Friday, July 19, 2024
BY CROOKED MEDIA
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Trump’s much-hyped “unity convention” was supposed to show off his brand new, inclusive style. Instead, it revealed a man unable to transcend his grievances — and a beatable candidate.
- The reviews are in for disgraced former President Trump’s so-called unity speech at the Republican National Convention, and they’re not great. Trump’s advisors had hyped this moment in the wake of his botched assassination attempt as the debut of Donald Trump 2.0, the spiritually enhanced version, transformed after his brush with death. Trump won’t even mention Biden’s name, they breathlessly promised. Wow, such unity! The archduke of right-wing media bullshit, Tucker Carlson, insisted Trump had truly transformed. “Getting shot in the face changes a man,” he said. And yet, as Trump’s meandered for 93 minutes, the facade collapsed on live TV as Trump drifted off his teleprompter speech into his typical bizarre, self-aggrandizing, grievance-fueled tropes.
- Like the middle-aged cover band that gigged the RNC, Trump began playing his worn-out hits. He brought up the “late, great Hannibal Lecter.” He waxed lovingly about his old buddy, the bloodthirsty North Korean dictator Kim Jong un. He called former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “crazy Nancy.” He insisted, falsely, that he’s the one fighting for democracy, when in fact he was criminally indicted over his efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election. He praised Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán. He couldn’t even stop himself from name-dropping Biden, despite his campaign’s promise.
- The result was “a meandering speech that resembled his usual rallies with macabre descriptions of a nation in decline,” wrote Politico. “The speech wrapped a fresh gesture toward unity around his usual dark view of American decline and loathing for political opponents and immigrants,” wrote the Washington Post. “I give his speech a D,” one undecided voter told a CNN focus group. “It just totally contradicted itself in terms of what he wanted to achieve with unity.” Another noted: “His rhetoric hasn’t changed.”
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The speech showed just how vulnerable Trump still is.
- “Look at that guy on stage last night,” urged Dan Pfeiffer, co-host of Pod Save America, in his Message Box column. “The speech wasn’t good. It didn’t offer a compelling vision for the country. It was low energy, bordering on somnambulant. Trump couldn’t discuss his policy agenda because that would stick a thumb in the eye of most voters. There was no message.”
- Trump has tapped a vein of nostalgia for his presidency. But like a hyped-up sales pitch for Trump Steaks, it’s all puff and over-promise, a fistful of razzamatazz. Trump surrogates like to ask whether we're better off now than we were four years ago — as if they’ve forgotten that, four years ago, we couldn’t find toilet paper. Today the economy is growing, the inflation rate has fallen dramatically, drug overdose deaths have declined. Trump played a decisive role in overturning Roe v. Wade, and then tried to cover up the GOP position on reproductive rights by scrubbing it out of the Republican Party platform. None of these facts were changed by the endorsement Trump won on Thursday night from, of all people, Hulk Hogan.
Trump is hardly unstoppable. The question now is whether Democrats can seize the opportunity. |
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The list of top Democrats calling on their own presumptive nominee to drop out is starting to feel as long as a CVS receipt. Twelve more members of Congress joined the clamor on Friday, bringing the total to more than 35.
Biden and his campaign continue to insist he isn’t going anywhere, even as the pressure builds. The embattled president dug his heels in Friday, and said in a statement that he plans to be back on the campaign trail next week. Biden’s campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon delivered the same message on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Sure, there has been “slippage” in the polls after last month’s debate, she said, but Biden is “in it to win it.”
In private, however, a different picture is emerging. The president has grown “reflective,” one Democratic lawmaker told NBC News. “I think he’s feeling the pressure,” said Ron Klain, Biden’s former White House chief of staff and longtime advisor.
Maneuvering by top Democrats has reportedly shaken Biden’s resolve, including from the likes of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). Even Biden family members have begun to sketch out what an exit might look like, NBC News reported. Big time Democratic donors are closing their wallets. Michael Moritz, a Silicon Valley billionaire and top Democratic donor, called Biden’s choice: “vanity or virtue.”
Vice President Kamala Harris remains publicly in lockstep with Biden. But Politico reports there are quiet — and unsanctioned — machinations taking place among Harris allies to make sure that, in the event Biden steps aside, she becomes the one to take his place. |
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Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle is set to testify before the House Oversight Committee on Monday about the assassination attempt against Trump. She is under fire for the breach in security at the former president's Pennsylvania rally but has resisted calls to resign. Ah yes, the committee chaired by Rep. Jim Comer (R-KY) — I’m sure the hearing will be fair and normal!
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Researchers say a 60 year old German man has been “cured” of HIV after he was given a stem cell transplant to treat his acute myeloid leukemia. He has been virus free now for five years and is the seventh person to be considered cured of the disease.
Two so-called “corpse” flowers are expected to bloom at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. as early as this weekend. The rare, eight-foot tall plant only blooms for a few days every few years and is known for its pungent smell, often compared to rotting flesh. At least, for once, it won’t be just the politics in this town, sheesh. |
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