Trump: "I Inherited Fauci, who was there since the 1980’s, but with each passing day, relied less and less on him. He made too many bad calls, like on MASKS. Remember at the beginning he was an anti-masker. He then switched to a super-masker. In any event I didn’t let him shut the Country down, although he wanted to."

C-SPAN is replaying historical Lindsey Graham speeches all day today in case someone you know finished last in their fantasy football league and still needs to be punished for it

New in PN: Why Trump deserves all the blame for high gas prices

"No president has ever deserved to be hoisted on the petard of gas prices more. That’s not only because of how he weaponized the issue against his opponents before, but because unlike almost every other president, he's actually responsible for where the price of gas is right now."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-gas-prices

"This erratic approach to decision-making is what you’d expect in a personalist dictatorship. Republicans love to tout the unitary executive theory, holding that the president has expansive and unchecked power. But they have implemented that theory under the reign of a man who is bored by policy, violently opposed to listening to anyone who isn’t fluffing him, and lives in a self-contained narcissistic fugue of grievance and ego-wounds."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-saudi-nuclear-deal

New in PN: The Saudi nuclear farce and governance by whim and meme

"The result is a regime that is constantly tripping over its own bloated mushroom-like appendages — and a global order in which absolutely no one can trust that the United States will do tomorrow what it promises today."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-saudi-nuclear-deal

"I challenge anyone to defend it: a war built on lies told by a White House utterly absent figures of integrity to dissuade the president from his delusions" -- Jon Ossoff's entire address today at the Berean Christian Church is worth watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWxzRt2qBlY

Ossoff: "Each day, his allies are fewer, and even they no longer deny his corruption, the obscene self-dealing while he plunges the nation deeper into reckless war. While the people pay more for everything and millions lose health coverage, while he rakes in billions and builds himself a ballroom and prepares again to attack our elections. And let's be clear just one man attempted election fraud in Georgia in 2020: Donald J. Trump"

Ossoff: "The price of admission to the president's service seems to be proof that you're willing to lie for him. Have you seen it? Maybe you saw Jay Clayton, the president's nominee to lead our intelligence services, refuse again and again while he was under oath to affirm Donald Trump's defeat in 2020, or Pete Hegseth before the Senate this week refusing to recant his lies about the war. There's something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into war, treating citizens as fools."

Trump: "I think we'll put a major tariffs on Texas-- on Mexico because of the lettuce. And we'll put a big tariff on Canada because of the smoke."

DOOCY: You said Russia and China aren't helping Iran. But Hegseth says they're 'enabling.' What's the difference?

TRUMP: I don't know that they're 'enabling.' I will tell you that President Xi said he will not partake. And President Putin said the same thing. I trust them.

Trump: "I owned the Miss Universe pageant. And Miss Venezuela always did very well in that pageant. So I know something about the country."

New in PN: MAGA's "pasta pass" talking point is height of gaslighting

"In making it vastly harder to register or re-register, the SAVE America Act makes civic participation something that feels onerous and complicated, and that is intended. The Trumpian project relies on people not caring what happens to the country, on them feeling like their vote doesn’t matter."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/save-america-act-olive-garden