Newest Trump attorney admits on two different Trump-friendly shows that Trump is guilty.  What John Lauro describes is quite literally what Trump was charged with in count two of his indictment, “Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding.” His fucking lawyer just admitted it on national television. Well actually this was the second time he did it. The first time was on Frau Ingraham’s show, the second on some Newsmax crap.

The two young Black Tennessee state legislators expelled from the state house after encouraging disruption from a group of anti-gun violence protestors in the Capitol both won back their seats in special elections held Thursday, the Associated Press reports.

Justin Pearson and Justin Jones have both been acting legislators since their local districts assigned them to be the interim representatives until the special election could be held.  Pearson and Jones won by comfortable margins.

Republicans expelled the two young Black men after censuring them and a third member–Gloria Johnson, a white woman–encouraged protestors in the house gallery.  Something about Johnson made her encouragement different than that of the two young Black men.

It’s not like we were looking forward to carrying yet another angry Trump speech at one of his shitty clubs just hours after he showed up in court. But like with every one of his other pre-scheduled cult gatherings, it would’ve been simply more economical for us to run it live rather than having to pluck clips off of Twitter and deciding which one to use only to have another one even more outrageous and/or worthy of derision show up in the feed just a minute later, turning our queue of stories into a long string of hateful bullshit. Even better would be if he died from or better yet been incapacitated by a massive stroke sometime in September or October of 2016 so we didn’t have to cover it at all.

Anyway, there’s no YouTube or Rumble feed for us to run because there’s no speech happening tonight, a glaring omission considering the fat bastard did so after his arraignments in Manhattan in April and then in Miami in June. There’s certainly an argument to be made that this is a matter of scheduling: That Trump’s first two arraignments came earlier in the day and gave him enough of a window to travel up and down the East Coast, while this one was at 4 PM. We wouldn’t really buy that for a number of reasons, not least of which is that DC and New Jersey are like 40 minutes apart by air. Or that he gives a shit if his sycophants at the Bedminster club would have to wait outside in the dark at 9 PM on an August weeknight if he were somehow delayed in returning to New Jersey.

So no, there almost certainly isn’t any such sort of normal, practical reason for the lack of a speech this time, which opens up a hell of a wide gap for us to speculate on why or, more accurately, who talked him out of venting his rage at having to face accountability in a court of law.

A federal appeals court panel approved an emergency request from the Biden Administration to keep current migrant policies in place, staying a lower court ruling that would have voided the regulation in days, the Washington Post reports, giving Biden a temporary win in the border crisis.

In a 2-1 vote, the three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit ruled that the restrictions on migrants including restrictions on the ability of those who came across the border illegally multiple times to apply for asylum–pushing asylum seekers to apply through means like online or at authorized ports–may continue.

“[Trump] is a guy who’s already won!  He won in 2016.  He won even bigger in 2020,” asserts the woman who asserts she’s the legitimate governor of Arizona even though she’s lost every recount and every significant court case since 2020.  “All that January 6th was, was a staged riot to cover up the fact that they certified a fraudulent election. And I, y’know, I agree a lot with what [Kash Patel] said about impeachment.  If we just go back and deal with this fra- this fraudulent election, a-and what happened in 2020, we don’t have to impeach him because he really isn’t, in my opinion and many others when you look at the evidence, the true president.  We can jus- why don’t we decertify 2020, and that’s the way we deal with it.”

Apparently, Kari Lake hasn’t been paying attention to the slew of court cases that Trump lost in the aftermath of his massive Electoral College AND popular vote loss.

Two members of the US Navy serving in southern California have been charged with providing sensitive military information to the Chinese government, the New York Times reports.

A sailor aboard the amphibious assault ship Essex, moored in San Diego, 22-year-old machinist’s mate Jinchao (Patrick) Wei allegedly provided information like 30 US technical and mechanical manuals, as well as technical capabilities and vulnerabilities for the ship he worked on as well as others.  Charges under the Espionage Act allege Wei, a naturalized US citizen, betrayed his adopted country for his homeland, but in some cases, it insinuates Wei did it for money; it alleges he was paid $5,000 for the 30 manuals. Court papers note Wei became a citizen while working for the Chinese; Wei’s Chinese handler congratulated him when he took his citizenship oath.

The second charged, Petty Officer Wenheng (Thomas) Zhao, 26, from  Naval Base Ventura County delivered electrical diagrams and blueprints for a radar system stationed on a U.S. military base in Okinawa, Japan to his handler, as well as plans for a US military exercise, detailing the travel, maneuvers and other specs of US Navy vessels in the Indo-Pacific fleet.  Zhao was not charged under the espionage act, but prosecutors could seek up to 20 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

Manhunt underway at Savannah-Hilton Head Airport for escaped Georgia inmate who slipped away from police https://t.co/ItrlBQQAWF

— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 3, 2023

Fox News reported Thursday that police in Bulloch County, Georgia are seeking total hunk Joseph Baynes, who only stayed theirs for so long before slipping away from their grips at the Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport. They should’ve known this particular catch’s perfectly chiseled cheekbones and sly smile wouldn’t linger before he’s out on the prowl again, so watch out ladies.

Like seriously watch out. This handsome stud is wanted on a felony stalking warrant in Minnesota.

CNN legal correspondent Katelyn Polantz on Thursday told Situation Room anchor Erin Burnett that Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith and his obese orange prey met eyes and stared at each other during a “tense moment” in the courtroom in DC during Trump’s arraignment appearance.

“When he came into the courtroom [Trump] had a very clear view of Jack Smith, was essentially turned to face him directly, looked at him for quite a long time. Smith looked back. They never shook hands,” Polantz told Burnett without making it clear why the fuck she thinks people would have expected them to shake hands. Anyway, Polantz continued to describe the scene, saying “they never really nodded. But it was quite a tense moment.” Too bad Trump didn’t scream at Smith and accuse him of being a cokehead and a Nazi Communist something like he does on the internet all the time, but hey that’s just the kind of man he is. Tough on social media, chickenshit in real life.

President Trump is being arrested, the Deep State is coming after him, all because he committed the “crime” of winning the 2016 election.

Joe Biden and his DOJ are conducting the most corrupt election interference campaign we’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/VVvfY5OWIa

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) August 3, 2023

Actually, Marge, Donnie’s being charged because, in his mind, the country committed the “crime” of not reelecting him during the 2020 election, which pushed him to commit the crimes he’s accused of to overturn that election.

Oh, and all those other federal crimes he’s charged with? Those kicked in one second after noon on January 20, 2021, the moment he was no longer authorized to possess classified information.

By courtroom sketch artist Bill Hennessy

MSNBC contributor Andrew Weissman, a former federal prosecutor and currently an NYU law school professor, noted two parts of Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya’s instructions during indicted felon Donald Trump’s arraignment hearing:

“Two things stood out to me as unusual.  It is not unusual for the magistrate judge to have talked to the assigned district judge to find out what the next date is.  What is unusual… is to be so focused on the trial date, and then to have obviously from the district judge the dates by which she wants submissions on that issue and that it’s going to be settled on the 28th.  That to me, for people who have been thinking that she is not focused on whether this is going to go to trial before the general election, that is the issue.  …

“Well, this is a very sad day for America and it was also very sad driving through Washington, DC and seeing the decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and the graffiti.  This is not the place that I left.  It’s a very sad thing to see it.  When you look at what’s happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent.  This was never supposed to happen in America.  This is the persecution of the person that leading by very, very substantial numbers in the Republican primary and leading Biden by a lot, so if you can’t beat ‘im, you persecute him or you prosecute him.  We can’t let this happen in America.”

First, notice how Trump never asserts his innocence.  It’s always the “persecution” of a political opponent, not that he’s not guilty of what is charged.  Second:  Trump obviously never drove through DC before.  He took helicopters while he was president–except for his jaunt around Walter Reed when he had Covid.  DC has a lot of rundown buildings and graffiti.  Normal people know that.

Follow live as disgraced former President Trump shows up to answer his four count federal indictment on charges over his failed attempt to overturn his humiliating defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 election… and the potentially explosive situation outside the courthouse in DC.

Within the hour, former president and indicted felon Donald Trump will stand before a magistrate judge to enter a plea, but his case will be heard by US District Judge for the District of Columbia Tanya Chutkan on four felonies related to his involvement in the attempt to undermine the integrity of US elections.

Like the two other judges overseeing Trump’s criminal cases–New York Superior Court Judge Juan Marchan and US District Judge for the Southern District of Florida Aileen Cannon–the 61-year-old Chutkan was born outside the United States.  She was nominated to the federal bench by Barack Obama in 2013 after spending more than a decade as a public defender before joining the law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner in 2002.

Self-described Democrat and unrealistic presidential candidate Cornell West has more than half a million dollars in past-due taxes dating back to 2005, a review of records by the Daily Beast shows.  A vocal advocate for the poor who asserts rich people need to pay more taxes to ensure a healthy society, West owes a total of $543,778.78 to the federal government; a past-due tax bill of around $170,000 for local taxes in Los Angeles County that had not been paid since 2012 was settled this past June.

A college professor and author, West is running for the Democratic presidential nomination in a campaign run by Moscow-linked 2016 spoiler Jill Stein.

“Taxation without representation is now reflected in policies that allow the wealthy to be coddled and under-taxed while the perennially poor, working poor, and ‘new poor’ are ignored and rendered invisible,” West wrote in his 2012 book The Rich and the Rest of Us with co-author Tavis Smiley “Economic justice in America has been overshadowed by greed, because unequal taxation benefits the rich at the expense of everyone else.”

We would also like to point out that every asshole Republican still going on TV defending this loser is doing so by claiming he didn’t know any better, that “being wrong about the election isn’t a crime,” while he’s still carrying on with this “CROOKED ELECTION” bullshit. Worth questioning when the audience is going to start picking up on that dissonance and turn their rage on said Republicans.

Contrary to the anti-liberal rhetoric of its undersized governor, a Florida city is so pleased with a program it implemented in 2021 to cut down on the number of non-criminal calls its police officers respond to that it’s city council has voted to expand the program, WTSP CBS-10 in Tampa Bay reports.

In response to the BLM protests of 2020, St. Petersburg, Florida instituted a program in 2021 that would send social workers, mental health professionals and/or other non-armed professionals to 9-1-1 calls that did not present an immediate physical danger to the caller or another.  The city found that the non-police workers were able to spend more time with the person in need and help them to successfully de-escalate the situation while assisting them to find available solutions to pressing problems.  Although no firm data was presented, advocates say the program has cut down on the number of arrests, the number of calls police must respond to, and the number of repeat calls to the same residence.

With the endorsement of the St. Petersburg Police, the city council will vote Thursday to increase the budget of the program from $1.2 million to $1.6 million, allowing the program to increase its hours of operation beyond its current 8 a.m. to midnight window to operate at least until 2 a.m. seven days per week.

People who pick their noses have a three-times greater likelihood of contracting Covid, a new study of hospital workers published in peer-reviewed journal PLOS (Public Library of Science) ONE shows, reports the Washington Post.

The study examined three behaviors–picking one’s nose, having a beard, and biting one’s fingernails–that weaken health and hygiene guidelines in hospitals to see if there was an associated increase in Covid infection.  While only around a third of subjects reported having a beard or biting nails, nearly 85% said they picked their noses at least once in the previous month.  The three conditions were studied because they impacted the ability of facemasks to seal properly and efficiently.

The study found 17% of nose-pickers got Covid, versus just 6% of people reporting the other habits.  Researchers–both independent and those involved in the study–not that the coronavirus typically accesses the human system through the nose, so contaminating the nasal cavity with a finger will increase transmission, as would scrapping the mucus, potentially exposing blood vessels under the layer of mucus.

At a New Hampshire campaign stop, Florida Republican Governor and wannabe presidential candidate Ron DeSantis used violent threats common in modern GOP politics, saying that he was going to start “slitting throats on day one” if he’s elected President.

Newsweek reports DeSantis made the statement Sunday that was recorded by New Hampshire Public Radio when asked about his priorities if he should be elected President.  DeSantis went on a rant about his perceived bias in government against conservatives saying, “We’re going to have all these Deep State people, you know we’re going to start slitting throats on day one.”

The barbeque was hosted by former Playgirl model and one-time Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown, who lost a Senate race in New Hampshire before being named ambassador to New Zealand by Donald Trump in 2017.

We already wrote this piece. We have to write it again because, well, there are still no coincidences to be found in the timing of the newest “explosive” Hunter Biden revelations coming the same week that disgraced former President Trump was hit with the one indictment in which he is truly and most unambiguously fucked when it comes to the facts of the case, the judge, and the jury pool – not to mention how much more politically radioactive the whole coup attempt is with independent voters compared to Trump’s hoarding of stolen classified documents and the Stormy payoff in Manhattan.

“Today is yet another dark day in America as Joe Biden continues to weaponize his corrupt Department of Justice against his leading political opponent Donald J Trump. Less than 24 hours ago, Congress heard testimony from Hunter Biden’s longtime business partner that Joe Biden joined Hunter’s business calls over 20 times. This directly contradicts Biden’s lie that he never discussed business with his son. Today’s sham indictment of Donald Trump is yet another desperate attempt to distract attention away from the mounting evidence of Joe Biden’s direct involvement in his family’s illegal influence peddling scheme – one of the greatest political corruption scandals in history,” wrote ghoulish Congresswoman Elise Stefanik in a statement on Tuesday.

It’s no coincidence that former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer told House Oversight Committee investigators that he was present about 20 times circa 2015 in which Hunter called his dad and put him on speakerphone the day before Trump was indicted again because Republicans made sure there would be a “non-coincidence.” No, they couldn’t time it exactly down to the day, but they made sure it was close enough so that they could claim the timing wasn’t coincidental.