So this required two fearless TPMers to make a fairly deep dive into the byzantine post-CNN Larry King media universe. But the upshot is that King’s production company makes clear that Trump was always booked for “PoliticKING with Larry King”, the video show that appears on RT (the Russian state owned news channel formerly known as Russia Today.)
This is contrary to Team Trump’s claim that they were booked on King’s podcast.
Here’s a fun moment just a short while ago on MSNBC when Chuck Todd explains how right-wing media has been going pro-Putin for years now – well in advance of Trump’s pro-Putinism. What he describes is entirely accurate. But what’s great about the clip is that as Chuck describes it you can see in his facial expression that “Can This Possibly Be True What I’m Saying?” look on his face that we all have to frequently have with the disturbing and increasingly sick turn of our national politics. Watch.
With news that Democrats are suing to get Donald Trump knocked off the ballot in Minnesota, let me restate something I’ve said many times before about election law and how it should be enforced.
Trump camp says Larry King tricked Trump into being interviewed on Russian state owned RT cable news network.
This is actually happening.
Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit movement in the UK and formerly head of the far-right UK Independence Party (he retired after the Brexit win), is in talks with the Russian government owned RT news network to a be roving reporter covering Donald Trump’s presidential campaign this fall.
San Antonio mattress store discovers it’s still way, way too early to spoof the collapse of the Twin Towers for your 9/11 mattress sale commercial.
This will blow your mind. Video after the jump.
The Trump campaign built up a robust DC policy shop. But most everybody quit because paychecks never arrived and … well, some other reasons too like nobody cared what they thought. But can we go back to the paychecks never arrived?
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The conventional wisdom has hardened to granite. Matt Lauer was the worst debate moderator in history. He was unprepared. He hammered Hillary and devoted too much time to emails. He let Trump lie like crazy without calling him to account at all. He probably threw the election, made Trump president and nudged us down the hill toward the apocalypse. I don’t agree. I don’t think he did great. I partly agree with the criticisms. But I think he did considerably better than people are giving him credit for.
Here’s my argument.
If you don’t think Donald Trump should be within 100 feet of the Oval Office but just can’t stomach Hillary Clinton, you have the alternative of voting for someone else who shouldn’t be within 100 feet of the Oval Office. Feel better?
Watch the second interview Gary Johnson did this morning, with that steamroller of an interviewer, Mark Halperin. It’s even worse than his Morning Joe flameout.