#EndorseThis: Now Stephen Colbert Is A Bowling Green Massacre Truther

#EndorseThis: Now Stephen Colbert Is A Bowling Green Massacre Truther

Following two full weeks of constant mendacity, the Trump administration and its spokespersons are widely assumed to lie about everything — even such trivia as whether the president owns a bathrobe.

Yet Trump himself apparently believes at least one of the most obvious lies told by Kellyanne Conway — namely, her reference to the “Bowling Green Massacre” on not just one but three separate occasions. Otherwise, why would he have accused the “very, very dishonest” news media of covering up major terrorist incidents when he spoke to US Army personnel at Central Command on Monday?

For Stephen Colbert, Trump’s weird speech at Centcom provided an irresistible opportunity to revisit the problematic Bowling Green Massacre — and the Late Show host made the most of Conway’s excursion through the looking glass.

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North Carolina GOP's Extremist Nominees Excite Democratic Strategists

Michele Morrow

In 2020, Joe Biden narrowly missed capturing North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes, losing the state by a slim 1.4-percentage-point margin. But that was nearly four years ago. Before the Dobbs decision. Before Donald Trump’s 91 felony indictments. And before last week, when the state’s GOP voters nominated a guy who favorably quotes Hitler, has compared LGBTQ+ people to insects and larvae, and thinks a six-week abortion ban isn’t quite extreme enough for governor. Tar Heel State Republicans also nominated another extremist, Michele Morrow, for superintendent of the state’s schools.

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