Cassidy Hutchinson: “If you look at how Mr. Trump has conducted himself throughout his business career and his political career, I almost relate it to just...bodies around him. He takes out everybody who is loyal to him, because it’s all about his personal gain.”

uh-huh

A grand jury in Arizona has just handed up an indictment against Boris Epshteyn, Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani, per Zachary Cohen and Holmes, over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, including the fake electors from that state and several individuals connected

So the RNC’s senior counsel for election integrity, Christina Bobb, is among those indicted in Arizona for allegedly conspiring to cheat the state’s voters. You cannot make this stuff up.

Trump’s team keeps floating plans to literally, directly increase consumer prices and Americans’ cost of living. And voters still trust him over Biden to bring down inflation by landslide margins vox.com/2024-elections…

BREAKING: Arizona prosecutors have charged 11 fake electors for their roles in efforts to subvert the 2020 election. mcusercontent.com/cc1fad182b6d6f…

New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school

- significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls
- reduced bullying among both genders
- improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates
- largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids

'The conservative movement must stop defending free markets' - Heritage Foundation chief of staff.

Again, as a 2001-2011 Heritage alum, I do not even recognize what they've become. It's certainly not conservative in any meaningful, traditional sense.

Biden is trying to be morally decent, which is more than you can say for his critics nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Staggering parallels between David Pecker’s treatment of Trump and Dietrich Eckart who bought German news tabloids in 1920 thebulwark.com/p/pecker-slapp…

lol I fondly remember this freak shows response when I said he’d be hosting a Trump funder by summer. When he maxes out to Trump he can send more to Putins super pac.

Fact: The effect of the the campus protests/Israel-Hamas War on the 2024 polling has been minimal to non-existent.

Biden vs. Trump polls overall are same as before conflict, and most of the shift away from Biden among young voters happened before the war.

competence matters

among the greatest risks of a second Trump term is erosion of the rule of law - a bedrock American principle since the Founding

my new ⁦Zeteo⁩ column zeteo.com/p/trump-trial-…

.Jonathan Chait on Biden and Israel/Gaza:

'Biden is struggling to create and carry out a vision because he is trying to do something morally complex.

'That is a basic standard of decency his critics on the left and right alike have failed to clear.' nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Very sad news: Rep. Donald M. Payne, Jr. has died at 65.

newjerseyglobe.com/in-memoriam/do…

whatever the outcome, the beginning of Trump's hush-money trial in New York is a victory for the rule of law

my new ⁦Zeteo⁩ column. (and please subscribe!) zeteo.com/p/trump-trial-…

Indeed, superb choice. Nieman Nation is so lucky, as are journalists to come.

Good morning.

Sean Hannity hasn’t mentioned the GOP impeachment probe on Fox in over a month. mediamatters.org/fox-news/sean-…

RIP Helen Vendler