- Michael D. Shear and June Kim @ The New York Times: Once Top Advisers to Trump, They Now Call Him ‘Liar,’ ‘Fascist’ and ‘Unfit’
Many of those who served in former President Donald J. Trump’s administration — especially his generals, ambassadors and other national security officials — have since turned on Mr. Trump.
- Sean Craig @ The Daily Beast: Trump Seizes on Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Remark in Frenzied Attempt to Launch ‘Deplorables’ 2.0
Former president Donald Trump and his MAGA allies pounced Tuesday night after President Joe Biden appeared to call the Republican nominee’s supporters “garbage,” hoping to engineer a backlash similar to 2016 when Hillary Clinton dubbed them “deplorables.”
- Charlie Nash @ Mediaite: Day After Demanding Americans Stop Getting Offended by Everything, JD Vance Melts Down Over Biden Comment
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance condemned a “disgusting” comment made by President Joe Biden on Tuesday, just one day after he said Americans “have to stop getting so offended at every little thing.”
- David Badash @ The New Civil Rights Movement: Former Top Trump White House Official Called for ‘Male Only’ Voting
John McEntee, who served as the Director of the Trump White House Presidential Personnel Office, in a 2023 video said the U.S. should have “male only” voting. The video (below) resurfaced Monday, drawing outrage. It went viral, with over one million views in just 24 hours.
- Kiera Butler @ Mother Jones: Meet the Christian Zionists Determined to Elect Trump
On a blisteringly sunny October day in Washington, DC, tens of thousands of Christians gathered on the National Mall for a day of intense prayer. A self-proclaimed prophet from Colorado named Lou Engle had summoned them for an event he called the “Esther Call on the Mall” because, he said, he had a dream in which the nation’s capital was filled with “a million Esthers,” a reference to the Old Testament queen who stood up for her people against the wicked king Haman.
