SATURDAY: Concerning a very bad Week That Was!

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2026

Instructive new videotape: A deeply instructive "Week That Was" started on Wednesday morning.

Check that! So far, it's only been an instructive half week that was. It started with a fatal shooting, and then, as surely as night follows day, we were instantly saddled with this:

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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense...

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

We're sorry, Virginia, but no. In reality, that ICE officer--Jonathan Ross--did not get "run over" in the course of this incident. Whatever else may have happened that day, no one was viciously run over.

As an obvious matter of fact, no one got "run over" that day at all. Whatever different people might think about the various events of that morning, we can surely all agree on that! 

Or can we all agree on that? Has the power of Storyline become so great that we the people can't all agree, not even on that basic fact?

Storyline is a powerful god. Also, the current sitting president seems to be badly disordered. At this site, we're inclined to assume that he's (significantly) "mentally ill" (to use an outmoded term).

That would be our assumption. But as part of the culture in which we all live, the academics and journalists of Blue America have agreed that that obvious possibility must never be discussed by competent medical specialists. That's part of the culture we've chosen.

At any rate, the aftermath of the fatal shooting began with that instant misstatement. From that point on, it has largely been Storyline all the way down as this event is discussed. 

More specifically, we refer to the works of Tribal Storyline, the ubiquitous deity who currently serves as our greatest, most powerful god.

Yesterday, the latest video of this fatal shooting emerged--and it has turned out to be the most instructive such video yet. Headline included, the New York Times report about this new videotape starts exactly like this:

New Cellphone Video Shows ICE Agent’s Perspective Before Minneapolis Shooting

A cellphone video made public on Friday appears to show the moments leading up to the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis from the perspective of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who killed her.

The footage, published by Alpha News, a conservative news outlet, appears to come from a cellphone held by the agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good on a snowy residential street on Wednesday morning. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that the video was taken by the agent and posted the clip from Alpha News on X.

The 47-second video shows the agent getting out of a vehicle and approaching the S.U.V. that Ms. Good is driving, which is partly blocking the street. A black dog sits in the rear seat of Ms. Good’s Honda, its head sticking out of the window.

The agent walks around the hood of Ms. Good’s vehicle, and the car begins to move slowly in reverse. Ms. Good, wearing a knit cap and a plaid jacket over a sweatshirt, is heard saying, “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad,” though it is not clear from the footage whom she is addressing or to what she might be responding. She continues talking, but her words become less clear as the agent moves toward the vehicle’s rear.

That's how the Times report starts. A bit mater, as it continues, it describes some conduct which strikes us as profoundly unfortunate:

A person standing near the car, believed to be Becca Good, Renee Good’s wife, begins talking when the agent reaches the rear of the vehicle and films the license plate. “That’s OK, we don’t change our plates every morning, just so you know,” that woman says. “It’ll be the same plate when you come talk to us later.”

That woman, wearing sunglasses and an orange whistle around her neck, is then shown on camera holding up a phone, apparently filming the agent.

“That’s fine,” the woman adds. “U.S. citizen. Former fucking veteran.”

The agent then walks toward the front of the vehicle, as the woman stands between him and Renee Good’s S.U.V.

“You want to come at us?” she asks. “I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead.”

To our eye and to our ear, Becca Good almost seems to be "taunting" the agent at that point. Seconds after that somewhat combative exchange, Renee Good has been fatally shot.

We regard that tape as highly instructive--as a painful marker of the shape our failing nation is in. We'll also now mention this:

For reasons which go unexplained, the final statement heard on that tape goes unmentioned by the Times. In the corresponding report by the Washington Post, that instructive final statement does get reported.

Headline included, that news report by the Washington Post starts and ends like this:

The ICE agent’s cellphone video: Five key moments

Cellphone video recorded by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent as he fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis surfaced online Friday, revealing new details about the hotly disputed incident from a perspective rarely seen.

The 47-second recording, published by the Minnesota website Alpha News, shows for the first time that Renee Nicole Good spoke to the ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, before he shot her. It reveals that, a split second before the gunfire, Good’s wife urged her to drive away from the scene.

[...]

5. An insult after the shooting

As the vehicle moves forward, Ross is standing near the front driver’s side corner of the vehicle. Someone yells, “Whoa.”

Ross’s camera pans skyward but does not fall to the ground.

One shot can be heard, then two more can be heard in rapid succession. Ross appears to refocus his camera on the SUV almost immediately, before it crashes nearby.

A male voice—it is not clear whose—can be heard uttering two expletives: “Fucking bitch.”

The full video, uninterrupted, can be seen here:

The Post reports what the Times omits. Even as the stricken Good's car rolls down the street, a male voice--possibly the voice of Ross, possibly not--utters those words:

"Fucking bitch."

We're inclined to regard those words as instructive. We don't know why the New York Times didn't report that statement.

Summation:

We know of no good reason why Renee Good should have been shot. That said:

In our view, the conduct of the Goods is instructive. So is the conduct of agent Ross. So is that final comment, which the New York Times chose to omit.

Let's say it again. We know of no good reason why Renee Good should have been shot. That said, we find that 47 seconds of videotape deeply instructive.

In our view, the great god Tribe is now in the saddle and is driving our "nation" down. The president made his required misstatement. Generally speaking, the great god known as Storyline has taken over from there.

For the record, no one got "run over" that day. Someone was fatally shot.

FRIDAY: Was Renee Good monitoring ICE that day?

FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2026

Did the New York Post get it right? What was actually happening in Minneapolis when Renee Good was shot and killed? More specifically, is it possible that Good was monitoring ICE activities in some way when the fatal shooting occurred?

Last evening on Anderson Cooper 360, law enforcement analyst John Miller suggested that the answer was yes, then rearranged one part of the timeline which those of us in Blue America had been receiving through our major news outlets.

According to Miller, CNN had learned that Good had dropped her child off at school at roughly 8 a.m. that morning. The shooting had occurred at 10:37—two and a half hours later.

Miller's report contradicted the earlier suggestion that Good had just finished dropping her child off when she stumbled upon the situation involving ICE. Through a series of slippery reports and claims, that impression had been widely circulated.

Was Good monitoring ICE? There's no reason why she shouldn't have been! That said, Blue orgs produced a lot of slippery content in the past few days—fuzzy content which suggested that Good had come upon the ICE activity in a terrible bit of bad luck.

We Blues were being fed those suggestions. At the same time, denizens of Red America were being exposed to reporting like this from the New York Post:

Renee Nicole Good was Minneapolis ‘ICE Watch’ ‘warrior’ who trained to resist feds before shooting

Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, The Post can reveal.

Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and prioritizes “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said.

“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a growing vigil where Good was killed Wednesday.

“I know she was doing the right thing. I watched the video plenty of times but I also know in my heart the woman she was, she was doing everything right.”

Good and her wife, Rebecca, 40, were raising the boy together in the mostly working-class, activist-heavy neighborhood of south Minneapolis, which features tree-lined streets and a large number of homes with windows decked out in LGBTQ+ flags or signs depicting George Floyd.

And so on, at length, from there. As it continues, the report describes the progressive values of the charter school Good's child attends, including the opposition of the school community to current ICE activities.

The report was published on Thursday afternoon. How accurate is the report?

We'll guess the report was basically accurate, but we can't say with certainty. Our possible point might be this:

As we noted this morning, we saw three major figures on CNN and MS NOW last night saying or assuming that Good had been involved in some form of anti-ICE activism on the day she was fatally shot.

At this site, we'd been wondering about that possibility ever since we became aware of this fatal shooting on Wednesday afternoon. That said, we were struck by the way major cable players in Blue America were ignoring this possibility through the bulk of Wednesday and Thursday.

On Thursday morning, Morning Joe devoted its first 24 minutes to a discussion of this fatal shooting. Everyone completely avoided two fairly obvious question:

How did Good happen to be at that particular location? Also, why was her car parked in such an unusual way, seeming perhaps to block traffic?

In our view, those of us in Blue America need to stop playing these games. We played these "see nothing but blue sky" games all through Campaign 2024, and our insistence on playing such games helped send President Trump back to the White House.

There was absolutely no reason why Good shouldn't have been monitoring ICE, if that's what she was doing. If she was intentionally blocking traffic, that could be a different story, at least in terms of the law.

We don't know if the Post report was accurate, (We'll guess that it probably was.) The moral of the story may be this:

Sometimes, Red Americans receive more accurate reporting than we Blue Americans do! 

We Blues! We disappeared an array of significant topics all through the last presidential campaign.

We helped put Trump in the White House that way. History teaches that this sort of self-delusion can be a very hard habit to break.

Final point:

It's perfectly legal to monitor ICE! On a simple legal basis, obstruction of ICE activities might be something else.

(Warning! Your tribal brain will insist that you find something wrong with this content! It happens on the Fox News Channel all day and all night. We Blues are susceptible too.)

UNDISGUISED: Truly, an American Babel!

FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2026

The president's excuse: Truly, we're all living is a wholly undisguised Babel. Let's recall the basics of the ancient, instructive tale:

Tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis (chapter 11) meant to explain the existence of different languages and cultures.

According to the story, a united human race speaking a single language migrates to Shinar (Lower Mesopotamia), where they agree to build a great city with a tower that would reach the sky. Yahweh, observing these efforts and remarking on humanity's power in unity, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other and scatters them around the world, leaving the city unfinished.

And so on from there. At any rate, we Americans are now living in a modern Babel, with competing storylines taking the place of the original profusion of tongues.

One set of those storylines originates with President Trump. As we will recall below, he at least has an excuse for the bewildering stories and the ludicrous claims on which he crazily insists.

The rest of us may not be so lucky—and that even includes us Blues! Let's run through a few basic parts of the Babel we Americans have chosen.

Footprints in the snow:

Yesterday afternoon, Director Noem was in New York City, where she held a press conference. As you can see by playing this short video clip, she was still stuck in the snow as he tried to describe Wednesday's fatal shooting.

("What happened is, our officers were out trying to get a car stuck out of the snow when they were surrounded and assaulted and blocked in by protestors...")

That's what the secretary inexplicably said yesterday in New York. Please don't make us transcribe the full exchange, but that's what the secretary inexplicably said yesterday in New York. Her capsule account of Wednesday's fatal shooting still involved a set of events which had no apparent connection to anything visible on videotape.

More than a full day later, the director was still describing the fatal shooting in a way which was hard to explain. That said, Secretary Noem has long been an active part of our current Babel.

Fuller disclosure! In this lengthy report from The Independent, a local resident named Caitlin Callenson is quoted making reference to some ICE officers trying to “zoom their car out of the snowbank," apparently at some location near the fatal shooting. That said, the account is still as clear as mud, and Callenson is quoted saying that the "ICE vehicle stuck in snow had been freed" by the time Good arrived on the scene.

(That report is sourced to this report from Minnesota Public Radio.)

More than a full day later, Noem was still stuck in the snow. That said, confusion and incoherence typify the discourse found within our modern Babel.

President Trump has an excuse. What explains the blanket of fog with which Noem is still obscuring Wednesday's key events?

Why was Renee Good present?

For the first time, we've started to see Blue American sources saying that Renee Good was, in fact, at the scene of the fatal shooting as an anti-ICE activist.

For the record, there's no reason why Good shouldn't have been functioning as an ant-ICE activist, if that's actually why she was present that day. But Blue American outlets were avoiding questions about her presence at the scene from mid-day Wednesday right through Thursday's Morning Joe and on into mid-day. 

Other outlets, The Independent included, were presenting factually misleading accounts which suggested that Good had only stumbled upon the scene of the fatal shooting in some sort of coincidence. This slippery avoidance was general over Blue America as yesterday wound on.

Again, there's nothing wrong with being an anti-ICE activist, if that's what Good actually was. That said, Blue orgs kept trying to disappear that possibility. As of last night and this morning, MS NOW seems to be letting people say that she was present on the scene as part of an anti-ICE activity. 

(We refer to Professor Tribe on last evening's The Last Word, and to Jeh Johnson on today's Morning Joe.)

Lessons possibly lost:

Was Renee Good an anti-ICE activist? There's no reason why she shouldn't have been! That said, we'll suggest that some basic lessons have possibly been lost within our own (self-impressed) Blue America, where—if you let us Blues tell the story—"all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the [adults] are all above average."

(That's drawn from Garrison Keillor's satirical portrait of Lake Wobegon, a fictional Minnesota hamlet.)

Question! Even among people as brilliant as we Blues are known to be, have some lessons been lost? We'll offer two possibilities:

Nonviolent resistance / civil disobedience:

As far as we know, it's perfectly legal to monitor, record and report the activities of ICE agents. ICE personnel don't like such activities, but as far as we know, such conduct is perfectly legal.

Other conduct isn't legal—for example, blocking roads with your vehicle to obstruct operations by ICE. Was Good involved in some such conduct during events on Wednesday morning? We don't yet know, but if she was, civil disobedience during the civil rights era involved a willingness to accept arrest for deliberate illegal conduct.

Elections have consequences:

As everyone knows and everyone says, it's also true that "elections have consequences." 

For better or worse, ICE is currently involved in operations which are perfectly legal, at least in their broader outline. We Blues don't approve of those operations, but when we managed to lose the last election, we managed to get a man elected who had openly campaigned on the goal of MASS DEPORTATION.

We Blues don't favor MASS DEPORTATION, and there's no reason why we have to. But as we stumbled and bumbled all during the Biden years—as we stumbled and bumbled in many ways in the years and decades before that—we managed to help create a world in which President Trump's priorities now define the federal landscape.

Like most tribal groups, we Blues tend to have a very hard time seeing the various ways in which our lack of perfect brilliance helped return President Trum to the White House. Our tribe is still locked in deep denial about the bungles of our past. We Blues will continue to stumble and fail until we create deeper insight.

President Trump is the most important architect of our modern American Babel. Kristi Noem id a key player too, as is the endlessly astonishing JD Vance.

That said, President Trump has an excuse for his endless astonishing conduct. We've cited that excuse many times. It looks exactly like this:

MARY L. TRUMP (pages 12-13): I have no problem calling Donald a narcissist—he meets all nine criteria as outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)—but the label only gets us so far.

[...]

A case could be made that he also meets the criteria for antisocial personality disorder, which in its most severe forms is generally considered sociopathy but can also refer to chronic criminality, arrogance, and disregard for the rights of others...

The fact is, Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuropsychological tests that he’ll never sit for.

Elsewhere, she calls them psychopathologies. It seems likely to us that President Trump is significantly "mentally ill," to use a (somewhat) outmoded term.

That would be his excuse for his astonishing behavior. Fellow citizens of Blue America, what the [frump] is ours?

President Trump nay be medically afflicted. He's the most significant part of our deeply destructive Babel.

That said, we Blues have been part of the madness too. Our bungles have been undisguised. They're invisible only to us!

That madness has been growing like Topsy this week. Noem and Vance and Miller oh my, but through our own relentless flawed judgment, we Blues have been part of this deeply dangerous societal meltdown too.

(Every empire falls apert. "The center cannot hold!")

THURSDAY: "This is not a normal world!"

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2026

Life in our American Babel: This morning, in the first few minutes of Morning Joe, producers played a memorable bit of videotape.

Minnesota governor Tim Walz had described the way yesterday's fatal shooting was being characterized in certain quarters.

"This is not a normal world," Walz had memorably said. 

In certain ways, that statement is true—but in other ways it isn't. We'll start to explain that below. 

Videotape was also played of another memorable statement. Here's the way an exchange went down at the scene of the fatal shooting:

The shooting of Renee Good had just occurred. A physician was present on the scene.

In the moments after the shooting occurred, he tried to go to Good's car to see if he could help. An ICE official told him to stay where he was:

"We have our own medics," the ICE official said.

(Reportedly, it took something like fifteen minutes for those medics to arrive on the scene.)

"We have our own medics," the ICE official said. In making the physician stay where he was, he may have been following some sort of strange protocol. We have no idea.

We do know this:

ICE officials (and almost everyone else) don't just have their own medics at this point in time. Like almost everyone else, they probably tend to have their own storylines, insults and claims—and members of our various tribes are inclined stick to their standard tribal realities like drowning men cling to a raft.

This is not a normal world, Governor Walz said. The lunacy which now pervades our failing world is highly abnormal in basic ways—but it typifies what tends to happen when large population split into groups and begin to wage war on each other.

The lunacy is general at this time over our failing society. Much more remains to be said about the instant reactions to yesterday's shooting. But is there any way to win a war of this type?

We don't think the answer is obvious—and despite the lunacy from other sources, we Blues are a part of this too.

More on this topic to come. We want to show you some of the things which were said yesterday afternoon on The Five, but the story moves on even from there. 

We're living inside an American Babel. Is there some way to turn back?

UNDISGUISED: When Noem made several ridiculous claims...

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2026

...the president followed suit: Yesterday morning, all too clearly, it started with Kristi Noem.

The story-shaping has continued from there, including a ludicrous performance on yesterday's edition of The Five. In fairness, the story-shaping—the sifting of elementary facts—extended into the opening segment of today's Morning Joe.

In the aftermath of yesterday's fatal shooting, it was Rashomon on steroids--Rashomon all the way down! 

Indeed, the Rashomon was general over what's left of the American discourse. Just to make that reference clear, the leading authority on Rashomon clumsily says that the famous film famously teaches this:

Rashomon 

Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa... It follows various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest. Every element is largely identical, from the murdered samurai speaking through a Shinto psychic to the bandit in the forest, the monk, the assault of the wife, and the dishonest retelling of the events in which everyone shows their ideal self by [offering a different version of the events in question].

That's a clumsily stated overview, but it might start to convey the film's well-known basic idea. We've replaced the word "lying" at the end of that thumbnail account.

Rashomon is often said to preach the view that there is so obvious way to agree on a single, simple account of a set of events. Yesterday, the problem started with the latest ludicrous performance by Noem, but it certainly didn't end there.

It extended into Morning Joe, but also into weirdly sanitized reporting in today's New York Times. All in all, we'd say that this varied set of performances says that we the humans simply weren't built for this line of work. 

The anthropology here is quite clear. But let's start at the beginning:

Yesterday morning, Noem staged her latest fashion show down in Brownsville, Texas. We'll assume that someone had misinformed her, but she rushed out to offer this absurd account of the Minneapolis shooting:

NOEM (1/7/25): It was an act of domestic terrorism. What happened was our ICE officers were out in enforcement action. They got stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis.

They were attempting to push out their vehicle and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively shot to protect himself and the people around him. And my understanding is that she was hit and is deceased.

So said the routinely ludicrous Noem, from beneath her giant hat. 

We'll assume that Noem herself had been misinformed by someone. That said, no one had been "stuck in the snow" in connection with the fatal shooting, and the ICE officers in question hadn't been "attempting to push out their vehicle" at any point in the course of what occurred.

Noem looked fetching in her hat, but those statements were absurdly inaccurate. Debate could imaginably surround her additional claims--her claims that the late Renee Good had "attempted to run [the ICE officers] over" and had "rammed them with her vehicle."

In our view, those claims are extremely far-fetched, but we could imagine a different assessment. The other claims which emerged from Noem—the claims about being stuck in the snow—were baldly, absurdly inaccurate.

That said, Noem is no stranger to inaccurate claims, even to claims which seem to be utterly crazy. You may recall the lunatic story she told Jesse Watters in late June of last year—and yes, she actually told this crazy story about one ICE detainee:

NOEM (6/27/25): Listen, Jesse, you calling these guys "bad hombres"—they really are. I was talking to a U.S. Marshall just yesterday, and he was talking about the fact that they were deporting a planeload of illegals and one of them was a cannibal.

And he kind of said it off-handed, and I said to him, 'What do you—what do you mean, it was a cannibal?" And he said, "Well we put him on the plane, put him in his seat, and he started to eat his own arms, he was such a deranged individual."

This is the kind of people that President Trump is getting off of our streets—people who are murderers and rapists and, and are deranged individuals, that we are working to get out of the country as fast as possible.

Noem went on, at some length, about the story she said she'd been told. To show the challenges faced by ICE, she told Watters this:

ICE had been deporting a planeload of detainees. In an attempt to free himself from the handcuffs which restrained him, one of them, a cannibal, had attempted to eat his own arm!

Incredibly, Noem actually said that—and she seemed to think it made sense. Three days later, at Florida's new Alligator Alcatraz, she told this same crazy story, in substantial detail, once again!

(For our real-time report about this crazy pair of recitations, you can just click here.)

What could be going through the mind of someone who tells, then repeats, such a ridiculous story? What could be going through the mind of someone who seems to believe such a ridiculous tale? 

We don't have the slightest idea. But yesterday morning, vamping in Texas, there Noem went again.

In fairness, we'll assume that someone had misinformed Noem about yesterday's fatal shooting. But having failed to fact-check what she'd been told, she rushed out to start a chain of inaccurate and/or selective presentations about that shooting.

As part of that, she even made the dramatic claim that Renee Good had been involved in "an act of domestic terrorism." She didn't know what the weather had been. But true to the demands of storyline, Noem was prepared to rush right out and offer the world that story.

Yesterday morning, Noem went first. Plainly, she didn't have the slightest idea concerning what had actually happened, but she rushed out and spoke anyway. 

Soon, it was the president's turn.

The president's account was offered in a Truth Social post. Pathetically but inevitably, the most powerful person in the world was now saying this:

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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

Yes, that's actually what he said. Now for some clarification:

In the videotape of the fatal shooting, a woman is heard screaming at the ICE officers—first as they attempt to force Renee Good out of her car, then after one of them has fatally shot her. In his account of what he saw, the president starts with a ludicrous assumption about that woman, then proceeds to the crazily inaccurate claim that Good "viciously ran over the ICE Officer."

A person might say this:

Only a badly disordered person could fail to imagine an innocent reason for that woman's (horrified) screaming. Beyond that, and obviously:

Good did not "run over" any ICE officer in the course of yesterday's events. In fact, no one got "run over" by anyone's car in the course of this fatal shooting.

That said, crazily inaccurate, poisonous claims are nothing new to this president. As we noted last week, he has also made these claims:

In July 2019, on the very day that Jeffrey Epstein died, he took to Twitter to say or suggest that Bill and Hillary Clinton had somehow been involved in Epstein's death. There was absolutely zero basis for that poisonous presentation, but the sitting president rushed out to make it all the same.

Also this:

This past summer, the sitting president returned to a somewhat similar claim—to the poisonous claim that Bill Clinton had made more than two dozen trips to Jeffrey Epstein's island! There's zero basis for that poisonous claim, but the president returned to it anyway, even after it had been repeatedly refuted by major fact check organizations.

Yesterday's fatal shooting vastly complicated the story we were trying to tell this week. For today, we'll merely offer this:

When Kristi Noem told her ludicrous story about the fellow who tried to eat his own arm—when she told that story two separate times—major orgs in Blue America agreed to let the craziness go. So too with the poisonous and crazy claims the poisonous president has been making for the past fifteen years.

Something is badly wrong with this president. That basic fact has always been right there for all to see. 

That basic fact has never been hidden or disguised. That said, no one has dared to say the obvious:

t's time for this nutcase, or perhaps for this liar, to go.

Timorous journalists have all looked away! Tomorrow, we'll continue from here.

Tomorrow: Is it a matter of "mental illness?" Or is it a question of "character?"