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 7^th 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.

Greetings! Is Trump trying to lose the election?  That’s the question the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal asks about The Donald’s looney dark alliance with conspiracy-crazed Laura Loomer ... .Clever! Here’s the headline on Politico’s piece about Laura Loomer: Fruit of the Loomer (fourth item down)…“Eff you Taylor Swift.”  That’s Megyn Kelly’s nasty reaction to T-Swift's full-throated endorsement of Kamala Harris. What irked Kelly and sent her into a meltdown, was one of the megastar’s reasons for throwing down with the  Harris ticket.  Swift likes Tim Walz’s full-on support of the LGBTQ community …Spotted on LA’s Sunset Boulevard: a billboard for the Daily Wire’  documentaryAm I a Racist? The documentary, now in limited theatrical release, features  polarizing podcaster Matt Walsh. It’s noteworthy because the billboards lining the famed street at the base of the Hollywood Hills are usually dotted with giant ads promoting product from the world’s biggest entertainment brands like Netflix and Warner Bros.  Daily Wire is really playing with the big boys… Devil with the blue dress on? Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has drawn fire for a video of her walking the halls of Congress in a slinky, semi-see-through blue dress.  Outkick’s Joe Kinsey has jumped to Mace’s  defense, writing, “Leave it to the angry, vile, scumbag libs to completely melt down over a simple Twitter video where Nancy gave an update so voters know she's actually working for her $174,000 yearly salary”… Dept. of Corrections:  In my subject line last Friday, I misspelled “siege.” Thanks to all you sharp-eyed copy editors who alerted me. That’s what I get for publishing on Friday the 13th….If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard