During his presidency, Donald Trump talked repeatedly about the terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States on his watch. He sometimes denounced these attacks in vivid detail. In his 2018 State of the Union address, he spoke of "two terrorist attacks in New York" in "recent weeks." He visited Pittsburgh and El Paso after terror attacks there. He invited survivors of a California attack to the White House. Now, though, he keeps saying he presided over no terror attacks at all. read more
The foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt and Iraq have "condemned the Israeli aggression on Lebanon" in a joint statement and warned that Israel is pushing the region toward an "all-out war." The ministers met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday, where they urged the international community and the Security Council to "assume their relevant responsibilities to stop the war." "Israel bears full responsibility for this deterioration, which will have serious consequences for the entire region," they said Wednesday. read more
Republicans and Christian right activists don't want to take responsibility for the loss of this healthy young mother of a 6-year-old boy. read more
Donald Trump made headlines Wednesday night, promising a crowd in New York he would, if restored to the White House, put a "temporary cap on credit-card interest rates ... at around 10%," if he were elected. Doing so would require Congress to pass legislation, a move lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have proposed in recent years. Consumer banks like JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup earn a tidy share of the roughly $120 billion in credit-card interest and fees Americans pay each year, and industry groups have fought past efforts to cap fees by arguing that it would make it difficult for Americans to get approved for credit cards. Meanwhile, the analyst community isn't taking the former president's proposal too seriously, and is instead looking at Trump's bank-friendly first term as a guide for how investors should play a second Trump term, should he win. read more
A Florida sheriff released the mug shot and video of an 11-year-old child charged with a felony for allegedly making a written threat of a mass shooting. read more
"Rep. Anthony D'Esposito has not denied the allegations, instead claiming they are a distraction."
So very trumpy of him.