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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The truth that the president’s dropping sleep over my race, posting on social media, the actual fact they needed to ship the secretary of struggle to the district, meaning they’re fearful.”
— Rep. Thomas Massie on President Donald Trump’s assaults forward of at this time’s main in Kentucky
JOE’S NOTE
A minimum of Nero stayed in Rome.
Pete Hegseth is combating a struggle that conservative international coverage scholar Robert Kagan says has no precedent in American history — a defeat that “can neither be repaired nor ignored.”
And but Hegseth left Washington and flew to Kentucky in the midst of that struggle to marketing campaign towards a Republican Donald Trump hates — as a result of that congressman needs the Jeffrey Epstein information launched.
Trump has been attempting in each approach doable to cowl up these information. He’s doing every thing he can, together with all of his billionaire supporters, to destroy a congressman who needs full accountability for the victims of Epstein and all of the very highly effective individuals round him. Some say, together with the president.
They usually name that conservative.
However as I’ve stated for 10 years, there may be nothing conservative about Donald Trump and his Republican Social gathering. They’ve exploded the deficit in historic methods. The debt has skyrocketed.
Trump promised to steadiness the funds. He promised to repay the debt. Regardless of when he leaves workplace, he may have piled on extra debt than each different American president mixed.
They usually surprise why they’re getting crushed.
They don’t care about affordability. They don’t care about working People. They solely care about doing what Trump tells them to do.
And we see the outcome:
The Atlas poll, rated A-plus, reveals double-digit losses for Republicans on the generic poll.
The New York Times/Siena poll — which normally tendencies extra Republican than most — now has Democrats up 11 factors on the generic poll, 50 to 39.
Trump’s approval has hit a second-term low: 37%. Sixty-four p.c of People say the Iran struggle was the incorrect determination.
And the person operating that struggle is in Kentucky.
Ten years in the past, on Fox Information, Hegseth stated the army wouldn’t observe illegal orders from its commander in chief. There’s a normal, he stated. There’s an ethos. It’s on tape.
Now he’s ordered a Pentagon investigation into Sen. Mark Kelly — a retired Navy captain, a extremely adorned struggle hero — for saying the very same factor Hegseth stated earlier than he began blindly chasing energy.
It’s a tragic show. And American voters are onto it.
CHART OF THE DAY
Supply: New York Occasions/Siena ballot of 1,507 registered voters, Might 11 to fifteen, 2026. Margin of error: +/- 2.8 share factors
HEROISM IN THE FACE OF HATE
Earlier than Amin Abdullah died, he bought on his radio.
Already shot, the safety guard on the Islamic Middle of San Diego radioed a warning to lecturers: Lock the classroom doorways. 2 hundred youngsters have been inside.
“By doing this,” the mosque’s imam stated, “he saved so many, many, many souls.”
Abdullah, a father of eight, was considered one of three males killed Monday when two teenage gunmen opened hearth exterior the Islamic Middle — the biggest mosque in San Diego County.
