Apparently unaware American consumers pay the ultimate cost for price increases, multiple-time indicted felon Donald Trump will propose a general 10% tariff on all imported goods as a central focus on his 2024 attempt to regain the White House to avoid jail, the Washington Post reports.

Trump has met with his favorite economic advisors–Larry Kudlow, Brooke Rollins, Stephen Moore and former House speaker Newt Gingrich–who were responsible for skyrocketing deficits that started prior to the pandemic and grew to a $8 trillion bump to the national deficit–to craft a policy he can tout against President Joe Biden, who has celebrated the positive impacts of the administration’s economic program by touring locations benefiting from his programs.

Trump wants a “universal baseline tariff” which he believes will provide a protectionist barrier to American industry, demonstrating Trump’s simplistic understanding of macroeconomics. “When companies come in and they dump their products in the United States, they should pay, automatically, let’s say a 10 percent tax … I do like the 10 percent for everybody,” Trump said in an interview on Kudlow’s Fox Business show last week.

Hours after Tropical Storm Hilary historically hit the west coast as the first Pacific storm system to hit the West Coast in decades, Tropical Storm Harold became the first Atlantic storm to hit landfall of the season when it reached Padre Island, Texas around 10 a.m. local time, CNN reports.

More than one million Texans are under a tropical storm warning, with an average of three to five inches of rain expected to hit the area, with as much as seven inches falling on specific areas over the next two days, with a storm surge between one- and three-feet hitting areas along the Rio Grande River to Sargent, as well as Baffin Bay, Corpus Christi and Matagorda Bay.

Claiming the suit is meant to “deter, retaliate against and prevent” her from exercising her free speech, Arizona sore loser Kari Lake asked a judge to dismiss a defamation suit brought against her by a Maricopa County election official whom Lake targeted in speeches and social media posts, the Arizona Republic reports.

Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer is suing for unspecified damages and punitive payments, claiming he and his family became targets of threats after Lake set her mob on him. Richer sued Lake on five charges of defamation, filing a 104-page, detailed account of specific incidents Lake named Richer or his office and her claims that he was responsible for letting 300,000 bogus ballots into the final vote tally; no such block of fake votes has ever been identified.

Lake, however, argued that her statements were just opinions and that those opinions are free speech, even when they assert provably untrue issues as fact.  “Even a court decision finding insufficient evidence to support a fraud claim to challenge election results is not a finding that the statements are objectively false and cannot be the basis of an opinion about the fairness of an election,” Lake’s motion to dismiss reads.

Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, an Ecuadorian native who served in the House of Representatives for one term, announced her campaign to take on incumbent Florida Republican Senator and historic Medicare defrauder Rick Scott in the 2024 election, Roll Call reports.

Mucarsel-Powell will highlight Scott’s calls to cut popular federal programs like Social Security and Medicare, policies he promoted when he led the GOP Senate reelection race in 2022, which resulted in Democrats picking up an additional Senate seat.  “Rick Scott is trying to raise taxes on our families, he wrote a plan to end Social Security and Medicare coverage, and is trying to strip away abortion rights. Rick Scott is a fraud, and in Florida we know it,” Mucarsel-Powell said in a statement.

Jeffrey Clark, the one-time Department of Justice environmental attorney whom Trump may have impetuously named Attorney General pro tem, has filed a motion in federal court to halt the entire prosecution of the RICO case–or at least, the parts concerning him–because he wants the case sent to federal court.

Besides complaining about the condition of the Fulton County Jail–Clark was apparently expecting ClubMed–Clark believes the entire case is just so stressful he could figure out how to buy an airline ticket to Atlanta because all this is making Clark, a lawyer, so flustered he can’t operate properly, so he needs the judge to take some of these tasks off his plate.

The District Attorney and the Fulton County Sheriff (working together with the District Attorney) are stripped of power to order, process, or threaten unilateral arrests without the approval of this Court given the automatic stay commanded by Section 1446(d). And even if the District Attorney and/or Sheriff had this power, no true grace is involved in permitting “voluntary surrender.” The Fulton County Sheriff runs one of the worst jails in the United States, currently under federal investigation for systematic and horrific violations of the constitutional rights of its inmates, so appalling that several inmates have died in custody in the last few months, including one poor soul who was found dead in a filthy cell covered with insect bites. …

Relatedly, Mr. Clark suggests that an emergency briefing schedule be ordered that fits within the additional days provided by granting an administrative stay. It is designed to allow the Court the necessary time to decide the matter such that either Mr. Clark is not required to book a flight to Georgia under such extreme time pressure (and potentially leading to District Attorney Willis making the argument that he has voluntarily accepted that he is subject to the criminal jurisdiction of Fulton County, which Mr. Clark decidedly does not accept), or to give Mr. Clark time to consider his appellate options.

Hitting back against a crotchety old man, Fox Corp has announced it will not allow Donald Trump’s surrogates to work the “spin room”–the off-camera media room where representatives of the participants give responses to action on the stage–during and after it’s GOP presidential debate Wednesday, the New York Post reports.

Various Trump henchmen including Marjorie Taylor Greene, the candidate’s own spawn Junior, and Junior’s stepmother Oedipal complex Kimberly Guilfoyle were expected to attend the event to troll participants as Don prepares to surrender himself to Fulton County authorities on his RICO charges.  However, Fox’s decision will require them to set up their own media setup.

Ukrainian drones conducted an attack on a military airfield about 800 miles from the Ukraine border, reportedly destroying a supersonic nuclear-capable Russian Tupolev Tu-22M bomber and possibly damaging another, CNN reports.  Photos appearing on social media last weekend showed a Tu-22 in flames, with the pic being geolocated at the airbase in Soltsy.

While the loss of a single supersonic bomber isn’t a huge impact on Russian military readiness, the attack demonstrates Kyiv’s capability of hitting targets deep in Russia.  Located just 250 miles to the Estonia border in the northern half of Russia, Soltsy was believed to be safe from the Ukrainian military reach, leading some to believe the attack was carried out by Russians aligned with the Ukrainian effort or against President Vladimir Putin.

Scott Hall, a bail bondsman who was one of the Republican operatives who illegally accessed voting machines in Coffee County, Georgia, became the first of the 19 co-defendants in the Fulton County RICO case to surrender himself to authorities, NBC News reports.  Hall reported to the Fulton County Jail for processing Tuesday morning.

Trump lawyer John Eastman is expected to turn himself in on Tuesday as well.

David Shafer, one of Donald Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the Georgia RICO lawsuit about undermining the result of Georgia’s 2020 election, submitted to the court a transcript of the December 14, 2020 meeting during which they “certified” their status as electors.

In the transcript, Trump attorney Ray Smith tells the assembled secessionists that their ceremony to swear themselves in as “official electors” is needed to have a legal basis to continue the Trump campaigns multiple failing lawsuits to keep him in office.  In fact, there was no such requirement.

Michigan businessman Perry Johnson, famous for getting disqualified from the 2022 Republican gubernatorial primary after pissing away $7.5 million of his own money on the campaign all because he was too cheap to hire a real firm to conduct his ballot petition drive, once again finds himself on the outside looking in and denouncing the “corrupted” process which saw him excluded from Wednesday’s big 2024 presiential primary debate in Milwaukee, the Detroit Free Press reports.

“Corrupted, plain and simple,” Johnson said of the qualification process requiring him to reach 40,000 unique contributors and 1 percent in a number of national and/or earl state polls. The asshole had even announced last week that he had qualified after spending $8 million this time to get people to kick in to his campaign, but the 0 percent (and literally zero support) showing in the newest NBC News/Des Moines Register polls of likely Iowa Caucus voters probably did him in with the RNC.

The DeSantis Regime-installed Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board members, appointed to inflict a meaningless, empty revenge on Disney for daring to speak out against the diminutive governor’s draconian anti-LGBT policies, are pissed that their predecessors on the Reedy Creek Improvement District received free passes to the park, among other perks, while they don’t, the Associated Press reports citing a complaint filed to the state Inspector General’s office.

“The failed District Attorney of Fulton County (Atlanta), Fani Willis, insisted on a $200,000 Bond from me. I assume, therefore, that she thought I was a ‘flight’ risk – I’d fly far away, maybe to Russia, Russia, Russia, share a gold domed suite with Vladimir, never to be seen or heard from again. Would I be able to take my very ‘understated’ airplane with the gold TRUMP affixed for all to see. Probably not, I’d be much better off flying commercial – I’m sure nobody would recognize me!” wrote fat former President Trump in deranged message on Monday night.

Later he wrote “David Weiss was a ‘Blue Slip,’ meaning he was recommended and approved by the two Democrat Senators from Delaware. He was originally an Obama guy – A Democrat through and through. Sorry, but that’s the way this dopey system works!” which lol that’s complete bullshit.

More than half of likely Iowa caucus voters think it’s time for the GOP to move on from Trump or at least examine other options, while only 42% picked the indicted felon as their sole choice, a new NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll shows.

Nearly a third of respondents, 31%, said it’s time for the Party to ditch Trump and get a new candidate, while 26% said they were open to considering candidates other than the Indicted One.  The results show a significant shift in loyalty from June, when 49% of Iowa Party membership were still members of the cult.  Still, with 42% of voters support, Trump will stomp the competition in early straw polls.

The male Kari Lake, Vivek Ramaswamy attempts to justify his conspiracy theory regarding January 6th by referring to his conspiracy theory regarding the September 11th attacks–he said in an interview in the Atlantic, “I think it is legitimate to say how many police, how many federal agents, were on the planes that hit the Twin Towers,”–repeating that he does not believe the official bipartisan 9/11 Commission report:

On January 6th, I do believe that there were many federal agents in the field and we deserve to know who they are.  On 9/11 what I’ve said is the government lied, and this is incontrovertible evidence, Kaitlin, the government lied about Saudi Arabia’s involvement.  There was a Saudi spy named al-Bayoumi, who they lied and the government lied and the 9/11 Commission lied.

He then goes on to say he does not follow the “establishment SuperPAC donor-approved script on these questions,” nor apparently, does he follow reality.

Fox News alert.  Former President Trump says he’s going to turn himself in at a Fulton County, Georgia jail this Thursday where we believe they’ll take his mugshot,” Fox bro Jesse Watters laments bro-ly.  “Trump will then have to post bail:  $200,000 cash bond to secure his release.  Democrats have never supported cash bail until they arrested Trump.  The guy who torched the Fox News Christmas tree didn’t have to post any cash bail.  But Trump makes a phone call to fight for election integrity, and he has to post two hundred grand.  That just shows you, it’s not about the crime, it’s about the punishment.”

… ‘cept he’ll get the bond back if he shows up for court, and he’s charged with a serious crime–a plot attempting to undermine the Constitution and invalidate the votes of Georgians–so ensuring he shows up for trial is important, particularly for someone who owns his own jet.  And yes, liberals don’t like prohibitive cash bail because people subjected to it typically don’t have the money to cover it, and it’s imposed for non-violent, non-seditious reasons.  It makes one wonder if Jesse’s concerned Trump won’t be able to raise the “two hundred grand” in cash.

Remember the Fyre Festival, a super-luxurious music festival that was supposed to occur on a Bahamian island in April 2017 that turned out to be one of the lesser major frauds of the ensuing four years?  Thousands of influencers and festival fans bought tickets for thousands of dollars, with promises of glamourous yurts, gourmet food, and headliner acts.

After a $26 million fine and four years in prison, Billy McFarland is back with Fyre Festival 2, and you can go to the website to pay $499 for one of the first 100 tickets–the fact that the first 100 tickets haven’t been sold should tell you something–with regular prices for tickets going from $799 to $7,999.

No acts are listed.  Or a date.  Or even an island.  But the description–“FYRE Festival II is here. We’re dropping the first Pre-Sale FYRE Passes which includes 1 ticket to FYRE Festival II and access to FYRE Pop-Ups, Experiences, and The FYRE Crew Community. *FF II is targeted for the end of 2024.”–is enough to sell it, right?  Because this time, Billy means it.

Five-times indicted felon Donald Trump says he’s going to turn himself in for booking on RICO charges in Fulton County, Georgia on Thursday and blah blah blah witch hunt.

Per Kyle Cheney of Politico, the judge of the California State Bar has postponed the disbarment hearing for Trump lawyer John Eastman, which was originally scheduled to begin Tuesday and potentially go into Wednesday.  The reason for the postponement:  Eastman is expected to turn himself in at the Fulton County Jail to be booked on RICO charges.

Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team on Monday responded to fat former President Trump’s proposal for an April 2026 start date in his trial on charges related to his failed post-2020 election coup attempt, writing such a delay “would deny the public its right to a speedy trial, the defendant cites inapposite statistics and cases, overstates the amount of new and non-duplicative discovery, and exaggerates the challenge of reviewing it effectively.”

Asked by MSNBC’s Ari Melber who’s paying his fees given former Elite Strike Force Team member Jenna Ellis saying “MAGA Inc.” isn’t paying any of the Fulton County co-conspirators’ legal fees, John Eastman’s lawyer, Charles Burnham, was less than transparent when asked who’s paying his bills:

I could never–with any client, I could never get into who’s paying the bills, all that– that’s privileged, obviously.  Let’s just say that I would never take on a representation unless my only and sole goal was to do whatever’s best for the client with absolutely no other considerations.