Mike’s Blog Round-up

“President Biden’s re-election strategy rests in large part on reminding voters about the darkest days of Donald Trump’s presidency: the Capitol riot, a botched response to Covid-19 and violence driven by racial strife in Charlottesville, Va,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Now, Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts gives Biden and his allies their best chance yet to jolt voters into recalling Trump as an agent of chaos and to argue that his personal behavior carries risks for the country.”

New York Times: “Although Mr. Trump proclaimed at a news conference on Friday that he had plenty of ammunition to overturn what he called ‘this scam,’ several legal experts cast doubt on his chances of success, and noted that the case could take years to snake through the courts.” “And so, after a five-year investigation and a seven-week trial, Mr.

“New York City was once Donald Trump’s playground, the place where he made his name and then plastered it everywhere he could,” the New York Times reports. “Now, the city that helped make him rich and famous has become his battleground. And Mr. Trump keeps losing.” “His conviction this week was the third and heaviest blow the former president has been dealt in his erstwhile hometown this year — a series of challenges to his ego, his bottom line, and now, perhaps, his freedom.” Axios: Trump plays the old hits in post-conviction rant.

Wall Street Journal: “A wave of political violence has become a threat across Mexico ahead of the country’s national elections Sunday. More than 200 government officials, candidates and political party activists have been gunned down since Mexico’s electoral process got under way in September, according to Integralia Consultores, a Mexico City consulting firm.” “While the presidency and both houses of Congress are up for grabs, organized-crime groups are particularly focused on thousands of local elections.

Marian Robinson, the mother of former first lady Michelle Obama, has died, the family said in a statement Friday. She was 86.

CNN's Erin Burnett talks to Michael Cohen, former Trump attorney and a key witness in Trump's hush money trial, about the guilty verdict in the criminal case.