US News Anchor Gives Trump’s ‘Most Vile Lie’ About 9/11 A Blunt Fact-Check

“Donald Trump has been lying about 9/11 since 9/11,” O’Donnell said on Monday night. “Here is Donald Trump’s most vile lie about 9/11.”

He played a clip of Trump claiming during a Republican debate that he “lost hundreds of friends” on 9/11.

O’Donnell said it was a lie ― and noted that he called Trump out over it at the time.

Trump during a subsequent appearance altered it to losing “many, many friends,” but O’Donnell said that was a lie too.

“Donald Trump lost zero friends on 9/11,” he said. “Donald Trump attended zero funerals of 9/11 victims. Zero. But Donald Trump tried to steal the grief of all of the families who lost someone on 9/11.”

O’Donnell noted that United Airlines Flight 93 was potentially headed for the U.S. Capitol on that morning, but instead crashed in a Pennsylvania field after the passengers revolted.

Then, he played footage of January 6 attackers breaking into the Capitol just steps away from a plaque honouring those aboard that flight for stopping the attack.

“In the 21st century, only two groups have tried to attack the United States Capitol: al-Qaida, led by Osama bin Laden, and Trump supporters, led by Donald Trump,” he said. “Only the Trump attackers actually did damage to the Capitol.”

See more from his Monday night broadcast:

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Trump’s ‘Mental Acuity’ Challenge Gets Exactly The Response You’d Expect

Donald Trump threw another fit on his social media website on Sunday, this time challenging a host of rivals to a “mental acuity test.”

Trump, who is refusing to debate any of his Republican presidential rivals but instead offered to debate Meghan Markle, is demanding that US President Joe Biden, right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch and others take a test of his choosing, at a place of his choosing.

“It will be a tough one,” the former president wrote on Truth Social. “Nobody will come even close to me!”

Trump was triggered by a Wall Street Journal poll in which 49% said he was not mentally up for the job of president. (That number was 60% for Biden.)

“A few years ago I was the only one to agree to a mental acuity test, & ACED IT,” Trump wrote in response to the poll, which he claimed was “probably rigged.”

Trump hasn’t taken a “mental acuity test,” or at least hasn’t publicly revealed the results of such a test if he did. However, in 2020 he took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, or MoCA, which is used to check for signs of cognitive impairments that could be an indication of dementia.

Trump has often bragged of passing the assessment, and insisted that it was hard.

But it’s not supposed to be.

“It is supposed to be easy for someone who has no cognitive impairment,” Dr Ziad Nasreddine, who invented the test, told MarketWatch in 2020.

It asks the subject to complete tasks like identifying an elephant, or remembering and then repeating five words ― which, in Trump’s case, were infamously “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.”

Now, however, he seems to think passing the MoCA means he can challenge Biden, Murdoch, Murdoch’s sons, and the heads of the Wall Street Journal to the test of his choosing.

Neither Biden nor Murdoch have responded to Trump’s “challenge,” but the former president’s critics had plenty to say:

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Joe Biden’s 4-Word Reaction To Donald Trump’s Mug Shot Is Dripping With Shade

Reporters in Lake Tahoe, California, where Biden is vacationing, asked him Friday if he’d seen the infamous ― and historic ― mug shot of the former president.

“I did see it on television,” Biden said with a chuckle.

A reporter then asked what the president thought about the pic.

“Handsome guy,” Biden deadpanned. “Wonderful guy.”

People on X, formerly known as Twitter, were amazed at the amount of shade Biden packed into four little words.

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Sarah Palin Calls For Trump Supporters To ‘Rise Up’ Over Arrest And Alludes To ‘Civil War’

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin apparently thinks only bad things can come from prosecuting Donald Trump for his many alleged crimes ― including a possible civil war.

Palin, who rose to national prominence as Republican John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election, suggested that possibility on Newsmax soon after the former president surrendered to authorities on Thursday evening in Fulton County, Georgia, where he faces 13 felony charges related to his efforts to steal the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden.

Trump faces 91 counts total across four criminal cases, including for his coup attempt, his alleged mishandling of classified documents, and a hush money scheme involving Stormy Daniels.

Although it’s typical for a person accused of a felony to be arrested, Newsmax host Eric Bolling felt compelled to ask Palin if Trump’s arrest was proof of a two-tiered justice system.

Palin responded to the Republican red meat with gusto: “I mean, I think those who are conducting this travesty and creating this two-tier system of justice, I want to ask them: What the heck? Do you want us to be in civil war? Because that’s what’s going to happen.”

Palin vowed that “we’re not going to keep putting up with this,” and praised Bolling for suggesting that “we need to get angry.”

She added: “We do need to rise up and take our country back.”

Palin then griped that the Republican National Committee has “the funds” and “the platform” to stoke “collective anger” over the indictments, but that “they’re too timid, and a bunch of frickin’ RINOs [Republicans in name only] running the thing.”

She warned that the RNC “better get their stuff together, or I have to ask them, too: What do they want as an outcome of this, civil war?”

You can see the segment below, courtesy of Media Matters For America:

Not surprisingly, Palin’s suggestion that a civil war could be nigh garnered a strong reaction from social media users.

And she had a bone to pick with Ed Krassenstein, a prominent social media commentator with nearly 1 million followers on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

“Stop calling for civil war,” Krassenstein wrote when sharing the clip of Palin’s Newsmax appearance. “Stop implying that we are on the brink of Civil War. We are not. Just Stop!”

Palin fired back with a long post that said she was unfamiliar with Krassenstein, but that she’d “address your dumbass comment about me” because “you have some followers.”

“WHEN DID I CALL FOR CIVIL WAR?? I ASKED if that’s what you Leftist whackos wanted to happen, with your lies & disruptions & division,” she wrote, using all-caps for portions of her diatribe.

Krassenstein responded that he never said she “called for a civil war,” but noted she “pushed the idea of a civil war, which you undeniably did.”

He then accused her of gaslighting.

Palin hadn’t responded to Krassenstein’s retort as of Friday afternoon, but she continued to make heated posts on X and Instagram.

Although the First Amendment does allow for fiery rhetoric, MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan recently noted that it’s increasingly been spilling into actual right-wing violence since January 6, 2021.

“Now you might say, again, ‘That’s just talk, talk is cheap.’ But it’s not just talk,” Hasan said. “Political violence is not just something abstract or something that might happen at some point in the future. It’s happening right now.”

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Twitter Users Are Sceptical About Ron DeSantis’ Abortion Anecdote At Debate

At least four of the eight candidates on stage falsely claimed that people are getting abortions up until birth. But the Florida governor went a little further.

DeSantis claimed to know a woman named “Penny” who he said “survived multiple abortion attempts” and “was left discarded in a pan.”

He added: “Fortunately, her grandmother saved her and brought her to a different hospital.”

DeSantis then declared that Republicans “are not going to allow abortion all the way up ’til birth,” referring to something that, again, is not actually happening to begin with, no matter what Republican politicians desperate for primary voters might say.

Many people on social media were sceptical that DeSantis’ story is true and that his good friend Penny even exists.

HuffPost reached out to the DeSantis campaign to ask about the governor’s friendship with Penny and whether they would make her available for interviews, but no one immediately responded.

DeSantis may have been referring to an anti-abortion rights activist from Michigan named Miriam “Penny” Hopper, who has claimed she was born in 1955 at 23 weeks old after her parents decided to have an abortion.

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John Bolton Has A 4-Letter Word To Describe Trump’s Mug Shot

John Bolton didn’t hesitate when asked to describe Donald Trump’s glowering mug shot, released after the former president was booked on Thursday in the Georgia election interference case.

“He could’ve smiled. He could’ve looked benign,” Bolton said on CNN. “Instead he looks like a thug.”

Donald Trump's booking photo, taken at the Fulton County Jail on August 24, 2023. (Photo by Fulton County Sheriff's Office via Getty Images)
Donald Trump’s booking photo, taken at the Fulton County Jail on August 24, 2023. (Photo by Fulton County Sheriff’s Office via Getty Images)

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Bolton, who served as national security advisor under Trump, said the image was likely carefully staged, as most things are around Trump.

“I think it’s intended to be a sign of intimidation against the prosecutors and the judges,” he said.

Bolton also had harsh words for most of the other Republicans seeking the presidential nomination after six of eight participants in Wednesday night’s debate said they would support Trump if he wins the primary even if he’s convicted.

“I think there were six wrong answers and two right answers,” Bolton said. “You cannot believe in a law-and-order philosophy and say it applies to everybody except Donald Trump.”

He added: “In any sane society, somebody who’s a convicted felon should step aside.”

Bolton said the Republican National Committee should have a rule forcing a convicted candidate off the ticket.

Like many who served under Trump, Bolton released a tell-all book bashing his former boss and has made regular appearances in the media speaking out against the ex-president.

Trump has fired back by calling him a “liar,” a “dope” and a “sick puppy.”

Bolton has said in the past that he voted for Trump in 2016, but not in 2020, when he wrote in the name of a conservative candidate instead. He added that he would do the same next year if Trump is the Republican nominee.

See the full conversation below:

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