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Lets start with the fact that this is a nominee, Chad Meredith, who Donald Trump rejected because of his close association with the corruption of former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin. Those scandals included a bunch of pardons for actual convicted criminals, including a murderer whose family had donated some tidy sums to Bevins campaign.

Then theres the folly of making any kind of deal withMcConnell. Whether its for McConnells promise to allow other lifetime judicial nominees, or for two U.S. attorneys who would serve for just four years, its McConnell. Even if he intended to fulfill his part of the deal personally (and that has to be in doubt, because Mitch McConnell) he cant stop Rand Paul or Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley or Rick Scott or Tom Cotton (or any of the other 50 Republicans) from obstructing nominees.

The other part of this that is astoundingly bad on Bidens part is that hes blindsided Senate Democrats with it. The last thing the administration needs now is a fight with Democratic lawmakers. Over abortion and the judiciary, of all things. But a fight is precisely what hell get, and it could mean a very embarrassing loss for him.

All Im going to tell you is Im going to vote no,saidSen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) Monday. Its his call, but if he asked me for my advice I would say I dont know how many Democrats are planning on voting yes.

Even Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), no flaming liberal, isadvising against the potential nomination. I do not think this is the kind of person that a Democratic majority should put on the bench based on what Im reading [about him], he told HuffPost. He added that he would have some concerns over the nomination. Concerns like how embarrassing this could be for Biden, maybe?

Theres probably also some anger among Democrats, because every indication is that Biden was going to blindside them with it, trying to conceal with nomination in a larger group of nominees. In the email notificationof the nomination that Beshear received, Bendery points out, White House officials appear to have simply cut and pasted White House language about Meredith into the emailincluding the number eight right before Merediths name, as if he is one in a list of nominees being lumped together.

Everything about this situation is absurd and embarrassing. Making a deal with McConnell. Thinking McConnell would honor a deal. Preparing to announce the nomination of an anti-abortion candidate to a lifetime appointment on June 24. The last week of the U.S. Supreme Courts term. The week that they knew the court was going to overturn federal abortion rights. Dropping this mess on Senate Democrats laps with no warning. Embarrassing them, and setting up a potential intramural fight.

While the White House is apparently still thinking they can make this nomination, Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbinis suggestinghe wont hold a hearing for him. Imagine how controversial it would be within the Democratic caucus, Durbin said to Politico.

He added thats hed spoken to White House staff about it, asking whats in it for Democrats. They didnt have a specific answer, he said. If Biden does go through with it, Durbin is not promising a hearing. Well wait and see if we receive it and then well decide.

The administrationannouncedfive new nominees to federal judgeships Tuesday. Meredith wasnt on this one, so at least it hasnt happenedyet.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. America was saved in the face of overwhelming odds when former President Trump returned as Trump the White at first light Monday to drain the swamp, finally making good on a campaign promise from days of old. He was joined by Dutch farmers, Canadian truckers, and those who would carry the banner of freedom unto death.

According to witnesses, there suddenly upon Capitol Hill appeared a rider, clad in white, shining in the rising sun. Behind him, hastening down the long slopes of the National Mall, were a thousand farmers and truckers; steering wheels and gear shifts manipulated with the ingenuity of patriots.

"Behold the White Rider!" cried Ted Cruz.

Rep Thomas Massie was encouraged but skeptical. "This is wizardry indeed! Come, I would look upon this ere the spell changes."

"Take heart, friend!" said Sen Rand Paul. "Dawn is ever the hope of men!"

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer shut their eyes against blinding light and covered their ears before the might of Trump's highly articulate cries as they were driven back to the shadow. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was not at the Capitol but seemingly dropped dead in horror when she later watched the event unfold on the news.

Once the Capitol Building was secured, members of Congress stepped out into the light of Trump and were cleansed of the stain of corruption. The hope of men was restored and the great evil that once reigned was held back yet another day.

At publishing time, Trump announced a new round of stimulus checks and COVID shots for everyone.

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It seemed Bette Midler could say just about anything on Twitter without repercussions.

The Divine Miss M. has spent years slashing and burning her ideological foes on the platform. Most egregiously, she cheered on the man who nearly killed Sen. Rand Paul during a 2017 dispute.

Twice.

No Twitter suspensions. No blowback from her Hollywood peers.

That protective bubble burst this month.

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Midler, in an attempt to critique the end of Roe v. Wade, worried that the folks behind the Supreme Court reversal were erasing women.

They dont call us women anymore; they call us birthing people or menstruators, and even people with vaginas! she added. Dont let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!

Midlers message earned a curious response from conservatives. They grinned, realizing Midler had attacked fellow progressives. The modern Left is erasing the word woman from the vernacular, witness the pretzel-like conversations highlighted in the Daily Wire documentary What Is a Woman?

Now, Midler is under attack from her own side, and shes trying to wriggle free from the woke vise.

That may not be enough. Or, Midlers unrelenting messaging for Democratic causes may cause the woke mob to stand down. Said mob picks and chooses its victims carefully.

Well see.

Meanwhile, liberal singer Macy Gray is fighting her own battle with the woke mob. Gray, who called for a new American flagto replace the tattered, dated, divisive, and incorrect model and railed against President Donald Trump, shared some inconvenient thoughts with Piers Morgan this month.

Gray told the British broadcaster she doesnt support trans females competing against biological women in sports.

She didnt stop there.

I will say this and everybodys going to hate me, but, as a woman, just because you go change your parts, doesnt make you a woman. Sorry If you want me to call you a her, I will, because thats what you want, but that doesnt make you a woman just because I call you a her and just because you got a surgery.

For that, Gray got pummeled by the far-Left on social media. Most stars embark on an Apology TourTM following these public kerfuffles.

Its partly what Gray did at first. She Tweeted the following message:

i got nothing but love for lgbt+ and transgender communities ive been a supporter since day one and never a fake one. my statement on piers morgan was GROSSLY misunderstood. i respect everyones right to be whoever they wana be.

The I Try singer quickly had a change of heart and deleted that missive. Her follow-up took a more aggressive, less conciliatory tone.

Will it work? Gray isnt as famous as she was at the start of her musical career. She lacks the long-standing liberalism that helps protect Midler from the Cancel Culture cult.

Some stars, and even platforms, have begun fighting back against woke bylaws. Netflix and Paramount stood up for free expression in recent weeks. Comedians like Joe Rogan, Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais told offensive jokes and survived the ensuing attacks.

Well know in a few days if Gray and Midlers damage control tactics worked.

UPDATE: Gray already backpedaled. She used a national platform to take back her defense.

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Former President Donald Trump speaks during a "Save America" rally in Anchorage, Alaska, on July 9, 2022.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Donald Trump called a witness in the House January 6 investigation within the last week.

Rep. Liz Cheney said the witness did not answer but alerted a lawyer, who then told the House panel.

Cheney previously showed evidence that Trump allies were pressing witnesses to do the "right thing."

Former President Donald Trump tried to call a witness in the congressional inquiry into the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, Rep. Liz Cheney said Tuesday, prompting House investigators to notify the Justice Department.

"After our last hearing, President Trump tried to call a witness in our investigation a witness you have not yet seen in these hearings. That person declined to answer or respond to President Trump's call and, instead, alerted their lawyer to the call," said Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, in a bombshell revelation that concluded the House January 6 committee's seventh public hearing.

"Their lawyer alerted us, and this committee has supplied that information to the Department of Justice," she added. "Let me say one more time: We will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously."

Cheney, the Hosue January 6 committee's vice chair, had previously gone public with the House January 6 committee's concerns about witness tampering as it continues to investigate the Capitol attack and Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. At the House panel's previous hearing, Cheney revealed evidence that Trump allies were pressuring witnesses, a "practice that raises significant concern," she said.

Without identifying specific individuals, Cheney said Trump allies have urged witnesses to do "the right thing" ahead of appearances before the House January 6 committee.

"I think most Americans know that attempting to influence witnesses to testify untruthfully presents very serious concerns," Cheney said at the committee's June 28 hearing.

It is unclear whether the House January 6 committee alerted the Justice Department to Trump's call in the form of a formal referral. A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment.

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The mention of Trump's call capped a three-hour hearing that focused on the former president's embrace of draconian plans to retain power and his role in galvanizing far-right groups that stormed the Capitol on January 6.

The House January 6 committee played footage of former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and two cabinet officials former Attorney General William Barr and Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia testifying that they knew Trump had lost the election after the Electoral College voted to certify the results in mid-December 2020.

Nonetheless, Trump entertained desperate plans to remain in the White House, including by seizing voting machines and appointing Sidney Powell, a conservative lawyer known for propounding conspiracy theories, as special counsel to investigate baseless claims of voter fraud.

"I was vehemently opposed. I didn't think she should be appointed to anything," Cipollone told the committee in his recorded testimony Friday, a portion of which was played publicly for the first time Tuesday.

Drawing from recorded testimony, the House committee detailed a December 18, 2020, meeting in which Powell and former national security advisor Michael Flynn urged Trump to name Powell special counsel and sign an executive order to seize voting machines. In her own testimony to the House committee, Powell recalled how Cipollone "set a land-speed record" rushing to intervene in the meeting.

"I was not happy to see the people who were in the Oval Ofice," Cipollone said.

During the second half of the hearing, the House committee turned to the incendiary rhetoric in which Trump mobilized his supporters, including members of far-right groups such as the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. The House committee highlighted a December 19, 2020 tweet in which Trump said: "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!"

Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, said Trump's incendiary rhetoric "electrified and galvanized" supporters. Later, he invoked a phrase from Trump's 2017 inaugural address "American carnage" and delved deeper into American history to say "the Watergate break-in was like a Cub Scout meeting compared to this assault on our people and our institutions."

"American carnage: That's Donald Trump's true legacy," Raskin said. "His desire to overthrow the people's election and seize the presidency interrupted the counting of electoral college votes for the first time in American history, nearly toppled the constitutional order and brutalized hundreds and hundreds of people."

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Back in 2019 I wrote a piece entitled, Trump Tourettes about the unhinged reactions you get from leftists anytime you mention the 45th President of the United States. It doesnt matter if youre wearing a MAGA hat or casually explaining to someone how to play euchre, any even tangential mention of his last name set off leftists in an uncontrollable rage. That hasnt changed in the three years since, but a new phenomenon has come along to join this affliction Trump Withdrawal.

Where Trump Tourettes causes involuntary ramblings and frothing at the mouth, Trump Withdrawal causes those afflicted to make every single thing they can about Donald John Trump. Celebrity stalkers are more rational about their relationships with the targets of their obsessions than those poor bastards afflicted with an insatiable need to have Trump in their lives.

People in media who made their careers or got their TV contracts because of their willingness to be a Republican who doesnt like Trump on CNN or MSNBC are adrift now. Many of these conservatives are without a home they are what happens to useful idiots when they outlive the useful part and are just left being idiots.

Bill Kristol is a prime example. This Weeble who wouldnt have ever had a job were he not the son of an accomplished man has at least found himself another sugar daddy to keep the gravy train rolling. The commodity he has to sell is his former credibility of being a conservative magazine editor and Fox News commentator. As long as people remember thats what he was, he can still get left-wing billionaires to throw him bones to blame everything on Donald Trump. All he has to do is continue to renounce everything he once claimed to stand for because he doesnt like the people accomplishing it. Hunter Bidens prostitutes have more dignity

Theres also Michael Steele. The former chairman of the Republican National Committee is on MSNBC regularly whining like a 9-year-old girl with a skinned knee about how everything is either the fault of Republicans in general or Donald Trump specifically. Still upset he wasnt reelected to another term as chair because of his incompetent management of the RNC (strip clubs, anyone?), Mikey isnt qualified for much else. He co-founded a PR firm with a liberal Democrat under the guise of caring so deeply about finding solutions to problemsthat he sold it as quickly as possible. Now practices verbal yoga via Skype, showing an amazing ability to make anything about the former President. If Donald Trump didnt exist, Michael Steele would have to invent him because the alternative would be to be a productive human being offering something people need or find useful and hes simply ill-equipped.

Washington Post resident bridge troll Jennifer Rubin is angrier that Donald Trump was President than she is that a house was dropped on her sister. The former alleged conservative now spends her time inventing ways to blame the former President for the failures of the current one. Shes another one of those people with a paper trail expressing a desire for certain policy outcomes who renounced them when they came about because of anything related to the Trump presidency. Shes one step away from performing abortions to prove her fealty to her progressive masters when all she really has to do is give every man in America a picture of herself, which is the most effective form of birth control ever devised.

There are lesser-known sufferers, minor players who never really rose as high as their fervent selling out could have taken them if theyd been even remotely intelligent or interesting before Trump came along. Amanda Carpenter, who appears to have lost her CNN gig and suffered deserved humiliation auditioning for The View, now writes for Kristols latest blog. Matt Lewis has also discovered what happens at CNN post-Trump is like what happens at a strip club after last call the stripper was only pretending to like you. Writing hottakes like Anybody but Trump Is the Only Way Forward for the GOP, he has devolved into someone writing pieces in the hope that Morning Joe will have him on to talk about them. Hes trying to wring out a little more usefulness from his idiocy.

Then again, they all are. What they once pretended to be is the only commodity they have to offer. Donald Trump broke them. Not deliberately, but by existing in a way where he didnt need them. All theyd been building was irrelevant, their lifes works werent needed. He didnt seek their advice, there were no campaign surrogate contracts or consulting deals, he didnt even tweet out their pointless columns or clips of their TV hits. They handled it about as well as an obsessed ex handles the news of your engagement.

These are but a few of the pathetic gaggle scrambling to find some attention from the home they were welcomed into so warmly only a couple of years ago. They have announced their leaving the GOP almost as many times as Max Boot or Joe Scarborough have that its performance art at this point. Perhaps they should apply for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts? Maybe then the hole inside them will be filled. As for the Republican Party and conservative world: Go already, we still dont need you.

Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!), host of a daily nationally syndicated radio show, and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly Week in F*cking Review podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.

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