kornbluh reports.

“Andrew Torba doesn’t speak for me or my campaign. I reject anti-Semitism in any form. Recent smears by the Democrats and the media are blatant attempts to distract Pennsylvanians from suffering inflicted by Democrat policies. While extremist speech is an unfortunate but inevitable cost of living in a free society, extremist policies are not – and the only candidate in this election who wants to impose extreme policies on Pennsylvania – inflation, crime, lockdowns, and mandates – is Josh Shapiro,” said a statement from Mastriano trying to disown the antisemitic asshole he’s been closely associated with. We think Mastriano should’ve gone further though and affirmatively pledged to only use “Soros” or “Rothschild” when he means “Jews.”

Concern Lady Senator Susan Collins told Huffington Post on Thursday the bill to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court extremists could be in trouble because Joe Manchin betrayed America by announcing his support for a socialist spending bill. “I just think the timing could not have been worse and it came totally out of the blue,” said Collins, adding “After we just had worked together successfully on gun safety legislation, on the CHIPs bill, it was a very unfortunate move that destroys the many bipartisan efforts that are under way.”

On the same day that we officially enter into a recession, Biden is holding a wedding on the South Lawn of the White House.

Are times so hard Joe has to turn the White House lawn into an event rental space?

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) July 28, 2022

Like the vast majority of young Republican politicians, Lauren Boebert is an idiot.  Declaring that the US “officially enter[ed] into a recession” is not just factually inaccurate, it demonstrates that the GED-issued alleged former prostitute abortionist didn’t study economics to “graduate” from high school.

Trump arrives for the pro-am at the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, NJ, 7/28/2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

You libs ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Look what you did to this man with endless presidential harassment and witch hunts. No one has been treated worse and it shows. And National Zero had to spend $30 to license this photo from the Associated Press to show you. We honestly probably would’ve paid more than that, it’s actually kind of a good deal. But anyway you fucking did this with your endless investigations, two impeachments, the Russia Russia Russia hoax, making fun of him for the bleach and the sharpie incidents and all the other shit. Good job.

“To the Men and Women of the Secret Service, I want to take a moment to address our upcoming leadership transition. As you are aware, our next Director has not yet been named, however, I can tell you that the selection process is active and ongoing. In light of these circumstances, I’ve decided to briefly delay my retirement and transition to the private sector in order to help bridge the gap and foster a smooth and meaningful transition for our future Director.”

“I recently spoke with Secretary Mayorkas and White House leadership, who each agreed and extended the opportunity to do so. I feel strongly about using this time to oversee and ensure our agency’s continued cooperation, responsiveness, and full support with respect to ongoing Congressional and other inquiries. Doing so is critically important and I am especially grateful for the extra time to help lead our Service ever forward,” says Secret Service Director Jim Murray.

Announcing he was voting yes on the CHIPS bill, House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Congressman Michael McCaul tried to entice his fellow Republicans on voting aye to stick it to ChiComs on Thursday, telling them “Guess who came out today, strongly opposed to the CHIPS bill? The Chinese Communist Party. If you want to know who hates this bill, who lobbies against it, the Chinese Communist Party. Why? Because they know it’ll help us compete against them”

Pro-ChiCom BDSM fetishist Steve Scalise started whipping his floor-licking subs against the bill Wednesday after Senator Joe Manchin betrayed his fellow Republicans by announcing his support for the Biden-AOC Socialist Takeover of America and Pronoun Reassignment Act of 2022 or whatever it’s called now. It’s not clear why Scalise can’t just whip and paddle Senator Lindsey Graham’s bare buttocks instead, as he’s known to pay good money for such forbidden pleasures.

Struggling Republican Missouri Senate candidate Mark McCloskey, best known for flashing an assault rifle at a group of peaceful protestors who were marching through his neighborhood, has now brought out the big guns to help his flailing Senate campaign, which sits at 5% in the polls.  So McCloskey brought in Bobby Van Winkle, better known as Texas faux rapper, reality television star and flash in the pan Vanilla Ice, and the Ying Yang Twins, a hip hop group from Atlanta… ’cause when you think about a white couple flashing guns to protect their McMansion in a St. Louis suburb, you think hip hop.

BREAKING: U.S. Economy Shrank 0.9% Last Quarter, Fueling Fears of Recession https://t.co/OCNDES0RvZ

— Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 (@seanhannity) July 28, 2022

What a total leftist loser. It’s clear he’s afraid of hurting Dem-rats’ chances in the midterms with this “fueling fears of a recession” bullshit. STOP CARRYING THE BIDEN REGIME’S WATER!

A Dane County, Wisconsin judge ruled Thursday the state Assembly GOP’s moronic “review” of the 2020 election – helmed by by fat assclown former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman – found “absolutely no evidence of election fraud,” and has thus failed, the AP reports.

Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn awarded roughly $98,000 in attorneys’ fees to the lib watchdog group American Oversight in their case against Assembly Speaker Robin Vos over his failure to disclose documents about the “review”, but did not reveal the contempt penalties for the Trump-submissive worm Vos. The attorney’s fees will be paid by Wisconsin taxpayers, just another ding in the estimated over $1 million this stupid bullshit has cost them simply because Trump and his minions are incapable of accepting their loss in the state in the 2020 election.

“I think the people of the state of Wisconsin have been punished enough for this case. I don’t think it does anyone any good to have punitive damages placed on the innocent people of this state,” said Bailey-Rihn, who then lit into Gableman, saying he was being paid $11,000 a month “to sit in the New Berlin library to learn about election law because he knows nothing about election law.”

During his testimony Thursday to the House Judiciary Committee, Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division of the Justice Department Matt Olsen was asked by MAGA Colorado Congressman Ken Buck to prove a negative about George Soros’s backing of civil unrest from two years ago that everyone pretty much would’ve fucking forgot about if not for the fanboys constantly bringing it up to minimize January 6th. Olsen appears to kind of accidentally confirm, responding he “hasn’t seen any evidence of that,” however the clip cuts off before he finishes explaining that it isn’t really his job, so he may have elaborated on how stupid of a question it is.