The national spokesperson for Donald Trump's 2024 campaign may have violated a judge's gag order by suggesting the jury in the former president's hush money trial was not "fair and impartial."
Karoline Leavitt made the remarks while speaking to Real America's Voice on Thursday.
"I've been in the courtroom with President Trump over the past couple of weeks, and every single day, the prosecution is doing legal gymnastics to try and prove a crime that does not exist," Leavitt told host Steve Gruber.
"This case would be laughed out of any other courtroom in America if it were not being brought by a far-left district attorney in Alvin Bragg who campaigned on getting Donald Trump, not getting real violent criminals in the streets of New York City, and if this case was not being overseen by a partisan, conflicted judge, Judge Merchan, who donated money himself to Joe Biden's campaign."
"And they brought this case forward in Manhattan because they know it is a very blue jurisdiction where it's nearly impossible to get a truly fair and impartial jury for President Trump," she said.
"They know there's no crime. They're bringing it now because they want to weaken the president ahead of November."
New York Justice Merchan tailored the gag order to stop Trump from attacking potential witnesses, jurors, court staff or their families in the trial.
It also forbids him from directing anybody else to comment about the jury or others. Leavitt appeared on Real America's Voice in her role as a Trump spokesperson.
Trump was fined $9,000 this week after the judge ruled he violated the order multiple times.
He's facing 34 criminal charges relating to payments he's accused of making to keep details of a sexual relationship under wraps before the 2016 election.
Former President Donald Trump is struggling to hold it together in court, said his former strategist David Urban on CNN Thursday — and one of the reasons could be desperation for a Diet Coke.
Since the Manhattan hush money trial began, the former president has been caught on multiple occasions falling asleep in the middle of the trial, and coverage of this has enraged him. Earlier Thursday, he posted a denial that he was falling asleep, insisting that he was just resting his "beautiful blue eyes."
"I was in the courtroom the other day and I saw him lean back sometimes closing — I saw that, I'm actually just going to take this very seriously for one second and say, it did not appear to me that he was ever sleeping," said anchor Erin Burnett.
"He was paying attention in various positions. However, the way he chooses to do this is to focus on his 'beautiful blue eyes' and the optics. He cares about the optics."
"Yeah," said Urban. "Look, it's — that's a classic Trump tweet, right, about this. He's trying to make light of the situation a little bit and say, look, I'm not sleeping, although I have to say, sitting there for hours and hours and hours without a Diet Coke, it's probably killing him."
In fact, he continued, that lack of Diet Coke could be affecting him more than people realize.
"He's usually, I'm sure, very caffeinated during the day," said Urban. "And is, as folks who know, drink Cokes and Diet Cokes, if you're missing one or two a day, let alone, I'm sure he's missing probably about ten a day. It's probably rough."
Actor Jeff Daniels appeared on "The View" Thursday to promote his latest role in Netflix's "A Man in Full," about a 1990s real estate tycoon in Atlanta.
He explained that the character is a manly man from "back when men were men and everyone else was inferior."
"In watching this, you can't help but draw parallels to another real estate mogul, Donald Trump, who likes to stamp his name on buildings like your character and likes to inflate his wealth and has a big ego," former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin said. "Did you think of him at all when playing this character?"
Daniels told the co-hosts that the character was not based on Trump, though he can see why some people think it might be.
"It's relevant," he said.
The original Tom Wolfe book bases the lead character on a few men in Atlanta at that time. Still, Daniels explained he could see a lot of similarities.
"But, yeah, that — the correlation is larger than life," said Daniels. "I'm worth zillions of dollars when you're not, and we're in a courtroom pretending we didn't have sex with a porn star."
Daniels then picked up his mug and sipped while looking over the top and shrugging. The panel of co-hosts laughed, and the audience broke into hysterics and applause.
He had a similar interview with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, explaining to the host that the kind of Hollywood fame appears to have come to Washington.
"It's intoxicating," he said of fame. Daniels previously said he moved his family to Michigan because he never wanted to be like that. "I think, honestly, you see it with the Marjorie Taylor Greenes and the Matt Gaetzs now. They're intoxicated with their own stardom. Their own fame on the internet — on social media. Back in then though, that's what Hollywood dealt with. That was your currency, how big can you make yourself."
President Joe Biden made rare, unscheduled remarks from the White House Thursday morning, denouncing the recent violent protests on college campuses, and telling Americans there is "no place" for antisemitism anywhere across the nation. He also denounced "hate speech" and "racism," while declaring his support for the right to peacefully protest.
"There should be no place on any campus, no place in America for antisemitism or threats of violence against Jewish students," President Biden declared. "There is no place for hate speech, or violence of any kind, whether it's antisemitism, Islamophobia, or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans. It's simply wrong. There's no place for racism in America. It's all wrong. It's un-American."
"Violent protest is not protected," Biden said strongly. "Peaceful protest is."
Stressing "the right to free speech," and the people's right "to peacefully assemble and make their voices heard," President Biden also declared the importance of "the rule of law."
"We are not an authoritarian nation where we silence people or squash dissent," the President also said, praising the ideal of peaceful protests, which he said are in the "best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential issues."
"But," he added, "neither are we a lawless country. We are a civil society and order must prevail."
America is a "big, diverse, free thinking and freedom-loving nation," Biden said, denouncing those "who rush in to score political points."
"This isn't a moment for politics, it's a moment for clarity."
"It's against the law when violence occurs. Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. It's against the law. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations. None of this is a peaceful protest," he warned. "Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not peaceful protest. It's against the law. Dissent is essential to democracy but dissent must never lead to disorder or to denying the rights of others so students can finish a semester and their college education."
"Look. It's basically a matter of fairness. It's a matter of what's right. There's the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos. People have the right to get an education, the right to get a degree, the right to walk across the campus safely without fear of being attacked."
"I understand people have strong feelings and deep convictions in America. We respect the right and protect the right for them to express that. But it doesn't mean anything goes. It needs to be done without violence. Without destruction, without hate, and within the law. And I'll make no mistake. As President, I will always defend free speech. And I will always be just as strong standing up for the rule of law. That's my responsibility to you the American people. My obligation to the Constitution."
The President also responded to reporters' questions, including saying he saw no need to call up the National Guard.
Disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn revealed that he had been served with eight subpoenas in one night in what he said was an effort to keep Donald Trump out of office.
During a Thursday interview with right-wing host Steve Bannon, Flynn insisted that there was "no way in the world" Democrats wanted Trump to be president again.
"There's no way in the world that we want people like General Mike Flynn back in the government," he remarked. "And they've done everything that they can possibly do."
"Steve, a little breaking news here on your show, I received eight, count them, eight subpoenas last night," he revealed.
Flynn suggested the subpoenas were aimed at keeping Trump out of office, but didn't give details about what they were issued for.
"So these people are going to do everything they can, these Marxists, this communist takeover of the United States of America," he opined. "And we are in the throes of a Marxist takeover of the United States of America."
"When people learn that, and then they also learn that I'm the January 6 guy," Evans proclaimed. "The reason that's important here in West Virginia is everyone knows the story."
"I'm the highest-ranking government official in the entire country outside of President Trump to be targeted by the deep state the way that I was," he continued. "I was elected to the state house here on January 6 when I went to the Capitol and stood with President Trump that day."
Evans said people recognized him for his role on Jan. 6.
"And they say, thank you for being the first politician with a backbone to actually stand up and actually fought for us," he recalled people saying. "And when they learn those things, we're just scooping up votes every single day left and right right now."
"So the thing is just getting the message out there and making sure people are aware of her voting record and making sure that they know and understand and realize that I'm the only elected official in the entire country with the courage to stand with President Trump on January 6," he added.
"And I paid the price for it, and I'm running to kick in the front door and expose the corruption."
A former Donald Trump official ran into a brick wall on Thursday morning when he tried to defend his old boss for calling Jan. 6 insurrectionists "patriots."
In recent days, the former president has been trying to equate the rioters who stormed the Capitol and sent lawmakers from both sides of the aisle fleeing for their lives with students setting up encampments on college campuses in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
Trump, as he has for weeks, recently insisted the Capitol attackers are "patriots," and that led Marc Lotter who served as a director of communication for the former president, to defend him once again on CNN.
However, CNN hosts John Berman and Kate Bolduan were not having it.
"From a com's perspective, do you want your candidate out saying this?" co-host Bolduan pressed Lotter.
"Well, I think what we have to understand is we're asking a political candidate, regardless of whether it's Donald Trump or Democrat, Republican, are you just going to accept at face value the result when we've seen in state, local elections, go back to the 2000 election, if we would have asked Al Gore in April of 2000, will you accept the election results? Not challenge, not go to court, not take your legal rights to have questions asked about the counting and the ballots, no one would have expected that," he attempted.
"I get that," Bolduan protested. "But Donald Trump is in a category of his own when it comes to this commentary after January 6, after the 2020 election, which he still does not accept the results even though it was a fair election. After that, how can this, this is in a category of its own."
"But I don't think you can actually hold a candidate to a category of its own. They have the same legal rights ...," he replied only to have the CNN host interrupt.
"Legal rights for sure, but I'm talking about the political violence that is not completely, that he does not completely denounce or take the opportunity to when he's asked about political violence, not just fairness of an election."
"Well, I mean, we're not talking about political violence here, we're talking about accepting the results of an election," Lotter shot back before continuing, "I think, obviously overall we're always going to condemn political violence. I think January 6 was a horrible day. The folks who were there exercising their rights at the ellipse ..."
"He calls them the 'J6 patriots,'" host Berman interrupted. "He's not condemning the violence, he's calling them 'J6 patriots.'"
"There were tens of thousands of people who were there at the ellipse," Lotter persisted, as Berman talked over him, "He says he won't rule out pardoning all the people who were inside the Capitol. He calls them 'J6 patriots.'"
Berman then cut back to coverage of Los Angeles police dismantling the protest at the UCLA campus.
Embattled South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem, under fire the past week after an excerpt from her new book revealed her boasting about shooting to death her 14-month old puppy she "hated," has repeatedly defended her actions as proof she can do hard things that need to be done.
Governor Noem, who has been considered a leading contender to become Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate, appeared on Fox News Wednesday night and blamed the "fake news" for publishing excerpts from her book, which she has not claimed were inaccurate.
She also insisted the 14-month old wirehaired pointer named Cricket was "not a puppy," appearing to suggest that made the killing justified, as she again promoted her book so Americans can "find out the truth."
"Well, Sean, you know how the fake news works," Noem told Hannity (video below). "They leave out some or most of the facts of a story. They put the worst spin on it, and that's what's happened in this case. I hope people really do buy this book and they find out the truth of this story, because the truth of this story is that this was a working dog, and it was not a puppy. It was a dog that was extremely dangerous. It had come to us from a family who found her way too aggressive. We were her second chance and she was, the day she was put down was a day that she massacred livestock that were a part of our neighbors, she attacked me and it was a hard decision."
"The reason it's in the book is because this book is filled with tough, challenging decisions that I've had to make throughout my life," she added.
Noem's dog shooting, which she recently said took place 20 years ago, has been strongly criticized by the left and right.
Earlier this week two people close to Donald Trump, his former Senior White House Counselor Steve Bannon, and his son, Donald Trump Jr., "questioned Noem’s judgement Monday on Donald Trump Jr.’s show 'Triggered,'" USA Today reported, noting also that "both men laughed" about it.
"Bannon called Noem 'a little too based,' using a slang term popular on the right to describe someone who, among other qualities, speaks and acts without fear of being politically correct, and Trump Jr. said shooting the dog 'was not ideal.'"
The Guardian, which broke the news of Noem's dog shooting last week, reported Tuesday "apparently even [ex-president Donald] Trump sees the bad optics in having a ‘puppy killer’ as a running mate."
Meanwhile, criticism, which had been subsiding over the past few days, returned after Noem's remarks on Fox News.
"She honestly think boasting about killing a dog who was too happy makes her tough," observed former Lincoln Project executive director Fred Wellman. "I have served with women in combat. They endured horrible conditions. Got blown up. They were tough. Her two examples of tough are killing animals and keeping her state open as hundreds of thousands died. That’s not tough. That’s psycho."
Calling Noem "broken," former Republican and former U.S. Congressman Denver Riggleman said: "She wrote the book. She allowed those words to be published. Her ghost writer seems to have despised her. Exposed her. And Kristi liked it… thought it was 'cool'."
Democratic U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr., responding to video of Noem on Fox News, commented: "Here’s donald trump’s leading contender to be vice president defending her butchering a puppy and hawking her crummy book on rightwing propaganda tv. This is the republican party."
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Evan Gold offered this criticism:
Jared Ryan Sears, who writes "The Pragmatic Humanist" at Substack, said, "Yes, the issue is the debate on whether or not a 14 month old dog should be called a puppy and not the fact that you murdered it because you refused to train it and could not think of any other possible solution than shooting a young dog in a gravel pit."
Donald Trumprefused to rule out election violence if he loses in November, and a panelist on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" sounded alarm bells.
The former president, who has been indicted in two cases related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, told Time Magazine that the possibility of violence depended on "the fairness of election," and host Joe Scarborough and guest Donny Deutsch agreed that Trump was plainly threatening "trouble" regardless of the outcome.
"His apologists who will write this in an op-ed, laughing, 'Oh, they're saying Donald Trump is' -- no, Donald Trump's own words say," Scarborough said. "They don't suggest, they say he will subvert democracy if he doesn't win, and if he does win, it'll be worse. He will subvert democracy more. He will fire prosecutors who will not arrest his political opponents. He said it."
Deutsch agreed, saying that Trump was not hinting or joking but clearly threatening to act as a dictator on Day One, as he has claimed.
"He says what he is going to do," Deutsch said. "What he is going to do to your point, Joe, is have the FCC report to him so he'll be able to control shows like this. He wants the FCC to report to him. He wants the Insurrection Act to turn military troops on his own people. He wants to weaponize, as you said, the Department of Justice to go after his enemies. He wants women on a register for abortion if he wins."
Scarborough predicted conservatives would twist their words and claim they had misrepresented Trump's stated intentions, but he said they were accurately quoting the former president.
"Somebody out in the Trump sort of stratosphere will put on a website and say, 'Look at Donny Deutsch freaking out, right?'" Scarborough said. "That's their ploy, that's the lie. I will say, you know, I love the Wall Street Journal editorial page. I disagree with them a lot, but they will have people, like, writing op-eds, that will take what you just said and lie to their readers. They let them lie to their readers and say, 'Look at the media.' I've read more of this: 'The media are being hyperbolic' – no, we are repeating his words. When we repeat his words, when I repeat his words as a conservative – and you found out this past week, I'm a conservative – like, live by the law. Whether it's on college campuses, at the border, or whether you're a president of the United States that lost an election, live by the law, right?"
Deutsch said there really was no more charitable reading of Trump's own words, and that he planned to encourage violence if he lost the election, and he posed another type of threat if he won.
"I just use his words," Deutsch said. "I just talked about if he wins. If he loses, he will tell people to take to the streets with violence – he's telling you, he's telling us. If he wins, we're in trouble. If he loses, we're in trouble."
It’s the 8th anniversary of an epic anti-Donald Trump rant, one of the best rants in modern political history.
But it wasn’t a Democrat or some left-wing commentator who delivered it.
On the morning of May 3, 2016, when Trump would win Indiana’s presidential primary — and all but clinch the Republican nomination en route to him capturing the presidency — his soon-to-be-vanquished rival, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), made a last campaign push. He went to an elementary school and greeted voters outside of Wolf’s Bar-B-Q in Evansville, Ind.
Once inside, flanked by his wife Heidi and vice presidential running mate Carly Fiorina, Cruz unleashed what he said was a previously suppressed tirade about “what I really think of Donald Trump.”
But back in 2016, Cruz’s rant was downright nuclear, as he accused Trump of being a “pathological liar,” “serial philanderer” and “utterly amoral.”
Cruz’s tirade also proved prescient: It included accusations — confirmed by testimony during Trump’s current criminal trial in Manhattan — that the National Enquirer created fake stories about Trump’s rivals to help him politically.
Cruz also smacked Trump for bullying strong women. Since then, several women have prominently stood up to Trump, including former Rep. Liz Cheney, former Trump White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson, Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis, New York attorney general Letitia James and writer E. Jean Carroll, who won a jury verdict saying Trump sexually assaulted her — and then won two cases that centered around whether Trump defamed her.
To commemorate Cruz’s rant, Raw Story is recalling the most scathing, seething and sardonic parts of the senator's impromptu speech in no particular order — with a few pop culture references for context.
Remember, it’s not a lie if …
“I’m going to do something I haven’t done for the entire campaign for those of y’all who’ve traveled with me all across the country. I’m going to tell you what I really think of Donald Trump. This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies, practically every word that comes out of his mouth.
“And, in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology textbook, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. He accuses everybody on that debate stage of lying. And it’s simply a mindless yell. Whatever he does, he accuses everybody else of doing. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist, a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country has ever seen. …
“Everything in Donald’s world is about Donald. And he combines being a pathological liar — and I say pathological because I actually think, if you hooked him up to a lie detector test, he could say one thing in the morning, one thing at noon, and one thing in the evening, all contradictory and he would pass the lie detector test each time. Whatever lie he’s telling, at that minute he believes it. But the man is utterly amoral. Morality does not exist for him.”
Trumped-up National Enquirer conspiracy stories
“Donald Trump alleges that my dad was involved in assassinating JFK. Now, let’s be clear. This is nuts. This is not a reasonable position. This is just cooky. While I’m at it, I guess I should go ahead and admit, yes, my dad killed JFK, he is secretly Elvis, and Jimmy Hoffa is buried in his backyard.
“You know, Donald’s source for this is the National Enquirer. The National Enquirer is tabloid trash. But it’s run by his good friend David Pecker, the CEO, who has endorsed Trump. So the National Enquirer has become his hit piece he uses to smear anybody and everybody. And this is not the first time Donald Trump has used David Pecker’s National Enquirer to go after my family. It was also the National Enquirer that went after my wife Heidi, that just spread lies, blatant lies.
“But I guess Donald was dismayed because it was a couple weeks ago the Enquirer wrote this idiotic story about JFK and Donald was dismayed that the folks in the media weren’t repeating this latest idiocy, so he figured he had to do it himself. He had to go on national television and accuse my dad of that.”
“The president of the United States has a bully pulpit unlike anybody else. The president of the United States affects culture. I ask the people of Indiana, think about the next five years if this man were to become president. Think about the next five years — the boasting, the pathological lying … the bullying. Think about your kids coming back and emulating this.”
This picture right here encapsulates Trump's lasting impact on American politics and society at large. — DOOP (reDOOPed) (@LolaAndCrash) March 2, 2022
Venereal disease and bone spurs
“Listen, Donald Trump is a serial philanderer. And he boasts about it. This is not a secret. He’s proud of being a serial philanderer. I want everyone to think about your teenage kids. The President of the United States talks about how great it is to commit adultery, how proud he is, describes his battles with venereal disease as his own personal Vietnam. That’s a quote, by the way, on the Howard Stern show.”
A podiatrist found “fake” bone spurs as a favor to Fred Trump so Donald could evade service to his country. Trump has said that avoiding venereal disease was his “personal Vietnam”. It’s on tape. Check out Howard Stern’s program.https://t.co/dL1HJNfmQb — Tom (@Tom_12578) December 26, 2023
Strong women
“And his strategy of being a bully in particular is directed at women. Donald has a real problem with women. … Donald is terrified by strong women. He lashes out at them.”
“I don’t believe that’s who we are. We are not a proud, boastful, self-centered, mean-spirited, hateful, bullying nation. If you want to understand Donald Trump, look no further than the interview he did a few months ago in Iowa, where he was asked a very simple question: When’s the last time you asked God for forgiveness? And Donald Trump said he had never asked God for forgiveness for anything. I want you to think about that. What does that say about a person?
“I’ve asked God for forgiveness three times today. Think about your children. Do you want your children coming home and saying, mommy, I don’t need to ask God for forgiveness for anything. Why? Because Donald Trump doesn’t. And if doesn’t, and if everyone likes him, and the media praises him, I don’t need to, either.
“This is not who we are. These are not our values. If anyone has seen the movie Back to the Future [Part]) II, the screenwriter said he based the character Biff Tannen on Donald Trump, a caricature of a braggadocious, arrogant buffoon who builds giant casinos with giant pictures of him everywhere he looks. We are looking, potentially, at the Biff Tannen presidency. I don’t think the people of America want that. I don’t think you deserve that.”
At the end of that day eight years ago, Cruz received 36.6 percent of the vote in Indiana to Trump’s 53.3, and he suspended his campaign.
Eric Trump showed up this week to attend his father's hush money trial, and MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin thinks that the appearance was a calculated effort to demonstrate family solidarity.
"Trump has sort of adjusted his courtroom behavior around the criticisms that folks in the media have lobbed at him," Rubin stated during an appearance on "Alex Wagner Tonight." "And so bringing additional support to the courtroom is one more of those in the latest call-and-response between the media and Trump about his courtroom strategy."
And yet even though Eric was in court to show support for his father, Rubin noticed that he was "looking at times kind of uncomfortable to be discovering some of these documents for the first time himself."
Overall, Rubin said it must have been awkward for a son to sit in court and listen to his father's unseemly schemes to cover up multiple affairs he had.
"I really felt for the guy as a son and a family member, having to be the pawn in that political game and the jury; a game that his dad appears to be playing," she said.
Donald Trump on Wednesday held two separate rallies, including one where he repeatedly complained that his teleprompter was blowing in the wind, but the internet is most interested in the former president's messed up words.
Trump, who has historically been known to "glitch" at his rallies, even inventing words such as "adlinthin" in the process, first spoke in Wisconsin, where he reportedly failed at pronouncing a four-syllable word.
Attempting to deride the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure legislation passed under President Joe Biden's administration, the ex-president said, "[It didn't] work out too well—$1.2 trillion for their fake infra-trucker-sher bill."
Later in the day, Trump at his rally in Freeland, Michigan, experienced a situation in which his teleprompter was blown towards the crowd by the wind, rendering the former president unable to see it — and causing him to go off the rails and even become unintelligible at times. In addition to physically adjusting the prompter, Trump called Sean Hannity a legal expert at that rally.
It was at his Michigan rally that Trump made another verbal slip-up that caused an uproar on social media networks.
"Our country must be saved. "Our country is in beeg big very dangerous trouble," Trump said during the second rally.
@DCelesteSpencer, a Georgia Democrat, said, "Our Country is in beeg big dangerous trouble with Trump not locked up!"
The Sleepy Don is reportedly still nodding off in court.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman confirmed that she's seen with her own eyes while inside the courtroom that former President Donald Trump is catching Zs while seated in a lower Manhattan trial while prosecutors put on their evidence before the jury.
"Sometimes he is sleeping," the Pulitzer award-winning reporter said during an appearance on CNN's "The Source.. "I know there's this huge sleeping debate... of our time."
"It's the most important thing of the trial," she said with sarcasm. "But sometimes he is sleeping. That is 100% true."
Trump is expected to be going to trial for weeks while he defends himself against charges he fudged business records to alter the outcome of the 2016 election.
For anyone doubting Haberman's claim, she has independently confirmed it.
"I've seen it and people around him have confirmed to me that he has been sleeping at times that we have said he is," said Haberman.
Since the trial began and rumblings of Trump in a snooze mode surfaced, he has come out denying it.
One campaign spokesperson came forward and called the claims bogus.
In fact, privately Trump reportedly has "raged” to confidants about his treatment in the courtroom, and has been furious there are allegations of his snoozing.
To Trump's credit, there are times that the 45th president has his eyelids shut and isn't sleeping — and Haberman claims that's a coping mechanism for him to remain calm during moments of anxiety.
"However sometimes he is closing his eyes — and I've talked to people around him about this too — because that is how he tries to just basically stay calm and deal with it."
She continued: "And whether that then leads to sleep or whatever, who knows, but he is sitting there with his eyes closed for long periods of time. It's not always sleeping."
