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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Sep. 17, 2024

Greetings! After 5 days in LA, it’s great to be back in NYC…JD Vance has an op-ed in Blaze Media where he wonders if the incident on the Mayor of Mar-A-Lago’s Palm Beach links was “another Trump  assassination plot.”  The Veep-wannabe adds without  any irony that he admires “Trump for calling for peace and calm,” and suggests it’s the left that is “out of control” with violent rhetoric. For good measure, he claims that a nefarious foreign government may be behind multiple bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio…Last Friday on “Late Night with Bill Maher,” the HBO gabfest host said he thinks that it’s finally over for Trump because he’s gone too far with his migrants-eating-pets riffs. I’d like to believe The Donald is going down to defeat once again. Maher famously and correctly predicted many times that The Donald would resist leaving the Oval Office if he lost the 2020 election and I hope he is once again prescient about Trump losing. Still, it’s dangerous to underestimate Trump’s chances of again seizing power. That’s something too many mainstreamers have been guilty of since he descended the Trump Tower escalator to announce his 2016 White House run. He is at his most dangerous and resilient when he’s backed into a corner. My two cents: it ain’t close to being over…The Fox Nation streaming service just dropped the anti-trans documentary Transfixed, which boasts that it “exposes the dark side of the transgender movement.”  The 12-time NCAA champion swimmer Riley Gaines hosts….A happy 7th birthday to TheRighting.  We launched in the early dark days of the Trump administration. I’m still waiting for the dawn…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting.