1/ "House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) accused Biden of granting pardons without knowledge of "what the categories were apparently — much less the individual people that he pardoned."
Trump's apparent lack of knowledge about Zhao despite pardoning him mirrors Republicans' critique of former President Joe Biden's pardons, which both Trump and the GOP have argued are invalid due to his use of the autopen....
Chuck Schumer (D-New York) sarcastically wrote, "Maybe I should file a complaint with the FCC against the Trump White House for editing his unhinged 60 Minutes interview. It will use the exact same language Trump lodged against Vice President Harris."
1/ "They traded competence for attention. They rewarded performance and turned politics into entertainment. They fear her base more than they respect their own standards. They let her set the tone because they think anger wins elections.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is vile. I can’t say it any simpler... Now she blames her own party for being weak... She stays loyal to MAGA and to Trump, but she knows how to read a crowd...
1/ "At the heart of this effort is Greg Bovino, commander-at-large of the Border Patrol, who is currently the public face of the administration’s current interior enforcement surges. What’s unfolding under Bovino isn’t law enforcement. It’s political stagecraft directed from Wash., not the field"
Trump...is conducting a sweeping overhaul of...(ICE), with more than a dozen senior officials in various cities being replaced by officials from Customs and Border Protection (CBP)....
3/ "They could’ve stopped him. They could still stop him. They won’t.
"History won’t remember the GOP as a party. It’ll remember it as the hand that held the door open for authoritarian rule and never closed it again. The country keeps walking through that open door."
2/ "It’s a grand design. The GOP has become the author’s mark on the death warrant of American democracy. They stand still while a convicted felon dismantles the system they swore to protect....
1/ "They claim democracy only counts when they win. They call defeat fraud and twist laws to tip the scales their way. They shout about freedom while stripping it away piece by piece....
