Trump's Georgia indictment contains the kind of stuff you might read in a Russian novel or reporting from the capital of a third-world nation just overtaken by a coup—but they happened here, in America.
Lucian K. Truscott IV
Trump is starting to get oriented to the fact that it’s not his life anymore, not the part of it that will be tried in at least three and possibly four courtrooms over the coming 12 or more months.
There is “explicit language” in the judiciary code of ethics—which the Supreme Court does not adhere to—“advising federal judges against using their position to fund raise for outside organizations.”
John Lauro is supposed to be the guy hired to add experience as a defense attorney in handling serious allegations of crimes committed by white collar defendants. Oops.
We can’t have a democracy without the right to vote, and that is precisely what Defendant Trump is accused of. He tried to take away our votes. That is the biggest crime of all.
You won’t find the word “coup” in the indictment, but what you will find is a concerted conspiracy led by the man who was then President of the United States to cause our nation to secede from itself.
The most important thing Defendant Trump does not understand is the situation he is in right now. Ordinarily, as it is often said of his political skills, he can “control the narrative.” But not the narrative he now faces.
Trump's 37-count indictment is now a 42-count indictment, all this transpiring on the same day that his attorneys met with prosecutors from the Special Counsel’s office to discuss the next indictment in the pipeline.
How to talk about slavery has been thrust anew into the national conversation by Ron DeSantis, whose state recently passed a law whitewashing how the subject of slavery will be taught in schools in the state.
It's never a good sign when you wake up and discover you are facing prosecution under the same law that put Ku Klux Klan members in jail in the 1800’s. But then again, in today’s Republican Party, maybe that is a good thing.
Not even a day has passed since it became known that Defendant Trump received his target letter from the DOJ. The "other shoes" just keep falling.
We don’t know any more about Prigozhin’s plans than we do about where Putin sleeps at night. But for right now, it looks like two thugs keeping everyone, including each other, guessing. As Borat would say, “What a country!”
House Republicans voted to show that their hatred of LBGTQ, women in the military and their obsession to prevent a woman's right to give birth or not supersedes their Constitutional duty.
“We’re not racists, we’re just snobs” could be the national motto of what you might call the Tommy Tuberville branch of American racists.
The fact that Prigozhin isn’t in the cell next to Alexey Navalny missing the soles of his feet with red welts all over his well-fed face is really all you need to know about Putin’s fading power.
We have Founding Fathers, all right, but we have Founding Mothers and Founding Educators and Founding Workers, and God help us, Founding Slaves, and all of them deserve celebrating and our thanks.