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Ew, look at Bigly’s baby hands! Gross. Anyway… Emperor Bigly had such a big day yesterday, I’m surprised his staff didn’t let him play with trucks just to keep him occupied. First off, the Bigly Administration no longer has Steve Bannon as part of the National Security Council. This is a good news/bad news situation – Bannon had no reason to be on the NSC, so it’s good news that he’s out. The bad news is that Steve Bannon still works in the White House and he’s absolutely running things (into the ground).

Because Bigly is a child with all of the nuance of a monster truck rally, Bigly decided to deflect the news about Bannon in two interconnected and very obvious ways. It’s almost like he has a neon sign blaring “DEFLECTION AHEAD” when he speaks. First off, Bigly said that poor Susan Rice is the centerpiece of all of the bigly conspiracies against him. He was asked about Dr. Rice by the NYT, and he said: “I think it’s going to be the biggest story. It’s such an important story for our country and the world. It is one of the big stories of our time.” The NYT asked him if thinks Rice committed a crime and he replied, “Do I think? Yes, I think.” What crime, exactly? The crime of being a woman? The crime of being a black woman with a highly sensitive security clearance? The crime of being a woman doing her job? Dr. Rice’s spokesperson issued a one-sentence statement about Bigly’s comments: “I’m not going to dignify the President’s ludicrous charge with a comment.”

Bigly still wasn’t done. Now that all of the old white dudes of the GOP have their big, scary black lady to blame, they can go about their business. And their business is protecting their own kind from all of those dumb broads who complain about being harassed and assaulted. Case in point: Bill O’Reilly. The NYT published a story about O’Reilly’s history of harassing women over the weekend. Many of the women have been paid off by O’Reilly or Fox News once they complain. Currently, advertisers are fleeing O’Reilly’s time slot and there’s increasing pressure on Fox News to dump O’Reilly. So what does Bigly have to say about that?

“I think he shouldn’t have settled; personally I think he shouldn’t have settled. Because you should have taken it all the way. I don’t think Bill did anything wrong. I think he’s a person I know well — he is a good person.”

[From NBC News]

Just a reminder: more than 20 women have come forward with their own stories of being harassed and sexually assaulted by Donald Trump. Another reminder: Emperor Bigly declared April to be National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month several days ago. So he thought he would celebrate this special month by A) scapegoating a black woman, blaming her for all of his troubles and insinuating that she had committed a crime (the crime of being a black woman) and B) defended an alleged sexual harasser/predator.

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