Mike’s Blog Round-up

CNN legal analyst Ryan Goodman provides insight into the potential defense strategy that may be presented during the closing arguments of former president Donald Trump's Hush money trial.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden marked Memorial Day with a pledge that the country would continue the work of the nation’s fallen toward a more perfect union, “for which they lived, and for which they died.” Delivering remarks at a solemn remembrance ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Biden said each generation must ensure the sacrifice of the country’s service members is not in vain. “Freedom has never been guaranteed,” Biden said under gray skies in the memorial amphitheater.

(video from Aug 20, 2023) No, it's not a cult. Here's what happened after Eric Trump agreed that his family 'sacrificed for the country': And we will do it again!

Donald Trump is so full of shit that we're going to need to attach a toilet flush on his jaw. Trump was relentlessly booed and heckled at the Libertarian Convention Saturday evening. But to hear his sycophants say it, their Trumpy bear was a smashing success, and the thunderous applause could be heard from eleventy bazillion miles away.

Rep. Madeleine Dean yesterday blasted Sam Alito for blaming his wife for displaying the upside-down flag outside his home in the days following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Via The Hill: In an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday,” Dean invoked Memorial Day and stressed the importance of abiding by a code of ethics when asked to respond to the latest Alito controversy. “I think I’ll end where I started, which is: How do we honor the war dead in this country?

It’s a reminder that, despite the ostensible anti-Israel protests, it’s not Israel they’re after; it’s you.