The Loss, The Pos, and The Boss

“Much of the special counsel’s filing recounts the tumultuous months after the November election, when Trump — surrounded by allies including Steve Bannon, his former campaign manager turned podcast host, who is now in jail after a contempt of Congress conviction — directed his team to fight to keep him in office. The former president, indicted on criminal charges in the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, called the new filing “election interference” and has sought to have the case dismissed.” Filing in Trump case details remarkable schism with Pence over rejecting 2020 election loss. (How dare they release details of a candidate’s efforts to overthrow an election during an election he’s planning to try to overthrow.)

+ The 165 brief is remarkably damning. As was what all of us saw with our own eyes during the period leading up to Jan 6. 11 damning details in Jack Smith’s new brief in the Trump election case.

+ Will the surfacing of Jan 6 as a top election issue make a difference? I think the best case would be that it would motivate top GOPers like Romney and George W Bush to actually endorse Kamala and, like the much more courageous Liz Cheney, get into the fight to save American democracy. It won’t shake Trump’s supporters. They’re not worried about Trump stealing elections. They’re worried about fraud from the side that doesn’t try to steal them. Driven by Republicans, most Americans are concerned about fraud in the 2024 election.

+ Meanwhile, at least the Dems just won the house. Not the House of Representatives. My house. Taylor Swift’s endorsement took care of my daughter’s downstairs floor of the house. And Bruce Springsteen just took care of the upstairs. His endorsement of Kamala and warnings about Trump are some of his best lyrics.