Trump's own lawyer calls him a RAPIST

Good morning and Happy Sunday! Trump's own former lawyer just called him a "rapist" on live TV.

We'll get into that, plus:

And we’ve rounded up some other headlines you might have missed. Let’s get into it.

Ty Cobb, who served as Trump's White House lawyer during the first term, sat down for a television interview Saturday and called his former boss "a malignant narcissist, convicted felon, rapist,” and “somebody who was really out to feather his own nest."

The host immediately interrupted to note that Trump has not been convicted of rape — a legally accurate correction that Trump previously made $15 million off ABC for muddling.

Cobb also warned this week that Trump has the "intention to interfere with the elections and to steal these elections where possible."

Thankfully, a federal judge again blocked Trump’s latest mail-in ballot changes — he’s already trying to get the Supreme court to weigh in.

The first-ever GOP “midterm convention” will take place this week in Dallas.

Trump added himself to the speaking schedule after "lackluster buzz" for the event — only two Republicans in battleground districts have confirmed attendance.

Politico surveyed more than 70 House Republicans and found 45 plan to skip it outright. An unnamed Republican called the convention “a waste of time,” and added the planning has been “a mess.”

Melania isn't going. Neither is Texas Sen. John Cornyn. The price of admission — a $25,000 minimum that only covers two tickets and one hotel room — hasn't helped fill seats.

Then someone bought gopdallas2026.com, built a page that looks official, and pointed it straight at the Epstein files library.

Donald Trump just dropped $10 million on ads for Ken Paxton's Senate bid in Texas, the first real money his super PAC has spent all midterm cycle — and it took three months of Republican leaders begging him to get there.

MAGA Inc. is sitting on a war chest of more than $400 million while Paxton, an attorney general who survived his own bribery impeachment, watched Democrat James Talarico outraise him roughly 7 to 1 and dominate Texas airwaves by roughly 7 to 1 in ad spending since June.

Even Trump has admitted the guy is a hard sell, telling reporters this week that voters "might not love his look."

Texas hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1988. Trump just bet $10 million of his own money that this could be the year the streak ends.

Trump landed in New Jersey on Friday with darker, wind-tousled hair parted on the opposite side from his signature sweep, the latest entry in a summer-long saga that has turned the 80-year-old president's scalp into a running national joke.

Weeks earlier, his hair had visibly thickened overnight in Las Vegas, then thinned back out, then thickened again, prompting many to wonder if grandpa got a new wig.

Trump, unprompted, told reporters this week that he doesn't wear a wig, citing a windy 2024 Ohio rally as proof no hairpiece could have survived.

Then his own biographer said the president travels with a "patch kit," color-matched hair tufts glued on by a handler traveling right next to the people carrying the nuclear codes.

He covered his hair up after the new headlines.

The journalist who broke the story of Maria Bartiromo's Fox News exit is now predicting that Trump could "swoop in" and hire her.

Bartiromo was one of the most reliable amplifiers of Trump's 2020 election lies on cable television, and her departure from Fox was surprising even to insiders.

Fox News reportedly isolated her for weeks before firing her.

Strangely, Bartiromo’s attorney said in a statement that “irresponsible reports” that she had been fired and is no longer an employee of Fox were “absolutely and unequivocally false.”

But… Fox themselves announced it.

Maps exist to reflect geographic reality. And Donald Trump’s mood swings are not geological events.

Every time Google and Apple rename a body of water on command, they’re actually taking a political stand — a remarkably stupid one at that — and signaling to the White House their fealty and compliance. Enough already.

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That's all for this week. Thank you for being here — enjoy your Labor Day weekend!