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11 Nov, 2025

Trumpers Deny, Defer, Depart

August 1, 2024 Buck Banks

For Republicans, it’s become something of an art —
Dealing with media over Trump’s latest brain fart.
In a return to 2016,
He resurrected his anti-Black theme,
Leaving GOPers no alternatives but “deny, defer and depart.”

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Trumpers Deny, Defer, Depart

Poetic Justice

Pushed out over pushups ...

Verbatim

— Charlie Cook

“Sharia law seeks to destroy and supplant the pillars of our republican form of government and is incompatible with the Western tradition. The use of taxpayer-funded school vouchers to promote Sharia law likely contravenes Florida law and undermines our national security.”

— Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, introducing an Islamic law scare into the public discourse via an X post magnifying claims that state universal school choice dollars were paying for instruction in Sharia in Tampa charter schools, reported Florida Phoenix.

“I’m the speaker and the president.”

— President Trump, quoted by the New York Times, noting how he’s marginalized Speaker Mike Johnson.

Numerati

1.1 million

$279 billion

18

“President Donald Trump littered his new ’60 Minutes’ interview with a wide-ranging assortment of false claims, the vast majority of them previously debunked,” CNN reports. “We counted at least 18 inaccurate assertions.”

~42 million

$14 billion

“The U.S. economy will lose between $7 billion and $14 billion due to the federal government shutdown, according to a new report released by Congress’s nonpartisan bookkeeper,” the Washington Post reports.