White House Briefing

“Donald Trump is a thrice-married man accused of covering up a sex scandal with a porn star after the world heard him brag about grabbing women by their genitals,” the New York Times reports. “But when Mr. Trump’s lawyers introduced him to a jury at his Manhattan criminal trial this week, they dwelt on a different dimension: ‘He’s a husband.

A new CNN poll finds just 28% of American say a conviction in the hush money case would disqualify Donald Trump from the presidency — double-digits less than those who say that of Trump’s three other indictments. And just 33% say he did something illegal. (Another 33% say his conduct was unethical but not illegal.) But just 34% buy into Trump’s claims that he’s being treated more harshly than most other criminal defendants.

“No major American presidential candidate has talked like he now does at his rallies — not Richard Nixon, not George Wallace, not even Donald Trump himself,” the New York Times reports.

New York Times: “In no small part, Mr. Vance owes his quick ascent into the Trump orbit to his unlikely friendship and ideological kinship with the former president’s oldest son. They text or talk nearly daily and try to meet up if they are in the same city, according to people who know them both.

Wall Street Journal: “U. S. intelligence agencies have determined that Putin likely didn’t order Navalny to be killed at the notoriously brutal prison camp in February, a finding that deepens the mystery about the circumstances of his death.” “The assessment doesn’t dispute Putin’s culpability for Navalny’s death, but rather finds he probably didn’t order it at that moment.

Founders Sing is back with another AI musical parody of Trump's habit of snoozing during his trials. Life can be hell when you can't get any Adderall or out on the golf course. I just hope he wakes up in time for the reading of the verdict and the sentencing.