Just wait libs. If you think President Trump is down for the count then you haven’t sat for the maestro’s final symphony. The grandmaster’s checkmate. The 93 yard Hail Mary with zero seconds left on the clock. Gunslinging new cowboy lawyer John Lauro gave a hint of the plan on Tuesday night: Trump can subpoena whatever evidence he wants to expose the plot to rig the 2020 election against him. That means EVERYTHING will come out in discovery before the trial even starts.

All the Chinese bamboo ballots, the secret Venezuelan supercomputer’s sixth-order polynomials, the illegal changing of laws by state legislatures making it easier to vote by mail, the Italian satellites, the German server gunfight between the US Army and CIA, the secret radioactive kinematic artifacts stamped on the ballots, Facebook and Twitter suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story, the 2,000 mules ballot trafficking plot, the Zuckerbucks paid to election offices, the media bias against Trump which was basically election interference, the Chinese thermostats and more will be exposed.

Much more. There will be just massive, explosive new revelations that will leave you Demonrats so fucking sorry you ever messed with Trump. You socialist losers have awakened a dragon that will completely incinerate you and everything you hold dear. So go ahead and drink your stupid trans Bud Light and enjoy the moment. You have no idea what you just started. Trump will finish it.

National Zero will resume our regular news coverage now that we’ve provided an alternative viewpoint for our right wing readers. We hope their spirits have been lifted after a pretty rough day.

As conservative firebrands like Marjorie Taylor Greene and her LB², Colorado’s Lauren Boebert consistently cry about border issues–although neither’s state actually sits on the border and although illegal border crossings are down dramatically–and child trafficking because adrenochrome while simultaneously asserting the FBI needs to be shut down, the agents continue to do their jobs.

Over the last two weeks, FBI agents found more than 200 sex trafficking victims, including 59 child trafficking victims, according to NBC News.  Working with local and state law enforcement in Operation Cross Country arrested or identified 126 predators and 68 traffickers.

“Sex traffickers exploit and endanger some of the most vulnerable members of our society and cause their victims unimaginable harm,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement released before his office’s other big news. “This operation, which located 59 actively missing children, builds on the tremendous work the FBI has undertaken over many years to rescue minor victims and arrest those responsible for these unspeakable crimes.”

“I don’t possess any information that is ex– inculpatory.  I mean, I know they have written lies in the newspaper that I cooperated against him.  Like hell I did!  There’s nothin’ to cooperate about.  If I cooperated against him, you should put me in jail for perjury.  I don’t have any information that he violated any law.  What I do have is, I was seriously considerin’ indicting them for 18 USC Section 241 for indicting a man for exercising his right to free speech, that’s a conspiracy against rights,” Rudy Giuliani, a.k.a. Co-conspirator 1, claims suggesting a completely fascist way to deal with a criminal indictment:  indict the prosecutors.  (And yes, the still for most of this video is a cash-for-gold scam, which is what you get when you clip from a low-rent, third-tier conservative propaganda network.)

That the fanboys had known Trump’s indictment on the gravest of his crimes against democracy was coming brought no comfort to them as they reacted to the news of his legal jeopardy sharply increasing on Tuesday. This roundup was a very long time coming and savors their pain accordingly.

“The funny thing is you people think that there is not going to be a repeat of the fraud in the 2024 election as was the case in 2020. And that no matter what happens, no matter what they do to the man, or how much your freedoms keep getting taken away, the most that all of you will do is simply write angry comments in websites” – The current top comment on the Daily Caller article “Donald Trump Indicted For Third Time,” written in a comment on the internet. That said, we could certainly buy that this guy is a Capitol rioter currently out on bail or already did time for it.

“No reasonable prosecutor would pursue this” – Top comment on TownHall’s article. Nice inversion of the “No reasonable person” line from one of the famous unindicted co-conspirators.

“0bama, Biden and Hillary tried to illegally overturn the 2016 election using dirty FBI agents, dirty judges, and fabricated evidence to frame Trump associates. Proven. In. A. Court. Of. Law. If they’re not guilty of insurrection, no one is” – Top comment on the Breitbart article “Indictment 3.0: Jack Smith Indicts Trump Day After Hunter, Joe Biden Implicated,” because lol they had to mention the Bidens in the headline to remind readers of the whole point of the GOP’s “investigation.”

“What unmitigated bullshit” – Top comment on PJ Media’s article.

“Dems are trying to do through the legal process what they couldn’t do through TWO impeachment. Having read the indictments and hearing Jack Smith’s presentation I don’t think I’ve never seen a more political document and poisonous presentation in the 45 years I’ve been paying attention to DC politics” – Top comment on the Fox News story “Special Counsel Jack Smith says Jan 6 ‘fueled by lies’ from Trump, praises ‘heroes’ who defended Capitol.” The impotent rage is strong with this one.

“Be useful, Kev. Call the House back to Washington” – Top comment on the Gateway Pundit article “Speaker McCarthy Statement on New Trump Indictment: ‘Attempt to Distract from From the News and Attack the Frontrunner.’” Yeah, good luck with that. The House isn’t back until next month.

Jesse Watters is telling us he didn’t read the indictment without actually telling us he didn’t read the indictment. It literally says “The Defendant, DONALD J TRUMP, was the forty-fifth President of the United States and a candidate for re-election in 2020. The Defendant lost the 2020 presidential election. Despite having lost, the Defendant was determined to remain in power. So for more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020, the Defendant spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won. These claims were false, and the Defendant knew that they were false. But the Defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway — to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate, create an intense national atmosphere of distrust and anger, and erode public faith in the administration of the election,” backed up by voluminous evidence he did know he lost.

One of the unanswered questions from the historic indictment on charges Donald Trump attempted to criminally steal the 2020 election, issued earlier today by the grand jury, is, Who are the six as-yet unindicted co-conspirators?  Well, the Washington Post and NBC News had their ideas, and their in agreement:

1. Rudy Giuliani:  Co-Conspirator 1, an attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that the Defendant’s 2020 re-election campaign attorneys would not.  NBC identifies as Rudy Giuliani.
2. John Eastman (confirmed by Eastman’s lawyer):  Co-Conspirator 2, an attorney who devised and attempted to implement a strategy to leverage the Vice President’s ceremonial role overseeing the certification proceeding to obstruct the certification of the presidential election.
3. Sidney “The Kraken” Powell:  Co-Conspirator 3, an attorney whose unfounded claims of election fraud the Defendant privately acknowledged to others sounded “crazy.” Nonetheless, the Defendant embraced and publicly amplified Co-Conspirator 3’s

House Oversight Chair and one of the Three Stooges of Weaponization James Comer seems to be overlooking reality, claiming that there’s more evidence pointing to Joe Biden being guilty of a felony than anything pointing to Donald Trump being guilty of one–even going so far as to claim Democrats were cribbing his notes about what he would say about Biden.

HUGE! The AP reports that heels-wearing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s handpicked cronies on the Reedy Creek Improvement District board have voted to squash all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in the special municipality surrounding Disney World outside of Orlando!

“Our district will no longer participate in any attempt to divide us by race or advance the notion that we are not created equal,” Administrator Glenton Gilzean said in a statement. “As the former head of the Central Florida Urban League, a civil rights organization, I can say definitively that our community thrives only when we work together despite our differences.”

After months of anticipation, Donald Trump was indicted on Wednesday on four counts covering charges by Special Counsel Jack Smith regarding his role in the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress in his attempt to undermine the 2020 election results. It’s the third set of criminal charges Trump has been hit with in the past year, following charges leveled in Manhattan and previously by Smith.  Read the 45-page indictment here.

The new charges bring the total number of criminal counts Trump faces on local, state and federal levels to 78, with charges stemming from his interference in the Georgia election still outstanding.  Pundits expected charges on defrauding the United States, obstruction of justice and depravation of rights for Trump’s efforts to throw out states’ Electoral College slates of electors.  

Obama appointee, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, has been appointed to the case.

Special Counsel Jack Smith is scheduled to make a public statement Wednesday after the Washington, DC grand jury handed up a sealed indictment, one assumed to include charges against former president Donald Trump for his role in the attempts to undermine the certified results of the 2020 presidential election.

The grand jury in Washington, DC investigating the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress handed up an indictment Wednesday, but the court did not announce the name or initials of the person or persons charged, multiple outlets report.

“I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election of 2024, will be putting out yet another Fake Indictment of your favorite President, me, at 5:00 P.M. Why didn’t they do this 2.5 years ago? Why did they wait so long? Because they wanted to put it right in the middle of my campaign. Prosecutorial Misconduct!”  –Post from Donald Trump on Truth Social.

Donald Trump will be arraigned on August 10th on the three additional counts added in the superseding indictment issued last week, MSNBC producer Kyle Cheney reports.  Codefendant Walt Nauta will be arraigned on the same date; however the status of new co-conspirator Carlos De Oliveira will also be arraigned that day because he still needs to find qualified counsel.

Although he claimed he was a champion for the First Amendment and free speech when he took over last year, “X” chair and oligarch in training Elon Musk has ordered his company to sue a British research company, the Center for Countering Digital Hate, for reporting that hate speech has exploded on the platform since he bought Twitter, CNBC reports.

Although the lawsuit claims CCDH improperly accessed proprietary information, Musk’s obvious goal is to protect his new “X” brand from being branded as a platform for bigoted extremists, something the oligarch seemingly relishes given his own rightwing authoritarian and racist leanings as evidenced in his posts.  CCDH found that Twitter has failed to act on more than 95% of the hate speech complaints it received since Musk’s takeover.

“Elon Musk’s latest legal threat is straight out of the authoritarian playbook,” Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the CCDH, said in a statement. “He is now showing he will stop at nothing to silence anyone who criticizes him for his own decisions and actions,” while adding his group’s research “shows that hate and disinformation is spreading like wildfire on the platform under Musk’s ownership and this lawsuit is a direct attempt to silence those efforts.”

Two Michigan Republicans have been arraigned on charges related to tampering with voting machines as part of their attempt to undermine the state’s ballot count in the 2020 presidential election, the Detroit News reports.

Michigan special prosecutor D.J. Hilson has filed charges against former GOP Attorney General candidate Matt DePerno and former state legislator Daire Rendon relating to undue possession of a voting machine and false pretenses.  The prosecutor has not announced any charges, but according to court documents, the pair was arraigned on Tuesday.   They were released on $5,000 bond.

Newsweek reports the Kremlin is dealing with significantly more domestic unrest in the weeks after the mutiny of Wagner forces that were fighting in Ukraine unsettled Russian President Vladimir Putin, with protests springing up in Russian-occupied Crimea.

Ukrainian intelligence officials report that native ethnic Crimean Tatar citizens have been rounded up and imprisoned by Russian occupiers after various protests popped up in the last weeks.  Crimea is primarily populated by Russians and Russia-favoring Ukrainians since the 2014 Russian occupation of the territory when most of the ethnic Tatar and Ukrainians fled the region.

Additionally, no fewer than eight military recruitment offices were set afire throughout Russia since Saturday in overt opposition to Putin’s ongoing conscription orders pulling citizens into the invasion effort.

MSNBC’s Chris Jansing stated that she received reports from producers at the DC courthouse that members of the Jack Smith grand jury looking into Donald Trump’s interference in the 2020 election were seen leaving the building at 2 p.m. ET, two hours before the announced dismissal time.  (CNN’s Manu Raju confirms, noting the foreperson of the jury stayed behind.)

The early departure of grand jurors could mean they have finished their work–meaning they’s already taken a vote on indictments–or that they’re work for the day is done while they wait for new witnesses to testify.  Given that Trump has already been invited to testify–and turned down the offer–the likelihood of new witnesses is low.

The Super PAC supporting the presidential run Florida Republican Governor and malfunctioning Disney animatron Ron DeSantis reported having nearly $100 million cash-on-hand at the end of June, according to federal reporting released this week, the New York Times reports, after spending more than $34 million to boost the struggling campaign.

DeSantis is severely bending campaign finance laws by having his PAC, Never Back Down, pay for and organize events in which the candidate appears as a “special guest” rather than having the campaign itself organize rallies, a potential violation of anti-coordination rules.  Never Back Down reported having $97 million in the bank as of June 30th, but later reporting on fundraising shows donations slowing in July as big money supporters abandon the sinking ship that is the DeSantis campaign.

A Republican former Georgia state senator who heard a presentation by Trump lawyer and hair dye dispenser Rudy Giuliani about the imperative to impanel a set of fake electors to support Donald Trump’s candidacy in the Electoral College has been subpoenaed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, CNN reports.

As a member of the Georgia Senate Judiciary subcommittee, Jen Jordan sat through a presentation by Guiliani and associates in which the Trump representatives presented their flimsy evidence of voter fraud and ballot forgery, including previously debunked claims that workers in Fulton County pulled out and tallied bins full of fake ballots to throw the election to Joe Biden.  The subpoena specifies Jordan will be called to testify before the grand jury in the month of August.

Along with another one for an independent journalist who walked into the organizing meeting for the fake electors at the capitol where Republicans lied about the meeting in a sign that they knew its illegality, the subpoena for Jordan demonstrates Willis’s investigation is going far beyond the direct efforts of Donald Trump to pressure elected officials to change the vote count.

In comments that reflect conservatives’ tendency toward hyperbole and deceit, Russian officials said continuing Ukrainian drone attacks are equivalent to al Qaeda’s unprovoked 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York that killed close to 3,000 people, USA Today reports.

After a new wave of attacks early Wednesday morning, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the latest attack, in which no one was injured, was aimed at location “that have nothing to do with the military,” without noting the Kremlin’s increasing intense attacks on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown, which has little military importance.  “The 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers caused an enormous number of casualties, but the methods were the same,” she said. “We are seeing the same picture now, as if it is repeating itself.”