If there was any question as to the mental fitness of President @realDonaldTrump, this week, that question was definitively answered.
Unfortunately, it was not the answer that most of us wanted to hear—however, if we're being honest, it *was* the one that most of us expected to hear.
For anyone who paid attention in 2017, Trump's (complete lack of) mental stability was an open secret.
Even still, the events of this week were striking, and more than a little bit concerning.
Had Trump merely threatened to start a nuclear war (because of something he saw on Fox & Friends), denigrated the intelligence community, and called for the prosecution of his enemies, that would've been enough.
But, faced with the release of a new book that paints a very unflattering portrait of him, Trump completely lost his mind—and, in doing so, he all but confirmed some of the book's most damaging claims about him.
Suffice it to say, that was, like, really smart.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Author Michael Wolff; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Roundtable: David Brooks (New York Times), Joy Ann Reid (MSNBC), Danielle Pletka (American Enterprise Institute) & Mark Leibovich (New York Times Magazine).
Face The Nation: CIA Director Mike Pompeo; Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY); Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R); Former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morrell; Former Obama National Security Adviser Tom Donilon; Roundtable: Mike Allen (Axios), Molly Ball (TIME), Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic) & Ramesh Ponnuru (National Review).
This Week: US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK); Roundtable: TBA.
Fox News Sunday: CIA Director Mike Pompeo; Former Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski; Roundtable: Republican Strategist Karl Rove, Julie Pace (Associated Press), Guy Benson (Townhall.com) & Rachael Bade (Politico).
State of the Union: Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller; Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA); Democratic Strategist David Axelrod; Republican Strategist Mark McKinnon; Roundtable: Van Jones (CNN), Republican Strategist Amanda Carpenter, Republican Operative Michael Caputo & Democratic Strategist Jen Psaki.
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: an interview with Margarita Simonyan, the head of Russia's state-owned news network, RT (preview); and, a report on chronic traumatic encephalopathy and its impact on combat veterans (preview).
The Golden Globe Awards, hosted by Seth Meyers, will air on NBC at 8 pm ET.
Late night shows:
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Monday: Actor Liam Neeson; Author Mivhael Wolff; Singer Andra Day & Rapper Common.
Tuesday: Actor/Director James Franco; Actress Lena Waithe; Musician Anderson East.
Wednesday: Actress Sarah Jessica Parker; Comedian Pete Holmes; Actor Jack Black.
Thursday: TBA.
Friday: TBA.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Monday: Model Ashley Graham; Tuesday: Actor Jason Mitchell Wednesday: Screenwriter Dee Rees; Thursday: Former NBA Player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Elsewhere...
Roy Moore's wife, Kayla, identified her "Jew lawyer" who turns to be not a Jew.
"We read where we were against Jews - even calling us Nazis," she [Kayla Moore] wrote in an email to AL.com. "We have a Jewish lawyer working for us in our firm - Martin Wishnatsky. Judge hired him while Chief Justice, then I hired him at the Foundation."
Wishnatsky, in an interview with AL.com, said he graduated from the law school at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., in 2012, was admitted to the Virginia Bar Association in October and interviewed with Moore after he was re-elected as chief justice in November 2012. Moore hired Wishnatsky and two other Liberty University School of Law graduates as full-time clerks in 2012, the first State Supreme Court clerks in the school's history, according to a Liberty University press release.
"My background is 100 percent Jewish," he said. "My grandparents immigrated from Eastern Europe, and came through Ellis Island. My parents were born in Brooklyn during World War I. There were no manifestations of faith; we were Jewish, that's why we went to synagogue and not a church. It was just an ethnic characteristic."
But Wishnatsky said he accepted Christ in his thirties. "I had an experience of the reality of God at 33," Wishnatsky said. "I knew God was real but I wasn't sure who he was."
He became a Mormon first, then later became an evangelical Protestant Christian.
"I'm a Messianic Jew," Wishnatsky said. "That's the term they use for a Jewish person who has accepted Christ."
Meanwhile, in other religious news...
Former Rep. Michele Bachmann sought guidance from God about running for Al Franken's Senate seat.
Former Minnesota congresswoman and current "pastor to the United Nations" Michele Bachmann joined End Times prepper pastor Jim Bakker for a series of television programs that aired last week, during which she revealed that she is currently considering making a run for the U.S. Senate seat that is set to be vacated by Al Franken.
On last Wednesday's show, Bachmann said that she has "had people contact me and urge me to run for that Senate seat" and that she is asking God if doing so is His will for her.
Bachmann said that she would be willing to run in order to take godly principles into the Senate but is concerned that she will be unfairly attacked by Washington insiders because "the swamp is so toxic."
"I trust in a big God," Bachmann said, asserting that she knows that she "was supposed to run for president" in 2012 in order to make the repeal of Obamacare a central issue of the Republican campaign. "I feel like I was wildly successful … I didn't win, but I moved the debate. So I didn't shed a tear when I left the contest because I felt like, you know, I fulfilled the calling that God gave me."
"So the question is am I being called to do this now?" she added. "I don't know."
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– Trix