@robertsedwards
Veteran, writer, filmmaker, music and comedy nerd, blogging at The King’s Necktie thekingsnecktie.substack.com. Author of RESISTING THE RIGHT, from OR Books. Writer/director of "Land of the Blind" starring Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland.
I'm sorry, but partisanship aside, no thinking person can possibly read this and think that the individual who wrote this—the President of the United States, the man with the nuclear codes—is mentally well.
New on The King's Necktie: "NATO Is Dead."
Will our longtime allies—whom we’ve repeatedly insulted over the course of the two Trump administrations—join our pointless, criminal war of aggression? One guess.
DOJ claims these files, in which a woman alleged that she had been sexually assaulted by Epstein, and by Trump, in the 1980s, when she was a minor" were "inadvertently" left out of the batch that was recently released.
And also, that there's a bridge for sale in Brooklyn.
Interesting reporting from Ethan Wolf.
"Kristi Noem was fired because she became too politically toxic for Donald Trump to keep around."
To be fair, Kristi lasted almost 35 Scaramuccis.
Kristi Noem to leave government service to spend more time with her dogs.
2/2 A spokesperson for the Justice Department told the reporters that the files were 'offline for further review and should be ready for reproduction by the end of the week.'
We know at least one of the missing files contains allegations that Trump sexually assaulted a thirteen-year-old girl."
1/ Paging Rose Mary Woods.
Per @hcrichardson.bsky.social, the WSJ reports that "47,635 files are missing from the Epstein files documents that the Justice Department has made public.
From the people who used to say, "F*ck your feelings."
WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt explains that “The president had a feeling, again, based on fact, that Iran was going to strike the United States, (and) our assets in the region, and he made a determination...based on all of those reasons.”
We're not at war with Eurasia OR Eastasia. Pay no attention to those explosions you're hearing.
"Trump has called for sending American forces to Iran since 1980. He finally has, and must own the consequences."
Just learning that Andrew Giuliani is head of the White House World Cup task force.
While this does not fill me with confidence, at least he's not planning the war on Iran.
Today in bitter irony: "Melania Trump became the first spouse of a sitting world leader to preside over the UN security council, calling on member states to protect children’s access to education days after a US airstrike killed at least 165 people at a girls’ school in southern Iran."
“See that nice drape? When that comes down right now you see a very, very deep hole, but in about a year and half from now, you’re gonna see a very, very beautiful building. And there’s your entrance to it right there,” Trump said, pointing to gold curtains behind him.
2/ "The US sec. state said 'There absolutely was an imminent threat and the imminent threat was, that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed that they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us. And we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded.'”
1/ So Israel was gonna attack Iran, and we knew Iran would retaliate, so we had to attack Iran too and hit them back before they hit us, but first?
"WH: Trump, Natl Security Team Closely Monitoring Iran."
Wow, Pulitzer-level reporting, MSNOW.
Is Melania presiding over the emergency UN Security Council meeting today at 4pm?
Sure, he started a war with Iran for no reason, but just look at the Dow!
