HMM: Voters: Trump protects Constitution better than Biden.

Voters have a message for liberals charging that President Donald Trump is a threat to democracy: former President Joe Biden was worse.

In its latest poll to reveal how wrong America views Trump’s Washington critics, Rasmussen Reports said that a majority of likely voters believe that the president is “preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution.”

Rasmussen said that 52% feel Trump is upholding the Constitution.

Biden, however, didn’t get a majority to agree when he was president. In May of last year, just 44% said Biden was doing a good or excellent job of preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution.

Doing a better job than Biden is a low bar, but it’s comforting that so many people ignore the 24/7/365 media drumbeat about Trump being a fascist, a threat to democracy, etc.

ICYMI: Epstein Suicide Confirmed by Kash Patel and Frankie Five Angels. “MCC’s failures made it at least look like someone was sure that Epstein would have a wide-open window of opportunity to kill himself. The hint, delivered in the form of missing guards and plenty of alone time, was no more subtle than Hagen mentioning what happened to those caught plotting against the emperors of Rome.”

VAN JONES: Dems Will Be Paying For Biden Health ‘Coverup’ For A Long Time.

JAKE TAPPER, CNN: Van, I remember how emotional you were in the immediate moments after the June 27, 2024, debate because of what you saw on the stage. And with all this new reporting coming out — and I should disclose that I gave both of you copies of the book so you would have a little bit more information. Do you feel like you were duped, Van? Like, how do you feel?

VAN JONES, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: First, this book is extraordinary. I don’t care who you are, left, right, or otherwise. Anybody who cares about this country and about just the dynamics of power, this is “the emperor’s new clothes” playing itself out in real time.

Everybody knew, but everyone was afraid to say — except for David Axelrod, for two years — that something was wrong here.

I was shocked. I love Joe Biden. I don’t like him. I love him. I got a chance to work with him when I was a part of the Obama administration and loved him more every day.

I was shocked to see his condition when he came out. And so was the world. And that wasn’t the first time he was in that condition. The book makes it very, very clear. There are people who knew and said nothing. And that is a crime against this republic. And I think the Democrats are going to pay for a long time for being a part of what is now being revealed to be a massive cover-up.

Tapper was in on the coverup, so what does that make him?

I’d also add that Biden’s decline was obvious in 2020 — for those with eyes — and yet Democrat insiders still thought that Biden was better than any of the alternatives in 2020.

HMM: Is AOC’s Engagement Off, or Is She Just Skirting Ethics Rules? “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Workers’ Paradise) announced her engagement way back in 2022, but it’s three years later now, and questions have begun to swirl around her marital plans. This is not just a matter of leftist schoolgirls dreaming of emulating Comrade Heroine, or even of disappointed young blokes who yearn to take the place of the beta schlub AOC apparently plans to marry. It actually involves serious ethics violations, which just a scant few months ago Democrats could commit by the bucketload without fear of the slightest consequences beyond a few curmudgeons grumbling at PJ Media. Now, however, it’s a different story.”

THEY ALL KNEW:

2022. Don Lemon reports on an email sent in 2020 from Barack Obama to former White House physician Ronny Jackson.

Biden was showing obvious signs of cognitive decline during his 2020 campaign and Jackson had posted about it. Obama was not happy. pic.twitter.com/YM01C35Sak

— MAZE (@mazemoore) May 19, 2025

JOANNE JACOBS: Surprise! It’s not OK to punch the teacher or threaten to blow up the school.

EVEN MORE STUFF I VOTED FOR: After Four Months, Trump is Already the Best Gun Rights President of the Modern Era. “The lesson… stop dooming. Things are moving in the right direction and a lot of progress has been made in a very short time.”

BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules for Trump’s Reversal of Biden-Era Parole of Illegals.

BILL MAHER DISCOVERS ANOTHER TRUTH: Wokeness = Dying Alone. “Let me tell you, folks, if the standards on the Left are going to be this high, and politics is going to be this much of a cock block, we’re never going to win elections or have any more babies.”

MEH, FREE MARKETS ARE DOING THEIR THING ALREADY: States Are Taking Action Against Lab-Grown ‘Meat.’

MARK STEYN: No Change, and Decay.

As I have written often, the consistent message from the permanent ruling class around the west is that nothing will be permitted to change on anything that matters. Of the two principal popular revolts of almost a decade ago – the Trump election and the Brexit vote – the jury is still out on Trump 47 (America’s last chance), but Brexit is dead.

A theme of my book The Prisoner of Windsor is that there is no Brexit. It never happened – or, perhaps more precisely, it was never permitted to happen. And so, as the PM tells the King, Britain is now reduced to the status of a princely state in the Indian Raj, under which, in a nominally sovereign sultanate, every decision that matters was made not by the sultan and his ministers but by the British Resident. The King protests that he hasn’t heard the phrase “princely state” in forty years …but that’s why it helps to know a little history, so you can figure out where all the bollocks is headed.

I saw where all this was heading when we first serialised The Prisoner of Windsor in audio five years ago. Sir Keir Starmer, taking time out of his hectic schedule of being firebombed by twenty-one-year-old Ukrainian “male models”, has spent the last few weeks enacting my literary jest into formal, binding treaty law. As a popular Steyn Show guest puts it this morning, for the “right” to live under EU laws and regulations in perpetuity, the UK will also have to surrender its fishing grounds permanently. Or, if you like, in exchange for surrendering national sovereignty to Brussels on law, it will also have to surrender national sovereignty to Brussels on fish.

Brexit is over. The EU has won: It has got what it always pined for during the Thatcher years – a Britain formally subordinate to Brussels but without a vote at the top table.

The elites on both sides of the Atlantic sure talk an awful lot about protecting democracy for people with zero interest in it.

DISMANTLE UNWRA: Here’s the Smoking Gun: UNWRA Knew About Oct 7 in Advance.

THIS IS CNN:

Three clips.

1. Anderson Cooper accusing the right of selectively editing videos to make Biden look cognitively impaired. Cooper went on to claim that Obama did not have to guide Biden off the stage at the fundraiser, which was a total lie.

2. Cooper selectively editing video… pic.twitter.com/mxcQqcdro2

— MAZE (@mazemoore) May 16, 2025

It’s (D)ifferent when Anderson Cooper does it.

MIRANDA DEVINE:

Seriously, has anyone listened to the whole Hur audio? The establishment takeout that this is just about Joe Biden having pudding for brains is lazy and misses the deeper point, which is that the prosecutors had him cold on possessing classified documents he had no right to keep.… https://t.co/ocdDSmC3T6

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) May 18, 2025

Full text:

Seriously, has anyone listened to the whole Hur audio? The establishment takeout that this is just about Joe Biden having pudding for brains is lazy and misses the deeper point, which is that the prosecutors had him cold on possessing classified documents he had no right to keep.

Biden lies and dissembles and filibusters and goes vague and mumbly at all the crucial points, with the help of lawyer Bob Bauer, who interrupts every time Joe might incriminate himself and laughs like a hyena when Joe gets feisty or cracks a sarcastic joke at the prosecutors’ expense.

It is vintage Biden, nasty, smarmy, and self aggrandizing. He tries to impress the lawyers in the room with exaggerated highlights of his subpar legal career. At one point he boasts about spending Thanksgiving in Nantucket handwriting a memo about Afghanistan to Obama to try to “save his ass”. Delusions of grandeur.

You can hear the prosecutors’ frustration – they’re in a straitjacket and with a strict time limit. He reminds them out of the gate that he has just been on the phone to Bibi Netanyahu talking about the Oct. 7 attack – the previous day — just so they know they are keeping him from more important business.

Bottom line is he absurdly lies throughout. He denies having kept classified material for his personal use. It is not something he would ever do because he’s so upright and honorable.

And yet the prosecutors found reams of it tucked away everywhere in his house, garage, and Penn Center office, along with Biden’s recorded admission to his ghostwriter that he had found classified material in his basement he could use for his memoir.

So they had a dilemma. Do they charge the sitting president and label him a pathological liar, causing a massive scandal and constitutional crisis? Or do they use his age and mental fog as an excuse not to charge him? Pretty clear which was the easier path.

“Easier,” not “better” or “correct.”

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Epstein Suicide Confirmed by Kash Patel and Frankie Five Angels.

SORRY, BUT YOU LOST ME AT “FUNCTIONING LEGACY MEDIA”:

A functioning legacy media might have questioned why there was no mention of a PSA (prostate) test in Joe Biden's February 2024 blood test report.
After all, men commonly get that test. It is a simple blood test, noninvasitve. Biden wasn't tested. Or to put it another way, there… pic.twitter.com/M3xNgLFxg6

— Gary Weiss (@gary_weiss) May 19, 2025

PSA tests are actually less common for men over 70 for various reasons, but I find it difficult to believe that POTUS isn’t screened for pretty much everything.

YOU DON’T SAY: Sen. Chris Murphy: ‘It was a mistake’ for Democrats to let Biden stay in the race.

HE’S THE WORST: Et Tu, Tapper? The Benedict Arnold of Broadcast Journalism.

JAMES VARNEY: Wasting Away in Wind-and-Solarville.

Greens insist that reductions in carbon emissions will more than compensate for increased levels of potentially toxic garbage; others fret that renewable energy advocates have not been forthright about their lack of eco-friendly plans and the technology to handle the waste.

“Nobody planned on this, nobody had a plan to get rid of them, nobody planned for closure,” said Dwight Clark, whose company, Solar E Waste Solutions, recycles solar panels. “Nobody thought this through.”

The discussion about what to do with worn-out solar and wind equipment is another topic usually elided in Net Zero blueprints, which often focus on the claimed benefits of projects while discounting or ignoring the costs. As RealClearInvestigations previously reported regarding the lack of plans for acquiring the massive amounts of land for solar and wind farms needed to achieve net zero, the math can get fuzzy, and the numbers cited most frequently are those rosiest for renewables.

“They’ve been either silent, or incoherent – or just hand-wave that we should recycle all this stuff without telling us how,” said Mark Mills, executive director of the National Center on Energy Analytics. In the headlong effort to make solar and wind seem as inexpensive as possible, they have not included fees that address the eventual cost of disposal, which could leave taxpayers holding the bag.

Could?

DOG BITES MAN:

🤔 https://t.co/8ooygJmfme pic.twitter.com/M169KgNQKb

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) May 19, 2025

BADLY: Republican Class Versus Liberal Garbage: How Would the Dems Have Reacted If TRUMP Had Cancer?

THIS IS UNSUSTAINABLE:

Interest on the U.S. national debt is now 20% of total federal revenue and rising — We borrow every dollar just to pay interest.

4 stunning (and painful) charts from Dave Brat.pic.twitter.com/n3fX2topwP

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 17, 2025

Where is the GOP Congress?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Fake Breakup Between the MSM and the DNC Is a Bit Much to Stomach. “Let us just take a look at how the MSMers are trying to fashion the story. Then we we’ll explore why their masters at the DNC are letting them get away with it. It’s a family feud of epic political proportions, but it’s not really a feud. We’re dealing with the most awful people in the history of the Republic feigning honesty because they know that they can get away with it.”

SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT: FBI Director Patel says unreleased Russia probe documents will soon be made public.

FBI Director Kash Patel said on Fox News that “truckloads” of previously unreleased documents related to the Russia probe known as Crossfire Hurricane and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot will soon be made public in a “wave of transparency.”

He said the previous FBI leadership hid documents and information pertaining to the Russia probe “where people weren’t supposed to look.”

Patel, alongside Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, said on the Fox Business Network show “Sunday Morning Futures” that the release could happen within two weeks.

“Just give us about a week or two,” Patel said.

Faster, please.

UGH: Homan Exposes the Sick Child Exploitation of Cartel Traffickers.