The shooter's asylum application had been approved in April 2025, while Trump was in office:
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It’s classic attention-judo: deflect the force of bad news into a narrative that centers him. And since pundits like Morning Joe feel obliged to “analyze” his framing rather than dismiss it outright, Trump succeeds in changing the headline from “GOP losses” to “Trump’s influence still looms.”

Trump is verbally drifting, letting the free associations in his mind spill out — “South Africa → South America → G20 meeting” — likely shaped by Musk-style talking points circulating in their shared media ecosystem.

Russian state TV and Fox News now broadcast from the same script: cult of the leader, grievance, persecution, and performative rage. The tone gap is gone, and we’ve seen how that story ends in Russia. Lately, it’s hard not to be reminded.

Orbán, the Kremlin’s convenient mouthpiece, is just flipping the script. It’s not ‘Ukrainians in your smartphone’ — it’s Hungary under Orbán raiding every EU cupboard while sucking up far more from the EU and NATO than it contributes. A classic case of deflection.

* 2006

There you have it, Putin is and always was, a Nazi.

Macron, Albania PM, and Azerbaijan’s Pres rightfully laughed at Trump — and he will stew on it forever. He never lets go of a grudge. That’s why he went after Trudeau so viciously after the hot-mic laughs with Macron & Johnson. Years later, he started babbling about making Canada the 51st state...

I'll say it again