Nancy Pelosi Snaps After CNN Airs Nonsensical Trump Smear of Harris

Representative Nancy Pelosi scolded CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview Tuesday for giving airtime to Donald Trump’s attack on Kamala Harris’s mental fitness.

Tapper brought up the subject by mentioning criticism of how the media has covered Trump’s apparent cognitive decline.

“I’m sure that you hear from progressive voters, Democratic voters who say—as I hear from them on social media—[that] the media made such a big deal out of Joe Biden’s alleged cognitive problems; why don’t they talk about Donald Trump’s cognitive problems?” Tapper said to Pelosi. “Well, Donald Trump talked about that just a second ago, and I want to get your reaction.”

Tapper played a clip of Trump at a rally claiming that Kamala Harris has “got bigger cognitive problems than [Biden] has, in my opinion.”

“Why would you even cover that?” replied Pelosi, clearly annoyed. “This is a person who is not on the level. He is their nominee for president. He is incompetent. Let’s not even talk about the silliness of it all, and the weirdness of it all, and the assault on women that it is.”

Tapper was criticized earlier this week for echoing a false claim that Representative Rashida Tlaib made antisemitic comments against Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. In reality, Tlaib was questioning why the attorney general’s office was filing criminal charges against pro-Palestine protesters but hadn’t done so in other protest cases. Tapper’s response fell short of a full apology in that case.

During the first presidential debate between Trump and President Biden in June, Tapper was criticized along with debate co-moderator Dana Bash for failing to challenge any of Trump’s false statements. Trump, who had attacked the network in the days leading up to the debate, was singing Tapper and Bash’s praises afterward. All of this adds to a long list of criticism of how Tapper and CNN handle political coverage.

Donald Trump’s campaign said the former president was briefed by top U.S. intelligence officials about more attempted assassination attempts against him, this time coordinated by one of the largest powers in the Middle East: Iran.

The Republican presidential nominee took to X overnight Tuesday to put the alleged intelligence on blast, claiming that the entire U.S. military is in on the mission to protect him.

“Big threats on my life by Iran,” Trump posted. “The entire U.S. Military is watching and waiting. Moves were already made by Iran that didn’t work out, but they will try again. Not a good situation for anyone. I am surrounded by more men, guns, and weapons than I have ever seen before.

“Thank you to Congress for unanimously approving far more money to Secret Service—Zero ‘NO’ Votes, strictly bipartisan,” he continued. “Nice to see Republicans and Democrats get together on something. An attack on a former President is a Death Wish for the attacker!”

A spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed that they had briefed Trump’s campaign, but declined to offer additional details, reported NBC News.

Trump has survived two assassination attempts in recent months, both of which were conducted by U.S. citizens on domestic soil. Thomas Matthew Crooks, who shot at Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on July 13, was a registered Republican. Ryan Wesley Routh, who attempted to shoot Trump at one of his golf courses on Sunday, voted for Trump in 2016 and supported a Nikki Haley–Vivek Ramaswamy Republican ticket.

“President Trump was briefed earlier today by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence regarding real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States,” Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement. “Intelligence officials have identified that these continued and coordinated attacks have heightened in the past few months, and law enforcement officials across all agencies are working to ensure President Trump is protected and the election is free from interference.”

Donald Trump’s pledge to be women’s “protector” is not sitting so well with, well, women. That includes his own former White House employees.

During an appearance Tuesday night on CNN, former Trump White House aide Alyssa Farrah Griffin was asked if she thought there was anything odd about Trump’s rant about women from his campaign event in Indiana, Pennsylvania, the night before.

“I started laughing and thinking it was creepy, but then thinking more about it, it’s very infantilizing,” Griffin said.

“Talking about women as though we’re weak, we’re meek, we need a protector, we need a defender, and we just sit around thinking about abortions all day,” Griffin continued. “It just underscores a fundamental lack of understanding for why a demographic that represents half of the country is one that he is struggling so profoundly with.

“I think Donald Trump, if he loses this election, is going to look back and think that one of the worst decisions he made was not having a female on the ticket, who actually knows how to speak to living, breathing, normal women about issues that matter to them,” Griffin said.

Griffin added that in addition to reproductive rights, economics and national security were also womens’ issues. “The way he is talking about them is not the way to sway voters in the middle,” Griffin said.

A recent NBC News poll found that Kamala Harris was leading Trump among women voters by 21 points.

Trump’s not the only one struggling to connect with women voters. Last week, Bernie Moreno, a Trump-endorsed candidate for Senate from Ohio, told the audience at a town hall that he thought it was “crazy” that women only cared about abortion.

Donald Trump is angry at late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert after watching a PBS interview with him Tuesday night.

Trump took to Truth Social late at night to vent about Colbert, who seems to have gotten under the former president’s skin after saying that Trump would not be returning to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert as a guest.

“I briefly watched an interview of Stephen Colbert on highly government subsidized PBS, and found it fascinating for only one reason—Why would they be wasting time and the public’s money on this complete and total loser?” Trump posted Tuesday. “He is not funny, which he gets paid far too much to be, he is not wise, he is VERY BORING, and his show is dying from a complete lack of viewers—Gutfeld, on cable, is killing him

“CBS should terminate his contract and pick almost anyone, right off the street, who would do better, and for FAR LESS MONEY—Or I could recommend someone, much more talented, and smarter, who would do it for FREE! The good news for Stephen is that the two DOPES on NBC & ABC are not much better than him!” Trump added.

Trump’s post was very over-the-top compared to what Colbert actually said about Trump in a Monday interview with PBS Newshour’s Amna Nawaz.

“I have had him before, and he was kind of boring. So, no,” Colbert said in response to a question about if Trump would appear again on the CBS show. Colbert was on PBS with his wife, Evie, to talk about their new cookbook, Does This Taste Funny?

This isn’t the first time that Trump has attacked a media network or journalist over their less than flattering coverage of him. It’s also the second night in a row that Trump has complained about late-night TV hosts. On Monday, he ranted against Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon, and called for the return of Johnny Carson to The Tonight Show. It’s unclear whether Trump was just reminiscing about the legendary TV host, who passed away in 2005, or if he thought Carson was still alive and could actually return.

After all, Trump has been showing signs of cognitive decline for quite a while and has mistakenly referred to famous dead people as alive, most famously abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Of course, the former president and convicted felon has also been known to lash out at celebrities who slight him, like Taylor Swift, bothering even his ardent supporters.

After another rambling speech in Georgia on Tuesday, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to pat himself on the back.

Except, he appeared to forget where he just had been.

“A great day in Louisiana!” Trump posted around midnight, following his rally in Savannah, Georgia.

He then tried to correct his mistake, tweeting about “internal polling in Louisiana” that showed him “winning the state by the largest margin.” (Sure, let’s see those polls!)

Later in the night—or morning—he finally sent out a shoutout to the correct state, Georgia, covering his tracks.

This wasn’t Trump’s only geography blunder in the past 24 hours.

During his speech on Tuesday, Trump’s brain also short-circuited when he tried to talk about the 2017 violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“She didn’t say anything except lies, like bloodbath, like Charlottestown,” Trump said, only a minute after trying to conjure a thought about manufacturing in Georgia.

Trump didn’t bother to correct his mistake, and the crowd clapped anyway.