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How long has the media been trying to get President Donald Trump... 10 years now?
They've failed countless times.
Yet they're still at it. What's that they say about doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result? They keep trying anyway.
On Sunday, CNN's Jake Tapper had his head handed to him by Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY-21) during an interview on "State of the Union."
Tapper claimed that Trump's comment on April 7 about dealing with the Iranian regime, that their "whole civilization will die," was the same thing as "genocide."
TAPPER: Call for genocide on a college campus and a call for genocide made by the president of the United States, like, they're both bad, right?
STEFANIK: President Trump didn't call for genocide, Jake. You were putting those words in his mouth. He is engaging in diplomatic back and forth!
TAPPER: Your entire civilization will die?
STEFANIK: It's the terrorist regime, Jake. He's targeting the terrorist regime. You're adding genocide. That's NOT what he's stated! He wasn't calling for genocide. It was targeted towards the Iranian terrorist regime. It was targeted towards the Iranian terrorist regime.
TAPPER: Agree to disagree (smirking).
Typical CNN Tapper. Stefanik chided him. "If you want to prop up the Iranian terrorist regime, that’s on you," she said.
Trump was using harsh language to reach a terrorist regime, talking in words that would move them, to get them to the negotiating table. That succeeded, as Stefanik noted. The regime believed him; they believed they were in deep trouble; they even deployed "human shields" out to bridges and power plants. Without that threat, he might not have gotten them to the table.
What Jake leaves out, too, is the context of his comments in that same tweet. Trump followed the "civilization" comment by talking about the regime's "47 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end," and "God bless the Great People of Iran!" So obviously, he was talking about taking out the regime, the evil "civilization" they had imposed on the people, and helping the people in so doing, just as Stefanik said.
Trump had also spent much of the day before talking passionately about the people of Iran and all they had gone through, so that also put paid to Tapper's assertion. He's spoken repeatedly about the bravery of the Iranian people who resist the regime.
If Trump had wanted to commit "genocide," he wouldn't have spent all this time trying to push the regime to a deal.
But it is a common thing with media like CNN to strip away the context and spin. We've seen it over and over again against Trump for 10 years - and counting.
Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is spending the day enjoying vodka-infused chocolate nonpareils at the quarterly gathering of the Marisa Tomei Adulation Society.
Like it or not, we've gotten a little too used to all sorts of legal wrangling and interference in our politics. That's on the Democrats, of course. They can't beat President Donald Trump in elections, so they have been relentless in trying to ruin him personally and thwart his agenda via various lawsuits, judges, and prosecutors. Nobody sane wants to live in a permanently litigious society, but sometimes we have to get down in the mud to fight the people who have been trying to drag us down there.
Republicans are mixing it up legally, and the Democrats are none too thrilled. Let's start with some interesting news from yesterday. This is from Catherine:
A circuit court in Virginia just ruled that the newly passed but incredibly biased gerrymandered congressional map is unconstitutional.
Former Virginia attorney general and Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli II posted on X Wednesday about the gerrymandered map, "UPDATE on referendum lawsuits: The Tazewell Circuit Court just ruled the referendum unconstitutional. The Judge entered an injunction blocking certification of the election & denied a motion to stay pending appeal. A final order will be entered once drafted, & it will be immediately appealed."
What's rich about this is that the Democrats immediately began whining about an "activist judge." Their entire strategy to fight anything that President Trump and his administration do is built around activist judges; without them, the party is nothing. They haven't had the greatest luck with them so far, mostly because their activist judges tend to overreach and/or ignore the law. Let's hope this one is based on stronger legal grounds and sticks. If not, bye-bye, Virginia.
I don't know if the judge involved in the Virginia decision is actually a Republican or not, but there is a much bigger story about the GOP fighting back legally. We discussed in Monday's Briefing the hit piece on FBI Director Kash Patel that The Atlantic published. Patel followed it up with a swift lawsuit. That story got a lot juicier yesterday, and it's tangled up with the recent Department of Justice indictment against the thoroughly vile Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
It would appear that the hit piece was a preemptive strike intended to discredit Patel and the DOJ ahead of the announcement of the indictment. This is from my HotAir colleague David Strom:
Laurene Powell Jobs owns The Atlantic. Well, guess what? The SPLC is Laurene Powell Jobs' favorite charity. In fact, the very first one she gave money to. It is the only charity she talks about supporting publicly.
In the immortal words of Alice as things got ever trippier in Wonderland: "Curiouser and curiouser."
This is the kind of thing that we are constantly up against when battling the left. They may be reeling over there in the last year and a half, but they are all still working together. Democratic politicians, the mainstream legacy media hacks, and radical activist organizations are all coordinating their efforts in an attempt to return to power.
As I've written many times, President Trump is teaching Republicans how to fight. Coming from the high-stakes corporate world, he doesn't hesitate to unleash the lawyers. It's what they do in the private sector. Trump has gone after the enemy-of-the-people media outlets ABC and CBS in court and won settlements from both.
Ten years ago, I wouldn't have defaulted to "Sue everybody," and I suspect most of my regulars here wouldn't have either. Yet here we are. These corrupt media outlets have been doing the Democrats' dirty work for far too long. I hope Trump and his people keep burying them in lawsuits to the point where they just might pause before launching another character assassination attempt against a Republican. If that doesn't work, make them keep taking financial hits. Sure, they're acting like it's no big deal right now, but this is new territory for them. The second, third, or fourth trip to court will start to wear them down.
Archiving the “strange death of Europe,” as Douglas Murray put it, and the West more broadly, at the hands of the neoliberal technocracy.
Reaching back in time to the days of Ottoman plunder of Europe and the kidnapping of its women to add to the harem, the military-age single migrant male preference for mating partner has always been for European women.
And, boy, does the migrant love going to town on the natives — like a cock in the henhouse.
The cherry on top is that they are virtually immune from prosecution and enjoy rhetorical cover from state media, giving them de facto free rein to ravish at will.
Alas, when there are no women or passed-out teenagers on public transportation immediately available to rape, they’ll settle for livestock.
Noticing patterns is obviously a thought crime in our Brave New World, yet I can’t help but shake the impression that Third World migrants from a certain region of the world seem to love raping farm animals (in addition to white people).
Anecdotal evidence supports this conclusion.
Via Remix News (emphasis added): A 19-year-old Afghan national has been arrested and charged following a series of brutal sexual attacks on goats and sheep in Pennes-Mirabeau, a municipality in Bouches-du-Rhône, near Marseille.
The suspect was taken into custody by the anti-crime brigade (BAC) on the night of April 9-10, 2026, after local sheep and goat owners alerted police. Since early 2026, several owners had discovered their animals injured, with incidents reported in both February and March. The animals had their legs tied and showed clear signs of rape, according to French newspaper La Provence.
After multiple similar episodes, the owners installed motion-sensor cameras on their properties in an attempt to identify the perpetrator. The footage revealed the silhouette of a young man visiting their livestock at night, and the images were handed over to police, who were eventually able to identify a matching suspect.
It’s not just the sheep without a shepherd — literal or metaphorical — on duty to protect them.
The ponies also get it.
Continuing:
Last year in Germany, a shocking case has emerged from the beautiful town of Oberneufnach in Bavaria, which involved a 52-year-old Turkish asylum seeker allegedly breaking into a stable and sexually abusing ponies.
The man, who is from a refugee shelter in the nearby town of Anhofen, was arrested after he was caught on surveillance video.
The man broke into the horse farm at 6:45 p.m. while the family was having dinner. They heard the dog barking and then looked on surveillance monitors, where they saw the man in the stable with his pants down on top of one of the animals.
The boyfriend then ran to the stables to chase down the man, but he had already fled the scene. He continued his pursuit of the suspect though and eventually caught him. Police arrived and placed the man under arrest.
In 2023, a 27-year-old suspect was arrested after he was caught on a surveillance camera raping a pony at a stable south of Hamburg. The 18-year-old pony, which is named “Carrie,” was abused by the man at 1 a.m., with footage showing the man calmly walking onto the property and starting to attack the defenseless animal…
Even the petting zoo at the park has not been safe. In 2017, a Syrian migrant raped a pony there in front of children.
“My babysitter was out with our son in Görlitzer Park. They witnessed the man sexually assault the pony,” one woman told Berliner Morgenpost at the time. The babysitter took a photo of the man as he raped the pony and provided it to police. The migrant was banned from the petting zoo in response, but it is unclear if he was ever charged by police.
Curiously enough, try as I might, I have not been able to find any denunciation of the migrant rape of farm animal phenomenon in Europe by PETA, the world’s preeminent animal rights organization.
Surely that oversight can’t have been a political calculation.
The Director of National Intelligence's declassification of documents this week proved that the impeachment of President Donald Trump 45 for a phone call about Ukraine was an utterly fabricated put-up job. We all suspected it, but the released docs confirm it. And now we're seeing stunning video of the lawyer in charge of the impeachment also confirming the gobsmacking reason behind it.
The documents reveal yet another false story that "deep state actors within the intelligence community" fabricated, and the laundering of that phony story through a fake "whistleblower," whom DNI Tulsi Gabbard has now referred for prosecution.
A lot of focus has been on Eric Ciaramella, the Obama holdover in Trump 45 world who was a Biden acolyte, and worked with the then-vice president on Ukraine matters.
Ciaramella cited double or triple hearsay evidence and had no direct knowledge of the phone call but, like a game of telephone, was told about it afterward. Later, the Inspector General, who's also been referred for prosecution, ignored the hearsay, took his whistleblower complaint form (there's a suggestion that he swapped it) and never bothered to read the transcript of the actual conversation.
The part of the conversation that raised Ciaramella's antennae was when Trump asked Ukraine's new president Volodymyr Zelensky to get him information being reported that Joe Biden was shaking down the new government for financial gain for himself and his son, Hunter. One of Hunter Biden's "deliverables" for the Ukraine energy company Burisma paying him $1 million was to get rid of the prosecutor investigating the company. There's widely reported video of Joe Biden gloating about withholding $1 billion to Ukraine in exchange for firing the prosecutor.
Indeed, as Hans Mahncke reported, Ciaramella "was not a detached observer of the Ukraine situation. He was deeply involved in the events surrounding the firing of the prosecutor." He said that "at the time of Biden’s ultimatum to remove the prosecutor, Ciaramella served as Director for Ukraine on the Obama National Security Council and was involved in organizing the now infamous January 2016 meeting with the Ukrainian prosecutor’s team, conspicuously excluding the prosecutor general, at which the Ukrainians were told for the first time that the prosecutor general had to go."
Ciaramella was in on all of it.
The phone call with Zelensky happened right after the Robert Mueller special prosecutor's report showed no Russia collusion, and after Mueller himself flamed out in congressional testimony.
They needed another scandal to Get Trump. Enter the Ukraine phone call and subsequent impeachment, which none other than the lefty anti-Trump lawyer Norm Eisen ran.
A 2024 video I saw the other day of Eisen, the man in charge of most of the lawfare (with Project 65 and Marc Elias) against President Trump, confirms that the Ukraine operation was done to cover up Joe Biden's shady and illegal deals in the one-time Soviet state. He says as much on a podcast that has resurfaced.
Watch the whole thing. First is Eisen leading the impeachment charge. Second comes his admission that they did it to in essence pre-debunk — distract from — Joe Biden's self-dealing. He gives himself a big attaboy for drawing "the sting," because he worried about "an October Surprise" from Trump "right down to the fake documents." It was "not in a partisan way, but for the sake of our country," Eisen laughably asserts. "Impeachment was an inoculation against disinformation."
"Disinformation" my a**.
It worked, of course. The media is willing to launder anything on behalf of the Democrats.
Norm, who was rewarded for his party and Biden loyalty with an ambassadorship, was a longtime lawfare operator.
Voting rights, civil rights, and democracy litigation firm.normaneisen
Used for democracy / election-rights work, including Trump-related matters.normaneisen
The 65 Project
Not clearly documented as Eisen’s own group, but repeatedly linked in reporting to the broader network he worked with.abovo+1
Legal pressure campaign targeting conservative lawyers via bar complaints.abovo+1
Reported as part of the push against Trump’s legal team and election-overturn lawyers.abovo+2
I ran the video by Drew Thomas Allen, the author of Clinton Hoax, Obama Coup, during an episode of the Adult in the Room Podcast on Thursday, and he was shocked. See it below.
