Flotsam and Jetsam - Comey Puts Out Hit on Trump

The micro-scandal of yesterday was former FBI director James Comey's plea on Twitter for someone to kill Donald Trump, nicely dressed up a something he found on the beach, which he soon deleted and rapidly denied any insight into. Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr, "Just James Comey causally calling for my dad to be murdered. This is who the Dem-Media worships. Demented!!!!" 86 is mob speak for 8 miles out and 6 feet under, while 47 refers to Trump's current term. From Fox, Ex-FBI chief Comey’s ‘86 47’ social media post condemned by White House as attempt to put ‘hit’ on president, "'This is deeply concerning to all of us and is being taken seriously,' White House spokesperson says". John Sexton at Hat Hair, James Comey Wants to '86' President Trump. At Twitchy, BREAKING: James Comey Posts Alleged Call to Murder Trump on Instagram, Then Deletes It (But We Have It). Sundance at CTH, Former FBI Director James Comey Posts Threatening Message About President Trump, Deletes Instagram When Called Out. Driscoll, who's keeping the seat warm while Insty is vacating, has a FLASHBACK: ‘Shorthand for killing someone:’ "Trump campaign disturbed by Gretchen Whitmer displaying ‘8645’ in background for interview. —The Washington Examiner, October 20th, 2020." Sundance at CTH, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Says James Comey Should be “Arrested and Put Behind Bars” for Threatening the Life of President Trump. Karol Markowicz at NYPo reminds us Democrats lit the ‘assassination culture’ fuse — now their silence equals violence. Do I think Comey was really trying to threaten Trump? Probably not, but it's a pretty good excuse to put him on trial. Let the process be the punishment.

Meanwhile, President Trump is still abroad in the Arab states, collecting deals on behalf of the American people. Sundance, of course, has some videos, President Trump Arrival Ceremony in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and President Trump Delivers Remarks to USA Troops at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon "President Trump gave a momentous, epoch defining speech yesterday in Saudi Arabia, which repudiated both Democratic and Republican foreign policy and paved a new way forward. What does Trump's approach mean for the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Israel? My
@TheFP column:" Quote The Free Press @TheFP "Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia sent a clear message to our allies: “Get on board or get left behind.” @BUngarSargon on the Trump speech that reveals how the president plans to bring peace to the Middle East: “cool hard cash.” https://thefp.pub/43vo1G4 https://thefp.com/p/trumps-grand." At IBD AI Stocks: Saudi Deals Drive Nvidia, AMD, Supermicro Higher. NewsMax, Trump Signs $1.2 Trillion Economic Deal With Qatar. Drew Berquist, Trump’s Qatar Visit Brings Cash and Cooperation—Cue Media Panic. At TownHall, Matt Vespa sees Hillary Clinton's Weigh-in on the Trump-Qatar 747 Story Blows Up in Her Face. RBe @RBPundit "NARRATOR: Hillary Clinton inadvertently reveals how the Clinton Global Initiative operates." Quote Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton "No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious." In other foreign policy news, sundance has Secretary of State Marco Rubio Press Conference from Turkey about Ukraine-Russia Conflict and Secretary Rubio and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte Deliver Remarks in Turkey as Ukraine Delays Discussions. At Am Con, Sumantra Maitra examines The Moment That Tested U.S. Diplomacy. "Within 48 hours, the U.S. achieved three diplomatic breakthroughs."

The gloom and doom predicted for Trump's tariff policies stubbornly refuses to arrive. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 05.15.25 (Afternoon Edition) Twitchy, Axios Reports Fears Over Tariffs Killing The Economy “May Be Overblown”, Louder With Crowder: Trump’s Economy Wins Pile Up And The Left Can’t Stand It and Don Surber: Trump triumphs in Saudi Arabia. From Ace, Axios: "Hard Data Suggests Tariff-Driven Inflation and Recession Fears May be Overblown" POLITICO @politico "Trump tariffs have little impact on prices so far, defying grim forecasts." "Who pushed these Grim Forecasts, Politico? If it's the sources you rely on for every DNC press release story-- are you going to apply more skepticism to their claims going forward, or not so much?" Conrad Black at the Brussels Signal, Tariff de-escalation and hints of new world order show Trump’s tactics are working. At Althouse, "And what's interesting here is that even people who are skeptical of Trump's tariffs might be in favor of reining in fast fashion for environmental reasons or because they're against overconsumption." "From today's episode of the NYT "Daily" podcast, "The End of Fast Fashion?" (audio and transcript at Podscribe). I'm happy to see the NYT devoting some attention to the progressive argument in favor of Trump's tariffs on China." Fox sees Trump On the rise: New poll indicates Trump's approval ratings are edging up. "Trade deals with UK and China help improve economic outlook as president's numbers recover from earlier decline." And Fox polls usually underestimate Trump. Da Caller, Plurality Of Swing Voters Support Trump’s China Tariffs, New Poll Reveals. Quantus Insights @QuantusInsights, "April shocker: U.S. Treasury posts $258B surplus — 2nd largest ever. • Tax receipts surged to $850B • Customs duties (Trump tariffs) doubled to record $15.6B • Borrowing needs down $53B this quarter For a gov’t hooked on deficits, this is a rare fiscal win—driven by new trade policy." Hat Hair's Beege Welborn examines The Good and Bad on the Economic Front Today. Kurt Schlichter at TownHall sees When Conservative Theory Collides With Unconservative Reality "But in so many areas, we don’t have a free market. The problem is that many of our co-conservatives demand that we pretend we do. They wish to govern based on that fantasy. Of course, our opponents don’t feel themselves bound to that. They do what’s to their advantage."

At WokeSpy, RFK Jr. Silences Bonnie Watson Coleman After Heated Race-Baiting Rant: “My Time Has Expired.”

Ace, Supreme Court Hears Arguments Over Nationwide Universal Injunctions Issued by Lowly District Court Justices Who Keep Electing Themselves President. Althouse was "LISTENing LIVE: Supreme Court hears arguments on Trump’s challenge to birthright citizenship." except it's not really about birthright citizenship, it's about the power of Circuit Court judges to set national policy. Leah Barkoukis at TownHall, Trump Weighs in on the 'Big Case' Before the Supreme Court Today. PJM's Matt Margolis sees Justice Thomas Destroys the Case for Nationwide Injunctions With One Devastating Question "“So we survived until the 1960s without universal injunction?” he asked." Cutie Pavlich at TownHall, Clarence Thomas Sends a Nukes Into the Left's National Injunctions. I expect the court to find someway to split the baby. Townhall.com @townhallcom "THE IRONY! In 2022, Elena Kagan, a LIBERAL Supreme Court justice, says "It CAN'T be right that one District Judge can stop a nationwide policy in it's tracks" OH?! You mean how District Judges have issued 17 nationwide orders stopping Trump's policies in their tracks?" Nice Deb at Am Great hears from a Source: The Fix Is In to Torpedo Trump’s Tariffs in New York Trade Court. "According to the well-placed source, rather than drawing the panel at random, Chief Judge Barnett “fixed” the outcome by selecting three judges whom he knew would “overrule the president” and render his tariffs “null and void.”" From the NYPo ed board, Junk judge John McConnell is helping destroy democracy, just like Hannah Dugan. "US District Judge John McConnell has ordered the reversal of Team Trump’s freeze on certain forms of federal assistance, yet he sat for nearly two decades on the board of a homeless services provider, Crossroads Rhode Island, rising to chair it — and the Crossroads group directly benefited from federal grants via the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the tune of more than $15 million since 2010." Susie Moore at RedState, Judge Who Ordered Admin to Process 12,000 Refugees Tucks Tail After 9th Circuit Corrects Him...Again. "In the latest development, Judge Jamal Whitehead has now rescinded his order setting forth a "compliance framework" for the Trump administration that required them to begin the process of settling roughly 12,000 refugees in a week's time. This comes after the 9th Circuit issued another "clarifying" order essentially rapping Whitehead on the knuckles." From LifeZette, Judge Faces Prison for Helping Illegal Alien, Sen. Josh Hawley Says ‘Good’. MD Kittle at Da Fed hears Delusional Leftists Compare Judge Indicted For Helping Illegal Evade Arrest To Harriet Tubman. To be fair, they were both born in the swamp. Katie Jerkovich at RedState, thinks you should Watch Scott Jennings Gets Democrat to Admit NY Case Was 'Plot to Upend' Trump's Presidential Campaign.

Elsewhere in the swamp, TV News Now @TVNewsNow "JUST IN: Judge Jeanine Pirro has been sworn in as interim U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C." Nick Arama at RedState, thinks it's Priceless: John Brennan Absolutely 'Livid' Over Tulsi Gabbard 'Cleaning House'. "If John Brennan is livid, you know it's a good thing. That's the only worth of anything he says. If he hates it, you know then it's a great thing. It's like an "Inverse Cramer" reaction." How dare you root out our moles! From Twitchy, And Here We GO! Steps Dan Bongino Is Taking to Investigate J6 D.C. Pipe Bomber Will TERRIFY J6 Committee. Took all the old agents on the case off and put new eyes on the problem. Interviewing people the original team passed. If only he could Alana de la Garza and Missy Peregrym on the case!

At Headline USA, Tapper Hires PR Crisis Guru as Biden Book Backlash Erupts "Tapper defended the hire as an apparent bid to make the book’s “rollout as smart as possible"..." Ace, Jake Tapper Reportedly Hires a Crisis Communications Firm to Stop Criticism. American Wire, Lara Trump waiting for an apology from Tapper following book release MAZE @mazemoore "On October 18th, 2020 Lara Trump suggested that Biden was showing signs of cognitive decline. Jake Tapper flipped out on her. How dare she diagnose Joe Biden! Nine days later Jake Tapper had Mary Trump on for a 10 min segment to discuss Donald Trump's mental illness and decline." From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 05.15.25 (Afternoon Edition), Louder With Crowder: Trump’s Economy Wins Pile Up And The Left Can’t Stand It, Chuck Todd, pretending he didn’t know Biden was in cognitive decline, unloads on Chuck Schumer.   AMAC, Media Shocked That Media Covered Up Biden’s Cognitive Decline. Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze "The game here is the media and these authors trying to isolate the biggest political cover up in American History down to just like 4 people and a dog around Joe Biden That's why they granted anonymity and cooperation to "cabinet secretaries". Make the blast radius of this as small as possible." Quote Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze, ""Aides and members of the administration lied to us. They lied to everyone and the country." "Ok who are they?"" Hollywood in Toto thinks Kimmel, Clooney Have Some Serious Explaining to Do. "New, shocking details about Biden's decline tie directly to Hollywood liberals." Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer. "They're all so deeply full of shit and I'm glad they had their asses handed to them." Quote TheBlaze @theblaze, "Biden’s former NSA Jake Sullivan says he didn’t know about Biden’s mental decline: “What happened in that debate was a shock to me.”" A Driscolly post on THE FALL OF JOE BIDEN — AND HOW HIS TEAM COVERED UP HIS DECLINE cites The Times, The fall of Joe Biden — and how his team covered up his decline. "Last summer, his disastrous debate with Donald Trump exposed the 81-year-old president. In an explosive new book, Original Sin, White House insiders reveal how Joe Biden’s frailties were hidden from the public." Stephen Kruiser at PJM finds No Comfort in Dems Admitting We Were Right About Biden's Mush Brain. "Being right doesn't erase all that went on leading up to having it be proven. The damage done to the Republic while it was being run by a drooling moron and his commie handlers is going to be difficult to undo. President Trump is doing his best, but the Biden puppet presidency was an absolute wrecking ball." Madeline Leesman at TownHall notices Hakeem Jeffries Was Not Prepared for This Question From CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "Why should voters trust Democrats when it's clear so many in your party went to great lengths to keep Biden's condition hidden from the public?" Magills @magills_ "Former Transportation Secretary Buttigieg has been getting a lot of grief over his failure to recognize President Biden’s mental decline but to be fair to Pete that wasn’t the only train wreck he ignored during his tenure." The Post and Courier, Democrats must be honest about how we got here, "National Democrats have a Joe Biden problem." From NewsMax, Dems Blame Election Loss on Everything But Selves.

Russ Greene @GreenPlusAnE "America is at high risk of blackouts because we decided to retire a bunch of power plants and replace them with solar and wind, right as demand for electricity started to rise. We are still on the same track as Western Europe, just a bit behind."

You don't hear much about it anymore, except constant whining at WaPoo, but PJM's Cathy Salgado reminds us DOGE Still Hard at Work Cutting Fraud and Waste. 

LifeZette sees a MIC DROP: Kristi Noem Obliterates Dem Rep Goldman Over His Defense of MS-13 Terrorist. Matt Vespa, This Dem Decided Last Night Was the Best Time...to Side With Cop Killers. Twitchy, Sebastian Gorka TORCHES Politico (on Their Own Stage) for Defending Deported 'Maryland Man'. It is pretty awesome. Fox, Trump border czar fires back at AOC over DOJ probe remarks: 'Why doesn't she pass some legislation?' "'I'm doing my job. The border is secure... She should try doing her job,' Homan tells Fox News Digital." Hat Hair's Dave Strom notices Murders Drop Like a Rock in...Denver and Aurora. I Wonder Why. Sara A. Carter @SaraCarterDC, "Homicides Drop Sharply in Colorado Cities Following ICE Deportations of Tren de Aragua Gang Members." From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 05.15.25 (Afternoon Edition)   Louder With Crowder, Media Claimed Trump Admin Deported A “Teen With No Criminal Record,” Turns Out They Missed A Huge Detail, and Joe Rogan makes shocking discovery about media’s “Maryland Man” hoax.

Ian Kingsbury at CJ thinks a New Documentary Proves Trump Is Right to Defund PBS "The film uses discredited research to blame racism for black health disparities and push ideologically driven “solutions.”" Sarah at Insty posts IT’S TIME TO PLAY, BLUE STATE OR EUROPE? Out-of-Control CT Prosecutor Dragged Free Speech Advocate Through Court for Something SHE NEVER SAID. The CT sorta gives the answer away. The Unsinkable Mollie@MZHemingway, "Well this is a horrifying story -- a free speech advocate was arrested for saying something she never said, and was falsely accused of racism, until an out-of-control prosecutor finally admitted there was no support for the claim."

Capt. Ed at Har Hair is amazed by Harvard: By Golly, We Found Our Own Money to Fund Our Research! Madeline Leesman, A Massachusetts School District Provided a Math Assignment on 'Systematic Racism'. Well, Massachusetts.

Wanjiru Njoya @WanjiruNjoya, "90% of farms seized from the Boers by the Bantu commies are lying derelict. Nobody told the Bantus that farms require hard work, so they didn't bother. This was a catastrophe for the farm animals, most of which had to be euthanized." So, pretty much a traditional communist revolution.

From WokeSpy, Female Colorado Capitol Staffers Intimidated After Bathroom Complaint Against Trans Aide. Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok "USATODAY's crossword puzzle wants you to fill in Lia Thomas as the answer to a "NCAA champion swimmer." Lia Thomas is a man. He cheated to get his NCAA championship. USATODAY is promoting a cheater and a liar. Lia Thomas did not earn his medal." Even the crosswords are chock-a-block with propaganda.

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