Politics

Last month indicted House Republican George Santos was seen wandering the congressional halls with a baby that he admitted wasn’t his, before ditching the baby and running down the halls yelling the “F” word. It was the kind of surreal scene that no one would have believed if there weren’t video. Well, the baby was…

In the midst of a week in which House Republicans had to give up on their hope of shutting down the government, and had to give up on their hope of impeaching DHS Secretary Mayorkas, you’d think that any distraction would help them. Instead they’ve managed to land on the one kind of distraction that’s…

Apparently, Republicans would rather cut and run than try to fix their party. So many are planning to leave the House that it’s a wonder they don’t step on each other on the way out. Ken Buck was one of the first, announcing his resignation on November 1, and he wasn’t shy about why. Buck…

There is a popular saying among liberals that change only happens when people protest in the streets. It’s never really been all that accurate – with public protest just being one component of how things change for the better. One issue I’ve always taken with this statement is that it leaves out a big part…

Donald Trump’s rhetoric in recent weeks has become increasingly violent. This is something Palmer Report predicted. It happens during a narcissistic collapse. The narcissist usually feels cornered, so they lash out, and their methods of spilling rage often grow grimmer and more toxic, poisoning their brains. The malevolent cocktail that Donald Trump is now serving…

On Monday Maryanne Trump Barry, 86, died. She was the eldest sister of Donald Trump. She was a rare and tepid critic of her brother’s notorious presidency, being careful not to go too far in her casting of stones. But then, Maryanne Trump had some considerable skeletons in her own closet. But she started well.…

Palmer Report was the first media outlet to properly put the spotlight on Donald Trump’s worsening senility. As you know, in recent months, Trump’s gotten worse. Some people have challenged us on this story. Some people do not believe Trump has any SENILITY. Some people say we’re making it up. Now, this is America. Anyone…

When you flip underling co-conspirators against a crime boss, it’s not just to make things simpler, or reduce the number of trials needed. It’s that these are often the only people who can give you first hand testimony that what you think is true is in fact true. Raise your hand if you already knew…

When the public takes interest in ongoing criminal probe, a familiar pattern tends to play out. That probe largely plays out behind the scenes, with most or all of the details (and sometimes even the probe’s very existence) remaining out of public view. This prompts the public mistakenly conclude that nothing is happening, or things…

When you’re trying to figure out why anyone in Trump world does anything these days, there’s a helpful axiom to keep in mind: they’re idiots. I don’t mean that in a glib or taunting sense. I mean that they are, as a statement of fact, idiots. Everyone in Trump world is trying to please the…

New York Attorney General Letitia James and her team have finished putting on their case for the prosecution in the New York civil fraud trial against Donald Trump. Now it’s time for Trump and his attorneys to put on a defense presentation. Let’s just say that it’s already going poorly for them. For instance, after…

Rudy Giuliani has already been criminally indicted in Fulton County, and also appears to be on track to be criminally indicted by Jack Smith. But what about the people around him? After all, Giuliani’s crime spree appears to have spread across multiple continents. Now we’re seeing some movement on that front. One of Rudy Giuliani’s…

Donald Trump knows he’s already lost his civil fraud trial, he knows his assets are gone, he knows there’s nothing he can do to stop it, and he knows that his criminal trials are going to send him to prison for the rest of his natural life. Trump is losing everything, and therefore appears to…

The media has obtained the proffer interviews that Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell did with Fulton County DA Fani Willis, and it’s set off a firestorm. People are abuzz about who leaked the footage (doesn’t ultimately matter), whether the leak will help Donald Trump (it won’t), and the fact that Trump’s spokesman Dan Scavino told…

You know the major media outlets have dropped the ball in refusing to cover Donald Trump’s worsening senility when Saturday Night Live beat them to the punch this past weekend. When a comedy sketch show is willing to admit something that 95% of the political media has been afraid to say, then something is wrong.…

As part of their cooperating plea deals, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis did “proffer” interviews where they gave up everything they knew, so that Fulton County DA Fani Willis could determine what kind of deal to give them in return. Willis ended up giving them each multi-year probation sentences, with no prison. Why was she…

National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel is in a spin she cannot win. Her spin is a desperate one. You see, Ronna is a coin toss, but it doesn’t matter whether it’s heads or tails. She loses no matter WHAT happens at the end of the spin. McDaniel has two choices. Heads — she disowns Donald…

When Republican Glenn Youngkin ran for Governor in the swing state of Virginia in 2021 and very narrowly won by pretending to be a moderate, it wasn’t a sign of anything, really. Too many Democratic Party activists were still too hung over from 2020 and dropped the ball, and that’s a good way to lose…

We need to stop talking so obsessively about what’ll happen if Trump wins. It’s good to periodically remind everyone of what the nightmare scenario would look like. But our side does it obsessively. In no other walk of life would you sit around talking all day every day about how you’re going to lose, and…

Donald Trump is always talking about himself when he thinks he’s insulting others. The Meidas Touch reposted his latest Truth Social rant: “In honor of our great Veterans on Veteran’s Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines…

Donald Trump has used the word “vermin” repeatedly to describe his political enemies over the weekend, prompting many reporters to write about the comparisons to Hitler. They sounded shocked. How could Trump SAY these things? But we weren’t shocked, were we my friends? We were not shocked because we know this man. We know him…

The polling averages have Biden and Trump tied in 2024. Those polling averages are suspect, because they include some polls that severely undersample or oversample certain demographics. But even if the polls were right, how could the media possibly conclude that Biden is “doomed” or even in any real trouble, if the polls are tied?…

I’m not a doctor of course. But since Donald Trump never allows real doctors to get anywhere near him, the rest of us are stuck trying to provide nonprofessional best guesses about what’s wrong with him. Is it dementia? Is it Alzheimer’s? Is it senility? Take your pick. But something occurred to me. Trump keeps…

The bird was laughing at him. Sounds like the title of a horror film. Well — in a way, it was. It was Donald Trump’s horror film, and yes, there were birds. Let us start at the beginning. It was Friday night. Donald Trump was set to attend a UFC fight in New York. And…

If you’re a washed-up villain who’s out of power, and you’re trying to keep yourself relevant, you do it by talking about all the evil things you’ll do once you’re back in power. It evokes such a panicked response in people, they start obsessively and fearfully talking about how awful it’ll be when you’re back…

The only thing more pathetic than the fact that the Republican Party’s current “frontrunner” is a senile man who’s on his way to prison and isn’t even viable for 2024? The fact that the entire rest of the 2024 Republican field is losing to a senile non-viable candidate who’s on his way to prison. We…

Donald Trump’s attorneys are now pushing to get his January 6th federal criminal trial televised. This isn’t really a thing when it comes to federal criminal trials, so it’s not clear if Team Trump is actually trying to get it televised, or is merely instead making this filing so Trump can play victim to his…

To hear some Republicans tell the story, Joe Biden’s first term is an unqualified disaster. They employ hot button words like “corruption,” “inflation,” “gas prices,” “the economy,” and the ever-popular “Hunter Biden.” Then, of course, there’s the incessant attacks on Biden’s age, as if Donald Trump was some kind of spring chicken. Of course the…

This story is about stupidity. It’s about certain people who, sadly for them, were not given the gift of intellectual curiosity. They were born perhaps without all brain cells working as they should. How else to explain the absurd and, in its way, hysterically amusing stance that many a republican are taking after their Tuesday…

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With about a week left before the November 2023 elections, the available data and trends spelled out that it was increasingly likely that the Democratic Party would sweep all of the competitive elections: Kentucky Governor, Ohio referendum, and the Virginia State Senate and House of Delegates. The media largely refused to admit that the Democrats…

Politicians often masquerade as something other than politicians. Sometimes this masquerade includes the title of actors. Not the type of actors that star in movies. But when appearing on national television, it is to political candidates’ advantage to talk to the American people, to try to connect to them, and to answer questions with courage…

Even as Donald Trump’s financial house of cards has continued to collapse, and his brand name has become toxic, his name still remains on a number of buildings for pure licensing reasons. But that number just dropped by one. Hilton has run the “Trump International Hotel” in Waikiki, Hawaii, since 2009. But in a long…

In May, I wrote about how the Biden-Harris administration was citing “tremendous progress” with rebuilding America’s infrastructure in the 18 months since President Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Now, just six months later, the White House has come out swinging, announcing “historic progress” ahead of the two-year anniversary of that law. Already, nearly $400…

Once the U.S. Supreme Court made the surprising but correct decision to strike down racial gerrymandering, it became clear that several majority-Black House districts would be created in southern states. Republican state governments may not have liked the ruling, but there’s no such thing as magically ignoring a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Nor is there…