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Q. When is an October Surprise not an October surprise? A. When it's aimed at Donald Trump. Just ask Morning Joe. On today's episode, Jonathan Lemire and Katty Kay agreed: Nope, Jack Smith's new filing in his election interference case against Trump was not an October Surprise. Lemire's first argument was particularly lame: Okay, yeah, the filing came in October. But it came at the beginning of October, not like Jim Comey's letter regarding the Hillary Clinton private email server probe that came about one week before the 2016 election. This -- we kid you not -- "much further out."...

US politics and Donald Trump in Valdosta, Georgia devastated by Hurricane Helene... A rocket attack tonight on a base housing US troops near the Baghdad Airport... A least three Israeli airstrikes tonight in the Damascus, Syria area... Israeli airstrikes in Beirut tonight and also a refugee camp in Sidon... A drone intercepted in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tel Aviv... Protesters outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home calling for a hostage deal... Ryan Routh, accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump... 12 migrants dead after a boat capsized off the coast of Tunisia... The US moving additional warplanes...

Zachary Levi has offered a public endorsement of Donald Trump. The Shazam actor had been supporting Robert F Kennedy in his bid to be the Republican candidate for the upcoming presidential election, but after he dropped out last month, the 44-year-old star has now given his backing to the controversial former president, who previously held office from 2017 to 2021. He appeared at a campaign rally in Michigan over the weekend and told the crowd: "I'm not gonna take too much time, but I did just wanna just give you a little context about why Shazam is sitting here talking...

Don't be fooled by David Frum's rather reserved academic mien. The CNN regular is as rabid a Trump/JD Vance hater as anyone on the liberal media's Team Kamala. In recent times, we have caught Frum calling Vance a "racist, corrupt" Trump with better hair and a law degree. And comparing Trump to psychopathic mass murderer Charles Manson. Frum was back at his incendiary attacks on today's CNN This Morning. The topic was the appropriateness of Trump calling Kamala Harris mentally impaired and disabled. Frum suggested that instead of making personal insults about Harris, Trump should speak about his plans. Frum's...

Tonight, Israel's credit rating downgraded two notches... Three US warships off Yemen fought off a complex missile and drone attack... Israeli air attacks on Beirut late tonight... Iran's Supreme Leader convening an emergency meeting... "I'm on record saying we need different leadership in Israel"...Hillary Clinton... Sean "Diddy" Combs has been accused in a civil suit of drugging and sexually assaulting... After his meeting with Ukraine's President Donald Trump...indicating he would negotiate a 'good deal'... Election concerns in the nation of Georgia.... There are deaths, injuries and damage after Hurricane Helene came ashore... New York Mayor Eric Adams entering not guilty...

A new survey asked hundreds of small businesses who they believe would be a better presidential candidate, and the results weren't close. With just over a month until the November election and with ballots already in the hands of voters the Job Creators Network Foundation (JCNF) polled 400 small business employers. These business operators largely had the same answer: Donald Trump.

Appeals court judges appeared to question the legitimacy of the civil fraud case against Donald Trump as the former president urged the court Thursday to overturn a judgment against him that has ballooned, with interest, to more than $478 million.In February, a Manhattan trial judge found that Trump and other defendants — including his adult sons, Don Jr. and Eric, along with several business associates — fraudulently inflated his net worth and the value of his real estate properties to obtain favorable rates from banks and insurers. The nearly half-billion-dollar penalty ordered by the trial judge initially threatened to trigger...

As our Tim Graham observed back in 2020: "Washington Post scribe Robin Givhan is supposed to do fashion writing, but it's always smarter to see her as a political columnist who uses fashion as an inspiration." In her current column, the closest senior critic at-large Givhan comes to fashion is to condescendingly describe Mark Robinson's "well-fed physique draped in a so-so suit." But the thrust of her screed is purely political: mocking what she—five times—describes as the Christian "God people" who continue to support Robinson and Trump, despite the candidates' shortcomings. Get the rest of the story and view the...

[snip] Frum sees Harris as the candidate now pulling away. Frum was, in essence, predicting a Kamala victory. And he wondered what lesson the Trump campaign, and by extension Republicans at large, would learn from the loss. Would they conclude that Trump lost because he was older and didn't work hard enough, and that the party simply needs to find a younger, harder-working version of Trump? Or will they realize that, according to Frum: "[Trump's] kind of authoritarian, racist, corrupt style of politics doesn't work. It doesn't work in North Carolina. It doesn't work for Donald Trump. And it doesn't...

The pressure is mounting on Kamala Harris, as her campaign appears to be in full-blown panic mode ahead of the upcoming debate. According to a recent report from Fox News, Harris’s team has resorted to extreme measures to prepare their candidate, even going so far as to seclude her in a Pittsburgh hotel room with a stage setup and a Trump impersonator to simulate the debate environment. The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Harris is demanding a seated format and permission to use a “cheat-sheet” during the live debate—an unprecedented move that Trump’s campaign has swiftly condemned. This, they argue,...

How awful are world politics today? It has me giving money to two billionaires — Donald Trump and Elon Musk. They are real life Obi-Wan Kenobis. One is fighting for my country, the other for my God-given, shove-it-up-the-censors right to free speech. Google messed around with me and I ditched it for Substack, where I am happier and my readers don’t have to put up with advertisements. While the Derp State keeps going after Trump with indictments, mugshots and assassination bullets, Musk is fighting the second worst people in the world — the European Union. The worst work at the...

VIDEOWe have had TWO assassination attempts on President Donald Trump in TWO months and who does NBC Anchor Lester Holt blame for this? Donald Trump. Yes, Lester Holt blamed Trump's "rhetoric" for the latest assassination attempt and then immediately segued NOT to the scene of the assassination attempt in Florida but to Springfield, Ohio where Maggie Vespa continued to spill venom by attacking Trump's assertions about the situation there. Fortunately, as you see in this video, real reporter Nick Sortor was on the scene to confront fake news reporter Vespa who immediately hid behind her protective bubble. Vespa will never...

Once again, the grace of God spared the life of Donald Trump, the most persecuted President in American history. He has survived two unfair impeachments, illegal surveillance, an unprecedented raid on his home, gratuitous lawfare from the Department of Justice and affiliated leftwing Democrat prosecutors, while being subjected to outrageous civil judgements, a mugshot, indictments, a politically motivated conviction, and an upcoming criminal sentencing.

VIDEOPut this at the top of the category of Memes Gone Wrong. Megaphonix took a clip of the left-wing nephew of the Young Turks Chunk Yogurt, Hasan Piker, reacting to Donald Trump at the debate and remixed it as a supposed anti-Trump meme. Unfortunately for Megaphonix that meme was fully embraced by MAGA to the extent that it was taken down. However, since so many MAGA folks copied that meme before the takedown it will live on forever as a MAGA meme much to the consternation of poor TDS Megaphonix.

Donald Trump received a two-point bump in battleground state polling after Tuesday’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, a poll released Thursday shows. The polling memo obtained by Breitbart News shows Trump leading Harris by three points, 50%-47%, in a head-to-head ballot. “A Poll has just been released by Highly Respected Pollster, Tony Fabrizio, showing that I am up THREE POINTS after the Debate,” Trump said in a statement. “These are largely Independent Voters, who are tired of watching our Country go down, and want to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

If it had been up to Kasie Hunt, host of CNN This Morning, the rest of today's show could have been ditched, replaced by a non-stop loop of Trump making his claim, during last night's debate, that migrants are eating the pets of residents of Springfield, Ohio. She cited leftist late-night jester Stephen Colbert, and smirked at Trump "spouting baseless allegations about migrants eating pets." After playing it once, Hunt begged a show director: "Can we, can we just, Jimmy in the control room, can we play the pets bite one more time? Can we just watch that one more...

Get a designated driver, avoid spirits, and take small sips. Tonight's presidential debate is likely to shape history, so start your livers! Join us at 8:45 pm ET/7:45 pm CT Since the last presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden ended the latter’s re-election bid, newshounds are emptying Thesauruses in search of maximalist language to describe the import of tonight’s clash between Kamala Harris and Trump. “With no other debates scheduled between Ms. Harris and Mr. Trump,” the New York Times writes, “the face-off figures to be one of the highest-stakes 90 minutes in American politics in generations.” It’s...

What's happened to Willie Geist? He used to be a relatively sane balance to the rabid liberal partisanship of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. But in recent times, he has been going increasingly hard left. On today's Morning Joe, Willie called Kari Lake the "residue" of Trump, and called NC GOP guv candidate Mark Robinson "crazy."The "residue?" That's tantamount to calling Kari Lake a lingering stain. Serious question: Could Joe and Mika be getting ready to hang up the spurs, and does Willie want to establish his liberal street cred to take over the show?

Tuesday night’s high-stakes debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will be one of the defining events of this year — maybe this decade. Two months before Election Day, the race is about as close as can be, and the candidates will have no greater opportunity to make their contrasts stark than after they shake hands in Philadelphia. Longtime Republican strategist Karl Rove says Trump has the more difficult task because he’s the one running on substantive issues — as opposed to Harris’ vacuous “joy”-filled campaign. Trump can win the debate, before Harris makes her opening argument. That’s why it’s...

VIDEOA STUNNING admission by Morning Joe's Katty Kay just hours before the debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.Kay flat out stated that a debate on the ISSUES, namely the economy and the border, would be a sure LOSER for Kamala. Instead Kay urged Kamala to ditch debating the facts and to make it about Trump "behaving badly." Why would Katty Kay make this admission in public? Possibly because she has become so comfortable among her fellow liberals on Morning Joe that it is easy to forget that there is a larger audience watching, including a certain fellow from the...