#EndorseThis: Donald Trump Blinds Colbert With Science

#EndorseThis: Donald Trump Blinds Colbert With Science

Poring over the Associated Press presidential interview, Stephen Colbert explains why Trump thinks his nasty “horseface” insult of Stormy Daniels was actually a compliment. And why he believes there are “scientists on both sides” of the climate-change question.

Wading further into the climate debate, Trump boasts of his “natural instinct for science.” See, he once had an uncle who taught physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Somehow Uncle John bestowed upon young Donald not only a genetic aptitude but even scientific knowledge.

Does that sound wildly unscientific, even a little nuts? It’s just Trump, being “very smart.”

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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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