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By BRUCE LOWITT The Great Alaskan Summit and combined Team Snowball Fighting-Ice Fishing competition, bringing Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump together, achieved a one-day photo opportunity and little else. Putin maintained his decision to continue Russia’s war in Ukraine and Trump distracted the American media from the Jeffrey Epstein fiasco for a day. “We hadContinue reading “Alaska: Nothing Ventured”

By BRUCE LOWITTQuarterback Aaron Rodgers, who sat out the Pittsburgh Steelers’ opening preseason game victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars, announced that he will carry a clipboard not only during the Steelers’ remaining exhibition games in August but for the entire regular season “because I’ve decided, for one thing, that I’m too fucking old for thisContinue reading “Rodgers: Over & Out”

By BRUCE LOWITT Donald Trump has denied offering Ghislaine Maxwell a presidential pardon if the co-defendant of the late predator Jeffrey Epstein tells U.S. Deputy District Attorney (and former Trump defense attorney) Todd Blanche about everything in the Epstein Files except that Trump’s name is mentioned anywhere in them.“Well, I’m allowed to give her aContinue reading “Ghislaine: Pardon me?”

By BRUCE LOWITT Partial transcript of a meeting involving President Donald Trump and several members of his administration. The recording was provided by a White House occupant on condition of anonymity who said she is “fed up with having to constantly pick up discarded hamburger wrappers between our bedrooms every morning.” President Donald Trump: “…Continue reading “Just a few distractions”

By BRUCE LOWITT President Donald Trump, thrilled by the response of his army of knuckle-dragging mouth breathers to the announcement that he will stage a UFC fight on the White House grounds during the 2026 celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, said he will expand the event to include additional activities, “includingContinue reading “Trump: Thumbs Down”

By BRUCE LOWITT Donald Trump insists he is not violating any clauses or amendments of the United States Constitution “because I have the best skin of any president in history – no one has ever seen skin like mine – and I make my own lotions and ointments and have developed my own special cosmeticContinue reading “As soft as a president’s brain”

By BRUCE LOWITT CNN news anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson admit they knew “all sorts of bad stuff” about then-President Joe Biden’s physical and mental problems during the run-up to the 2024 election but, Tapper said, they kept it to themselves “so the book we were working on about him wouldn’t be,Continue reading “Unoriginal Sin: Keeping Secrets”

By BRUCE LOWITT Quarterback Aaron Rodgers has called an audible, switching signals by telling the Pittsburgh Steelers, the New York Giants “and any other National Football League team interested in signing me” that he wants his final season to end with another Super Bowl victory “and I won’t join any club that’s not a runawayContinue reading “Mister Rodgers, stay out of our neighborhood”

By BRUCE LOWITT (Partial transcript of the Supreme Court hearing broadcast on National Public Radio on two related portions of birthright citizenship cases – whether a federal judge has the power to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending it, and whether a district court judge’s ruling could be enforced anywhere in the United States,Continue reading “Courting the citizenry”