Greetings! Memo to Joe Biden: Brace yourself for a rocky few mudslinging months.  A bunch of books on his controversial presidency are set to publish, and the inside word on these tomes is that they paint a damning picture of Sleepy Joe’s White House.  The Biden books include: Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House (April 1); Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History (April 8); Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again (May 20); and 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America (July 8).  Politico has some juicy pre-publication  details…Question of the day: Will MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell return to his primetime perch tonight? He’s been gone for two weeks after what was supposed to be a one-week absence. The network has said very little…Donald Trump plans to meet soon with frequent MAGA antagonist Bill Maher  The Donald confessed to mixed emotions about the sit down with the host of HBO’s “Real Time,” which was arranged by his pal Kid Rock. Here’s Trump’s post about it on Truth Social: “I really didn’t like the idea much, and don’t like it much now, but thought it would be interesting. The problem is, no matter how much he likes your Favorite President, ME, he will publicly proclaim what a terrible guy I am.” As for me: I’m fed up with all the bending of the knee…Attention investors: Newsmax’s stock begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange today under the symbol NMAX….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! Another day, another Wall Street Journal op-ed slamming Donald Trump’s bumbling response to Signalgate. Conservative columnist Peggy Noonan writes that it was a mistake to attack Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg who found himself on a group chat with White House insiders discussing an imminent military strike. “Instead they denied the obvious and attacked the character of the reporter who unearthed it. They misread what Jeffrey Goldberg would do if they challenged his accuracy or interpretations,” she wrote. “He published the whole lot. Which made them look stupid twice. They didn’t look like clever folk who are good strategists”… Fashion fail:  Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem toured El Salvador’s most notorious prison two days ago.  She wore a body-clinging white top over tight Western-style jeans as she strolled past dozens of incarcerated young men. It was almost like she was taunting them as an object of desire just beyond their reach. It struck me as cruel and unnecessary. Axios has some great images.  Worth noting: The Washington Post reports that Noem sported a $50,000 Rolex…Weekend Watch: Earlier this month I flagged the timely documentary Becoming Katherine Graham, about the late fearless and peerless Washington Post publisher. Watching it last night, I marveled at Graham’s nerve standing up to the Nixon White House as the corrupt administration plotted to cripple her media empire for its coverage of Watergate and publication of the Pentagon Papers.  It is a profile in courage filled with lessons to be learned for today’s institutions under unprecedented pressure from the Trump 2.0…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard