A supporter at a rally for Donald Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin because he was "being patient" while waiting for the former U.S. president to be reelected.
Ahead of Trump's Tuesday speech in Doral, Florida, RSBN spoke to Blaine, a Second Amendment advocate. The comments were highlighted on the X social media platform.
"What are your main concerns this election?" the RSBN correspondent asked.
"The country is, you know, we're, yeah, I mean, the whole country is going to hell," the Trump supporter claimed. "If Biden wins again, which he didn't the last time, we're doomed."
"The big thing for me, which people aren't paying attention to, is we're so close to World War III, and nobody's talking about it," he continued. "And thank God for Putin. He's being patient right now, seeing what's going on."
Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen gave a stark warning Tuesday to Americans who are growing nervous about warning of revenge in a second term: it's no joke.
White House correspondent and analyst Brian Karem spoke with Cohen for Salon, during which Cohen pressed voters to understand that Trump has already delivered on his promises to go after his enemies.
"When Donald Trump turns around and says that he's going to use SEAL Team Six as his own private force to incarcerate his political opponents, and the comment that people make is, 'You know Donald, he just talks stupid s--t. He's not going to do anything,' the point of the unconstitutional remand of me is don't discount what he's telling you," said Cohen.
"He's already foreshadowing what he intends to do. And when you say, 'That's not possible. He won't do it. He can't do it.” He's already done it to me. It was a practice run."
Cohen said Trump knows how to do it now, and he's not afraid to appoint people to help with his efforts.
Recently he's mentioned plans to target former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who was kicked out of the Republican House leadership after she agreed to serve on a committee to investigate Trump's attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. Trump's former vice president, Mike Pence, became a target when Trump railed against him on social media on Jan. 6. The crowd chanted "Hang Mike Pence" and erected a gallows outside the U.S. Capitol.
"Why people want to ignore, when the guy is telling you himself what he wants to do, I do not understand," Cohen continued. "It makes no sense. And this is what the White House needs to put forth to the American people: You cannot sit back and do nothing."
Writing in his book "Revenge," Cohen talked about life as a Trump target behind bars. The Department of Justice, down to a Bureau of Prisons employee, tried to force the ex-Trump lawyer to sign away his First Amendment rights to score his freedom. Cohen believes Trump was using the government against him to keep him quiet about the plethora of things he watched Trump do over the years.
Now, as the election approaches, Cohen isn't afraid to admit that he's considered asylum if Trump takes office in 2025.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell pleaded with Donald Trump to put him "in charge" of U.S. elections if the former president is reelected.
Despite Steve Bannon's imprisonment, Lindell appeared on the War Room podcast on Tuesday with guest host Jack Posobiec.
Lindell was scheduled to speak at a Trump rally later in the day, the guest host noted.
"We all know that President Trump is announcing his vice president very soon here," Posobiec pointed out. "Mike Lindell, can you confirm, have you been asked by President Trump to be his running mate on the ticket for 2024?"
"No, I haven't," Lindell replied. "I have not been asked, you guys."
"And I will tell you this," he added, "if he asks me to do anything, I'm hoping it's when we get this, when he gets in, that he puts me in charge of our elections and where we can get our election platforms completely fixed."
Lindell argued that his so-called Election Crime Bureau should be rolled into the Department of Homeland Security.
"And so that's what I hope that he would do, would have a place for me there, because, in the last three years, I've lived and breathed it," he insisted. "I know what we need to have secure elections, and I really think I could do a great job of getting this country to a great place."
Last month, Lindell said God had given him a plan to "deputize" Trump voters in an effort to prevent election fraud.
A new star-studded spoof skewers a massive corporation for manipulating the federal government to benefit its profits at the detriment of the air we breathe and the water we drink.
"Hellboy" movies star Ron Perlman and "Don't Look Up" director Adam McCay joined forces in a mocking promotional video for ExxonMobil after its CEO Darren Woods suggested consumers are to blame for the toxic carbon emissions his company produces.
"Sure, our own scientists accurately predicted catastrophic climate change sixty years ago, but we didn't want you to know about it," narrator Perlman says, over gentle piano music and footage of American landscapes and wildlife.
"That's why we spent billions on ads, and media manipulation covering it up. Then we rigged the government so leaders in both parties would do our bidding."
The spoof comes from Yellow Dot Studios in an effort to, as McCay told Rolling Stone on Tuesday, "kick big oil in the teeth."
"More and more we’re seeing people in film, TV, and music start to wake up to how urgent climate breakdown is,” McCay reportedly said.
"Climate liability lawsuits have gained momentum across the country," Rolling Stone reports. "In May, Vermont lawmakers passed a state law, the Climate Superfund Act, that will require oil and gas companies to pay for the costs of climate change. And just days ago, a lawsuit from the city of Boulder and Boulder County advanced towards a trial that will weigh if ExxonMobil and Suncor should pay the costs of climate-related disasters in the state — joining the growing movement of similar suits by state and local governments."
The spoof video does more than target American corporation, it also takes a jab at voters who don't demand climate action from their political leaders.
"Yes, every now and then you squawk about how evil we are but then we drop gas prices a nickel and you shut right back up," Perlman declares. "Do you have any idea how easy it is to get you off out backs with a little bulls---?"
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) complained Tuesday that Republicans don't have the votes in the U.S. House of Representatives to arrest Attorney General Merrick Garland by holding him in inherent contempt.
During an interview on the War Room podcast, while host Steve Bannon was in prison, Biggs talked to guest host Jack Posobiec about Rep. Anna Paulina Luna's (R-FL) resolution to punish Garland after he cited executive privilege and refused to turn over tapes of President Joe Biden.
The recordings were part of special counsel Robert Hur's investigation, which declined to indict Biden for mishandling classified documents.
"We miss Steve," Biggs began with a nod to Bannon. "And we've got to do more to right this ship. This is absolutely horrific."
Biggs said the solution was to "deliver the same kind of pain to the other side."
"But we can't even get a majority vote to actually hold Merrick Garland and bring him in with Sergeant at Arms, holds him in custody until he gives us the audio of that special counsel interview with Joe Biden," Biggs griped. "We'll probably end up with a $10,000 day, a $3 million a month fine."
"But they're going to immediately throw, you know, a spoke into the wheel on that," he continued. "We need to even it up because when you do that, this type of thing where they go after people like Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, and others, it dries up because they experienced the same pain, and they don't want to experience that pain."
Biggs said he wasn't sure House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) would enforce sanctions against Garland.
"The question at that point is, once the authority is there, will the speaker go ahead and begin imposing that upon Merrick Garland?" the Republican lawmaker remarked.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough is getting yelled at on the streets by angry Democrats furious about his questioning Joe Biden’s future as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.
The Morning Joe host described Tuesday how he’s getting hit by vitriol when people see him.
“I was, last week, … I was driving, car windows down. I had Democrats yell, 'Hey! Take it easy on Biden, Joe!'" he said. “You look on Twitter, which has been a hotbed of angry, far-right reactionaryism over the past five years. It’s changed man! There are some angry Democrats out there! I was just thinking about the House members, what are they hearing from their constituents? Chances are good they’ve got a lot of pissed-off constituents saying be loyal to the President of the United States.”
Scarborough was talking as Democrats prepared to meet on Capitol Hill for the first time since the debate, at which Biden stumbled and triggered several calls for him to step down from the presidential campaign.
Scarborough expressed dismay at Biden's performance in the presidential debate, calling it "tragic" and questioning whether Biden is "up to the job" of being president. He said the president "often looked like the repulsed grandfather at the dinner table."
However, Scarborough defended Biden, saying "bad debate nights happen" and that Biden will "rise to the occasion and do what is necessary to win the election." He cited Barack Obama's poor first debate performance in 2012 as an example.
But Scarborough has also pushed back on calls for Biden to drop out, believing he will bounce back from the debate and criticizing the media, particularly the New York Times, for scrutinizing and overanalyzing every verbal slip or moment of confusion from Biden, while giving Trump a pass for his constant stream of lies and incoherent statements.
“People say, "Get out of the race, you're terrible at this, you're too old, you're out of it, you can't win," Scarborough said. “How many times have we heard Joe Biden can't win, he's going to have to step aside after '22. Again, people out there saying, you know, because I know, I get the emails. I'm just stating facts here. I'm not saying what ought to be. I'm saying what is.”
Conservative Jonah Goldberg did not think much of President Joe Biden's attack on "elites" within the Democratic Party who are trying to get him to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.
During a phone call to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Monday, Biden hit back at his critics within the Democratic Party, whom he accused of being "elites" who wanted to undermine the will of Democratic voters.
Goldberg pointed out that Biden has been serving in government since he was elected to the Senate all the way back in 1972, which makes it a major stretch to consider him some kind of maverick outsider despised by party fixers.
"The idea that Joe Biden, who is a total creature of Washington D.C. political elites, he's been in Washington for over 50 years as a politician, is saying that somehow it's him versus the elites," he said. "It's gaslighting on a Trumpian level."
Goldberg also pointed out that Democrats are taking a major risk if they buy the White House's spin that the president simply had a "bad night" during his first 2024 debate with President Donald Trump.
"Every good interview doesn't mean a thing if you know there's one really bad one coming," he said. "And the idea that you're going to bet that there's not a really bad one coming for a guy who says, when he has a good interview, that he needs to get more sleep and do fewer things after 8 o'clock, is a wildly irresponsible bet."
New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday was roasted on social media after he unveiled the “official NYC Bin” at a Gracie Mansion press conference — and described the roll-out as a “trash revolution.”
According to video of the event, Adams walked out to the tune of “Empire State of Mind,” rolling a black trash can beside his podium. He then successfully tossed a bag of garbage into the bin.
ABC 7 reports the NYC mayor told reporters, “Today, we are tossing even more black bags into the dustbin of history and taking the next step forward in our 'Trash Revolution.’”
“In addition to the new bins, officials announced that starting Nov. 12, landlords with residential buildings with one to nine units will be required to use trash bins with secure latching lids,” the report adds.
Adams said the installment of “official” trash cans will help curb the growing NYC rat problem.
"They are getting more and more bold,” the mayor said.
Observers were quick to marvel at just how long it took for New York City to discover “official” trash bins.
“New York City is living in the future!!!” Podcast host Breanna Morello wrote on Twitter.
"Congratulations to New York City, which has seemingly invented the trash can," Brown research associate Benjy Renton mused.
Bulwark editor Sonny Bunch added, “New York learning about trash cans in 2024 is an insane flex.”
But the Adams Administration isn’t letting the grouchy haters stink up their fun.
In a tweet announcing the trash cans, Adams wrote, “Introducing the official NYC Bin! Today, we ROLLED OUT the next phase of our ‘Trash Revolution,’ showing New Yorkers how we're going to place even more black bags into the dustbin of history.”
“Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,” indeed.
Jon Stewart blasted President Joe Biden and Democrats on "The Daily Show" on Monday night, emphatically rejecting the "get on board" with Biden campaign post-debate.
Stewart's tirade began right where he left off post-debate: with "anger and despair."
As some Democrats have come out and expressed doubts, questions and concern over Biden's ability to run a campaign that can defeat former President Donald Trump, others, he noted, believe "they should shut the f--- up."
Stewart's team then queued up clips across major networks of pundits and experts collectively demanding that those who've expressed concerns publicly cease and desist. That includes the so-called pearl-clutchers, handwringers and bed-wetters.
"We panicked and p---ed our pants," said Democratic U.S. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania.
The metaphor, Stewart chided to laughs, was probably a poor one.
"First of all, I'm not sure incontinence is the metaphor you want to go with," blasted Stewart, a dig at the 81-year-old Biden's age.
Stewart then laid out why some have, in his eyes, valid concerns from the bed-wetting side of the party. He pointed to troubling moments of "disconnect" and held up a chart showing the number of "huh?" moments over time.
The comedian's first exhibit: a clip of Biden last year asking "Jackie, you here? Where's Jackie?" He appeared to be asking about Indiana Rep. Jackie Walorski, who had died.
"Unfortunately, Jackie was dead," said Stewart. "It's something the president seems to have known six weeks earlier when he released a condolence statement about her death."
One mark for the "huh?" chart.
Stewart then played a clip of Biden seeming to forget another major death. Biden told a crowd in Las Vegas in February he recently met with French president Francois Mitterrand — who died in 1995.
That remark earned a second mark on the "huh?" chart.
Stewart eventually concludes the debate was a "shocking display of cognitive difficulty — recognizable to, unfortunately, anybody who's dealt with aging parents. And it's a hard watch."
The host then pointed out that while Trump's own "huh?" chart is full of its own marks, Trump "delivered at the debate to expectation."
"We expect him to be f----ing crazy," he said. "But Biden's performance and inability to articulate at times was stunning. Like, I could not believe what I was watching."
Stewart called the post-debate explanations — such as Biden had a cold and jetlag — "blatant bull----."
He later added that authoritarianism and Trump aren't the only threats to democracy.
"An arthritic status quo, unable or unwilling to respond in any way to the concerns of voters, who just received new and urgent information about their candidate, also erodes confidence and faith in the system of government," he railed. "Get on board or shut the f--- up is not ... a particularly compelling pro-democracy bumper sticker."
Lonely, sexless straight men have become a larger force in the White nationalist movement.
That's according to Ellee Reeve, author of the book "Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics."
Reeve talked with CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday to discuss her findings, saying straight men who struggle to find a romantic partner can be drawn to alt-right communities.
"That's a big entryway into this," she said. "A big entry point is, 'Why won't women be with me?'"
The so-called "new white nationalist movement" is highly influenced by "incel" culture, she said, referring to men who are involuntarily celibate.
"It means that feminism has doomed them to be virgins forever because in the natural order of things, less attractive women would marry them," said Reeve. "But now, these days, they don't have to do that."
Reeve said she talked to an "old-school" former Neo-nazi and skinhead who was "shocked" by the alt-right movement of the 2010s.
His reasoning: misogyny.
"He'd seen himself as a protector of white women from people of color, but now there are all these white nationalists joking about beating up on women and how they deserve to be abused," Reeve said.
Ohio lawmaker and vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance may have cost himself a spot on former President Donald Trump's ticket because he has a healthy beard.
That's according to Mark Caputo, national political reporter for The Bulwark, who spoke Monday with Erin Burnett on CNN's "Outfront."
Caputo, trying to hold back a laugh, said Trump prefers a clean-shaven look.
"Of all things that Donald Trump doesn't really like, it's facial hair," said Caputo. "If you notice, guys around him are clean-shaven."
There's some "buzz" in Trump's order, Caputo said, that if "J.D. Vance doesn't get it, it's because of the beard."
Indeed, Trump's first vice president Mike Pence was also barefaced, and he reportedly told his son Donald Trump Jr. he didn't like his son's facial hair, and felt similarly about beards sported by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
“I’ve heard from some our mutual friends that you don’t love my beard, but given the quarantine, I’d like to know between myself, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul—who have all grown sort of quarantine beards—whose is best and why?”
This isn't the first time Trump has been linked to an anti-beard stance. A 2016 Washington Post article also revealed he thought people who wanted to be in prominent public-facing positions should look the part.
“Presentation is very important because you’re representing America not only on the national stage but also the international stage, depending on the position,” said Trump transition spokesman Jason Miller said at the time.
Caputo noted Vance would be the third-youngest vice president in history at 40.
"In the end, Trump's got his quirks and he's going to pick who he picks," said Caputo.
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace confessed that she's growing increasingly nervous about her life in the United States if former President Donald Trump wins the presidency.
Panelists on Monday addressed the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, the plan created for Trump's possible second term by some of his loyalists. Among them included authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat and former Congressman David Jolly (R-FL), among others.
After Jolly discussed the comments from the previous guest, Yale historian Tim Snyder, Wallace stepped in to confirm her growing anxieties about her safety in Trump's America.
"I guess Tim Snyder has peeled a layer of skin off of me, and I'll just say it," Wallace confessed. "I'm scared of Trump doing the things that he said he's going to do. I'm not scared of the things he hasn't thought of yet. I'm scared of him completing the projects that are underway. Because in a two-journalist household, we're high-risk, right? And I think, Ruth, your admonition and Timothy Snyder's explanation of what fear does, you know, fear creates a frenzy. Fear makes the brain adapt ahead of time, makes people give power away to the authoritarian as a sort of hedge."
She confessed that she's seeing it happen all around her in the media and politics.
"Let's just be brutally honest and keep that faith with our audience even when they don't like the things that we cover and the things we talk about," Wallace continued. "But the threat of authoritarianism, that's almost too soft. Fascism is a closer description of the retribution and brutality that Trump is promising and saying out loud. Which — again, is to say nothing of what he hasn't telegraphed yet."
It made her wonder how to get through the coming months. The Republican Party platform just softened the language on choice and marriage equality, but Wallace doesn't buy it.
"Trump would ban abortion in this country," she said. "Leaving it to the states doesn't mean leaving abortion rights on the table. It means that. What the states are doing is criminalizing. They're making mifepristone in Louisiana, a controlled substance, which means arrest. The use of prosecutions and criminality in the second Trump term is something America's never — we've never lived like that before. And that's what he's promising to do."
Writing in his book "Revenge," Michael Cohen talked about life as a Trump target behind bars. The Department of Justice down to a Bureau of Prisons employee, tried to force the ex-Trump lawyer to sign away his First Amendment rights to score his freedom. Cohen believes Trump was using the government against him to keep him quiet about the plethora of things he watched Trump do over the years.
Now, as the election approaches, Cohen isn't afraid to admit that he's considered asylum if Trump takes office in 2025.
"And some of you people who think that you're his loyalists right now, someday, you will step wrong," he continued. "Some day, you will make a mistake. Some day you will piss him off. And guess what? All of those magnificent tools that you're cheerleading for right now 'Yay! Trump has ultimate power!' They'll turn on you."
A member of the closed-door Republican Party platform committee meeting unleashed her own fury after the committee voted to pass former President Donald Trump's policies into the party as a whole.
Political director Matt Smith of WISN12News Milwaukee caught up with Gail Ruzicka, a platform committee member from Utah, who was incensed.
"I've never seen this happen before. I don't understand why they did it, and I'm extremely disappointed that we do not have any pro-life language," she said about the GOP's new policy that rejects the federal ban on abortion.
Self-described pastor, Stephen Simpson of Alabama took to social media to say, "Donald Trump is not Pro-Life. He has cynically used the Pro-Life movement and played Evangelicals in general. It was all transactional, a Faustian bargain. The GOP is a cult of personality. Sincerely, A Former Longtime GOP Activist and Continuing Christ Follower."
Writer Polly Sigh cited the irony in Ruzicka's position she described as, “They forced this platform on us.”
"Well, Gail, just wait and see everything Trump will force on all of us if he’s reelected," said Sigh.
"'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party," quipped Steve Anderson of the "Notorious SA" podcast.
All Rachel Vindman of The Suburban Women Problem podcast could say is, "Girl..."
Meanwhile, the Utah Democratic Party commented: "MAGA Extremist who's trying to take democracy away from Utah surprised when democracy taken away from her."
