NOTE: TCG will publish a mid-week commentary on the latest news.
RAVE: Brzezinski on Morning Joe
Morning Joe Scarborough gave Donald Trump a neutral forum as a candidate before he became the never-Trump poster boy. Thus, it was a pleasant surprise when Mika Brzezinski actually pressed Joe Biden about allegations he sexually assaulted Tara Reade. When she questioned why Biden wouldn’t open his archives at the University of Delaware, he opened Pandora’s Box: “they would all be made public while I was running for office [and] taken out of context – fodder in a campaign.”
Perhaps unwittingly, Mika had a got-you moment: Biden admitted his past could portray him as un-presidential. His primary campaign boast is how he and Obama “did it.” Now, after insisting Trump reveal his complex tax returns, Biden wants to hide his complex conversations with Vladimir Putin. Brzezinski threw the GOP a bone: Biden failed the open and honest test when his campaign wanted to put Tara Reade behind him.
RANT: Whitmer on State of the Union
CNN’s Jake Tapper was just doing his job on Sunday, when Governor Whitmer (D-MI) went postal over a Biden-Reade question: “I’m very comfortable that Joe Biden is who he says he is [but] I really resent the fact that every time a case comes up, all of us survivors have to weigh in, reopening wounds.” Trying to recover, she told Tapper doing “his job” triggered her “simmering anger.” Rhetorical ruse or snowflake moment?
Gretchen Whitmer claims the fortitude to be coronavirus czarina; ignoring the will of Michigan’s legislature and open-up protestors. Having it both ways, she also claims survivor experience justified her outburst of “simmering anger” in a CNN interview. Put this in context: a general with combat experience “really resenting” having to weigh in on Benghazi before Congress. Most great leaders experience survivor moments that leave them stronger and empathic. Apparently, not Ms. Whitmer.
RAVE: Britt Hume on Special Report
On Monday night, Fox News political analyst Britt Hume made a compelling case against Joe Biden for president by proving the presumptive nominee does not pass the Democrat smell test. With Republicans insisting Brett Kavanaugh be presumed innocent, Biden insisted on The View a “Supreme Court hearing is not a trial. It’s a job interview, and you don’t have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt anything as to why you don’t put so and so on the court.”
Hume included video of Senate Democrats Booker, Coombs, Feinstein, Gillibrand and Hirono echoing Biden’s “job interview” distinction, and recalled how Biden had insisted Michael Bloomberg tear up non-disclosure agreements from his womanizing past. It was a call-out to Democrats in their nominating process: after attacking Republican reputations, follow you own advice.
RAVE: NAZI Germany Surrendered 75 Years Ago Today
Thanks to the Associated Press for reminding us the unconditional surrender of NAZI Germany took place May 6 at 2:41AM in Reims. France. Chances are your father or grandfather fought in the Great War, and you’ve heard his war stories. Such was my experience growing up – and I know May 6th was a wondrous day in America and Britain. Church bells rang throughout the country.
Lt. Gen. Walter Beddel Smith signed the surrender for the Supreme Allied Command, and Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl signed the surrender for the German Army. European Jews, after the Holocaust, put their lives back together and promised Never Again to each other. I am proud of the AP for running the story again, because we live in a nation where anti-Semitism walks the halls of Congress.