Remember for a minute when the media, NYT, were talking about Trump’s cognitive decline?

What happened?

Now they’re letting him call other people “mentally disabled”?

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1840117903317729311

And yet another racist attack—“born that way”

Matt Schlapp says Tim Scott is gay. And he would probably know., by @MSignorile signorile.com/p/matt-schlapp… "The saga of the senator and GOP presidential candidate's mysterious girlfriend is only getting more bizarre."

Fox News doesn't care if gay men in Tennessee die, by @MSignorile open.substack.com/pub/signorile/… "The state has shocked HIV experts by turning away millions in federal HIV dollars. The decision was based on anti-trans smears propagated by Tucker Carlson and his executive producer, Justin Wells."

Promised green cards, catfishing, threats: How George Santos' ex-boyfriends say they were left feeling trapped, manipulated abcnews.go.com/US/promised-gr… !!!!

"Pedro Vilarva, who told ABC News he met Santos in 2014 on the dating app Tinder, said he shared an apartment with Santos' wife without knowing the two were married at the time. "

U.S. Economy Records Solid Growth nytimes.com/live/2023/01/2… "Economic growth remained solid at the end of last year as the strong job market and cooling inflation allowed Americans to keep spending despite fears of a recession."

The previous pope is rolling over in his Vatican crypt. It's interesting that Francis gave interview to the AP, calling for the Catholic church to fight the criminalization of homosexuality & demanding bishops change their stances, the day after the extremist Pope Benedict's book was published posthumously.

"Over wine and caprese salad, Santos laid out a can’t-miss investment opportunity."

‘I felt like we were in “Goodfellas’’’: How George Santos wooed investors for alleged Ponzi scheme washingtonpost.com/investigations… “'He was saying if you give me $300,000, I am going to make you money. I’m going to make you $3 million' said Lopez."

This is going to drive the Catholic bishops crazy.

apnews.com/article/pope-f… "Declaring such laws 'unjust,' Francis said the Catholic Church can and should work to put an end to them. 'It must do this. It must do this,' he said."

This story is rock solid. Matt Schlapp accused of groping a male staffer on Herschel Walker's campaign -- and the campaign offered "nothing but support" for the staffer at the time.

Schlapp has allowed the most horrific anti-LGBTQ bile at CPAC. Another GOP hypocrite.

https://twitter.com/SollenbergerRC/status/1611167761417527298

I covered CPAC for years, annually (until the pandemic). I watched Schlapp, interviewed/argued with him, as he allowed CPAC to be a platform for homophobic hate.

All the while, was he making unwanted advances on men?

The tiny band of gay MAGA were ecstatic that Santos would be a GOP House member pushing "groomer" smears & "don't say gay" bill...

Now they're all in hiding.

@RichardGrenell @robsmithonline @gregorytangelo @Chadwick_Moore @CharlesTMoran

https://twitter.com/MSignorile/status/1610400419745865728

Santos would help do their dirty work, pushing the GOP's hate agenda against LGBTQ, psychotically believing they’ll be accepted by MAGA extremists immersed in QAnon conspiracies if they just throw some of their own under the bus.

How we dodged a bullet with the exposé of George Santos, by @MSignorile open.substack.com/pub/signorile/… "A gay MAGA Republican, Santos was readymade to push the "groomer" lie on Tucker Carlson's show, and promote a "don't say gay" bill in Congress. Now he's blown up in the GOP's face."

Santos married a woman in 2012, per marriage records, divorced in 2019. But this:

"Mr. Vilarva met Mr. Santos in 2014, when he was 18 & Mr. Santos was 26. Mr. Vilarva found him charming and sweet. They dated for a few months before Mr. Santos suggested they move in together." nytimes.com/2023/01/01/nyr…

Mr. Vilarva said..he did find himself footing many of the bills.

“'He used to say he would get money from Citigroup, he was an investor,' Mr. Vilarva recalled. 'One day it’s one thing, one day it’s another thing. He never ever actually went to work.'"

Let me complete the headline for you:

Which We, The New York Times, Willfully Promoted

The ‘Red Wave’ Washout: How Skewed Polls Fed a False Election Narrative nytimes.com/2022/12/31/us/… And yes, we actually got an admission here. Quite rare folks (should have been further up in the story IMHO.)

"And it spilled over into coverage by mainstream news organizations, including The Times, that amplified the alarms being sounded about potential Democratic doom."

Trump went from never releasing his tax returns to becoming the first announced candidate for 2024 to have them released -- and it's killing him. He gave little money to charity -- and nothing at all in 2020, as Covid swept the globe.

He did not forgo his $400K salary as he bragged he would.

Had bank accounts in...China!

Folks, Santos has said his mother was in one of the towers on 9/11 and died "a few years" later, implying some illness or injury (sketchy details). 2016 isn't "a few years," but still the tweets aren't necessarily a lie.

Many who were at Ground Zero developed illnesses... ...many years later. Some died of those illnesses, some are still alive. 9/11 victims compensation fund gives aide to anyone who developed one of 4 illnesses who was at ground zero, no matter how many years later.

This is one that should be checked out first.

Nassau DA Donnelly opens investigation into George Santos newsday.com/long-island/na… via @Newsday Republican district attorney opening investigation of Santos.

George Santos thinks he just settled everything.

He just opened up a whole world of hurt for him and the GOP as they're trying to fumble out of the gate, without even a speaker yet. Santos claims to have "loaned" his campaign $600,000, which was reported in his FEC filing earlier in the year. But the 600K doesn't show up in his 2022 personal financial disclosure -- which was filed late -- which says he made no income over the past year.

Santos admits he lied, lied, and lied again to the voters.

This is fraud. And he should step down now.

Liar Rep.-elect George Santos admits fabricating key details of his bio nypost.com/2022/12/26/rep… via @nypmetro "Santos confessed Monday that he had 'never worked directly' for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, chalking that fib up to a 'poor choice of words.'"

Never worked "directly" for them -- as in, he never worked for them at all.

What we might see re: Maggie Haberman is some reporter, maybe media reporter, once again do perfunctory story on how she's being attacked by "the left."

They'll use worst examples, most extreme and unfair attacks on Twitter, rather than reasoned critiques. I don't give a damn who Haberman's mother worked for, and I don't believe she's believes in Trump' politics or is right-winger or whatever.

I want them to speak to those of us who've given clear examples of how her access journalism works. How she will do a critical piece...

Maggie Haberman has trended every day since the "she's friendly to us" line in the 1/6 report.

Reporters who defend her will it slough it off, offer rationalizations, claim the Trumper's *think* she's friendly while she's playing 3-D chess. But their blind spot is more evident. Haberman is protected by colleagues, some of whom fear her, b/c even if they don't agree w/the criticisms there's a story here:

She's in Hutchinson's testimony as "friendly to us." She blocked Rachel Vindman tonight. Adam Davidson of New Yorker tweeted she tried get him fired.

Did George Santos grift his own mother’s funeral?

Priest recalls George Santos' financial need – saying family couldn't afford mother's funeral - CBS News cbsnews.com/news/george-sa… Santos told priest the family couldn't afford funeral.

“A memorial mass was held at the church, which held a collection… priest said he didn't count the money collected, but recalled that the amount raised was significant, and that he handed the collection directly to Santos.”