Rosh Hashanah -- The Beginning Of Change

“Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee raised $141 million in May, according to his campaign, a fundraising total boosted by a surge in contributions after a New York jury found him guilty in a criminal trial involving hush-money charges,” Bloomberg reports. “Trump’s tally nearly doubles the $76 million he raised in all of April in another strong showing for the presumptive Republican nominee.

“The jury that will hear the gun case against Hunter Biden in Delaware has been selected,” CNN reports. “The panel includes twelve jurors along with four alternates. Opening statements are expected Tuesday.”

Molly Jong-Fast: “If being a convicted felon is so great for Donald Trump, why are Republicans freaking out?”

“The Georgia Court of Appeals has set a tentative date of October 4 to hear oral arguments in the effort to have Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis removed from prosecuting the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others,” CNN reports. “The possibility that the disqualification fight could stretch to October, as well as an ongoing question about how the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on presidential immunity could impact the prosecution, makes it extremely unlikely Trump will go on trial for election subversion in Georgia before Election Day.”

Aaron Blake: “This is vintage Trump. He’s not explicitly advocating unrest. He’s not even explicitly mentioning unrest in this case. But he is suggestively pointing to something very bad around the corner if he doesn’t get what he wants.” “And as with his recent “bloodbath” comment, the point is not that this comment is a particularly egregious example of a dog whistle to his supporters; it’s that it’s merely the latest in a long line of suggestive comments.

The Republican who serves as Homer Township supervisor is defending himself after ordering the U. S. flag outside the township offices to be flown upside down as a symbol of national “distress” following Donald Trump’s conviction last week on 34 felony counts, the Chicago Tribune reports.