Of the Trump trial’s sleazy cast, one actor performed best You had Trump himself bellowing in the hallway outside the courtroom, earning himself a gag order from the judge. You had various right-wing poltroons puffing their chests on the street next to the ... 05/28/2024 - 1:19 pm | View Link
Prosecutors Had Two Final Words for the Trump Jury: Stormy Daniels In its summation to jurors, the prosecution in the former president’s hush-money trial repeatedly invoked its sordid, alleged genesis. 05/28/2024 - 12:55 pm | View Link
Hiding ‘messy’ details of Trump’s tryst with Stormy Daniels is motive for his crimes, prosecutor says in closings: live updates To prove Trump’s guilt, prosecutors had to prove there were false business records, that they intended to cover up a conspiracy to promote or prevent the election of a candidate to public office, ... 05/28/2024 - 3:16 am | View Link
The Slippery Question of Reasonable Doubt at the Trump Trial President Joe Biden is fond of saying, “Don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.” It’s an insightful and persuasive political line, but the opposite applies in a criminal trial ... 05/16/2024 - 10:59 pm | View Link
Trump Trial Day 14: Stormy Daniels Flushes Trump on Cross Day 14 of the Trump Trial, should have been a good day for the defense, and not just because it had a chance to break Stormy Daniels on cross. I could see from Donald Trump’s less frustrated ... 05/12/2024 - 5:01 pm | View Link
I really like Florida -- but I would never move there because of the harm inflicted by the DeSantis administration. Turns out more people are agreeing with me.
Then we have things like this, via Popular Information:
Training materials produced by the Florida Department of Education direct middle and high school teachers to indoctrinate students in the tenets of Christian nationalism, a right-wing effort to merge Christian and American identities.
Via HuffPost, a reporter asked Joe Biden if he planned to serve the full four-year term if he wins back the White House.
The exchange occurred at Philadelphia International Airport on Wednesday soon after Biden had arrived on Air Force One for campaign events.
"President Biden, will you be serving your full four-year term or handing over power to Vice President Harris?" the reporter yelled on the tarmac.
"Are you okay?
This is a bit of a weird one. Georgia's 11th congressional district is quite red, with Trump winning by 15 points in 2020. Longshot candidates run in those districts because no one else wants to. In this case, though, Katy Stamper took it upon herself, for whatever reasons, to run in the Democratic primary where she ended up winning.
When it comes to Trump, piling on is a civic duty. We cannot afford to allow him even the slightest chance of retaking power. He needs to be overwhelmed.
Simon Rosenberg— the veteran political analyst who famously predicted that the Red Wave of 2020 would be the Republican debacle it turned out to be — is urging a practical, grassroots approach to the problem.
USA Today: “As a New York jury heads into a second day of deliberations on Thursday over the hush money-related charges against Trump, the Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns are preparing post-verdict strategy plans amid uncertainty over how pivotal voters might react to a guilty verdict or a hung jury.”
“Trump has said he is eager to make up for lost time in terms of campaign events and fundraising and has frequently betrayed concern that a guilty verdict could hurt him with undecided voters, who polling shows could back Biden if the Manhattan jury does find the former president guilty.”
ABC News: Biden has maintained muted approach toward Trump trial, as jurors deliberate.
“South Africa’s ruling party looks set to fall well short of obtaining a parliamentary majority for the first time since it came to power at the end of apartheid three decades ago, a model developed by a state research agency shows,” Bloomberg reports.