Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 4
No. of Recommendations: 8
Follow up from Ron Fillipowski at MeidasTouch.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/31/opi...
… Trump’s interview with the new CBS’s 60 Minutes aired last night. We learned that the full interview was 73 minutes long, and the network aired 28 of those minutes. Somewhat ironic considering that Trump sued CBS because they did the same thing to Kamala Harris’s interview last year. CBS settled the case, paying Trump a $16 million bribe since they wanted govt approval of their pending merger with Skydance, which they got after the settlement.
No. of Recommendations: 13
It turns out that Trump, not Biden, is the one who didn’t know who he was pardoning...
NORAH O'DONNELL: I do wanna ask you about crypto's richest man,
a billionaire known as C.Z. He pled guilty in 2023 to violating anti-money laundering laws.
The government at the time said that C.Z. had caused "significant harm to U.S. national security", essentially by allowing terrorist groups like Hamas to move millions of dollars around.
Why did you pardon him?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Okay, are you ready? I don't know who he is. I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that. And I heard it was a Biden witch hunt.
And what I wanna do is see crypto, 'cause if we don't do it it's gonna go to China, it's gonna go to-- this is no different to me than AI.
No. of Recommendations: 3
I don't think this is at all comparable to Jeff Zients's secretary sending an email which authorized several hundreds if not thousands of pardons on the eve of Biden leaving office.
Clearly, Jeff Zients's secretary had no authority to pardon anyone.
But she did. (I think her name was "Rosa" something.)
No. of Recommendations: 4
We learned that the full interview was 73 minutes long, and the network aired 28 of those minutes. Somewhat ironic considering that Trump sued CBS because they did the same thing to Kamala Harris’s interview last year.
Heavy editing was the only way to prevent Trump from sounding like the demented old fool that he is.
And, yes, very ironic given the lawsuit and RW ravings over Harris's lightly edited interview.
WTF.
No. of Recommendations: 6
Trump, the economic genius...
And what I wanna do is see crypto, 'cause if we don't do it it's gonna go to China, it's gonna go to-- this is no different to me than AI.
In reality Trump has found crypto to be a glorious grifting opportunity. And an easy way to take bribes.
No. of Recommendations: 4
Jeff Zients's secretary sending an email which authorized several hundreds if not thousands of pardons on the eve of Biden leaving office.
AI
Based on recent reports and congressional investigations, the claim is not that Jeff Zients's secretary sent an email authorizing pardons, but rather that Jeff Zients, as the White House Chief of Staff, was involved in a process where heauthorized staff to use an autopen for President Biden's signature on hundreds, if not thousands, of end-of-term clemency actions, via email
ME: So AI thinks you misunderstood your own contrived controversy.
