It’s Monday…
President Shitshow’s public schedule for…
| Monday, July 21 2025 |
| 9:00 AM In-Town Pool Call Time In-Town Pool |
| 12:30 PM The President has lunch with the Vice President |
President Thumbs spent the weekend furiously projecting every insecurity he’s ever had across his personal rage-blog platform. We’re not covering all of them — because we value your sanity. You’re welcome.
I doom-scrolled my way through Saturday and Sunday, but finally tapped out after the fourth or fifth “This Congressperson Is Great” post — insert name, rinse, repeat, question existence.
Over the weekend, President “I’m a Criminal So Everyone Else Must Be Too” posted a fake video showing former President Obama being arrested for treason. No, it wasn’t real. No, that didn’t stop him. And yes, we’re still pretending this is normal presidential behavior.
The above video was posted in response to DNI Tulsi “Possibly a Russian Asset, Definitely a Mess” Gabbard’s claim that President Obama — while still in office — attempted a coup to prevent Trump’s first term. Which is both historically impossible and exactly the kind of thing that gets said out loud now.
He also shared this image…
🧵 Americans will finally learn the truth about how in 2016, intelligence was politicized and weaponized by the most powerful people in the Obama Administration to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President @realDonaldTrump, subverting the… pic.twitter.com/UQKKZ5c4Op
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) July 18, 2025
On Dec 8, 2016, IC officials prepared an assessment for the President's Daily Brief, finding that Russia "did not impact recent U.S. election results" by conducting cyber attacks on infrastructure.
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) July 18, 2025
Before it could reach the President, it was abruptly pulled “based on new… pic.twitter.com/XBmqnMmcC8
Obama officials immediately leaned on their allies in the media to advance their falsehoods. Anonymous IC sources leaked classified information to the Washington Post and others that Russia had intervened to hack the election in Trump's favor. pic.twitter.com/eHdPaGfxbD
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) July 18, 2025
These documents detail a treasonous conspiracy by officials at the highest levels of the Obama White House to subvert the will of the American people and try to usurp the President from fulfilling his mandate.
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) July 18, 2025
I am providing all documents to the Department of Justice to deliver the accountability that President Trump, his family, and the American people deserve.
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) July 18, 2025
I spent a lot of time deciding how to cover this.
My thoughts; this is bullshit to distracted from EpsteinFileGate. It also confuses voting machines; not hacked and DNC servers; were hacked.
I turned to Empty Wheel’s words on this because frankly, I don’t really give two shits about this.
Tulsi Gabbard Accuses Kash Patel of Covering Up for the Obama Deep Statehttps://t.co/bHl1tdbdYw
— emptywheel (check) (@emptywheel) July 18, 2025
Just as importantly, nothing in the article addresses tampering with the voting infrastructure, the topic of almost all the other screen caps in Tulsi’s propaganda, in her effort to conflate the voting infrastructure, the hack and leak, and the larger information operation.
There are a slew of other problems with Tulsi’s book report. It ignores:
Empty Wheel.net. 07/18/2025.
- The Russian investigation into Trump didn’t arise out of this intelligence. It arose out of Mike Flynn’s efforts to undermine the Obama sanctions on Russia in response, and Trump’s efforts to undermine the investigation of Flynn.
- The Russian investigation discovered abundant new evidence, including proof that Trump’s campaign learned of Russia’s operation in advance. Trump’s Coffee Boy, Campaign Manager, National Security Advisor, personal lawyer, and rat-fucker were all eventually adjudged to have lied to cover up aspects of Trump’s involvement in the Russian investigation. And through their confessions, we learned that Russia dangled an impossibly lucrative real estate deal, told a Trump campaign official and his rat-fucker about their operation, got campaign data and strategy — possibly in exchange for millions of dollars and involvement in a plan to carve of Ukraine — and then undermined Obama’s foreign policy to help Russia.
- After all these 2016 assessments, the NSA later developed evidence — according to the document Reality Winner leaked — that showed Russia did attempt to and had some success in hacking voting infrastructure.
Which is to say, Tulsi’s entire little book report is unrelated to the Russian investigation into Trump and her claims about hacking the election infrastructure were eventually revised.
But her report is not without interest.
If her story is true — if there is a shred of truth to her claims that Obama tried to alter the intelligence in 2016 — then evidence to that fact was available in 2020, when Kash Patel was reviewing precisely the same intelligence while serving as Ric Grenell’s handler, and that evidence was available from 2019 through 2023, when John Durham reviewed it all and determined that the spooks did nothing wrong.
In other words, if Tulsi’s allegations are true, it means Kash Patel and John Durham are part of the Deep State plot against Donald Trump!!!!
It means Trump’s hand-picked FBI Director was part of a sustained effort to cover-up Obama’s devious intervention in 2016.
If Tulsi’s allegations have any merit, then Pam Bondi must fire Kash Patel and include him, right along with all the nefarious actors Tulsi targets, because Kash covered this up when he could have helped Trump win the 2020 election.
Empty Wheel.net. 07/18/2025.
Speaking of “going to jail”…
President Projection didn’t stop at sharing an AI-generated fantasy about Obama getting arrested in the Oval Office. He followed it up by declaring that Democratic Senator Adam Schiff should be sent to prison — because nothing says “leader of the free world” quite like demanding your political enemies be jailed. It’s less presidential platform, more banana republic cosplay.
I covered the Schiff scandal that wouldn’t scandal in 2023, in last Tuesday’s Coffee Talk.
This morning I found this from Greg Sargent.
Trump just said Schiff merits "prison" for the "fraud" an IG supposedly found.
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) July 21, 2025
Again, I talked to experts/former IG who described the process used here as deeply troubling.
This is his model for manipulating bureaucracy to hatch pretexts to target foes:https://t.co/nN9wbcr9qj pic.twitter.com/k5K7j3mGK9
The article is worth the read; it’s not paywalled. I didn’t even have to give my email address this time.
He did post follow-up tweets.
Is everyone going to shrug at Trump explicitly saying a sitting US Senator should go to prison based on claims brought into existence by what appears to be a highly dubious process? Seems like media orgs should be trying to answer the Qs that this raises about Trump/WH's role. https://t.co/nc5x5sRHF7
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) July 21, 2025
This is not just Trump bloviating. It's not a "distraction play." It's been referred to DOJ for potential prosecution. So when Trump says explicitly that the target (in this case Adam Schiff) should go to "prison" for this, it's functionally a directive to DOJ to act. https://t.co/nc5x5sRHF7
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) July 21, 2025
Folks, this is not the same as Trump posting a picture of Obama in an orange jump suit.
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) July 21, 2025
In the case of Schiff, the bureaucracy was *actually used to generate a fact-set that is supposed to demonstrate wrongdoing.* That process itself deserves scrutiny. It's itself the story. https://t.co/nc5x5sRHF7
"From beginning to end, this process is highly irregular. It is extremely unusual for the response to any IG request to go to head of agency rather than back to OIG. So far as I know, it is unprecedented for such raw info to be forwarded to WH."
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) July 21, 2025
-former IG Michael Bromwich: https://t.co/nc5x5sRHF7
President Projection briefly paused his routine of threatening to jail political opponents to weigh in on something far more pressing: NFL branding. He offered to approve a shiny new stadium — but only if the team agrees to change its name back to something he likes. Because nothing screams “serious policymaker” like holding infrastructure hostage for a mascot reboot.
To put the chaotic bow on President Wannabe DonFather’s weekend circus via “Lies Social,” he posted a three-minute video — no explanation, no source, and definitely no credit to whoever made it. Intellectual property theft: just another Sunday pastime for the guy with nuclear codes.
I’ve watched all 3 minutes of the video of weird things that happened to people. Interestingly enough the first image of a girl, her bikini, and her ninja like reflex’s in catching a snake, has a fact-check!
Snopes (04/09/2018) Did a Sunbather Catch a Cobra with Her Bare Hands?
A video purportedly showing a large snake racing up from the water toward a seemingly unaware sunbather only to be caught moments before it strikes was viewed and shared millions of times in April 2018, after it was posted to the “Just Amazing” Facebook group.
We are all mad here…
This is an open thread
