“The Television Reporting of the Biden Opponent Trial going on now in Manhattan is disgraceful. We have won virtually every single point, and it turned out that the publicity seeking Judge is the Fraud for saying that a Billion Dollar house is worth only $18,000,000, and for disregarding the Appeals Court decision against his actions. However, if you only listen to Fake News CNN or MSDNC, you will never hear the TRUTH!” wrote disgraced former President Trump on Truth Social on Thursday.

The rant came just after the grandpa called Judge Arthur Engoron “a wacko who is having a great time endlessly sanctioning, fining, and pushing around ‘TRUMP,’ hurting my very good children, and working to damage and defame me for purposes of Interfering with the 2024 Presidential Election.”

Trump’s meltdown may have come in response to his son Eric being apparently caught in a lie while testifying about his involvement in the financial statements about the family company’s assets.

Hopefully we’ll have better luck carrying this one in contrast to Colorado, as on Wednesday the sole feed for that trial we could find was from some bullshit right wing channel on Rumble literally got called out by the judge in real time for rebroadcasting the trial without prior permission.

Prominent right wing influencer and credibly suspected cocaine abuser Donald Trump Jr’s testimony to the court in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s $250 million lawsuit against his father’s corrupt business empire ended abruptly on Thursday when the defense declined to cross-examine the idiot Trump Organization “executive,” the Messenger’s Adam Klasfeld reports on an apparent sign that there wasn’t anything he could say that could actually help their case.

A read of Don Jr’s exchanges with the New York AG’s counsel in Klasfeld’s live thread shows Don Jr repeatedly trying to put the blame on clear misstatements and valuations on the Trump family’s accountants and lawyers, even the shit that Don Jr himself signed. Things could get worse for the defense, and probably will, as his brother Eric then took the stand to testify at press time.

National Zero’s crack internet reporting team have been unable to find any reports of rainbow fentanyl or any other lethal drugs killing trick-or-treaters surfacing in the 36 hours since the end of Halloween 2023, not even a news story about parents merely finding colorful, fruit-flavored narcotics in candy upon diligently checking their children’s plastic jack-o-lantern buckets.

So for the moment it appears this is now the second year in a row in which no children overdosed on powerful synthetic opioids distributed freely by drug dealers. In contrast to last year however, there were no frenzied warnings in the right wing media about the coming spooky-themed apocalypse.

“I am just glad the awareness of this candy fentanyl appears to have prevented deaths,” wrote one MAGA Disqus user on a November 2, 2022 Mediaite article titled “ZERO! That’s How Many Kids Reportedly Got ‘Rainbow Fentanyl’ in Trick-or-Treat Candy After Media Fear Mongering.” Click on the link to ask the asshole why there were also no deaths this year when there was no “awareness.”

I’m sorry we hurt your feelings, Congressman.

— GOP Josh 🇺🇸 (@GOPJosh20) November 2, 2023

Wisconsin Republican Congressman Derrick Van Orden, famous for drunkenly screaming at a group of House pages in the Capitol rotunda in July, continued letting his contempt for these goddamned disrespectful little shits be known Wednesday, this time taking it online to rip into “Josh” and his homies for acting like they know everything and are better than everybody else on Twitter.

There’s a decent chance we still would’ve picked this up if Van Orden were a Democrat. That he’s a fellow Republican sealed that deal and makes this that much more fucking hilarious. The only hard part here was picking which of “GOP Josh’s” replies to include, with the “I’m sorry we hurt your feelings, Congressman,” just narrowly winning over another where the little shitweasel wrote “Hey Derrick, where’s the question in my tweet?” disrespectfully addressing Van Orden by his first name.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s boots have been unable to lift him high enough to meet the evidently low bar his predecessor and current Senator Rick Scott set for an endorsement in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, as Scott on Thursday announced his support for his obese, orange makeup-slathered constituent in the contest in a Newsweek editorial. A reporter for the Messenger scooped it before Scott made the nod, noting that the skeletal white collar criminal was breaking a personal rule where he wouldn’t endorse in contested Florida primaries. If we had to guess, this was probably a shakedown by the Orange Warlord where he threatened to support some MAGA asshole in a 2024 Senate primary against the not-particularly-popular Scott if he didn’t come out for Trump.

“Governor Greg Abbott this morning arrived in Israel to reaffirm Texas’ enduring and unwavering support of the State of Israel, the Israeli people, and Israel’s right to self-defense amid acts of war by the brutal terrorist organization Hamas. This is Governor Abbott’s third trip to Israel since elected Governor in 2015… During the trip, Governor Abbott will meet with Israeli officials and visit with victims and impacted families to gain first-hand knowledge about the impacts of the Israel-Hamas war and ways Texas can continue to support Israel – America’s strongest ally in the Middle East. The Governor is joined on the trip by Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt,” says Abbott’s office in a statement.

Interesting how the Republican governors of Texas and Oklahoma, states with Jewish populations totaling 0.6 and 0.1 percent, respectively, feel it necessary to take a trip to a potentially dangerous war zone. Contrast it New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who visited last month: The Jewish population of her state, 8.8 percent, is actually larger than her margin of victory last year over Tribesman Republican former Congressman Lee Zeldin. Even with Ron DeSantis supposedly sending weapons to Israel makes sense given that Florida’s Jewish population at 3.3 percent is greater than his initial margin of victory in 2018 over former Dem Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum.

Abbott and Stitt on the other hand are pretty obviously not trying to show solidarity with their near non-existent Jewish electorates so much as pissing away taxpayer money to pander to the bizarre Evangelical obsession with Israel and the Islamophobic racists in the MAGA base.

You voted to kick me out of the freedom caucus, but keep CNN wannabe Ken Buck and vaping groping Lauren Boebert and you voted with the Democrats to protect Terrorist Tlaib.

You hate Trump, certified Biden’s election, and could care less about J6 defendants being persecuted. https://t.co/OIgUvndXek

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 2, 2023

UPDATE 11/2/2023 9:55 AM EDT: Chip Roy later responded to the meltdown by telling The Hill’s Mychael Schnell to tell Greene “to go chase so-called Jewish space lasers if she wants to spend time on that sort of thing,” to which the QAnon-loving psychopath quote-tweeted “Oh shut up Colonel Sanders, you’re not even from Texas, more like the DMV. Chip Roy’s career exist of working for politicians, working for campaigns for politicians, and being a politician himself. Unity Party all the way! Which is why you will never hold anyone accountable.” Jesus Christ, lol.

“Yesterday, the Court conducted a hearing on the defendants’ motion to adjourn trial, in which defendant Trump claimed that trial in this matter should be delayed in part because ‘[t]he March 4, 2024 trial date in the District of Columbia, and the underlying schedule in that case, currently require President Trump and his lawyers to be in two places at once.’ Defendant Trump’s counsel reiterated that argument during the hearing yesterday. However, defendant Trump’s counsel failed to disclose at the hearing that they were planning to file – and yesterday evening did file – the attached motion to stay the proceedings in the District of Columbia until their motion to dismiss the indictment based on presidential immunity is ‘fully resolved.’ As the Government argued to the Court yesterday, the trial date in the District of Columbia case should not be a determinative factor in the Court’s decision whether to modify the dates in this matter. Defendant Trump’s actions in the hours following the hearing in this case illustrate the point and confirm his overriding interest in delaying both trials at any cost. This Court should allow itself to be manipulated in this fashion,” writes Justice Department national security division chief Jay Bratt to Florida MAGA Judge Aileen Cannon.

On Wednesday disgraced former President Trump’s lawyers in DC filed a motion seeking a stay in his post-2020 election coup attempt trial until his “presidential immunity” scam can be resolved. On the same day Cannon told the parties in the classified documents theft case that she’s probably going to end up pushing back the start of the trial there, almost certainly past the 2024 election.

The Villages, Florida man John Witkowski has stolen his last custom made sub from the deli counter at the Publix at La Plaza Grande, or indeed entered the supermarket whatsoever without violating a court order as judge has sentenced the 46 year-old New York native to a permanent ban from the premises and to pay restitution and court costs for his shoplifting spree, Villages-News.com reports.

Witkowski was accused of having entered the store at least three times in late July and early August and exiting without paying for custom subs – with the last one ending with his arrest as he attempted to make off with three sandwiches valued at a total of $31.77, per the Lady Lake Police.

A Florida man was cited by DeSoto County officials this weekend for cruising around town in a white pickup truck with decals and lettering resembling Border Patrol vehicles but actually read “Booty Patrol.”  Deputies cited the unnamed driver for violating laws regarding lighting on the vehicle and attempting to impersonate an official vehicle.

The publisher of a small Alabama newspaper and one of its reporters have been arrested in southwestern Alabama after publishing information from an ongoing grand jury investigation into payments to former school system employees, the Washington Post reports.  In Alabama, it’s illegal for members of the court, a witness, or a grand juror to release information, but there is no law about newspapers reporting the information, putting the charges on a collision course for the First Amendment.

Publisher Sherry Digmon and reporter Don Fletcher of the Atmore News face up to five years in prison if convicted of the charges.  Digmon is a member of the local school board, and she recently voted against renewing the contract of the well-connected school district superintendent.  The school superintendent was supported by the local district attorney, Stephen Billy, who brought the charges.  A third person, a bookkeeper for the school district, was also charged with giving the reporter documents as well as discussing grand jury testimony.

“All three of them, [including] the girl [the bookkeeper], were all charged with the same thing,” Billy said.  “But, you just can’t do that, and there’s no reason for that. Innocent people get exposed, and it causes a lot of trouble for people.”  On Wednesday morning, Billy ordered Digmon arrested again, this time for using her board position for personal profit because the school district bought $2,500 in ads in her newspaper after she was on the board, so it sounds like the prosecutor has a significant issue with the paper.

Using Kari Lake’s soft focus filter to feature the blonde highlights her client reportedly instructed her to add, Trump attorney and former parking lot lawyer Alina Habba claims that the defense team was thrilled with the testimony of content creator Donald Trump, Jr. in the New York State case against Donald Trump, his company, his older sons and other executives who allegedly helped manipulate real estate values to their advantage.  During the day’s testimony, Junior reportedly claimed that even though he was an Executive Vice President for the company who signed financial disclosures, “CPAs” calculated the numbers on the page without his input, although he was the one who signed the certification to Mazers, the accounting company, that the information the company provided to them was accurate.  “Yeah, we have a very strong day today.  There ya go.  That’s us,” Habba claimed unconvincingly.

List of feckless Republicans that voted WITH Democrats to table my censure resolution against Rashida Tlaib.

This is why Republicans NEVER do anything to stop the communists Democrats or ever hold anyone accountable!!

PATHETIC.

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— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 1, 2023

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican supporter of insurrectionists from Georgia, isn’t a very good legislator or politician.  In office since 2021, she’s sponsored 23 different pieces of legislation, 12 of which aimed to impeach President Joe Biden or another member of the administration, and one to expunge Trump’s two impeachments–something not possible under current law.

An angry old man prone to violent outbursts to whom other outlets are liberally applying the adjective of “legendary” died Wednesday at the age of 83, the mainstream media reports.

The “controversial” figure was for decades prominent in the imaginations of Americans who spend a lot of time spectating a form of competition in which men mostly between the ages of 18 and 22 bounce an inflated ball into a metal rim and try to slap each other on the torso when one team scores more “baskets” than the other team. The angry man was regarded as a “genius” in this competition and the mainstream media reporting on his demise will focus on his acumen.

Just as prominently will be an incident in which the “legend” asshole tried to strangle one of the competitors, among other embarrassing and shameful episodes in his lengthy career.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, himself a retired colonel in the Air Force, calls out GOP colleague Alabama’s Tommy Tuberville for his continued hold on the promotion of top-ranked military officers in a misguided protest against abortion that has risked the US military’s readiness. The speech was likely caused by the health concerns of Gen. Mark Smith, the commandant of the Marine Corps, who was hospitalized after doing the job of the commandant and vice-commandant because of Tuberville’s unprecedented move. More than 200 staff and senior officer positions remain unfilled because of Tuberville’s hold.

President Joe and First Lady Jill Biden will visit Lewiston, Maine on Friday to meet with the survivors and those who lost loved ones in the MAGA terrorist attack that left 18 dead, Politico reports.

Fuckup First Son Hunter Biden has served US Attorney General Merrick Garland with a subpoena to testify in his lawsuit against the IRS for the “whistleblower” shitshow, the Messenger reports.

After testifying to the MAGA-friendly face of douchebag lawyer Jesse Binnall, Trump minion and shitty right wing children’s book author Kash Patel now faces cross-examination in the Colorado Trump 14th Amendment trial. Of course the only way we could embed this was to use the Rumble stream of some right wing scumbag outfit called “Badlands Media” with their angry host chirping in.

Disgraced former President Trump on Wednesday released a video in which he said the recent pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses convinced him that in a second term he will “take the billions and billions of dollars that we will collect by taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university endowments and then we will use that money to endow a new institution called ‘The American Academy.’ Its mission will be to make a truly world-class education available to every American, free of charge, and do it without adding a single dime to the federal debt.”

We stopped listening when he started saying it’s all online. Of course it’s all online.