Aaron Rupar

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

Q: Any comment on Rep. Max Miller? TRUMP: I hope he's able to work it out. I feel badly for him.

LMAO -- Maria Bartiromo and company pivoted *instantly* from "this is a disappointing jobs report" to "this is great news. It's why the market is up."

BASH: Chris Murphy says ICE is targeting parents sitting at school bus stops to terrorize little kids. Are ICE officers detaining parents at school bus stops? HOMAN: ICE isn't in the business of terrorizing children. ICE is out there enforcing the law. (So, yes!)

"Republicans understand that people aren’t going to read the documents behind their conspiracy theories. The truth is hard to understand and often involves complexity and nuance. They’re able to win the narrative war that way, and it’s having real consequences on people’s lives." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/nina-jankowicz-interview-trump

"The Army has used up 'virtually all' of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, raising concerns about the military's readiness for future conflicts" https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-used-virtually-all-its-long-range-precision-missiles-during-iran-war-2026-08-04/

Trump says of blue cities that "their trees are all gross," then goes on even more insane rant about the reflecting pool, including claiming he has a "moving picture" showing "people on the side cutting it with a box knife." He went on to say Jeanine Pirro "choked" before snapping at a reporter who asked him if her job is safe, telling him "don't ever talk again." Here's a supercut of those bonkers scenes:

Hearings like this are a reminder that if you work for Donald Trump, you are a person of low character and have no integrity. There are no exceptions. RE: https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/Dbqq1B2IM2o

Trump's line of BS today is that he's actively negotiating a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz, which is controlled by the United States

Rick Scott: "We want people to get healthcare, but ... "

Q: Director Patel, any update on the Guthrie case? KASH PATEL: *walks away*

Trump: "Nobody knows that 'dumb' doesn't have a B" (Dear reader, it has a B)

Cornyn: "As to the idea it could be revived in the future, I think it's highly unlikely that could happen without the cooperation of the DOJ. And I think Mr Blanche gave us the assurances that it was dead and would not be revived and in this case we have no alternative but to take his word" 🙃

LMAOOO -- Sophie Cunningham committed a foul on this play! Every time she gets boxed out it's a scandal on Fox News. Truly beyond parody.

COLLINS: The widow of an airman who was killed in the Iran war says she's having trouble getting the benefits that they should have access to because it has not been officially declared a war. Can you personally ensure that the family of Alex Klinner gets all the benefits they deserve? JD VANCE: So, what's her name?

Trump is speaking to complete silence at the NASA center. Not a single person is applauding or reacting to anything he says during his brazenly partisan speech

Whitehouse: "Next we get to this crooked slush fund Trump family tax amnesty scam. We've got these two new pieces of paper. One signed only by Blanche, one not signed by anybody. Neither of which has any legal effect whatsoever. They are decorative. Can you trust Todd Blanche? I do not."

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Booker: "I love the state of Texas, but I'm going to say it very clear: This is all hat and no cattle. It's hard for me to say this as a plant-based guy, but where's the beef? This is ridiculous! We got nothing! No guarantees whatsoever that this slush fund can't still go forward ... Dear God, folks."

watching the candidate forum for the US Senate seat currently held by Tina Smith and it's incredible how Royce White's response to every question is to spout insane conspiracy theories about transgender people and the uniparty (he's supposed to be talking about the farm bill here). This guy was the GOP's nominee for a Senate seat two years ago!

Trump on gas prices: "We're gonna down into the $3s and maybe the $2s pretty soon per gallon"

"Pirro clearly wanted to spare herself any further scrutiny by the courts, but her motion to dismiss comically inept, an attempt to paper over the fact that her office charged Hearn and several others based only on the fevered imaginings of President Trump. All it really does is highlight how much she was willing to lie in the first place." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/jeanine-pirro-crashes-into-the-limit

BLITZER: If a Democratic Senate primary were held in Pennsylvania today, do you believe you would win? FETTERMAN: ... Like, today? BLITZER: Yeah FETTERMAN: Uh. Yeah.

oh my goodness -- Trump's hand looked absolutely awful yesterday (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty)

Trump is making the astronauts he's supposedly honoring sit around and wait for him endlessly. Ambient music has been playing for a half an hour now as everybody waits for Trump to show up.

Klobuchar responds: "None of my opponents on this stage condemned what ICE did. Not a word. Two innocent people were killed, shot in the back. We had many people arrested when they weren't supposed to be arrested, and we need reform to ICE." RE: https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/Dbqh-l2CeTM

FOX: What's your big message on the economy? TRUMP: Tariffs have been incredible

WELKER: Some Americans worry you can only make Medicare free and universal if you increase taxes. Would you need to do that? EL-SAYED: Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, instead you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare that you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that kind of system if we knew our healthcare would be free at the point of care.

Moreno on Max Miller: "My daughter lives in constant fear of this man ... you can't fathom what that makes me feel like when the dad's number one job is to protect your kids ... if there's any minimum standard for being an elected official, he feels to meet that minimum basic standard. I don't care about the politics at all."

“We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries” — Trump’s bonkers view of trade is that you become wealthy by not engaging in commerce

Bessent blames Dear Leader for lower than expected GDP growth: "I think we were growing at probably 4% before the president made the decision to go into Iran, and I think we can easily get back to 3% for the year"

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them who won the 2016 election. It turned out this pack of nominees is so committed to lying that they wouldn't provide a straight answer to that question either, and thus ended up sounding like election deniers even about Trump's wins. Here's a supercut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVEEgxJGCKM

Trump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"

Schiff: "The president is entitled to his own views about me or anybody else. He is not entitled, however, to use the DOJ to go after his political opponents. The day we say that's okay and the day we confirm an AG who says that's okay is the day that the rule of law becomes merely an unenforceable idea."

GEIST: Do you believe it's appropriate for any president to have his personal attorney become attorney general? TILLIS: Well the fact of the matter is Todd Blanche is no longer his personal attorney GEIST: He was, though TILLIS: Does that mean he's going to be excluded from any position? GEIST: The attorney general of the United States? Maybe TILLIS: I disagree

Sen. Rand Paul: "This was a war of choice, and it wouldn't have been my choice ... they've militarized the strait. The strait has never been militarized ... I think that really we, by any objective viewing, are worse off now than we were before the war"

Trump gingerly goes down the stairs of Marine One and staggers across the tarmac with what looks like a slight limp

🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper is an utter trainwreck 🤯 Miller went on CNN to try to push back against credible accusations that he abused his ex-wife & child, but he only made things worse for himself. He threatened his ex-wife's father (Sen. Moreno) w/ blackmail material, defended publicly releasing a nude image of his daughter ("there was no genitalia exposed"), & insisted he's not leaving the race b/c he's inspired by the example of President Trump Here's the whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qeXmJEQ8Aw

Paxton has his aide step in and doesn't answer when someone asks him "how come on a government salary you own over 15 houses?"

holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

Tillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"

BREAKING: Republicans are no longer worried about deficits and debt Bessent: "I'm not as bothered by it ... if '26 is flat to slightly up, this isn't wasteful social spending "

Dr Oz: "This is corruption on the underlying system ... when everyone is doing it, that's a real pathology. Because if you're not part of the corrupt system, you're a fool. When I'm lying to you and you know I'm lying to you and I know that you know that I'm lying to you, and on and on and on, that's how countries collapse."

Rep. Max Miller on why he's staying in the race: "When we go back to 2015 and 2016, and people in the media looked at President Donald J Trump, and everyone came out with allegations. Dozens of women, dozens of crazy allegations, dozens of nasty criminal misconduct. And you know what he did? He stayed in the fight."

SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in the white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants and their children seem prone to terrorism.' Do you stand by that statement? CANDEUB: I wrote that article in support of President Trump's travel ban SCHIFF: That's not my question. Do you stand by that statement? CANDEUB: I stand by that article SCHIFF: That's all I need to know

Trump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."

NEWSNATION: The abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller -- Moreno says Miller should resign, but President Trump disagrees. Do you think Miller should step down? REP. JIMMY PATRONIS: No. I agree with the president. This is a family fight. Unfortunately, divorces are messy. There are two sides to every story.

Bessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."

Brooke Rollins claims the cost of eggs is down "about 90 percent"

Durbin: "Mr Blanche has aided and abetted the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States ... Blanche's willingness to casually lie under oath about he statement he made in a room full of witnesses shows the lengths he will go to to avoid offending President Trump."