"Here is my simple ask of our broadcast media overlords:
Trump’s criminal trials should not be covered as if Donald Trump is the star.
The star of the story is the rule of law."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #crime #criminal #RuleofLaw #media #MediaFail
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https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/a-message-for-the-people-who-run
"Free media got Trump elected in 2016. Now the cable shows are doing it all over again. ...
The Trump Show is going to be enough of a circus in the coming months without all the cable channels and newspapers and websites erecting a big-top for Defendant Trump to perform under."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #crime #criminal #RuleofLaw #media #MediaFail
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/free-media-got-trump-elected-in-2016
"Here is my simple ask of our broadcast media overlords:
Trump’s criminal trials should not be covered as if Donald Trump is the star.
The star of the story is the rule of law."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #crime #criminal #RuleofLaw #media #MediaFail
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https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/a-message-for-the-people-who-run
"They will say anything, do anything, attack anything, allege anything, lie about anything, repeat anything, proclaim anything, insinuate anything, and imply anything. Except of course anything that’s true. They are turning the country and its principles upside down. They are fomenting a furious army of acolytes who own a lot of guns."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #Republicans #crime #criminal #BigLie #insurrection #violence
"Who would Trump be if he withdrew from the race? A nobody —and a nobody with no protection from the law. The authoritarian playbook dictates that it’s precisely when you have serious legal problems that you are most motivated to run for office, so you can gain (or regain) power and domesticate the judiciary so your legal exposure will vanish."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #Republicans #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #authoritarianism
https://lucid.substack.com/p/running-for-office-while-under-indictment
"Chris Hayes made a salient observation yesterday: None of Trump’s family members have accompanied him to attend one after another arraignment. …
Trump is alone at the defendant’s table, with none of his family members.
But even more striking, Trump is alone in his indictment, without any of the key roles played, including by his daughter and most trusted advisor, laid out in the overt acts."
~ Marci Wheeler
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #insurrection
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/08/04/trumps-family-is-not-in-his-prosecution/
"For all his bluster, Trump is not handling this well, pleading on Truth Social for the Supreme Court to intervene."
~ Charlie Sykes
My court! Will somebody please tell my court to get off its tuchus and come to save me! It's my court for godssake!!!
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #SupremeCourt #insurrection
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https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/deplorables-of-the-indictment-week
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"Break ins not necessarily burglary" -- Today's media in 1974
nostr:npub13h2490cgvera3qgjev84uwfjmqnmct8rctpmy9gyd2wlac7eyxwsyffr8q Touché. Well-stated.
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These days most of my prayers are some version of, "please God, let the truth be exposed while I'm still alive".
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"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."
#Trump #Republicans #crime #criminals #BigLe #insurrection #LawandOrder
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"Since the moment the first indictments dropped against ex-President Trump, he has been beating a consistent drum to try and sway public opinion against the inquiries and prosecutions—and to grift ever more money from his loyal followers.
On his social media platform Truth Social and in stump speeches ahead of the GOP primaries, Trump has made a number of claims rather consistently."
~ Big Picture and Jay Kuo
#Trump #Republicans #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-indictments-defenses-election-interference
Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria, and Rebecca Crosby take a close look at the team that crafted Floria's new Black history curriculum, people hand-picked by DeSantis' administration. The report focuses on two team members: William B. Allen and Frances Presley Rice, both of whom brought a lot of right-wing baggage to the task of creating the new curriculum.
#Florida #DeSantis #BlackHistory
https://popular.info/p/meet-the-scholars-who-created-floridas?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 Just another example of how trump is neither smart nor a good businessman. He made almost 10 million from the Middle East in 4 years and his son-in-law made 2 BILLION in 4 years. trump needs to learn to grift like Kushner.
#uspol #uspolitics #lockhimup #trump
"When most of the leading candidates for the presidency of the United States show up at the same convention to bend a knee and ingratiate themselves, sensible people need to take notice. In the same way, we need to take notice of an untreated infection that is tiny now but, if ignored, could result in amputation or death. Moms for Liberty (M4L) threatens to amputate education and kill rational thinking."
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#MomsforLiberty #education
https://kareem.substack.com/p/the-end-of-desantis-moms-for-liberty