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THE BIG NEWS

Trump in Line for Biggest US War Criminal Since Henry Kissinger

As Canada prepares to join Europe in an alliance of threatened democracies, the United States under Donald Trump is not only at risk of losing its own democratic tradition, but bolstering dictatorships around the globe.

In the same week that ProPublica reported that Don Jr.'s private island wedding was bankrolled by a Russian oligarch, the New York Times says that the Trump regime is proposing various benefits for Aspiring Tsar Vladimir Putin in the form of business deals, whether or not he agrees to a peace deal in Ukraine. This comes as Congress passed a new Russian sanctions bill that awaits Trump's signature.

Even more egregiously, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk yesterday warned that "Russia is planning hybrid strikes with drones or rockets on European countries supporting Ukraine." And the Trump regime may withdraw one-third of US troops stationed in Europe, leaving the continent's democracies exposed to such Russian incursions or even possible future invasions. None of this matters to Trump, whose primary concern is his pocketbook.

Meanwhile, the regime is moving ahead with a $24 billion sale of advanced F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, despite concerns that it might share the military tech with China, and heedless of the Saudis' atrocious human rights record, in no small part because the Trump family has multibillion-dollar business entanglements with the Saudi monarchy.

As shameful as it is for the US to cut deals with such abhorrent actors on the world stage, what's worse Trump and his eminently impeachable "Secretary of War," Pete Hegseth, openly brag about the war crimes they have ordered. The United Nations' top human rights body yesterday reported that it "found reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks resulting in the loss of life or injury to civilians" in Iran -- including in the strike on a girl's school in Minab that killed at least 178 civilians.

Trump wants his name on the gutted US Institute of Peace. It belongs on a charging document at The Hague.

MORE STORIES TO WATCH

Elections Roundup: Early Voting Begins Today

• Republicans Are Panicking; Senate Control at Risk Likely voters in a leading nationwide poll this week "gave Democrats a 51 percent to 43 percent edge on the generic ballot for Congress and indicated they trusted the party out of power on the economy, immigration, foreign wars, healthcare and handling the deficit." via HuffPost and NBC News.
• Some People Are Truly Desperate to Make This Election All About Internet-Famous Leftist Streamer Hasan Piker And many of them work at major media organizations. via the New York Times, CNN, Fox News, the New York Post, Axios, and the Washington Post.
• 'This Is New': US Attorney General Hits the Campaign Trail "Clearly this administration wants to show that there is no independent DOJ, that the DOJ and the White House are in lockstep," says former Justice Department "ethics czar" Joseph Tirrell, who was fired by Todd Blanche's predecessor, Pam Bondi. via the New York Times and NBC News.
• Chaos in the Courts: Federal Appeals Judges in St. Louis May Try to Revive Gerrymandered GOP Map Despite Supreme Court Ruling The lower court's actions "could again plunge Missouri's mid-term election into uncertainty." via Politico and the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
• Trump's Postmaster General Claims Work Has Ceased on Computer System to Screen Mail Ballots "First and foremost, for Election Mail it is business as usual," says a memo sent to all Postal Service workers this week. "We continue to follow established protocols." via the Associated Press, All States Newsroom, and Politico.
• Latin America's 'MAGA Man' Political Consultant Charged in Murder-for-Hire Plot Targeting His Pregnant Mistress Argentina's Fernando Cerimedo has been billed as the "Steve Bannon of Latin America"; now he's confined to a maximum-security prison in Bolivia. via the Los Angeles Times.
• Russia's Fake Elections Commence Today; Outcome Predetermined "'In most elections, candidates compete for attention. In Russia this year, many are doing the opposite,' said Farida Rustamova, a political analyst... 'No one wants to come into the spotlight or discuss anything sensitive.'" via the Guardian, the Associated Press, and the New York Times.
• Social Democrats Sweep in to Power in Sweden Magdalena Andersson's center-left party won 176 parliamentary seats in Sunday's vote, forcing an anti-immigrant right-wing government out of power; but the Centrist party could still play a spoiler role when forming a coalition. via the New York Times, the Guardian, and Reuters.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

• Trump Withdraws Nominee to Lead ICE, Unqualified Buddy of DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin Meanwhile, a former detainee at Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" ICE camp says he was held in an outdoor cage the size of a phone booth for 15 hours, unable to sleep because he was surrounded by snakes. via the Associated Press, NBC News, and the New York Times.
• RFK Jr. Tells Antivax Group They Have a 'Friend at the White House' "Kennedy’s comments come in the midst of the nation’s worst measles outbreak in 35 years"; the head of MAHA Action calls press coverage of the outbreak a "psy op." via the Washington Post and the Guardian.
• Federal Judge Orders Trump Must Provide 30-Day Notice Before Ruining or Ripping Down the Kennedy Center Trump was photographed sitting aboard Air Force One last night inspecting a large poster headlined "Kennedy Center DEMOLISH[ED]." via Politico, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.
• Man Who Assaulted Ilhan Omar, Spraying Her with Vinegar, Sentenced to 14 Months in Prison "Shortly before [Anthony] Kazmierczak lunged at [Minnesota Democratic Rep.] Omar with a syringe, [Donald] Trump singled her out at a rally in Iowa, saying that foreigners coming into the United States 'have to show they can love our country; they have to be proud — not like Ilhan Omar.'" via the AP, the New York Times, and Common Dreams.

SOME NUMBER

7

That's how many pages the Pentagon supplied to Congress to explain and justify a $67 billion supplemental Iran war funding request, according to NBC News. During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, supplemental funding breakdowns ran over 100 pages. Democrats in Congress are demanding a more detailed breakdown. Meanwhile, a Congressional Budget Office report this week put the cost of the Iran war at $38 billion as of June 30, "excluding the repair of damaged facilities and other costs."

ON THE SHOW TODAY

9/18: Sam and Emma will be in studio. The guest will be David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect and co-host of the Organized Money podcast, who will help to wrap up the week's news.

DON'T MISS MR CLIPS‌

Ben Shapiro Defends Billionaire In Macklemore/Ed Sheeran Controversy

Meanwhile, Ms. Rachel has matched Macklemore's donation to Palestinian causes.

Thomas Massie Calls Out Mike Johnson

This is highly entertaining in addition to being a generally positive development.

PARTING WORDS

"If I had done during the Biden administration what Trump's friends have done now, I'd have been put in jail."

-- An anonymous "person with several decades of experience in Cuba policy," speaking to the Guardian about how Donald Trump's billionaire friends and Secretary of State Marco Rubio's right-wing Cuban exile pals are carving up the communist-run island's assets in expectation of a US-instigated "regime collapse."

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