* It’s obvious that the Jan. 6 insurrection is central to the Trump martyr campaign. Criminals are “great patriots” and those arrested and jailed are “hostages.” It’s an unsurprising, faux-patriotic response to a “stolen election.”
* “If I don’t get re-elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath.” More hyperbole?
* Speaks volumes that a former Trump vice president, attorney general, chief of staff, defense secretary and White House counsel, are not endorsing Trump in 2024. They’ve seen and enabled too much already.
* Trump: “When I did the mug shot in Atlanta … you know who embraced it more than anyone else? The black population.” Vintage Trump: insult while you’re pandering.
* Trump says he wants immigrants who come from “nice” countries: Yet another code word for white. Not enough immigrants from Luxembourg.
* “When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”–The duplicitous, Trump predecessor Richard Nixon.
* Alabama: Embryos are people—and future Republicans: GOPryos.
* Trump veep speculation has included Marco Rubio, a former opponent, who has recently acknowledged that sharing a ticket would be “an honor.” So much for the “Liddle Marco” senator who accurately labeled Trump a “con artist.”
* Before he was president, Trump was sued by the DOJ for refusing to rent apartments to black and Puerto Rican tenants. Trump owns his track record, and minority voters should never forget who he really was before he needed their votes.
* Two Corinthians update: Trump, working religiously at hypocrisy, is now selling (“God Bless the USA”) Bibles ($59.95). “It’s my favorite book,” said Trump. And here we thought it was “The Art of the Deal.”
* And what’s next to peddle? How about industrial-strength Bible belts for overweight, Trump-fawning evangelicals?
* Trump International Airport? Another stain.
* Precedent? In 1920, Eugene Debs, the Socialist Party candidate, got a million votes while in prison.