Trump just got socked in the gut — by the people he hates most

Multiple MAGA bombshells dropped on Wednesday, from the SCOTUS decision to let Republicans keep cheating to steal elections to Punch-Drunk Pete Hegseth’s sloppy House hearing on the Pentagon going off the rails so badly that he had to be shut down by the Republican Committee Chair.

Meanwhile, MAGA is still weakly trying to scapegoat Jimmy Kimmel for making roughly the same “expectant widow” joke Donald Trump did about Melania. Except that Trump did it in front of the king of England instead of on his own TV show.

And there’s still the fallout from whatever happened at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The biggest part of that story should be how we can’t trust anything coming from this White House or anyone supporting its current occupant.

I don’t know why we’re being forced to live in the stupidest timeline ever, but I do know sometimes we still get to enjoy it when the smart kids prevail. One of them got Trump’s biggest confession on camera thus far.

Kudos to Norah O’Donnell of CBS News, who apparently shreds all of the memos from Bari Weiss and instead sticks to her job of asking questions to get real answers.

Her sharp reply of “Oh, you think he was talking about you?” is the stuff of legend. The Smartest Girl in School just shut down the biggest, dumbest bully in eight words.

Trump claimed to have read the White House Congressional Dinner shooter’s manifesto, but of course, he didn’t, because he doesn’t read anything. If he had, he’d know it never specifically names him. His fixation on that part of it, and his reaction to O’Donnell reading it, are also part of the tell.

Trump hates women who tell the truth about him so much because he knows we’re right about him.

Yeah, I include myself in that group, because I got under his thin skin in August 2015, and I remain blocked by Trump on both Twitter and Instagram to this day.

O’Donnell pushed back a bit when Trump went after her for *checks notes* reading the words another person wrote. But he kept verbally abusing her, and while she didn’t push back against all of it, she gave a textbook example on how to hold your ground when you also have to deal with whatever’s going on under his suit.

Just as the women of the Supreme Court all stood against Trump in the Voting Rights Act decision, another smart woman returned on Wednesday to ruin it for him.

Our Shero, E. Jean Carroll, was once again vindicated in her defamation case. A federal appeals court in New York rejected Trump's request (number eleventy billion, is it?) to rehear his challenges.

You might recall that a jury awarded E. Jean $83 million in damages in 2024 after her lawyers successfully proved that Trump defamed her with comments he made disputing her claims that he sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s.

MAGA loves to blame the judge and the jury for Trump sexually abusing E. Jean, which is weird when you learn exactly who was on that jury. As she writes in her excellent book Not My Type, one of the jurors who slipped through the voir dire process turned out to only get his news from right-wing podcaster Tim Pool. And he still voted to award her the $83 million in damages.

Seems like maybe both MAGA and Trump need to learn how to take NO for an answer already.

Let’s also pour another one out for Virginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas, who withstood horrifically racist and misogynistic bullying from MAGA online while preventing Republicans from gerrymandering their way into stealing House seats.

And then there’s the fruitless pursuit of trying to get MAGA to hold Trump accountable for the Epstein Files. His latest manufactured distraction from the files, along with the stupid ballroom, is indicting James Comey again over an AI screenshot of rocks spelling out “86 47” on a beach.

Seriously, this is what passes as a “threat” to the same guy who gleefully celebrated the death of Bob Mueller.

Not only does MAGA still refuse to believe he’s in the Files, but the way they defend him is the same way he defends himself: by bullying the messengers to make us their scapegoats. They also like to try to move the goalposts back to the Biden administration, but that doesn’t really work when Joe Biden’s name isn’t anywhere in the Epstein Files, but Trump’s is in there tens of thousands of times.

Whenever I tweet something about the Epstein Files, MAGA likes to troll me with “Trump should sue you!”

Trump has never sued anyone for saying he’s in the Epstein Files. The most lawsuit-happy loser in this country’s history will gladly keep people tied up in court for years with his appeals, but not when it comes to Epstein.

Weird, huh?

I realize it’s wrong of me to hope that MAGA will follow our example with Eric Swalwell and hold Trump accountable, but I can’t help but believe that they know what Trump did. They don’t want to have to admit they were wrong.

One more story that broke on Wednesday: it turns out that former AG Pam Bondi would rather not go to jail, so she’ll show up for her Congressional subpoena after all. It’s more likely she’ll perjure herself rather than tell the truth about the Epstein Files, so who knows what consequences she might face.

Any would be good at this point, please.