It was a busy Monday, wasn't it? Here is our rather mixed bag of reactions from the news we encountered.
No, Benedict Donald did not have 100,000 people at the Saturday rally in New Jersey. You know they're desperately lying because their fans and minions (some of whom should be hauled off to the hoosegow, like Roger Stone) have been posting photos of a 1994 Rod Stewart concert in Rio and claiming it's the Jersey shore. Pathetic and transparent — but they hope that if they repeat it often enough, folks will believe it. (They also hope that they won't get challenged on it by reporters, which they probably won't.)
The only other thing we can think of from Saturday's event is that Hannibal Lecter is apparently on Trump's veep shortlist.
Michael Cohen testified in the Manhattan criminal trial today. From what we can tell — and we really wish this trial was on TV — he was calm, cool and collected. (This after all the stupid cable news talking heads were predicting that as a witness, he'd be volcanic and dicey.) Bad news for the defendant. It was also touching how Trump brought two new emotional support Senators with him. JD Vance in particular must be worried that Lecter is edging him out in the Veep Sweep.
It was good to see that very few tweeps were hand-wringing over the latest battleground-state poll from The New York Times. Gosh, we're tired of news organizations platforming polls with misleading headlines just to get freakouts going so they get the clicks. For example, the registered voters environment favors Benedict Donald, while likely voters are more favorable to Biden. "That the Times centered their headline and graphics around the results with registered voters was an editorial choice," Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg dryly observed. He added: "Many in the business right now are, in my mind, overselling polling's accuracy, predictive value and relevance."
(The many failures of the Times are for another post. Stay tuned.)
Finally, kudos to George Conway for coming around to our view that the current Trump criminal trial is, of the four cases hanging over Benedict Donald, the perfect one to start with — and not just because the others are tangled up in delays. Yes, we all know that Trump lies as easily as he breathes. But, as Conway says, "The alleged lies in People v. Trump strike at the core of his moral putrescence — and Trump knows it. They are lies allegedly meant to cover up a tawdry man's tawdry behavior. The case truly embodies Donald Trump. And for that reason, I think, it deeply disturbs him." We cats PURR.
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