A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Things Went And Got Weird The cross examination of E. Jean Carroll in her rape and defamation case against Donald Trump is set to…
Then early this morning Trump’s lawyers asked the judge to declare a mistrial over the judge’s own conduct during the trial. You don’t see this every day:
So from whom, exactly, does the charge of mistrial now get reviewed? The judge himself can’t make that decision, so who gets the decision?
I read earlier this morning Noam Chomsky had meetings with Epstein then discovered Epstein was donating money (800K) to his University so I doubt there was anything shady going on.
To be fair, it is my experience that, if they don’t read carefully, some high school students miss the satire in A Modest Proposal, so perhaps we are being unfair here.
Wait…what? We aren’t talking about careless high school readers? These were his attorneys?
Never mind.