this. but this week we saw one of history s great split screen moments. on tuesday, at the exact same time that former president trump was being arraigned in florida not only were fake electors from trump s plot to overturn the 2020 election, not only were those fake electors testifying before special counsel jack smith s january six grand jury, but at the same moment congressional republicans were holding their own bizarro hearing about january 6th. at the exact same time a former president was arraigned on federal criminal charges related to unlawfully hoarding documents, witnesses were testifying in jack smith s other sprawling federal investigation into that same former president all the while that former president s congressional defenders were hard at work whitewashing the january 6th insurrection. all at the same time. that sort of wild convergence belongs in the history books. and while the arraignment and investigation of a former president is clearly of utmost impor
trump was being arraigned in florida not only were fake electors from trump s plot to overturn the 2020 election, not only were those fake electors testifying before special counsel jack smith sent january six grand jury, but at the same moment congressional republicans were holding their own bizarro hearing about january 6th. at the exact same time of former president was arraigned on federal criminal charges related to unlawfully hoarding documents. witnesses were testifying in jack smith s other sprawling federal investigation into that same former president all the while that former presidents congressional defenders were hard at work whitewashing the january 6th insurrection. all the same time. that sort of wild convergence belongs in the history books. and while the arraignment and investigation of a former president is clearly of utmost importance here i think it is worth paying attention to the fake story from tuesday as well. the thing that was happening in congress.
the picture is himself cute. honestly, what would i know?ur not my area of expertise. but i think just as a picture, regardless of the guy, i think i think as a picture, this is kind of cute. just in terms of composition. in part because it s got kind of a swirl effect. like on the upper left side of the image, we ve got his eye that s looking kind of winky, kind of headed downstream. but then on the lower right side of the image he has the big smirk heading straight up towara his ear. so the whole thing is kind of a swirl, you know? just as a picture, as a mug shot in particular, i think that s not bad. that person is the attorney general of the great state of texas, and that is in fact his mug shot. his name is ken. he was indicted and booked into the collin county jail in texas on felony securities fraud charges a few years ago. those felony charges are still pending against him.lo he is still under indictment on multiple felony counts, but it hasn t held him back. since
all due respect we don t want the campaign counts people involved. there s only one thing that s going to move the needle and forced legislators to do what they are obligated to do and that is apply pressure. it does not appear that bernie kerik ever got the five to 1 million dollars to go through with his plan. but we do know that the trump team did engage in a major effort to get states to send those fake electors to washington d.c.. and these new emails show us just how important have become to the people around donald trump at the time. but maybe more importantly these new emails show us how much the trump cinematic universe is at its core basically a bunch of grifters looking for the next payout. there is no reason to believe convicted felon bernie kerik had any special magic to make state legislators throw the election for trump. and no indication of why in the world he needed five to $8 million to do it. when you base your plot to
the drawing board may be on that one. it s hard to be so annulled and out of it, the messaging isn t exactly consistent but joe biden does not make a terribly convincing convincing want to be dictator. this guy is a political life or. this is someone who is familiar, you can go after him on any number of things but this seems like a bit of a stretch and you are right i don t think it s working. we will see, we ve got time to go, mark leibovich, staff writer at the atlantic thank you for spending your friday night, here mark, appreciate it. thanks. when we come back, new clues to special counsel jack smith s strategy as the prosecution of former president trump move forward. plus, after trump pardon him bernie kerik apparently tried to return the favor, for a whole lot of money. e lot of money