Opening statements begin on monday. And according to the judge, quote, this trial is starting. So long we have been using the word erosion on trumps institutions and americas faith in them f. This weeks spectacle showed us any, the term erosion the flow of water, slow and steady, might be under stating the immediate danger. We should think of the harm done to the structure of our democracy like a tidal wave, Flash Flooding possible. Try as we might to board up the windows to be kept from being swept away there is damage more and more every second. Some jurors so frightened or intimidated from doing their basic civic duty that some were moved to tears in the courthouse as they were today for fear of retaliation. You can see it in the way the disgraced president lies in the case and the way everyone is in if. He conditioned his followers to Distrust Anything and everything outside the sealed mega bubble. The Executive Director of protect democracy described it to us like this. I think pe
Established facts that have never been in dispute. And you would look at this case and say this guy is down bad. There are 34 counts against him. It would appear that he is guilty as sin but at the moment he is out of the Slammer And Justice does not happen in a fortnight. Paging rv. The tortured poetry of his attorneys. Joking aside i think the facts have been long established and we can see that in this case and the 34 counts go far beyond just the Stormy Daniels case. And the hush money. Catch and kill conspiracy alleged here timed around the election. It is a bigger story to be told. I think some of the things that lisa noted that is hanging over this entire trial. We know trump had a dog whistle