With #Election Day looming, #JohnKelly — deeply bothered by #Trump’s recent comments about employing the #military against his #domestic opponents — agreed to three on-the-record, recorded discussions with a reporter for The New York Times about the former president, providing some of his most wide-ranging comments yet about Trump’s fitness & character.

The moves are the latest example of #Trump’s long-held resistance to being called to account for his #lies, which have formed the bedrock of his political message for yrs. Just in recent weeks, for example, Trump has seized on fabricated tales of migrants eating pets & Venezuelan gangs overtaking cities in pushing his anti-#immigration message as he seeks a second term in office.

#FactCheck #disinformation #propaganda #ConspiracyTheories
#WeAreNotGoingBack #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024

And this month, #Trump refused to sit down for an interview w/CBS’s “60 Minutes” because he objected to the show’s practice of fact-checking.

Campaign advisers also expressly asked CBS News to forgo fact checking in its VP debate w/ Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen #JDVance — who then complained on air when a moderator corrected him.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #disinformation #propaganda #ConspiracyTheories
#WeAreNotGoingBack #CommonSense #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024

#Trump nearly backed out of an August interview w/ #NABJ, a group of Black journalists, after learning they planned to #FactCheck his claims. The following month, he & his allies repeatedly complained about the fact-checking that occurred during his debate w/VP #KamalaHarris, berating #journalists & #news executives in the middle of the televised debate.

#TrumpLies #disinformation #propaganda #ConspiracyTheories
#WeAreNotGoingBack #CommonSense #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024

Since #Hurricane #Helene caused widespread devastation throughout the South, the #Trump
campaign & other #conservatives have touted a #lie that federal agencies are intentionallyresponding slowly to #Republican-voting areas. In a fiery response, FEMA spokesperson Jaclyn Rothenberg slammed the idea that FEMA takes party affiliation into account.

#USpol #Trumpaganda #propaganda #FEMA #Trump #Republicans #disinformation

#VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024 for #RealityBasedPolitics

There is no way to translate that gibberish. President Joe #Biden gave a disastrous debate performance, & people called for him to step down over 1 lousy night. Yet #Trump turned into a potato at the rally, & nothing is said. And that clip wasn't the only part where Trump's mental acuity should be questioned. The former President's entire speech was glaringly deranged.

#TrumpIsUnfit #idiocracy #BatShitCrazy #deranged #weird #Nonsense

…Ever since the #Jan6 #insurrection, #Wallnau has preached that #Trump is God’s chosen candidate & that an electoral loss would have to result from the works of forces of evil—& therefore all Trump’s enemies should be treated as agents of the devil.

#BatShitCrazy
#NewApostolicReformation #NAR #MAGA #extremism #radicalization #weird #insane #Nonsense
#CommonSense #sanity #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024

…The campaign stop was part of the “Courage Tour,” a series of multiday #religious revivals organized by #Wallnau meant to electrify the #evangelical vote in swing states. At these weekend events, Pentecostal worship & reactionary #politics intermingle: There’s plenty of praise-singing, faith healing, & speaking in tongues.

#NewApostolicReformation #NAR #MAGA #extremism #radicalization #weird #insane #Nonsense
#CommonSense #sanity #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024

#JDVance’s willingness to campaign w/ #Wallnau—who preaches that #Trump is prophesied by God to be president so that Christians can take over American government & society—did not go unnoticed by the press. It was, many analysts concluded, an indicator of #Vance’s growing ties to #ChristianNationalism.

#NewApostolicReformation #NAR #MAGA #extremism #radicalization #weird #insane #Nonsense
#CommonSense #sanity #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/09/28/jd-vance-christian-nationalism-lance-wallnau/

“You can literally sell s--t in a can, wrapped in p--s, covered in human skin, for a billion dollars if the story’s right, because people will buy it,” #ChaseHerro said of the #crypto space in one 2018 video. Speaking as he drove a Rolls-Royce, he adds in the clip: “I’m not going to question the right & wrong of all that.”

#Trump #grift #idiocracy #weird #insane #criminal #Nonsense

#CommonSense #sanity #integrity #honesty #law #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-09-13/behind-the-trump-crypto-project-is-a-self-described-dirtbag-of-the-internet?srnd=homepage-americas

“He’s not here anymore,” said Farokh Sarmad, the #crypto entrepreneur who hosted the livestream. “We took too long. We’re gonna try & get him back.” It would have marked #BarronTrump’s first major speaking role in public.

“Damned teenagers,” joked #Trump’s eldest child, 46-yr-old Donald Jr., who sat in on the livestream along w/his 40-yr-old brother, Eric.

#idiocracy #grift #weird #insane #Nonsense
#CommonSense #sanity #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.thedailybeast.com/barron-ghosts-launch-of-trump-family-crypto-business

#X owner, #Tesla chief, & #SpaceX exec #ElonMusk could pick up another role should Donald #Trump win in November: leading a government efficiency task force.

The task force would have the authority to audit federal #spending & #regulations, & came at the recommendation of #Musk himself, Trump said in remarks Thurs to the Economic Club of New York.

#weird #insane #deranged #Nonsense #TrumpIsUnfit

#WeAreNotGoingBack