Greetings! The right is beginning to turn on Donald Trump for his sagging polls numbers. Liberty Paige, SteveGruber.com’s prolific and fiery right wing blogger, advises Trump to avoid the petty grievances because the country has more important issues to deal with.  “Drop the nicknames and the B.S. at the rallies and especially on Truth Social and stay on message,” she wrote over the weekend.  “Issues matter, not your harping on the past. The country is going to go down in flames if you don’t get your act together and defeat these socialist lunatics.” Townhall’s Scott Morefield expressed more disdain for Trump’s response to Kamala Harris’s surging  campaign. He urges the Duke of Bedminster. “to clean up his act and stop making unforced errors to hurt his chances.”…The Granite Grok is insinuating that images of huge crowds at rallies for Kamala Harris have been photoshopped to inflate the size of her audiences. As “proof” the Grok published a pic of Kamala and Walz exiting Air Force II to a sea of people.  However, the Grok claims only two people are visible in the reflection of the left engine’s metal in the image they posted… In Butler, PA, site of  last month’s assassination attempt of Donald Trump, a local artist made a life-size sculpture of the ex-POTUS entirely from nails. Doug Secunda wanted to portray Trump “tough as nails.” Wonder how it might look in the foyer at Mar-a-Lago.  (Fox News) …Don Jr. thinks it’s weird that Tim Walz greets his wife with a handshake and not a kiss, according to this video post on X. Is Mini-Me Trump questioning Walz’s sexual orientation? Weird…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting.  Howard

Greetings! Here come the Donald Trump books  just in time for the last 90 days of the White House race.  First up, Trump in Exile, by Meredith McGraw, which looks into his post-presidency life as the Count of Mar-a-Lago (my phrase). Maybe a better title would’ve been “The Man Who Wouldn’t Go Away.” The Donald tell-all I want to read is the one that peels back the covers on his marriage to Melania.  I’d settle for a fictionalized version patterned after the excellent novel Rodham, about relationship between Bill and Hillary Clinton…Fifty years ago today, Richard Nixon slithered away from the White House.  Just in time for this dark anniversary, there’s a new biography of Pat Nixon, Tricky Dickie’s First Lady. American Spectator’s Ben Stein,  a former Nixon speechwriter gushes that it’s about “the Mrs. Nixon I have always loved”…Dept. of Surprises: The Wall Street Journal reports that Tim Walz and his wife Gwen  have a net worth of only $330,000 based on his 2019 financial disclosure…The Wall Street Journal’s  Peggy Noonan observes that Trump is showing his age and it’s become a campaign issue.  Noonan writes, “For the first time this week I thought people were wondering about the impact of Mr. Trump’s age. He is 78. He hasn’t been able to focus, make his case. Is he, in another irony of 2024, turning into Joe Biden?”  To quote singer Smokey Robinson: “I second that emotion.” And so apparently does The New Republic which referred to The Donald  in a headline today as “Old Man Trump”…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting.  Howard