
Trump and his crazies aren't done with us
CNN
It's important to stay on guard because the bar has now been lowered: we know that a pronouncement from Trump -- like his assertion about being "reinstated" by August -- has the potential (whether intended or not) to elicit violence from his most rabid followers, writes Michael D'Antonio.
For example, Trump ally, Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks, is grabbing headlines by dodging the process servers who must notify him of a lawsuit related to the deadly January 6 insurrection at the Capitol (Brooks has denied any responsibility for the riot and called the lawsuit a "meritless ploy"). While all this is happening, our apparently bored former President remains stuck like a scratched vinyl record on the dangerous notion that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
The retired Air Force general announced as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President Donald Trump after the abrupt Friday night firing of his predecessor is a respected career F-16 pilot who is described by current and former officials who served with him as a professional with a “strong moral center.”

Over the past 10 days, Vice President JD Vance put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on notice, rattled the confidence of century-old allies in Western Europe during his first foreign trip, decamped to Capitol Hill to help in delicate budget talks and delivered a spirited defense of the Trump administration’s first month to a gathering of conservatives outside the nation’s capital.