Disgraced former President Trump’s top advisers are “a little bit irked” that Biden seized the initiative on one-on-one debates after months of the fat fuck nagging the 46th President on Truth Social with the “anywhere, anytime” song-and-dance, per CNN’s Kristen Holmes, who said they were mad that at “the fact that Joe Biden somehow took over the debate narrative.”

Holmes added that Biden Campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon shot down Trump’s “acceptance” of a third debate on Fox News, saying the Orange Slob had already agreed to the terms for only two so far, while the Daily Beast’s Justin Baragona reports he’s gotten no comment from Fox yet on whether they had any contact whatsoever with Trump about the October 2nd face-off.

And in more CNN debate news, Puck reports that Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate the June 27th Biden-Trump battle in Atlanta. Too bad they couldn’t get Chris Wallace in for this one.

“Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that I hereby accept debating Crooked Joe Biden on FoxNews. The date will be Wednesday, October 2nd. The Hosts will be Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. Thank you, DJT!” posted fat former President Trump, already going outside the lines on the terms offered by President Biden on which networks were acceptable – they had to have had hosted a debate during the 2016 Republican and 2020 Dem primaries. Fox is not one of them. CNN, ABC News, Telemundo, and CBS News are, and the first two already have debates set.

A panel of 12 jurors and six alternates has been selected in Senator Gold Bars Bob Menendez’s federal bribery trial, with opening statements set to begin Wednesday afternoon, MSNBC reports

NBC News on Wednesday launched a new “issues tracker” for the 2024 election, allowing prospective voters to compare the two main candidates’ stances on different policy questions.

Sources tell Axios that House Speaker Mike Johnson’s cheerleading for fat former President Trump was a costly mistake that makes them less likely to save his ass next time Marjorie Taylor Greene and the other mutants move to vacate him from the speakership.

President Biden on Wednesday announced that CNN were the first network to take up his offer to host a debate between himself and fat former President Trump, setting it for June 27th. It’s now on the Orange God Emperor to accept it from the “fake news” network and agree to the conditions – which Kaitlan Collins reports he has. And then Trump confirmed it.

Later Biden announced he’s “also received and accepted an invitation to a debate hosted by ABC on Tuesday, September 10th. Trump says he’ll arrange his own transportation. I’ll bring my plane, too. I plan on keeping it for another four years.” Pretty goddamned snappy, dare we say. Trump accepted.

We’re joining late but that doesn’t mean we missed anything good, because it all (mostly) sucks. On deck as witnesses for Gymbo’s lame conspiracy theories are former Rudy lawyer Robert Costello, former Trump lawyer Jim Trusty, and Gene Hamilton from Stephen Miller’s America First Legal scam.

Disgraced former President Trump on Wednesday told right wing asshole radio host Hugh Hewitt he’d be willing to accept any moderator for a debate with President Joe Biden, a statement he’s probably going to regret. “What difference does it make? I’d be willing to take anybody. But you know, the Commission got caught cheating with me. You know that,” Trump declared.

Responding to a question from Hewitt about Biden blocking arms sales to Israel, the fat fuck also raged some more at Jewish Americans voting for Dems, saying “It is not believable to me that he made the statement. All that does is prolong a war, because, and it gives the other side tremendous energy when that happens. You know, it gives them a psychological energy. That was such a bad statement. And how a person that’s Jewish can vote for this guy who’s obviously mentally impaired, how a Jewish person can vote for him is beyond belief. I have friends that are Democrats. You know, they’re good people. They’re Jewish, and they’re Democrats. And that’s just fine being a Democrat.”

“But I say how do you vote for this guy, and many of them say we won’t. But some say we will, it’s almost like they’re in a rut. They can’t get out of the rut. But he is so bad for Israel, and I’ve been the best President with Golan Heights and moving the capital, Jerusalem, getting the embassy built. You know, we, not only did I give the embassy, I got it built,” the pornstar fucker continued, as if your average Jewish American cares greatly about where the US Embassy to Israel is located.

Far right, pro-Russian Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot by an unknown assailant on a public street Wednesday afternoon, AFP reports. Details are otherwise very sketchy, but the Visegrad24 Twitter account shows cops apparently cuffing someone outside what appears to be a government building. Other sources say Fico was taken to a hospital in the Slovakian capital Bratislava, but it’s unclear if that city is the site of the shooting. Politico EU reports that Fico took rounds in the head and chest which sounds a lot like his term’s going to be over soon.

Fat former President Trump on Wednesday pretty quickly responded to President Biden’s challenge for debates starting next month in a Truth Social post, writing “Crooked Joe Biden is the WORST debater I have ever faced – He can’t put two sentences together!” thereby once again setting low expectations like he did back in 2020, pretty much handing Biden a win by default in both debates.

Trump then continued with more of the same shit “Crooked is also the WORST President in the history of the United States, by far. It’s time for a debate so that he can explain to the American People his highly destructive Open Border Policy, new and ridiculous EV Mandates, the allowance of Crushing Inflation, High Taxes, and his really WEAK Foreign Policy, which is allowing the World to ‘Catch on Fire.” I am Ready and Willing to Debate Crooked Joe at the two proposed times in June and September. I would strongly recommend more than two debates and, for excitement purposes, a very large venue, although Biden is supposedly afraid of crowds – That’s only because he doesn’t get them. Just tell me when, I’ll be there. ‘Let’s get ready to Rumble!!!'”

“The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.3 percent in April on a seasonally adjusted basis, after rising 0.4 percent in March, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 3.4 percent before seasonal adjustment. The index for shelter rose in April, as did the index for gasoline. Combined, these two indexes contributed over seventy percent of the monthly increase in the index for all items. The energy index rose 1.1 percent over the month,” says the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly report.

Dow futures jumped 180 points at the April 0.3 percent number coming in under the 0.4 expected.

President Biden on Wednesday directly challenged fat former President Trump to at least two debates, one in June and another in September. The Washington Post reports that Biden’s campaign are bypassing the Commission on Presidential Debates schedule for the fall and opening negotiations with Team Orange for ground rules, moderators, venue, etc in a showdown next month.

“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, and since then he hasn’t shown up for a debate. Now he is acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal. I’ll even do it twice. So let’s pick the dates, Donald. I hear you’re free on Wednesdays,” Biden said, taunting the orange degenerate over his ongoing criminal trial. Biden also proposed a July vice presidential debate between Kamala Harris and whichever shitbag Donald picks to replace Mike Pence. Under the president’s stipulations, only four networks – ones that broadcast 2020 Dem and 2024 Republican primary debates – are eligible: CNN, ABC News, Telemundo and CBS News. Other must-have rules include that the networks pick a host from their “regular personnel,” firm time limits for answers, equal speaking time, alternative turns to speak and microphones that are only active during each candidate’s turn. Nothing about performance-enhancing drug tests was mentioned.

The New York Times separately reports that the Biden campaign want it held in a TV studio rather than an auditorium where the Orange Fuhrer can feed off the negative energy from his fans.

Drowning in citing declining sales and rising costs, national seafood chain Red Lobster is preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as early as next week, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The Journal however does not cite what other outlets are widely attributing to the ongoing crustacean cash crunch: customers taking Red Lobster’s “Endless Shrimp” promotion just a bit more literally than anticipated. USA Today in November reported that the run on unlimited fried sea bugs cost the chain millions, with the losses leading to the closures of dozens of locations.

Naturally the MAGA trolls had been blaming “Bidenomics” for Red Lobster’s woes because what good is a self-created business clusterfuck if it can’t be used to further a right-wing narrative?

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A black French midget won a beauty contest, and she’s a purebred bitch.  Sage, a miniature poodle, took the top spot at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show even as she strutted around with a ridiculous hairstyle straight from the Met Gala, CNN reports.  Coming out of the Non-Sporting group, Sage bested Mercedes the German Shepherd, giving the title to a female for the first time since 2020.

Yeah, it’s a sensationalist headline, but even his private plane is a disaster waiting to happen:  Donald Trump private plane, a Boeing 757, reportedly clipped a parked private jet as it taxied around the West Palm Beach International Airport early Sunday morning, Reuters reports.  There’s no word if the pilot left a note on the windshield.

The accident reportedly happened around 1:20 a.m. ET on Sunday, as Trump returned to Florida after holding a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey on Saturday.  FAA information on the incident is scarce because it happened in a section of the airport outside of FAA control, where private planes are stored and maintained.  When contacted, the Trump campaign said it barely knew the plane and it was just used for coffee and of course the campaign objected to this inappropriate touching.

Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, one of the most recognizable faces of law enforcement from the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress, lost the Democratic primary for Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District to Maryland state senator Sarah Elfreth.  The seat in the strong-Red district was open because incumbent John Sarbanes opted not to run for re-election.

The central witness in Donald Trump’s Manhattan election interference hush money trial, Michael Cohen, was handed over for cross-examination by lead Trump attorney Todd Blanche on Tuesday, and Cohen kept his calm.

• Outside the courtroom, the troupe of Republican clowns performed.  North Dakota Governor. Doug Burgum, gnat Vivek Ramaswamy, and Florida Congressmen Byron Donalds and Cory Mills–Florida’s not sending its best; it’s sending its criminals, its election deniers–all wore the MAGA uniform:  blue suit, white shirt, overly-long red tie.  (Trump himself wore a yellow tie on Tuesday.)  Also making appearances: Pop-singing RNC co-chair Lara Trump, who brought her current husband, Eric, as well as Preacher of the House Mike Johnson. 
• Speaker of the House Mike Johnson called the state judicial process of New York “a sham.”
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Prince George County Executive Angela Alsobrooks defeated Congressman David Trone in the Maryland Democratic primary to face Republican former Governor Larry Hogan in the November race to succeed retiring Dem Senator Ben Cardin, Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman projects.

About a week after delaying a shipment of bombs to Israel to pressure the Netanyahu regime to lessen pressure on civilian populations in Gaza, President Joe Biden is moving forward on shipping more than $1 billion in military aid to Israel, the Washington Post reports.

The White House informed Congressional committees of the moves that will release up to $700 million in tank ammunition, $500 million in tactical vehicles and $60 million in mortar rounds.  Although Biden slowed the shipment of 2,000-pound bombs that were being dropped by Israel and causing mass civilian casualties, it has continued to provide other weapons and supplies to Israel.  Republicans, however, have characterized Biden’s limited action as a complete shut-off of aid to Israel, with Republican Arkansas Senator and Slenderman Tom Cotton incorrectly calling it an “arms embargo.”