Comment on 10 things you need to know today: April 23, 2018

I'm not sure what happened to Jon Voight, but his support for Trump apparently turned his brain into mush a long time ago. Voight posted the video above to his account on Xitter, and the responses to Ron Filipkowski who re-posted the clip were a lot more appropriate than the nutters in Voight's timeline there. Here's the transcript for anyone that doesn't want to watch it: VOIGHT: Bring back what was lost.

The only Donald Trump criminal trial that's likely to take place this year starts today in New York. Trump is charged with falsifying business records in order to cover up an affair with porn star Stormy Daniels. Amanda Marcotte thinks that testimony from Daniels will be "devastating" for Trump, largely because, as Daniels told Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes in 2018, their sexual encounter was not fully consensual and was miserable for her: Stormy Daniels: And I was like, "Ugh, here we go." (LAUGH) And I just felt like maybe — (LAUGH) it was sort of — I had it coming for making a bad decision for going to someone's room alone and I just heard the voice in my head, "well, you put yourself in a bad situation and bad things happen, so you deserve this." Anderson Cooper: And you had sex with him. Stormy Daniels: Yes. Anderson Cooper: You were 27, he was 60.

Senator Ron Johnson (MAGA/Q - Moscow) is in mid-election season form with his flip-flopping. For example, if you ask RoJo how he feels about absentee ballots, and if he were being unusually honest, his answer would be yes. During an interview, he warned that absentee ballots were part of a nefarious Democratic scheme to get illegal immigrants to be able to vote in American elections: But let's face it, New York - they allow illegal immigrants to vote in their local elections.

A newly released New York Times/Siena poll shows a wholesale reversal from its previous February poll that suggested President Joe Biden was bleeding support among Latino voters. The Times/Siena poll released Saturday showed Biden gaining significant ground with minority voters, including opening up a 9-point lead over Trump with Latinos, 50% - 41%.

Joe Scarborough sent a loud message to Donald Trump to quit trashing America. On Tuesday, the "Morning Joe" host went off on Trump and Trump voters because of their constant carping about our country. Scarborough said he's tired of the former president "running down" and "trashing" the United States. The MSNBC host's rant included shots at Fox News and said Trump voters want a "dictatorship." Watch the video of Scarborough's brutal monologue, but here is a preview: "Where are you from?

At America’s wealthiest colleges, the SAT is back with a vengeance, and it’s easy enough to see who will suffer: socioeconomically disadvantaged students of color. Over the past few weeks, Dartmouth, Yale, Brown, and Harvard have all announced that they will require standardized test scores from all applicants next fall after suspending their use during the pandemic. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Between the spring of 2020 and the winter of 2021, the number of four-year universities and colleges with test-optional policies doubled from 713 to 1,350 including, notably, all eight Ivy League schools.