Ex-RNC head thanks Biden for cursing Trump: Speaking 'for the rest of us'

Ex-RNC head thanks Biden for cursing Trump: Speaking 'for the rest of us'
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Reacting to a report from Politico that President Joe Biden has taken to referring to Donald Trump with a colorful and crude choice of words, the Republican Party's former national chairman stated he doesn't see a problem with it.

He then thanked the current president for his candor and added that Biden speaks for a substantial number of Americans.

Speaking with MSNBC host Chris Jansing, Michael Steele, who hosts his own MSNBC show on the weekend, pointed out that Biden doesn't use that type of language on the stump — whereas Trump is known for his ugly comments and slurs during his rallies.

"There are two things to take away from this reporting," he began. "The first is this is a conversation he had with private friends, among friends. He wasn't standing at a podium as we've seen Donald Trump do in recent weeks and profanely describe others and aspects of this election. That's one.

"Number two, Donald Trump is given credit and props for speaking for MAGA. Well, guess what? Joe Biden speaks for the rest of us," he added dryly.

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"I don't have a problem with that characterization because I think it's accurate personally," he continued. "So the fact that the president feels this way, I think, is a reflection of how a lot of Americans feel, and he speaks for a lot of Americans in that regard."

"But I'm not all worked up about it," he confessed. "In fact, I'm like ... okay, thank you. You just confirmed for me what I think and a lot of Americans think that way. So if Donald Trump can speak for MAGA, I think it's okay for Joe Biden to speak for the rest us."

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Washington State ballot measure IL26-638 would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before participating in sports.

Testing includes genetic screening, testosterone testing, or examination of reproductive anatomy, The Cut reported.

The measure would bar transgender athletes from girls' teams and, if passed, would be the nation's most extreme of its kind.

Physicians raised concerns about how exams would be conducted, by whom, and the risks to privacy and potential sexual abuse.

Critics across social media condemned the proposal as violating children's bodies and genetic privacy.

"Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than 'you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball,'" wrote The Onion's Ben Collins.

"To be fair, conservatives openly hates women’s and girls sports and this is a sure fire policy method of destroying them," argued Zeteo's Asawin Suebsaeng.

"The obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country," wrote journalist Marisa Kabas.

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Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance warned Sunday that the Supreme Court may rule this week on President Donald Trump's appeal seeking to block a lower court order preventing new postal rules from restricting mail-in ballots.

The Trump administration's rules would prohibit the Postal Service from creating a national voter database and limit mail-in ballots to people on an approved list.

The filing, made less than 100 days before the midterm elections, is evidence Trump fears losing power, according to Vance.

"However the Court rules, the fact that we are even here is the ultimate criticism of this administration," Vance wrote.

"Under the Constitution, the choice of elected officials belongs to the people. Donald Trump is deathly afraid of what that means."

Vance emphasized the executive order is not routine but a deliberate attempt "to wrest control from the people" and consolidate power among Trump, conservative allies, and wealthy oligarchs.

She urged the public not to treat the case as business-as-usual governance.

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President Donald Trump let loose at a reporter Monday after being asked whether he was reconsidering U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's role after she dropped a vandalism case against a former Olympian.

Pirro filed a motion Friday to dismiss a felony case against three-time Olympian David Hearn, according to ABC News, conceding the damage was "the result of flawed installation by the contractor."

Trump had spent weeks insisting vandals wrecked his $16 million Reflecting Pool renovation, according to ABC News.

"You're fake news. Don't ever talk again," Trump snapped at the reporter. "You're fake news. One of the worst in the business. Fortunately, nobody watches you."

Trump had already lit into Pirro before the reporter asked his question.

"Jeanine Pirro made a mistake," the president said.

"It was vandalism!" he added.

Trump claimed surveillance footage showed vandals cutting the new liner in the pool with a box knife.

"Now we have photographs or tapes, like moving cameras. Right? We have them where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife," he said.

Pirro's filing described a different sequence of events. A National Park Service engineer had flagged peeling around the pool's edge on June 11 — eight days before Hearn visited the site, ABC News reported. A government witness could not attribute any damage to Hearn.

"Frankly, I think she choked, because the judge was really vicious. Instead of going after the people that did it, the judge went after her and went after her department, and I guess she choked," Trump said.

"I was disappointed with Jeanine Pirro. Really disappointed with Jeanine Pirro. She folded like an umbrella, and people get away with things, and it's a disgrace," he added.

CNN reported Trump had fumed about Pirro all weekend and that sources called her firing "highly likely."

He was "blindsided" by her filing, a source said, and their Saturday phone call "wasn't pretty."

Federal judges had knocked down nearly a dozen of Pirro's gun cases as unconstitutional, CNN reported, and her office won only half of its first eight criminal trials in 2026.

"Nothing is off the table," Hearn's attorney Michael Bromwich said of his client's legal options, which include bar referrals, inspector general complaints, and lawsuits.

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