[What A Day]([link removed])
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
BY CROOKED MEDIA
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- [RFK Jr. explaining]([link removed]) an earlier case of mental fogginess and memory loss in a 2012 deposition.
Disgraced former President Donald Trump is having a rough week in Manhattan court. He’s doing much better at subverting justice elsewhere.
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Trump lurched into the 2024 presidential campaign facing four felony cases over a mind-boggling range of alleged criminal activity. In response, he fired up his favorite tried-and-trusty legal strategy: delay. This week, it became clear that Trump’s big plan to throw sand in the gears of justice has worked all-too-well everywhere except in New York, aided by a mixture of corrupt or aligned jurists, including several he put on the bench himself.
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On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon (whom Trump appointed just days before the end of his presidency) [delayed indefinitely]([link removed]) Trump’s Florida case over charges of mishandling military secrets. Cannon’s excuse was that a trial just isn’t possible now given that her docket is so packed with complicated motions and issues to sort out. The truth is that Cannon [engineered]([link removed]) this backlog, and thus engineered the delay. She insisted on hearings for motions that other judges would process routinely; she created delay and controversy on [questions that nobody raised]([link removed]); she ruled and then reversed herself, eating up precious time, after Special Counsel Jack Smith threatened to appeal her errors to the 11th Circuit. Cannon had only tried two criminal cases in her entire career before this case. She had never tried one involving highly classified documents. The delay she manufactured for Trump is the result of incompetence, or corruption, or both.
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Meanwhile, the Georgia Supreme Court [agreed today]([link removed]) to hear Trump’s appeal, creating a new delay in Trump’s Atlanta racketeering case. Trump is still trying to get Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis kicked off this massive election conspiracy case over allegations that her personal relationship with former prosecutor Nathan Wade was improper. In Georgia, Trump is charged as the head of a sprawling conspiracy to overturn the 2024 election. This trial was unlikely to happen before election day. Today’s announcement makes it all but impossible. That leaves Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 case, which is currently stalled while the Supreme Court weighs Trump’s immunity claims. There’s a chance the Justices could rule quickly and in a way that gets the trial back on track. But most experts think that’s unlikely.
These delays put the question of Trump’s accountability directly in the hands of voters. If he can’t scramble back into the White House, he’ll stand trial, eventually, like anyone else.
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The Trump campaign has a zombie problem: It’s being chased around the country by the undead presidential candidacy of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. Her campaign simply will not give up the ghost even though Haley bowed out of the race in March.
Last night in Indiana Haley [bagged 22%]([link removed]) of the vote, or more than 128,000 votes. Two weeks ago, Haley [captured 17%]([link removed]) of the GOP electorate in the Pennsylvania primary, or 160,000 votes. She pulled down similar numbers in [Arizona]([link removed]).
It turns out there’s a pretty darn big group of Republican voters who are willing to drag themselves all the way across town to a primary voting booth to pull the lever for anyone but Trump, including for someone who’s not even running. These are moderates, women, and democracy-minded conservatives — including some who are watching their party’s presumptive nominee sit through a criminal trial over his hush money payments to a porn star and wondering how their party got into this mess ([as we noted yesterday]([link removed])). The question becomes how many will return to Trumpworld by November — and how many are lost to him for good.
[President Biden told CNN]([link removed]) the U.S. will stop sending weapons to Israel if the country launches a major assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. He also acknowledged that American weapons have been used to kill civilians.
[The U.S. withheld]([link removed]) a large arms shipment to Israel last week to signal concerns over a possible Rafah invasion, senior administration officials told NBC News. [The Biden Administration also missed]([link removed]) a deadline today for releasing a report on whether Israel is using U.S.-sourced arms in accordance with international law. State Department Spokesperson Matt Miller said the legally-required report to Congress should be completed by tomorrow.
[Independent presidential candidate]([link removed]) RFK Jr.’s campaign confirmed that a parasitic worm once got into his head, ate part of his brain and died there, resulting in memory loss and fogginess. The campaign, which has presented the 70-year-old Kennedy family scion as the younger and [more-vigorous]([link removed]) alternative to Biden or Trump, insists he’s feeling fine now. And yet… we have so many questions.
[Amazon]([link removed]) turned off the torrent of negative online reviews for South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s book, the notorious tome in which Noem boasts about shooting her dog and tells a bogus story about staring down North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. But don’t worry, you can still write reviews on Noem’s forthcoming follow-up book, “Saving America from Wokeness Through Dog Murder.”
[Meanwhile, Noem,]([link removed]) whose book is called “No Going Back,” may finally be backing down from days of insisting that shooting the family dog is simply what strong leaders do. She ditched a planned appearance with Fox’s Greg Guttfeld on Tuesday night. Man, you know it’s bad when you’re a Republican afraid that *Fox News* will ask you the tough questions.
[Marge did it]([link removed])! Rep. After days of talks seeking concessions from Speaker Mike Johnson, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) surprised everyone by triggering her long-threatened motion to oust Johnson from the chair. Republicans quickly moved to kill the motion, but eleven of them voted against Johnson, which means there would have been enough votes to oust YET ANOTHER GOP speaker had Democrats not come to Johnson’s rescue.
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Happy reading!
[The Biden Administration]([link removed]) announced a huge, new, job-creating Microsoft plant in Wisconsin… on the very same land where Trump [announced]([link removed]) a Foxconn plant that never happened.
[Violent crime is way down]([link removed]) across America, including mass shootings. There have been 29% fewer mass shootings this year, with 91 fewer deaths and 220 fewer injuries.
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