| In or Out Like Flynn President Donald Trump said way back in March that he was “strongly considering” a pardon fof his former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
This week, new documents were unsealed in the case, which many on the right say show the FBI was essentially setting up the former General. On Fox News on Thursday, sometime Trump foil Andrew Napolitano definitively came down on the side of a pardon. Fox's Brett Baier used the words "set-up."
Naturally, not everyone agrees.
The president and CNN's Jim Acosta tangled today over the topic.
And Trump even said he might hire Flynn back to his administration. What a twist!
Speaking of Twists
Left-leaning magazine The Week praised Sen. Ted Cruz on Thursday. To be clear, that does say "praised" and "Ted Cruz."
"With his latest legislative effort, he might just have my support," wrote Jeva Lange on the topic of barring the Pentagon from working with movie studios that have altered films to please the Chinese government.
Speaking of Biden
The winning topic for MSNBC's Chris Hayes was not quite so winning for Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday.
Or yesterday, come to think of it.
House Democratic Caucus chair Rep. Hakeem Jeffries handled it a little more deftly.
Mediaite's Tommy Christopher has a question, however: Exactly how is Biden supposed to handle it?
Fascist
Elon Musk took home media loser yesterday afternoon. But that didn't stop him from digging his heels in deeper later that evening.
"This is fascist. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their goddamn freedom," he said of coronavirus lockdowns.
Hitting his base in the face
President Donald Trump got in a bit of a spat with his most loyal base of supporters, most of whom are solidly in the "lockdowns are fascist" camp, when he rebuked them over the Sweden example.
Schadenfreude ensued.
Armed Protesters
That momentary Trump rebuke didn't discourage the Musk-like mobs, however, who descended upon the Michigan capitol Thursday, mostly unmasked, almost entirely un-socially-distanced, but rarely unarmed.
It was quite a scene. Like, a right out of TV type scene.
Polls
President Donald Trump has a lower coronavirus response approval rating than every single governor in the United States, according to a new poll. That's gotta hurt.
Good News The hit NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, which ended in 2015, will be returning to television on Thursday for a one-night-only coronavirus special. The 30-minute Parks and Recreation special will air on NBC tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET, directly after the network airs a re-run of last year’s Parks and Recreation special, and the proceeds will go to Feeding America — a food bank charity currently working to feed those in need during the coronavirus pandemic.
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