UPDATED: 02.24.2026 — same trope; different day. Hinderaker now is taking to his fainting couch because an aide to Gov. Newsom used a four letter word, in a written reply to a press person. “Oh! The humanities!” And John feels this is the chief cause of our incivility in politics. Uh huh.

John seems blissfully unaware of the nearly 12 years of on the record insults uttered by Trump — the supposed preznit (45 and 47). He seems unaware that Trump flipped the bird at a constituent, in a televised visit to an auto-factory last month. I could go on and on — you know we all have lists — [called someone an asshole on a hot mic]… but if this is what’s broken, in politics… it was Trump who broke it. More than a decade ago. He also forgets that Trump retweeted a meme that made the 44th President and his wife… monkeys. Damn — QED. End of update.

Tonight, preposterously, John bleats about an executive action that California Governor Newsom took last year… to set a man free.

John labels Newsom “pro crime” because of this. Huh.

Funny thing, Hinderaker hasn’t said so much as a peep about all the J6 felons that Trump has pardoned — with now double digits of those felons in all new — and often violent — subsequent legal trouble.

They are being re-arrested for everything from domestic violence to child sexual predator / trafficking offenses.

And that’s before we get to all the tax cheats and financial frauds. [It is my opinion that the guy right here has plainly been paying off a bribe that got HIM a pardon from Trump, by propping up and investing in Trump‘s crypto ventures — via CZ’s sprawling international crypto exchange properties.]

So John, who really is… pro- crime?

Out.