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"Trump's post on Rob Reiner sparks outrage from lawmakers and celebrities (see #28)

President's statement blaming acclaimed director's death on his dislike of him described as disgusting' and vile'

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"Meanwhile, California's Democratic governor Gavin Newsom wrote on X: "This is a sick man."

Echoing Newsom, US House member Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a Florida Democrat, said: "What a despicable piece of garbage."

US senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, similarly said of Trump: "He's just lost it. Now saying Rob and Michele Reiner caused their own murder because they didn't support him. So sick."

US House member Zoe Lofgren, another California Democrat, called Trump's comments "a new low for this petty, hateful man". Lofgren added: "His party needs to condemn this."

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"Similarly, US House member Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, wrote: "This is a family tragedy, not about politics or political enemies."

Greene also seemingly alluded to Nick Reiner's past experiences with addiction and homelessness, writing, "Many families deal with a family member with drug addiction and mental health issues. It's incredibly difficult and should be met with empathy especially when it ends in murder."

Greene's fellow Republican US House member Thomas Massie struck a similar chord. The Kentucky representative said: "Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered."

Massie also said he challenged anyone in his party " including vice-president JD Vance and White House staff " to defend Trump's commentary."

www.theguardian.com

EU Tightens Sanctions on Belarus After US Moves Woo Minsk
www.bloomberg.com

... The European Union expanded sanctions against Belarus, just days after the US said it would lift restrictions on exports of potash from the country, underscoring diverging approaches to the close ally of Russia.

"If the Belarus regime doesn't change its behavior, we might be both at different speeds and at different directions with the US," Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said Monday in Brussels. ...


@#88

Donald Trump's Response to Rob Reiner's Death Sparks MAGA Backlash
www.newsweek.com

... Many Truth Social and X users were left aghast.

"I love you but this is seriously distasteful," wrote one supporter on Truth Social.

"I'm struggling to believe this is real or that the greatest President the US will ever have actually wrote these words, much less tapped send," one X user commented. ...


#103 Apparently, Left Hind Turds didn't get the latest memorandum on elections ('Tis like shooting fish in a barrel):

-> Georgia voters ousted two Republican members of the state's Public Service Commission in favor of two Democrats"the first Democrats to win statewide nonfederal offices in decades.

-> Democrats in Mississippi Break the G.O.P.'s State House Supermajority

-> Every single county in Virginia - even deeply red counties - saw shifts TOWARDS the Democrats, as opposed to how they voted 1 year ago.

-> Dems flip Wichita School Board from a 4-3 GOP majority to a 5-2 Democratic majority. Democratic candidates Amy Warren and Amy Jensen defeated Republican incumbents Hazel Stabler and Kathy Bond.

->Two of Tuesday's school board elections were in Bucks County, Pa., which was considered "ground zero" for right-wing groups' takeover of school boards in 2021. A few years ago, conservatives on these boards in Pennbridge and Central Bucks districts were using their roles to pass policies targeting LGBTQ+ students and banning books.

---> Democrats flipped control of both boards in 2023, and on Tuesday, they ousted every Republican from both of these boards, except for one. The Pennbridge school board is now 8-1, with Democratic members in control. The Central Bucks school board is 9-0.

-> In Texas, we even won in Lockhart, which sits in a district so red that Democrats normally don't even run. We had a clean sweep in Cy-Fair ISD, another deeply red area that not even Greg Abbott could save your party.

-> In SD-9, another red district, we saw an 8 point shift for the Democrat

What was that again, something about not being able to win elections?

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