Left Coast Sports Babe

Angels and Rockies combined for NINE runs in the 8th inning Monday night. The shocking part, it wasn’t at Coors Field.

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You know it’s been a rough year when the Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals have both been eliminated from the playoffs.  And it’s only August.

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Larry Fitzgerald, who will speak at John McCain’s funeral, on the Arizona Cardinals deciding to lock arms in the end zone during the anthem last year. “Everybody has a different opinion. You get 60 guys from different religions, different backgrounds, different races together, there’s going to be some differences of opinion. But the thing I liked about it is we were able to stick together as a unit, and that’s what it’s about.”
If anyone had doubts why Senator McCain wanted a football player at his funeral instead of the President of the United States.

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A man who can’t figure out that flag should be at half-staff for a war-hero Senator is not someone who should be lecturing athletes on the anthem. Period.

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Whatever you can say against Hillary Clinton, it’s pretty certain as President she would have lowered the White House flag immediately for John McCain, as well as issuing a gracious statement.

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Too soon to start a pool on when the alleged deal between the U.S. and Mexico will collapse? “Who knew trade could be so complicated?”

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I refuse to believe an actual deal with Mexico has been reached until I see the commemorative coins.

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Vanity Fair reports White House counsel Don McGahn thinks pardoning Manafort is a bad idea, so Trump might hire a new lawyer. At this point, who’d take the job?

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Safeway has Halloween candy, Starbucks is bringing back “Pumpkin Spice Latte” tomorrow. It’s AUGUST.
Can we blame Trump?

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So Fox News, which devoted their front page for days to the murder of a young woman in Iowa, seems to have no concept of the fact that two young men were murdered in a mass shooting yesterday in Florida.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

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Uh,  Marco Rubio.  About Florida’s latest mass shooting –  “The Baltimore native, who used two legally purchased handguns, had a history of mental illness, authorities announced during a press conference Monday.”

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Melania Trump in a fundraising email “Democrats and the opposition media are doing everything they possibly can to discredit Donald with false accusations by spreading their fake news and making it appear that he does not have the support of America’s voters.”
Hmm, guessing at least she didn’t plagiarize this one from Michelle Obama.

Three games into the NFL pre-season. Have the Browns been officially eliminated yet?

Tiger Woods had a bad day putting. Guess it would be childish to make jokes about Tiger no longer finding it so easy to put in the holes.

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SF Giants, along with the NY Mets, are having disappointing seasons.  On the other hand, the Baltimore Orioles will just miss losing their 100th game of the year… in August.

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Congratulations to Hawaii for winning the Little League World Series. Waiting for Trump to tweet next year he hopes winner is an US team.

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Neil Simon “I can’t think of a humorous situation that does not involve some pain. I used to ask “What is a funny situation?” Now I ask “What is a sad situation and how can I tell it humorously?  R.I.P.

That moment when a President of a Foreign country, in his second language, far outclasses our US President. Tweet from Emmanuel Macron  “John McCain was a true American hero. He devoted his entire life to his country. His voice will be missed. Our respectful thoughts go to his beloved ones.”

One young woman killed by an immigrant and Trump rants about the border and his wall. Multiple people killed by a man who lost a video game tournament and crickets…

Admittedly, girls, young women, and grown women can be nasty.   But we don’t tend to shoot a bunch of people when we don’t get our way.

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On other hand, showing that no party has a monopoly on mean and stupid,  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posts a nice tribute to John McCain and  many of her most liberal supporters immediately attack her because of bad things he did in his life. This is why we can’t have nice things.

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This would, however, be a time for Marco Rubio or another GOP senator praising John McCain to have a maverick moment and actually introduce some reasonable gun control legislation.

Or Lindsay Graham “I had always viewed him as indestructible. It never crossed my mind that there would be political life without John McCain, until now.” Well, how about honoring him by remembering where you put your spine?

We knew it was coming, but still, too soon. RIP John McCain.

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A great way for one of John McCain’s GOP colleagues to honor him would be trying to emulate him some time by putting country over party.

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Even Fox News loved John McCain more than they will ever love Donald Trump.

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Susan Collins said John McCain’s death meant we have “lost the last lion.”  Perhaps it is time to look to the lionesses.

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Hawaii will play South Korea for the Little League World Series Championship. Waiting for hard-core MAGAers to protest that there’s no US team involved.

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Urban Meyer’s lawyer said the Buckeyes football coach “fell on the sword” in accepting Ohio State’s “punishment.”
Uh, please, a three-game suspension where only conference game is vs. Rutgers? More like fell on a semi-sharp pencil.

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Urban Meyer Friday “Let me say here and now what I should have said on Wednesday: I sincerely apologize to Courtney Smith and her children for what they have gone through,”
Translation, someone heard from his wife or lawyer.

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Does anyone doubt that if the Buckeyes were a .500 football team, Urban Meyer would have been fired weeks ago?

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Apparently Maryland AD Kevin Anderson used department money to hire a lawyer for two football-players accused of sexual misconduct.
Ah, for the days that the Terps were only embarrassing on the field….

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Does GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter, who just threw his wife under the bus by blaming her for his misuse of campaign funds, realize women have the right to vote?

Three people shot, one fatally, at a Florida high school football game. Well, clearly all football fans need to be armed.

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Mike Pence has been so invisible lately you figure Dick Cheney must have given him the key to his undisclosed secret location.

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Now it’s the White Sox’s Michael Kopech apologizing for racist homophobic teenage tweets. Think Jon Lester has it right – “…scrub your account of anything you wouldn’t want plastered next to your face on front page of newspaper. Better yet, don’t say stupid things in the first place.”

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And didn’t we all have the reeling SF Giants managing to beat Jacob deGrom?

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According to ESPN “upon learning about accusations made by Courtney Smith… Urban Meyer and a fellow football staffer discussed how to adjust settings on Meyer’s phone so that text messages more than a year old would be deleted.”

Maybe Kathy Bates was right “foosball is da devil.”

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Just for the heck of it – the Who’s Roger Daltrey, interviewed last week & talking about his avoidance of hard drugs. “All I ever did was pot. I was f*cking boring. You try getting three people on acid from the Monterey Pop Festival to London.”

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Rudy Giuliani said the American people would “revolt” if Trump is impeached. Only the revolting ones.

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Duncan Hunter spent $600 of campaign funds on an airline ticket for a rabbit? Forget representing his constituents, the man isn’t even smart enough to find a decent travel agent.

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It has been over a month & Donald Trump hasn’t mentioned another incredible young woman murdered in July #NiaWilson
Wonder why?

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GOP Sen. Ben Sasse says he warned “Trump that firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions “would be a very, very, very bad idea.”
And what if Trump does it anyway? Sasse will be “very very” troubled?

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Lindsay Graham, who in 2017 said if Trump fired Sessions “there will be holy hell to pay.” now says “The president’s entitled to an attorney general he has faith in…” Forget coal, we could power much of the US with wind power from spinning Republicans.

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What times we live in when a President can’t even rely on his Pecker.

As Trump tweets late night again with a false brag about his election, who knew that 3am phone call POTUS would be ready for would be from Vladimir Putin or Sean Hannity?

Ohio State suspended Urban Meyer for games against Oregon State, Rutgers and #16 TCU. Means one thing, Buckeyes think TCU is overrated.
You do have to wonder, why didn’t Ohio State suspend Urban Meyer for four games? Game four is in Columbus, against that powerhouse Tulane.

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Four games for covering up an assistant coach’s domestic violence. But hey, it’s not like Meyer would ever protect a murderer…. .  Oops, sorry, never mind.

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Cleveland Browns assistant coach Bob Wylie, not into modern training ideas, on “Hard Knocks”: “We won two World Wars without stretching.”
But seriously, how can a Browns head coach claim to be an expert on anything involving winning.

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“Redneck Woman” country singer Gretchen Wilson was arrested for causing a disturbance on an airplane. Well, if nothing else she should be able to get a new song out of the incident .

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If it had come out President Hillary Clinton had directed her lawyer to pay off one of Bill’s ex-mistresses with campaign funds just before election, am sure GOP would shrug it off….

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We really shouldn’t already be politicizing a young woman’s death. But since Trump started immediately… the alleged undocumented killer of Mollie Tibbetts apparently was working (illegally) for 4 years on Iowa farm owned by GOP politician. Making the employer an accessory to murder. #LockHimUp

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Sarah Sanders ends her opening statement by expressing condolences to the Tibbetts family. “Sadly, the individual believed to be responsible for the murder is an illegal immigrant.”

She forgot to add, “Sadly, the individual who illegal employed her alleged killer for four years is a Republican who ran for Secretary of Agriculture in the state.”

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Wonder why we’ve never heard Trump say that Nia Wilson was an incredible young woman?

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Did Shakespeare imagine Michael Cohen? To paraphrase “Nothing in his life (covering for Trump) so became him as the leaving of it.”

Someday we’ll tell our grandchildren about 2018, the year that a President of the United States gave a porn star and some sleazy lawyers the moral high ground.

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Trump continues to ignore Stephen Tyler’s request to stop playing “Living on the Edge” & “Dream On” at his rallies. Maybe people could start playing another Aerosmith song for him – “Hole in my Soul.”

If Hillary Clinton had won election would that mean Manafort, Cohen etc, could have lived out their guilty lives in peace?

This seems like a good day to remind Americans that Manafort was the one who pushed Trump to chose Mike Pence as his running mate.

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Donald Trump absolutely humiliated Michael Cohen at his son’s bar mitzvah, showing up late and saying his lawyer had “begged” him to come. Who’d a thunk such presidential behavior might not engender loyalty?

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Looking like it’s the payments to mistresses that result in Michael Cohen’s guilty plea, at the same time Omarosa releases tapes and videos. Cherchez la femme!

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Dear SNL. Any way you guys can come off summer hiatus early for a short show at least featuring a cold open this weekend?

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In addition, the Daily Show is on vacation until Sept 4. Well, yeah, because nothing important ever happens in August.

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But open note to any political reporters on vacation this week. Vacation’s over

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Well hey, don’t all Republicans donate to their Congressman so he can spend a quarter of a million dollars on vacations?

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Median income in California’s 50th congressional district $61,533. Rep. Duncan Hunter’s salary $174,000, plus expenses and benefits. And he needed to spend $250,000 of campaign funds on family vacations….

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Two women today were proved in court to be telling the truth. At least 16 other women have accused Trump of sexual assault. Just saying.

So sad about Mollie Tibbets. But Nia Wilson was a beautiful girl too. So were Shanann Watts and her little girls. The value of your life shouldn’t depend on your skin color nor who kills you.

While Trump rails against illegal immigrants with the murder of Mollie Tibbits why isn’t he suggesting that any American who illegally hired her killer in the last several years be charged as an accomplice?

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How could Americans possibly feel safe from crime in a country run by criminals?

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Sports taking 2nd place tonight…

Per ESPN – Dodgers tonight didn’t score with runners on 2nd and 3rd and no outs .In last 2 games against Cardinals they are 3-for-19 with runners in scoring position with 20 LOB.
Who do they thinking they are, the SF Giants?

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Caesar’s Palace Sports Book reports there are more bets on the Browns to win AFC North than the other three teams combined. Beam me up Scotty….

The Cactus Bowl has been rebranded the “Cheez-its” bowl. So now we are about 4 months away from hearing “This is for all the Cheez-its!”

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There are baseball games that can turn casual observers into serious fans for life. Tonight’s SF Giants Mets matchup was NOT one of those games.

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Winning rally in the 13th.  0-2 Single, errand pick-off throw, wild pitch, and dropped pop-up. In other words,  a 2018 SF Giants offensive explosion.

It just me or did SF Giants really have their 2018 season circle the drain when Pablo Sandoval got hurt?

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AP Top 25 Preseason Poll is out and Ohio State is #5.
Even Pete Rose wouldn’t bet on Urban Meyer being fired.

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Ohio State announced Board of Trustees will meet Wednesday to discuss Urban Meyer investigation. There will be no public documents. “No public documents.”

Because Urban Meyer can never ever be seen to be wrong.

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Four Japanese basketball players were kicked off Asian Games team and sent home Monday after they were caught “spending the night in a hotel with women.” So did they have NBA ambitions?

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Ted Cruz attacks Beto O’Rourke for not condemning NFL anthem protests. Somehow I missed Ted’s condemning food stamp cuts affecting veterans.

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Melania Trump speaking out about cyber-bullying makes those days of joking about Laura Bush pushing literacy seem so quaint.

I’m about ready for the part in the Trump show where Americans wake up and say “Honey, you won’t believe the dream I just had.”

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Latest Trump fundraising email “Never in my life have I seen the Democrats this angry. They’re hoping to turn their RAGE into votes and seize control of our majority.” Well, he’s more right than usual.

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So which band is going to be first to copyright the name #AngryDemocratThugs?

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Tonight Trump attacked counter-terrorism analyst Phil Mudd, a former intelligent agent for 25 years, saying “he is in no mental condition to have such a Clearance. Should be REVOKED? Projection much?

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Question, if  Trump can’t learn difference between “Councel” & “Counsel” how does he expect us to believe he could learn about stuff like foreign policy & the economy?

Asking for a country.

A man faces up to life in prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting a sleeping woman on a Spirit Airlines flight.
Worse, he could be sentenced to a lifetime of flying Spirit Airlines.

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Who said it better?
“Truth isn’t truth.” -Rudy Giuliani
“I’m not crazy, my reality is just different than yours.” the Cheshire Cat.

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Interesting that the President who screams “McCarthyism” had McCarthy’s chief counsel, Roy Cohn, for a lawyer.

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Former DNI James Clapper says “Brennan’s rhetoric is becoming an issue in and of itself.” Would someone please ask him what he thinks of Trump’s rhetoric?

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Georgia GOP state Sen. Michael Williams, who is white, said today “it is “always wrong to use that (N) word,” but that Trump, as President, has not used that word.
To quote Pete Rose “Wanna bet?”

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“Mainstream Media” enabled and normalized Trump, now he’s trying to destroy them. You’d think accordingly they’d have more sympathy sometimes for women in abusive relationships.

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Trump won’t endorse in AZ Senate primary between Martha McSally. Kelli Ward, and Joe Arpaio. Not because he can’t decide, but because he has to claim victory… and doesn’t know who will win.

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Looking forward to SNL return next month. So we can once again ask when watching something crazy with Trump – “Is it real, or is it the cold open?

ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro said today that network has not regularly televised the national anthem during Monday Night Football and does not plan to start this season.
Disappointing probably only fans who used the time for convenient kitchen or bathroom breaks.

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Of course, if Trump or his supporters feel THAT strongly, they could buy up commercial time during the pre-game, and use it to show the National Anthem, unedited and without ads interrupting it…..

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SF’s rookie star pitcher Dereck Rodriguez on DL with strained hamstring sustained in Dodgers-Giants brawl when Puig went after Hundley. To quote Bull Durham’s Annie Savoy “Don’t be such GUYS.”

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University of Alabama is going to spend about $300 million to upgrade their football stadium. Only about 5% of the state’s public school budget for a year. #priorities

Elon Musk has gone so nuts on Twitter have to expect he’ll soon be launching a Presidential Exploratory Committee.

Estimates for Trump’s now “postponed” parade had gone up to $92 million from original $12 million estimate -due to expenses for aircraft, equipment, personnel and security, not charges from city of D.C. In other words, Trump lied.

Trump says of cancelled $92 million military parade “Now we can buy some more jet fighters!” Uh, I’m no expert but per Google says F-22s cost “$339 million per plane. Incremental cost for additional F-22 estimated about $138 million in 2009.”

But hey, it will cover more golf weekends.

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Judge & jury in Manafort trial have received threats, President of the United States calls the defendant a “very good person” & says trial “very said.” That moment when a Grisham thriller novel seems more plausible than reality.

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Now Omarosa may have video as well as tapes. Who’d a thunk when you hire a reality-show villain, then fire and trash her, she’d behave like a reality-show villain?

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A bipartisan group of 12 former intelligence officials released a statement on “the ill-considered and unprecedented remarks and actions by the White House regarding the removal of John Brennan’s security clearances.”
How long until Trump declares “intelligence is over-rated?”

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. RIP Aretha Franklin.

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Aretha Franklin was not only an amazing talent, she was a gracious, classy lady. And when asked if she would perform for Trump inaugural, as she did for Obama’s, her response was “That’s a very good question. “We’ll see” Aretha for “Bless his heart?”

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Mets scored 24 in beating the Phillies. So New York won’t be a playoff team. Now they’re just looking to score more than the Jets?

Omarosa claims that Ivanka Trump was really upset about SNL’s “complicit” sketch about her last year.  Womp womp.

And let’s see, SNL back in about 6 weeks….. should be plenty of time to do a whole “complicit” ad series.

The commander of U.S. Joint Special Operations Command who oversaw the 2011 Navy Seal raid that killed Osama bin Laden has written a scathing op-ed suggesting that Trump take away his security clearance too.

“Killing Bin-Laden over-rated” tweets in 3.2.1..

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But seriously, if someone saw  knew nothing about Donald Trump and saw today’s tweet storm they would have a three word reaction “Off his meds.”

USA Today headline “Bud Light’s promotion for first Browns win a tasteless idea.”

Because airline insanity is so diverting.

Roundtrip lowest business class fare on United nonstop from San Francisco to Osaka is about $8300. From Los Angeles about $6000. VIA San Francisco. So if someone flies SF-LA-SF-Osaka-SF-LA-SF even with the useless roundtrips on each end they’ll save about $2000. And airlines wonder why we hate them.

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Anyone else getting REALLY tired of this season of “Presidential Apprentice?”

Regarding the John Brennan situation, if “erratic” behavior & lack of “credibility” is reason to revoke someone’s security clearance who’s going to break the bad news to Donald Trump?

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Fundraising email from Mike Pence “I’d love to meet you — and a guest of your choice — at a dinner I’m hosting in Houston, Texas. We’ll even get our picture taken together to share with family and friends.”

Wait, did he ask Mother?

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Give Donald Trump credit. Who else could give both a porn star and a reality show villain the moral high ground?

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Rhetorical but serious question – is there ANYONE who disagrees with Trump who he actually respects? (Ivanka doesn’t count. #complicit )

Bud Light will be giving out free beer at 10 Cleveland-area bars when the Browns win their first regular-season game. Prompting the obvious question – so how long can beer age?

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After throwing a few punches at SF Giants’ Nick Hundley, LA Dodgers’ Yasiel Puig was ejected and will probably be suspended.   On a brighter note, he might have drawn some interest from the Chargers.

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Due to rule technicalities, Robinson Cano, returning from a 90-game PED suspension, is ineligible for any playoff games, while  Roberto Osuna, returning from a  75-game domestic violence suspension, IS eligible…   So if Cano had only beaten his girlfriend instead of taking PED’s he could play in the postseason. Is this really how MLB wants to compete with the NFL?

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Okay folks, the challenge is on for “buzz” on this one. From my friend the very funny Hartley Miller – “An umpire working a NY Yankees-Chicago White Sox game briefly stopped the contest in the 9th inning to have a live bug pulled from his ear. Afterwards, the ump signaled the infield fly rule.”

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Omarosa and Sean Spicer’s books aren’t selling very well. Makes sense, Trumpsters don’t want to hear anything against their hero, and Trump haters who want to read outrageous things just have to follow his tweets.

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New Quinnipiac poll showed 51% of GOP agreed with Trump that the media is the “enemy of the people” line.
Wonder how many of them realize that Fox News IS media?

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In South Lake Tahoe, a deputy had to shoot out a back window of a Honda Civic to free a bear who had gotten into the car and was unable to get out.

But haven’t we all had problems with those child-proof locks?

And at least the bear wasn’t armed.

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Air traffic delays averaging well over an hour at many airports across the country…. Boston, New York Area, San Francisco….
Can’t wait for winter when we’ll have fewer flight delays… #WTF?

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Florida GOP congressional candidate Melissa Howard “It was not my intent to deceive or mislead anyone. I made a mistake in saying that I completed my degree.”
Right, and the fake diploma she posted a picture with was an art project?#WTF?

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At least Donald Trump didn’t accuse Omarosa of having a “perfect smoky eye.”

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As we parse Trump’s Omarosa “dog” insult, remember all the media outrage when Barack Obama simply said to Hillary Clinton “You’re likeable enough?”

Six firefighters have died battling California wildfires. And only comments from POTUS are blaming the fires on fake water issues…..

Translation, any late West Coast game on the East Coast.

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Silver lining for Los Angeles  with a SF Giants comeback win from 2-1 in the ninth to win 5-2 – at least few Dodgers fans were still in the stadium to see it.

On National Left Handers day, who’d a guessed the lefty who walked off the mound with the biggest smile at Dodger Stadium was not Madison Bumgarner or Clayton Kershaw but SF Giants closer Will Smith.

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LA Dodgers have had four straight blown saves.  “I feel so sorry for them” says no one in Northern California.

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Carmelo Anthony signing a one year deal with the Houston Rockets. Great news… for the Warriors, Lakers and Spurs.

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So if anti-Trump tweets and comments before the 2016 election are a firing offense, when is Trump going to try to fire half at least half of the GOP Congress?

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According to Trump, Brooks Koepka wins “not only with his powerful game, but with his powerful mind.” Gosh, wonder why Trump doesn’t talk about other athletes. even those he “likes” -Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan – having powerful minds? ”

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Interior Secretary Zinke, blaming California Wildfires on environmentalists “This has nothing to do with climate change. This has to do with active forest management.” Translation, if you let us cut the forests all down for profit we’ll have fewer fires.

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Trump goes after Kasich this morning but doesn’t insult his intelligence like Lebron James, Maxine Waters, Omarosa, Don Lemon…. I wonder why.

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Amazing rants today about Omarosa by Donald Trump, making her sound truly awful. Hope he fires the person who hired her.

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Trump speech today after signing the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act. – He rambles on indefinitely to praise himself, but not even MENTION McCain

I GUARANTEE that if Hillary Clinton as president were signing John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act, her speech would be nothing but praise for Senator McCain as an American hero who has spent his life in our country’s service.

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As SFGiants fan it’s strangely cathartic on Sunday Night Baseball to watch someone ELSE’s bullpen melt down for a change.  #cubs #nationals

Both teams.

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I guarantee, if you are a baseball fan, whatever you thought of Barry Bonds, you NEVER went to the restroom or refrigerator or concession stands during his at-bats.

SF 49ers now say there’s nothing they can do about the intense sun & heat faced by fans on east side of Levi’s Stadium. But they will lower the price of bottled water from $6 to $2 so fans can stay hydrated.
The NFL equivalent of “thoughts and prayers.”

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Rep. Chris Collins, indicted on insider trading charges, has suspended his re-election campaign. One question – “Who’s next?”

Remembering Heather Heyer and sadly realizing that if she had been killed by a car driven by an undocumented immigrant Trump would have been eulogizing her regularly.

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What is this fascination Trump has with some women he accuses? Today on Twitter – “Peter S, and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page; “Bruce Ohr, and his beautiful wife, Nelly.”
Almost like you’d think Donald was a sex offender or something.

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Gentlemen (and ladies) you cannot create a situation here. This is the situation room.

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GOP chairwoman Ronna McDaniel says Omarosa should be prosecuted for recording John Kelly in the Situation Room.
Uh, what about a President who calls and tweets on an un-secure phone?#Lockhimup?

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Okay folks, what’s the over-under on how many of Trump administration have their own tapes?

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders attacked Omarosa for a “lack of character and integrity.” Wait a minute, isn’t that why Trump hired her in the first place?

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Got it. 49ers hang on to beat the Steelers by a field goal at Candlestick Park tonight. 13-10. Oh wait, never mind.  #SFGiants #Pirates

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In honor of retiring Barry Bonds’ number, SF Giants are giving out hats tomorrow with #25 on them. Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to hand out rubber chickens?

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Give Trump credit, before this year almost nobody cared what the SCORES were for preseason football.  Let alone what players were doing during the anthem.

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Here’s a solution for the NFL – just stop showing the anthem.on TV. More time for commercials and bathroom breaks.

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Actually, until every billionaire NFL owner shuts the concession stands and locks the bathrooms during the anthem, Trump should STFU about it.

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FDA has approved marketing for a smartphone app claiming to help prevent pregnancy.
Seems simple, spend enough time with smartphone apps and you won’t get close enough to another human to get pregnant.

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Not sure about Alaska Airlines & #Seatac.  And it sounds like a story that could have been much sadder.  But many airlines to save money are now firing employees & using contract labor to save money on ground staff including those on tarmac. But hey, what could go wrong?

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Though if a suicidal man is going to hijack a plane, glad he left the first part of the usual “murder-suicide” out of it.

Omarosa now says Trump repeatedly used “N-word” and other racial slurs. Is she trying to sell books, or boost Trump approval rates with MAGAers

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But really, does Omarosa realize that for many Trump supporters racism is a feature, not a bug?

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Do have to ask, as these tell-all books all relate what a horrible unstable racist Trump is, why did these people go to work for him in the first place?

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Barry Zito threw out the first pitch tonight at AT&T Park. Zito looked in great form – his fastball can still rattle glass.

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You know it’s a tough season for SF Giants when you find yourself cheering for breaking up perfect games with a walk.

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Here’s a solution for the NFL. Stop televising the anthem.  And leave it to the fans  in the stands whether they want to stand at attention or rush for a bathroom or concession break.

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A tourist gets drunk enough to angrily bang on on a car he thought was an Uber. Car owner, a Wake Forest assistant basketball coach, is mad enough to punch the guy – he falls and hits his head on the ground. Tourist now dead, coach arrested.
Sad proof again, that many of this world’s evils can be put down to testosterone poisoning.

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Maybe the reason Trump felt the need to tweet “I like Mike” is he’s hoping to get Michael Jordan to run his Space Force.

Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is resigning and has pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges over accepting $450,000 in bribes and kickbacks.
Resigning over bribes and kickbacks? Members of Trump administration are thinking “How quaint.”

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Laura Ingraham complains “Massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the American people. … Much of this is related to both illegal and in some cases legal immigration.”
She has a valid point if she’s talking about Native American people.

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Ivanka and Jared are looking for permanent home in Washington, D.C. When they find it, before they move in trust they are planning to insulate with Russian asbestos.

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So now that Trump is bringing back Russian asbestos, how long until he starts allowing Russian DDT?

A Kansas County Clerk confirmed Colyer received 522 votes on election day rather than 422 as reported by Kobach’s office & “said the secretary of state’s office was responsible for the discrepancy, not the county.” I’m sure it’s JUST a coincidence. #VoterFraud

Trump tonight said his administration wants to ensure former inmates can find employment. Makes sense, after Trump leaves office what hope will many of Trump’s staff and cabinet have otherwise?

SF Giants fans got to watch a bullpen lose a game late for 3rd straight day. Fortunately tonight it was Dodgers’ pen against the As.

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And at least the SF Giants bullpen was guaranteed not to break fans’ hearts tonight.  (Team had an off-day.)

So Oscars are going to have a category for “Best Popular Movie.” Thereby admitting that most of their winners AREN’T popular?

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Why do all the headlines about Brock Turner mention him being a Stanford swimmer. Simple and more accurate just to say “Convicted rapist loses appeal.”

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Somewhere there’s got to be a pool on who at Ohio State will lose their job over the domestic abuse scandal with assistant football coach Zach Smith.   But pretty sure it’s not going to be Urban Meyer.

Because nothing, EVER, is Urban Meyer’s fault.

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NY GOP Rep. Chris Collins was Trump’s first backer in Congress. Today he was arrested for insider trading. Crooks of a feather.

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Chris Collins denies insider trading charges. Because hey, when you find out a major drug trial has failed, immediately try to call your son 7 times, then he sells stock right after you reach him, wouldn’t anyone call that a coincidence.

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Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, appointed by Trump to his commission on voter fraud (which found nothing.)  is leading by 191 votes in the GOP Gubernatorial Primary.

This is close enough for an automatic recount. Such a recount would be overseen by the Secretary of State’s office.

What could possibly go wrong?

Elon Musk is getting so erratic on Twitter have to wonder if he’s thinking of running for President?

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I miss when “Fast and Furious” referred to a series of car movies, and not criminal stories coming from the White House.

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So Trump administration claims they will sanction Russia for using a chemical weapon in Britain earlier this year. At same time Trump approves importing Russian asbestos. #WTF?

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If Trump thinks asbestos is so safe, can he please use it to insulate his hotels and Mar-A-Lago?

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Just wondering, when Trump is out of office will his entire staff and Cabinet retire? Because they’re not going to be able to get jobs anywhere else.

As Ohio State investigates allegations that Urban Meyer ignored domestic violence does anyone doubt if Buckeyes were a .500 football team last year he’d have already been fired.

What’s all this freaking out over Batwoman being a lesbian? Apparently from people who never grew up watching Adam West & Burt Ward on TV? Those tights…

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Miss those innocent days when worst we could imagine happening during a election was hanging chads.

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#PurpleHeartDay is a good day to remind everyone again that Robert Mueller is a Republican, with a Purple Heart, and a Bronze Star.

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if Stephen Miller wants to go after immigrants who have taken advantage of government assistance what about the one living with her husband in public housing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

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Voting Green Party in US right now is about as practical and smart as putting a nonrefundable deposit down on Mets playoff tickets.

Or maybe we’ve got it all wrong and Green Party voters aren’t voting progressive, they’re intending to vote for the color of money

Open note to any single liberal young person who votes for Green Party candidate because Democrat isn’t perfect enough, heaven help you if and when you decide to get married.

Tonight it’s too close to call in  Ohio special election on whether white voters would reject hate alone. In November, either way it’s a rematch. Let’s see if they reject upcoming factory closures, layoffs and healthcare cuts.

Also Doesn’t really matter what final result is in #OH12, there’s another election for the same seat in November. And the lesson is simple – VOTE. And for f*ck’s sake, vote for a candidate who can win.

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Finally,  a new study found people who sleep more than 10 hours a night 30% more likely to die prematurely than those who sleep for 8 hours. I’m gonna live forever!

QB Chazz Surratt was one of 13 UNC Carolina football players suspended up to 4 games this season for selling school-issued, special-edition Nike Jordan shoes.
So are the Tarheels now a big-time football program?

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At a rally of more than 200 people at Ohio State supporting Urban Meyer over allegations of him ignoring domestic violence, one speaker was the father of Ezekiel Elliott. Some statements, sadly, don’t even need a punchline.

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Ohio State says investigation of coach Urban Meyer’s handling of a domestic violence complaint against former coach will be done in 2 weeks. Well, yeah Buckeyes open against Oregon State in less than 4 weeks. #priorities

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Coach Urban Meyer had no problem keeping a murderer on the team, anyone really think he’d draw the line at domestic violence? #aaronhernandez

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I hope Rick Gates has a good food taster.

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Miss the days when the biggest regular trainwreck on TV involved #TheBachelorette.

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On the Daily Show, Trevor Noah joking that Trump isn’t attacking him like he attacks other prominent black men.   Maybe Donald thinks Trevor is just really really tan.

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As nasty a gang as MS-13 they are doing less damage in USA now than the gang in the White House.

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So Hillary colluded with Russians but Don Jr and I just met with them to get information on an opponent. Got it. The gospel according to Trump

I remember the days when it was possible to be both a Republican and a scientist.
Trump’s latest tweet –
“Governor Jerry Brown must allow the Free Flow of the vast amounts of water coming from the North and foolishly being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Can be used for fires, farming and everything else. Think of California with plenty of Water – Nice! Fast Federal govt. approvals.”

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While Trump rants about wasting water, wonder how many millions of gallons it takes to water his golf courses?

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Trump has canceled press briefings & will not appear before media while he is on vacation at his golf club in Bedminster.
So again, the man who would run into a school to face a killer with an assault rifle is afraid of journalists with microphones…

Newly signed Roberto Osuna got the win tonight in San Francisco for Houston. But you’d think the current World Champions Astros wouldn’t have needed to remake Damn Yankees.

Back to Yankees-Red Sox on Sunday Night Baseball tonight. But don’t worry, for anyone tired of “same old same old” ESPN is showing Cubs (vs. Nats) next week….

Now that Yankees  have been almost eliminated from AL East maybe ESPN and Fox can find another team to focus on in their place?

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On the other hand, the Red Sox Yankees game lasted 4 hours 39 minute minutes and was over 4 hours just for 9 innings. Maybe the whole point of showing the games is maximum number of commercials?

Interesting how as Roberto Osuna returns from a domestic violence suspension, MLB’s other star closer who has served a domestic violence suspension,  Aroldis Chapman, just blew a 3-run lead in the 9th against the Red Sox.   Mean bitch karma weighing in on the matter?

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For women fans, this statement from Osuna ought to be reassuring… not

From Astros beat reporter Brian McTaggert.  “When asked if he had a message to fans, especially female fans (via translator): “At this point, we don’t know what’s happened, what’s going to happen and we have to wait for that to play out. To the community, I’m just very happy to be here and support this team.”

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Trump finally gets around to praising California’s brave firefighters in a tweet. Oops, never mind, he’s ignoring the firefighters and blaming the fires on California’s environmental laws….. #WTF?

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Sen. John Cornyn told Cory Booker to “get a grip” after Booker said he cried “tears of rage” over Trump’s rhetoric. Meanwhile ranting about NBA players at midnight and calling the media “dangerous and sick” is perfectly normal for a President.

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Maybe with these people who’d rather be Russian than Democrat we could give Putin one red state and let them move. Any suggestions?

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Imagine what the reaction would have been if Democrats had t-shirts saying I’d rather be Kenyan than Republican.

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Molly Ivins used to say she liked George W. Bush. “But I also like my dry cleaner and I don’t think he should be President.”. How much do I wish Molly were alive and commenting on Trump…

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If the Trump Tower meeting was “totally legal,” why didn’t Donald and Don Jr. brag about it and suggest others in GOP do the same?