Rick Wilson’s Against All Enemies

Rick Wilson’s Against All Enemies

The Friday Brief, October 23 2026

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Oct 23, 2026
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Inside:
Trump Is Scum: More On The Acton Ad
From Russia With Deepfakes
Trump’s Fraud Hotline Backfires, Bigly
The WSJ Defends The Dummymanders
Unintended MAGA Consequences
Trump’s BBC Disaster
The Corruption Is The Point
Mostly Because They Suck
What I’m Reading
Scenes From The Home Front
We Got The Plane Back!

The Big Picture

Trump Is Scum: More On The Acton Ad

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Monstrous as usual.

First, if you’re not following The Rooster for all things Ohio, correct that now. His reporting on all this is amazing.

The men who made and ordered this ad - Ben Yoho, Jai Chabria, Alex Surabian - deserve to be known. And by God, they will be. Their careers are forfeit.

Let’s remember what these shitbirds knew: Acton was taken from that mother at 12, after her stepfather was indicted for raping her. Acton’s brother says the mother stayed married to the man until he died. Acton hasn’t seen her since childhood. The ad first surfaced through a rando Ohio political blogger with no “paid for” disclaimer as a bullshit test run for this trash, and Ramaswamy’s people dodged for a day before owning it.

Then, with Republicans lining up to tell him to pull it, Ramaswamy put $4 million behind it.

Trump, naturally, loved it.

The Truth Social post above that reads like a hostage note from his throbbing, seething id, he called the mother brave, called Acton “Lyin’ Amy,” and said she

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