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What he said (in 2015): Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump The deal with Iran will go down as one of the most incompetent ever made. The U.S. lost on virtually every point. We just don't win anymore!

PR 101 - create a crisis and then claim to solve it. Exhibit A: “I love the inflation,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office today. “You know why? Because as soon as this war is over … it’s going to come down like a rock.”

“What Robert Reiner did with life said everything about his character,” Ben Wikler said. “Trump’s reaction to his death says everything about his lack of character.” from WSJ

Head's up: On Friday, the USSC justices will discuss petitions for review. One of those petitions is Davis v. Ermold, in which Kim Davis is challenging the court’s recognition of a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.

It only took two months for the national debt to grow to the new record from $37 trillion, making this the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion in debt in history outside of the COVID-19 pandemic, per Jonathan Wolf, Above the Law contributor . (I did not fact check.)

Trump finally realized he's been played: In his newest assessment of Vladimir Putin. “We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin,” he said. “He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”

The Senate has passed Republicans’ megabill bringing Trump and the GOP much closer to a landmark victory that would lower taxes, beef up border and military spending, slash the social safety net, damage the clean-energy boom, balloon the deficit and raise the debt ceiling. Thanks, Politico

A new study published in JAMA Network Open on 4/9 found that pregnancy-related mortality increased 27.7% from 25.3 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2018 to 32.6 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2022. The results come shortly after staffing was slashed at the the CDC.

Yeah but ... (from WSJ) This weekend’s trip marks Trump’s 8th visit to Mar-a-Lago since 1/20, per Mark Knoller, a former CBS News journalist who tracks presidential activities. The president has spent time at golf courses at least 19 times; when Obama was president, Trump criticized him for golfing.

Welcome to the Twilight Zone, where erasing $6 BILLION is a "win." Per WSJ, Minutes after the U.S. stock market registered its worst week in more than five years, the Trump administration put out a list of “wins” for the week titled, “President Trump Unleashes Economic Prosperity.”

I didn't say it: “What you see here is a group ... who think they missed an opportunity the first time ... they didn't maximize Trump's indiscriminate, narcissistic, vengeful nature,” says Ty Cobb, a Trump 1.0 White House lawyer. “They’re playing to Trump’s strengths, which is as a mob boss.”

WOW "Kari Lake does not grant interviews or interact with disreputable ‘news’ outlets like NPR.” She called USAGM “a ...burden to the American taxpayer....” FYI, the U.S. Agency for Global Media is less than 0.01% of the total US federal budget.

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A page on the Defense Department’s website celebrated Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag at Iwo Jima in 1945. The page, along with many others about minority service members, has now been erased.

washingtonpost.comAmid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiserPages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.