Now its Katy Tur: Every time I check in on @Msnbc they're talking sensationalizinghand-wringing over the MTG - Crockett ..etc exchange.
Move on. Don't overplay your hand #MSNBC. Do some real reporting ..
[Meduza-Telegram channel]: Robert Fico is in a “life-threatening condition,” according to the Slovak Prime Minister’s Facebook page.
The post also reports that Fico is being transported by helicopter to a hospital in Banska Bystrica because the journey to Bratislava would take too long. #slovakia#fico
[Mash, Telegram channel]: At the moment, the helicopter with Fico arrived at the hospital of the Faculty of F.D. Roosevelt in Banska Bystrica. The shooter has been identified. This is a native of the Slovak city of Levice. He is 71 years old. Before the assassination attempt, he shouted to the Prime Minister, “Robo, come here,” and opened fire.
The prime minister's condition is extremely serious. He previously had three gunshot wounds - in the chest, stomach and arms. #slovakia#fico
[The Bell, Telegram] An unknown assailant shot several times at Slovak Prime Minister Fico
An assassination attempt was made on the life of the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, who occupies a conditionally pro-Russian position. An unknown person shot him as he left a building in the town of Gandlova. The shooter has been detained.
UPD. The prime minister's condition is preliminary and he is in hospital, where he was taken by helicopter.
[NYTimes]: Nicole Shanahan Ventures Onto the Stump for Kennedy
The Silicon Valley lawyer, chosen by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate, made her first solo outing on the stump. She is to appear alongside him at a rally on Monday in Austin, Texas. By By Chris Cameron
@NicoleShanahan parroting Kremlin talking points: “We have sent hundreds of billions of dollars to a former actor to lead a military position — a proxy war — on behalf of this country against russia,” ms. Shanahan said of military aid to ukraine and of the country’s wartime president, volodymyr zelensky.
@NicoleShanahan ‘Supported stringent border restrictions pushed by house republicans, endorsed an ultraconservative congressman the day after he moved with other hard-right republicans to oust the house speaker last week and, adopting the language of those conservatives, criticized what she called “the uniparty in congress.”
Right wing extremism. The intolerant right wing. That is Nicole Shanahan.
@NicoleShanahan should be ashamed of herself. This appalling appropriation :“Bobby Kennedy is finishing the story of what was robbed from his father and his uncle,” Ms. Shanahan said at a cocktail lounge in midtown Houston. “His father and uncle were murdered for taking a stand. They were both shot in the head. They were silenced.”
This just feels so filthy. Exploitation. Its gross.
When Trump responds to Cohen re Melania: "How long do you think I'll be on the market for. not long"
What Trump is saying is he's fine divorcing Melania and just finding the next wife. #michalecohen#hushmoneytrial
[NYTimes]: Susan Hoffinger, the prosecutor, picks up where she left off, with Michael Cohen on the verge of describing having made the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. She shows him a series of emails with Keith Davidson, who was Daniels’s lawyer in 2016. Davidson, who has already testified he was frustrated by a delay in receiving the payment, says in the email that it wasn't necessary for him to speak to Cohen, and that he just wanted to be paid. ..
“I used the holiday of Yom Kippur as a way of just once again trying to delay” the payment, Cohen says. Yom Kippur, the day of repentance, is often considered the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
Davidson testified earlier in the trial that he thought Cohen was using the Jewish holiday as an excuse to avoid making the hush money payment — to try to push the issue to beyond the election when the story would no longer matter. Cohen confirms Davidson's impression here. By Jonathan Swan
“It may be a very good sort of penitence in a vagabond, who has wasted the best time of his life, to go back then to decent people that he never was a credit to, and live upon them; but it’s not my sort. The best kind of amends then, for having gone away, is to keep away, in my opinion.”
[NYTimes]: Amid Scrutiny, Paul Manafort Leaves Republican Convention Role
Eight years after helping Donald J. Trump get elected — and four years after being released from prison — the longtime political operative was back as a volunteer to advise the G.O.P. convention. By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Important read. [Gifted article, no paywall. The Washington Post] Under Putin, a militarized new Russia rises to challenge U.S. and the West By Robyn Dixon
In Putin’s bid to recast Russia as a global superpower, he champions a society built on pro-war activism, puritanical values and scaled-back social rights. https://wapo.st/3yhcopj
There’s a dystopian edge to the new Russia. Peace activists, young and old, are behind bars, while convicted murderers, rapists and other violent criminals have been set free — pardoned by Putin to fight in Ukraine. Some are returning from war and committing horrific crimes.
