Scaramucci’s Record Was Made To Be Broken (Guest: Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar)

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On Our Political Radar This Week…

Brand spanking new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia didn’t even last the week before Trump kicked her to the curb. Just more incompetence and chaos from the Trump Administration, proving yet again that they can occasionally take a break from the astounding financial corruption and their unrelenting assault on the American and global economies and security in order to fuck up the simplest of unconsequential things, which then turn into a big deal. Our old pal, Anthony Scaramucci, has been gracious on social media this afternoon as Zacharia shattered his previous record for a short, disastrous tenure – a record many thought could never be broken. Who says women do not succeed in Trump world?

With two weeks left until the last day of voting, Election Day, we are hoping Trump spends each and every one of those days on the road campaigning for Republicans in close races. Because wherever he goes, the enthusiasm and poll numbers for the Not Republican candidates goes up.

Adding to the woes of Republicans across the board: inflation is still going up and wages aren’t keeping pace. The combination could well result in the Fed raising interest rates again at its next meeting just prior to election day. Making it even worse: in a campaign speech Wednesday, Trump told the crowd that soaring oil prices is actually GOOD news! He also again branded affordability as a Democratic scam – even though Trump raged against affordability repeatedly during the 2024 campaign.

Trump’s fascist-forward second term is also upping his weaponization of the Department of Justice, FBI, and other federal enforcement agencies as he continues to target political enemies. This week Trump has launched a raid of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s DC home. The man who fumed over an FBI search of his garish seaside bordello led to the recovery of mountains of classified documents illegally in his possession after his humiliating loss to Joe Biden in 2020, had nothing but praise for the raid on Omar.

Trump is also creating a kangaroo court designed to pressure the first black woman to serve as a Federal Reserve Governor, MSU economist Lisa Cook, to resign early … or better yet, be sent to jail. His Justice Department is reported to be conducting an anti-trust investigation into the major TV networks and also investigating former White House aide and whistleblower Cassidy Hutchinson for perjury.

The Trump corruption machine saw one longtime member in the news over the past week. Onetime Don Jr. fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle has been dumped as Ambassador to Greece – not because she solicited bribes and accepted massive gifts … but because she got caught by the media. Ironically, the story was uncovered by the Wall Street Journal, owned by onetime Trump fan-boy Rupert Murdoch. However, Murdoch’s TV propaganda channel, Fox News, reported nothing on the scandal until two days ago, six days after the initial Wall Street Journal story.

In another dangerous threat to our representative democracy, Trump violated two court orders in the space of 24 hours. He continued to run taxpayer funded campaign commercials after being told to stop by one judge, and had the National Park Service cut down more than 500 trees on a DC public golf course that he says he will turn into a high-cost, elites-only resort course … again, after being told by a judge “don’t do it.” Trees might not sound like a big deal, but if they’re willing to defy federal judges on seemingly inconsequential matters, they’re certainly not gonna obey court orders on big matters. So much for rule of law. It was nice while it lasted.

Vice President Vance was in the southeast (suburban Ohio) corner of Michigan campaigning for … uh … 2028? Or is it Mike Rogers? Congressman John James was noticeably AWOL. Democrats will be rolling out their heaviest hitter this week when Barack Obama headlines a Get Out the Vote rally in Detroit, just days after Obama recorded a full-throated endorsement ad supporting Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign. Obama followed that up a day later with an endorsement ad for Jocelyn Benson.

Senate candidate Mike Rogers is not slowing his 24/7 bigoted and rascist attacks on El-Sayed’s religion and heritage. No longer employing dog whistles, Rogers is flat-out linking El-Sayed to Islamic terrorist groups, even reposting a Tweet calling El-Sayed a terrorist. Rogers was called out in a devastating column from Detroit Free Press editorial editor Nancy Kaffer, who wrote “In prosecuting a campaign based on racism and outright lies, Rogers has shown that he is determined to advance himself at any cost ‒ that nothing, not the truth, not integrity, not the literal danger his increasingly heated rhetoric aims at El-Sayed ‒ is more important to him than winning.”
In the nearly over race for Governor, Jocelyn Benson and John James tangled in another televised debate that really didn’t break any new ground or do anything to change the dynamics of a race that looks like a comfortable victory for Benson. One sign of James’ dilemma: the Republican Governors Association has stopped buying ads for John James, effectively putting the . Now, state Democrats are eying a possible 4th congressional flip with an aggressive challenge to Jack Bergman. That’s on top of efforts to flip districts now represented by Republicans John James, Tom Barrett and Bill Huizenga.