The Hall of Fire

The conservative Heritage Foundation is flying the international sign indicating that a man slept with a porn star whom he said reminded him of his daughter.

Possibly mentioned before: " New York State Has Issued Nearly 9,800 Felony Charges of Falsifying Business Records Since 2015 " (Law.com, Apr. 6, 2023). Which is to say: how many of those 9,800 charges did Elon Musk object to at the time? https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/179644063861724...

Possibly mentioned before: " New York State Has Issued Nearly 9,800 Felony Charges of Falsifying Business Records Since 2015 " (Law.com, Apr. 6, 2023). Edited to add: Matt Yglesias points out that falsifying business records was a secondary charge in most of those cases, but to take just o...

Looking back to the first page of this thread: Has a serious candidate for president ever launched their campaign this early? Not that I can recall. Though of course it is debatable whether Trump is really a serious candidate. Is the RNC still paying his legal bills? People are saying he's doing thi...

Sen. Joe Manchin, the retiring Democrat from West Virginia, has just left the Democratic Party to become an Independent. There's some suspicion that he plans to run for governor of that state.

Donald Trump Jr. today said the United States is "an absolute crap hole."

I appreciate Matt Yglesias's point that lots of younger voters have probably never heard the Access Hollywood tape. It came out eight years ago, after all. The media won't run stories about it now, of course, but Biden's campaign can put it all over ads aimed at voters 26 or younger.

Donald Trump yesterday said there are a lot of witnesses who could have been called to prove his innocence in this case. CNN's Caitlin Collins today asked Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche: so why didn't you call those witnesses? Blanche replied , "That's a loaded question that should not be asked o...

Last week, Rep. Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts, described Donald Trump's legal liability during a House committee debate. The Republicans who control that committee voted to strike his words from the record: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1793334625357779254 Will they keep doing that now t...

Another quote from that Washington Post article about Donald Trump's comments to donors:

"If you get me reelected, we're going to set [the pro-Palestinian] movement back 25 or 30 years."

Meanwhile, the US continues to insist that American weapons cannot be used to destroy targets inside Russia, from where these bombs are launched. News: " Biden secretly gave Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia with US weapons " ( Politico ). That permission is limited to those part...

Donald Trump will be able to vote in November unless he's sentenced to jail for the 34 crimes he was convicted of today, which is unlikely. Florida defers to the disenfranchisement laws of the state where the conviction happens, and New York only bars imprisoned felons from voting.

May this be a sign of more to come! The way he handled the classified documents case is MUCH more important than bribing a porn star, and there is ample evidence that he tried to cover that up! It's probably useful to emphasize that Donald Trump was convicted today of, essentially, cheating in the ...

Renatto Mariotti writes that Trump's team "lost a very winnable case." This is where I get frustrated with how many lawyers seem to view the world. You're either guilty or you're not. There is an underlying truth that really exists. It shouldn't be possible for legal maneuverings to change...

This is far from the most important point, but still:



Donald Trump does, or at least used to, have a license to carry a concealed firearm.

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 4:47 pm Unless there's a hung jury, my guess is that they return a verdict early Friday afternoon.

Faster than I expected!

And I didn't even have to hire a plane. (I wonder if that celebrity athlete will agree to be identified now.)

So the jury wanted the testimony that shows Donald Trump deputized Michael Cohen to work on his behalf with David Pecker. And the jury wants the instructions that explain how they may infer based on the evidence. Does this mean there's a jury member who is having trouble with the idea that Michael C...

"Yesterday, Michael Fanone — the former police officer who was nearly killed by Trump rioters who actually believed the former president's lies about the 2020 election — called Donald Trump an 'authoritarian" with 'a violence fetish.' Hours later , Fanone's mom was swatted." For those...

An unnamed "celebrity athlete" tells the Daily Beast that Donald Trump boasted at the time about having slept with Stormy Daniels. I think the jurors should know that. Would it be OK for me to engage an airplane to tow a banner with that news over New York City tomorrow? (Who is the athlet...

" IDF takes control of key Gaza-Egypt border road, locating at least 20 tunnels " ( Times of Israel ). They also found a bunch of rocket launchers along the nine-mile road, apparently placed there to make it harder for Israel to destroy them from afar (lest Israel accidentally overshoot an...