Trumpster Diving

* Once again the outrage machine has proven powerful in raising money. Exhibits A, B and C: Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. They all raised more than $3 million in campaign donations in the three months that followed the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. On behalf of Donald Trump, Hawley and Cruz led the challenges to President Biden’s victory in their chamber, and Taylor Greene, who has endorsed political violence, called the Capitol attack a “1776 moment.”

* Repellent: Ohio has a GOP-bill that would change the name of Mosquito Lake State Park to Donald J. Trump State Park.

* That didn’t take long. Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett already has a book deal—reportedly for $2 million.

* “It won’t build back better. It will build back never.”–That was thenever-everbipartisan Mitch McConnell.

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