NATIONAL FOOD DAY UPDATES
Including Specific National Food Days for Bologna, Jamaican Jerk, and Tripe. So ... yum?
-Busy, busy, BUSY legal day for Team Trump!
-First to GA, where if you hadn't heard, Jenna Ellis has tearfully flipped (cry harder, Jen!), making her the fourth person to plead guilty in the case involving Trump's attempts to steal the GA 2020 Presidential election from the winner, Joe Biden. 15 defendants - including Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and robbery theft partners (ALLEGEDLY) (eyeroll) Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman - remain, as the question of when a trial will start for those who do not plead out remains.
-In New York, Ex-President Trump XCI is spending the day in court in as another former attorney of his, Michael Cohen, testifies in the civil trial charging The Trump Organization with all sorts of malfeasance - and, with a pre-trial ruling calling Trump and company guilty, the trial is all about just how guilty Trump's company is and what punishment will be doled out. An end to Trump's ability to do business in NY is very much a possibility.
-Down to FL, where a hearing regarding a potential conflict of interest of an attorney representing Mar-a-Lago worker Walt Nauta is set before Trump's Favorite Judge, Aileen Cannon. That is the case involving Trump's ... ahm ... removal of documents from various areas in DC and bringing them to FL to talk about way too openly to virtually everyone who asked.
-QUICK ASIDE: One of those people Trump talked to was an Australian cardboard making billionaire (apparently that is a thing) who, on the Aussie 60 MINUTES, not only re-confirmed Trump's loose lips, but also claimed in 2018 that Trump asked third 'wife' Melania to walk around Mar-a-Lago wearing a bikini "so everyone can see what they're missing." (In case you thought Trump somehow couldn't get scuzzier than you already knew he was.)
-BACK TO THE LEGAL DOCKET!
-And on that legal docket, Team Trump submitted three separate motions in DC to attempt to kill that case involving Trump's actions on January 6, 2021. The arguments, according to legal observers and somewhat wildly paraphrased here, are basically his stump speech turned into legal motions: that Trump had every right to question the results of the 2020 election even if every fact and legal motion and argument makes it super-duper-clear that TRUMP LOST, that the entire prosecution is nothing more than a Biden-constructed conspiracy matching literally every person who says otherwise against the One True Truth Teller (that would be Trump), and that running for President gives candidates magical powers that means not one cross word involving one or two or ninety-one potential felonies can be said against said person because First Amendment.
-No word on whether clerks assigned to copy and distribute the 50-plus page motion were openly laughing to the point of pain when reading the motion.
-Speaking of stump speeches, Trump had another doozy yesterday in NH. Among the latest, er, 'highlights' ... Trump insisted he has never once been indicted for any crime (there are currently XCI felony charges against him) ... Trump continually referred to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as the ruler of Turkey ... Trump compared himself favorably to freedom icon Nelson Mandela ... Trump promised his voters that they do not have to worry about voting in order for him to win the 2024 election ... Trump incorrectly claimed there were no terrorist attacks during his Presidency ... and Trump fantasized of punching Joe Biden in what he called Biden's "fake!" nose - accompanied by Trump clenching his wee teeny tiny Ken doll hands in little fisties and pretending to "hit" Biden with a "punch" that could have hit a newborn flush without leaving a mark on the infant.
-Yet it is Biden, who has spent the last two weeks on perpetual phone calls with international leaders and traveling to an active war zone (for the second time in 8 months!), who is constantly getting questions about his mental faculties and cognition.
-AAAAAAAUGH!
-No word on the progress towards another Republican nominee for the House Speakership at this time.
-In closing, be careful about stories that first percolated yesterday that claimed Vladimir Putin suffered cardiac arrest some time yesterday. No recognizable news source has come close to corroborating that data, so unless you see it or hear it on a legacy network, it's buyer beware.
- SLAVA UKRAINI!
-On this date in 1861, the first transcontinental telegram was sent. On this date in 1929, the first of what was actually a series of stock market crashes sprung the Great Depression. On this date in 1940, the 40-hour work week went into effect. On this date in 1945, the United Nations was founded. Notable releases and openings: THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and JAMES BROWN LIVE AT THE APOLLO in 1962, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID in 1969. On this date in 1992, the first non-American team (the Toronto Blue Jays) won the World Series. On this date in 2003, the Concorde ended regular service between Europe and the United States. And on this date in 2008, an average 10% drop in stock prices worldwide triggered was called The Great Recession.
-Happy Birthday to Merian C. Cooper, Jack Warner, Melvin Purvis, Moss Hart, Y.A. Tittle, Perry "The Big Bopper" Richardson, F. Murray Abraham, Ted Templeman, Kevin Kline, Kwesi Mfume, Sen. Jeff Merkley, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, B.D. Wong, Mary Bono, Jeff Magnum, Wayne Rooney, Drake, PewDiePie, Jalen Ramsey, and Jaylen Brown.
-Rest in Peace/Rest in Power to Daniel Webster, Louis Renault, Jackie Robinson, Gene Roddenberry, Raul Julia, Rosa Parks, Marcia Strassman, Maureen O'Hara, Bobby Vee, Pete Burns, Fats Domino, Robert Guillaume, and Leslie Jordan.
-Feed the Worms: Notorious English gangster twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray entered Earth on this date.