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The super PAC Bluegrass Freedom Action, which supports Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron in the May 16 Republican primary for governor, made history Friday when it launched the first TV ad in American history to tout an endorsement from an indicted former president. The spot, which represents the first pro-Cameron commercial of the contest, extols the attorney general as “a conservative fighter” who sued President Joe Biden over border security, battled “the companies that fueled the opioid crisis,” and is a “champion for law enforcement.” The narrator goes on to remind the audience that Donald Trump backs Cameron before it… [...]
Donald Trump is the first of many things: He’s the first twice-impeached president; He’s the first twice-divorced president; and Trump is also the first former president to be indicted on criminal charges. But Trump is not the first president to be arrested. That distinction goes to 18th president of the United States and Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant. According to a 2018 story in the Washington Post, president Grant was arrested “at the corner of 13th and M streets in Washington,” in 1872. Grant was the president at the time of his arrest on a misdemeanor charge of “speeding… [...]
UPDATE: Friday, Mar 31, 2023 · 8:14:31 PM +00:00 · Mark Sumner Reports that Wagner forces raised a flag “in the center of Bakhmut” are somewhat deceptive. Wagner appears to have planted a flag on one of the taller buildings along the T0513 roadway, in the same area where fighting was going on earlier. This area is near where city offices were located previous to fighting, but it’s not the area where Ukrainian forces have been centered for the last month. Some stills suggesting that Wagner had advanced several blocks to the north were clearly captured from video taken with… [...]
With the news on Thursday that a grand jury in New York had indicted Donald Trump, Republicans erupted into universal support of law-breaking. Whether it was Lindsey Graham tearfully soliciting additional funds so Trump wouldn’t need to pay his legal bills, Ron DeSantis admitting that he had never read the constitution, or the entire cast of Fox News falling down the Q rabbit hole to talk about how “they” are laying a trap for Trump supporters, there was one thing that those screaming about the horror of Trump’s indictment never said. They never said Trump wasn’t guilty. Of course, none of… [...]
Is there a more annoying, pretentious writer on the planet than a New York Times political reporter who thinks he has something deep to say? Peter Baker makes the case that the answer is no. The subject is Donald Trump’s Indictment And What It Means For Democracy. Answer: We don't know, but … we think, with the most furrowed of brows, that maybe it’s better for democracy if Trump gets to be above the law. We’re just asking questions, here! RELATED STORY: Republican Party looks into the eclipse of indictment and responds with all the hypocrisy we expect [...]