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President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair has been an ongoing disaster for all the reasons that bother him the most, and as The Telegraph highlighted in a new report, his own MAGA supporters are trashing the whole affair.The fair kicked off on Thursday of last week and is planned to run for 16 days, serving as one of the centerpieces of Trump's planned festivities for America's 250th birthday. The event has been dogged by bad news for weeks now, however, with numerous musicians ditching plans for a free concert series after the event's explicit affiliation with Trump came to light.The event has also drawn withering criticism and mockery for its sparse attendance and lackluster offerings, including a mock-up triumphal arch that is already falling apart. Speaking with The Telegraph for a report this week, even several Trump supporters expressed sadness over how the fair turned out.“I grew up with state fairs in Iowa, and this is really disappointing,” Holly Lewis, a travel agent from Virginia, told The Telegraph. This should have been the highlight of my life. This should have been like the World Exposition. But most of the states are a bit of a disappointment. It would have been really good if FIFA had run this. This feels like a silent protest.”“I think we would have had a lot more people if Trump wasn’t president,” another Trump supporter, Wiley Larsen, told the outlet, saying they "think he’s doing a lot of great things," but acknowledging that many others are unhappy with him.Ari Drumm, a supporter from Florida, called the situation another case of “Trump Derangement Syndrome."“It’s a disgrace,” Drumm said. “We should be together in this. We should be 50 United States and this is not very unified.”Amy Cohen, a university administrator from Virginia who the report did not describe as a Trump supporter, also expressed profound disappointment over the state of the fair. “This is all so weird,” Cohen said. “I am really sad and disappointed that what could have been an extraordinary celebration of the many, many things that make the United States a wonderful place was attenuated, reduced and flattened. It’s like reading a social studies textbook from the seventh grade. There’s so much vibrancy in the country, and this is unnecessarily vanilla. And there aren’t a lot of people here.”
The Notre Dame College Republicans issued a stern denunciation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett after she ruled against President Donald Trump’s attempt to rescind birthright citizenship. Barrett’s ruling on the birthright citizenship case proved decisive, giving the liberal justices a 5-4 majority in saying Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship violated the Constitution. […]
One of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominees voted against a big case that would restrict when mail-in ballots could be accepted — and MAGA is not happy. The decision, which saw Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts side with all of the Democratic-appointed justices, ruled that ballots filed with Election Day postmarks can be accepted even if they arrive after Election Day. Justice Samuel Alito complained: "Today’s decision leaves open opportunities for voter fraud that may further undermine Americans’ faith in the integrity of this country’s elections." Zachary Donnini, head of data science at VoteHub, explained that only about 4 percent of ballots arrive after Election Day. Republicans lashed out at both Barrett and the ruling in general, with a slew of complaints. Sen. Eric Schmidt (R-Mo.) blasted it as "A shockingly wrong opinion."He was quick to jump on the anti-Barrett bandwagon, saying, "Justice Barrett joins with the liberal justices to hold that federal election law does not preempt states that allow late mail-in ballots to be counted. This is terrible for election integrity. Another reason we must pass the full SAVE American Act.""Amy Coney Barrett continues to disappoint in far too many high-profile cases," complained Article III lawyer Josh Hammer. "BEYOND insane," conservative Nick Sortor complained. He added that because of this ruling California "can CONTINUE taking WEEKS to count ballots after Election Day." In fact, California is generally slowed not by late-arriving ballots but by signature matches for mail-in ballots, as Donnini wrote. "Justice Barrett just sided with the Democrat justices to allow states to count absentee ballots received DAYS after Election Day. She is the biggest disgrace to the Supreme Court," bashed conservative Andrew Pollack."Barrett. AGAIN. WTF," asked Megyn Kelly. "You would think with a 6-3 Conservative Court we would get the easy wins. But with Roberts and Barrett on the court nothing is a given," wrote Bill Mitchell.Truth Social advisor Katie Zacharia wrote, "Barrett has been a disappointment."
