Greetings! John Bolton counter-attacks! Just days after the FBI raided his home, the Washington Examiner published his op-ed blasting “Trump’s utterly incoherent Ukraine strategy.”  He’s really poking a stick at the Oval Office bear and you have to admire his guts standing up to the Trump administration...Speaking of Bolton, the Wall Street Journal votes thumbs down on the FBI’s raid on the former NSA Advisor’s house Friday morning.  “The real offender here is a President who seems to think he can use the powers of his office to run vendettas,” the editors wrote. “We said this was one of the risks of a second Trump term, and it’s turning out to be worse than we imagined”...As if Trump didn’t have enough on mind with major conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, he suggested in a vile one-sentence Truth Social post yesterday, that Governor Wes Moore (D-MD) lied about receiving a Gold Star after his deployment to Afghanistan nearly two decades ago...Jon Karl’s bad hair day (according to Trump): In a post last night on Truth Social attacking former NJ governor Chris Christie after his appearance on ABC News, POTUS slimed the respected ABC anchor.  After calling Christie sloppy (cheap shot!), Trump wrote, “By the way, what the ‘hell’ happened to Jonathan Karl’s hair? He looks absolutely terrible! It’s amazing what bad ratings, on a failed television show that was forced to pay me $16,000,000, can do to one’s appearance”...For TheRighting’s latest original article, contributor Michael Lovito profiles the American Spectator’s Young Writer’s Program where editors are training the next generation of right-wing journalists.  It’s especially relevant now, Lovito explains, because “the once reliably progressive youth vote seems up for grabs”...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! John Bolton’s wakeup call.  FBI agents raided the former National Security Advisor’s Bethesda, MD, home at 7:00 a.m. today in what was described as a “national security probe.” Seems more like retribution for his 2020 tell-all book The Room Where It Happened in which he wrote about the Trump 1.0 administration (which now seems like a much kinder and gentler era even though it most definitely was not)...Is Trump declining physically as many never-Trumpers seem to think?  Absolutely not, says the National Review’s respected editor Rich Lowry. “Of all the criticisms to make of him, that he’s frail and easily fatigued is the most preposterous,” he writes...American Thinker predicts that the southern-country themed restaurant chain Cracker Barrel “will follow Bud Light off the DEI cliff.” Outkick believes that only Sydney Sweeney can save the brand which appears to have gone woke, in the opinion of many on the right....Worst headline of the week: American Thinker takes the prize with this stinker. Donald Trump is a humble man....I knew this was coming.  Trump joined critics trashing MSNBC’s new name (MS NOW).  “MSNBC is doing so poorly in the ratings that they are looking to change their name in order to get away from the stench of their fake news product,” he wrote on Truth Social.  “So much fun to watch their weak and ineffective owner, ‘Concast,’ headed by dopey Brian Robert, hopelessly and aimlessly flailing in the wind in an attempt to disassociate itself from the garbage they created.” Keeping it classy, Mr. President!... If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard