Random stuff

"There were problems."

NBC's newly hired GOP party boss uses flagship Sunday news platform to perpetrate the 'big lie.'

https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-ronna-mcdaniel-insists-there-were-problems-with-the-2020-election-in-trainwreck-soft-launch-of-her-nbc-news-gig/

NBC News Faces Backlash Over Ronna McDaniel Hire: Chuck Todd Chides Network Over “Poor” Handling, MSNBC President Tries To Assure Staff

https://deadline.com/2024/03/nbc-news-ronna-mcdaniel-paid-contributor-1235866884/

NYT reporter:

Chuck Todd just attacked his own network, NBC News, over hiring Ronna McDaniel. "Our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation," he told Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. "There's a reason why there's a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this."

Secret Panel HERE 👕 https://tapas.io/episode/2706927

Via Tim O'Brien:

Easy fact check: #Trump did not “build the skyline of New York.” He doesn’t even own some of the buildings that bear his name.

Eric Trump: First of all, I'm a guy that grew up in New York, my father built the skyline of New York.

The story about NBC this morning is NOT that they now say the insurrectionist they hired, former RNC Chairman Ronna McDaniel, is not going to appear on their cable network.

The story about NBC this morning IS that the insurrectionist they hired has now appeared on their flagship Sunday news program and is using the network to spout revisionist disinformation to the American public.

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 24 March 2024.

#Ukraine #Russia #UK #IntelligenceUpdate

#MSNBC should be ashamed.

Humans, despite their numerous remarkable traits, lack a feature common to most vertebrates - a tail. The reason behind this absence has long been a

Looks like Threads is inhospitable to journalists posting real time information about major international news stories.

The former chair of the RNC, Ronna McDaniel, is to become an on-air contributor at NBC and MSNBC, which she previously characterized as a propaganda outfit. https://www.newsweek.com/ronna-mcdaniels-new-job-ignites-firestorm-1882451

“#Trump’s new joint fundraising agreement with the #RNC directs donations to his campaign and a political action committee that pays the former president’s legal bills before the RNC gets a cut, according to a fundraising invitation obtained by AP”
https://apnews.com/article/c0e8f1e7b59f70c5237e13a3462e5790

Via Laurie Garrett: 1/...

ICYMI the House #Republicans finally released a U.S. budget, countering the #BidenAdministration proposal. The GOP budget:

• cuts $1.5 trillion from Social Security
• raises Medicare costs & cuts caps on pharma fees
• cuts Medicaid, ACA/Obamacare & the Children’s Health Insurance Prog by $4.5 trillion over 10 years
• creates $5.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich and corporations
• eliminates all clean energy tax incentives
• raises Social Security Retirement age to 69

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Via Kyle Griffin:

The New York AG's $454 million civil fraud judgment against #Trump has been formally registered in Westchester County just outside Manhattan — a sign his properties in the area may be at risk of being seized if he fails to post an appeal bond. (per Bloomberg) #legal

The largest caucus of House Republicans released a plan that cuts Social Security spending by $1.5 trillion.

These are the same Republicans pushing to extend the Trump tax cuts — which would add $3.5 trillion to the deficit.

None of this is really about addressing the debt.

🏆 Oh suh-NAP! (He should have said, “Mr. President…SIR, with tears in his eyes…” for bonus mockage)

Via Kyle Griffin:

President #Biden, speaking at a Texas fundraiser: "Just the other day, this defeated looking man came up to me and said: 'Mr. President I need your help. I'm in crushing debt. I'm completely wiped out.' I had to say, 'Donald, I can't help you'." #Trump

Via Lisa Rubin 🧵1/….

Prior mortgages on #Trump properties won’t prevent Tish James from trying to collect on them. But some of those loans are bigger than appreciated. Take Axos Bank’s loans to Trump for Trump Tower’s commercial portion and the Doral course.

Both loans are listed as “over $50 million” on Trump’s August 2023 Office of Government Ethics disclosure. But, according to WaPo, those loans are for $100 million and $125 million respectively.
#legal.

Via Rupar:

ClusterFOX: Is there any effort on the part of your team to secure this money through another country, Saudi Arabia or Russia?

#HABBA: I can't speak about strategy

(seems like it should be easy to say "no" here!)

Via Lisa Rubin:

If NY Attorney General is able to start enforcing her judgment as soon as next week, don’t expect #Trump Tower to top her list. Why? Because as recently as August ‘23, Trump reported Axos Bank still has an outstanding loan on that property for “over $50,000,000.”

🤣 #ClusterFox

Via Catherine Rampell

lol Fox basically now holding a telethon to raise $464M bond for #Trump.

Hope billionaires and other Viewers Like You at least get a free tote bag

Via Eric Kleefeld:

Larry Kudlow personally asks Kevin O’Leary to loan Trump the $464 million bond he’ll need to appeal the New York civil fraud case, “in order to protect America’s name, think of it that way.”

O’Leary never answers that one, instead says the Supreme Court needs to intervene.

Via Republican Voters Against #Trump:

#LizCheney on Donald Trump: “While the attack was happening, he was handed a note. The note said…a civilian had been shot…He put it on the table in front of him, and he continued to watch the attack…That’s depravity. And that person can never be near the Oval Office again.”

👎🏻 #SCOTUS on Tues allowed #Texas to enforce a contentious new law that gives local police the power to arrest migrants.

The conservative-majority court, with 3 liberal justices dissenting, rejected an emergency request by the Biden administration, which said states have no authority to legislate on immigration, an issue the federal government has sole authority over.” #legal

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-texas-enforce-immigration-law-rcna142971

Via Ryan Reilly:

The benefits of the Dominion taking Fox's lunch continue:

Daily Beast:

Fox News anchor Sandra Smith cuts away from Peter #Navarro's speech outside of prison:

"To fact check there, it is no longer an alleged crime... he has obviously been convicted and there was no evidence that would have excluded him, per executive privilege, from testifying."

#ClusterFox

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Via Rupar:

the thing about #Trump repeatedly insisting that he didn't technically rape anyone is that it draws attention to the fact he was found liable for sexual abuse, which in and of itself should be disqualifying

Via Emptywheel:

As you read about #Kushner advising that #Israel ethnically clean Palestinians out of their home to build a beach resort, remember that at his behest, on December 22, 2016, Mike Flynn "colluded" w/Russia to protect Bibi Netanyhu fr accountability for illegal West Bank settlements. 1/...