Friday, August 7, 2026. Chump squeals "treasonous leaks" thereby confirming that the leaks are true regarding the decimation of stockpiles of US weapons, his war on immigrants continues, Pete Hegseth continues to fail in his role as Secretary of Defense -- and it's failure in one way after another, Senator Patty Murray notes that a vote to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General is a vote to destroy reproductive rights, and much more.
On the sixth day of the war with Iran, Donald Trump made a curious comment at a White House event.
“Yesterday, my administration announced decisive action to help keep down the oil prices,” the president declared. Moments later, the Republican went on to say oil prices “have pretty much stabilized.”
It’s never been clear what “decisive” actions the president was referring to. And while a variety of words come to mind when describing oil prices of late, “stabilized” isn’t one of them.
In fact, exactly five months to the day after Trump’s misplaced boast, he delivered remarks in Las Vegas and warned American consumers about the possibility of renewed volatility.
After noting recent improvements in oil prices, the president told his audience, “We may have to send it up again. We may have to — you know what happens when we send it up. But we hope we don’t have to.”
Chump's telling his followers that oil prices might need to increase again? Does he really not get how many Americans are struggling in the wrecked economy that he created?
The view from the cliffs must have been exciting
And up to the peaks you were bound
Now you're stranded alone
And the path is unknown
And there is no easy way down
No, it isn't very easy
When you're left on your own
No, it isn't very easy
When each road you take
Is one more mistake
And there's no one to break your fall
And lead you back home
-- "No Easy Way Down," written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, she first recorded the song for her album WRITER
Dace Potas (USA TODAY) notes the reality:
Donald Trump is unpopular. Just 39% of Americans have a favorable view of the president a year and a half into his second term.
Worse yet, Republicans are poised to lose big in the November midterm elections. Trump seems more interested in fighting with Senate leadership than in helping Republicans hold their majorities, and that fight is leaving some in his own party open to moving away from him.
Trump still has a strong grip on the Republican voter base, but the party needs a plan for what happens after he leaves office in 2028. There's no better time to start building it than heading into a likely November beatdown.
His popularity has imploded. It's gone. It's not coming back. Nick Hilden notes more bad news for the Chump:
On Wednesday, the National Review – the preeminent conservative magazine since 1955 — called it: President Donald Trump has done the “impeachable.”
“There is no plausible defense of Trump's TruthSocial scheme,” declared National Review Senior Editor Charles Cooke. “It is flagrantly corrupt. It is impeachable. Congress should intervene. (It won't, I know.)” He posted this assertion over his latest article, entitled “Truth Social’s Early-Access Scheme Is Indefensible.”
As he explains, over the weekend, the Trump Media & Technology Group announced the creation of a “real-time feed on the Truth Social website that will give paying institutions early access to certain high-profile posts for between $60,000 and $100,000 per month.” Cooke doesn’t hold back with his assessment of the scheme, writing, “There is no credible defense of this. The only reason that anyone would want priority access to Truth Social is to gain priority access to President Trump’s pronouncements on that platform. And the only reason that anyone would want priority access to President Trump’s pronouncements on that platform is to act on them for pecuniary gain.”
As Cooke elaborates, “Trump often uses Truth Social as the primary forum for his announcements — announcements that include changes to personnel, the imposition or rescission of tariffs, key foreign policy decisions, and more. These announcements are extremely useful to financial institutions, and, in the age of high-speed trading, the faster those financial institutions can obtain them, the more money those financial institutions can make. Facilitating this access is not a byproduct of Truth Social’s API offering; it is its core — perhaps its sole — purpose. Simply put: President Trump is charging Americans a fee — a fee that, in part, goes into his family’s pockets — for the privilege of receiving news about his official actions earlier than those who do not pay.”
According to Cooke, it is “obvious how unequivocally corrupt this setup is. Technically speaking, the beneficiaries will not gain the information they seek directly from Trump himself, but indirectly, via an API (Application Programming Interface) whose output will be processed by a bunch of semi-autonomous servers and acted upon according to a set of predetermined parameters. But the results will be the same as if Trump had personally picked up the phone.”
There is "no easy way down" for Chump as he continues his descent. Sarah K. Burris notes:
Voters who elected President Donald Trump are not happy.
John Gannon, a lifelong Republican and Texas businessman, who voted for Trump, told CBS News the president's administration is "destroying families, jobs." His fiancée was detained by ICE. "They are picking up law-abiding citizens," he told the report.
The couple was headed to Las Vegas for a convention when Gannon's fiancée was nabbed by plainclothes federal agents.
"After leaving the United room, eight officers, ICE agents, swarmed Yasmin and detained her. (They) didn't tell us why and wrestled her off into a car," he recalled of fiancée Yasmin Suarez Reyes.
Trump said throughout the 2024 campaign that he was only going to deport the "worst of the worst" and "criminals." The reality has been something different. Top Trump advisor Stephen Miller, at one point, put a quota on ICE to arrest at least 3,000 people daily. Politico reported that the White House then began to backtrack on the demand.
"Go after the criminals. We're all for that. But leave the mom and pops and the kids alone. Man, he's destroying families," Gannon added.
His war on immigrants awoke the nation and led to nation wide protests. A letter to the editors of THE LOS ANGELES TIMES makes it clear how fake and harmful his round ups are:
Thank you to the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California for exposing the truth about President Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids (“Racial slurs and a Google search for car washes: What court records reveal about L.A. immigration raids,” July 29). The claim that they targeted dangerous criminals was always a sham — and ICE agents’ own texts prove it.
They weren’t methodically tracking known criminals. They were Googling the nearest Home Depots, targeting any Latinos they saw, pulling stunts for social media and behaving like they are above the law.
We’ve seen it firsthand. Last June, I responded to an ICE raid in Huntington Park where then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had an entire camera crew — complete with a hair and makeup team — while families were left terrified.
The Harbor Area Peace Patrol documented ICE agents on Terminal Island swapping license plates and even removing them from their vehicles all together.
These raids have been the most sickening abuse of government power in my lifetime. We are a long way away from accountability — but the ACLU’s work has helped bring the truth to light.
Janice Hahn, San Pedro
This writer is a Los Angeles County supervisor.
On the Los Angeles raids, Ashleigh Fields (THE HILL) notes legal action:
A federal judge held the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in contempt following the agency’s delay in complying with an order to release digital copies of communication on the cellphones of more than 800 immigration agents, according to an order unsealed Tuesday.
District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, an appointee of former President Biden, ordered DHS to provide imaging from agents’ personal cellphones in January following several immigration raids in Los Angeles last year.
In the order, plaintiffs alleged the cellphone communications had evidence to support racial profiling allegations against immigration officers.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Public Counsel and other immigration advocacy groups also accused agents of using racial slurs during interactions and argued that access to cellphone data would provide evidence to support their claims.
Chump's given free reign to crazies like the now gone Gregory Bovino and the still present Stephen Miller to attack and terrorize immigrants (and people mistaken for immigrants). That was always how it was going to be and that's why some of us noted the importance of supporting Kamala Harris (while others, like Amy Goodman on DEMOCRACY NOW!, did "two [segments] slamming Kamala, two saying Kamala and Chump were the same and one focusing on what Chump did in his first term" -- see Ava and my "Media: How Amy Goodman harmed immigrants and helped elect Chump"). We knew that it invited racial profiling. It invited targeting. And it would target immigrants with no criminal background while also targeting US citizens. Nicole Charky-Chami (RAW STORY) notes:
An 11-year Army soldier said he felt shocked and betrayed after ICE agents stormed into his wife's green card interview and detained her, Newsweek reported on Thursday.
Staff Sergeant Alexis Jaramillo, 43, described the disbelief after his wife, Maisa Lopes Eliaser, 32, was ripped from his side during what he, his wife, their son and translator thought was an adjustment-of-status appointment on July 8 in Montgomery, Alabama, according to Newsweek.
Lopes Eliaser is a Brazilian national with no criminal record.
"I feel really betrayed," Jaramillo told Newsweek. "I serve this country. And I deserve some security with my family. We were very excited because we knew we were doing the right thing and complying with the government. Then two people came and told me she was going to be detained."
[. . .]
Recent Associated Press reporting shows more than 50 parents and spouses of active-duty service members have been detained since President Donald Trump's second term began in January 2025. At least six have been deported and one self-deported.
Pete Hegseth can't stand up for the troops the way a real Secretary of Defense would do. Prissy Pete's too busy trying to be one of the boys. In the process, he's failing the troops. Another example? Travis Gettys (RAW STORY) notes:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is accused of deliberately obscuring the true human cost of the war with Iran – and potentially depriving benefits from the families of service members killed in the conflict.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) publicly called out the Pentagon for quietly removing recent casualty figures from an internal tracking system and reclassified them under a vaguer category, saying the move was "an ongoing manipulation by the Trump administration to hide the true cost of the war in Iran to the American people," reported MS NOW.
“For the purposes of the VA, for example, when you become a veteran, you get a different pension based on whether or not you are a combat-connected injury, or whether your injury was just in operational service,” Duckworth said, calling the reclassification “a slap in the face to our Gold Star families.”
“We actually have folks who have been killed," she added, "and we have one who is still missing in action, that the Gold Star families now don’t have real answers from the Trump administration as to what has happened to their loved ones."
The Illinois Democrat, an Iraq War veteran and Purple Heart recipient, plans to introduce the Honoring the Sacrifice of Troops in War Act in the Senate on Thursday, legislation aimed at forcing transparency in how the Defense Department tracks and reports casualties from military operations, and restoring all casualty records tied to Iran operations dating back to Feb. 28.
It's a shame that Duckworth has to go through the trouble of introducing legislation for this. But that's what happens when a preening Pete becomes Secretary of Defense. All the make up in the world can't hide the psoriasis and all the make up in the world can't make him look like a warrior either.
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and the entire New Mexico congressional delegation are demanding answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after revelations that a Department of Defense GPS jamming exercise contributed to a medical plane crash that killed four crew members and ignited a wildfire that burned nearly 32,000 acres.
In a letter obtained exclusively by MeidasTouch, Heinrich was joined by Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Reps. Teresa Leger Fernández, Melanie Stansbury, and Gabe Vasquez, all Democrats, in pressing Hegseth for accountability over the Pentagon's role in the May 13 crash in Lincoln County.
Just before midnight that night, a Beechcraft King Air medical transport plane carrying two pilots and two flight nurses took off from Roswell bound for Sierra Blanca Regional Airport in Ruidoso to pick up a patient for transport to Albuquerque. According to the lawmakers, the aircraft's GPS was jammed by a scheduled military test event in the area, causing the routine medical flight to overshoot its landing pattern by 10 miles. At 12:15 a.m. on May 14, the plane slammed into the side of the Capitan Mountains, killing all four crew members instantly and sparking a wildfire that burned for three weeks before crews could contain it.
And yet the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States stayed silent about it for months and months. They didn't apologize to families of the four killed, they didn't own up to the American people what had taken place. And they still haven't. They seem to think no one will know if they just continue to ignore what took place.
Hegseth's failures just keep piling up. In yesterday's snapshot, we noted the conditions on the USS LINCOLN and Bruce Golding (INDEPENDENT) reports:
Morale is plummeting on an American aircraft carrier that's running short of food and other supplies as its exhausted crew wages President Donald Trump's war against Iran, worried family members say.
Sailors and Marines serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln have told relatives about being served a half-cup of rice and two tortillas for a meal, and said the ship's store often lacks soap, deodorant and toothpaste, MS NOW reported Wednesday.
Crew members are also worn out by working long, grueling shifts, with some rarely getting a day off, and described broken toilets, moldy showers without hot water and no laundry service for weeks at a time, relatives said.
“The morale is not good,” said Bonnie York, whose stepson is aboard the Lincoln. “Apparently, the ship’s doctor or therapist said they need to hit port soon or people are going to start, you know, losing their minds.”
On the food issue, Cybele Mayes-Osterman (USA TODAY) reported back on April 16th:
Dan F. was alarmed when his daughter, a Marine aboard the USS Tripoli, a warship deployed to fight the Iran war, sent him a photo of a meal served on the ship. A lunch tray, two-thirds empty, carried one small scoop of shredded meat and a single folded tortilla.
A picture of a mid-April dinner on the USS Abraham Lincoln, shared by a service member with his family, was similarly unappetizing – a small handful of boiled carrots, a dry meat patty and a gray slab of processed meat.
Dan and other military family members worried that their loved ones deployed to the Middle East are going hungry are filling boxes with items they hope could help service members ride out prolonged deployments in the Middle East – homemade fudge, Jolly Ranchers, crossword puzzle books, playing cards, toothpaste, Girl Scout cookies and fresh socks.
But mail delivery to military ZIP codes across the Middle East has been indefinitely suspended as of April, and packages in transit now hang in limbo.
Dan asked to go by his first name only to protect his daughter from retaliation.
Both the Navy and Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth denied reports of food problems.
"My team confirmed the logistics stats for the Lincoln & Tripoli," Hegseth said in a post on X. "Both have 30+ days of Class I supplies (food) on board. NavCent monitors this everyday, for every ship. Our sailors deserve -- and receive -- the best."
Well, Pete, doesn't seem like you're ensuring that the troops have the best. Not if the issue is still being raised over three months later. In fact, that would appear to indict you as a lying, do-nothing who wants the title of Secretary of Defense but doesn't want to do any actual work that comes with the position. Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, Lloyd Austin, Leon Panetta -- even Donald Rumsfeld -- would have been publicly raising hell if they found out that sailors on US carrier didn't have adequate provisions. Adam Lynch notes MS NOW's Priya Sridhar reporting:
“Deployment was extended for a second time, and they're concerned that this could lead to accidents that could potentially turn deadly,” said Sridhar. And then on top of that, … they're telling me that the sailors and the marines can't take hot showers, that the toilets are nonoperational, that for weeks at a time, there are no access to working laundry facilities, and that they're having to stand in lines to get into the ship's store for 1 to 2 hours. And when they get there, there are no basic hygiene items like toothpaste, deodorant or soap.”
The families’ frustration, added Sridhar, is that they’re hearing about the nation’s winnowing stockpiles of munitions and weapons, which Trump and his defense secretary keep blowing on Iran, and a $67 billion Department of Defense request, and they want their loved ones to be part of the conversation too.
Winnowing stockpiles of munitions and weapons? Oh, yeah, the reality that has Chump hissing "treason." Edith Olmsted (THE NEW REPUBLIC) explains:
President Donald Trump is crashing out about a report that he confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the U.S. military’s depleted munitions stockpile.
Trump took to Truth Social within the first hour of Thursday to hit back at The Washington Post for reporting that tensions between Hegseth and the president had “boiled over” on the sidelines of a Cabinet meeting at Camp David last week.
“The U.S. has massive amounts of ‘munitions,’ especially of certain types,” Trump wrote. “Additionally, large amounts are being manufactured and shipped to the U.S. as needed. Defense companies are building the largest number of plants and factories in our country’s history.”
“The ‘leakers’ of these treasonous statements are being hunted down. Long term jail sentences will be sought!” Trump wrote. Notably, Trump didn’t deny unloading on Hegseth.
This isn’t the first time the Trump administration has challenged reports that the country’s weapons stockpile is low, and still managed to threaten the leakers with jail time. If the story is false, then why would it be treasonous to tell it?
Steve Benen (MS NOW) addresses Chump's 'treasonous' response:
The first problem with this is that Trump’s efforts to downplay the depleted stockpiles contradict comments he made last week, when the Republican acknowledged the problem he now seems eager to paper over.
The second problem is that Trump’s online statement contradicts itself: The president can argue that the latest reporting is false, or he can argue that the reporting is based on “treasonous leaks.” But to argue both at once doesn’t make sense. As Mother Jones’ David Corn recently summarized in response to a different story, “It’s only a leak if it’s true.”
Using publicly available data, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a national security think tank, estimated that by the end of July, the US had between 759 and 827 Patriot missiles left, down from 2,330 before the conflict began.
It also estimates the US has now used around 60% of terminal high altitude area defense (THAAD) missiles, which are deployed to intercept strikes, Mark Cancian, a retired Marine Corps colonel and senior adviser at CSIS, said on Wednesday.
And Joe DePaolo (MEDIAITE) notes Joe Scarborough's response to the news:
Joe Scarborough was off from Morning Joe on Thursday — but still managed to deliver a hot take that’s sure to get people talking in Washington and beyond.
In a fiery post on X on Thursday, Scarborough sounded off about the blockbuster Washington Post report about President Donald Trump clashing at Camp David with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over what The Post characterized as “extreme munitions shortages that now threaten to limit military options with Iran.”
Scarborough called it an “unforgivable blunder” compounded by Hegseth’s refusal to acknowledge the shortage.
“When Hegseth attacks media questions on this extreme munitions shortage as “fake news,” he makes this unforgivable blunder worse,” Scarborough wrote. “Congress needs to take action. Americans need the truth. Hegseth can’t give it. He needs to go.”
Turning to Chump's former roll dog, the late Jeffrey Epstein, Brett Meiselas (MEIDASTOUCH NEWS) notes:
President Donald Trump's plan to haul Rupert Murdoch into a deposition just hit a wall.
A federal judge on Wednesday granted The Wall Street Journal's request to freeze discovery in Trump's defamation lawsuit over the newspaper's reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, a significant procedural victory that came just hours after lawyers argued over whether the case should be dismissed altogether.
U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles issued the order after hearing oral arguments in Miami federal court on the Journal's motion to dismiss Trump's amended complaint. In a paperless order entered later that day, Gayles stayed, or paused, all discovery pending his decision on whether the lawsuit can proceed.
The decision means Trump cannot force Murdoch, or anyone else connected to the case for that matter, to sit for depositions while the judge decides whether the lawsuit survives. If Gayles ultimately dismisses the case with prejudice, as the Journal has requested, Murdoch may never have to answer Trump's questions under oath.
Stunned may describe Chump's reaction to that Mother Tucker Carlson. Travis Gettys (RAW STORY) explains:
The former Fox News host invoked the late sex offender – and former Trump pal – Jeffrey Epstein as a symbol of the elite class to which the president belongs and has failed to hold accountable, and Carlson seemingly took a step toward a possible 2028 presidential bid by outlining his "America First" priorities, reported The Daily Beast.
The 57-year-old broadcaster has spent months building a dissident wing within MAGA, teaming with former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, 52, who resigned from Congress earlier this year after a bitter split with Trump over what she called broken campaign promises.
Both accuse Trump, 80, of abandoning "America First" principles by entangling the U.S. in the Iran war, deferring to Israel on foreign policy, and mishandling the release of the Epstein files.
New Mexico’s attorney general sued the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice and acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche this week over the DOJ’s refusal to share un-redacted documents from its files on Jeffrey Epstein. The state is investigating crimes that took place at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in Stanley, New Mexico (pictured above, located in Santa Fe County). The ranch, which Epstein purchased in 1993, is mentioned more than 10,000 times in the files.
“New Mexico has a duty to protect survivors and investigate crimes committed in our state so that perpetrators can be held accountable,” New Mexico’s Attorney General Raúl Torrez said in a statement. “We asked the Department of Justice to cooperate by providing access to records that may be critical to identifying victims, witnesses, and additional criminal conduct at Zorro Ranch. Their delay is actively hurting our criminal investigation and delaying justice Epstein survivors deserve.”
The lawsuit (which can be read here) was filed in federal court in Washington, DC yesterday, and argues that the DOJ’s refusal to provide the documents “violates the Administrative Procedure Act and unlawfully interferes with New Mexico’s sovereign authority to investigate and prosecute crimes committed within its borders.”
CNN's Jake Tapper was stunned to hear New Mexico's attorney general suggest that a Trump official lied under oath.
During an interview with Tapper on Wednesday, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez discussed the Department of Justice's handling of records related to dead sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch. Torrez filed a lawsuit against the DOJ on Wednesday after it ignored a deadline to hand those records over.
"They've never worked with us," Torrez said. "We asked for this information as a law enforcement agency. It's a very common practice for us to reach out to federal prosecutors and investigators and ask for the kinds of investigative files that are at issue here."
Torrez said that the DOJ directed them to the District of New Mexico, "which was odd," and he "knew full well" that that office "didn't have the whole range of files that we were looking for." Torrez complied nonetheless but was still unable to get unredacted files that he needed to investigate Zorro Ranch.
"The bottom line is they're not cooperating," Torrez said. "They're stonewalling this investigation, and that's why we had to take legal action today."
Tapper pointed out that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who currently heads the DOJ, told Congress under oath that the DOJ would cooperate with the New Mexico Department of Justice and help it get the information that it needed. What Torrez was describing suggested that this wasn't true and that Blanche was refusing to cooperate with the New Mexico AG.
"I'm just stunned because you're suggesting that he lied to Congress when he said that under oath," Tapper said. "Lying to Congress is obviously illegal."
MS NOW notes that the Senate is wrapping up business today before going on their planned recess which starts Saturday.
One of the things that they want to do is confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General. And on that, let's note this from Senator Patty Murray's office:
Murray: “Mr. Blanche told us all exactly what he plans to do if Senators confirm him. His goal was to make the Dobbs decision ‘permanent in every single state.’ Every. Single. State.”
Murray: “This isn’t just a confirmation vote anymore—it’s a roll-call vote on which Senators endorse banning abortion in all 50 states from the federal level. I’m voting NO.”
ICYMI: At Hearing with Acting AG Blanche, Senator Murray Blasts Outrageous Creation of $1.8 Billion MAGA Slush Fund, Presses for Apology to Epstein Victims
***WATCH: Senator Murray’s remarks***
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, spoke on the Senate floor ahead of the vote to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General. Murray condemned Blanche for his disqualifying track record and outright corruption. Murray also sounded the alarm on Blanche’s recent comments made during a private call where Blanche says he will work to make the Dobbs decision “permanent in every single state.”
Senator Murray’s remarks, as delivered, are below:
“M. President, I was never going to come out here and support Todd Blanche for a long list of reasons. I believe he is one of the most corrupt Justice Department officials in our country’s history, for one. He was Trump’s former personal lawyer—and it seems that he never quit!
“The only difference now is that the taxpayers are signing his checks instead of Trump. He was the one who negotiated a $1.8 billion slush fund to pay off violent insurrectionists, and who cut a backroom deal to give the President and his entire corrupt family immunity from IRS investigations.
“Not to forget, Todd Blanche is the guy who botched the Epstein files so badly that survivors had their names and faces exposed, while the names of alleged abusers were hidden. This is a man, who wouldn’t meet with survivors until Senators put him under a tremendous amount of public pressure. And when the meeting eventually got on the books, survivors made it crystal clear that Blanche didn’t listen to them. He was more interested in checking a box than hearing their stories or bringing them justice.
“All of that is of course absolutely unacceptable and disqualifying. But I come here today to sound the alarm on some of the most disturbing comments I have ever heard from our nation’s top law enforcement official. M. President, I guess Todd Blanche thought no one was listening.
“Because on a private call with anti-abortion activists Mr. Blanche told us all exactly what he plans to do if Senators confirm him.
“His goal was to make the Dobbs decision ‘permanent in every single state.’ Every. Single. State. Not just Texas or Idaho. He wants to ban abortion in Washington state. California. New York. In every state.
“He told them, ‘We will have victory, and victory will be soon, and it will be permanent.’ Victory over what, exactly? Victory over women who just want to make their own health care decisions? Victory over patients in states where abortion is legal?
“Where voters have said, over and over, at the ballot box: keep your hands off our rights.
“Now, a DOJ spokesperson tried to clean up Blanche’s words. Saying he was only focused on restricting access to medication abortion in all 50 states—as if that’s somehow better.
“Well, I’m here to say I believe the tape. I believe Todd Blanche’s own words.
“So let’s be crystal clear about what this vote is. A vote to confirm Todd Blanche is a vote to endorse his fight to ban abortion in all fifty states. Whatever happened to this is states’ decision? So every Republican who votes yes is voting for exactly that—his words, not mine. And any Republican who votes to confirm him will own that. In every state. In every election.
“So, M. President, this isn’t just a confirmation vote anymore—it’s a roll-call vote on which Senators endorse banning abortion in all 50 states from the federal level. I’m voting no.”
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