Jessica Tarlov

I said, what about this guy, Philip S. Form?

You know, the nursing home mogul who defrauded people out of $1.3 billion.

Trump commuted his sentence, David Gentile, $1.6 billion.

Like, we can't hold them to any sort of normal human standard.

Or any sort of normal hypocrisy standard.

Yeah, no, I appreciate that.

And I definitely feel like I'm always starting from a bit of a disadvantage.

It is why I like going last, though.

Like, batting cleanup is a lot easier because I'm just always taking notes.

I'm like, I want to say this about this and this about that.

But also, I have to spend time thinking about these facets of a story that I wouldn't normally because, you know—

Hunter Biden is always my favorite example that people who think that Joe Biden was running like a crime boss family are talking about like diamonds coming from Mexico and whatever's going on with oligarchs from Belarus and like all this stuff.

And you need to know what's going on in order to talk about it.

And the fraud scandal wasn't quite on that level, but definitely had to know what the perspective of, you know, the Nick Shirley scandal

supporters or acolytes or whatever you want to call them are.

And it's obviously hugely important that the administration threw their weight behind this.

And that factored into Tim Walz's decision because it was going to be a hellscape, right, like battling through this primary and then a general election like this.

And there's been reporting that the Republican Party in

When it came to that viral video, I love Amy Klobuchar.

I hope that she is getting in on this gubernatorial race.