Biden presses two-faced Netanyahu to implement peace plan his own War Cabinet endorsed; US dock-pier-causeway back in service, much to chagrin of Hamas, Smotrich, Ben Gvir, and western nihilists; Jayapal & Co. dodge responsibilities of governing, snipe at Biden's unavoidable border measures; Bowman in trouble for June 25 NY primary; RFK's support dwindles as his moneybags Shanahan proclaims identity of views with Tucker Carlson;
Social science is aware of tendency of liberal democratic governments opposing fascist movements to ostentatiously fetishize hypertechnical formalisms of legal positivism; This dangerous tendency must be judiciously limited; Judge Merchan should imprison Trump now to show middle class that US constitutional government is far stronger than MAGA thuggery; Survival of the republic is the supreme law;
FBI cannot guarantee that New York Post's infamous laptop was not tampered with when possessed by defendant Giuliani; Looks like 51 US intelligence chiefs were right after all in labeling this op as Russian disinformation; Hope resides in jury as reasonable doubt abounds; After covering Trump trial, bothsides media embrace railroading of Hunter;
Hunter Biden's Wilmington gun case a classic frameup by DoJ's Get Biden task force through Trump appointees Judge Noreika and prosecutor Weiss, whose choreography aims at mortifying president's entire family; Frameup depends on application filled out in several colors of ink with jury not allowed to see original, only copies; Weiss has no witnesses who saw Hunter using crack during time frame in question; No chain of custody for evidence means
But Georgia MAGA diehards temporarily block Fani Willis prosecution for most, but not all, of defendants; More contortions from Judge Cannon to slow classified documents case; Opinion on Trump's absurd immunity claim expected from Supremes later this month: brace yourself, for they are capable of any lawlessness;
Bannon due at federal penitentiary by July 1 for four-month term, taking him out of fall campaign unless he is rescued by Supremes; Navarro stays in hoosegow; Prosecutions of 52 fake elector conspirators ongoing in Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Nevada; Giuliani disbarment recommended in DC;
a Reuters-Ipsos survey of 2,500 adults found 10% of Republicans and a quarter of independents reported they are less likely to vote for Trump; Even infamously pro-MAGA NY Times/Siena poll of registered voters grudgingly concedes a 2% drop in backing for Trump, reflecting a loss of 7% of his support, including over one fifth of his double haters; 46% approved of the guilty verdict; Trump's base turnout model is increasingly unworkable;
In aftermath of criminal convictions, grievous damage to Trump's presidential chances begins to emerge: ABC News-Ipsos poll shows 49% of Americans want Trump to drop out, including 52% of independents, 67% of double haters, and a fatal 16% of Republicans; Morning Consult found that 54% of registered voters approved of the guilty verdicts, with 44% recommending a prison sentence and 49% calling for Trump to drop out, as did 15% of likely Republicans and 8% of self-identified Trump supporters;
President implies continuity from Hitler then to Putin & Co. now; echoes FDR's "rendezvous with destiny" and Eisenhower's "crusade in Europe"; stresses US responsibility for alliance system; This is tradition of country that never had a fascist government, never allied with fascism (unlike the USSR), and never appeased fascism;
Stalin just could not stay away from Hitler: after the August 1939 Hitler-Stalin (Molotov-Ribbentrop) Pact ended with war in June 1941, the two sides sent their foreign ministers to a secret meeting in June 1943 to discuss a separate peace, which proved unattainable despite their best efforts because of conflicting territorial claims. The Soviets wanted the status quo ante of 1938, while the Nazis wanted their border on the Dneiper.
I am devoid of shame and guilty by design.