| 'I Pray for You'-gate President Donald Trump participated on Thursday in the National Prayer Breakfast, and kicked off his faith-focused speech by holding up a copy of a USA Today newspaper bearing the headline “Acquitted” as he walked in.
The president then addressed the bipartisan event on the subject of impeachment at length, but made sure to include a bipartisan faith focus by mocking the professions of faith from Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
“I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong," said Trump at one point in the diatribe. "Nor do I like people who say, ‘I pray for you,’ when they know that that’s not so."
So add "people who don't pray correctly" to "people who get shot down" on the list of people who Trump doesn't like, if you're taking notes. The Romney Retribution The Green Room yesterday chronicled some of the more ... colorful, responses from the Trump right to Sen. Mitt Romney voting to convict Trump on one of the two articles of impeachment.
There were a lot. In fact, so plentiful and dramatic were the cries against Romney that Fox News Channel's Geraldo Rivera felt compelled to make a suggestion: "Dudes chill."
"He's allowed to have an opinion dictated-he says-by his deep religious belief," said Geraldo, who must not be keeping his notes on what kind of people to dislike up to date. For every Yin, a Yang The State of the Union this year was, by any measure, an over-the-top affair. That is true of the spectacle put on by the White House as well as the counter-spectacle from the Democrats. Not to mention the outraging over both from each other.
But just as the Democrats and Republicans were opposite sides of the circus coin, so, too, the very notion of spectacle itself found it's Yang twin. Which is to say, in response to the President's speech, CNN's new White House Correspondent John Harwood put on his own spectacle, describing it on air as "a very disturbing tableau for the country."
"It was dark because he’s made clear that his mind is dark,” analyzed journalist Harwood on a CNN coverage panel. “This is somebody in deep psychological distress right now. Self-pitying, insecure, angry.”
Well, at least he's being thematically consistent. The Bernie Surgie
Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) has roughly a 50/50 shot at winning the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — more than double the probability of his nearest competitor — according to Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight.
That is, needless to say, a development. And one that naturally has a pretty major downside for Joe Biden. His campaign isn't having the best week.
The Mayor and the Meghan Mayor Pete Buttigieg had a relatively big TV moment on Thursday when he faced off with The View's Meghan McCain on the topic of "infanticide after a baby was born."
We're confident that's enough teaser to motivate you to watch the clip. Because you definitely should.
Also on the same show, Buttigieg responded to the now-viral video of an Iowa Democratic voter becoming distressed upon learning that the Mayor is gay. "I'm running to be her president, too," he said The Judge Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano is not backing off his views on President Trump's guilt, post-acquittal. Into the triumphalism among some of his colleagues, and the core network audience, Napolitano reiterated on Thursday, in a new op-ed, that "the evidence that Trump did this is overwhelming and beyond a reasonable doubt, and no one with firsthand knowledge denied it." 6.5.0 | 