CNN
on Wednesday aired a portion of Chris Wallace
’s interview with Larry David
, in which the Seinfeld co-creator doesn’t hold back much when talking about “sociopath” Donald Trump
.
David, who has been making media rounds—in one instance beating up Elmo
—as Curb Your Enthusiasm wraps up its final season
, was asked about his response to political events from 2020 onwards.
“How much as the 2020 election—and everything that has flowed from it—pissed you off?” Wallace asked.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott (D) responded to some of the bizarre criticisms coming from conservatives following the cargo ship-induced collapse
of the city’s Francis Scott Key Bridge
early Tuesday morning
by saying the term DEI—when applied derogatorily to him—means “duly elected incumbent.”
On MSNBC
’s The Reid Out, host Joy Reid
prefaced her interview with Scott, who is Black, by calling attention to a tweet
describing Scott as “Baltimore’s DEI mayor.” That post, which references the acronym that stands for diversity, equity and inclusion, has generated more than 25 million views, along with a clarifying community note on X.
“I cannot believe I have to say this,” Reid began. “Brandon Scott was elected with 70 percent of the vote in 2020 in a city that is 61 percent Black. So by right-wing logic, a ‘diversity hire’ would have been a white man.”
Jon Stewart
responded with characteristic wit Wednesday after a New York Poststory
, centered around a right-wing commentator’s tweet
, tried to depict the Comedy Central host as a hypocrite after he criticized Donald Trump’s justification of bank fraud as a “victimless crime.”
The Post quoted podcaster Tim Pool, who baselessly wondered whether Stewart committed “fraud” when he sold the penthouse for $17.5 million in 2014. The publication based its conclusion on the fact that assessor records from that year showed the property’s estimated market value sitting at $1.882 million. According to the Post, the property’s assessor valuation was under $850,000.
On Monday’s episode
of The Daily Show, Stewart explained why Donald Trump
’s claim that his bank fraud judgment for inflating property values to secure better loans—and then using lower values for tax purposes—was not a “victimless crime.”
When conservative icon Matt Schlapp
announced Tuesday that the sexual battery and defamation lawsuit against him
was dropped, he and his allies were quick to note that the ordeal ended without him or the American Conservative Union—the right-wing organization he runs—paying his accuser a single dollar.
But what Schlapp didn’t disclose was that the Republican operative who sued him was, in fact, paid to drop the lawsuit, according to two people with knowledge of the payout. It was just that the money came from ACU’s insurance company, these two people told The Daily Beast.
(Minutes before this article published, CNN
ran a story also revealing that the lawsuit was dropped only after Schlapp’s accuser was paid $480,000 from ACU’s insurer—an amount one of the sources confirmed to The Daily Beast.)
A man who made threatening phone calls to Nancy Pelosi
and United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas
was sentenced to 11 months in prison on Wednesday.
David Allen Carrier, 44, pleaded guilty to two counts of making threats against a federal official, according to a press release
from the United States District Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California
.
In Jan. 2021, when Pelosi was still the House Majority Speaker, Carrier left a voicemail on her office line in which he threatened to assault her. The call came within a month of the Capitol riots, at which point Pelosi was directing criticism toward Donald Trump
for being an “accessory”
to the incident which left five people dead. At the time, Pelosi had been inexplicably identified by the far-right as the villain of the riot
.