boxes. the new york times reports this, quote, during president trump s years in the white house his aides began to refer to the boxes full of papers and odds and ends he carted around with him almost everywhere as the beautiful mind material. it was a reference to the title of a book and movie depicting the life of john f nash jr., the mathematician with schizophrenia played in the film by russell crow. one trump official who spoke anonplacely to describe the situation said while the materials were disorganized trump would notice if someone rifled through them or they were not arranged in a particular way. it was the person said, quote, how his mind works but the times describes trump s organized chaos was nothing new. here s a look at his office at trump tower back in 2015 from an interview with wall street germ. this office is all you, and it s a little bit junky. yeah. you know what? this i just got a few weeks ago. this is from the marine corp. that s the chair f
this week honoring the insurrectionists. taking place while the disgraced ex-president was being arraigned on charges having to do with his mishandling of government secrets. republicans matt gaetz, marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar, and a few others pushed forward the maga agenda, embracing the insurrectionists, hailing them as heroes. among the inelevated witnesses were rioters who have been sentenced to jail time and house detention, family members of insurrectionists, and one name you ll recognize, former president trump doj official, jeffrey clark. dana mill bank and the washington post wrote about this so-called hearing and the juxtaposition it created. quote, from the witness table came howls of wrongful conviction and fascism. from the dais came a cry of tyranny. from both came attacks on judges, juries, and prosecutors. audience members were wearing t-shirts saying rioters have been, quote, murdered by capitol police.
mara gay, member of the new york times editorial board and msnbc contributor, and dana mill bank, author of the destructionest, the 25-year crack-up of the republican party. i m going to go in reverse order and start with you, dana, because the thing is, i think the only thing that surprised me about trump having dinner with, you know, kanye used to be a really good rapper but now is just woooo-west, and this white supremacist who is the media pretending to be shocked again. how many times are we going to play this game of pretending donald trump has not been chucking with white nationalists since he went down that elevator? it s so silly, and i think we owe trump a debt of gratitude for coming right out in the open. this isn t the white tablecloth republican party. this is the white nationalist republican party. this, we have been talking about
also just friday which means it s time to play, yes, who won the week? back with me are don callaway and dana mill bank. say whatever you want. this week honorable mention goes to the legendary lox crew out of new york who got a billion streams after defeating the opponent, her amazing 15-hour filibuster of the voter suppression bill in texas. she did not win the war. that bill passed but william wallace didn t win the war didn t win the battle but won the war in the long term and texas democrats are doing the right thing by keeping the public s attention on this terrible voter suppression in their state i really feel like texas democrats are showing us the way to fight. like this is the way i wished all democrats would fight like a texas democrat because they are leaving it all on the table doing everything they can to
platforms is, quote, as stupid as you d think. we ll delve into that in a moment. we should note this lawsuit strategy is same old same old for trump. the art of the frivolous lawsuit has been his m.o. for decades. he does it for publicity, he does it to delay legitimate legal challenges. he does it to bury workers on his building projects who just want to get paid for their manual labor in legal bills, and in this case he s doing it to raise money. one hour later, he sent fund-raising emails. back in 2016 usa today did a tally of lawsuits involving trump before he became president, and then more recently in the last year, dana mill bank at the washington post compiled a rather complete list in some of these legal challenges here laid out. trump was the defendant. in others he was the plaintiff. in all told, there are 4,095 over three decades, and these lawsuits span every category imaginable. there s the trump brand. trademarks. golf clubs. taxes. defamation. personal injury.