are no stranger to the disgraced, twice-impeached, four-times indicted ex president saying the quiet parts out loud. it is basically his calling card. often it meant speaking in code using dog whistles telling the proud boys for instance to stand back and stand by or saying there are good people on both sides after white supremacists marched through the sheets of charlottesville chanting, jews will not replace us. but now? now, donald trump has dispensed with the dog whistles. he is going for. . as a rule we don t air video of donald trump lightly on this show but we thought it was important that you hear this, that we all bear witness to what the ex-president and current leading republican candidate is saying here. we re like a rocket ship, who s like a rocket ship sent by kim jong-un, just like that. who is very nice, i will tell you. he is not so fond of this administration, but he s fond of me, and we had a very good relationship. vladimir putin of russia says that bi
it was dismissed in less than six months. practically actually laughed out of court. now the ruling by u.s. district judge donald middlebrooks ordering trump and his attorney to cover the legal costs of the defendants in that suit is one for the ages. it is a stinging rebuke of donald trump the man and of donald trump s lies and his tried and true now legal strategy of jamming and gumming up the courts with lawsuits. it starts off like this, quote, this case never should have been brought. its inadequacy there is that word again as a legal claim was evident from the start. no reasonable lawyer would have filed it. the judge then makes it crystal clear that the ex-president himself bears responsibility for the suit. he goes on, quote, trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. he is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following
cheribesaley won. madison cawthorn taken down by his party not for bringing guns on planes or calling ukraine evil or making hitler s home part of his vacation bucket list or alleged misconduct, no, no, but rather for snitching on the alleged republican cocaine orgies. we begin in pennsylvania with a reminder of how elections work. now, you see there are many different ways to vote. there is early voting and voting on election day and filling out mail-y ballots. anyone can vote by mail in pennsylvania but they cannot be counted until election day. that s why in 2020 it took a few days past election day for joe biden to be declared the winner. and the lead can change as you count more and later tallied votes. nothing nefarious about that. and yet donald trump and republicans used that perfectly normal process and its completely routine delays to cry voter fraud and stolen election which led to trump s lawyer rudy giuliani winding up holding that embarrassing press conference a
maga actually belongs to the people. a nationwide shortage of baby formula sending the white house scrambling. it s terrifying, it s terrifying when that s the only true source of nutrition your baby gets. will voters blame president biden if back to normal is still beyond their reach. putin s worst nightmare. an expanded nato. will finland and sweden joining the alliance spur a wider war? inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. good morning, and welcome to inside politics sunday, i m abby phillip. racially motivated violent extremism. that is what the department of justice is calling saturday s mass shooting in buffalo, new york. according to a statement from the u.s. attorney general merrick garland. police say an 18-year-old man who was dressed in tactical gear and protective armor drove for hours to reach a predominantly black area of buffalo before opening fire on shoppers at a grocery store yesterday. ten people killed, and
years. we ll turn to the summer of 2017 when this kind of violence and violent rhetoric was still mostly unfathomable, when a mob of violent extremists marched through charlottesville chanting, jews will not replace us. in the wake of that deadly white supremacist rally, the city of charlottesville faced a reckoning of its own. in a city they wanted to know how did it happen in our city and how do we make sure it doesn t happen again? the results of that reckoning and the questions being asked was a brutally honest 270-page postmortem of how what happened in charlottesville came to pass. among its conclusions was this, quote, the charlottesville police department were ill-prepared and devised a flawed plan for responding to the rally leaving to disastrous results. that brute lil a honest analysis