A Trump campaign aide was fired this month after trying to blow the whistle on what she called “grift and greed” by the convicted felon former president’s top minions – and a “bugging” plot, according to an email obtained by the Daily Beast memorializing the shitshow she experienced.

“The grift and greed I‘ve witnessed makes me sick and I think leadership has been bad stewards of generous donors money,” the former staffer wrote in an email to an ex-coworker colleague after she was abruptly canned on October 18th. “I‘m 100 percent on Team Trump – I want the very best for this campaign, but what I’ve witnessed is greedy and wrong,” show wrote, adding that she’d become convinced that top co-managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita had installed “a listening device in a cut out hole” in a conference room at the West Palm Beach headquarters of the campaign.

The woman, whose name the Beast is withholding, wrote that campaign CFO Sean Dollman “has alluded to the fact that he can’t say things for fear of retaliation… There are napkins stuffed in all the gaps in the conference room now. It seems like they’re willing to go to extremes.”

Halloween is set to be a scorcher in Gotham and other East Coast cities as the weather forecast calls for a high of 82 in New York City and Philadelphia, while Boston could hit 77, ABC News reports.

Whoops, wrong video. Only were off by 85 years.

A new CBS News/YouGov national survey finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 50 to 49 percent among all respondents and tied at 50 percent from a sub-sample in the “battleground states” which is pretty freaking useless other than to support CBS’s assertion that, “in recent history, Democrats have needed a larger national polling lead to imply competitive Electoral College chances across the battlegrounds because so many of their national votes have come from larger, safely blue coastal states. But this year, at least so far, we see a different pattern in which the battlegrounds track more closely to the national.”

So we can buy that general notion because it tracks with what we’ve seen in more than a few analyses these days, not to mention the polling averages themselves in most of the swing states. On the other hand it’s frustrating as hell given the lack of actual meaning here to that specific finding.

There’s no “battleground” column in the crosstabs. All it says at the bottom in the polling fine print is “Battlegrounds are AZ, GA, MI, NC, NV, PA, and WI,” nothing about oversampling those states, or whether it’s an average of respondents across the seven or a simple weighted percentage. Which leads us to ask what was CBS’s goddamned point here? Why say “the battlegrounds are tied” but no hint as to which one has the more likely path to 270 Electoral College votes? Freaking dicks.

I am a former prosecutor. Donald Trump’s DNA is all over Project 2025. pic.twitter.com/24pKJn1sAf

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 27, 2024

House Freedom Caucasians chair Maryland Congressman Andy Harris tells the AP he was “taken out of context” when he said Thursday that Republican North Carolina state lawmakers should simply award the state’s 16 Electoral College votes to convicted felon former President Trump because of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene in the heavily red western areas of the state.

The context was literally Congressman Harris saying “I mean, you statistically can go and say: ‘Hey, look, you’ve got disenfranchised in 25 counties. You know what that vote probably would have been, which would be, if I were in the legislature, enough to go: Yeah, we’ve got to convene the legislature, and we can’t disenfranchise the voters. But how do you make the argument in other states? I mean, otherwise, it looks like it’s just a power play… With North Carolina, I mean, it’s legitimate. I mean, there are a lot of people who aren’t going to get to vote, and it may make the difference in that state,” in response to “Stop the Steal” conspiracy freak Ivan Raiklin saying that Republican-majority legislatures in North Carolina and other blue/purple states should automatically give Trump a win.

Meaning was very much in context, as Harris was saying Raiklin should pump the brakes on pushing Republicans in New Hampshire, Arizona, Nebraska, Georgia, and Wisconsin to hand them to Trump by default. But with North Carolina was totally in agreement because of “disenfranchisement.”

CNN’s Jake Tapper was not having JD Vance’s fuckery in an interview aired Sunday morning. Seriously can’t remember the last time Tapper ever got this heated (by Tapper standards, he was far less heated than Jaydee). Jake definitely still controlled the flow with Vance, turning up the pressure on the fucker on the matters of John Kelly’s warnings about the Orange God Emperor’s fascist aspirations and violent designs against Americans, effectively getting JD to admit that Trump does plan to establish a Nazi police state.

A new ABC News/Ipsos national survey finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading convicted felon former President Trump 51 to 47 percent among likely voters.

If you’re a white person and you’re sick and tired of being embarrassed by other white people wearing red hats, we’ve got the phone bank for you!  The Many Over the MAGA is setting up a phone for white people to white people.  Available times run through Election Day.

“The MAGA authoritarian movement and their vision of Project 2025 seek to wreak havoc on our rights and our democracy. And overwhelmingly, the base of the MAGA movement is white people,” the site says.  “Communities of color are turning out their folks and as white people who care, it’s our responsibility to reach our communities and make sure they show up to block Trump.”

It’s cringy, but it’s politically-correct cringy.  Like, we know our demographic is the problem, and part of the problem is they won’t listen to any other demographic but their own, so yeah, we own that our mayonnaise white brethren need to be confronted by their own, in their own Donny Osmond-white voice, to see that it’s okay not to be a racist MAGA and vote for the multi-racial woman.  Which is kinda sad, and as a straight, white male, I feel obligated to take a shift.

I’m about to be so honest and candid with the National Zero audience, Mrs. Jack will be shocked I can express things with such openness.  Please bear with me.

A year or so after Spartan started the site with me jumping on days later, Spartan posted a list of disqus-using news-centric websites with the headline saying something like, “Go at ‘em,” implying that our National Zero audience should troll other sites.  The post was one of those times when I would periodically (zealously) chide Spartan behind the scenes, in this case for what in my former-journalist view was unethically directing readers to troll sites through an “astroturf” effort.  We had a responsibility to our readers to not abuse the trust you put in us with what we post “above the fold.”

I violated my own values today, and I’m sorry.  I apologize to each and every reader of this site.  I knowingly used my access to publish an item designed to spur action behind the scenes.  It was an unfair exploitation of the venue and an abuse of my editorial privilege.  I have never done this before with any publication or outlet where I had my name on the masthead, but I did it here and I acknowledge that. I apologize wholeheartedly and I hope you will forgive me.

From CBS News.

From NBC News.

WOW! These hydrothermal features in Yellowstone are almost too HOT and STEAMY for general audiences! Make sure the kids are out of the house before turning on some of this action!

“Governor Greg Abbott today demanded Vice President Kamala Harris declare Tren de Aragua (TdA) as a foreign terrorist organization during her visit to Houston, where Jocelyn Nungaray was brutally murdered by members of the Venezuelan gang. ‘Vice President Kamala Harris conveniently claims she cares about securing our border, yet her open border policies have allowed over 11 million illegal immigrants and dangerous criminals, like Tren de Aragua, into our country in the last four years, putting the lives of every American at risk. In fact, today she’s in Houston, the same city where innocent 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was raped and murdered by two Tren de Aragua gang members. Jocelyn, her family, and all Americans deserve better. Vice President Harris must follow Texas’ lead and designate Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization immediately.”

“But that’s just a start. The Biden-Harris Administration must use the full weight of the federal government to eradicate them once and for all – for Jocelyn and for every American,'” said Texas Governor Greg Abbott in a statement on Friday ahead of the Houston rally with Beyonce.

We were unaware that the Vice President of the United States has the power to designate a criminal gang as a foreign terrorist organization. We thought that only the president, currently Joe Biden, could do that. Another issue with this demand is that, by Trumpian standards, the tragic murder of Jocelyn Nungaray was actually a failure by Abbott since he’s a weak and feckless governor who failed to protect Texans. It’s clear here that between Abbott’s demand and convicted felon former President Trump’s Friday afternoon white nationalist “press conference” in Austin, the two erectile dysfunction patients were trying to divert the day’s news cycle away from the vice president’s massive rally centered on women’s health issues and the barbarism of the Lone Star State.

Turns out that drug-addled billionaire Elon Musk was an illegal immigrant and could’ve been deported in the 1990s, as the Washington Post reports that his arrival in California for grad courses at Stanford that he never actually enrolled in and then working on a startup was a visa violation.

Even just dropping out meant his student visa was null and void. Working on launching “Zip2” was illegal. “If you do anything that helps to facilitate revenue creation, such as design code or try to make sales in furtherance of revenue creation, then you’re in trouble,” former Justice Department immigration litigator Leon Fresco told the Post. Musk has never publicly owned up to this.

• No, no, it’s okay.  You can finish watching the Future President and the Queen B Rally (again).  RtF understands priorities.  
• Donald Trump believes serving an order of fries to a fan at a McDonald’s makes him relatable to workers.  What would be more relatable is if he tried to live for a week off a minimum wage income for working a 40-hour shift.
• Elon Musk is actually the evil foreign-born election-meddling billionaire conservatives think George Soros is.
• It’s so cute to watch all the Republicans say they don’t care that Springsteen and Beyonce support Harris because they don’t follow what celebrities say or care what they think about politics even though their leader’s last job was a reality television personality.  Cope harder.
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Hometown megastar Beyonce Knowles will take the stage with Vice President Kamala Harris for a rally in Houston, Texas on Friday in support of Senate candidate Congressman Colin Allred.

Model Stacey Williams on Friday gave an interview with ABC News in which she said that notorious dead sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was a big fan of then-future President Trump, constantly name-dropping him so Epstein, could feel more important or something. “I would say that he talked about having just seen Donald or having just done something, I mean, every time we spoke,” said Williams.

“The people he spoke about the most were his boss, or whatever that person was, Les Wexner, hard to understand that role. And then Ghislaine, again, a little ambiguous weird relationship. And then Donald Trump,” Williams told ABC News about the three months or so that she dated Jeffy when she was about 24 years old in the early 1990s. “Those are the people he spoke about the most.”

On the encounter with Trump when Epstein turned it into a little groping game: “He just put his arms out and pulled me towards him and his hands on some part of my body the entire time,” Williams claimed. “His hands would touch the sides of my breasts, not the front, but the sides of my breasts, my waist, and then slid down to my butt and just kept kind of running up and down my body while the two of them were carrying on a conversation… no doubt in my mind it was orchestrated.”

The hardcore MAGA Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that all state laws allowing for late-arriving ballots to be counted are superseded by federal law saying they must be in by Election Day, thereby changing the rules 11 days before an election like we were told was not okay.

The panel did however kick it back down to the Mississippi district judge who at first had ruled the other way, meaning that this is not a binding order… for now. Who knows what the plaintiffs challenging Mississippi’s law allowing ballots to come in up to five days late to be counted will try next. They might back down considering the number of Republicans voting early/by mail this year.

The US Army on Friday gave to watchdog group American Oversight a heavily-redacted copy of the files on the assault on an Arlington National Cemetery employee by convicted felon former President Trump’s minions Justin Caporale and Michel Picard and goddamn is this freaking useless:

“On 26 August 2024 at 1030 hours, the Joint Base Meyer – Henderson Hall (JBM~HH) Police Department was notified by [REDACTED] of the following incident: While working at the Arlington National Cemetery [REDACTED] with both of [REDACTED] hands while attempting to move past [REDACTED] did not require medical attention on scene and later refused when offered [REDACTED] rendered a sworn statement on a DA Form 2823 and stated [REDACTED] not want to press charges. Investigation continues by JBMHH PD Investigations Branch,” says the only part of the 10 page document worth copying. Honestly if we hadn’t gotten the heads up we would’ve just skipped this.

We were hoping for way more of the overall context of the campaign stop. While obviously a serious offense and the two MAGA cocksuckers should absolutely be named and shamed for shoving an employee, we were hoping for more information on why they were even there in the first place. The bottom line is Trump was desecrating a sacred space for his own political gain – completely lying about the circumstances of the campaign stop – and the minor assault is kind of ancillary.