Department of Justice officials on Tuesday officially declared that defending Trump his sexual abuse victim, writer EJ Carroll, is no longer their problem after five years of pretending that the fat bastard was acting in his official duties as president when he defamed her back in 2018.

“I write to inform you that, in light of the DC Court of Appeals’ clarification of the standard for respondeat superior liability under DC law, see Trump v Carroll, 292 A3d 220 (DC 2023), as well as new factual developments, the Department of Justice is declining to certify under the Westfall Act, 28 USC § 2679(d), that defendant Donald J Trump was acting within the scope of his office and employment as President of the United States when he made the statements that form the basis of the defamation claims in plaintiff’s Amended Complaint in this action,” wrote Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton to Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan.

You would think that if the MAGA assholes wanted us in the media to stop accusing them of doing the Kremlin’s bidding then maybe they should stop doing the Kremlin’s bidding. Just saying.

Joe Biden should not be dragging us further toward World War III by sending cluster munitions to Ukraine – he should be trying to END the war and stop the horrific death and destruction being caused by an incompetent administration. These unexploded cluster munitions will be killing and maiming innocent Ukrainian men, women, and children for decades to come when they should be used to protect Americans from the invasion on our open border with Mexico. Why are we sending our precious resources to blow up Russian soldiers and mercenaries instead of blowing up the cartels, human traffickers, and caravans from coming to collect free welfare?

Even leftists are opposed to sending the cluster munitions to Ukraine. Lots of them said they’re concerned about the danger the weapons pose to people, which makes them great and effective deterrents to migrants coming to murder white sorority girls at midwestern colleges or put rainbow fentanyl in your children’s Halloween candy. No sense in wasting them on defending Ukraine when the Border Patrol and Texas National Guard could be firing them over the border to scare people away from coming to claim asylum. Too bad Crooked Joe Biden cares more about some territorial dispute in a faraway country instead of Americans. He’s so weak and worthless he won’t even use the cluster bombs against Antifa in Portland. That city’s already been burned to the ground and completely overrun by those Marxist thugs because Joe not a fighter. He doesn’t fight.

National Zero will resume our regular coverage now that we’ve done the easy work of bridging two semi-related MAGA talking points together. We hope our right wing readers enjoyed this.

Lame-brained Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday finally pretended to cave to the reality that white nationalism and racism are the same thing, telling reporters “White nationalists are racists,” while scurrying off the Senate floor, Huffington Post’s Igor Bobic reports.

Tuberville said no when asked if he would apologize as Dem Majority Leader Chuck Schumer demanded, adding that Schumer is the one who “needs to apologize,” without explaining why.

Still pressing forward with the belief that a skinny Israeli messiah destined to liberate his people has been unjustly persecuted by the cruel pagan Emperor Josephus Caesar Biden and the wicked Sanhedrin elder Merrick Garland, lowly recusant James Comer on Tuesday reaffirmed his faith in the recently indicted Gal Luft with a clip of his Monday night appearance on Frau Ingraham’s show.

Gal Luft was paid by CEFC, the CCP-linked energy company.

The Bidens partnered with CEFC. Joe & Hunter planned to have office space. Bank records show CEFC wired millions to the Bidens.

Luft supposedly shared info with the FBI on the Bidens & CEFC.

I will request this record. pic.twitter.com/Ma6pN0k9LV

— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) July 11, 2023

“There are a lot of questions here and it’s just amazing the Department of Justice moves so quickly against some people,” said Comer on Monday as he claimed Luft, already a fugitive from Interpol in Cyprus, had been indicted to shut him up just days after he posted a video professing the “truth” about Hunter Biden and the ChiComs about some energy deal blah blah blah.

The grand jury investigating disgraced former President Trump and his regime’s treasonous attempts to remain in power following his humiliating defeat in the 2020 election are meeting at their usual DC federal courthouse, NBC’s Ryan Reilly reports while noting that one of Jack Smith’s vicious attack dog prosecutors Thomas Windom is in attendance. Reilly recognized Windom but not any witnesses entering the room, which could mean Tuesday’s going to be another very bad day for the Orange Defendant and his buddies if nobody’s sitting down to testify to the grand jurors.

In very much related news and for pretty much the same crime – localized to Georgia – Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is selecting the grand jury that will vote upon the recommendations from the special grand jury that heard testimony and examined evidence presented to them last year in the MAGA Reich’s post-2020 election coup attempt in the Peach State. Though in several publicly reported announcements and scheduling shuffles Willis has already telegraphed that the big day is coming between August 7th and 21st, she could always be pulling some kind of head fake and have the grand jury drop the hammer earlier.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin on Tuesday heralded the launch of “Secure Your Vote Virginia,” a new effort aimed at begging Republican and swing voters to please, please for the love of God just stop listening to Trump and the Gateway Pundit and all the other MAGA assholes who reflexively associate early and mail in voting with fraud, just like Ronna Not-Romney’s national initiative.

“We can’t go into Election Day down thousands of votes,” Youngkin said in a statement to NBC. “We fundamentally believe Secure Your Vote Virginia is how, together, we can win in 2023 and beyond.”

It’s definitely a more optimistic message than what Old Dominion State Trump fans were pushing in September 2020 when they showed up at a polling site in Fairfax County to literally fucking protest against early voting. Best of luck to Youngkin on selling “Secure Your Vote” to these folks.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Fox News reports A NEW VILLAIN IN THE HUNTER BIDEN INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN FOUND! That’s right! Delaware Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf “is facing scrutiny amid allegations she limited questioning and inquiries about President Biden and blocked search warrants because she was worried about ‘optics’ during the years-long probe.” Fox News doesn’t say who’s behind the “scrutiny” because LOL it’s their very own right wing propaganda operation!

“In October 2020, Wolf reviewed an affidavit for a search warrant of Hunter Biden’s residence, and ‘agreed that probable cause had been achieved,’ [wienery IRS “whistleblower” Gary] Shapley testified. However, Shapley said Wolf ultimately would not allow a physical search warrant on the president’s son,” Fox adds and LOL that was when Trump was still president and LOL when far right Fred Flintstone-lookalike Bill Barr was still Attorney General. According to one of those lame “five fast facts” listicles at Heavy.com, Wolf is a DEMOCRAT who donated to now Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s campaign. Heavy also kind of went out of their way to mention that she’s a Jew!

“EEEEEWWW! JEWS!” MAGA readers are supposed to say about Wolf, Shapiro, and presumably her boss, Trump-appointed Delaware US Attorney David Weiss. However the main intended takeaway is Trump was the smartest and most powerful US president ever but he was thwarted at every turn by swamp creatures like Barr, Wolf, and Weiss who worked hard to protect the “uniparty establishment” represented by Joe and Hunter Biden because Deep State globalism Soros something.

Violent crime is up 33% in DC and now they are cracking down on crime by treating any one who shoots a gun as a felon.

But it should’ve never gotten to this point.

Matthew Graves, the US attorney that is responsible for prosecuting crime in DC, lets 67% of the criminals go…

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 11, 2023

Apparently unfamiliar with Washington, DC where–like all cities–firing a gun is not done to hunt deer or shoot skeet, Marge wants to decriminalize the discharge of a firearm within the limits of 7th most-densely populated city in the US.  …’cause freedum.

Sources close to spandex-wearing grapple freak Jim Jordan tell the Wall Street Journal he and his minions on the House Judiciary Committee will finally move forward on funding a new headquarters for the FBI outside of DC… 700 miles outside of DC, in Huntsville, Alabama, in fact.

Jordan plans to attach a rider to an upcoming appropriations bill to move the Bureau’s leadership to an already existing FBI campus in Alabama’s largest city. It has no chance of passing, and is obviously just fucking pointless trolling against the top federal law enforcement agency’s “liberal bias.” However you can’t say forcing 5,500 agents, employees, and their families to pack up their lives and move from the Capital region to a depressed rural backwater wouldn’t be a hell of an effective way for Jordan to “dismantle” the nation’s top federal law enforcement agency for having the temerity to investigate and prosecute his Holy Orange God Emperor.

Florida MAGA Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday postponed the scheduled Friday hearing in the federal case against fat former President Trump and his minion Walt Nauta for stealing and hoarding classified documents, pushing the “crucial” CIPA conference back to Tuesday, July 18th due to a scheduling conflict for Nauta’s main lawyer Stan Woodward. The four day delay isn’t significant, but it’s not nothing either especially considering the appearance had originally been set for June 26th and was pushed back as Nauta took his time picking out a “local counsel” to represent him and the overall tight timeframe to get a jury seated before the target trial start of December.

In related and not great news, the Daily Beast reports that Cannon appears to be taking steps to hold the trial deep in MAGA country where the jury pool is ripe for mistrial or even nullification.

Responding to a lawsuit filed by an environmental group, a panel from the Fourth Circuit Court blocked the oil pipeline Joe Manchin demanded approval for to get his vote to raise the debt ceiling earlier this year, Politico writes.

The Fourth Circuit ruled in favor of the Wilderness Society which objected to a three-mile stretch of the planned 303-mile pipeline that runs through the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia.  The stay is likely to be overturned on appeal.

“This latest effort by the activist Fourth Circuit Court flies in the face of the law that was passed by a bipartisan Congress and signed by President Biden,” West Virginia Republican Senator Shelly Moore Capito said in a press release, apparently switching her fluid opinion of federal activist judges.

Moaning over yet another one of their “whistleblowers” turning out to be a complete fraud and a scumbag, MAGA Congresswoman Nancy Mace on Monday went all in on acting like this Gal Luft asshole is a victim of a “Biden Crime Family” conspiracy and not simply a criminal. The best part was when she omitted most of the charges against Luft, skipping the counts related to trafficking arms to Libya and spying for the ChiComs, and making it sound like he was only hit with a FARA violation – which has for years been merely a “process crime” to “Deep State” conspiracy aficionados. “We are going to work as hard as we can and deliver as much evidence as we can to the American people so that they can decide whether or not Joe Biden should be in prison,” Mace added later.

An unknown assassin gunned down Russian submarine commander during his morning jog in the southeastern city of Krasnodar on Monday, a cancelation made easier because the fucking idiot posted his running route on an exercise social media app, the Daily Beast reports.

Stanislav Rzhitsky definitely had a target on his back after his vessel launched a missile attack that killed 27 civilians last year, but it’s unclear if the Ukrainians definitely did it given the obvious recent domestic tensions in Russia. The Ukrainian intelligence directorate denied involvement in Rzhitsky’s death, simply saying in a press statement that the assassin “should be sought within Russia itself, where internal protest against the war in Ukraine is growing.”

What’s a stuffed foam salesman to do?  You’ve expanded your pillow stuffing operation to include products including slippers and sheets.  You started an online store that you claimed would rival the e-tail giant, but you’re forced to keep a store on that rival when your offering falters.  You even started selling coffee–because when you think of sleeping soundly on the company’s primary product, you think of $24-per-pound coffee.  And you continue to try to undermine the Constitution while facing billion-dollar lawsuits to boot.  Something’s gotta give.

Well, something’s giving:  Mike Lindell has put up for auction more than 850 pieces of equipment and office furniture, including trucks, forklifts, packaging machines, and industrial sewing machines.  Lots and lots of sewing machines.

Lindell tells the Minneapolis Star Tribune that product boycotts and the fact that large retailers like Walmart, Target and Kohl’s have all dropped his products–leading to a $100 million reduction in annual revenues–forced the move.  “It was a massive, massive cancellation,” Lindell said Monday. “We lost $100 million from attacks by the box stores, the shopping networks, the shopping channels, all of them did cancel culture on us.”  Being a private company, Lindell’s business revenues aren’t public, but Lindell told the New York Times MyPillow had more than $300 million in revenue in 2019.

Forget the upcoming election to the highest office in the land.  Or the potential problems with having a proven national security threat continually undermining the institutions of our nation.  Or the potential for ongoing violence by his fans who buy into his lies.  None of that is important, according to a new filing by Trump’s lawyers asking for a limitless continuance for his trial on the 37-count indictment for illegally possessing classified documents and then obstructing the efforts of the government to recover them.

This extraordinary case presents a serious challenge to both the fact and perception of our American democracy. The Court now presides over a prosecution advanced by the administration of a sitting President against his chief political rival, himself a leading candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Therefore, a measured consideration and timeline that allows for a careful and complete review of the procedures that led to this indictment and the unprecedented legal issues presented herein best serves the interests of the Defendants and the public. Thus, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3161(h)(7)(A), based on the extraordinary nature of this action, there is most assuredly no reason for any expedited trial, and the ends of justice are best served by a continuance. …

Thus the Court should, respectfully, before establishing any trial date, allow time for development of further clarity as to the full nature and scope of the motions that will be filed, a better understanding of a realistic discovery and pre-trial timeline, and the completion of the security clearance process, such that the Defendants can be informed fully as to the involved evidence and thus be able to present more informed arguments as to the relevant legal issues. Moreover, Defendants expect that various key legal issues will be fully dispositive, thus negating the need for any trial.

Israeli douchebag Dr Gal Luft was sort of a backbencher in the universe of Hunter Biden “whistleblowers” compared to sketchy IRS agent Gary Shapley and that Toby Blublebowsky assclown, but Luft was definitely trending as recently as Sunday when piece of shit Senator Ron Johnson told Fox News that he should be immunized to testify. That aged great, especially given the charges of basically spying for China, something the fanboys reacted to with utter disbelief:

“It pains me to say this about the US, but the DOJ is no longer a legitimate institution. I no longer believe anything the DOJ says” – The current top comment on the Fox News article “DOJ indicts missing man who claims to have provided FBI with info on Biden family’s China business dealings.”

“My God, our DOJ has gone full commie. This is not going to end well” – The top comment on the Gateway Pundit’s article “BREAKING: Biden DOJ Indicts Whistleblower Gal Luft Days After He Releases Video Detailing Criminal Allegations Against Biden Crime Family.”

“Imagine filing charges on someone that could tell all on the Bidens” – Top comment at Daily Caller.

“Of course it’s intentional. And part of a larger cover up. Compare these charges to the deal made with Hunter. Easy to obstruct and deflect when you run the DoJ” – Top comment at RedState.

Pushed by CNN’s Kaitlyn Collins after he again failed to denounce white nationalists serving in the military, Republican Alabama Senator and guy one hood short of a uniform Tommy Tuberville again insists white nationalists are improperly considered racists.  “If, if people think that a white nationalist is racist, I agree [that they should not serve],” he starts with before inserting his foot deeper into his mouth.  “Well, tha- that’s some people’s opinion. … My opinion of a white natio– if someone wants to call them a white nationalist, is an American, is an American.  Now if that white nationalist is a racist, I’m totally against anything they want to do.”

Continuing to threaten national security by holding up promotions for senior military officers filling vital national security positions, Tuberville’s threat to the fabric of the nation risks turning the entire country into Alabama.

Indicted alleged Chinese agent Gal Luft celebrated with one of his China-connected contacts when James Woolsey, a close contact of Luft, joined Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, later discussing how they should use his “‘close’ China link as a weapon of last resort” to extort him if he got a position in national security in the administration after the election, the Washington Post’s Aaron Blake reports.

In September 2016, Luft and his contact exchanged emails in which he said, “We nailed it!” after Woolsey joined Trump’s campaign.  Two months later, on November 13th, after Trump’s unlikely victory, they discussed a potential next move for Woolsey: “Our friend is now on the shortlist of the following: Sec Def[,] Sec homeland security [, and] Dir nat intel.”  The person responded:  “This side would like to see him assuming something with a ‘China’ profile. Of the three, S of D [Secretary of Defense] or DNI [Director of National Intelligence] would be good, esp the former.”

Rolling Stone’s Seth Hettena reports soon after that second email, Luft signed Woolsey to a $72,000 contract for Luft’s US-based thinktank, the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security.  Woolsey ultimately did not get a position in the Trump Administration already crowded with alleged foreign agents in the national security ranks thanks to Mike Flynn.