Aaron Rupar

Aaron Rupar

we'll know it's for real when Fox News starts playing Lee Greenwood's rendition of "Swan Lake" on loop

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Aaron Rupar

Trump needs to post an unhinged, hateful all caps screed as proof of life

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New in PN: Alert the media — the WH is lying about Trump's health "Something's clearly up & the official explanations don’t make sense. That’s not a shock given that Trump is a liar surrounded by toadies who surrendered their shame long ago. But it’s past time for reporters to ask some questions."

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"The mainstream press is still in self-flagellation mode over how they purportedly 'ignored' Biden’s decline. (In reality, they never stopped talking about.) But this soul-searching is apparently only backward looking and exclusive to Democratic presidents." — @playtyperguy.com

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You’re saying that telling your constituents they don’t need healthcare because they’re gonna die anyway isn’t winning politics?

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"The media seems to have accepted Leavitt’s 'frequent handshaking' diagnosis. But photos from last Saturday showed Trump with bruising on his left hand too. Are we to believe he’s double-fisting his handshakes now?"

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Lori Chavez-DeRemer on Portland: "Oregonian, Americans, they want sanctuary states for themselves, and they want to be safe. We are a nation of law and order and I would expect we'll see a crackdown on a lot of other cities that are not following the law."

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BERMAN: End EV credit- underwater. Boost Medicaid work requirements- underwater. Increase border wall spending- underwater. Increase detention center spending- underwater. End solar, wind incentives- underwater. Reduce SNAP benefits- underwater JOHNSON: I'm not buying it. Polls can be manipulated

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White House official Lindsey Halligan on the Smithsonian: "The president wants to see more positivity and more patriotism ... 98% of the population should not be be forced to accommodate or adjust their morals to make less than 2% of the population comfortable."

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Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files

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Mike Johnson dismisses the unpopularity of the Big Beautiful Bill: "The individual provisions of that giant piece of legislation are wildly popular." CNN host John Berman immediately debunks that claim.

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BERMAN: When might you call for the National Guard in Shreveport? The FBI stats show there's more violent crime there than DC JOHNSON: There's a lot of good work that's been done. We have a Democrat DA there who has not been prosecuting crime as some other more aggressive DAs have. Soros funded him

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Tom Homan's message to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "Get out of the way. Because we're going to do it."

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Rep. Greg Steube: "We in the Congress have to back up everything that the president is doing. I have filed dozens of bills to make permanent all of Trump's executive orders."

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Mike Johnson: "I hope the National Guard does go to Chicago"

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FOX: *plays clip of Gavin Newsom pointing out that crime is higher in Louisiana than in California* FOX: Your response? MIKE JOHNSON: He needs to go an govern his state and not be engaging in this

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FOX: Do you think you can get a bill to pass that would provide more funding to continue the National Guard presence in DC? MIKE JOHNSON: I'm all for it. I told the president 'we will give you the resource and the authority necessary to complete this job, because it is wildly popular.'

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Fox News anchor Dana Perino: "President Truth posted this yesterday. President Trump. President Truth also. I think he might like that nickname."

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PERINO: Do you think specifically there has to be some sort of accountability on the transgender front? SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: I think so. I mean, there's a common denominator to so much of this, right? The last one of these school shootings that we all saw and remember was another transgender.

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Speaker Mike Johnson on the Minnesota shooting: "At the end of the day the problem is not guns. Ok, Jen Psaki? The problem is the human heart. It's mental health."

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New in PN: Alert the media — the WH is lying about Trump's health "Something's clearly up & the official explanations don’t make sense. That’s not a shock given that Trump is a liar surrounded by toadies who surrendered their shame long ago. But it’s past time for reporters to ask some questions."

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New in PN: Trump's flag burning executive order flames out "This is a blatant attempt to transform protected speech into criminal conduct, despite decades of SCOTUS precedent barring just that. And it was immediately challenged by a veteran who set fire to an American flag just across from the WH."

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"Perhaps most insidiously, Trump suggested that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should deport any immigrant who dares to burn the US flag — a legal exercise of the right to expressive speech which is protected by the Constitution." — @lizdye.bsky.social

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JD Vance on Trump sending troops into cities: "The president is not going out there forcing this on anybody." (Tell that to Los Angeles ... )

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Q: There are calls for the FBI to institute a new class of domestic terrorism that involves trans ideology. Is that something the administration would support? LEAVITT: I would have to check with the appropriate people on that

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Karoline Leavitt on the Minnesota shooting: "The HHS secretary said this morning that HHS is investigating perhaps links between some of these prescription drugs some of these minors might be taking and an increase in violence."

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Leavitt on Trump's reaction to new Russian strikes on Ukraine: "He's not happy about this news but he's also not surprised."

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REPORTER: People have glazed over the fact that the shooter was confused in their gender identity. Does the administration believe that this element needs to be investigated? LEAVITT: All of the elements are being investigated in this shooting, absolutely

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Karoline Leavitt: "I saw the comments of Ms. Psaki and frankly I think they're incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to the tens of millions of Americans of faith across this country who believe in the power of prayer, who believe that prayer works."

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Karoline Leavitt doesn't rule out military strikes on Venezuela

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Karoline Leavitt on the CDC: "One of those individuals wrote in his departure statement that he identifies pregnant women as 'pregnant people,' so that is not someone who we want in this administration anyway."

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the White House is featuring an influencer during today's briefing who insists that mass shootings "are not a gun thing"

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featured "new media" correspondent Brandon Tatum thanks Karoline Leavitt for "making the sacrifice in dealing with some of the most disingenuous people on planet earth"

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Karoline Leavitt without a shred of irony: "Decline is a choice."

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Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."

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One thing that really hits you when you're directly affected by gun violence in schools is that there's nowhere to hide. Public, private, religious, whatever - unless you're going to homeschool your kids, we live in a world where they're at risk of something like this happening.

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Chip Roy: "What I don't like is taking up stakes in private entities. And in terms of a sovereign wealth fund, we've got a massive amount of ability to produce wealth and capital in this country by virtue of free enterprise."

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"What distinguishes Trump’s version of state capitalism is its randomness. This isn’t like the Chinese govt deciding to subsidize solar panel production — even if you don’t like the idea of govt exercising that much control, at least there one understands the objective." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

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Frey: "We need an assault weapons ban nationwide. We need to have a high capacity magazine ban. And if the federal govt and states aren't gonna act, give us the ability to protect our constituents. Give mayors & council members the ability to protect in Mpls 435,000 residents that call Mpls home."

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Rep. Scott Fitzgerald: "What President Trump is doing in DC has now become very quickly a blueprint for what I think we should see in some of these other urban areas."

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RFK Jr on autism: "There's an aggregation of causes, and we are now sufficient evidence to ask for regulatory action on some of those, or at least recommendations."

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RFK Jr on the mass shooting in Minnesota: "We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."

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New in PN: Trump's flag burning executive order flames out "This is a blatant attempt to transform protected speech into criminal conduct, despite decades of SCOTUS precedent barring just that. And it was immediately challenged by a veteran who set fire to an American flag just across from the WH."

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We had a horrific emergency involving our kids today and right now I'm just sitting at my computer in a daze and in shock. Thankfully they are okay but others are less fortunate.

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Sean Duffy on Union Station: "We're gonna take it back and we're gonna drive out the homelessness, drive out the crime."

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Bessent claims that we'll see an economic boom from AI "as soon as the first quarter of next year."

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Bessent on Lisa Cook: "What we haven't heard from Ms. Cook is we haven't heard her say 'I didn't do it.' She just keeps saying the president can't remove her." (The allegations haven't been investigated yet.)

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New in PN: Chairman Trump's Great Grift Forward "In his second term, Trump is at last unleashed to fully realize his vision, and on economics, that means a new kind of mobster state capitalism."

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Elizabeth Warren: "Donald Trump needs a scapegoat and a diversion, and that's what he's doing with the Fed."

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OLLINS: But the Pentagon reviewed this wind project in 2023 & found that there were negligible national security impacts BURGUM: In particular there's concern about radar relative to undersea drones...people with bad ulterior motives to the US would launch a swarm drone attack through wind farms

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COLLINS: Why it is only blue states or cities that the administration is targeting? BURGUM: When you look at the top 20 or 25 largest cities in this country, virtually all of those are the ones that have crime issues and are run by a particular party

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Trump's cabinet meeting is finally over after more than 3 hours. If you appreciate my coverage, please support what I do by signing up for my newsletter. I think you'll enjoy PN and paid subscribers make my work possible. Thanks.

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Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"

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Kristi Noem says the administration is "going from city to city around this country and pressuring these politicians to get on board with keeping their people safe. What is going to be the story here in Washington can happen in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco ... "

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Kristi Noem: "President Trump reiterated today over and over again that he will keep America safe, that he will continue to do what he needs to do in these cities that are overridden with criminals and terrorists. He's going to go there and help them keep as safe as they possibly can."

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